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Your request is puzzling me; I didn't even know you can have games in Google Search! How did you get it in the first place? Yes, I can search for "Solitaire" and read that it has been included by Google since 2016. But I have never seen it, and I don't know where or how to get it. Maybe you need to adjust your Google Settings? Or install a simple advert blocker? They come free by the dozens, so I cannot think you would need any one here to write it for you.-Curt (September 03, 2018, 04:26 PM)
a) it had a 20 Mb footprint; I know people act as if disk space is infinite, but it seemed an awful lot for a launcher, the more so as the first PC I ever used (in 1988) only had a 20 Mb hard disk. For everything.-rjbull (August 27, 2018, 04:22 PM)
Ha! I find it amazing that I'm not the only one around who can't understand why the solution to performance problems is to just throw more hardware at it...-Tuxman (August 27, 2018, 04:41 PM)
Well, after copying the 'name' from the browser debugger (tried both Firefox and Chrome, latest non-developer releases), my text editors say it's a set of 4 and 5 0x1A characters (26 decimal, ASCII symbol 'Substitute', or ^Z/Ctrl-Z) separated by a space, quite unlikely that's a real name, whatever encoding or character set it might be, must have a deeper meaning, as ^Z used to be EOF (End Of File) for text files, way back when...
The only rendering engine that is actually showing something (and installed on my laptop) is Chromium (Chrome/Vivaldi), neither Firefox, Edge or IE show anything, so that might make Chrome-based browsers a tad more informative.
I would have expected SMF to filter out/reject any non-rendering characters from usernames, but obviously that's not a test-case for them.-Ath (August 22, 2018, 02:06 PM)
Hope Mouser sees this. Is this the right place to report it?-SuperMan (August 20, 2018, 02:01 PM)
They only bought it for one reason. To have access to all of that code whenever they please.-dmd7978 (August 19, 2018, 02:44 PM)
This is FUD and nothing else.-Tuxman (August 19, 2018, 02:47 PM)
I absolutely agree with Tuxman. It was a public open-source repository before Microsoft bought it. In other words, prior to their purchase, they already had access to all of the code anytime they pleased.-skwire (August 19, 2018, 08:40 PM)
I mean - This was a huge story in the programming community when it happened, and has made absolutely no difference to how GitHub has worked since the takeover. Microsoft have actually been doing some big things in the Open Source community and has produced a huge amount of code and such which is now available for anybody to use.
In my opinion, M$ taking over GitHub has done no harm, and has actually served quite well. It has also given them the direct ability to link GitHub to their programming suites (such as Visual Studio) meaning a much easier way to manage ones code. That and the fact that Microsoft are probably one of the biggest contributors to the Open Source community right now (with offerings such as Visual Studio Code being open source).
A huge company buying things like this don't always have to mean doom and gloom.
^ Klingon hahWhat language are you looking at learning anyway?looking at improving my German ---Stephen66515 (August 11, 2018, 02:56 PM)
I'm fluent, but crap at the finer points, and sometimes crap at the not-so-fine points...-tomos (August 14, 2018, 06:32 AM)
^ thanks again. I feared that...-tomos (August 11, 2018, 02:38 PM)
Thanks Stephen. Looking at the Rosetta Stone link (via phone) I can only find subscription offers. Do you have a link to whatever other option there might be?-tomos (August 11, 2018, 02:01 PM)
You have to pre-book parking spaces?-Stephen66515 (August 01, 2018, 08:16 PM)I really don't remember.-Deozaan (August 01, 2018, 07:34 PM)-Deozaan (August 01, 2018, 09:07 PM)
if memory serves me correctly, I created specifically for a parking garage a couple years ago when traveling to Seattle.
Am I the only one curious as to why one would require an email address for a parking garage?-Stephen66515 (August 01, 2018, 11:58 AM)
I don't remember why. Maybe it was to get my receipt emailed to me? Or maybe I bought a parking space online in advance to make sure there would be room for me? I really don't remember.I dont know, the first example (OP) doesnt seem so ridiculous to me-tomos (August 01, 2018, 11:01 AM)
It's ridiculous if you know you haven't been viewing any pr0n and you don't even have a webcam to hijack.-Deozaan (August 01, 2018, 07:34 PM)
if memory serves me correctly, I created specifically for a parking garage a couple years ago when traveling to Seattle.
Speaking of leg position.. Today with my empty cabinet, in order to air it out more, I opened all the drawers fully and the doors...
You can guess what almost happened -- I just caught it in time as it was about to tip over onto me (!)
I'm not sure having the legs fully forward would have prevented the problem, but it certainly would have helped. So I may move the legs forward. Or just remember to load the cabinet up more and not pull out all the drawers at once.-mouser (July 28, 2018, 08:13 AM)
I'm not sure whether this is the right place to post this, but I didn't see a more appropriate section, so... I just clicked on my link to the DC site. Instead of going directly there, my browser showed a large box that said something like "Check your browser before access the Donation Coder site." The box soon brought me to the DC site. I exited, tried again, and this time there was no such box. I don't recall ever seeing such a thing before. Is it related to the ddos attack I read about a day or so ago?-cyberdiva (July 27, 2018, 06:54 PM)
