Sitting-Duc

Thought there was some misleading messages around TPM and I can see that the spec page has been updated https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-specifications In any case.. who doesn't run TPM/BitLocker as standard now anyway?

Yeah it does look like nothing 'ground breaking' - mainly skin/theme and usability changes. The core of the OS is exactly the same as W10. There is no change to the enterprise management or tooling etc. Either way - I will get the Beta next week and have a play with it!

Yep looking at what has been released so far they are definitely pushing security and privacy - certainly some systems won't be compatible but ah well

Not that it helps you but this sort of thing happening should highlight to others the importance of proper password management, two factor authentication and recovery settings. Also simply using the features available for sharing purchases. If you are wanting to share games with a family member you could have used family sharing: https://store.steampowered.com/promotion/familysharing (Google 'Steam share games'). My topical tips would be: You should ideally not share individual accounts with anyone (even your family). Look at resource sharing options within the service Accounts should have long, unique passwords (perhaps look at password managers) Where possible accounts should have two-factor authentication enabled, especially if they are for something that has personal details such as name/address/payment cards or are linked to purchases You should securely store the recovery codes for accounts somewhere safe & offline Steam Guard (if enabled) would have protected your account: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4020-ALZM-5519 I wouldn't be inclined to call Steam shit for this one

Have disabled on mobile

Nah it's broken and I've just started a new contract so won't be looking at that stuff for a fair while.

Ah it's just like when they said .NET Core was the future.. then .NET 5 appeared

2.25 seconds on the spawn invisibility...

Have I Been Pwned was created by Troy Hunt who is a widely respected and trusted security expert

2.26 seconds?

I miss guns..

Should be 2.25 seconds not 2

I wonder what they were doing on my profile to hit 70,000.... now that is disgusting.

165Hz - I went with three of these: https://www.asus.com/uk/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/TUF-Gaming/TUF-Gaming-VG27WQ1B/

It's about time as my old setup was around 10 years old but I now have a new setup and thought I would share. I don't like flashy colours so there is little point showing a picture of the case/contents (all lights are off and it is as plain as they come). I went with: Asus ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12c 24t @ 3.7Ghz AMD Radeon RX 6700-XT GPU 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 3600 Benchmarks are pretty good: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/42811231 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/61598111 Hasn't broken a sweat yet with any of the games/development I have been doing. Very good at the multi-threading heavy tasks I have set it. Also upgraded my desk to a standing desk. The top is solid Black American Walnut trim with a (English or French - can't recall) Walnut veneered board in the middle. Then added three 27" curved monitors: Excuse the grubby feet marks on the wall...

I do - I currently get 1.25 million a month in interest

I really enjoyed this one - binged it in a day! Currently watching Colony

Personally my start into programming was gaming and allot of that was XI. I somehow got involved in Crysis server mods; I think it was in looking at the mods for the previous community I was in. We were trying to solve an in-game issue with the mod and it needed some slight scripting changes, it was an easy change but that ease inspired me to look into it more. I then got involved in that modding community and ended up becoming a developer for the mod. XI allowed me to expand into messing with other types of programming and to 'solve' problems with it. My initial code was shit and I remember Steve (Ph4nt0m) telling me about threading and how to instantiate threads so not to lock up the UI etc. I ended up going to university and yes I learned a load of stuff about "data structures and algorithms" whilst there but the true experience and knowledge came from what I have done in XI. That is what I discussed in my first job interview to be a trainee software engineer at the UK MoD, less so the University course. My XI projects have generally been a way for me to learn a new technology/tool/stack and then use that to excel in my professional career. I was lead software engineer of a team (two at one point) responsible for some pretty substantial services and projects for the MoD before I left a couple of years back to start my own company and I now work on a consultancy/contract basis brought in to be an expert in certain topics. So my advice; find a problem you want to solve and give it a shot - choose a language that comes up in Google when you start researching around the problem. Be a polygot developer; I usually am Microsoft stack but have implemented personal, XI and professional solutions in many different languages on many different stacks.

Nope and we can't use the app for this site because of the boobs etc.

I did work on a mobile app project back a couple of years. The app wasn't anything special, just a load of forms etc. to allow users to submit data on marine wildlife. However part of the project was about building a mobile capability etc. The stack has changed a little since then as Microsoft bought and open-sourced a load but it was using Xamarin: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin Language choice for us was C# as that is what the team used. For backend/web apps or APIs I usually go asp net core and host on Azure. Generally I like to keep the stack all Microsoft for ease however the solutions would also host well on AWS etc. I haven't done any mobile development since but still actively work on mobile-first websites etc. Same stack etc. Bootstrap handles keeping things pretty and consistent across the different device sizes. Duc

Honestly can't remember.. beets, strips of green things (perhaps courgette) - was good though!

Thanks for the feedback so far - has been pretty useful. To be fair - the fact that you are discussing the validity of words does imply that the actual 'game' is working? and you are managing to place tiles etc. This for sure will not meet the requirements for all and so far meet most the the requirements for which it was created. The game engine has been built in a way that makes implementation of additional 'game rules' and features such as dictionary selection/enforcement fairly straight forward. That is something I may pick up on in the future. Thanks again for the feedback.

Made this one earlier this month - pork and black pudding pie in a cake tin. Then had a nice meal with the family all together (first time in a while due to Covid..) I decided I would like this more than a traditional birthday cake

Good idea - done The brief for this was to emulate the same process as playing in person so there is no validation on words. The Scrabble club usually play the games on Zoom so there is more discussion etc.