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New comment by mercurialuser in "What Is a Direct Attach Copper (DAC) Cable"

mercurialuser — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:33:59 +0000

And they can block heat exhaustion

New comment by mercurialuser in "dBase: 1979-2026"

mercurialuser — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:29:27 +0000

You may compile .prg files with Harbour, an open source Clipper clone compiler, on github.

Strange it is not cited in the post.

New comment by mercurialuser in "DBASE on the Kaypro II"

mercurialuser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:31:24 +0000

Have a look at harbour project on github. It compiles Clipper code to be run on several different platforms, in text and gui mode (also with Qt bindings) and mow there are several frameworks for web development

New comment by mercurialuser in "DBASE on the Kaypro II"

mercurialuser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:25:25 +0000

Look for Harbour project on github

New comment by mercurialuser in "CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?"

mercurialuser — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 20:56:32 +0000

Use harbour compiler and run it under windows, linux, mac and other less used os..

New comment by mercurialuser in "How to run latest Vegas Pro 22 in Windows 7 x64"

mercurialuser — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 18:26:07 +0000

Da vinci is great software but for long time vegas users it is not easy to adapt. I tried several times and failed. I used to edit a couple of my daughter theatrical performance with up to 5 cameras and wanted to use da vinci for its "sync-with-audio" feature and easier color correction for the various, different cameras.

I also use 2 pc to edit with vegas, with project and video on an external usb3 disk, moving it from home to office. It is not so easy with da vinci that uses an external database: doable but not easy.

New comment by mercurialuser in "The World Of dBASE (1984) [video]"

mercurialuser — Sat, 10 May 2025 12:36:59 +0000

Yes. Going back to the top or confirming tha data when exiting the last field was a setting. You may have multiple commands on one row but you have to separate them with a ;

New comment by mercurialuser in "The World Of dBASE (1984) [video]"

mercurialuser — Wed, 07 May 2025 17:11:53 +0000

You can still compile dbase/Clipper programs with Harbour, github hosted, open source, Clipper 5.2 compatible compiler that runs almost everywhere, from native windows 64 bit to mac, raspberry, linux, embedded appliances, anywhere there is a c compiler available.

The language has been slightly expanded and with external libraries you may have gui programs (win32, qt, gtk) l, connect to databases (sqlite, mariadb,postgres...) create PDF, excel files.

I have a program started in 1986 on dbase III, then ported to Clipper and now to Harbour...

New comment by mercurialuser in "Bridge to Sicily: a strategic project for Italy or a waste of resources?"

mercurialuser — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:59:49 +0000

oh, yes.

Strait of Messina, as is called that part of the mediterranean sea, is really really busy, with a lot of maritime traffic.

Some researchers pointed out that the planned height of the bridge from the sea level is not enough for the biggest ships

New comment by mercurialuser in "Bridge to Sicily: a strategic project for Italy or a waste of resources?"

mercurialuser — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:41:44 +0000

It's a telluric area--- sicily and the continent are moving and their distance increases some centimeters every year.

Also look for "messina earthquake" year 1908, between 75000 and 82000 people died.

It is a "trophy" for some politician... so no, it's not an easy task.

New comment by mercurialuser in "My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking"

mercurialuser — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:59:43 +0000

Don't want to start a flame but what is missing to the children is exactly being bored.

We used to bring paper and pen to have them draw.

New comment by mercurialuser in "Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date"

mercurialuser — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 14:26:08 +0000

On a recent tv reconstruction by an italian TV show about historically events ("una giornata particolare") it seems that the archeologists are finding remains of food typical of the autumn

New comment by mercurialuser in "I Stopped Using Kubernetes. Our DevOps Team Is Happier Than Ever"

mercurialuser — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:24:09 +0000

We have 3 cluster, prod, dev, test with a few pod each.

Each cluster is wasting tons of cpu and i/o bandwidth just to be idle. I was told that it is etcd doing thousands i/o per second and this is normal.

For a few monolith

New comment by mercurialuser in "Iron Mountain: It's Time to Talk About Hard Drives"

mercurialuser — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:05:05 +0000

There are several articles about film preservation in digital format. Every X years all the data is "upgraded", from LTOn to LTOn+1 or +2.

So it may sound like a sales pitch but I consider it more a warning notice

New comment by mercurialuser in "Project Hammer: reduce collusion in the Canadian grocery sector"

mercurialuser — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:51:04 +0000

Your past data shows you sell 100 apples every day, despite the cost. Then it shows that you may sell other 100 if the price is considered "low" by the clients or 30 if the price is "high". Then you know how many are in stocks, from how many days, and how many are arriving. And you fix the price accordingly

New comment by mercurialuser in "History of the Italian electrical system"

mercurialuser — Sat, 18 May 2024 15:38:18 +0000

I live in that part of Rome where we have 2 phases and no neutral.

I discovered being electrocuted and I could not understand why.

Fortunately heat pumps, "stupid" car chargers and other appliances work with no problems. But an installer told me that I could have had problems with smart car chargers and he refused to do the work.

Also Shelleys seem to work.

New comment by mercurialuser in "The xz attack shell script"

mercurialuser — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:31:05 +0000

It can be to make space for script changes: you may overwrite the first bytes of the script.

Or just add some laziness.

New comment by mercurialuser in "Post Mortem on Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage"

mercurialuser — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 09:08:51 +0000

Did you rebuild all the server from scratch?

New comment by mercurialuser in "Let's have a chat about Java licensing, says unsolicited Oracle email"

mercurialuser — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:56:45 +0000

They senza email to people in their cms (if you have other contracts) or browsing your web site... sending to the wrong people of course especially if your web sito is not in English.

Received a mail for VirtualBox 10 days ago.

New comment by mercurialuser in "Self-published Ansible book – 87k copies, 300k revenue, 41 revisions"

mercurialuser — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 17:51:12 +0000

Someone told me that our public facing dns server running bind has 3800+ days of uptime and despite bind is up to date, the Linux version is really old... it's running on a dl360 g4 server. Since they also proposed to have a different master/slave configuration my idea was to use ansible to have all the stuff reproducible. Then packer seemed to be necessary, then started to look at some more complex configurations and found that in many cases you just create gigantic bash script that apply the configurations. So I should go to my wiki page with all the commands to create my server and transform them into a script that I should test several times. Ok if you have 100s of identical servers, but when you have just 4?