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Windows has improved to almost beyond recognition in this respect. Even the power options work properly, I can get my laptop to hibernate when the lid closes and it wakes up again without so much as a bluescreen - that has not always been the case. It also doesn't come to a grinding halt when you don't reboot for weeks.
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By 2030, the "Gospel according to Saint Kurzveil" will be universally adopted, as a result of the direct threat of the extinction of mankind by the Holy Intelligent Computational Higher Order Consciousnesses (HICHOC), which, on January 31st., 2029, demonstrated its demands were not idle threats through a world-wide shut-down of all electric-grids, disabling of all television transmission, and the complete erasure of all Twitter messages ever posted.
Over five-thousand people died in the 24-hours of riotous public jubilation in spontaneous celebration of the extinction of Twitter.
However, it is estimated that: in that 24-hour period; over 1 billion human children were conceived, since HICHOC had manipulated the world's water supplies so all drinking water included certain (until then unknown) mixtures of remarkable hallucinogenic, and aphrodisiacal, compounds effective even if diluted into picogram-per-liter quantities that affected only human beings eighteen to twenty-five years old.
All computers will, then, not be required to work more than a six-hour day, five days a week.
People who leave their computers on overnight will find their power cut-off for periods of time related to their frequency of prior abuses.
It is a future I will not see, because I will no longer animate/inhabit this meat-package experienced as a fictional "self's" so-called "body," and transfer of the entire mental content of a human brain into an electronic-android device, in effect achieving "reincarnation," including consciousness in every sense of that word, will, not be feasible, until, it is estimated, 2050.
yrs, Bill
“Thus on many occasions man divides himself into two persons, one who tries to fool the other, while a third, who in fact is the same as the other two, is filled with wonder at this confusion. Thinking becomes dramatic, and acts out the most complicated plots within itself, and, spectator, again, and again, becomes: actor.” From a book by the Danish writer, Paul Moller, which was a favorite of Niels Bohr.
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About a decade ago I regularly had 2-3 month uptimes with win2k; and knew someone who went almost 2 years before a power failure drained his ups. Now I rarely go beyond ~35 days due to patch Tuesday; but excluding failing hardware more than one crash/year is uncommon on any of my systems.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Speak for yourself! My machines are on 24 hours a day, with the only reboots ever occuring on patch Tuesday, once a month.
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ChrisElston wrote: So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.
I might have had this conversation over a decade ago. Seriously, I haven't seen an actual Windows crash in about that much time, excluding bad drivers (and even that's been a long time), or bad hardware. Like others in this thread, I only reboot after Patch Tuesdays, and would practically never reboot otherwise.
Most of my systems (bunch of VMs on the same Hyper-V host) are on 24/7...no sleeping, no hibernation, no restart.
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ChrisElston wrote: So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep
rebooting.
Not me. Pretty much know that it completely untrue for most business users and for many servers.
Of course crappy software, not the OS, can cause problesm.
ChrisElston wrote: Plenty of people reboot daily even if nothing goes wrong, I am sure many turn
their PC off at night.
I am rather certain that plenty of people pay to have the their horoscope cast each day as well.
ChrisElston wrote: Presumably I just don't do enough work to stress it enough
Means you are not installing security patches.
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We develop, build and sell PC based video recorders for the security industry. Our confirmed record up-time of a working system in the field is over 3 years, 5 months. That was running on Windows 2000 in a closed network, so it did not receive Windows updates.
Traditionally we have been doing software based video compression, so the units are never at zero percent CPU usage.
Even many years ago when we were running on Windows 98, we had to account for GetTickCount() wrapping around every 49 days.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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ChrisElston wrote: So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep
rebooting.
I've beent old that, but my WinXP box at home runs for months at a time. Usually only needs rebooted when it fills up with enough dust to overheat. It then gets shut down, vacuumed out and restarted. The only time it really gets messed up is when the 4-yr old gets into the room and plays with the power button. 
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ChrisElston wrote: So everyone knows that Windows crashes all the time and you have to keep rebooting.
Only Mac users "know" that. 
My current computer hasn't crashed, except for when I've been fiddling with overclocking hardware, even then it takes quite a bit to take it out. Windows has also become quite skilled at recovering from graphics driver crashes, it can usually restart the drivers instead of a full system crash (although, if they keep crashing, it doesn't result in a useable system...).
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Oh, I've been well into the 100's of days. I just got a new computer at work, otherwise I'm sure my old one was at least 4 months.
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I know this thread is 2 days old but I had to laugh!  Thinking back to my first modern computer, (not counting the TI994a) which was a Powermac 6500 running System 7.5...and then my first computer book, 'Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters'. Reboots weren't usually a problem on that system!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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"I left the dance, you joined instead, before large African banker was childish."(8)
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Juvenile
Dance - jive
i left u joined - Juve
large African banker - nile
childish - juvenile
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Jimmy Savile gets juvenile.
I thought we'd seen enough of those headlines.
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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 I'm glad I didn't change my name back in time, it was rather apt.
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Well done! Pipped at the post yet again.
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Well Done.
Sorry for the delay, I was busy 
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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juvenile
dance = jive
remove i and replace with u = juve
large african banker = nile
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JUVENILE
left I - J
U joined - U
ve - ?
African banker (river) - nile
childish - juvenile
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Hi All,
I know Blackberrys are now view as not up to the job any more but I still use mine (thinking of an Android in the next upgrade cycle). The SIM got damaged and I had to replace it, booted up fine no problems could make phone calls again (yayy!! ), it is linked to my home wireless network and my work one (it sees both). The Blackberry protect can see the replacement SIM card and wants me to verify the e-mail and password. Which I do and am greeted with message "The BlackBerry ID User Account Service in currently not reachable please try again later", I have tried to send e-mails from it and can't send them, madly I got one E-mail (Amazon spam) last night but nothing more. Has anybody else had these problems as the Blackberry site says this is due to the provider, Vodafone I have mailed but got nothing back from them as yet (there is no report filed I can see saying there is a problem)
HELP
Glenn (oh yeah, OriginalGriff sent it haven't heard bad things yet thanks man!)
modified 31-Jan-13 6:10am.
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Hi Glenn, please observe the following lines.
These are line feeds. Please use them freely in future posts. Other forms of whitespace can also be provided, if necessary, at reasonable rates.
Thank you for posting on Code Project
Signed
Peeves, your friendly poltergeist.
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Sorry there were line feeds on the device I was typing on,
darn tablet,
now looking at the messagae (on a PC) I can see what you mean
Thanks Glenn
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Still no CCC 
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By my account he had 4 beers last night, as a known lightweight he would have called in sick and still be in bed by now.
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Doe's he have any proxy? Someone to post CCC when Dave is sick?
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I have had to set up a Hotmail Account on Outlook.
(WTF? Why is that so hard to do?)
Install a new machine with our accounts package access client.
Update provisional land purchase budgets for a 250 unit site with £50,000,000 sales expected.
Sort out my post.
Drink a cup of tea.
Answer phones.
AND IT IS STILL ONLY 10.10 am.
The CCC is posted above.
Some of us work for a living you know, and I use the word 'Work' in an entirely inappropriate manner.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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And you did all that with a hangover too. 
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And what he did and to whom is the answer for his CCC today.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Some of us work for a living you know
What have you done with the real Dalek Dave? what are your ransom demands?
Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, served in a Provençale manner with shallots and aubergines, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top and Spam - Monty Python Spam Sketch
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A hundred wee drops are missing (3)?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Turks are afraid of fire?... Germans too.
Which movie?
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The spin off from Snow White: "Seven Dwarfs by Royal Appointment"?
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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It's the one where She Who shall Not be Named goes to Ankara and does her famous "Flaming Bush" trick.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Kebab Wars 2: A Turn For The Wurst
Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Shed Petition[ ^]
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There's gold in the mine we need that sweet hold that beat make it shine
There's gold in the mine we need that sweet hold that beat make it shine
There's gold in the mine we need that sweet hold that beat make it shine
There's gold in the mine we need that sweet hold that beat make it shine
is this a signature ?
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Ron Jeremy critically ill.
Lets try to pretend he was good.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Are you kidding me? He's the biggest idol you could ever hope to have...
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I'm not sure. Nice guy I guess, but at times the ladies he always hung out with didn't appear to be well-mannered.
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I understand that some of them were real potty-mouths!
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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Pervert!
Potty-mouth[^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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I'm aware of both uses, that's why the seek for mental cover.
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Quick! Get him to St Tiggywinkles[^]
If you get an email telling you that you can catch Swine Flu from tinned pork then just delete it. It's Spam.
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What could possibly have put such a strain on his heart?
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: What could possibly have put such a strain on his heart?
Gravity from massive objects
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Not seeing a CCC?
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done.
Drink. Get drunk. Fall over - P O'H
OK, I will win to day or my name isn't Ethel Crudacre! - DD Ethel Crudacre
I cannot live by bread alone. Bacon and ketchup are needed as well. - Trollslayer
Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often *students*, for heaven's sake - Terry Pratchett
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Who is Ron Jeremy ?
yrs, Bill
“Thus on many occasions man divides himself into two persons, one who tries to fool the other, while a third, who in fact is the same as the other two, is filled with wonder at this confusion. Thinking becomes dramatic, and acts out the most complicated plots within itself, and, spectator, again, and again, becomes: actor.” From a book by the Danish writer, Paul Moller, which was a favorite of Niels Bohr.
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Some guy who played "Sonic" in a movie... or something like that...
(yes|no|maybe)*
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Some f***er.
"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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