Same!

Agreed with most others, laser is the way to go. I have an HP MFP 477fdw. Prints colour, both sides, cheap to buy and cheap to run so long as you buy 3rd party toner (HP stuff is 3 times the price of the printer!). It also scans (double sided), photocopies and would fax too if it were connected. Connects by USB, Ethernet or WiFi and I can print to it from my iPhone.

Old, yes - iPhone always!

It's a "yay" from me! However I'm a bigger fan of integration testing, whereby one can test the full functionality of a system or part of it. Not a believer in TDD.

I too have encountered the very same with Microsoft and codes sent via email. Even worse is their "Authenticator" app, it's a complete fiasco!

Yes, I pulled out of Farcebook about 4 years ago. I've never seen the point of Twitter, what a waste of everyone's time!

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Ha! There's a funny story related to that but it can't be told in a public forum ;-)

Back in late 80's I created a system used when maintaining Concorde. It measured the loads on jacking points whilst the plane was under maintenance, took the information from a "black box" converter and used it to update a graphical display of the plane. There was a monster siren attached to the trolley to be sounded if any load exceeded a predefined maximum. All on the latest IBM PS2 using Turbo Basic. AFAIK it remained in place until Concorde was retired.

Hi Chris, Yes indeed, no spam filters or any other rules etc. Using Outlook but I've also checked using the web mail client for my new host (I have other email accounts with this host with no problems), I had to move the domain from Plusnet because we are moving abroad and I'll have a French ISP soon :-) Many thanks John

Hi Guys, I had to move my domain last week which took a few days to finalise during which emails may have bounced back and caused the address to have been blacklisted in some way. All is well now so could someone check why I'm not getting them any more please? I did try changing my preferences and saving them but it did not resolve the problem. Many thanks John

Some years ago I created the software to monitor the jacks under an aircraft as it was being serviced. Basically you could put load x on jacks y to z and unzip the plane around the middle without it falling apart, that kind of stuff. The actual, aircraft is no longer flying but it was that one with the long pointy nose that flew at Mach 2 (no names, no pack drill!). The whole project was being run by an engineering company so we were basically a sub contractor, the software was just down to me and it communicated with a "black box" that monitored the load cells on the jacks. We used an IBM PS2 computer which had been recently released and had a decent hi res graphics screen. The program had a configuration part where you entered the calibration information for each of the 15 or so load cells. When running it showed the load from each cell dynamically overlaid on an outline of the aircraft. Should a load exceed a preconfigured limit then a siren attached to the console would sound. I also supplied a detailed manual that covered all aspects of configuration and use. So, the main contractor picked up the whole caboodle and took it off the the airport for delivery to the maintenance hangars, my business partner and I decided to visit too but when we got to the hangar they had not arrived. We went on into town for another appointment and called in again on the way back. We were told that the main contractor had been but there were problems so thay had taken everything away with them. Later that day, early evening I had a call from the manufacturers of the load cells. The whole system had been dropped off with them and they were testing it using their massive presses. They found the system was working 100% with significantly higher accuracy than the minimum requested. Apparently an engineer had been busy jacking up the aircraft during the test. The jacks were manual and he began to have problems, so he fitted a 2ft extension to the jack handle and carried on before realising that something was not right and the actual load must be way more than what was displayed. The main contractor had taken my manual, ripped off the covers and added their own but did not bother to read it. Each load cell had characteristics that were up to 100% apart so they had the wrong load cells aligned to the wrong calibration parameters thus the cells were reading way off. So, now you know why said aircraft had a bent droopy nose :-)

Here here, well said! I have an HP Color Laserjet Pro MFP M477fdw which cost around £300 5 years ago, it prints, copies, scans (would fax too I think) and using 3rd party cartridges it costs peanuts to run. As Griff says, no more scrapped ink cartridges because you haven't printed for a few weeks. Honestly, over 5 years (and it's still working perfectly) it's cost way less than previous ink jet printers and much less hassle.

Doubtful. Post your project on github or as an article here on Code Project. You can then get download stats to find out if there is any interest. If so then launch a commercial version.

I have a small utility for reading log files from Azure blob space, all works as expected. I had no particular problems but it's a single window very simple application.

Option 1 unless there is a need for re-use. Going back to my days in machine code when every clock cycle counts then the overhead of the call to a method would leave me no choice but to use option 1.

Well said! When did Code Project become a forum for medical experts?

Heh, thanks for that!

Well said!

Alas not a doctor although at 18 I wanted to be one. However I am currently working on a medical app if that counts :)