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Scientists create first human-sheep hybrids
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Quote: Someone has been a naughty boy!
Yes - they've been reading "science" stories in the Daily Mail again...
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By Mia De Graaf Health Editor
Emphasis mine, I'm probably just prejudiced.
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Old news, the Welsh have been doing this for ages.
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Yeah, we learned it from the Australians.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah, we learned it from the AustraliansNew Zealander.
Corrected that for you! 
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because the aussies prefer rams - less confusing and has handles
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Yeah, we learned it from the Australians.
Puhlease! You got castles and houses that pre-date Australian settlement and sheep farms by a 1000+ years. If anything you lot exported it around the world.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Slightly OT: can you identify with this tune?
Quote: It's a source of some amusement
That the craft of self-abusement
Was invented, so it's thought,
By the Greeks and the Westphalians;
Perfected by Australians;
Developed by the Welsh to a competitive sport.
More to the point, can you find a way to prove that you've identified it without mentioning the (non-KSS) title? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Pale monarch took ones depression for Rugby song? (7, 4, 5, 4)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Looks like the rednecks have finally gotten the upper hand.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Chris is now Canadianized to the point where gotten probably does not bother him. He may also have stopped migrating to Australia during the winter months.
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No, he's still bothered by it, but he has come to realize that it's a no-win situation for him, and I'm happy to press that button at every opportunity. 
If I didn't like him, I wouldn't mess with him.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Recognizable ! 
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Random Video OTD
IMPOSSIBLE REMIX - Axel F / Crazy Frog - YouTube[^]
Wait until you get to around 2:51. It gets crazy.
Also, possible seizure warning (lots of colors).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I was using my laptop then took a break for lunch.
Came back and it had restarted.
I checked Windows Updates and it said there was one installed successfully on 02/13.
Why did my computer suddenly restart?
I looked in Event Log (System):
event log: The previous system shutdown at 12:19:13 PM on 2/17/2018 was unexpected.
Next I find this:
Event log: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. (Source is Kernel-Power)
It's a laptop so has battery backup, so probably not a loss of power.
Here's another weird one (not sure what bugcheck is):
Quote: The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000009f (0x0000000000000003, 0xffffd4095cacd830, 0xffffee8039c5ac40, 0xffffd40965c8ebd0). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 8d730435-e93f-4b3c-8ffa-bfafe4115fec.
Right before the restart I see:
Event Log: The local adapter does not support an important Low Energy controller state to support peripheral mode. The minimum required supported state mask is 0x491f7fffff, got 0x1fffffff. Low Energy peripheral role functionality will not be available.
Maybe it went low power, then the device didn't support it so the system crashed? I don't know.
EDIT
I did find one in the Event Log (Application) that occurred right before the reboot time:
Application Event Log: SettingSyncHost (11192,G,0) The beta feature EseDiskFlushConsistency is enabled in ESENT due to the beta site mode settings 0x800000.
EDIT
Apparently that is a BETA Win 10 1709 feature. 
I found this which mentions this problem does cause CRASHES!
EseDiskFlushConsistency - win10 1709[^] 
EDIT 2
I'm wondering if this was the same restart problem @chris-maunder (and others) experienced the other day (Windows Update,No Thanks - Lounge[^]). Was their's an actual update or this same problem / crash? If I had ignored this I would've just thought it was a Rogue Update.
Just curious.
modified 17-Feb-18 15:05pm.
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If you had gone one more entry in the log, you'd see this:
"Windows 10 was detected. The system is inherently unstable."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: "Windows 10 was detected. The system is inherently unstable."
I see that now. Uninstalling.
Installing Linux distro. 
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Strangely enough, I have been running Windows 10 for a year here at work and on three different machines at home, and haven't experienced a single crash on any of those.
About half of the 300 PCs we have at work run W10 (the rest runs W7), and I haven't heard about any instability problems with any of those, in spite of lots of special hardware drivers, updated all the time, and a large number of tools deeply intertwingled with the OS, such as a multitude of debuggers and hardware monitors.
But then: These systems are maintained by people who know how to handle Windows systems. They do not try to force the systems to be as Linux lookalikes as possible - that is bound to cause trouble. Just like if you try to manage a Linux box as if it were a Windows machins: Then it turns out that Linux is not quite as stable as rumours seem to suggest...
One morning a few weeks ago, a few dozen of our machines at work had restarted at the same time in the middle of the night, while the majority of the machines were unaffected. The restart affected both W10 and W7 machines. We never found a good explanation, and concluded that since it is winter time, with lots of snow breaking down trees that fall over the power lines, the power grid sometimes can't perfectly suppress the spikes caused when switching over to another distribution line, and we experience a small spike in the power outlets. Some PC power supplies handle this well, others are knocked out and cause a restart when stable power is again available.
We didn't investigate this further; most of our machines "survived". A couple of nightly builds had to be rerun, but going deeper into it would not be cost effective.
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I gotta fix the wife's all-in-one when I get home today...keeps crashing due to a problem with the wireless adapter failing on wake from standby...nice blue screen with a sad face...kinda reminds me of the old mac sad face that I used to see so much of. (OS 7.5.x)
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: I gotta fix the wife's all-in-one when I get home today
Good luck.
kmoorevs wrote: old mac sad face that I used to see so much of. (OS 7.5.x)
I have a Mac Mini, use it rarely for iOS dev and I know that sad face well. Wonder why. 
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If it helps - I recently purchased a non-major brand laptop for development. It ran perfectly until the 1709 update. I did not connect the update with the instability issues that started to occur. Really weird $hit - the touchpad driver causing BSODs, etc.
Researching, I think what happened is that Windows decided I needed the latest and freshest drivers for my devices. It appears that this is the continuous stupidity of Microsoft in the OS bullhits. 
I downloaded the OEM supplied driver packs, updated with their older (but stable) version and have not had a blue screen in two weeks (I was getting 2-4 a week).
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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