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I've always been a desktop man, my first was a 486 (the Amstrad 1512 was my father's).
My wife is on her third laptop -- and I occasionally use one of her previous tablet thingies when I want to be on the patio or something.
The Kid -- who turns 18 today! -- has an iPad, two laptops, and now a gaming desktop.
But then there's my small DEC museum -- a MicroVAX, two AlphaServers, and an Itanium all running OpenVMS.
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So where's the part about anything gone wrong?
(I'm not going to start a hardware inventory here, else there goes my Sunday...)
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We call it 'progress'. 
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Our machine overlords are stealthily enslaving us! 
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"Dead Kit Corner" does seem to be taking over an ever growing portion of my house.
Am I really all that likely to start taking bits out of 20-odd year-old machines?
Am I remotely likely to?
Whoever that irritating "does it bring you joy?" woman is might just have a point when it comes to old computers!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Three laptops
Eleven desktops
Three iPads
One Android tablet
Two smart phones
I absolutely know where it went wrong, and I don't want to talk about it.
BTW, all of the desktops and laptops are running Linux.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I've streamlined a bit over the last couple years...
2 Smartphones
2 iPads
2 Smartwatches
1 MacBook Pro
1 Asus Chromebook
...the "kids" are now adults - on their own - with their own devices.
The Beer Prayer - Our lager, which art in barrels, hallowed be thy drink. Thy will be drunk, I will be drunk, at home as it is in the tavern. Give us this day our foamy head, and forgive us our spillage as we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not to incarceration, but deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, the bitter and the lager, for ever and ever. Barmen.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: When we got married
There's the answer.
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120. A difficult path elicits awe (5)
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A difficult path A MAZE
elicits awe AMAZE
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Ya 
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started the PC today, noticed a quiet rattle (normally in church mouse territory), figured it was a fan.
anyhoo shone me torch into it, see if something obvious like a cable that's shifted, ran a stress test to try and pick which fan, they sped up / slowed down as expected, nothing obvious except: on cool down the CPU fan slowed to a stop then even ran backwards before slowly starting again!!
but hang-on, CPU temps aren't going up, still going down???
stress test again, (if it didn't break the first time try harder) ...same thing.
during cool down CPU fan stopping, backwards and forwards.
then... looking at it closer, TA DA! huge relief!!
das blinken lichten!! ... torch (LED) frequency and fan rotation hitting dem happy harmonics.
LED torches look like steady light but are actually flashing on and off, however doing that faster than eyes can perceive. (and usually the cheap china torches blink way slower but still too fast for they eye to see - which is also why these lights often look weird on videos & photos.
as to the rattle - case fan, bearing/spindle wear (it's only 1 year old), but still working well albeit with that wee rattle (barely heard even without music on).
... plenty enough time to [order online and] replace at my 'leisure' (i.e. annoyance factor).
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Yeah, you see that with modern cars "LED running lights" or "LED tail lights" when they appear on TV - sometimes they appear to blink instead of being continuous because of harmonies between the frame rate and the LED blink frequency.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Install one of these[^]. They don't have to spin backwards to reverse the airflow. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Case fans are low quality, always have to replace them. In fact I've got one 140mm fan I need to replace. I have the replacement fan but since replacement fan arrived the one failing quit making noise.
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine to accept the things I cannot!
JaxCoder.com
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can believe case fans are almost all crap when they only cost a couple of dollars.
the branded ones cost more, but I've bought $2 fans from china identical to $25+ branded ones (everything but the logo, often it'll have half the logo - that unique shaped area where the logo goes.)
anyway, the case really fan only makes a few deg difference, no hurry.
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No matter what the manufacturers say, those bearings need lubrication.
I have a habit of lifting those stickers and adding a drop of oil every second year or so.
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Oh, Dear Boy, had you owned a Rolls Royce, like the rest of us, you would have understood such things as how things that rotate can give optical illusions.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Has anyone realised that Code Project is storing passwords in plain text? I just went to reset my password and had it emailed to me 
I had expected better than this, especially from a site that includes so many security-based articles in their newsletter. Let's hope this gets fixed soon...
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"A request was made to send you your email and password for your CodeProject login. We can't send you your original password so instead we've generated a time-limited password you can use to login in again:"
I didn't see any evidence of my original password being stored in plain text.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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No, they don't. The one that was sent to you is a temporary value which you can use to log in and change your "real" password when you have forgotten it.
Think about it: You have forgotten your password.
You tell the site this.
There are four options here:
1) It emails you with a message which says "OK, We've changed it" but doesn't tell you what to.
You can't log in.
2) It changes it and doesn't tell you what to.
You can't log in.
3) It automatically logs you in to change it.
You get very annoyed because I just stole your account.
4) It emails you a new password so you can log in, provided you have access to your registered email address.
You can log in if you are you, not if you are me.
Only the last one retains any security and allows you to forget your password.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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5) Emails a message that says it was changed and the email has the password but in fact it doesn't. It does however have a customer support telephone line that rings on a conference room phone that absolutely no one ever answers.
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6) I had this one a couple of years ago, change your password and get a letter a week later by traditional snail mail containing your new password. You've guessed it, government
Since it was government I think I needed that password pretty bad too, I'm thinking it was something with moving/new house/mortgage...
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OriginalGriff wrote: 4) It emails you a new password so you can log in,
Preferably without changing your current password until you use the new one. No password DoS, please! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Maybe it is better to really read the messages before complaining 
Just saying...
enum HumanBool { Yes, No, Maybe, Perhaps, Probably, ProbablyNot, MostLikely, MostUnlikely, HellYes, HellNo, Wtf }
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