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The city of Zurich wants to help parents with questions about raising children: The city's mothers and fathers advice service sends out a newsletter every two months with tips for parents of children up to the age of five. The latest edition is also dedicated to “gender-sensitive education”. And that doesn't go down well with everyone.
As a newpaper (“NZZ”) reports, parents are advised, among other things, to avoid using the terms mother and father when talking about other families. There are neutral terms as alternatives. Instead of “Rachel’s mom,” it could be “Rachel’s parent” or “Rachel’s caregiver.” Children are also more neutral than boys or girls.
I'm ashamed for my country, Switzerland 
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XY chromosome != XX chromosome. It's that simple.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Microsoft wrote [2014-10-28]:
Support and updates for Office 2003 is no longer available. Office 2003 products no longer receive the following:
Assisted support
Online content updates
Software updates from Microsoft Update
Security updates to help protect your PC from harmful viruses, spyware, and other malicious software, which can steal your personal information.
<rhetorical>So why is my system installing a ton of security updates and such for Office 2003 today? </rhetorical>
modified 2hrs 15mins ago.
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The previous update(s) may have failed ... it will now try to apply then, ad infinitum.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I think too if you have any of the Office dev tools that target 2003, it might still get updated. I do see this for newer Office versions.
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No, there were none the last time I did updates -- a month or two ago.
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Using win32 without resources because I don't even want to try to get GCC to embed and even then I'd still have to use VS code to generate RC files and figure all that out. No. Just, no.
And I have to use GCC because it's an Arduino port to PC for prototyping, and all the Arduino toolchains use GCC.
So I've been building my windows using CreateWindowExW(). Joy. 
And a lot of the User32.dll API just assumes you'll be using resources. It's actually a bit of a black art to forgo them.
This is rough stuff.
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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I remember having to do that a long time ago. Win32 API's are so much fun 😉
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It has been a long time since I've played with that aspect, but I believe the only resources in my DWinLib 6 Windows Wrapper examples are the main icon and the icons for toolbars and such. Not using toolbars gets rid of one. I'm not certain about the main icon, though. Maybe if you NULL the one of the CreateWindowExW parameters it defaults to default, and that would get rid of that resource. Like I said, it has been a long time. Such a long time, in fact that I don't think it compiled on GCC originally because it didn't handle true Unicode programs (or something), but that may have changed.
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Hello,
I feel quite lost...
New laptop (bought this spring) using Windows 11 Pro with MS 365, however I guess I didn't have to install MS Teams at the beginning as I already had it.
In the first weeks, everything worked well, but ... suddenly:
- MS Teams seems have turned into a chat-only application.
No phone calls therein.
No camera connected although I do have one!
Cannot even join an invitation I sent...
- But I need a video-chat application.
- Best, some that works on Windows 11 and lets people with Mac/Linux join as I invite them
- For example for such useful and important things as online jobs interviews?
What has happened to MS Teams? How can I fix this?
Any ideas?
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Apparently, MS Teams has "back doors". It may be a work in progress.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I lose sound or video in MS Teams whenever my laptop sleeps. Rebooting fixes it though (and now I use hibernate before I unplug my laptop so it doesn't sleep).
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Hi All,
Time for a rant, I know how to get PC's to talk to the outside world given sufficient hardware and info. I am playing with a set of scales that we are abusing for a test rig. The device is a little odd and the timing of it is strange. You send it a 'Z\r\n' to zero it 'beep' (which according to the docs means received & understood) and period of time T it zero's, then reading is made via 'P\r\n' 'beep' and the reading is returned. The reading packet seems to hold the current tare weight, the number of readings made and a total. All we care about is the tare weight. If the unit is zeroed the tare weight according to logic should be 0.00 but no it is not there?? force a zero by the on scale function it returns a 0.00 tare weight? Combined with the lack of Vis Studio .NET beyond version 2003 (.NET 1.5??) means I have to make notes of how the software behaves and do the mods with 2008 all despite having the OK for a new version (2017 possibly needed for compatibility issues) I still don't have it. I'm doing my best with what I have (if some else tells me to use Python I will stick a fork in their eye)
Glenn
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What I normally do is to use a terminal emulation program to send commands "by hand" and see what's going on. If I have to spy on two devices talking serially, I use two COM ports to capture each side of the dialog.
Mircea
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That was my first though but I haven't done to much serial port work since Win 8, Win10 & Win11 I have not attacked in the same depth. The blessed tool I used to use won't work on Win11 (I also don't have Admin so problems!)
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I really like Realterm. You can really do the nuts and bolts of serial comms with it.
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Need to add that to Free Tools[^]
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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Strange, going to have to look at Termite again used it on tried this morning with 11 and it wouldn't install...
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Just installed it on a new W11 machine and works fine (Termite 3.4)
Mircea
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Been a long time since I did serial ports but to be fair you are describing a problem with the device and not the port.
Which is what I remember. Devices were all odd. Even worse if one had to code to a spec rather than the actual device.
glennPattonWork3 wrote: Combined with the lack of Vis Studio .NET beyond version 2003
Not sure why that matters? The serial port code itself is going to be different when you move up?
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Thing was .NET1.0 had no native serial ports, you had to come up with a method (many and varied my favorite was to use MSCOMM32 imported from Visual Studio 6) which was an ugly way to do it. NET2.0 had a native serial port class which was better/easier.
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