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Mike Hankey4-Oct-18 6:34

Mike Hankey

4-Oct-18 6:34

Was a shovel a way to cover it up?

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PIEBALDconsult4-Oct-18 6:42

PIEBALDconsult

4-Oct-18 6:42

It occurs to me that a spade is a lot like a stick and it's used to shift dirt, so why not call it a stick shift?

RickZeeland4-Oct-18 7:15

RickZeeland

4-Oct-18 7:15

Quote:
There'll be buckets, spades and bingo,
Cockles, mussels, rainy days,
Seaweed and sand castles, icy waves,
Deck chairs, rubber dinghies,
Old vests, braces dangling down,
A suntanned stranded starfish in a daze.

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Marc Clifton4-Oct-18 8:49

Marc Clifton

4-Oct-18 8:49

You're a diamon in the rough.

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Ravi Bhavnani4-Oct-18 16:14

Ravi Bhavnani

4-Oct-18 16:14

Boy, you really got the dirt on that, didn't you!

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W∴ Balboos, GHB5-Oct-18 1:27

5-Oct-18 1:27

Actually, he was just shoveling it, as usual.

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Roll Back

W∴ Balboos, GHB4-Oct-18 3:13

4-Oct-18 3:13

Skipping the reason why, I gave the server-guy at our place an Admin account on my box to fix a really weird problem w.r.t. server access/recognition. No problem with that - it was fixed in a day or so.

Unfortunately, his account was a new instance and when he opened FireFox it did an update, updating all (only one instance on machine). Suddenly I went from Ver.56 to Ver 62. I lost three add-ons. They changed the interface and didn't care to maintain backward compatibility.

Well - one of them, FireFTP, I was sort of preparing for and had a configured FileZilla ready to roll. The other items, including Better Privacy, really didn't have an adequate replacement. OK - I thought I'd just adapt and get use to the new version. Besides, it's a better match to what the company's VM was serving to users.

Man - that thing really sucked. A good deal of yesterday was spent fighting with it. Privacy settings didn't let me manage cookies - and even when I logged off (yahoo, for example), suddenly it knew who I was - and the storage manager they have? It opened in their debugger and was basically useless. Consider hours were eaten up trying to make this thing usable (and maintain privacy). As they say - screw it.

I had two options at hand: (1) roll back to ver 56 if I can, or (2) change to WaterFox.
Fortunately, despite much discouragement on the part of Mozilla, I did finally get a download of Ver 56. It restored two of the plugins. FireFTP, which had apparently been wipe (not showing in the plugin/addons) had to be downloaded from the author's site. Joyfully, my configurations still lived on.

So, it seems Mozilla is where those genius' that ask us to do their homework, via Q&A, have found a suitable work environment.

It may be time for me to go shopping[^].

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

raddevus4-Oct-18 4:41

raddevus

4-Oct-18 4:41

I really like the Einstein quote that you have on sig line. However, I always wonder if Einstein said some of the things he said so I googled it:

The Difference Between Stupidity and Genius Is That Genius Has Its Limits – Quote Investigator[^]
It's a real site and I scanned it via VirusTotal[^]. Smile | :)

Hopefully you'll find the info about the quote interesting.

W∴ Balboos, GHB4-Oct-18 4:58

4-Oct-18 4:58

This quote covers all the rest, from Kohelet (i.e., King Solomon):

"Anything that can be done has been done;
anything that can be said has been said;
and there's nothing new under the sun."

Thing of it as a container object.

I have some quotes of my own - yet, unsurprisingly, some of them have been around for centuries.

To find: Google "Balboos" and then pick "BALBOOS' Contemplations & Such" (usually on top). Some will be dull; others will not. To quote yet another famous author: "What Me Worry?"

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

raddevus4-Oct-18 5:10

raddevus

4-Oct-18 5:10

W∴ Balboos wrote:
there's nothing new under the sun

I agree. Just find it interesting how phrases enter the common knowledge. Smile | :)

OriginalGriff4-Oct-18 4:58

4-Oct-18 4:58

I was tempted to have an Abraham Lincoln quote[^]

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raddevus4-Oct-18 5:11

raddevus

4-Oct-18 5:11

That's a good one!
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abmv5-Oct-18 0:55

abmv

5-Oct-18 0:55

u can run 56 from another folder C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox56 after you download and install it.

Caveat Emptor.

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W∴ Balboos, GHB5-Oct-18 1:23

5-Oct-18 1:23

I, for the present, have no interest in keeping a version beyond 56 - I don't see it giving me anything but hassles. Perhaps a continuation of the cell-phone mentality. "Don't Worry - Be Happy".

Much akin to who heavy users of the accursed devices forget that there are real words, punctuation and capitalization conventions so as to enable prose written by one are readable by another.

For home, I'm considering Konquerer.

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"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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Pete O'Hanlon4-Oct-18 2:53

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Oct-18 2:53

Oxygenation

I thought this one was an easy one. Obviously I was wrong.

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OriginalGriff4-Oct-18 3:12

4-Oct-18 3:12

I was nowhere.

Bull,                  OX
it's the alternative     Y (instead of X?)
millenials                GEN
who are located              AT
at the net charge,             ION

supporting the environment

Nope, I had "OR" for the alternative, but that was my lot!

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Pete O'Hanlon4-Oct-18 3:17

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Oct-18 3:17

Millenials are sometimes known as Gen Y. I switched around (made it the alternative) of Y Gen.

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OriginalGriff4-Oct-18 3:27

4-Oct-18 3:27

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Millenials are sometimes known as Gen Y won't U do it 4 me?

FTFY!

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Pete O'Hanlon4-Oct-18 4:35

Pete O'Hanlon

4-Oct-18 4:35

I suppose I could have put "entitled brats" in the clue.

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OriginalGriff4-Oct-18 4:55

4-Oct-18 4:55

Nah - we'd all have been trying to fit "QA" in there ... Laugh | :laugh:

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Nameless

Eddy Vluggen4-Oct-18 2:22

Eddy Vluggen

4-Oct-18 2:22

Lots of posts in the forums are suddenly nameless; a group of people decided that they do not even want to use an alias. Some teacher probably explained that their dumb questions could be traced back to them in the future, and to avoid using a name.

How do you adres someone who has no name? Should the board allow it?

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lopatir4-Oct-18 2:44

lopatir

4-Oct-18 2:44

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
Some teacher probably explained that their dumb questions could be traced back to them in the future, and to avoid using a name.

Ask them what [useless] school they go to...
I mean a good teacher should explain to them to use a search engine and never ask dumb questions.

... and what happens when us knowledgeable and wise old folk pass on and the only ones left are the always-ask-never-search generations???
(I guess there's AI - but if AI becomes really smart surely it too will get sick of them idiots and respond with "RTFM you dumbass".)

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Peter_in_27804-Oct-18 2:51

Peter_in_2780

4-Oct-18 2:51

See this thread in bugs'n'sugs[^]

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Eddy Vluggen4-Oct-18 3:15

Eddy Vluggen

4-Oct-18 3:15

Thanks for the link, missed that Smile | :)

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