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When there was drama over future of Royal Gunpowder Mills in Waltham Abbey

Looking back How the new dining building could look at the Royal Gunpowder Mills under the PGL plans from five years ago It is five years ago since the future of Royal Gunpowder Mills was decided, only for a late intervention to force a second vote. There was drama as controversial plans for the transformation of a heritage site were approved, before four councillors ‘stood’ and forced a second vote. At a district development meeting of Epping Forest District Council, seven councillors voted for proposals that would see a new children’s activity centre built at the Royal Gunpowder Mills (RGM) site in Beaulieu Drive, Waltham Abbey.

Death Becomes It: Who put the Blue in the Blue Screen of Death?

Just a coincidence or a call-back to borks of Windows past? Richard Speed Tue 2 Feb 2021 // 12:07 UTC Share Copy Bork!Bork!Bork! Even after a year of readers sending in photos taken of error screens they ve seen out and about for The Reg s Bork column, the infamous Windows Blue Screen of Death has remained a mainstay. However, have you wondered why blue is the colour? Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer took to his YouTube channel over the weekend to give us his view on matters. Firstly, I never once heard the term blue screen of death at Microsoft, he recalled, We called it primarily just a blue-screen or, more frequently, a bug-check.

ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer s side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft

ZIP folders were originally a Microsoft engineer s side hustle until bosses figured out he worked for Microsoft Also: Edge on Apple arrives in the Dev Channel, HealthBot goes to the cloud, and Chile to get an Azure Region Richard Speed Mon 11 Jan 2021 // 21:04 UTC Share Copy In brief Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer uploaded another Windows war story to his YouTube channel over the weekend, this time concerning the history of the handy zip folder functionality that has been a feature of the Windows shell over recent decades. Plummer said that having made a few dollars selling software of his own (notably the Amiga HyperCache) he d asked for a moonlighting clause to be added to his Microsoft contract to allow him to continue selling his wares.

Assembly language, arcade games, and YouTube: The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer

The Reg speaks to former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer SmartDrive, DiskCopy. it s life at Redmond in the DOS era Richard Speed Wed 6 Jan 2021 // 09:10 UTC Share Copy Interview Everyone remembers their first time. It might be Commodore-flavoured, or carry a whiff of Sinclair about it. For former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer, it was a TRS-80 in a 1979 Radio Shack. Plummer now runs a YouTube channel stuffed full of nerdery, though decades ago he played a role in the rise of Microsoft, contributed to MS-DOS, wrote Windows components familiar to all, and stuffed Microsoft Bob into XP s box. The Register had a chat with him about how it all began.

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