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I use TurboCAD and it's taken me forever to get beyond the square box with rounded corner stage.
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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Fusion 360 - it's free for hobbyists / startups and it's certainly fully featured.
Just wish the official tutorials were better.
It comes recommended by ThisOldTony, if you've seen any of his YouTube channel.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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got a new samsung/android to replace my 3 year old samsung/android
- a little bit bigger (apparently twice the resolution)
- got 3 cameras!!! the old one only had 2
... that's 50% more camera for my half dozen or so pics per year!!
- got more memory
- got more battery (slightly)
- got more ... zzzzz
does everything the old one did ... some messages, calls [that I occasionally answer]. google maps, bike ride tracking, and, and, ummm, no I think that's it.
can't complain, free (as was the old one), well apart from wasting time to transfer my old info over
oh but yeah!!!
it's got the usb type c plug instead of the mini (micro?) usb
... so now I need another wire hanging around to charge it up (still need the old usb for some other items)
actual net gain: another charging cable I'll probably misplace sometime soon and have to order extra from fleabay. yay!
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You can buy USB-C(M) to USB-B(F) connectors on FleaBay - they are about 25mm long, and would fit on your existing cable(s). Not expensive either - I bought some recently by mistake (I wanted USB-C(F) to USB-A(M)) and they were £3 for five.
Don't ask. Just don't. 
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OriginalGriff wrote: and they were £3 for five.
how many do you still have?
(gotta love the old n for $x marketing ploy when you really only need/can use one.)
hmmm, I'll use this one, and put the other 4 in a safe place.
either:
- lost (only found about a year after they become redundant while looking for something else)
or/and
- given today's chinesium production quality rot, leaving behind a toxic sticky mess (regardless climate.)
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All five. Wrong bits ...
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Quote: (gotta love the old n for $x marketing ploy when you really only need/can use one.)
I just avoided buying four black toner cartridges for my old HP Colorjet. They worked out to be 25% cheaper each than if I bought just one. I bought just one.
I have had the printer for about eight years now and have just now needed to get a new black cartridge - extending this level of usage (and it's getting lower each year) means I avoided buying enough black toner for 32 years instead of only 8 years and saved spending almost three times as much for the privilege!
Eventually I might need to replace the other three colour cartridges - but not any time soon.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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very wise
8 years down the road had you even found [that really safe place] where the other 3 were kept chances are some insects or vermin would have moved in, and the plastics disintegrated too. (including the wrapping leaving a rock solid toner mountain and permanent stains below)
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Most new USB-C type phones support fast charging, but your charger needs to support it, so take care which one you are using 
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How much built-in RAM does it come with? And model number, please?
/ravi
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I was inspired by this post to try one last time to 'fix' my 5 y/o Windows Phone. For months now, the micro USB slot has been screwed up so that I had to hold the cable in place with an elastic band to get it to charge...even then it was finicky and sometimes would come out.
When it first happened, I did what was suggested here, using a toothpick to clean the contacts and the slot. It didn't work so I figured the slot was just screwed. This morning, I decided to try something a bit thinner/stiffer, so I got a sewing needle and started poking around, immediately digging out what looked like hard packed dirt/dust. It took some force to get in the slot on the thin side, but I finally got it all out! Now the cables seat correctly. Problem solved! 
One of the things I had been missing was the ability to plug up to my pc and access the phone and SD card through explorer, so I tried that now and it did not work...the phone shows charging, but device not showing up in explorer. I tried another cable...no joy.  I found the original cable for the phone and tried it...and it worked! Apparently, not all micro-usb cables are the same. Yay! I don't need to get a new phone after all! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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...Total perspective[^]
Well, it made me laugh anyway.
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I had a One. I like it.
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I have a 3T. The camera stopped focusing the other day, hitting it on a hard surface like a concrete wall helps it to get its act together, for a short duration. Annoying. Wondering if the shoogling in the quad bike storage box has been the issue or if it is related to the common issue that is reported online. I had been holding off an upgrade just because it was working so well and nothing wrong with it, did everything I needed. Not now.....
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I have ordered a 7 Pro, 12GB ram, 256GB storage, Nebula Blue
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DaveAuld wrote: shoogling in the quad bike storage box
Does this refer to a sex act ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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He can only answer that if:
1. It is not a sex act (shoogling just means shaking).
..or..
2. He takes it to the Soapbox, hmmm..
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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adding it to the rotation. My favorite indie band is The Mountain Goats, and probably one of my favorite songs, despite being under two minutes long and super simple and beautiful:
Genesis 19:1-2
The Mountain Goats - Genesis 19: 1-2 - YouTube[^]
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I love Chasing Cars, despite having some bad memories to it (which all turned out alright).
This one sounds really good too.
I guess I have me some Snow Patrol to listen to 
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Our products generate a "diagnostic report" which lists all of the system and Windows information you could ever want to know about a machine. We're testing a new model of industrial PC, and the diagnostic report was failing while it was enumerating the device drivers installed.
The Intel chip-set drivers for this new, fancy-schmancy motherboard (dual Xeon's, 64GB RAM, 10GB ethernet) report creation dates in... 1968(*). Yes ladies and gentlemen, these drivers were written under the influence of some really trippy acid during the Summer of Love .
(*) A FILETIME value passed to a CTime constructor, which promptly throws an exception because the date/time is out of range for the underlying time_t value, based on the UNIX 1/1/1970 epoch date.
Software Zen: delete this;
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At Intel they must be di-agnostic
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Maybe it wasn't broken.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Hi,
Gary Wheeler wrote: The Intel chip-set drivers for this new, fancy-schmancy motherboard (dual Xeon's, 64GB RAM, 10GB ethernet) report creation dates in... 1968
I just looked at all of the possible epochs. I can't even come up with any conversion math that would cause a 50 year offset.
What date are you looking at? NTFS file creation date? Code signing date? PE VERSIONINFO block date?
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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oh hell. that must have been fun to track down.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Running under the debugger it was easy. A CTime constructor was throwing an exception. The date/time value was of the type FILETIME, which has a much broader range than that allowed by the time_t (32-bit) that underlies CTime.
Unfortunately since this is C++ code most of my bugs are far more difficult to find. Our application is multiple processes (a UI app and some services) and each process is heavily multithreaded. Even the UI app has 50+ threads running. This means that there can be significant differences in behavior between debug compiles at my desk vs. release compiles in the product due to timing, heap checking, and so on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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