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I subscribed to this site on April 9th 2004.
In 1 decade or 10 years or 120 months or 3 652 days or 87 648 hours or 5 258 880 minutes or 315 532 800 seconds or 315 532 800 000 milliseconds
* I aged an equal amount.
* I wrote 4 articles.
* I posted 5303 messages.
* Reached 35K mark.
* I subscribed to CP on my first job, now at my sixth.
* Shortest job experience: 3 months, longest: almost 5 years. All jobs had an average travel time between 45 minutes and 1 hour 15 minutes (one way)
* Job business ranged from hospital software to emergency call center software to space related 
* Longest travel time from work about 5 hours for about 25 km. (once)
* Most intensive work: 16 hours a day for 2 weeks (incl. weekends) not counting the 1 hour - 1 way travel time.
* I first (organized) MQOTD on 19/10/2012.
* knows the secret of ![Jig | [Dance]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif) ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif) ![Good Stuff | [The good stuff]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/vegemite.gif) ![Heart | [heart]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/love.gif) ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)  and of course ![Sheep | [baah]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) .
* At one point invented the "beer chaser", but CP banned marquee tags in signatures. (not sure if it was because of it  ).
* I started martial arts (in 2007) and am currently holding brown belt.
* I recieved one wife and two kids.
* I own two cats.
* I owned 3 hamsters.
* I bought two houses. (not related to the cats, nor the hamsters)
* Did parts of the "bricolage" of those houses myself.
* I drove a Peugeot 206, VW polo, Volvo V40, BMW 318 touring, Skoda Octavia, KIA Venga, VW golf, Volvo S60 not counting replacement cars.
* Most stressfull car ride: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If you've been there, you'll know why.
* Equally most stressfull car ride: anytime I needed to drive the KIA...
* I got my motorcycle driving license and currently drive a Honda Transalp 2008.
* I visited Australia, USA, Peru, Argentina, Chili, Singapore and Malaysia. (outside Europe)
* Suffered from a mild hypothermia on one trekking experience (Paso de Oveja, Ushuaia).
* Maximum height reached: 4750 m (Santa Cruz pass Peru).
* I swam in a glacier lake and in a lake(pond) with kaymans and piranhas.
* I held a boa and a (small) kayman.
* I took a close up shot of a funnel web spider.
* I touched a wild wombat and took a close shot (photo) of a Possum (both in the wild)
* I swam with pink dolphins in the Amazon river.
* I took up photography as a hobby.
* I bought and still own 6 guitars.
* I learned to play bass guitar (I already played guitar).
* I learned to play the piano (very basic).
* I learned Spanish.
* I did some stupid stuff.
* I did some very clever stuff.
* I met really stupid people.
* I met really clever people.
* I had 0 hospital visits (as patient). Number of sick days: less then 5.
* I travelled an estimated distance of ~ 939 950 949.50 km (reference frame solar system).
* I went from .Net 1.0 to 4.5. Learned to handle C#, java, javascript, vbscript, C++, VB6, HTML, SQL and Python.
* I used Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, MS Access, MySQL and PostgreSQL databases.
* I used Xp in 2004, but using on Windows 7 today.
* I payed (and still pay) way too many taxes.
* I'm still as crazy as I was back in the day and the mental state still feels as childish as it was 10 years ago  .
In any case CP was an amazing source of information during the years and a good frustration vent. 
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Congrants ,
You did really interesting things during these 10 years, i wish you at least double the about for the next 10 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Quote: I owned 3 hamsters
Hamsters are the pet equivalent of \dev\null 
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V. wrote: Job business ranged from hospital software to emergency call center software to space related
What a coincidence - I'm looking for open space layout planner for my emergency call center...
Nice summary BTW. Do you have a diary or something? I'm afraid I wouldn't remember half of things I've done in last 10 years!
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All from memory, but I probably forgot some things 
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This is truly impressive ! Well done !
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Congratulations Mr. V.
In fact, when I saw this name for the first time, I thought who's this counterfeit! hehe
because I had my name as "-v-" long ago 
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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You Rock and will continue to rock!!!Congrats
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V. wrote: I recieved one wife and two kids.
"Received" sounds like they just showed up in your mailbox. Or someone just gave them to you.
Or maybe that's the case, what do I know...
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Photography, an awesome expensive hobby.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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unfortunately... 
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After a wasted morning of trying to get started with dc.js (js charting library), i was frustrated and went to get some coffee.
When i got back i did another google search, and came up with a code project article:
link[^]
By far it was the best tutorial i found online, and within an hour or so i was up and running.
It's gems like this article that really make this site shine. I'm surprised that the author of the article didn't update his bio.
Anyway, big thanks to him and all the other authors.
Amr Abdel Majeed
Senior Software Developer
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http://xkcd.com/1353/[^]
for the mouseover! - made me LOL!
Now, is there anyone here who doesn't get the BR reference? If so, go to the back of the class... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Blade Runner, one of the truly great Cyber Punk films
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We all hated XP when it first came out.
It was different and treated with contempt.
Then we got used to it.
Eventually we were fond of it.
Then Vista came out and we realised how much we adored XP.
Vista was hated, it came and went like an unloved season, and there were no tears for Vista when 7 was released.
And still XP ploughed on.
It was known, it was stable, it was trusted.
7 was a roaring success, (I love 7), and XP, our old friend, started into the terminal decline and bloated dotage, but still we looked at it with affection.
It is like an old uncle. You knew that many years ago he was a hard drinking hell-raiser who went to war and killed people, but who now sits in the corner at family parties and is only talked to out of a sense of guilt and obligation, and who may at anytime wet himself or keel over and die.
So we are doing the decent thing and putting XP down.
However, there are ghosts, (95% of ATM's are XP Based) and these are going to haunt us all for years to come, so farewell XP, be seeing you soon!
I think 7 will be missed when it is euthenized, but when 8 is killed off there will be dancing in the streets!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Dalek Dave wrote: However, there are ghosts, (95% of ATM's are XP Based) and these are going to haunt us all for years to come, so farewell XP, be seeing you soon!
You are correct that 95% of the world's ATMs run Windows XP embedded OS, but Microsoft is going to support Windows XP embedded OS until 12 January 2016.
Hopefully, by then the banks will have upgraded to Windows 7 embedded OS. There is more reason to do that sooner rather than later because there are some security exposures that are present in Windows XP embedded OS that are fixed in Windows 7 embedded OS.
Some of which are being able to send an SMS to the ATM and have it give you money, as well as a Mexican hack (Backdoor.Ploutus) using an external keyboard to get the machine to spew money.
I think the banks will be more inclined to replace Windows XP embedded before it's use by date has arrived than general business applications have been updated.
One can only hope.
The report of my death was an exaggeration - Mark Twain
Simply Elegant Designs JimmyRopes Designs
I'm on-line therefore I am.
JimmyRopes
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Personally, I don't think 8 will be "killed off".
IMHO, MS is trying to destroy the "every four years a brand new edition of Windows comes out" mentality and replace it with an "every few months this thing called Windows OS gets updated" frame of mind.
For example, when Android 4.4.3 comes out, it won't be thought of as "the brand-new Android OS", but simply as an update. Even iOS7, with it's radical UI changes, managed to pass through the public mind as an "big update". I think MS desires this sort of public response to Windows Updates, especially as they try to turn it into a more mobile platform.
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I loved XP from day 1.
I never was into NT or 2K, but was struggling to make 32 bit software under Win9x. A really heavy load was liftet off my shoulders when XP arrived. Besides, it was magnitudes more stable.
The problem with Vista is that XP was too good. There was little reason to throw it out.
The problem with Win8 is that Win7 is too good. There is no reason to throw it out.
For the desktop computer, a whole new world of possibilities opened up when going from 9x to XP. A number of real needs could be covered. It took a number of years to identify almost all remaining desktop needs, enough to justify a final "tying up all the loose ends in the needs field" with Win7. On the desktop, no real, easily identifiable needs are remaining, that everyone knows about. To the phone market, Win8 was like XP: It finally made Windows a real alternative. Another major round, similar to Win7, will be needed in a couple of years. But then the work will be done, and Windows must move to new arenas if it is to expand further.
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Quote: We all hated XP when it first came out.
 Do you have a mouse in your pocket?
XP was great and still is.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I went from 2k to xp and loved it, kept it until drivers no longer available for peripherals I bought.
Along with Antimatter and Dark Matter they've discovered the existence of Doesn't Matter which appears to have no effect on the universe whatsoever!
Rich Tennant 5th Wave
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"Indian Capital?"(8)
I like this!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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No, that would be (3,5) not (8)
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I realized it as soon as I clicked on "Post Message" button 
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NewDelhi?
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