Nancy Drew 8 & 9 join the investigation!
The mystery deepens! It’s time once again to step into Nancy’s shoes and follow the clues...
We are pleased to announce that ScummVM now supports two more titles from the long-running Nancy Drew adventure game series.
Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel, and Nancy Drew: Danger on Deception Island!
Periodical reminder the European Commission runs something called Safety Gate.
It's an easy way to find out whether that niche and/or dodgy thing you bought has been part of an official recall anywhere in the single market.
Apart of branded stuff where the manufacturer made a genuine error there's also the utter crap (often sold by Amazon, don't buy there) like the murderous brush cutter chainsaw attachments that keep popping up.
After a lot of fiddling and some lucky web searching I found out my linker script was right all along, but the gcc specs file forced .data (or rather link_data_start) at the position where I was trying to put something else.
In fact, I suspected my linker script was right because my section ended up at the right place BUT SO DID .data.
"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
Spending the Monday trying to wrap my brain around linker scripts.
I wish I'd looked into this earlier when I didn't have a deadline.
I have been using email for 40 years. It used to work.
As an (independent) academic researcher, I need to contact new people, primarily in universities, to ask questions.
I refuse to use Google, Microsoft or the other American IT giants.
But they are increasingly preventing refuseniks from sending email at all.
I know what RFC, DNS, MX, SPF and DMARC mean. My email goes through small British companies with intelligent, friendly and helpful staff.
mxtoolbox.com says that I must have DMARC to send email to M$. So I set it up. I now get a dozen copies of the same report from G or M$ for each email that I send out.
They show that my email gets to G and M$ sites, but then it is marked as spam.
The stupid senior management of numerous universities has surrendered their staff email to M$.
Web searches and AIs preach about spam. I don't send spam - I want to contact my colleagues.
Rumour has it that previously unknown senders are treated with suspicion and their emails are sent to spam. In other words, it is impossible to **initiate** communication with someone.
Let's be blunt about this. They are a mafia that is enforcing an **oligopoly**. It's got nothing to do with reducing spam --- I have no doubt that they let through emails from "trusted partners", ie companies that bribe them enough to send their spam.
The result of this is that it will only be possible to send emails by paying M$ to do it, and then it will only be allowed to express "approved" opinions.
What can we do about this?
At the very least, those of you with senior positions in universities can tell your management to revert to competent standards-based email systems hosted on Linux systems.
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