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I am based in the UK and normally work at home.
Last November I had an urgent request to go in to the office to set up an industrial PC that was to be shipped out to a customer in the Netherlands. I went in for two or three days to complete the setup. I emailed those concerned to let them know it was ready and left it on the table in the office, labelled with the appropriate contract number.
It stayed there until last week. At that point I was asked to travel to the customer site this week to do the installation and other updates to the machine of which the PC is a part. I reminded them that the PC hadn't yet been shipped and told them (again) where it was. They promised to ship it so that it would arrive before me.
I got here to the Netherlands to find that some fool back in the UK had shipped the wrong PC - a brand new one with no setup at all. Since I had a very tight deadline I began setting up the new one and at the same time demanded they ship the HDD from the correct PC overnight. The HDD arrived a day and a half later, by which time I had already completed and updated the new setup, so I decided not to use the shipped HDD. The newly set up PC was working perfectly.
I came in this morning to do some final checks before heading to the airport to find the new PC reporting a SMART failure on its HDD and refusing to run! What a good job I had a spare HDD (although, of course, I wouldn't have needed a spare if they had shipped the correct PC in the first place).
So now I've spent a happy time recovering updated files from the failed HDD to get back to where we were last night. 
Phil
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don't they have SSD's normally?
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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Yes, some do, but not this particular model (a retrofit to an older machine).
Phil
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Older Machine, Industrial PC, < Shiver > CMP <'/' Shiver >
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If it was easy they wouldn't have to pay me to do it. 
Phil
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It seems like St. Murphy was at work. Nearly everything that could have possibly gone wrong did.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Are we the people that you moaned to or did you give someone local a bit of verbal? 
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Let's just say that you weren't the first (or the only) people who got to hear about it.
Phil
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 well done!
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Phil, I feel your pain. We go through that crap all the time, since we use industrial PC's to control our systems. One of my roles as the DSJB(*) is Creator-Of-Windows-10-Images, where I get to go through all the cumbersome claptrap required to create an image ready for installation on new hardware. It typically takes anywhere from a couple days to a week, depending upon how much work it takes to locate motherboard drivers, etc.
(*) Departmental Shït-Job Boy
Software Zen: delete this;
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That you're not allowed flying near airports is obvious.
But I noticed that in Germany you by law need to have an insurance that is, also by law, not possible to get for nonresidents.
What's the rules in your country?
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Just one simple international rule... don't get caught!
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That is a very generic rule that is not just applicable to drones.
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And if you do, just say "No Comment" to everything they ask. 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Every country should have its own version of the 5th amendment... 
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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Is that the one about arming bears?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No it's the one where you have the right to remain silly! 
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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Here - beside the airport - you have to keep away (at lest 250 m) from any building or person, over and around...
You can not fly higher than 50 m...
You can not fly commercially without license...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Over here you can't fly within a 10 km radius of airports and you can't put them up in the air above 300 ft.
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After the Gatwick and Heathrow shutdowns after some F'Wit was deliberately flying his drone(s) over runways, they are pretty restrictive in the UK:
You may not fly above 120m.
You may not fly within a radius of 2.5 miles from an airport at all, or anywhere near the approach lanes: Airfield restrictions - Dronesafe[^]
Assume it will get more restrictive, not less - I suspect that drones will be licenced and heavily restricted soon, once governments catch on to where you can get a drone, and what you can carry / drop with one. Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away? Once they work that one out, they'll be effectively banned worldwide.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff: Anyone want to bet a drone could drop a grenade on a politician from a KM away?
Funny you should mention that, some years ago authorities prevented a similar attack where drones were carrying explosives with remote detonation and built-in timers. Thankfully they caught the guys responsible before the drones took off.
After that they added some severe restrictions, even media centers are not allowed to use them for aerial pictures anymore.
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That's approximately the same as in Sweden.
It was quite a bit tougher after your F'wit, but now they're coming to some normalization it seems
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Don't call my T-Rex a drone ever again! It hears very well and would be rightfully insulted because that's very much like calling your horse a donkey.
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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Rule No:1 in Germany.
Don't fly close to a T-Rex. 
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