Today (or maybe tomorrow, depending on who you talk to) is the 25th anniversary of Borland's introduction of the Delphi RAD environment for Object Pascal. Delphi changed my life as a programmer forever. It also changed my life as a book publisher for awhile. The Delphi Programming Explorer, a contrarian ( Read more... )

I had a need to print out a few calendar pages today, and after ( Read more... )

A few days ago, a countdown timer appeared on Carol's Win7 PC when she booted up. It told her that Windows 10 would be installed in two hours.

WTUBF?

I turned off the machine and started digging around online. A ( Read more... )

• Verizon refuses to stop using tower-side cookies (which can't be deleted by mobile device users) even as AT&T has caved on the issue. The solution is to stop using Verizon. That's what Carol and I are about to do.
• Relax. Microsoft did not pull the plug on Win7 updates on 1/13. That won't happen until 2020. What's going ( Read more... )

• Verizon refuses to stop using tower-side cookies (which can't be deleted by mobile device users) even as AT&T has caved on the issue. The solution is to stop using Verizon. That's what Carol and I are about to do.
• Relax. Microsoft did not pull the plug on Win7 updates on 1/13. That won't happen until 2020. What's going ( Read more... )

• Verizon refuses to stop using tower-side cookies (which can't be deleted by mobile device users) even as AT&T has caved on the issue. The solution is to stop using Verizon. That's what Carol and I are about to do.
• Relax. Microsoft did not pull the plug on Win7 updates on 1/13. That won't happen until 2020. What's going ( Read more... )

• This overlong, (10,000 word) wandering, muddled, and occasionally brilliant essay is a must-read if you feel ( Read more... )

I have computers the way some people have mice (those other mice, with legs) and two days ago, a couple of them went nuts. Carol's SX280 went to 100% CPU usage and roaring fans, and when I turned it on, a second machine (an older SX270) did the same thing. Rebooting changed nothing, though it took a minute or so after reboot for the problem to ( Read more... )

• Maybe it's some of the recent solar storms (the sunspots were not spectacularly high) but I heard both Guyana and the Cayman Islands on 17m the other day--the first time I've seen any significant life on that band in several years.
• I have yet to find an Android ebook reader app that will open and render an MS .lit file, of which I have several. No ( Read more... )

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