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The guitarist in my band is with the Army-dienst this week. He keeps sending me pictures of fat Swiss kids cooking bratwurst on the bonnets of their tanks...
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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Finally, a good use for tanks! yeah, it's getting close to lunchtime. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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I assume he's got a WK?
The console is a black place
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Yes. And the STG-90[^].
The console is a black place
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Nice, now repeat after me,
"This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine.
My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life......
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Finally, someone who will be able soon to answer a question I've had for years - Is there an official Swiss Army Fork?
Please get back to me with the answer once you're inside. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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I will 
The console is a black place
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I went to the shop at lunch time to get dinner; everything in stock and a successful 20 minute round trip. Got home and found a rather nice Szekszárdi that will go well with anything. The girls are home, neither has homework and the sun is shining. A trip to the Beer and Cola Emporium beckons. 
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B@st@rd!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Went to the shops at lunchtime: had to wait a while after an accident (2 * ambo, 4 * police, but otherwise not serious) - looks like someone turned left without looking and collected another car.
Tesco: needed one item, Tesco own product. All tills out of order, just the "fast lane" self scanners working. So everybody is trying to get through six self serve tills with a trolley full of rubbish...
Get home: back to coding. Power goes out. Lose some work, but not too much. Power comes back...and my NAS is red lighted. The power fail has spiked one of the HDDs by the looks of it and it failed. Joy. Now I have to buy a new drive, and an external drive big enough to hold everything on the NAS, copy it all off, replace the duff 'un and copy everything back. 
At least it's RAID and I don't lose any data
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: At least it's RAID and I don't lose any data
DON'T
EVER
WRITE
THAT
!
Now I'm waiting for the next post.
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Gulp.
Hadn't thought of that...
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Re. the NAS, is that necessary? On mine, you just pull the knackered disc out and put a new one and it will rebuild it all without doing anything.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's a good question - a detailed check in the manual says: nothing about it...
I just emailed the manufacturer to ask before I spotted your comment.
I wouldn't hurt to get a 4TB USB3 to back it up onto - an extra backup of my backup backups if you like!
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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It depends on the RAID configuration. I know RAID 5 can reconstruct from the loss of a single drive, as I've done that with our external backup (4 1TB drives in a RAID 5 config, giving about 2.5TB usable space).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Mine's also running 4*1TB in RAID 5, for a total of 2.67TB (2945578 MB according to it)
It's working fine to reconstruct on the fly, it's just I don't always trust software so I want confirmation that I can slam a new HDD in there and it'll format it, and resync without destroying the existing data. It's not a new NAS - about 5 years old judging by the software revision date - so I just want the "security blanket" of knowing the data is safe! 
New 1TB HDD and a 4TB USB3.0 drive ordered (just in case, never hurts to have more storage than you need), and the manufacturers are "coming back to me in 24 hours" with an answer.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: I just want the "security blanket" of knowing the data is safe!
Same here. Our external hard drive is actually a third level of backup, hanging off our backup server. I've even got spare hard drives for the thing. It's about 5 years old, and we've had 3 of the 4 drives fail in the last couple of years.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: I don't always trust software so I want confirmation that I can slam a new HDD in there...
Sure... abuse the hardware by slamming it around then blame the software!
OriginalGriff wrote: Mine's also running 4*1TB in RAID 5, for a total of 2.67TB
I recently setup a Synology system with 2*4TB in RAID 1 for a total of 4TB. Works like a chimp champ!  So far... 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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It sounds very much to me like this is an excuse for new hardware!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Well, the only new stuff is the 4TB USB, the other just brings my backup system back up to proper operation.
And having a 4TB so I can copy the whole backup system onto one drive does make sense - my largest USB at present is 2TB...
Yeah, OK, you got me. The 4TB is a toy... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Hey, Look on the bright side! Atleast you're not Ginger!
Simon Lee Shugar (Software Developer)
www.simonshugar.co.uk
"If something goes by a false name, would it mean that thing is fake? False by nature?" By Gilbert Durandil
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I think that Visual Basic should be shown off for its beauty and elegance.
Here is a sample of what it can do - that no other language can do:
Private Sub AlbumListPopulate()
Try
AlbumsList.ItemsSource = New List(Of Image)
For Each AlbumName In Pictures.Albums
Try
AlbumsList.ItemsSource.Add _
(
New Image With
{
.Height = 150,
.Width = 150,
.Source = RotateStream _
(
Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Picture,
Pictures.Album(AlbumName).Angle
)
}
)
Catch
End Try
Next
Catch
End Try
End Sub
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What about that can't be done in C#? 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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