Los Angeles had hidden oil rigs.
Los Angeles had hidden oil rigs.
I thought that it became MANGA when it changed from FAANG?
It explains that it means “fan failure”.
And there was a link to a video of it happening.
The only other link to an MS support page did not work.
But you’re not allowed to proceed in life until you’ve pressed any key!
I remember an obscure one named “grommit” that was a dancing animated character and you’d click it to change arm and leg movements.
Bonzi buddy was over of the bad ones, maybe?
Drain.exe would say “water in drive a:, commencing spin cycle” then power up the drive and make a gurgling sound.
Sheep.exe … would create a sheep that would wander the desktop.
When I read it, it stirred a distant memory of hearing such a story before, so I knew that there was something behind it and looked it up.
You could just about play speech using one bit output using pulse-width-modulation. But it was almost unrecognizable. And would take a lot of memory for the time.
It was usual to have different numbers of beeps for POST errors.
But this was an age when a PC would say “Keyboard error. Press any key to continue”, so things were not thought out that well.
That probably wasn’t a virus.
Superbowl reminds me of the SDF Fox News
~~https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/foxnews~~
(Edited to make the bot happy!)
What’s needed is an online 2fa service that just takes a username and copies the code to the clipboard.
/s before I get any replies.
The distinction that I’m concerned about is that this isn’t a charge from the repair company, it’s a fee decided by the rental company. Unrelated to the cost of the repair.
It wasn’t an invented example, the figures I gave are what they tell me they will bill me for any repair that’s needed.
So thank you for clarifying, but I don’t think that I’m musunderstanding what an excess is. I’m just wondering if the excess protection would still cover these arbitrary charges from the _rental company.
I know that it is to cover the excess of damage costs.
I’m asking if they would only pay “reasonable” repair costs if the rental company charges me 1 or 2 thousand for just a large scratch, for instance, which is what Enterprise tell me that they do. (It’s usually £1000 but was £2000 when I had a larger vehicle).
When I rent in the UK they always tell my that each incident will incur a fixed penalty (e.g. large scratch: £1000, damaged windscreen: £1000) presumably to cover loss of earnings on the vehicle, but also to pressure me into purchasing excess protection.
So I wonder if having the extra insurance would cover these “fine” types of charges that are beyond the cost of repair.
Physical? As in a medical exam with a doctor?
If so you should really have a check up with an eye doctor, there are lots of eye health tests that you should regularly get beyond checking that you can read a chart at a distance.
Worth watching this from The Mandalorian
Yeah for interpreted BASIC.
But even after moving to writing assembly language on a separate PC devkit there was still the habit of using short names.
I think that some assemblers had limits on name size.
Leaning to program on 8-bit machines with 8k of RAM means that even today I abbreviate names.
Plus it was accepted wisdom that shorter variable names were faster for the BASIC interpreter.
You can use it as a webcam if you suddenly need to work from home and there’s a shortage of webcams.
Originally I had to install an app for that, but it shows up as a standard USB option on my Pixel now.