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Recently I had cause to learn something about the now somewhat elderly programming language MUMPS (“Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System”), also sometimes known just as M. It’s a very different type of language to modern programming languages, and at first somewhat cryptic. However, with a little persistence, it was intriguing to write a few simple programs.
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After getting familiar with the syntax of a language, performing little challenges – such as sorting a list of items – is often the next thing one might try. So, although I’d previously lots of Perl experience, having focused on other things for a while I was decidedly rusty, and decided to reactivate my Perl braincells, and write a little program to bubble sort a string in Perl.
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WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux, version 2) is a great piece of software for all kinds of useful reasons. For one it means you don’t need to have a separate Linux machine to develop on, and it also avoids you needing to install a VM using Oracle VM VirtualBox or Hyper-V, for example. Plus, it’s easy to set up and for most things is probably as close as you’ll need to working on a Linux machine, while still using your trusty Windows machine.
Continue reading »The code in this post will enable you to identify your system’s local IP address and put it into a variable for your further use. I specifically did this to identify the IP address on a Ubuntu WSL2 instance (i.e. Windows Subsystem for Linux), but it should work on any machine. As anyone familiar with WSL2 will know, unlike prior versions of WSL, WSL2 doesn’t keep a static IP address, which can be a pain, and provides a new one on each startup. So, being able to identify the newly allocated IP at startup can be quite handy.
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If you’re fed up with all of those little icons staring back at you from the Windows Taskbar, eyeing your every move, or if maybe you want an extra half-inch of screen real-estate, then it’s really simple to just hide the Windows taskbar, and then have it appear as you need it. You can do this is in about five seconds or less. I’ll show you how.
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If you’re one of the masses who craves for a weather-widget-free taskbar in Windows 10, then help is at hand. Here I’m going to show you how you can quickly turn off that annoying weather widget/gadget in the Windows 10 taskbar. I’m not quite sure why this weather thingy (widget? gadget? feature?) bothers me so much, but I really don’t care for it being there, taking up space and smirking at me all day long!
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The cloud services offered by Microsoft Azure, Google, and Amazon (AWS) are incredibly useful and powerful. However, there is a learning curve to using any of these services, and to a novice the complexity may seem somewhat overwhelming and confusing. One such common task, which may cause confusion or frustration, is adding an additional public IP address to your Azure virtual machine (VM). Here’s how to do it.
Continue reading »Is your Windows screen upside down, or did it get rotated somehow, and now it’s in portrait mode? If you’ve been playing around with attaching other monitors, or accidentally hit the right/wrong combination of keys on your keyboard, sometimes your screen display can become rotated upside down, or displayed in portrait mode.
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Once you’ve been experimenting with WordPress for a while, and become familiar with how to configure things, there frequently comes a time when you realize […]
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Jessops Photographic Supplies. This week is Canon Week at Jessops where you can find great deals on Canon cameras and lenses. This will run until midnight on Sunday, April 3rd, 2022. Not only that but starting today Jessops have a brand new promotion with DJI products where you can save up to £350! Seriously, these DJI offers are superb. We list some of the deals.
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