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How many slaves work for you?

When researching minimalism and reading the Affluenza book, I came across the “Slavery Footprint” website (http://slaveryfootprint.org)

how many slaves work for you?
On this website, you take a survey:


…and then at the end you get the result:

This is not my real result. This is an example.


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Batchography: How to check if your Batch file script is running as an Administrator

In chapter 4 of the Batchography book, I illustrate 3 methods that you can use to check if your Batch file script is running as an Administrator.

In this blog post, I will share with you the method entitled “Using known commands that fail to run without elevated privileges” from the book.

The idea behind this method is to run commands that are known to fail and return a non-zero error code if they are not executed with administrative privilege.

The Batch script would then check the return code and act accordingly:

@echo off


:: 
:: The Batchography book by Elias Bachaalany
::


net session >nul 2>&1

if %errorlevel% neq 0 (
  echo Requires administrative privilege.
  goto :eof
)

echo Script starts here...

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Look no further, the Batchography is the right book for you.

Available in print or e-book editions from Amazon.com!

 

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CostcoCouple blog

Hello,

This is a quick review about the CostcoCouple.com blog which is run by a couple, Olli and Andy, that have been Costco members for 10 years.

Their blog is dedicated to giving Costco shopping tips, coupons and reviews of other interesting Costco items.

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You may also follow Olli and Andy on twitter @costcocouple

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Should I lease or buy a car? Should I buy a new or a used car?

Hello,

I ran into this nice website called “Better Money Habits” that has a bunch of education videos to instruct you how to make a better money decisions.

In regard to this blog post, I found the topic of buying or leasing a car very well explained on that website.

Buying a new car versus a used car

Check this video: https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/car-buying/preparing-to-buy-or-lease/buy-new-used-car.html

The key factors mentioned are:

  • Initial price
  • Loan and Interest rates
  • Insurance rate
  • Repair costs
  • Fuel efficiency and cost
  • Depreciation and car’s value over time

What about leasing?

Check this video: https://www.bettermoneyhabits.com/car-buying/preparing-to-buy-or-lease/lease-or-buy-car.html

Key points to consider:

  • Monthly lease fee
  • Down payment to start the lease
  • Buy back price: should you consider keeping the car at the end of the lease
  • Total cost of a bought car versus total amount of lease and buy back price

It is almost always that buying the car is cheaper then buy back at the end of the lease, however when leasing you are paying less on a monthly basis.

 

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Early MS-DOS and Word for Windows source code released

Hello everyone,

What I am sharing made the news already, but in case you missed it, here it is:

On ~March 25, 2014, the Computer History Museum (CHM) announced today that it has, with permission from Microsoft Corporation, made available original source code for two historic programs:

  • MS-DOS, the 1982 “Disk Operating System” for IBM-compatible personal computers [link]
  • …and Word for Windows, the 1990 Windows-based version of their word processor [link]

For more reference, please check here:

http://www.computerhistory.org/press/ms-source-code.html

 

Enjoy!