Jambone

@Jambone@lemmy.world
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They've recovered half a billion in the first year.

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I have the same question, mainly because it seems like the Plex interface is trying too hard to show stuff that's not on my local server.

My dad was in WWII in the Pacific and drew Kilroy for me when I was wee lad.

Reminds me of the quote:

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

"This polish takes forever to dry..."

In MSSQL, you can do a BEGIN TRAN before your UPDATE statement.

Then if the number of affected rows is not about what you'd expect, doing a ROLLBACK would undo the changes.

If the number of affected rows did look about right, doing a COMMIT would make the changes permanent.

This was my first non-OS Microsoft purchase.

The most fun thing I did with it was to write a "war dialer" inspired by the 1983 movie "War Games".

It had a "graphical" screen where one could enter a telephone area code, an exchange, and starting and ending numbers, then it would command the modem to dial each number in sequence.

It would log the call results as "no answer", "busy", "voice", or "data".

Good memories...

This is hilarious! I'd love to see it as a skit.

Necco wafers

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When I'd spend a summer week at my Grandma's in the early '60s, my cousin would take me to Luke's Store, where a dollar would buy a bag full of candies. Always included was a sleeve of Necco wafers.

I liked the flavors and would try to eat them slowly, but usually ended up crunching through them.

In 2018 when the Necco company went bankrupt, I was traveling a bit for work and would buy bags full wherever I found them. It was a relief when the Spangler company bought the brand and resumed production.

"Faster than the Speed of Life" - Steppenwolf

"Scream and Scream Again", 1970.

Our parents dropped us off at the theater to see something else, like "The Love Bug", but it had moved on and we randomly ended up seeing this horrifying film.

We were not ready for dismemberment and dissolving bodies in vats of acid...

"The Aviator"

I've been replaying FO4 lately on console and so happy to have it now on PC to carry on trips.

The ROI won't be a step function, like the flick of a switch.