And still it continues.
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It is much less hopefully they will get the ones geting through blocked but as usual nothing from DXO
not sure why this comment, why dxo would have to get here and say sorry folks weāve got blasted by spammers and weāre working on it.
An update on progress and thanking those, like Joanna, were doing there best at the weekend to deal with it
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Borland! - Wow, that is going back - I remember Quattro Pro - the most powerful spreadsheet at the time - it was way ahead of Excel and I loved using it. Sadly it didnāt make it - guess the MD was too busy playing the Saxophone!
I just wonder who is paying 55 pound for a Turbo Pascal book from 1988??
I bought my first pc in 1984, an Advance with 2 floppy drives good for an huge amount of 720kb each. Together with Turbo Pascal and a Perfect office packet. Not from Word Perfect but Perfect Word, Calc ets. And a matrix color printer which I still use once a year, in black, to print my administration on chain forms.
George
Maybe for historical reasons ? 
This was the first book showing how to use Turbo Pascal to program DOS through its software interrupts using the BIOS and the processor registers. Translated from French into English, Italian, Spanishā¦ Itās a collector. You canāt imagine how many exemplars were sold. No surprise if a few copies are still lying around in some bookshops.
Or maybe people still using DOS devices ? Donāt laugh, you could be surprisedā¦
All joking aside, I regret having recently sent for paper recycling all the copies I was still storing in my cellar and which were going mouldy. Big mistake 
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I still use my own written administration program written in Clipper, a Dos based language. With Harbour as a shell I can use it on Windows. Lately I discovered I could use the attached network laser printer too.
Did you ever look at Free Pascal nowadays? With Lazarus.
George
When I retired in 2010, I promised my wife never to write another line of code. This promise was kept, with the exception of a few VB routines for Outlook, a few lines of LUA code for LR and some PHP code when creating my photo clubās website. The huge quantity of programming books I had collected during my developerās life was transferred to an engineering school in my neighborhood.
I can confirm that life without coding can also be nice 
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Well, my full history starts when I was 37 with Borland C## 3.1, Clipper, Visual Objects, Delphi, C# with .NET, (switch to Mac) Objective-C and, finally, Swift for Mac. My favourite has to be Swift and the frameworks that Apple provide, which avoid a lot of importing third party libraries and versioning.
Just before moving to France in 2016, I created an iPad app for pilots of private jets, for a client in the US who was an aircraft engineer, using Objective-C. Then I wrote an iOS app for a jazz festival, using Swift and absolutely loved it as a language.
I thought that would be the end of programming but, when I started working with PhotoLab 1 and found that it couldnāt browse sub-folders and didnāt have a means of keywording, I started to write my own lightweight DAM app, again in Swift, and that took me through the Covid years as a very welcome distraction. I use my DAM every day as a front end to PL.
Yes, Borland were certainly class leaders back in the day - we used to use SuperCalc (for Dos) at work and then I discovered QuattroPro - again for DOS, but it was absolutely amazing.
But for me, the best was Paradox (a database) - my DOS version arrived on 5 November 1991 (I remember the date because it was the day my daughter was born) - I managed to get away from the hospital around 9 in the evening, picked up my son, got him to bed and set about creating my first ever database (possibly a suggestion of misplaced priorities there).
A year or so later, I remember going to a Paradox developer event - and it was as if Iād seen the future - and then came the Windows version - and eventually there was the inevitable porting over to Access.
IIRC the whole Borland office suite came on 35 floppy disks - say 50MB - and now the EE app for my phone is around 300MB!
Sorry, I think Iāve gone off topicā¦
Off topic? Nopeeeeā¦- isnāt revisiting the past (nostalgia / memories) a key reason we make images? You just have ātheseā photos/images in your mind and need to describe them to with writing.
A fresh batch just landed. Iāve marked them as spam
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Pitty nothing has stopped them posting
DxO doesnāt work in the weekend
George
I canāt believe that DxO canāt afford to setup a serious spam protection system for this forum.
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I too have just run out of flags until tomorrowā¦
Actually, sometimes they do. Iāve also noticed that a number of DxO employees read this forum at all hours. You can see that by examining the DxO staff account profiles.
Has anyone submitted a support request about the spamming? If so, have you been informed about DxOās progress in preventing the spam?
Are you serious???
George
The critical point is not the spam but the bot account that is released by the system. If the spam bot can obtain an account without any major hurdles, all bets are off. More hurdles need to be set up - that costs time and money. Is there perhaps no budget for this? The second possibility is that someone already has internal access to the system - then the only solution is to shut it down and set it up again.
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