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As a last resort to restoring a customer database backup, I bought the sql 2014 developer edition. First installation on a 32-bit workstation failed. Second try is right on the home-office server and is pending...which is the reason for the post. MS product installers seem to be getting bigger and slower. The first install took about 40 minutes to fail, and the second is at about 20 minutes and counting...it has been an afternoon of watching progress bars and failures. 
Update: So the 64 bit installation on the server is moving at a snail's pace...so slow that I am tempted to just kill it...around 60 minutes into it now. Yawn. The title of the post made me chuckle as it reminded me of my brother-in-law butchering the Queen song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' while traveling through the beautiful vastness of southern Colorado. He fancies himself quite the singer/entertainer, so for your entertainment, a new version of an old classic. Only the misquotes will be provided, I think you know the rest!
'Sitting where the wind blows...'
'Miss Miller! We will not let you go...'
'The algebra has the devil put aside for me...'
I'm bored... 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 16-Jul-14 21:40pm.
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Not that it's going to help you in anyway, but the install went pretty smoothly on my new PC!
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"sparing his life for his pork sausages" was another mis-heard line
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Mine installed fairly fast but it was to an SSD on my Windows 7, i7 Quad core, 16GB machine.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I just reviewed the logs and the installation took about 90 minutes to complete. There were quite a few instances where it would appear to hang, showing no progress for up to 15 minutes at a time...long enough that I considered cancelling. This was on Server 2008R2, quad core phenom @ 3.2GHz, 8 GB, with SSD. Sadly, it was all for naught, as this version also refuses to restore any of the three backup files my client has provided...each one has different error messages! It may be time to let this go for a bit.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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A question on Amazon regarding a gaming chair:
"Can this chair be used comfortably while its on a bed instead of on the floor?"
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Hey, you know, there is lots of people who only can afford a small bedroom with barely enough space for a table and a bed, you know! 
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Super Lloyd wrote: enough space for a table and a bed
Did I miss something? I thought this is only about a gaming chair? 
Don't mind those people who say you're not HOT. At least you know you're COOL.
I'm not afraid of falling, I'm afraid of the sudden stop at the end of the fall! - Richard Andrew x64
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Well, when the the room is filled with the computer table and the bed...
Where do you put the chair? 
On the bed! 
Arguably, at this stage, you might be better of without chair though!
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or they can afford only the space on top of the bed
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: "Can this chair be used comfortably while its on a bed instead of on the floor?"
What have you tried?
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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pwasser wrote: What have you tried?
Well, I tried using it while it on the floor. Then, I managed to disassemble it completely, moved the parts on the bed, assembled them over there (not to mention, into a chair  ) and tried using it again. But I am not getting that "comfort" which I was getting while using it on the floor. Hence the question..
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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This is by design. The documentation omits to mention this point.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Ah I see, it was manufactured by M!cro$oft, sorry to try reporting it as a bug, did not know it was a feature. 
Whether I think I can, or think I can't, I am always bloody right!
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I was doing some "installing VS on a new VM, so I have way too much time to kill" Wikipedia browsing, and came across this tidbit:
November 3, 1962 – The earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer" features in The New York Times in a story about John Mauchly's speech the day before to the American Institute of Industrial Engineers. Mauchly, "inventor of some of the original room-size computers", says that "in a decade or so" everyone would have their own computer with "exchangeable wafer-thin data storage files to provide inexhaustible memories and answer most problems". He is quoted as saying, "There is no reason to suppose the average boy or girl cannot be master of a personal computer.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: be master of a personal computer
Ummm... who's supposed to be the master? 'Cause it ain't us.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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I can remember a time when companies and their 'visions' barely existed and the clueless masses with their preferences for toys did not dictate what those companies tried to sell us.
Companies, employers and the clueless masses all have no interest in anybody being more a master than they are and decades of dumbing down have produced the current situation. Just take the overwelming 'productivity' we enjoy today thanks to Mickeysoft and all the others. As if we did not get anything done 30 years ago when we had not yet to keep up with endless frameworks with a new version every two years. There really was a time when productivity meant that you knew your hardware, your OS and whatever programming language you used (not a new one every two minutes) and got things done.
And the worst crime was to make everyone think that they have no chance to be come something like a master.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
I hold an A-7 computer expert classification, Commodore. I'm well acquainted with Dr. Daystrom's theories and discoveries. The basic design of all our ship's computers are JavaScript.
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Does 'built-in obsolescence' describe it?
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Ummm... who's supposed to be the master? 'Cause it ain't us.
Speak for yourself, my rig is dubbed Mister Slave 
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Wow! That's prescient!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Wow! That's prescient!
Well, sort of. It's about a decade too fast. Considering how often predictions are totally off, it was a really good prediction. If enough people had believed him, the timeline might have been spot on too. Of course, Microsoft would probably have remained small potatoes too. The real timeline worked out well for Gates.
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So, the 7" Dell Venue tablet comes with Android 4.2. Specs aren't exactly out of this world, but it goes for $150 (for the 16GB model). Probably less if you look around.
Given that this is running an x86-compatible Intel CPU (an Atom Z2560 to be exact), could one not run some version of Windows on this hardware?
I realize the Dell Venue is also available with Windows 8.x, but it goes for an additional $100 or so.
I'm merely curious what would happen if you 'burned' a Windows ISO on a MicroSD card and tried to boot from it. Surely it wouldn't be that simple...
(The only thing I know about what the process what might look like is what I remember from installing Cyanogenmod on another tablet a few years back)
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I don't think it would work too well - you would be lacking all the drivers so I suspect it wouldn't even boot straight away.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Why? 
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