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I just came back to my computer expecting to find: an Arduino IDE session, six Excel spreadsheets, various web pages pointing to the local Python web server that was running in a VS Code session alongside the five web pages that I was working on, and all the rest just as I left them... Not unreasonable I think!
What I actually find is that the system has been rebooted, and hidden away in an information log I find that "Windows successfully installed the following update: 2024-04..." at 5/13/2024 02:07:39
Idiots!
And someone asked if MS bashing was allowed - in my mind it is obligatory.
Andy
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At least, it succeeded! 
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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It actually de-hibernates my computer, installs updates and then leaves it running just to waste electricity and annoy me ...
Or worse, de-hibernates my computer, tries to shut down to install updates but finds a app - normally an MS app - that won't close so it leaves it running having not updated until I get up in the morning 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My tactic was to take the shell off and make them a little lighter and quicker. But instead they became more sluggish.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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And sluggardly as well, no doubt.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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honey the codewitch wrote: take the shell off and make them a little lighter and quicker.
A snail without a shell is like a horse without a jockey.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Or a fish without a bicycle.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I converted my racing snail in a truck, now it's an es-cargo-t.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I got an old chart and need to scan it into a scanner.
the chart size is in 11" by 15" size paper.
any good scanner to recommend? at this time I try to find something on eBay.com.
Thanks in advance for your help.
diligent hands rule....
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My HP OfficeJet Pro 7740 says it will do 11x17.
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One-off? Go to your local copy shop.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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If you have an A4 scanner available, scan the document in two overlapping parts and then use something like Hugin to stitch them together
(Just Google for Hugin)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Can a mobile scanner app be used for this? A reasonably good mobile camera can give quite a good scan. And most scanner apps can correct minor (camera, angle) misalignments so as to give a rectangular image saved as a PDF file.
I'm talking of free scanner apps. Priced ones may be even better.
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