The galaxy is on Orion's belt.

My friend is now dead, for entirely stupid and preventable reasons. It's mostly his own fault, but unfortunately I contributed to the problem. He was in ICU, but was unhappy with how he felt they were treating him. Against the repeated medical advice from multiple doctors, multiple nurses, and me, he insisted on leaving, and though I tried to talk him out of it, had me try to get him into the car and take him somewhere else.

A friend who was in rehab recovering from recent hip replacement surgery may have just had a heart attack, and has been transported to a hospital.
:-(
double-plus ungood!

I'm heading over there.
He was doing so-so when I saw him about four hours ago, but this happened in the last half hour.

TV series pitch:
An IT procedural, about big companies having trouble keeping their server certificates up to date.
First season: CSR Redmond
#IT #X509

Sorry/not sorry, JSON and YAML enthusiasts. I much prefer XML, and normally the settings would be changed from the GUI anyhow.
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I just started writing a C++/Qt program to easily generate OpenVPN client key pairs, certificates, and .ovpn config files containing them. I have the non-GUI portion, the actual key, certificate, and .ovpn file generation, working using the OpenSSL library. Later today I'll work on the GUI.
Both server and client default settings, such as the server name or IP, and the X509 DN (distinguished name: C, ST, L, O, OU, and CN) will be persisted in an XML file.
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XYZZY

It's a NUC8i5.
It fails to POST, or let me into settings, unless I remove the M.2 NVMe SSD. The SSD is a WD Black 500GB.
I plugged the SSD into a Linux machine. Kernel sees that it's a WD 500G drive with 4K sector size, but says that it won't actually read data.
I'm replacing it with a Samsung 970 EVO 2TB, but will have to reinstall OS and software.

The Intel NUC I use for my away-from-home-theater has failed. After power-up, it spends a lot of time with the NUC logo on screen, then shows a message that POST failed, and to press Y to enter setup. However, it doesn't seem to recognize a keyboard.
I'm taking a break for dinner, but when I get home, I'll try removing the M.SSD, and reseating and/or rearranging DIMMs.
I think it's a NUC8i5 or 8i7.
I'm still irritated that Intel sold off the NUC line. Asus only continued the gamer NUCs

Everyone seems to think that "chiplet" technology is something new that AMD or Intel invented recently. Actually, IBM invented it at least as far back as 1987!

Even if I get them, there's no telling whether they work. But I suspect that they were taken out of service due to upgrades to new improved scanners.
The units were manufactured in 2015, and the model appears to still be offered by its manufacturer.
The Windows application that runs it has its own password security system, so if I do get them, I hope that the manufacturer will be willing, given proof of legal ownership, to provide access credentials.

Friends tried to talk me out of it, but I just put in bids on two government-surplus baggage X-ray inspection machines. I'll probably get outbid, but one never knows.

Psychologist: "And is this 'FORTRAN' here in the room with us?"

Now if my friend ever shows up at my door unannounced, I'll be afraid that he's trying to take me to deprogramming.

Me: [described progress on FORTRAN parser]
Friend: FORTRAN? Um...I think this might be where your friends step in for an intervention.
Me: I can stop any time.
Friend: Can you really? There are some very nice programs, staffed with professionals who can help you.
Me: I'm not going into one of those things where they make you accept that there is a higher power.
Although objectively, megawatts are a higher power than I'm presently able to use.

Even the sand is escaping from my sandbox!

I'm presently aiming for STRICT compliance with X3.9-1966 FORTRAN. No vendor extensions. Maybe an option to restrict to X3.10 Basic FORTRAN.
Maybe I'll add IBM FORTRAN IV later. Although FORTRAN-66 was based on IBM FORTRAN IV, it didn't include everything in the IBM language specification.

Writing a FORTRAN-66 parser in C++.
As one does.

I just read William Gibson's _Neuromancer_ for the fourth time, or thereabouts. It's still effing amazing!