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If in Greek you are interested, it should be: enkyklopaideia
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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enkuklopaideia, actually. I'd have no problem with that but our lords and masters decided to anglicise it centuries ago. The least we can do is preserve the diphthong before it too disappears into the yawning maw of the easy spelling monster! Rise up you gynaecologists and paediatricians and say "No more!" Cry out, you oenologists, "They can tak oor jobs, but they cannae tak oor diphthongs!"
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Leave your thongs out of it - particularly if you're going to dip them. 
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9082365 wrote: It's not unusual. It's correct! It's only lazy indolents who omit the diphthong!
You are correct on both the etymology and my indolence.
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It's pedophiles that annoy me. Why can't they love the whole bicycle?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Childhood of a Coder: Booting to BIOS[^]
No, tell me you never did that: INS, DEL, Other DEL, F1, F2, F7, F10, INS again, DEL again, Did I try F8? No? Quick...damn too late...RESET 
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Haha, yes 
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Did you see that naive one, suggesting re-reading the manual...I can't remember getting any manual with my last 3-4 desktops (ever since I started to build them myself)...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Odd, every mobo I've bought (most recently about a year ago) has came with a decent sized manual.
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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So you are telling me you are not trying to get into bios anymore?
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Last time was February, when I fitted the SSD and wanted to check the boot order.
And my keypresses resembled a FSOW... 
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 Ah the lovely struggle.
I may do it in the next month also have to replace one of my old hdd's
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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If you can, replace it with an SSD: the performance improvement of the whole system (even on a lower spec machine, like mine) is incredible!
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Already have an SSD in there ^^ But i have to change the 300GB hdd to a 2TB one.
But yeah the change to the ssd was incredible, my monitor takes longer to display the login screen than the pc to boot XD
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Did it just yesterday.  and I've forgotten already.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I do it as well... but I only try one key each boot. When I find it, then I write it down for future ocasions  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 22-Jun-16 3:36am.
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...and then lose the piece of paper?
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You can always use a permanent marker and write it in the bottom, that way you always have it there.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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...and then I'd be able to read it when I went to write it the second time!
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oh lord, are you difficult to please
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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True story! 
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But how did you remember the keys to reset?
I, had it the other way. Whenever my PC was not working, I just had to smack it hardly where HDD was close enough. Next time, I could see the Windows 98 screen loading. Loved those days.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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I recently had to go into the BIOS, but since my laptop boots so fast I didn't only not know what button to press, but also not when to press it 
After a quick Google I discovered there's a "Restart to BIOS" option
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And now, with a UEFI system, you can't get into the settings without booting Windows first.
Not sure how that works if you need to get into the settings because Windows won't boot. Thankfully, I haven't encountered that problem yet.
"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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That's not true of either of the UEFI desktops I've built in the last 18 mo. In the first of them I was fiddling around in the BIOS for several days before I even had an OS loaded. (Porting a BIOS/MBR OS image to a UEFI/GPT system ended up being at least as much of a PITA as reinstalling/configuring half of the eleven jillion apps on my old PC and turning the old boxes OS into a VM would've been.) The second was much easier but I was still in the BIOS first to check stuff like default boot order/etc before installing the OS.
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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