Re: Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates

On Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:40:14 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:

 

"resistor color coding"!! Now there's a flash from the past .....
 
Black, Black
Boys, Brown
Rape, Red
Our, Orange
Young, Yellow
Girls, Green
Blessed, Blue
Virginity, Violet
Gone, Grey
West. White
 
The Mnemonic we used back then might not be P.C. today but it worked then!!
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Then you'll need a mnemonic to remember the mnemonic ...

https://xkcd.com/992/

I use a hand-held carboard device that contains wheels that are
dialed to line up the colors and produce the correct value.

E-parts stores, which are no more, used to give those gadgets
away for free.

A good GNU/Linux scripting challenge would be to code a little Bash/Perl
script to cough up the correct value.


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