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Probably won't run Doom, though 
Keep Calm and Carry On
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My first thought - will it run Doom?
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Adobe Creative Cloud might have finally met its match.
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Still won't be able to run GTA at Ultra details...
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With my retirement later this year, I've been thinking about the most meaningful projects I've worked on.
Top of my list is the work I did for the 1984 Olympic games held in Los Angeles. I was working on the operating system of the IBM S/38 back then. IBM was a corporate sponsor of the Olympics. My task was to make some modifications to the operating system so we could print a special bar code that we were not making generally available. This was printed (by a dot-matrix printer) onto the employee and athlete badges. The badge had a dark red square where the black bar code was printed -- so even though it was machine readable it was not easy to read with one's eyes.
I felt a lot of responsibility as a 25 year old. Of course the application worked well and there were no security problems. It's a special memory.
Best wishes everyone - Craig
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Just noting you can volunteer which I believe includes applying your expertise in computers.
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I may have posted about this before, I should check.
Waaayyy... back when I was in college (circa 1990), working on my BSCS, I had a co-op job.
There was a Nice Young Lady there who caught my eye... she kept printing (dot-matrix, fanfold) long lists of numbers. List after list after list... The printers were just outside my office.
Eventually, I went to ask her what she was doing.
First, she had to validate the numbers and correct any errors. Then she had to transcribe them into a report. The reports went to a state agency.
Once the process was explained to me I said, "I can write a program to produce the report, then all you have to do is validate the report" (it was a one-page report) -- it would not only be legible, but it would save paper and printer ribbon at least. If I recall correctly, I also wrote something to detect and report any obvious referential integrity issues in the database -- don't get me started.
And so, after discussing it with my boss, I did just that.
Thereafter, a simple command (this was OpenVMS) would spit a report out of the printer and she would review it and fix any obvious data errors (e.g. columns with values greater than 100%).
The company has since gone out of business.
Why is this project meaningful? Because the Nice Young Lady and I have been married since 1992. 
I don't think any of the other projects I have worked on have really had an impact on the world at large.
Edit:
Re: Programming Paid Off [^]
Re: Top 10 Pick-up Lines the Code Project Ladies Are Sick of Hearing[^]
modified 41 mins ago.
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I had the Xbox360 (yes, I know, it's "vintage") Rock Band 3 game disc, but because of my stupidity, I banged into the console, and that disc was trashed - and so I bought a NIB replacement disc. However to avoid this in the future, I want to make a copy of this game disc, and only use the copy disc to play, that way if I do this again, I could easily make a new copy.
Anyway, so I need to get an external CD writer, and I want to make sure that it can make an exact copy that the console will accept. Is there anything special I should look for in a CD writer? It seems that all such writers can write DVD, and I presume that any such writers could do a proper game disc copy.
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I think any DVD writer will be sufficient. However you probably can't use a normal disc copy program, as I believe XBOX (and PlayStation, other consoles) use various tricks to prevent illegal copying. You should probably do a web search for something like "how to copy XBOX disc", and use that information to find a utility that will allow you to copy the game disc.
Keep Calm and Carry On
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Yeah, they usually have some kind of hidden sectors that consumer grade writers can't duplicate.
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Former unadorned prior ruler creates understanding. (9)
I'm heading out to a meeting in a few minutes, so unless someone gets it quickly (quite likely), there'll be a couple of hours delay in replying.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Explainer
Former -> Ex
unadorned -> plain
prior ruler -> er ( Elizabeth Regina )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
modified 8hrs 10mins ago.
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That's what I got as well.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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It's not a word I've heard in conversation
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think you might have it. It's what I came up with too.
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YAUT. And now you can edit in the explanation. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Down to the wire:
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Lucky choice of two ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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My 3 starters are meant to find inclusions not exclusions!
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Lucky guess!
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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