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Okay, my finger is healed enough to work now so I’ve reached out to rfuzzo about the warnings 🙂

For reference, this is how I ran cpplint:
./cpplint --filter=-whitespace,-readabiltiy/braces --recursive ~/Code/mwedit/

Back in the day, The Flintstones was a favourite just before dinner, in terms of finely crafted animation, could we ever call it a Stone Age version of The Simpsons?
Completed The Consultant, kind of hit and miss really, a curio, as you never would guess how it ends until well over half way.
FTA are having The Oscar Goes To selection once again.…[Read more]

It’s the culture of corps too, many of the denizens in existence within their hallowed walls have no choice but declare there is no such thing as life outside, before, or after the corp, therefore the corp is seen as the provider and maintainer of all the means of existence and sustenance for the present and incumbent. So why do they have to…[Read more]

Another note:

We’ll want to make sure we compile the Windows executable as a static executable. This is important as, unlike *nix systems, Windows doesn’t have a central repository on system for libraries so each program needs to bundle its DLLs with them if built dynamically. The distribution can get a bit messy. Makes it harder to update…[Read more]

Part of the issue is also the hoarding of resources. Instead of investing it back into new markets and advances, corporations are simply letting the resources accumulate. This kills growth as there is little to no incentive to continue purchasing more services and products so things tend to stagnate over time. It also does harm to general society.…[Read more]

Wiki’s got a pretty extensive list, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft Lots of stuff in there!

Haven’t used Watcom before but I’ve definitely run across it. Can’t forget about Borland, either! It still lives as C++ Builder 🙂

Might be worth a shot, thanks. 🙂
And looking at The (Nearly) Whole Microsoft Catalog, it all kicked off with a cracker in ’81:

Seattle Computer Products
Developer of 86Q-DOS operating system software, which became MS-DOS.
Purchased software for $50,000, but later was sued and paid the company a nearly $1 million settlement.
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Watcom is a…[Read more]

Would it be nice … to grow up to be an ugly old creep like me!

Yeah, I’ll keep an eye out. Did an ISO conversion once using the built-in tools on Windows when I was having some issues with the CD drive twenty-years ago as requested by tech support to test out the drive. Turned out to be a failing drive at the time and the process wasn’t pretty. Had to use a weird xcopy command 😛

Sounds good. I’ve had my…[Read more]

Looks like he may have disabled new comments some years ago. Maybe he had a spam problem? He’s got some good information!

Have you looked into Hyper-V? Never used it before but it looks like it may be a good native option, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Sadly, it only supports back to W7 from the official list.

I can’t…[Read more]

Once in a blue moon you might find a local Office Solutions company bending over backwards in offering a disk/file copying service, then creating ISOs is a breeze. The possibility of monetary gain by instead purchasing the game through the outlets of today cannot and will not be underestimated. 😛
Fallout aside, we’ll always have Paris Morrowind,…[Read more]

The skiff looks nice for half-baked, the skiff’s scullion will be ensuring the fish will be fully baked. 🙂
🙂 Ah, the face of Microsoft.

While I do have Fallout 3, it’s on disc and I don’t have an external optical drive and would need to buy it again 🙁 I suspect there will be similar problems with 3, though, since New Vegas is mostly a modded 3. I do plan on picking up Fallout 4 at some point but that depends on a sale 😛

Sorry for the late response!

We do have a fishing skiff but it’s currently half-baked. Hopefully they do some more work on it in the future 🙂

These are more like rocky planets with a gaseous atmosphere. They’re pretty weird. I guess you could say they’re more akin to Venus that Jupiter? Or a combination.

Cool! Remember browsing AliWeb’s list of links way back when. And…[Read more]

Just ran the code base through cpplint. There’s some overlap but it does do a good job of picking up stuff that needs modernization whereas cppcheck mostly looks for potential problems.

Here’s the log: https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cpplint.zip

I tried to suppress the style warnings but wasn’t able to suppress the…[Read more]

Yeah. I get that they’re a source of revenue but there comes a point where they’re so bad that the site becomes unusable on certain devices. In those cases, I usually go back and read them on the computer where I have uBlock. They also need to turn off auto play. That takes up a lot of battery power. Funny thing is that the outfits complain about…[Read more]

Or sucking the poor critters up into huge freezer trawlers? Certainly a possibility if we are far enough down into the atmosphere where liquids occur, and in a nicely positioned de-pressurized gian super-dome so that things aren’t completely squinched by the overpowering gravity. A construct something akin in magnitude and complete opposite in…[Read more]

That’s a UK list, the variation in locale is just amazing, the Australasia variants like the one here don’t, confirmed also in Wikipedia. It’s also down to what they define as “support” – the Tab A may very well possess the means of supporting the feature, the support being activated when and if the chip is actually installed, otherwise the…[Read more]

Thanks for looking, will keep an eye out for things here in case something turns up. 🙂

Doesn’t appear that the bbPress documentation has something similar. The closest it has is an old guide to styling: https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-styling-crib/