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Well, our main Exchange server broke down an hour ago. Can't send an email to Help Desk to complain. Tried it by phone, same result: Help desk phones off line as well.
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...after that whole UBS and HSBC thing, Switzerland has been disconnected from the internet.
We aren't allowed to tell you this though. 
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Good one! I am connected again, server came back now!! It was our internel Exchange server, the external one works (otherwhise I wouldn't be here...)
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your bit of Switzerland has been given to France in payment of taxes owed which is why you have got the Internet back
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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Since when has Switzerland owed taxes to France?
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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ok but explaining will kill what was a feeble joke anyway
HSBC (Switzerland) were advising its customers on ways of avoiding paying tax, this has created a bit of fuss, I was implying that this was not a isolated case (Swiss banks helping its customers avoiding tax in their home countries - which you have to admit is hardly news)
and that the countries involved somehow "reclaimed" said lost tax revenue by taking part of Switzerland as payment (France was picked purely at random but please feel free to substitute Italy, Germany or any other country of choice)
I know I missed the joke icon but I assumed that such a comment would not be taken seriously sorry for that assumption
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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I was pulling your leg. I hope it didn't come off... 
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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vonb wrote: Can't send an email to Help Desk to complain.
I'm fairly certain that they know. Assuming you have more than just a handful of employees, though.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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(naturally)
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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8 bits ought to be enough for anyone.
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."
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That's 30 too many, because if you try to rub them together, you'll drop them all over the place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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8 bits make a dollar, and I've never had any dropouts when rubbing 4 dollars together.
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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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: 8 bits make a dollar
What?!?
Look, 8 bits make a byte!
8 Hours is how you make a dollar!
What are you doing in CP, if you don't even know that much?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Look, 8 bits make a byte!
I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar#United_States[^].
Mark_Wallace wrote: 8 Hours is how you make a dollar!
Are you Bob Crachit or Ebenezer Scrooge? Either way, you have my sympathies.
Mark_Wallace wrote: What are you doing in CP, if you don't even know that much?!?
Busting your chops?
<rant>
Since my CP cred has been questioned, I will say that I have been writing software in a professional capacity, man and boy, for the last 35 years. Is this sufficient for me to remain, or should I get my coat?
</rant>
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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Hi!
I am in a quest for affordable and very portable laptop to ease my commuting experience (and when I seek refuge from family  ).
Yesterday I've stumbled upon afore mentioned machine (older review).
One I found is barely used and upgraded with 256 GB ssd disk and 8GB of ram.
Specification:
Intel 2117U
8GB ram
SSD 300GB
11.6'' monitor
Intel HD Graphics 4000
USB 3.0 & USB 2.0 port
HDMI port
In theory this is well above VS2013 minimum requirements, what's your verdict?
Price is also the factor, here (Croatia) similar laptop (but with less ram and HDD instead of SSD) costs around 570$, this one I can get under 390$.
Only constructive advice, please. 
Mislim, dakle jeo sam.
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My biggest concern would be the display. 1366x768 is going to be painful with any sort of IDE. IF you're a text editor/console dev it might be tolerable, but you'll still have a lot less usable space than you're used to on a real monitor.
Otherwise, the specs look decent as long as you're not trying to do something like build Firefox or Chrome every time you click compile. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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What Dan said.
You might want to look for a cheap monitor to expand the available space.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Apparently either one of last weeks patch Tuesday updates failed to install successfully when I kicked them off Friday night; or they pushed something new over the weekend...
I've got 41 minutes and counting on a self destructforced reboot countdown. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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We start with a 6 hour countdown window. I usually opt to find a good time to close everything on my own and then let the restart commence.
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I assume IT figures the gap between pushing the patches (generally Wednesday morning) and the scheduled install (Friday 9pm EST) is plenty of time. And since I added a Friday afternoon reminder I generally don't have a problem. OTOH the 1 hour drop dead timer is an improvement from the situation years ago. When I first started here it was only, IIRC 15 or 30 minutes, which was great for blindsiding you with forced closes and lost work if you didn't notice it when it first appeared. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I know you have already rebooted but...
Assuming you are admin on the box, you can stop the Windows Update service and then the countdown goes away. You have to be careful though, as Microsoft sometimes restarts the service on it's own. There is a way to keep that from happening though.
My windows update service is always off, I turn it on and update then reboot then turn it off again. I have full control over the updates, at least as far as I can. 
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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They push the updates through an MS product called Software Center (they also push application installs through it) not Windows Update; and various attempts I've made in the past to subvert it (and all of the predecessors they used beforehand) through my local admin have all failed.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I thought Windows updates were bad until I got a MacBook Pro last year to toy with.
I hardly ever use it, but every time I turn it on, there's always a few hundred megabytes worth of updates waiting to be downloaded and installed. Last time (this past weekend) was a 655MB download, and burned up a solid half hour after the reboot (before getting back to the login screen, so the machine remained unusable during that time). Yosemite had already been installed a few months prior to that (a lovely 6+ GB update, if I recall correctly), and a number of updates since had also been installed, so it's not like I had 4 months worth of updates queued up.
From my experience, on the Windows side, unless it's a full-blown service pack, a large set of updates may take 15-20 minutes to install, but at least that's taking place in the background and the machine remains usable.
And yes, this is a clean machine with hardly any third-party software as I use it so little there's still nothing on it that didn't come with the OS.
Don't get me started with the set of Linux VMs I also have...
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