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The Current eBay Scam

by seasoned_geek

On 4-15-2018 I received the following email: This was for a Guest order placed on 4-05-2018. I don’t run a virus known as Windows, but, being the only member of the family to ever go to college for computers, I get drafted by family members who “just bought what was pre-packaged and on-sale.” Of course DELL doesn’t ship installation media with their pre-packaged shit and when you order it, years later from customer service, you … The Current eBay ScamRead more

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Expires Faster Than Milk

by seasoned_geek1

It’s amazing how quickly things become useless and outdated on the Internet. What is worse is people usually choose one of the first five search results and consider it Gospel no matter how horribly out of date it is. Recently I got a bit nostalgic for some of the DOS work I used to do. Greenleaf libraries were a mainstay in my development tool chest no matter what compiler I was using. There CommLib product … Expires Faster Than MilkRead more

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An Updated C_MEGA_MAIL Example

by seasoned_geek

Things get dated. It is sad, but true. Time marches on and little snippets of code you squirreled away for future use start to not work as good, or not even compile because everything around them has changed. Such was the case recently with C_MEGA_MAIL.C. It stayed locked in time and VMS changed. Oh, it still compiled and seemed to work, but when you stuck it in something which sent hundreds of mail messages over … An Updated C_MEGA_MAIL ExampleRead more