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Forogar wrote: Flock of Geese
Wouldn't that be a gaggle or skein of geese.
But I never wave bye bye
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You are the Winner! The first person to spot my deliberate error. No-one else noticed.
As a prize you may take the title of "Collective Noun Person of the Week" with all rights and privileges therein encompassed.
Note: This title renews every Saturday so make the most of it.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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A moneysuck of politicians
ex "Today, on capital hill, a moneysuck of politicians passed a new spending bill ..."
Money makes the world go round ... but documentation moves the money.
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I would have thought a conspiracy of politicians would be an obvious choice.
These things are called terms of venery.
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I think the dictionaries have got there first: A lie, an odium or an equivocation of politicians. I'm happy with any of those.
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Hi All,
Had an interesting issue a piece of simulation software of our design, used to simulate products we have to interface to which are too big, expensive, heavy to use a real one of in dev. I had sent a message the sim, it hadn't picked it up while the Web mimic said it was displaying the sign wasn't.
This is not the first time I have seen this issue the first time when a member of the dev team came to see it. I obediently followed the steps that led to the fail and it didn't, so now I look even more like the Lemon they think I am...
Bad Words
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Quote: I wonder how
I wonder why
Yesterday you told me 'bout the blue blue sky
And all that I can see is just a yellow lemon tree
I'm turnin' my head up and down
I'm turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin', turnin' around
And all that I can see is just another lemon tree
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Are you quoting song lyrics?
modified 29-Aug-19 10:35am.
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Nope. Never heard it before in my life.
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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Well, then it must be a Dutch thing I think, we Dutch have many thingies that you don't have
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I did some research and it turns out this song was a major hit in the following countries:
Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. But strangely enough not in the Netherlands.
Lemon Tree (Fool's Garden song) - Wikipedia[^]
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... can sometimes still be entertaining[^]. I needed something to laugh after enduring Mickeysoft's update terror here at work.
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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I have a elephenting cracked rib and that hurt. Quit it. 
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I'm sure the poor man will never hear the end of this.
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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Quote: Well, they'll stone you when you're trying to be so good
They'll stone you just like they said they would
They'll stone you when you're trying to go home
And they'll stone you when you're there all alone
But I would not feel so all alone
Everybody must get stoned
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If you want to do this, the install files require almost 50GB of drive space. Even when compressed (with 7ZIP), the files required FIVE 8gb DVDs!
It seems to me that they're trying to cram 10 pounds of crap into a 5-pound sock. I think it would be more convenient if they created an ISO for the basic Visual Studio, and created additional ISOs for all the crap that not everybody needs, such as game dev, .net core, and cloud dev. There are better ways to distribute this app.
Of course, that's just me.
".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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The voice of reason speaking
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hah, I downloaded everything for the vs2019 offline install
even though it did install from the offline files it refused to start the install unless there was an internet connection.
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That's only for the community edition I think.
We installed 2019/MSDN yesterday, and it did not require an internet connection.
".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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Just be thankful it's not still distributed on floppy disks.
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I had a good bitch about this when I first downloaded it, not least because it's several thousand files with no indication of how to split them up onto DVDs.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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We tried 7-Zip to compress and put them on DVD's but we had problems (probably the cheap media we used). We decided it was probably better to get a thumb drive or cheap 64gb SSD and put the files uncompressed onto it.
".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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That's what we ended up with. We figured it was safer to install from a thumb drive than risk getting 98% of the way through and have the installer fail because it couldn't find a file that was on the first DVD.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You've just struck a nerve with this one.
Traditionally, I've always kept installers on my NAS, ready to go at a moment's notice, so I don't have to take the time to find and download something when I need it. If MS pushed out a service pack or a patch for VS, or a newer ISO, I'd get that and leave it sitting on my NAS.
But starting with VS 2017, downloading the latest of "everything" means periodically downloading a few tens of GBs, and then purging whatever files have been replaced. I've found .zip files to be rather impractical to keep everything together (just way too slow), so I've been maintaining a VHD file, acting as a simple file container, just because I don't like to have tens of thousands of small files on my system. Among other things, it keeps the scanning time to a minimum when my anti-virus decides it needs to do a full-disk scan.
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