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Ah, the bug eyed Sprite. I didn't know it was exported.

Why not just write your own code to read the file sequentially?

Back in the day I thought Filemaker was a bit noddy when compared to Access. Looked promising but generally disappointed as a viable solution. Maybe it has improved?

I thought CoPilot was basically spy and information gathering software. Same as CAPTCHA & others. Problem I see is that the next version of Windows will be the first totally AI OS. It is bad enough that browsers are using AI for searches, which often appear to be far slower than they were. As...

We can usually rely on governments to turn a good idea into a disaster. They imagine all you need to do is to throw money at it but always fail to understand that you need people who know what they are doing to make it work. Main problem is that they see themselves as a success even though they...

Sometimes being a good neighbour to the likes of the boat people can be taken as a sign of weakness. Then they expect everything for nothing, or free to take. To my mind they have to prove they are a good neighbour.

I just wonder if these ghosts from the past events aren't arranged as point scoring opportunities. Where those who like to think they impress have bored all of their current friends and family to the point of avoiding them. So are they just looking for a new audience. Maybe just concentrate on...

Three or four years ago some dopy squaddie sent an email with a spreadsheet attachment containing details of Afghans who had worked for the army during the occupation of Afghanistan. Apparently the army stores private and secret details in spreadsheets with the understanding that they are...

Meta paid $14.3 billion for a stake in Alexandr Wang's Scale. Meta has poached a guy from Apple who told them he can do AI, by paying him $200 million to change desks. Ilya Sutskever's company is valued at $32 billion and Mira Murati's Thinking Machines is valued at $10 billion. Neither has a...

Last year I started to play the guitar. The intention has drifted in and out of my mind for years. So I thought as I was 80 I'd better be getting on with it. I've had an acoustic guitar for years and hardly ever picked it up. I've given it to various family members but they kept giving it back...

Believe it or not but this isn't a joke, or misinformation. When someone makes up this rubbish to justify spending £532,000 and isn't sacked they can only be working for the government. Basically they have switched CHR(46) with CHR(263) and issued an invoice for £523,000. Certainly beats...

All that time ago and the BBC were distorting the original story. Now totally custom and practice at the BBC. Presumably the BBC are busy 'training' their own AI to avoid any human error by missing to change something that should comply with the BBC rules of truth and propaganda. Satire has had...

There is similar situation in Thailand. There everyone speaks English with an American accent. I can only think that they spend all their time learning English by watching films made in the USA. Some companies (the terrible Virgin Media being one) subcontract support to Asian countries and...

Maybe the Americans would benefit if they learnt to spell correctly? Always a constant irritation to the English.

If you had two totally separate tables how many fields would be different from one to the other? Add it, or them in to one of them and just use one table. Nothing wrong with a field that can only be "S" or "U".

I was never involved with QuickBooks, only SAGE, Pegasus, one other specialist system for construction. Plus a couple of CAD systems. But I avoided directly posting into any of them. Basically on the principle that if anything went wrong ( i.e. operator error being most likely) Then I'd have to...

In the mid 70s Kojak was on TV over here. Then there was one of those ludicrous police situations when they were all supposed to be working late because they loved their jobs, working hard and catching naughty people. Kojak turned to Stavros and said "hey Stavros, go and get some pizza" We are...

Exactly correct Doc! Reliably comes up with brilliant solutions but sometimes forgets, or omits. That's me:)

Not a bad summary of me actually.

For years Access has been software's perennial creaking gate. So many have claimed for so long that Access was dead. Although usually people who either didn't like Access, MS or had never used it. It's OK for prototyping is often said. Like someone has time to create a working system in one...