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Hey Christian, it might be time to change your sig to "Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista AND Windows 8"!
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Actually, yes, I am planning to do that.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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1) It's not OSX.
2) Under the covers, it's an improvement on Windows 7. (Even though I've adapted by putting everything I need on the desktop or taskbar, and replaced all the full screen metro crap apps, I'd rather they just made a Windows 7.1. I do miss Aero.)
3) The ribbon on Explorer has proven useful when turning on/off "Show hidden files".
I should add that the start screen was helpful the other day. I'd installed an app, though I'd checked to put it on the desktop and hadn't. I had no idea what the executable name was (it wasn't what you would have though based on the installer and company.) I opened the start screen and there it was.
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Yeah, I am sure some things are improved. And I installed a start button replacement and have decided to remove it, better learn the new than try to turn it in to the old. My first day was pretty hellish though.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Spent the morning at the Remembrance Day service with my daughter who is in The Brownies then a good few hours down my allotment with my mum in the afternoon.
Then taking my mum home I was waiting to turn right at a junction when there was a loud skidding of tires followed by a massive impact to the back of my car. When we came to a halt again about 60 foot further down the road leaped from the car, looked back to where the car that had hit me was sitting with almost no front end and pissing liquid all over the road.
Severe lower back pain so I rested against my car and stayed there til the ambulance and fire brigade turned up. They put me on a spine board, immobilised my head, lifted me onto a stretcher and into an ambulance.
The other woman had her car roof cut off and lifted out then loaded into another ambulance.
They eventually decided I had no spine fracture and let me go home, aching like f*** just about everywhere, my mum has whiplash and a concussion.
My car (a Mondeo) came off considerably better than her Ka, but the boot is deformed, possibly a back door, haven't had a good look at it yet. Going to be a fun morning on the phone to my insurance and finding somewhere to work out exactly what is wrong with it. At least my dad was able to drive it home and avoid the hundred odd quid it would have cost for the police to remove it.
Christ but I ache. Sore neck, shoulders, back, bruising across my chest from the seatbelt. But nothing that won't heal shortly enough.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Glad you'll be OK. Was the other driver texting?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Don't think so, just an older woman who got it wrong, hadn't realised I was stationary.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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Touch wood, hope your mum recovers and the other driver survives, aches and pains can be lived with, busted stuff is dramatically more debilitating.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Paramedic said the other driver showed no serious danger signs, they were being more careful because she hit the steering wheel and is awaiting a triple heart bypass so hopefully she'll be ok.
My mum has some neck problems anyway and was adamant she was ok at first, we had to bully her into get seen at the hospital a bit.
Will see how she is doing in the morning.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I'm glad you have no spinal injury but be aware that sometimes you may get a lot of pain down the road.
I had the same problem with someone ramming me in the back while I was stationary waiting to turn left - this was in the US where they drive on the wrong side of the road. I felt "ok", had no broken bones, so didn't take time off work or anything despite having slight headaches now and then and a bit of an aching back and neck for a while. When I sued for personal injury (the car repairs were taken care of with no issues) a bit later as my whiplash symptoms became steadily worse I lost out because I didn't run around with a neck brace a screaming. I had a weird jury who decided that the guy I was suing was completely at fault and assigned $0 in damages because I didn't miss any work! The foreman of the jury was a religious nut who believed that any pain and suffering we receive is "God's Judgement" and we must obviously deserve it! He apparently dominated the jury (also largely made up of religious nuts - this was Tulsa, OK after all) and they all went along with him. My lawyer was totally stunned (as was I) and even the judge seemed surprised. Because of the type of action (not more than $10,000) there was no appeal. My lawyer 100% expected us to be awarded the maximum $10,000 - so he got nothing either!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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ChrisElston wrote: ...tires...
I read all of that and all I got was you can't spell tyres correctly.
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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One of my friends was in his car when a truck going about 100 MPH in a school zone rammed into the side of the car. There was then no car. My friend was rushed to the hospital and treated (he survived). The driver of the truck eventually crashed, the truck exploded, and the driver was flung about 500 yards away and got knocked out. He was at 0.15 BAC, and the fact he was driving a stolen vehicle with a terminated license AND he almost killed someone, AND he had killed three other people with the truck, AND about a thousand other offenses (all of them very major things) got him 175 years in prison.
There was a lot of luck in that for people to survive.
(Looked for a news story that I had seen, can't find it now)
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I hope everything works out for you and your mum, usually the next day is when you really start to feel it.
Good luck!
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oof!
When we got re-ended the whole back of the car had to be replaced - there may be no visible damage but the rear behind the axle is one great big crumple zone.
speramus in juniperus
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That's what worries me, when you have an older car it soon becomes cheaper for the insurance to write it off than fix it.
Plus its been raining all night and you can fit your hand in either side of the boot without opening it.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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I was talking to a friend yesterday who was telling me about his daughter's car being written off the other day, in an exact same scenario. Weird coincidence.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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Why do I find this just awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvr9AMWEU-c[^]
Ah, the sound of the internet....(or BBS!)
Edit: it was more the visualing of the sound of the dial-up I'm referring to, never crossed my mind of what it might 'look like'.
modified 11-Nov-13 1:28am.
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I know that sound well enough to be able to decipher it; "This is ET I would like to make a collect call home...Dark overlord there is no intelligent life down here as we thought, I want to come home.".
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I've always liked the sound of dial up for some reason 
I'm a radio enthusiast, so I hear lot's of machine signals over the air quite a lot, although few sound quite like dial up.
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Nothing like the reassuring sound of a modem connecting. Lots of happy BBS memories. 
/ravi
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Bloody hell, you like that sound, it was always the precursor to a period of frustration and irritation for me, I loathe it! Compuserve, thank bog it eventually closed its connection!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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The sounds is a reminder of how things use to be. It was more seeing the trace of it. Never crossed my mind of visualing the noise.
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Ah, modems. The best answering machine for a telemarketing call. 
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I suppose a 32-year programming career will do that to your resume. Even after I reduced each job to a single line ("I worked there and did programming stuff."), it was STILL two pages long. I finally got it down to three pages (not including the "Skills" pages).
".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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Three pages is good. Mine goes to eight pages as well but I push a clear summary of skills (ordered by what I am trying to "sell" to the recruiter, key ones in bold) to the first page and then bullet-point each job after that (also with the key points in bold). That way the recruiter can just read the summary and if anything is interested skim through the first few jobs (in reverse chronological order of course) to see if more info is forthcoming.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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