I use my browsers "bookmarks". Don't see what would be limiting with that, as I can easily create topics folders...

I think you seriously misunderstood... :laugh:

What is MFC?

Sorry, but you won't be able to find such a magic book. In networking, and specially with network security, it is all hands-on learning, it will take years of experience, with success and lots of failures to learn what you are doing. Should be doing. Or not.

While not necessarily two HDMI ports, I haven't seen a computer that did NOT support two monitors for a long time. The second one might be (mini) DisplayPort, for example. For programming, I have used a dual screen (preferable a triple screen setup, one for the source code, one for the debugging output and one for the actual application screen) for more than 30 years now, starting with that VGA+monochrome combo mentioned. Btw, typing this on a laptop that has a 17" 4:3 monitor attached via VGA, could also use HDMI instead) as a second monitor. Don't have the space right now for a 3 screen setup...

Well, not sure what is so confusing here. Just check the comments to the article you are linking to. TIOBE is utter nonsense by itself. Having nonsense like "Groovy" or even Objective-C ahead of it shows that rather clearly. The "popularity" is a rather hard to measure factor, specially when considering the real world rather than wishful thinking...

Well, you're answer shows that you haven't had a look at current Pascal for at least 30 years...

Kind of nonsense. It is neither dead nor dying, nor are only legacy apps developed in Delphi. Or Object Pascal in general (including FreePascal & Lazarus here)...

Why are you so surprised? Delphi was and still is IMHO the (one of the) best Windows development environment and programming languages. The only downside is that the current owners of it made it a pretty much enterprise level tool by raising the price to astronomic levels. Mainly because of that, beside an easier cross development between Windows, Linux and macOS, I switched years ago to FreePascal, with the Lazarus IDE (and library). Lazarus/FreePascal is mostly Delphi compatible and both are very viable tools for programming in Object Pascal...

Well, in my experience, Chrome indeed sucks. But overall, I do have a different order of preference to web browsers, as for me, in order it would be 1. Firefox (and on Windows, I use a lot a fork called Waterfox, as that allows to run some older add-ons, which don't exist since they changed their API, or the newer versions aren't as capable or easily usable as the old ones 2. Opera, though they are working hard on messing up this once great browser 3. Yeah, that would be Chrome, as the rest is even more atrocious... 4. through 10.no particular browser 11. Edge, I give them a little bit of credit for at least trying to create a better browser 12. Safari, it just stinks 13. Internet Exploder. No further comment necessary. And it wouldn't show up for me at all if there weren't some applications that require that old beast, because some custom ActiceX components won't run on Edge (a lot of security camera UIs are using those) And there is all the rest...

Friends don't let friends use Bing. So whatever you do, just don't Bing it! (also, if you are really interested in usable results from a search on the interwebs, don't use DuckDuckNoGo...)

Well, for a lot of years now, I have actually switched to instant coffee. For two very simple reason. Some days, I might get up early in the morning to leave the house and just have time for one cup. Some days, I am rudely awaken by the coyotes here in the canyon making a ruckus at 4am in the morning, or the occasional crack head in the park across the street, which makes our dogs back. Then it might be 5 or 6 cups before noon. And regardless how many cups I might be drinking, I can easier adjust the strength (amount of caffeine) with each cup. Beside that, I do not tend to drink coffee after noon anymore, if I have a long day/night, I might actually go rather with some juice or soda for the rest of the day...

Yahoo has become unbearable years ago. And if you were using Yahoo up to this time, there is no point in being concerned about privacy by using GMail. And first and foremost, I would recommend to let go of that nonsense and insist on using a web browser for email, that is what real email clients are intended for...

BASIC in most cases was rather useful...

You aren't Welsh, aren't you? (Ok, that's Black Adder, but still... ;-) )

fd9750 wrote:
Having been to the USA umpteen times that does not surprise me at all.

Most of the population there is hardly aware that there is something like a world outside of the USA. 

Examples?

Like getting utterly confused when they are told "no, nobody outside of the USA is celebrating the 4th of July", or Thanksgiving Day. Or that "Cinco De Mayo" is not the Mexican independence day.

I don't think that OO in general is "ill conceived" but I do agree that is by far overused and misused since it was "invented". There are certainly benefits to encapsulate both code and data, and to some degree, abstraction can help to make code more readable and thus maintainable. But in far too many cases, this leads nowadays just to a royal mess where people do this ad nauseam, creating totally unreadable and incomprehensible code (beside the original coder, at the time they creating that piece of code) and are even proud of it. It's simply has turned into "too much of a good thing"...

Since "way back", I have always used a 4 spaces tab setting on all C (and Perl, C++, etc) languages, 8 spaces tabs or no tabs on everything else. And so did pretty much everyone else in those days.

On Windows, I use for years TightVNC, works just peachy fine. And has a file transfer mode... On Linux, I use TigerVNC or RealNC. Connecting to RealVNC server on my RPi4s from TightVNC works also flawlessy...

Well, a lot of .NET fans can't handle the truth... ;P And Delphi is by far not the only Pascal based programming environment. I personally use FreePascal (Free Pascal - Advanced open source Pascal compiler for Pascal and Object Pascal - Home Page[^]) with the Lazarus IDE (Lazarus Homepage[^]) for years, is truly OpenSource on cross-platform on Windows, macOS and Linux, and then some... I had a look at CodeTyphon a few years ago, as someone was pushing it on a mailing list, but at least back then it wasn't quite ready "for prime time"...