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Maximilien wrote: I hate audio-books; I hate self development books.
Let me guess, you also hate Smurfs? 
Maximilien wrote: Get a e-reader instead.
Well I hate reading... 
I'll check out your recommendations, thanks!
Dune is actually a series I've always wanted to check out, heard good things about it 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Maximilien wrote: Get a e-reader instead.
Well I hate reading...
you know "hate" is such a strong word, these days almost considered un-PC, but anyway
reading is fine, still can't get into e-reading (particularly technical books), I find it difficult to 'flip' back to previous sections to refer to something written earlier - using a slider moves the pages too fast (and if it's some sort of logarithmic slider no proper feel for how far I am along), page-up/downing-ing too slow, and word searching doesn't cut it when I know sort-of how far along in the book what I'm looking for is by thickness rather than page number.
Anyway unless you read almost all day everyday a real book (even better if 2nd hand) is more environmentally friendly than an e-reader, and lately recognised as better for your eyes (health) too.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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Lopatir wrote: you know "hate" is such a strong word, these days almost considered un-PC, but anyway
I really hate you for saying that 
Lopatir wrote: lately recognised as better for your eyes (health) too
Audiobooks are even better for your eyes!
I really miss ctrl+f in print books sometimes.
When I'm on vacation I usually read a print book, last one was about one and a half LOTR book 
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Uhm - he drives! I'd rather he listened to audible books that read ebooks while driving!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sander Rossel wrote: Since I still have a huge commute of over an hour, single trip, traffic not included, I decided to give it a go.
That's nearly three hours wasted each day.
Maybe Elon Musk can help you with that problem. You obviously need to be taking the high-speed tunnel system to your office. Maybe we can get an ejection seat installed and shoot you directly into the office while you are sitting in the chair.
Don't bother eating breakfast... if you pay extra for the Deluxe fare... you can get the intravenous breakfast at no additional cost. Caffeine is included free of charge.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Randor wrote: That's nearly three hours wasted each day.
Yeah, that's why I'm trying to make it productive
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Sander Rossel wrote: So shoot
Bang!
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Marc Clifton wrote: Bang!
Was that a rimshot?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Was that a rimshot?
Yes. 
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I enjoyed Pratchett very much, as well as currently the series of Raymond Feist
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Put Pratchett's on my wish list, might take me a life time to finish.
I found book 34 and an average book is about 10 hours, so that's 340 hours or 170 days of commuting, I currently commute 2 to 3 times a week so that's 68 weeks or well over a year 
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Goedel, Escher, and Bach is an interesting book.
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So I heard, I actually already searched for it, but it's not on Audible 
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Anything by Terry Pratchett.
But if you want a a first off suggestion you should go for Good Omens[^], It's hilarious.
Having seen the movie Omen is helping but not necessary, oh, and the link has spoilers.
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For Audible: Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities." [^]
"Devil in the White City" Erik Larson : Random House, AudioBooks
For print: "Sand" by Wolfgang Herrndorf (original in German, this link to an English translation) [^]
cheers, Bill
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
modified 10-Jun-18 14:24pm.
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Error- "The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required. Learn more"
This is error showing only file upload in hosting.
locally program in working.
modified 9-Jun-18 2:24am.
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satyawan.pisal wrote: Learn more
You could start by reading the red words at the top of the page.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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satyawan.pisal wrote: Learn more
OK - I've now learned more.
What next?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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... You edited the post with something other than "delete this" or "woops, sorry" after the three other replies? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say Google translate is to blame.
An off-topic question: Anyone have advice on what to do when you just want to throw everything against the wall? Bourdain was a bad start but man today has just been downhill in the roughest of fashions.
(For anyone that missed it today, Anthony Bourdain committed suicide. Friendly reminder if anyone is having similar thoughts - please contact someone and at least have a talk. You only get one life.)
EDIT: Phrasing.
modified 9-Jun-18 3:43am.
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satyawan.pisal wrote: The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required.
I'm fairly sure the lounge is not the place to look for authentication or authorisation.
Perhaps somebody on SO has it?
Otherwise youtube, everything's on youtube these days, even authenticated cats.
This internet thing is amazing! Letting people use it: worst idea ever!
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I will tell you that Microsoft can be so stupid. I have a laptop with an SSd of around 28GB and then a large hard drive. Well Microsoft update wants an additional 3.51 gb on my ssd which has 1.38 gb free. To get everything to fit on this small (LOL) ssd I have a bunch of applications installed on the hard drive including Visual Studio and Microsoft office.
The only way I could free up space is to uninstall all the major applications. Not really interested enough in that to do it.
What is Microsoft thinking to require about 5 gb free to install an update!!!!!
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Very annoying indeed, I had the same problem when I had a 32Gb SSD.
You might be able to free up some space by
- Disabling hibernate[^]
- Disabling the swap file[^]
You can turn them back on after installing the update. Though this is still inconvenient, it's probably less work than uninstalling and then reinstalling your applications.
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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I guess the M$ installation is downloading the DVD image of the installation as zip and than need place to unzip and run.
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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