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I won a Fleabay auction for £40 less than I was prepared to pay (second hand table saw); I've fixed my MS PC game controller so my GTA-V helicopter doesn't go right all the damn time (just dirt on one side of the analog stick jamming it from recentering but I had to take it apart to clean); one of my routers will be suitable for conversion to a table router; the sun is shining merrily; and I've got chicken marinating for supper tonight with a salad.
Nothing to do with computers at all, of course - but I'll take victories where I can get 'em!
Nice when a Saturday goes well ... 
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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I suggest you enjoy it while it lasts! 
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How do routers have nothing to do with computers. And why would you want to put one on a tabletop???
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These make holes in wood, not downloads!
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Calm down. No need to get... edgy!
O-gee did I go too far?
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Can heartless home work defeat this game (5,5)
Can
heartless home work = dy ( diy )
defeat = crush
game = Candy Crush
I'm amazed nobody solved this
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't think any of us figured "home work" was "DIY" - I certainly didn't!
Well, you are up Monday!
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Do you think it was a fair clue ? I don't like it when there are no replies.
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I'm not convinced Candy Crush is a game, I suspect it's just something that happens between adverts like most mobile games seem to be - but other than that, yes: I'd say it was fair.
Just nobody got it ... 
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I think it was fair, but not by your standards. The this was filler, the same as the that in this one[^]. So "defeat this game" led me to think that it probably referred to the CCC itself, and so the second word in the solution could be solve, with Can as the definition. But the solution isn't hard if one thinks of DIY for home work, which I never did.
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So home work was a fair clue for DIY ?
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Sure. I think I've seen it before but forgot. I thought maybe chore, but it was hard to remove letters from its centre.
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I escaped the Net.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yesterday, I had a phone call to say "my computer isn't working"
She had been trying for days, but nothing was happening. So she rang, and told me about it. She turns the computer on while I'm "there" and ... it all works fine. No problemo.
Programming God. I did say.
Today, I go to vacuum seal some Lemon slices for the freezer - ice lemon makes a nice summer drink cooler, especially with Elderflower Tonic Water - and ... the vacuum gauge starts working for the first time in a year or more, without me even opening up the Chamber Vac to see what the problem is.
Programming God. Machine fix themselves in my (even virtual) presence.
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Many a times, where I've faced a similar situation and couldn't find a solution, my excuse has been "this is a hardware problem, I'm a software guy".
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Oh ! Do be careful ! At least put on a "cup". The domesticated bots are planning something.
Oh dear. Pride commeth before the fall!
(Aside: find out to whom he left his rep points in his will).
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You don't want to end up like Dilbert[^]
Kelly Herald
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My Dell desktop has sound output jacks on both the front and rear of the machine. The rear feeds speakers and the front I use when I listen with headphones. A few weeks ago I upgraded Windows to 20H2 by doing a clean install. Today I discovered that the front sound jack was dead. After about an hour's struggle with sound settings, I started to suspect the sound driver that came with the new Windows install.
I dug up the original sound driver installer that came from Dell. Got several warnings from Windows that I am installing an older version of the sound driver, but I insisted. And Presto! Suddenly I had sound from both front and rear jacks. Stoopid Windows!
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Indeed. It helps to have "a system" in place.
I have a "drivers" folder on my NAS that contains a subfolder for each of my systems. In turn, under each are various subfolders such as "video", "wifi", "audio", etc.
And then in each subfolder, I have a copy of the current driver ("current"), and the previous one (the last one I was using - "previous"). If it takes me a month to realize something isn't working quite right, finding/reinstalling the one I had before is never a problem. When a newer version comes out, "previous" gets deleted, what used to be "current" gets demoted to the "previous" folder, and the newest goes into the "current" folder.
Whenever I change the OS (and with Windows 10, that hasn't been the case in a long time), only the latest "known good" driver gets archived.
Never trust the latest to also be the greatest.
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I thought this was going to be about Tesla!!!
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