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... I'm fed up with them as well[^]
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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If there is one thing the EU (and its subservient governments) is really good at, it is creating laws to generate hot air and waste.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: to generate hot air
Ah ha! We found the culprit for global warming. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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The Doctor needed cuts (7)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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modified 5-Sep-18 7:56am.
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Sounds like a perfect description of "Trial of a Timelord" but that's more than 7 letters ...
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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I say nothiiiiing!
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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She whispered: "They're right behind you!" 
Sorry about that, but it's so quiet in here, and our new friend seems to be temporarily constipated...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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He's probably busy having his nappy changed.
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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 know that you are stalking the Lounge with jokes...
but that doesn't make me paranoid!
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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I asked the librarian if they have any books on dealing with rejection without killing.
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She said it rang a bell but she wasn't sure if it was there or not.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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...But it seemed to have disappeared... 
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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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Librarian: Why did you ask that? Who told you we did?
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I asked the librarian if they had any books about Fight Club...
She looked at me very angrily and said: Remember the First Rule!! 
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Did she have a black eye?
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Yeah, in my experience, DR is something that companies talk about, investigate, and prototype endlessly. I've never seen any company actually implement it fully. The only exception being a couple of telecoms I worked for who did it for some of their backend systems. They came closest, but even they had gaps.
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Work for a bank, alright a BIG bank, fully implemented AND tested, they used to pull the plug on the production environment and switch to DR an irregular intervals. Hardware suppliers love them, however they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Mycroft Holmes wrote: they recently moved everything to virtual servers and DR seem to have been eliminated (I have no idea how or why and really don't care) .
Multi-region perhaps?
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Yeah, I've seen telecoms do similar testing and still fail in the real world. In those cases, it tended to be some overlooked component of the overall infrastructure. Back then, the telecoms owned everything up to and including the last mile, so they owned the entire problem.
The trend nowadays (sounds like maybe with banks too) is about shifting liability...failure is always an option as long as you have someone else to blame! 
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Whoa. Total disconnect - when I see 'DR' I (internally) read Dominican Republic, since my wife is from there. 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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That's OK. I see Digital Research, since I ran DR-DOS as long as I could.
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What are your thoughts on this?
Over the years I have usually upgraded my hardware to the latest, greatest thing - once the initial price premium has eased off a bit. But now...
I have a laptop that is seven years old. It has an i7, 8GB of memory and a 500GB SSD (only three years old). It runs Windows 7 Pro with some VMs of DOS, Windows XP, and Linux just for fun. It has a 17", 1920 by 1080 screen, a touch-pad (which I rarely use) and a pointing stick I use quite a lot. It also supports two external screens, a keyboard and mouse - has sound, re-writable CD/DVD, card readers, USBs and all the usual paraphernalia.
There is a brighter area in the bottom right corner of the screen - only noticeable when the screen is dark - and the case is cracked slightly at one corner where I dropped a laser printer on it once. otherwise pretty much "as new".
Just about everything I want to do, it does and does well or, at least, quite well. I started a new job recently and the brand new laptop they provided me with is only an i5 and a 250MB SSD - most of the other bits are pretty much the same except it runs Windows 10.
My 7-year old laptop at home outperforms it and shows no sign of quitting any time soon.
Unless it does actually quit why would I consider "upgrading" it?
Computers these days are not quantum leaps better than last year's model as they were a few years back; they are, at best, a little bit better, maybe.
Have we come to a watershed where only the software really matters and the hardware is stagnated, not worth the (huge) effort to change to the latest version (I avoid the word "upgrade" here as it doesn't seem appropriate anymore)?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
modified 4-Sep-18 15:18pm.
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If it's not broken, don't fix it
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: If it's not broken, don't fix it
Ummm...
Kevin Marois wrote: If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Ah.
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Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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