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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: "I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Manfred R. Bihy wrote: So whining and pulling sh*t like this into the lounge still works?
+5,000,000 
Jeremy Falcon
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OriginalGriff wrote: ven in QA, you can tell somebody how to do basic SQL:
SELECT * FROM MyTable
And you get a comment that it doesn't work. *There is an error "Invalid object name 'MyTable'"*
Hate to say it but he may be right. I got a similar error when I tried your query...
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Have you found the Any key yet?
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Sometimes even the comment to a 5 is dumb... 
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I would have upvoted that, but I'm afraid you'll find it dumb... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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So I downloaded the code, it compiled and ran without issues. It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Also, labels for what the different pulldowns are would be helpful: baud rate, parity, stop bits, etc.
As to actually testing it with another device, I didn't do that as my breakout box is somewhere in storage. 
As to downloading the source without reading the text -- I didn't read the whole text either. I mean, it's a great article, but if there are special instructions for getting things working, I'd suggest at the top of the article, as a major heading "How To Run The Code" so that I don't have to read the whole article to figure out what it is I'm supposed to do. Now, I'm an old hand at RS-232, but there's a lot of youngins that aren't.
Marc
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Hmmm,
Quote: It was not entirely obvious that I had to click on "Ports" to get a list of available COM ports -- why not just auto-initialize the list?
Well I suppose that could just auto init the list but I was thinking that I had to do some reverse engineering to figure things out when I was learning. I was wanting to make it more obvious. 
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If it's any consolation, I got my comment for my vote of 1 downvoted the other day
Apparently they also flagged it as spam/abuse
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Perhaps add a caveat such as: If you're too dumb to figure out how to get this to work, go back to playing with VB...
I think it really means that if you are not explicit, someone will call you out.
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Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Me and VB don't talk/look at each other...
Probably for the best.
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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: Does this happen often
Unfortunately, stupid people are real, and not a figment of your imagination.
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I write an new technical article just about every week. And I post often to technical sites.
As to my articles, I often find comments from people who seemingly were made against an article I didn't even write or they hone in on a single point, which was just a supporting factor to the entire piece.
I also often find poor sentence structure and on some of the political sites I read some of the most hate-filled messages one could ever imagine...
Steve Naidamast
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Well, just as well I am not the only one....
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It all depends how clear your text instructions were. I have downloaded stuff from Code Project before and failed to get it to work, only there were no instructions in this case. Some article writers forget that their audience is a diverse one.
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Point, but others who had issues gave me a little to work with, I could then figure out how it was breaking on there system. It not so much what was said but how it was said...
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Just wanted to know how many of you play Clash of Clans?
Are you guys excited about new sneak peeks:
- New Lightning Spell level 7
- Improved Lightning, Poison, Earthquake and Freeze spells!
-- P
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.
modified 15-Sep-15 10:14am.
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Nope. Not planning to ever play it: the TV ads put me right off.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And how do you feel about the Game of War ad with Kate Upton? 
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I feel the same about that as I do about the Clash of Clans advert.
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I don't, the CoC ad is just drivel. The GoW ones are patronising, sexist, and drivel.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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