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I'll put you out of your misery: A PIECE OF CAKE
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm never miserable - and you are up Monday - didn't have time to do a difficult one 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Super Lloyd wrote: With 8,000 years of accumulated .NET Software not supporting years bigger than 10,000BC!
I fear you are behind the times: the 10,000BC bug was what finally broke Stonehenge.
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Hey, don't knock the programmers. As always, it's the project planners and designers that are the fault: Obviously, they should have put those stones much closer together! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
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All it takes is one scientific study about how people are more likely to get cancer when living in an AD world and I am sure we will switch over to "BC" in no time.
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Super Lloyd wrote: great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Batmaaaaaan-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Batmaaaaaaaaan-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Batmaaaaaaaaaaaan-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Batmaaaaaan-great-(x320....)-great-grandchildren
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Shouldn't several of those have been your Nana*?
* Or possibly "yaya" - my Spanish is not even as good as my French, and that's very poor
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Super Lloyd wrote: years bigger than 10,000BC ... great-great-(x320....)-great-grandchildrenparents
FTFY.
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Why do you think scientists haven't worked out immortality yet?
"Dealing with Y10k? **** that."
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I am more worried about the 2k32 2k38 bug, that's is one that if it really is a problem, it is a problem I will suffer    
[Edit] Year corrected [/edit]
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 10-Aug-18 7:40am.
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...You could put an aye out!
Or worse: Get kilt! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Baltimore officials will pay consultant $176,800 to help police department maintain Lotus Notes system - Baltimore Sun
No comment made because none is needed and none could be sufficient to capture the grim reality. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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.
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Link no workey in UK
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Same in BE
Isn't GDPR fun ...
Tom
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pkfox wrote: Link no workey
It's because Lotus Notes is dead. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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That bloke is being underpaid, I'm tellin' ya.
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Since there are only about 10 people left in all of North America who still know Lotus Notes, I would agree.
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It's a shame that it's not the fire department, then the phrase "Kill it with fire" would be... poignant.
Software Zen: delete this;
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From the article:
This latest agreement between the city and the consulting group will last two years, with the option of renewing for another one-year term.
While the article doesn't say anything about what needs to be done, you'd have to pay me, as a single individual, a whole lot more than $177K over 2 years to do any sort of Notes maintenance work. And lets not mention the fact that this is in Baltimore.
And if there's more than one guy from this "consulting group" working on this project for this sort of money - then they're really selling themselves short. Or perhaps low-balling is part of their strategy.
And while the point the article's author was trying to get across was that Notes is ancient by now and spending money on it at this point in time is questionable, he doesn't discuss any alternative. I have no doubt any sort of migration to some other system would run into the millions.
Long story short: Reality runs opposite his sensationalist headline, which was probably intended to generate outrage. Journalistic fail.
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dandy72 wrote: While the article doesn't say anything about what needs to be done, you'd have to pay me, as a single individual, a whole lot more than $177K over 2 years to do any sort of Notes maintenance work. And lets not mention the fact that this is in Baltimore.
Same here. I snarked elsewhere that the price suggests that they're only getting a handful of hours of support. It's obviously way too low for a full time job unless the number of bloatus goatse customers is plunging faster than the number of people whose brain has ossified to the point they can't get a job to work on anything else are retiring and you've got multiple no-hopers scrambling for a rapidly shrinking supply of work.
dandy72 wrote: And while the point the article's author was trying to get across was that Notes is ancient by now and spending money on it at this point in time is questionable, he doesn't discuss any alternative. I have no doubt any sort of migration to some other system would run into the millions.
The article does say the new IT plan is due by the end of the year, and whoever wins that contract will be getting a large fortune. OTOH eating a huge cluster![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) of a legacy system is a nightmare of hidden requirements and scope creep. If whoever gets the contract manages to do it on time and in budget (assuming the city doesn't agree to take an off the shelf package and accept all the non 1:1 capability mapping breakage that will inevitably result), they'll probably deserve a Best Contractor of the Decade award.
Quote: T.J. Smith, the police department's chief spokesman, said in a statement Thursday morning that the agency will be moving away from Lotus Notes in the future.
“However, until such time, we must manage and maintain the product that we currently use which is Lotus Notes,” he said.
The consultant is charged with system upkeep until the department finishes crafting “a 21st century holistic technology platform,” he said. The final technology plan will be delivered to the court on Dec.1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Dan Neely wrote: The article does say the new IT plan is due by the end of the year,
Yeah. A plan.
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Keep it working?!?!
How did they get it working!?!?
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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