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Hungary chose me. I moved there with work nearly 20 years ago, I am married to a very beautiful Hungarian lady and we have two gorgeous girls. Our home is there and when we retire that is where we intend to live.
So it was a bit of a no brainer to take citizenship in the country that is my home.
veni bibi saltavi
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Home is where the heart is, eh? Good choice! 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Happy Saint-Jean-Batiste [^] (or Fête Nationale du Québec) to y'all. (irony to put the english version instead of the french version).
Anyway,
Bonne Saint-Jean to everyone.
(and it's sunny, and it's a day off!)
M.
I'd rather be phishing!
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enjoy it 
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Ah, ces Quebecois fous! The poor old Baptist must be spinning in his grave!
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IE 11 is doing a lot of 'waiting for xxxxx' this week, is anyone else seeing this?
I wonder if its to do with the bolus of updates it was forced to swallow recently, but the Telegraph, Hotmail, Fox, all sorts of pages just aren't displaying.
edit
Got fed up so I rebooted. Its back to normal now.
Good old Microsoft eh? What a joke.
modified 24-Jun-15 8:54am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: IE
Well, there's your problem! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Corporately, we were moved to IE 11 last week; so far, not so bad.
As a developer, I can also use Chrome.
But more to the point...
We have a 3rd party browser based application in SharePoint that uses Abode SVG viewer. Yes, not good on all fronts.
After the IE 11 push, the SVG viewer won't load (or isn't registered? not sure which). The 'fix' has been to uninstall/reinstall the SVG viewer. As an admin, I can; regulary abusers can't.
Has anyone else seen this or have any ideas?
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Why would you need a plugin? IE9+ supports SVG natively[^], with the caveat that you might need to use a workaround[^] to make it scale properly.
"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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Thank you.. interesting.. it is a 3rd party product, so I'm not sure how they are implementing the graphics. But, I'll relay that information (the person who works on it sits next to me).
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Well the bits only went to grab a byte, when they come back it should be quicker.
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You shouldn't be visiting xxxxx sites, then.
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My IE11 started misbehaving last week...constant freezing for up to two or three minutes at a time. I made Chrome the default browser and carried on. My only complaint about Chrome is that I can't seem to find the 'home' button/link. Getting back to a search window means closing then re-opening the tab...or maybe I'm blind!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Yeah, chrome and firefox wont run on our systems though.
Stil, rebooting the pc seems to have fixed it. It had ben no for days and days. Typical MSFT.
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kmoorevs wrote: My only complaint about Chrome is that I can't seem to find the 'home' button/link.
There is a check-box in the Appearance category of Settings to enable a "Home" button on the toolbar. However you really don't need to return anywhere to search. Just search from the URL box.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Thanks! Just what I was looking for!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Hi Guys,
I've been tasked with identifying a potential outsourcing partner for my current company (Not getting into whether I agree with outsourcing!) - I've got a couple of leads (Geeks, Chettu), but I thought I'd see if any of you guys have had any good experiences with UK based outsourcers. Not wedded to the it being UK (that's more for my management simplicity - timezones and all that jazz), so if there's a good overseas one, please do let me know.
Also interested in "Don't for god's sake use these guys because...." comments!
Cheers all!
C# has already designed away most of the tedium of C++.
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I have worked with Cap Gemini[^] in the past - and it was OK.
However as with all outsourcing you need good managers on your side or the whole thing will go a bit    
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Oh yeah - been there, done that. We have an Indian office and they struggle to take responsibility and require constant supervision....
The only ones that trump this is our dealings with a Russian group. They had a constant time estimation:
Us:
How long will 'xxxxxx' take?
Them:
That be big change...um...two weeks.
or:
Not sure...um...two weeks.
Any change was two weeks....how that works I don't know
This all led us to use the phrase:
From Russia, with Bugs
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RichardGrimmer wrote: Not getting into whether I agree with outsourcing!
Er ... your slip's showing so I kinda think you just did!
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You need to define what you are outsourcing, hardware and infrastructure and/or software support and/or development etc. If you are outsourcing the lot then you have my sincerest sympathies. I work for an org that did that in the 90s, they lost their IP and competitive edge and have spent the last decade getting it back!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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You won't be doing agile with an outsourced team. It's not compatible, so don't even try. Although the team may do agile internally that's their business and not your direct concern. Always be very clear on:
1) What (Requirements)
2) How (Project Plan/Resource management)
3) When (Deadlines)
Even though the team may bitch and moan about it, insist on strong documentation especially for interfaces between sub-systems and external systems. On the other hand, don't bitch about late deliverables or things not working correctly at the end of a phone. Do it in person and do it as much as necessary; even if you have to live in their office for a while to get things back on track i.e. don't let a bad situation drift for the sake of a trip on an aeroplane or train.
Make sure you have a very strong testing function in-house to verify the deliverables. Do not rely on any third parties for this. Get official hand-over and on-going maintenance back in-house sooner rather than later. That's when you find out just how wrong the solution really is and, all too often, lengthy bug fixing cycles are used as an excuse for not delivering.
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You need to impose frequent releases every iteration of your project. Every 1-2 weeks on Friday, they shorten feedback loops--you learn what you did right, what you did wrong, and what should be changed sooner--so you can act on this feedback improving further work faster
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