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The Orville's not bad- at least they've generated some stories to hang the jokes from, and there was often humor in the ST series. I'll definitely keep watching.
They did have an unnecessary plot hole in the first ep. They were called in to take away this big macguffin, which needs to happen ASAP. But... let's stop to snack on a super-seed first?
It would have worked better to have a station underling taking them to meet the director, who had no idea of the emergency.
Mirror universe, maybe all the characters still have goatees, but they're actually nice? 
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Oh great - now I've got to avoid The Lounge for at least a week to avoid spoilers! 
STD (titter ye not!) isn't showing in the UK until 25th September. And although Fox UK have announced they'll be showing The Orville, they still haven't told us when.
"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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Well, episode 3 has just shown here and the big twist at the end is ^%^$%^##*((%()*&^ with a pineapple! 
Note: I might have made up the pineapple bit.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Once again, but on a different system, I find my desktop icons all alphanumerically rearranged for me after exiting hyper-v. I should just learn to live with it, instead of expecting things to stay where I put them...a lot less stressful. 
On another note, this is the first time I've used hyper-v on this laptop and everything's working fine except for networking. (through wifi adapter) I can get it to work on the guest and the host, just not at the same time! Eventually, the vm will get migrated to a new server I'm putting together and this won't be an issue. I'm done with it for now anyway...and done for the weekend!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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You're running hyper-v on a Mac?
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The VM will be sharing the host's MAC address, look for an option called spoofing.
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How does one "exit" Hyper-V? It's a component of Windows that's either installed and running all the time, or it's not installed at all. Or did you mean your icons get rearranged when you close the last running VM?
That said, I've seen Windows rearrange icons on my desktop with all versions of Windows since 95, and I've run VMs on a number of different systems since Hyper-V was introduced (and its predecessors Virtual PC/Virtual Server before that), but I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe one is related to the other.
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dandy72 wrote: Or did you mean your icons get rearranged when you close the last running VM?
Yes, that's what I meant. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm scratching my head over this one. What do you use to log into your VMs--the Hyper-V connector, or treat the VMs as regular machines and RDP into them? Or a third party such as mRemoteNG (which I've recently discovered)?
Obviously logging into a machine at different resolutions might cause desktop icons on the VM to get rearranged if the screen is suddenly too small (or larger than it was before), but you're talking about the host. I have an LG TV that I use as a secondary monitor, and powering it on/off, unlike a regular monitor, makes Windows think a display device got removed, so it might rearrange icons under those circumstances, but you're not messing with the power for a display device either.
I'm grasping at straws...but maybe the RDP (Hyper-V?) video code sends some sort of disconnect/reset event, and your "native" video driver (AMD/Nvidia/Intel?) thinks a device got disconnected in the same way my TV does, and causes the entire desktop to get rearranged. Maybe if that's the case I'd look for a newer version of the video driver, if it's really old.
I'm afraid I don't have much else to offer at this point.
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I use Microsoft's OneDrive. Works very well for me.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Yes, OneDrive is okay too.
Of course it used to be called Microsoft LiveDrive. 
They renamed it too.
Also, at one point I had both onedrive and google drive and they were clashing with each other.
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Even though at one point MS was heavy into naming everything "Live[Something]", I don't remember them ever having something called "Live Drive", and googling around currently shows a UK company using that name and owning the trademark.
Surely you're thinking of SkyDrive? (which MS renamed to OneDrive because of Sky TV, incidentally also from the UK)...
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dandy72 wrote: Surely you're thinking of SkyDrive?
"Yes, and don't call me surely." 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Oh, probably just bad branding on Microsoft's part again.
If the user can't remember the name of it -- because you change it every 32 seconds -- it's bad branding. 
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dunno, I prefer descriptive names - less confusion for people trailing the bleeding edge.
grumpy old man rant of the weekend:
used to have "sourceforge" (more descriptive), now it's "git" which in many countries mean "stupid person"
azure sounds like a jewellery item, says nothing about what it does; amazon cloud - ahh, sensible
wtf is silverlight, it's neither solver nor light (and still not 100% sure what it was)
surface is something you put your coffee cup on
playstore - stupid name, sounds like it's only for kids or/and music
siri is an exotic girl's name, cortana a misspelled car name
...
so much new sh*t coming out these days, can we go back to calling them spades?
also wondering if they wanted to avoid confusion with their driverless cars?
... give something a stupid name and it'll only bite you in the ass when you make other stupid things
Stupid kids! Broke my signature they did.
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Lopatir wrote: also wondering if they wanted to avoid confusion with their driverless cars?
This probably is the answer. 
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I use a nas in my house. And a server at work.
I'm not givin a nibble to anyone where I can't touch the box physically.
I come from the past. In the past, the mere thought of giving out your data to an outside vendor was ludicrous unless under the strictest guidelines and bonded courier.
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Lopatir wrote: now it's "git" which in many countries mean "stupid person"
Wait till they bring out a new version and then you can feel right at home using the "Old Git"
As for Silverlight - one framwork that has been now been replaced by an entire stack of tech hence light and I made plenty of silver from it, makes perfect sense to me.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Lopatir wrote: grumpy old man rant of the weekend:
How do you feel about Apple's iSomething nomenclature?
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... to Cassini[^]
Gonna miss you, kid. You did a damn fine job.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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As a Microsoft fanboy I loved my Lumia 640XL, but as that fanboyism is wearing off it is starting to annoy me a lot more than it used to with apps crashing and closing by themselves. The lack of apps as well is rather annoying and never used to bother me, but it's getting quite bothersome now as Three UK don't even have an app for it anymore. That said, even Microsoft's own apps seem to be at least as good on Android and iOS, if not better. Windows Phone was great but it has lost its appeal so it can be more like the others.
The only thing is I don't think there's many good phones on the market. I want a phone that's supported for at least a few years and where the apps won't crash constantly. I want apps to be supported on my phone with the latest features, instead of waiting months waiting for features that have been implemented on the other OS's (ahem..spotify).
I feel like an iPhone but there's no swipe keyboard. I then feel like an Android but will the phone even be supported past a year.
I then feel like making my own phone but then I realise I'm not that smart, nor do I have the money to make one or hire those who are.
Am I too old? Am I too picky? Am I depressed? Or is the phone market just that bad?
Excuse my English, I hate writing on tablets.
Hassan
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Excuse my English, I hate writing on tablets  aaahaa the tablet is the reason of _our_ bad english, good hint
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I always want to agree with these types of posts, but the reality for me is entirely different. I have three Android tablets that have never seen a single OS update throughout their entire respective lifetimes--I've long come to the conclusion that when a device comes with Android version X, it'll die on version X. It becomes abandonware the moment you walk out the store. I'm faced with old apps that today are crashing all the time, manage to get the whole OS to reboot on a whim, web pages that won't render because the included browser is obsolete, apps that won't install because the OS is too old, etc. I'm done buying Android-based hardware.
Meanwhile, Microsoft's latest mobile platform--Windows Phone 10--which has been all but abandoned, according to all tech media sources, still gets regular updates (the latest one for my Lumia 640 just came out today) as MS is still keeping the phone OS in lockstep with Windows 10 Insider updates. The only app I've ever seen misbehaving in a predictable fashion on it is Microsoft's own Power BI. According to the MS engineer I traded emails with, he's not surprised the app is running into problems "given how resource-starved the Lumia 640 is"--which came as a surprise to me, because I never felt this was even the case with this phone--the OS has never felt sluggish because it's running out of memory, or the CPU was too slow, or anything like that.
So...WP10 is a dead-end, I've been burnt too many times by Android, and I refuse to give Apple a dime. If I had an actual use for a phone, what the heck would my options be??
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