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Attended a lecture by my former Professor; he quoted this from Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland':
Alice comes across a fork in the road, and talks to the Cheshire Cat.
Alice: 'Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
Cheshire Cat: `That depends a good deal on where you want to get to'.
Alice: `I don't much care where--'.
Cat: `Then it doesn't matter which way you go'.
Alice: `--so long as I get somewhere'.
Cat: `Oh, you're sure to do that, if you only walk long enough'.
A philosophical question: How many times have we tried to switch, before going 'long enough'?
Well, in my younger days, a number of times. With age, this has reduced.
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That doesn't take into account the fact that Alice was on an island. 
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Well, the Professor cleverly chose not to reveal this fact. 
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The Professor didn't want Maryann to get away.
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translation: Take a long one off a short one
Which of course makes instant recall of S. Daedelus' inquiry as to the meaning of the word 'pier' before his class of future snooty toffs a matter for his boss, Mr. Deasy, to debride S. of his personal knowledge of preserved fruit ... easy.
see:
Joyce
"Ulyssses"
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"...like that cat in the Russian story."
"Don't you mean the English story, the Cheshire cat?"
"Cheshire? No sir. Minsk, perhaps."
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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Avijnata wrote: A philosophical question: How many times have we tried to switch, before going 'long enough'?
I suspect my two ex-wives could answer that question better than I.
Marc
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Well, if we really have to be philosophical:
"The only place we're going is the grave. The universe doesn't give a damn what we do between now and our arrival there."
Wallace M, "The Code Project Lounge", 2015
[edit] Source of the quote[^]. [edit]
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wow. Circular reference
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Well, that's what philosophers do: they make a couple of blasé, intelligent-sounding-but-ultimately-childish statements, then spend the rest of their lives referring back to them as if they were the word of god.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Avijnata wrote: How many times have we tried to switch, before going 'long enough'?
The message seems off to me. 'tried to switch' implies that the act of 'switching' was unsuccessful. I want to take that other path, but perhaps an obstacle blocks the path.
Depending on the context, I have switched trades/professions twice, relationships 5 times, and marital status just once. 'Long enough' generally means, when something better comes along. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Agree.
'Tried to switch' is not correct. 'Switched' is better.
There was a joke someone said: On a passenger flight, nearing the destination, the pilot announces 'We're trying to land the aircraft'. One can imagine how much tension that would that cause inside.
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Just finished running it on the missus' machine, and it didn't even notice that itunes was installed.
When did it become so rubbish at its job?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So...you've annoyed the Linux fans, and now you're trying for the Apple Fanboise?
iTunes isn't a virus.
Viruses work better.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Never let it be said that my victims are undeserving.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: itunes was installed
Make sure you don't touch your machine as you drench it in oil and set it ablaze! And while you get rid of the infected/possessed machine, you know there's someone who put it on there as well...
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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I set up a bootable USB stick drive (call it Stick #1) and loaded it up with ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and then booted up with it (using the "try" option), but I can't seem to get another FAT32 formatted (call it Stick #2) recognized. All I want to do is to copy some of the files off of Stick #2 onto the system hard drive (which shows up as "main"). Thanks
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[Obligatory let's-get-our-own-back-on-the-Linux-freaks response]
Have you tried uninstalling it and installing Windows?
[/Obligatory let's-get-our-own-back-on-the-Linux-freaks response]
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Obligatory Dilbert[^]
Shoulda been Wally speaking in the final panel...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have Windows 7 installed, and set up a stick drive with the ubuntu as a boot device (i.e., via Universal USB installer), and booted from there. Neither Windows nor ubuntu recognizes the USB - but the BIOS does recognize when the ubuntu stick is attached, so there is no hardware issue. I need to run a driver EXE to get Windows to recognize it, but I first need to get that driver file onto the hard drive - that's all I need to do!
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Have you tried mounting it manually?
[pause whilst I Google the commands -- I don't do this every day]
sudo mkdir /media/dirname
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/dirname -o uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,dmask=027,fmask=137
replace "dirname" with whatever you want to call your mount directory.
[edit]
I forgot to mention that manually mounted parts have to be manually unmounted:
sudo umount /media/external
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You sir get KUDOS for solving this issue!
Many Thanks!
Dank U Wel!
Danke Schoen!
Merci Beaucoup!
Muchos Gracias!
Molto Grazie!
Сбасибо Болшой!
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swampwiz wrote: Dank U Wel!
Oi!
Foul language isn't allowed in the Lounge!
(And you don't get much fouler than Dutch!)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Try the Hardware or Linux forums.
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Hi All,
Since I had some trouble logging and changing my screen name and pic (I had to bother the mighty Maunder) I feel sort of upset that and posts I make now have a head rather than a Bob. The Hamsters don't like me, recently I have seem the Evil hamsters too often!
Glenn
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