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I completed my Computer Science degree at the University of Manitoba in 1976. I did two and a half years of programming in medical research followed by twenty-nine years at Manitoba Hydro (electric utility). Most of that was spent on doing development…
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 | What relevance is the mining industry to Daniweb?  |
 | Believe in a super powerful entity that's gonna solve all your problems but you need to "worship" it unless you want to be tortured for the rest of your life/eternity? We already have that. It's called God, Jesus, Yahweh, Allah, etc. Take your pick. Show me evidence that any of …  |
| | I use [clipgrab](https://clipgrab.org/faqs/howto-download-youtube-video)  |
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| | Run appwiz.cpl and look at all the installed items. You may have several pieces of bloatware such as browser extensions that you don't need. Check for apps that start automnatically when WIndows starts. [Sysinternals](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/sysinternals-suite) autoruns is excellent for identifying and disabling. How much RAM do you have? Excessive swapping due … |
| | Seems like an extension of Sturgeon's Law which states "90% of everything is crap". |
| | Similar to your post in the hard drive thread, a generic recommendation is useless without getting into specific software. In this case I can recommend two. One is [VisiPics](https://visipics.info/) which I find works well. The interface is straightforward and it allows you to select a similarity threshhold. While not as … |
 | You might try [spin-rite](https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm) |
| | In the summer of 2022 I bought an ASUS laptop from BestBuy. It came with an internal SSD and an empty internal bay for a 2.5" drive. I didn't install a second drive until October and when I booted up it would not recognize the added drive. When I took … |
| | There are at least two free options. One is [VisiPics](https://visipics.info/) which I find works well. The interface is straightforward and it allows you to select a similarity threshhold. While not as robust as perhaps an AI based tool (I don[t know of any yet) I find it does the trick. … |
 | My biggest fear is an expansion of misinformation to the extent that we will not be able to trust that anything we see, hear, or read will have any basis in reality. |
 | It's hard for me to imagine that all of the pleasure I've gotten out of Daniweb, the challenges, the insights, the friendships since I joined in 2010, are all dependent on the largesse of just one very talented person. I, for one, appreciate all you have done, particularly considering your … |
| | Are you trying to execute the query before opening the connection? I'm just guessing because you didn't post any code. Strictly speaking you didn't post a question either.  |
| | How does Daniweb fare in search engines like Duckduckgo and Bing? |
 | Typically, Dell supports the hardware of a system and will assume that every problem is a software problem for which they will charge to fix (trust me on this - I spent the last 16 months fighting with Dell). They don't really care what OS is put on the machine … |
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| | I recall reading, "If the text is unusually coherent or consistent, it might raise suspicion." I'm afraid that does not speak well of our educational system. And it's not very useful in trying to automate detection. As a side note, I read recently about some researchers using a "needle in …  |
| | Nope. I never found another place that felt as comfortable as Daniweb. |
| | My wife and I consume vast quantities of e-books. Mostly mysteries. But I used to be big into sci-fi. As a teen I loved the (at that time) biggies like Asimov, Heinlein (who has lost his shine the more I learn about him), Blish, Clarke, Herbert, Niven, Ellison, etc. A … |
| | Odd that something so basic and obvious needs to be named. Of course, "Pomodoro Technique" is a lot shorter than "go hide in the server room so my boss won't keep interrupting me so I can get some work done" technique. At least that's what I used to call it.  |
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| | Yes. People continue to ask about VB6. They shouldn't. And you likely won't see anyone answering questions about, for example, COBOL or QuickBASIC, except in a historical context. The only VB6 question that should be asked is "why are you still using it?" |
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| | Right click on taskbar and select taskbar settings. If you want the icon to show then turn copilot preview on. Or you can use the hotkey WINDOWS+C. Copilot should appear docked to the right of the screen.. |
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 | Not gonna happen. However, if you show some effort and need help with something... |
| | I'm not very familiar with HAVING but my understanding is that it is used to filter results after a GROUP operation so I can't imagine that indexes would improve performance other than on the original SELECT. Using WHERE would return rows based on one or more criteria, and would benefit … |
| | Yet another example of taking a simple concept (black hat vs white hat from old cowboy flicks) and diluting it until nobody can make sense of it anymore. Just like the myriad different coloured wrist bands and ribbons. What's next? Purple hat? Green Hat? |
| | I went to a site that sells wood veneer slat paneling. They make a nice range of products and seem reputable. However, on completing my order I found that my payment options were limited to * shoppay * paypal * gpay I have never seen a legitimate site that would … |
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