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I totally forgot yesterday was Tuesday so I lifted the lid on my laptop this morning to find it had woke up, updated itself, and then it left itself powered on - with the lid closed. It was very, very hot and so was I!!!
That just infuriates me. Apparently some half-wits there think it's a good idea to leave a laptop powered on with its lid closed. It's a gaming laptop with a real GPU in it so it gets hot. Very hot. I'll stop there. This nonsense makes me irate.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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In no-one's defense...I've never closed the lid of a laptop without first telling it to hibernate or shut down completely. I'm old enough to remember owning a couple of machines with rather bad BIOS-controlled power management (when it was still a new thing and nobody ever got it right), so I never really grew out of the paranoia learned from those lessons. To this day, whenever I see someone just close the lid without doing anything first, I can't help but cringe a little.
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I can understand that point of view. Other than windows updating itself, I never have a problem with this one. I just have to remember that I can not trust Microsoft on Tuesdays.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Only Tuesdays?  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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Good point. I am going always turn it off from now on. It's not worth the risk to just shut the lid.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: I can not trust Microsoft on Tuesdays.
An optimist!
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It seems that the rollback did not include one of the databases, and now, we have to deal with taking the site offline, restoring last night's backup, and somehow determining what records are new in every table of the database in question (so far, over 2400 records - in just one of the tables).
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modified 15-Aug-19 6:31am.
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Commence with the rolling of the heads!
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: Commence with the rolling of the heads!
OMG, I think I just found out why the procedure that lead to it is called a rollback...
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obviously too late to submit a leave request,
doctors office should be open tomorrow...
for authenticity I suggest beer and the hottest curry you can keep down for at least a few hours. (something that repeats or keep some of the curry for breakfast to increase odds to get 2 days.)
heck, if it's someone else's mistake(s) why not?
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Open Edge.
Wince.
Type "Chrome download Windows 10" and press enter.
"Are you sure you want to download Chrome? Edge is the recommended browser and its already installed!"
"Please don't go ... I'm really lonely ... you're the only person I've talked to all day ... please, visit Bing as well. It's been days since he saw a user..."
Open. Install. Unpin Edge and close.
Login. Yay! All My bookmarks!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hey, if they want people to use it, there's an easy solution.
Make it not sh1te.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In a long line of crap browsers why would they switch up now?
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Be fair -- at the time, IE4 was the best browser to be had.
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I have been using Firefox for years, but for about two years now it started failing on a few web pages. The number increased slowly, either a complete failure to display anything, or some elements on the page not completing loading, or completing but not displaying.
So what do I do? I've kept IE as a last resort. It cannot remember a single case where it had to give up on all those pages where FF fails.
No, I will not switch to Chrome. I want FF to handle all those web pages I visit regularly. So I stick to IE as an emergency solution. It works.
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Opera[^] has gone downhill a little, lately (IMO -- feel free to disagree), but Vivaldi[^] still works fine, as does Maxthon[^].
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They have been in denial for quite some time. Now it seems they have conceded defeat.
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OriginalGriff wrote: "Please don't go ... I'm really lonely
Me love you long time!
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Mind Bleach!
I need Mind Bleach! The image you planted in my head is too terrible to contemplate. Like watching a Gentleman's Special Interest video and suddenly realizing "Trump's been there"*
I suspect Whisky will have to be involved if I am to sleep tonight.
* Hopefully, that has given you a similarly revolting mental image to play with...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Imagine if you will, a dark lit night in a place far far away.
Suddenly you round a corner and the neon lights of a district where passion is served blind you..
A young lady approaches and utters the words that will stick in your mind forever..."Me love you long time GI"
and suddenly you've entered the twilight zone.
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Hey, man! Sounds like you were there. If so ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Thanks, 2 tours! USMC 1967-1970
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my experience with edge is it loves to make itself the default PDF viewer even when told not to.
helped a few people change to some other PDF viewer because edge can't open or print or other things. OK, install another, sumatra (lite), even Adobe (a user with very complicated govt PDF's) etc,
and yes of course I set the default to the new viewer. Test it, open files, email attachments..
couple of days to week or two later, "can you help me again, I can't open this PDF."
guess what the default PDF viewer is. (and sometimes it even claims the PDF is corrupt)?
sucking fiece of phit
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I am supporting legacy VB6 programs. I am trying to push the VB6 development IDE up to Windows10 OS, for security reasons. I have managed to register and get working all of the different 3rd party OCX controls that my programs use, except for the ComponentOne VSFlexGrid, which I use extensively in my desktop program.
I have gotten it registered, but when I attempt to run it asks for a license code (which I already have on my XP machine, having bought the product once). They want me to purchase an entire new suite of OCX controls (at a cost of $1200.00 to $1500.00).
So I am looking for a reasonably priced Data Grid OCX control. Any Recommendations?
Yes, I know I should have done this a long time ago, Mea Culpa, etc.
That's why I am Slow Eddie...
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Slow Eddie wrote: (at a cost of $1200.00 to $1500.00).
I have a feeling this is the cheapest route vs. having to re-write.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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