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Hi All,
I spent the Hols installing software on a new PC I have got while doing this I had to search out old boxes, books etc. for Keys and the like. I came across a complete un-used Borland Builder C++ book looked through it for old times sake (ahh.. nostalgia!) and found a section on Serial Port communication and started to read it. The view was while no native means of comms is included this is how to get it working while a component is not included. I remember hearing from some where that Borland (or whatever they were called at the time) lost a lot of there main coders to Microsoft (due to a legal action). Could that be why the serial port was left off .NET 1, only to back in Net 2.0 and on are we using a Borland derived product on reverse engineered Alien Technology (or have I spent the hols watching too many dodgy documentaries "it's a conspiracy, I tell you")...
Makes you think...
Glenn 
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This is no conspiracy. Can you please have a look at that flashing red light ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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The one on the camera, or the one on the NSA filter box?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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which one? I have three in sight now, one of which needs to be fixed...
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This one[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Ahh...thought so, now if you excuse me I will have to fix that LED (why is it flashing...) 
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Making my second cup of coffee of the day, I lift the milk out of the fridge, catch the shelf above it, which falls out...dropping a whole big jar of mayonnaise on the floor.
Which smashes, leaving me a wide "splash zone" of mayo and broken glass to clear up. Joy.
That's not a good combo really - raw-egg-based condiment mixed with broken glass - so I have to manually (and very carefully) collect all the glass into a cardboard box, followed by all the mayo-and-glass mix, which can then all go in a plastic bag so it doesn't leak / smell, followed by the mayo so I can use a broom to sweep up the tiny glass bits, then a mop and bucket to clean the floor.
Needless to say, the cat does not make this a simple process. 
So, how's your day going? 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Your history striked me as a cultural difference, here where i live there's only one brand of mayonnaise (a very cheap one) who sells it on glass jars, all the others sell plastic containers that bounce when throw at the floor
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I speak from experience not every plastic container bounces, in fact from reference if the container is still factory sealed it will rupture and give an equal to glass explosion! (notably if you have a designer kitchen floor of barely smoothed slate  ) I believe the brand leader in the UK still comes in glass jars, the cheapo supermarket own brand might come in plastic...
Glenn
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Indeed - Hellmanns 800g, used once...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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strangely thats goes for me too, I once bought hellmanns and used it once too!
now it sits next to that industrial waste that is sold as a food stuff, marmite i think its called(thank god the sewage industry never thought of disposing its waste by labling it a food stuff)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Bergholt Stuttley Johnson wrote: thank god the sewage industry never thought of disposing its waste by labling it a food stuff
McDonald's?
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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McDonald's? food stuff? hardly
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Neither is Marmite!
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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point taken
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Marmite is great! Had two slices of toast and Marmite for breakfast and I haven't stopped [redacted] yet.
speramus in juniperus
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Mayo is good - it's the base for a Prawn Cocktail sauce, it makes coleslaw, and (thanks Burger King!) a little bit smeared on a burger bun actually enhances the meaty taste (provided it's under the lettuce so it doesn't "cook") as well as adding a slight moisture to the whole.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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thought burger king used cabbage not lettice!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Only instead of onion...
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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no seriously I think they do use cabbage not lettice as it stays crisp longer, I'd hate to think what they use instead of onions
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Like the jar of mango chutney that gets forgotten about, you could stick tiles to the space shuttle with jar I found on boxing day!
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we were clearing out the mother in laws cupboards on boxing day and found a packet of salt with a sell by date on it (that had expired) what is the world coming to!
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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What makes me laugh is Water and Wine that have sell by dates... 
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Strangely Alcohol around never gets past date, I wonder why?
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water can stagnate or absorb checmicals from the plastic bottles and wine can go off but what the heck can salt do?
although with nagy and dave around, a date on wine is like exceeding the speed of light, a theoretical idea that cannot be reached in the real world
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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