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Whale oil beef hooked - the last thing I would have thought of (well, yes, of course it was  ).
In a fit of desperation I moved the wife's laptop to close to the WiFi relay, and plugged in a network cable - and it worked just fine. It seems that for ordinary browsing, including streaming BBC World Service News, everything works just fine, but when it was asked to download a large file (usually a TV program or film) the network card goes slow, and finally goes on strike but I 'aint buying her a new laptop as I suspect this could be residual damage from when she spilled wing one it, that caost me a new keyboard. 
I have now installed a third WiFi thingy, relaying from the second one, close enough to the usual place my wife works from, and connected with a good ol' piece of wire.
I get to live another day! 
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Heat.
Something has been stressed (probably the wine) and continual use gets it hotter until it degrades and starts rejecting packets.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yup - has to be. I shall buy her a WiFi USB dongle, but there will definitely need to be a substantial quid pro quo.
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I'd suggest that replacing the lappie might be a better move - clearly the wine went further than you thought, and there may be more damage in there waiting to express itself.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Further to Griff's comment. A lot of laptop overheating issues are solved by clearing the dust bunnies out of the cooling air path. Hit youtube for a vid of how to disassemble that model if you can't find the relevant manual online.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Most of the laptops I have had have had discrete Wifi adapters that can be swapped out easily - remove a panel on the back, unclip the board and unplug the antenna cable, then replace with one I've picked up for buttons on eBay.
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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I just extended the CommonFileDialog implementation in the Windows API Code Pack to support adding items to the OK button (Open in the Open File Dialog, Save in the Save File Dialog), and it worked FIRST TIME!
Crazy! I even tested it several times! And it worked each time!
And I did the edits using Notepad++, not VS!
And for those who wonder why I am using the Windows API Code Pack, it is currently the only library I have found that allows using the Common Item Dialogs in .NET, as well as the only library that fully supports the taskbar extensions introduced in Win7. I am planning on using both in my current project (a document editor using DevExpress controls).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: And for those who wonder why I am using the Windows API Code Pack
Actually I was wondering why you were using Notepad++! 
But congrats on a successful piece of code!
Marc
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Didn't want to have to launch VS, wait for it to figure out what the hell it needs to do, open the project (double clicking projects/solutions in explorer is hit or miss for me, usually [9 times out of 10] results in VS opening WITHOUT the project loaded), and then do the edits.
Even with an SSD and 24G RAM VS 2015 takes about two minutes to load as it apparently has to recreate the MEF cache each time, and then it just sits there for a while.
All the edits were to a single file as well.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Even with an SSD and 24G RAM VS 2015 takes about two minutes to load as it apparently has to recreate the MEF cache each time, and then it just sits there for a while.
Jeez, I would use Notepad++ too. Or maybe SharpDevelop! I haven't used MEF (I guess I should be thankful?) but my VS2015 projects load fast enough, though they are a tad slower than VS2012. Similar config, SSD but with 16GB RAM.
Marc
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I think there is a bug in saving the cache, causing it to be invalid each time. But still, 2 Minutes on an SSD? Seriously? What is VS doing?
MEF isn't all that bad, the caching system is from VS, not MEF (there are some implementations out there, though).
Looking at the logs, on startup I get a line stating that the MEF cache is corrupted and needs to be rebuilt. Each time.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'm using it too because for some inexplicable reason, Win32 doesn't include a folder browser dialog for WPF.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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The coding ninja powers: you has them. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Is being cremated my last hope for a smoking hot body?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know a place downtown that performs a pretty good creamation at a decent price!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Well, the last smoking hot body was Cinder-ella so it makes sense.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Embalm, cremate, and bury. Take no chances! 
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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Are you allowed to smoke outside?
In Word you can only store 2 bytes. That is why I use Writer.
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A cannibal who likes BBQ might provide you with one.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Anybody using Domain Driven Design as the main design methodology in their business - any experience (pro or con) to share?
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Actually, yes. At this very moment, but there are no war stories yet. I have not been working on this project for too long yet.
And for a second I feared you were asking about Dalek Dave's Donuts.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Dang! You beat me to it. I was gonna say:
We haven't even used DD since he left us.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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And I would not put it beyond him to have given up politics in favor of producing and selling donuts.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Would be a step in the right direction.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Would you eat sausage donut from CMOT Dibbler Dave?
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