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Very cool. I'm impressed Rixy. Good job! I'm just thinking my brain is getting too old. Wish I had gotten more into all this earlier. I did repair for 10 years and then training/report writing for 6 more. Now it's just T-sql with SSRS and SSMS.
Well, it's awfully quiet in here today. So I bid you all good night! Oh, and Cromley, Nibiru isn't near yet.

My book on Java for Dummies should be here one day this week. :D

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I figured I'd better start off with Java as if I'm a dummy, because when it comes to programming, I really am. :D But hopefully that can be resolved.

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I really like the "For Dummies" books. I had the first one DOS For Dummies when I decided to quit sales and use my degree. I had to brush up on everything.
 

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I need to get me one of those. My charger is 4 years old now and crappy.

Efest may make questionable batteries, but their chargers seem solid. The first charger I bought was a Nitecore i4, and it didn't last a year before it started getting REALLY hot while charging, so I bought an efest Luc2, 2 bay, and it's going on 2 yrs old now and still works just fine. But when it hit a year old, I went ahead and got an Xtar 2 bay, the one that tells you how long approx it will take to charge, and I'm now an Xtar fangrrl. I figured they must be expensive, everyone says they're so great, but they're no more costly than a competitive product from Efest (comparing 2 bay to 2 bay, 4 bay to 4 bay, etc). Plus if you order from xtardirect, you get free shipping, no matter the size of the order. And from all accounts, they can actually "fix" a battery that's been slightly over-discharged, and are probably the safest chargers available.

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I really like the "For Dummies" books. I had the first one DOS For Dummies when I decided to quit sales and use my degree. I had to brush up on everything.

I think by the time DOS for Dummies came out, I'd already read DOS Power Tools cover to cover -- still got that one on the shelf, it's been repaired numerous times with duct tape. :D That was the one that taught me batch file "programming" (it sort of is, if you use the errorlevels -- "if errorlevel" is one of the few conditionals you can do with DOS). I do have an HTML for Dummies, but again, I'd already gone beyond it, with HTML Artistry -- GREAT book for exploring the interplay between HTML and CSS, and some fairly advanced (at the time) CSS.

But I've never even looked at Java, so I figured "for Dummies" was entirely appropriate. :)

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I think by the time DOS for Dummies came out, I'd already read DOS Power Tools cover to cover -- still got that one on the shelf, it's been repaired numerous times with duct tape. :D That was the one that taught me batch file "programming" (it sort of is, if you use the errorlevels -- "if errorlevel" is one of the few conditionals you can do with DOS). I do have an HTML for Dummies, but again, I'd already gone beyond it, with HTML Artistry -- GREAT book for exploring the interplay between HTML and CSS, and some fairly advanced (at the time) CSS.

But I've never even looked at Java, so I figured "for Dummies" was entirely appropriate. :)

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DOS, now there's a blast from the past, I wrote a game for the Spectrum 128k, it was pages and pages of code for a bat and ball game but it worked and for my age I made a pretty good game that was almost as good as the developers who were adults. DOS was my introduction to the world of computer programing language.

My biggest regret is not working for a gaming company, I had the potential but went down a different path, still did OK for myself but working for Naughty Dog would of been so much fun.
 
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DOS, now there's a blast from the past, I wrote a game for the Spectrum 128k, it was pages and pages of code for a bat and ball game but it worked and for my age I made a pretty good game that was almost as good as the developers who were adults. DOS was my introduction to the world of computer programing language

It was really my intro to computers, period -- as well as my savior from the new baby blues -- it saved me from soap operas! :giggle: After I got a bellyful of DOS, I got a modem and discovered amateur BBSs and serial com, and off I went... :D

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I think by the time DOS for Dummies came out, I'd already read DOS Power Tools cover to cover -- still got that one on the shelf, it's been repaired numerous times with duct tape. :D That was the one that taught me batch file "programming" (it sort of is, if you use the errorlevels -- "if errorlevel" is one of the few conditionals you can do with DOS). I do have an HTML for Dummies, but again, I'd already gone beyond it, with HTML Artistry -- GREAT book for exploring the interplay between HTML and CSS, and some fairly advanced (at the time) CSS.

But I've never even looked at Java, so I figured "for Dummies" was entirely appropriate. :)

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I use to have a blast batch programming with DOS when I was a campus tech. I wrote my own little virus once and put it on a Science teacher's computer. He was obsessed with the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey so it was fun messing with his head.
I got my degree in the early 80's and did sales until 1996 so I needed to brush up on some things. I'm very thankful what I learned started to come back after more than 10 years.
I am still using a 2 bay Trustfire charger I got for 7.99 almost 2 years ago.
And an i2 charger that I won.
Have another Trustfire as backup.
Mine's a 2 bay charger I got from Provape back when I got the Provari. Now that I think about it, it was more like 5 years ago. :eek:
 

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It was really my intro to computers, period -- as well as my savior from the new baby blues -- it saved me from soap operas! :giggle: After I got a bellyful of DOS, I got a modem and discovered amateur BBSs and serial com, and off I went... :D

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I had to write in hex for an rs232 interface board I created in 1982. That was not a lot of fun.
 

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I use to have a blast batch programming with DOS when I was a campus tech. I wrote my own little virus once and put it on a Science teacher's computer. He was obsessed with the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey so it was fun messing with his head.
I got my degree in the early 80's and did sales until 1996 so I needed to brush up on some things. I'm very thankful what I learned started to come back after more than 10 years.

Mine's a 2 bay charger I got from Provape back when I got the Provari. Now that I think about it, it was more like 5 years ago. :eek:

The conditionals and looping have always been the snag for me, but I'm determined not to argue for my limitations, because I'd rather not keep them. ;) I hear that Java is actually fairly easy, and apparently it's what almost all Android apps are written in, so I'm determined to at least see what it's about. Got excellent prices on these books, on eBay, so it's not much of a financial investment. :)

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I had to write in hex for an rs232 interface board I created in 1982. That was not a lot of fun.

Hex is neat -- naturally I first discovered it when I was getting into the tech nuts and bolts of DOS, and I kept a note of what the A-F stood for on the bulletin board above my desk for YEARS... good thing, when I got into HTML, since it uses hex color codes to describe 16 million colors! Tried explaining those codes to my son once, the mathematical genius, and he just couldn't get it. So I gave him a neener neener on the chemistry he tried to explain to ME. Fuck a mole, a mole is something that grows on your skin, or burrows under your house! :giggle:

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The conditionals and looping have always been the snag for me, but I'm determined not to argue for my limitations, because I'd rather not keep them. ;) I hear that Java is actually fairly easy, and apparently it's what almost all Android apps are written in, so I'm determined to at least see what it's about. Got excellent prices on these books, on eBay, so it's not much of a financial investment. :)

Andria
Well Rixy is definitely the person to talk to about this stuff. Enjoy your books!!!! I has to get back to work. And, why are you up so early Andria??? lmao! I see a nap in your future. :giggle:
 

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Well Rixy is definitely the person to talk to about this stuff. Enjoy your books!!!! I has to get back to work. And, why are you up so early Andria??? lmao! I see a nap in your future. :giggle:

Gotta do the tag thing for the truck today, and I thought I'd get a haircut too, while I have the truck at my disposal. :)

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Morning fugee's and GFY :)


Wasnt sure I was gonna be around today, Woke up around 1 am with slight chest pains and left arm aching, Took a baby aspirin, a couple Xanaxs and about an hour later started feeling better, Probably just stressing out, I donno. Gonna see the Cardiologist today and see what he thinks.
 

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Morning fugee's and GFY :)


Wasnt sure I was gonna be around today, Woke up around 1 am with slight chest pains and left arm aching, Took a baby aspirin, a couple Xanaxs and about an hour later started feeling better, Probably just stressing out, I donno. Gonna see the Cardiologist today and see what he thinks.
Chest pains are always scary, could be the simplest of things but we always think the worst... Morning, it's 4.35pm here, glad you feel better and hope the news ain't nothing bad..
 

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I am still using a 2 bay Trustfire charger I got for 7.99 almost 2 years ago.
And an i2 charger that I won.
Have another Trustfire as backup.

I currently use two double-bay Nitecores that I bought used.

When I came back from vaycay - it became apparent some asshole (probably BIL) messed with one of them, because the the contact on one of the bays is bent.

Tried to bend it back into place, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :(

Figured I'll take the good one to work and retire the damaged one and keep it in the stash until I need it or some unfortunate comes along that could really use it.

And GFY everyone :)
 

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I currently use two double-bay Nitecores that I bought used.

When I came back from vaycay - it became apparent some asshole (probably BIL) messed with one of them, because the the contact on one of the bays is bent.

Tried to bend it back into place, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :(

Figured I'll take the good one to work and retire the damaged one and keep it in the stash until I need it or some unfortunate comes along that could really use it.

And GFY everyone :)
GFY Lucy. Well,
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I currently use two double-bay Nitecores that I bought used.

When I came back from vaycay - it became apparent some asshole (probably BIL) messed with one of them, because the the contact on one of the bays is bent.

Tried to bend it back into place, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't :(

Figured I'll take the good one to work and retire the damaged one and keep it in the stash until I need it or some unfortunate comes along that could really use it.

And GFY everyone :)
That sucks, there not Nitecore D4's are they, I have two of those any they have been awesome, not a single issue with them.
 

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