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jadavies
·작년·discuss
Beware trying to make linguistic jokes in another language. It's "popty-ping" which is slang for a microwave oven.
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
Seriously? I have to provide my personal details before I can find out what it costs to subscribe? WTF.
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'tblUsers.UName' cannot be a zero-length string.

/-/db/registration.asp, line 136

Oh well I'll come back later
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't see how you'd ever get any traction if you mainly relied on the app store search results.
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
There are apparently a couple of rail gauges changes necessary at the moment - https://www.railfreight.com/beltandroad/2020/01/30/four-ways...
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
I suggest that you don't read up on how penicillin was discovered then!
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
The BBC is reporting that both UK and Italian governments say that the doses were destined for Belgium. I haven't got a direct link, it's in the BBC's rolling updates.
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
That's an excellent channel for train ride videos. Mind you I would love it even more if they did one with a 360 degree camera at the front of the train!
jadavies
·5년 전·discuss
> You cannot sell GPL licensed software

Wrong
jadavies
·6년 전·discuss
A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.
jadavies
·8년 전·discuss
We haven't had a hosepipe ban around here yet so it's not a proper heatwave :)