Re: [GTALUG] How to repeat a char in a line? (on Windows)

2016-06-26 Thread Peter Renzland via talk
> On Jun 26, 2016, at 12:48, William Park via talk wrote: > > On Windows, how would you generate a text line with 480 of 'M' chars? > > I can't tell them to install > BusyBox, Cygwin, Vim, or Python. :-) No need to install, if they are online:

Re: [GTALUG] How to repeat a char in a line? (on Windows)

2016-06-26 Thread William Park via talk
It's 480 at the moment, but it can change. And, no, it's not cheating, as long as THEY can get it done on their Windows. Thanks for pointer to Notepad. It never occured to me. I was looking for DOS scripts. I got it to count to 480: for /L %i in (1,1,480) do echo M >> out.txt but I can

Re: [GTALUG] How to repeat a char in a line? (on Windows)

2016-06-26 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
Is it always 480? Is copy and paste cheating? 480 is conveniently 30 * 16, so it's M * 10 (can most people count that high?), then Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V After that, it's Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Ctrl-V, Ctrl-V repeated 5 times. Should be 480 repeats. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List

[GTALUG] How to repeat a char in a line? (on Windows)

2016-06-26 Thread William Park via talk
My brain is not working today... too hot. On Windows, how would you generate a text line with 480 of 'M' chars? I have to describe to other people how to do it on their Windows machine. So, I need simple generic way. I can't tell them to install BusyBox, Cygwin, Vim, or Python. :-) -- William

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

2016-06-26 Thread James Knott via talk
On 06/26/2016 11:46 AM, Russell Reiter wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2016 10:52 AM, "James Knott" > wrote: > > > > > 126V on top of the input DC voltage. That will destroy the regulator > > and possibly whatever is being charged. So, you will

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

2016-06-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Jun 26, 2016 10:52 AM, "James Knott" wrote: > > 126V on top of the input DC voltage. That will destroy the regulator > and possibly whatever is being charged. So, you will need some means of > ensuring the regulator is not exposed to damaging high voltage. I liked

Re: [GTALUG] mysterious restarts

2016-06-26 Thread Russell Reiter via talk
On Jun 25, 2016 2:55 PM, "Michael Galea via talk" wrote: > > The truth is quite mundane. The security situation is no better or no worse than any other application. > Hey in cybersecurity, one person's mundane truth is another's selections of statistics. It all depends on your