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Wow - that's another long url title. I really wanted to call this "How To Check Out An Object From[...]

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I had to pull records from two files with a matching date value in each file. To make things interesting,[...]

Back in the good old days of single megabyte disks the size of a shoebox, when hard drives were called[...]

This week I be mainly.... working on a Casino System upgrade, dragging decades old code into the twenty first century.[...]

So, we have a customer masterfile that's been around for years. Users have been keying in customer info and sometimes[...]

What's new, Ubuntu 18.04 Linux? The biggest change is heralded as the switch from the traditional Ubuntu UNITY DESKTOP in[...]

I've been playing with my home Wifi this week, trying to resurrect my old SCALEO Home Server which has been[...]

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AKA - writing a new DSPLY opcode that shows more than 52 characters Using the DSPLY opcode to quickly debug[...]