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Richard Deeming4-Oct-24 3:25

Richard Deeming

4-Oct-24 3:25

Try looking at any of the programming forums on Reddit. Endless reams of questions about code which don't include the code, or even a screenshot of the code; instead, they include a low-res photo of their monitor with some of the code on it. D'Oh! | :doh:

It's a great reminder of one of the many reasons why CodeProject's QA doesn't allow pictures.

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honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 4:22

4-Oct-24 4:22

If you want to code, but you can't take a screen shot using print screen or something you need to pack it in and find a different calling.

Maybe I'm being harsh.

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jochance4-Oct-24 8:16

jochance

4-Oct-24 8:16

It might be that they are in a lab that doesn't have outside internet connectivity or has Reddit in particular blocked.

I do that wooden table sort of nonsense in similar situations where it's just easier to do that than to jump through all the hoops of shuttling a file from a PC/laptop to a cell phone (so as to use the cell's internet).

There are some apps that will cut/paste between cell and PC/laptop. Not always convenient/possible though.

My new favorite life hack for it is to start a draft gmail and attach the file and just leave it sitting like a temp drop box until I grab it from the other device(s).

honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 8:24

4-Oct-24 8:24

Half the time there's a cat or something in the picture so you know they're taking it at home.

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Gary Wheeler15hrs 33mins ago

Gary Wheeler

15hrs 33mins ago

Well, at least you got a picture of a cat out of the problem Big Grin | :-D

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Rage4-Oct-24 5:15

Rage

4-Oct-24 5:15

Gary Wheeler wrote:
I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems.

I've never understood how someone so nice can work in such an industry.

Gary Wheeler4-Oct-24 6:06

Gary Wheeler

4-Oct-24 6:06

Rage wrote:
I've never understood how someone so nice

Thank you $Shucks | :-\$ .

Rage wrote:
can work in such an industry

I'm afraid the consumer inkjet industry copied our business model. We sell hardware (printing press plus the inkjet) more-or-less at cost, and then make earnings on ink and maintenance. It takes years of equipment sales, ink, and service on a product line to recoup development costs and to begin making a profit.

This has been How Things Are Done in commercial printing (not just inkjet) since Gutenberg Sigh | :sigh:

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StarNamer@work5-Oct-24 1:01

StarNamer@work

5-Oct-24 1:01

Du jour?

I've several times commented to out service desk people that, never mind the operators, can't we at least train the field tech engineers to use the Print Screen button when reporting a problem. A full screen image would infinitely better that some of the photos we get taken from to far away to be useful, at a slight angle and with a bright light reflecting off the screen for good measure! Since we have remote access to the operator workstations it wouldn't matter if they left the file on the PC...

I don't like CSS

honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 2:55

4-Oct-24 2:55

Aside from the usual gripes about the over complicatedness of CSS from a usability standpoint, I have problems with it from an implementation standpoint.

CSS requires a DOM, just like JS does. With JS it's understandable. With CSS it's because they added a lot of more or less quasi-useful "convenience" features to their selectors.

If you could only do class and id based selectors your entire document could be parsed top-down, which is much more efficient than loading it all into RAM.

Why does it matter? Because embedded things exist, and HTML is so prevalent. If it wasn't for CSS a lot more devices could render a reasonable subset of HTML5.

I think they should at least come out with a standard like say eCSS (for embedded) that's a subset for forward only processing.

CSS is illustrative of what happens when you give a standards committee nothing better to do for decades.

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Nelek4-Oct-24 4:16

Nelek

4-Oct-24 4:16

I think you are not the only one Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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kmoorevs4-Oct-24 7:12

kmoorevs

4-Oct-24 7:12

I have a love/hate relationship with CSS. I love what it enables me to do (layout and styling), but I hate having to google the selectors/syntax when it gets complicated...however there's certainly no shortage of references to anything you need to do.

As for html/css/javascript, I chose this combination recently to render scorecard style reports in a winforms project. Build a webpage bit by bit and throw it into a browser control...it takes me back to the late 90's when I was building webpages with classic asp! Laugh | :laugh:

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honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 8:06

4-Oct-24 8:06

I think really, just paring down a standard for things like embedded and formalizing the pared down "standard" for e-readers (it already sort of defines a subset depending on the format) it would open it up to a lot more hardware.

And frankly, it's so sprawling at this point that a cleaner, lighter version wouldn't hurt.

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Gwyll5-Oct-24 0:36

Gwyll

5-Oct-24 0:36

Look at CSSStyleSheets.

JavaScript

const rules = new CSSStyleSheet();
rules.insertRule("selector {rules}");
document.adoptedStyleSheet.push(rules);

This provides some separation and you can replace all <style> tags with <script>.

honey the codewitch5-Oct-24 1:34

Another disk copying question

5-Oct-24 1:34

I mean, that's javascript though.

I'm more talking about parsing and interpreting CSS properly on embedded systems, no JavaScript.

Think a stripped down webkit for small embedded devices.

CSS as it stands requires the DOM. There's a reasonable subset of it in terms of selector syntax that wouldn't require a DOM and could be forward only parsed.

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modified 2 days ago.

Alister Morton4-Oct-24 2:55

Alister Morton

4-Oct-24 2:55

I have a friend who was given a lighting console and was told that the previous owner thought the hard drive was on its way out. We're thinking about trying to replace the drive, the problem being, we need to copy over the OS as well, and there's a really good chance it's not Windows or Linux like most modern lighting desks; it's quite probably something custom. The other problem is this desk is officially obsolete, so the re-imaging kits that used to be available are no longer listed. We'll try to locate one, but not holding out much hope.

So here's the thing. The disk isn't very large (haven't checked but unlikely to be more than 250GB), so a replacement won't cost much, but I'm not sure what the best way would be to, essentially, do a "tape-to-tape" copy of the disk.

Any suggestions?

honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 2:57

4-Oct-24 2:57

There are hard drive reimagers that literally take hard drives in two slots like they were bread in a toaster.

If you want something to produce an exact copy regardless of filesystem, it's a pretty safe bet, as long as your ailing drive survives.

Here's one[^]

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Alister Morton4-Oct-24 4:08

Alister Morton

4-Oct-24 4:08

Thanks, I hadn't come across those, and it's certainly an option. I have a SATA docking station, I wonder if there would be a way, with a second docking station, to effectively simulate what this does. Maybe a linux boot and a low level disk operator - does dd do this sort of thing?

Thanks for the pointer, anyway.

honey the codewitch4-Oct-24 4:11

4-Oct-24 4:11

dd might work, but honestly, I'd pay for the hardware for peace of mind. It's so simple it does a sector copy. it doesn't care.

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Nelek4-Oct-24 4:09

Nelek

4-Oct-24 4:09

Hiren's boot CD had several possibilities. If the disk is old I would recommend v10.1 or less. Those had the good'ol norton ghost low level version that started to fail at the end of Win7 or with big disks.

I remember an old software too called "Alcohol 120" (120% it burns all) that could do a verbatim copy of disks and drives.

There should actually be a lot of software out there that can cope with it. The only thing I think you should be careful is to do a copy of the whole original disk, if the new device is bigger you can still restore it as a disk and if you really think you need it, to reduce the disk to a partition later and use the extra place for something else.

M.D.V.

Alister Morton17hrs 22mins ago

Alister Morton

17hrs 22mins ago

Thanks - another option to consider.