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Be sure and play some Pink Floyd while you're doing it.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Many years ago I learned a lovely phrase in German ... "Sie koennen bleiben wo der Pfeffer waechst" (I haven't worked out umlauts ... apologies)
"You may live where the pepper grows" ... an awfully polite euphemism for "Go to H**l".
Having looked at some spammers today I've been thinking "Serdecznie powitamy cały polski spam post w szczególnie ciepłym miejscu" ... a sort of spoof equivalent simply because I've learned the words "Serdecznie powitamy" ... "We warmly welcome you" (according to Google Translate) only from the spammers on this site. With apologies to my Polish friends I think that means "We warmly welcome the whole Polish spam post in a particularly warm place"
So please share with me equally polite ways of telling people to **** *** whilst being incredibly polite ...
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"Dear Sir, you are without any doubt, a rogue, a rascal, a villain, a thief, a scoundrel, and a mean, dirty, stinking, sniveling, sneaking, pimping, pocket-picking, thrice double-damned no-good son of a bitch." -- 1776
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Clearly good friends! 
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1776 - Probably some American revolutionary tweeting about King George III. 
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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No matter how "lovely" a phrase might be in German...when I try to read out loud, it always sounds angry to me.
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Dear sir, I would like to alert you to the fact that some moron is signing stupid posts using your name. You may want to remove your account.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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Just to help you: umlauts (and other accents) are easy. Hold down ALT and use the numeric keyboard:
ALT 0192 = À
ALT 0196 = Ä
ALT 0199 = Ç
ALT 0201 = É
ALT 0207 = Ï
ALT 0212 = Ô
ALT 0213 = Õ
ALT 0214 = Ö
ALT 0220 = Ü
ALT 0223 = ß
ALT 0224 = à
ALT 0226 = â
ALT 0228 = ä
ALT 0231 = ç
ALT 0232 = è
ALT 0233 = é
ALT 0234 = ê
ALT 0235 = ë
ALT 0238 = î
ALT 0244 = ô
ALT 0245 = õ
ALT 0246 = ö
ALT 0251 = û
ALT 0252 = ü
For Acute accents, you can just use ALT GR plus the key:
áéíóú
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thank you. Ironically I used to know most of these off the top of my head - advantage/disadvantage of working in a multilingual environment. Don't know if it's an age thing but it all slipped out of my memory once I left that place 
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I know what you mean - I have a "cheat sheet" to remind me because I can never remember them!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh - I've bookmarked your post! 
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No need for a cheat sheet.
Alt + NumPad "0" + NumPad Keys -> Character from the CP1252 (Windows-1252) Set
Alt + NumPad Keys -> Character from your local DOS Character Set (CP437 for US, CP850 for Western European, etc.)
If you enter a decimal value requiring more than 8 bits it just takes the last 8.
So for "æ" I can just type "Alt + 454545" without having to remember it's character 145 in the CP850, or 230 in CP1252
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... I'll stick to the cheat sheet ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can just type the ~ or ^ or ' or ` or " key once (nothing happens) and then the key I want to apply it to.
So " + o = ö, ` + a = à, ~ + n = ñ, etc.
For some reason I don't have that at work and it's driving me nuts.
It's some keyboard setting, but I can never figure out which one.
When I mess it up I get Dutch layout, but we Dutch use American qwerty keyboards and all of a sudden all keys become something else.
So I wonder why is that Dutch layout if the Dutch don't use it...
Anyway, be thankful you're not working with Chinese[^]
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That must make coding fun ... I use ' and " quite a bit ...
I think it's in Control panel, "Clock, Language and Region", "Language", "Options" to set an input method - but I'm not sure.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I get two of each symbol at once when I press twice.
So I usually do ""[left arrow] or even "";[left arrow x2]
I even do that when I get these symbols on the first button press.
It's really not a problem
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There's also these options: Thespians[^] and Sea Farers[^]
The latter, an opportunity for coding (for which I'm urgently tempted).
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I have always been fond of
"I invoke eternal diefic condemnation in the person singular neuter pronound"
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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CHill60 wrote: Sie koennen bleiben wo der Pfeffer waechst" (I haven't worked out umlauts ... apologies)
At first I thought the English in the parens was the translation of the German, and still retaining some German from my childhood, I was wondering, how the heck did you get from A to B?
But then the light dawned as I read on. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I was once sat in an early morning meeting at work with the hangover from h**l, completely mystified as to why I couldn't understand what was being said. It was only when my (non-german speaking) colleague gave me a look of "  I'm lost, what are they on about?" that I realised they were speaking in German not English! The meeting went a little easier after that lightbulb moment (but the hangover stayed for the duration)
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After allowing the server to install sp2 for sql server 2014, customers started getting script errors when setting filters in ssrs reports. Apparently, this bug was introduced in sp2 and fixed a few releases later. So wte didn't the update get the more current release?
Easily fixed by downloading another half-gig cumulative update and everybody's happy again.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When you're done updating SQL, always remember to look for "the patch for the patch".
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...For the patch for the patch...
I wrote a small script that keeps you up to date.
CREATE PROCEDURE KeepUpToDate
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON
EXEC UpdateServer
EXEC KeepUpToDate
END
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So, the upgrade was mostly successful. Desktop icons got re-arranged and my start menu shortcuts were of course obliterated.
Various other oddities, like the Visual Studio shortcuts disappeared.
The most annoying issue is now trying to figure out why the RabbitMQ server doesn't start up.
Otherwise, so far so good. And Windows Update is currently on. But no promises!
[edit]For some reason, the RabbitMQ service hadn't started. Manually starting it, and I'm back in business! Now to get my various shortcuts set up again.[/edit]
[edit2] During startup, it said various apps were being disabled/removed because they weren't compatible with W10. Those went by so fast I didn't have time to note them. Where the heck can I find out what it disabled/removed? Multimon seems to be one of them. I'll ask Google.[/edit2]
Marc
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
modified 25-May-17 17:53pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Where the heck can I find out what it disabled/removed?
There may be an xml file in your desktop folder or on the root of C: that has that list. I remember seeing such a list popup on my system for W8.
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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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