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The NES cart connector can be repaired with some patience or replaced inexpensively.

A lot of sites selling new connectors claim they are made with more robust materials than the original connectors, but I'm not sure how true that is.

Copy to clipboard, apparently.

(Github project pages have a flash application to handle this)

Always worth checking if the IP you inherit is in some DNSBL. A number of Hetzner IPs I've gotten were tainted.

It's oh so much fun trying to get them removed.

You don't have to wait 5 years, you can request them yearly. They just go back 5 years (I think).

Ireland has a Pay As You Earn system which is usually administered by your employer. Mostly, you do nothing and the money is paid.

Every 5 years, file a P21 to check you're not due any refunds.

If you're self-employed, it's a bloody nightmare.

I remember someone (not me, oh no...) used one for NT4 with inadequate policies to get Admin access.

Create a batch file with the content:

net localgroup administrators NewUser /add

...then stick this into the 'StartUp' directory for All Users. Break something. Call support. They log in as Administrator, running your batch file in the process.

NewUser would be created with Admin rights. You wouldn't promote your own login, of course.

> Anyone knows what their software development process is to get that kind of confidence?

If it's NASA confidence, waterfall every time :)

Having worked in that sort of environment (everything about the system has been analysed on paper before a text editor is launched), don't knock it until you've tried it. This wasn't rocket science either, it was export refund batch jobs. In the 21st century.

I have five Seagate branded 3TB external disks, so have no real idea what's inside.

Three of them are dead. I stopped using the others.

Oh super, thanks. I'll have to try that out.

I'm considering it as an option for running proprietary video conference applications which either don't work or are chronically bad on Linux.