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lopatir wrote: and being paranoid I always do double backups (and an internal mirror)
One man's paranoia is another man's standard procedure.
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Going back to my infancy as a Computer users, my oldest backups (I've still got them!) were paper tapes punched at 10 bytes (characters) per second. But let's forget those days...
My oldest file storage were 360 Kbyte floppies. A few years later, that was multiplied by a factor of 100: My first PC disk could hold 40 Mbytes. Another few years, I had started editing digital video, and bought an enormous disk 1000 times as big, 40 GBytes. Today, my video archive fills disks 100 times bigger, 4 Tbytes (and I have got four of those).
The unit size of my file storage has increased by a factor of ten million from the floppy days. Even if we limit it to hard disks, there is a factor of 100,000. I don't remember how long it took to back up my first 40 MByte hard disk. But at the same transfer speed, backing up my 4 TByte disk would have taken as many days as the 40 MByte required seconds. (A day is 86,400 seconds.) Fortunately, interface speeds have increased, but not by a factor of 100,000!
We tend to forget that going from mega to giga, or from giga to tera, isn't just "one higher". It isn't even "one magnitude higher". It is three magnitudes higher, a factor of a thousand.
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![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
Already got a gaming computer, a RAM upgrade (32G) and a Weighted Blanket (which actually helps me sleep).
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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No point in my getting a weighted blanket - Herself would still roll it around her like a sausage roll duvet.
And then complain that the weights "were uncomfortable" 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have dog that thinks she's a weighted blanket, doesn't help me or the missus sleep though.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Perhaps it's best to let sleeping dogs lie? Although I think it's time they learned to tell the truth.
/ravi
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Perhaps!  Quote: let sleeping dogs lie
Now I have to listen to the MSG album[^] on the way home tonight.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Hmm, am not familiar with them. Perhaps I should be... gonna look for them on YouTube. Thought I have to rehearse some James Taylor and CSN for a solo gig tomorrow.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: James Taylor and CSN for a solo gig tomorrow.
Nice, hope it goes well!
I'm a big Michael Schenker fan from way back, love his sound.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: a Weighted Blanket (which actually helps me sleep
Did you meet her on-line ?
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Well, Dam!
Okay it's Saturday and no ones around and I'm bored
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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I once met a nice lady with big jugs.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: I once met a nice lady with big jugs.
"Holding water". Ok, I'll give you the benefit of doubt. I'm sure you meant, literally, jugs. Who am I to guess your intent...
I still remember an episode of Married with Children where Al Bundy's mother-in-law commented that she isn't fat, she's just "retaining water"...to which Al responded, "so does the Pacific ocean". 
Nobody would dare make a sitcom like that these days...
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Or an ad like this: Does my bum ...[^] 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I have no idea what the guy said...neither does Youtube's automated closed captioning, it seems. I did kinda get the intent with the CC's "focus off your face"...which I can sorta hear...but not the rest of it.
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"Does my bum look big in this?"
"Yeah - but at least it takes the focus off yer face."
And that's when the fight started.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Amazing what difference seeing it written out makes. I can clearly hear it now. (and no, it wasn't a question of volume - now matter how loud I played it back, I couldn't make out the individual words)
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I spent a lot of time in London bars back in the 80s / 90s.
If you couldn't understand an Aussie accent in a crowded bar then you stayed thirsty ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You could put water in d cups.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not bad pale face
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I was clumsy, and while doing some lock picking practice I let go of the wiper tensioner, and it went "ping!" nad flew off under my desk.
Can I see it? Nope, it's there somewhere, but so are a load of cables. And I just know that if I go rummaging through cables too much, something is going to get a sudden power down ... so I'll shut it all down first. Tools ... NAS ... Login ... Admin. Oo! The CPU is a bit warm @65C and 1200RPM on the fan, I'll have a look at that as well.
Start shifting stuff and the tensioner drops into view. Great. Now, let's see to the NAS.
That's easy to say, harder to do as it appears to be a big ball of dust and cat fur ... Hoover time!
Unplug, dismantle, hoover, reassemble.
Start everything up again, and the temperature is dropping nicely - 57C and the fan is down to 900RPM - much better.
So the moral of this story is: dunno. Chuck a tensioner under your desk from time to time, it helps your hardware last longer? 
Out of interest, how's your PC for dust and general debris?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Blew it out a couple of months ago. No pets so no hair worries, just dust.
A checkup Do/Due soon1
Technician
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Debugging a smallish web app was really painful taking up to a minute to build/spin up upon any little change. 
