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Caddyshack
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No idea, I'm lost on this one.
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Dirty Hairy
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Clickety... http://www.gocomics.com/wizardofid/2015/02/26[^]
Now all they need to implement are RFCs 2549 and 6214 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Jeeze!
Is The Wizard of Id still going?
I used to read those almost 40 years ago.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I think this was from 40 years ago, he's still using Chickens for flips sake
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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European or African?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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oh I don't know aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhh
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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It's (obviously) still going, but I believe that one of the original illustrators has retired.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Haven't read Wizard of Id for years, used to read the Sunday funnies and always enjoyed the Wiz.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
My goal in life is to have a psychiatric disorder named after me.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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At some point this morning my webs will be respun with new disproved Branson flavoured web tubes.
Yerman will be here between 8 and 1. So no gin this morning.
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My condolences on your sad loss. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
To lose your gin supply at such a young age...  ...nobody should have to go through that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The gin is safe, I just need to keep an eye on worker oik.
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He's not going to pilfer your comestibles! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Yerman will be here between 8 and 1
So at 13:01, you can start shouting "BRING OUT THE BRANSON!"
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For months now I've been experiencing severe performance issues with my PC at home, and a huge amount of it appears to be associated with Chrome and its infamous "waiting for AppCache" and "waiting for cache" problems. Since I never turn the thing off, I miss some messages from the OS, but lately after a Windows Update and reboot, I've been getting cryptic messages about a file being corrupted on the main hard drive. The file happens to part of my video driver set, so the Windows utilities are completely unable to run, even at startup. The best advice Windows has to offer is to pick a restore point and hope for the best. That's about par for the course when dealing with any MS "product."
Tonight for giggles, lacking anything good on the glass teat to watch, I did some exploring and found a Western Digital diagnostic for my hard drive. Although the SmartDrive stuff reports that all is well, this diagnostic failed to complete because of an unknown error. I think that's a really bad sign, and I suspect that my hard drive is on the verge of failure, even if their wonderful monitoring software seems blissfully unaware of impending doom. I have a nasty feeling that many or all of the performance issues I've been experiencing lately may be due to the hard drive misbehavior. I ran the Performance thingy tonight for the first time since I built the machine, and it dropped the score from 7.6 when it was new down to 5.9 tonight - that can't be a good thing.
So tonight I paid a visit to the Easter Bunny (NewEgg) and ordered a replacement drive. Well, two of them, actually, and a bit bigger than I have now - 2TB each instead of 1.5TB. I'm thinking it might be useful to make a stripe set and run RAID 0 for a change. And while I was there, I doubled the RAM from 12GB to 24GB, on the assumption that more is probably better. Hopefully this will make my Chrome issues go away, and boost the performance of the machine to much higher levels.
The question remains, though - what do I do about the corrupted video driver files? I plan to use the transfer utility that WD offers on their site to copy everything to the new drive set, but that will copy bad data. If I delete and replace it, what will happen to the display when it's been deleted, but not yet replaced? Ten years ago I was an expert in this stuff, but the technology has changed, and I haven't had time to keep up. Will Windows still fall back to basic VGA settings if a proper driver can't be found?
I have no idea what to expect when I pull the plug, but once the transition is done, I think I'm going to love my new machine... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Is the reinstallation of your video drivers a doable solution?
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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Probably, but I'm not sure where the original driver disk is this week. There's a lot of mathoms in that room, and dust bunnies to keep them warm. 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Roger Wright wrote: dust bunnies to keep them warm
How nice from you!
If you have a NVIDIA or AMD-based graphic adapter, you may just remove what is left as video drivers from the Add/Remove Programs control panel ; a simple Windows Update will be able to retrieve the latest version of the drivers and install them with no harm.
If not, the you're up to try to find a working driver for your hardware ; it can be quick, or it can take time.
I hope you can go the first way. Good luck
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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In my limited experience (I'm a software engineer, not a computer technician), all video cards come with some superVGA capabilities - 800x600x256 or 1024x768x256 being the most common. If Windows cannot detect the best drivers for your card, it will fall back on this or some similar resolution.
The video cards must have this functionality, or no operating system could boot during installation unless the drivers were included in the original installation package.
Enjoy your new system.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I'd run Scandisk at boot (before Windows starts), to mark any bad sectors of the disc, then reinstall the video drivers.
Bad sectors don't necessarily mean that the disc is broken; it can just be magnetic anomalies that make parts of it unreadable/unwritable, so if you can replace the disc with a shadow copy, it might be "fixed" by simply formatting it.
If it's only a few sectors, though, it's not worth the effort; just mark them as dead and use the rest of the disc.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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