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Tomorrow, I am slated to have my current laptop switched out with a new one. It will have a 'standard' image meaning no development tools; I will have to reinstall them myself.
We have been told that the contents of our 'My Documents' folder has been replicated to the network and will be available.
Being as trusting as I am, I am diligently copying said folders to a network share for insurance and running a scan of all installed applications to use as a check list for reinstall.
Upon receipt of the new equipment, the old will be wisked away to be recycled.
What is your procedure when receiving new equipment?
Tim
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1) Check for the presence of a growing virus threat: if the Win8 virus is detected, the HDD should be reformatted immediately...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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If the unit has died, I take out the HDD and use a cable to get all data I need off of the drive. If the drive is in good condition, I will put it in a housing and use it as an external drive.
If the unit is good, I just boot it and copy things to an external drive.
I usually keep old desktop towers to install Linux on for use as file servers (I have one that seems to have a graphics card issue, so I cannot really do anything with it right now, because I cannot see the installer. I have another identical tower with no HDD [I put it in the now non-functional tower] but with a hopefully working graphics card. I just have been too lazy to actually get around to working on it)
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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Make a list of installed software.
Put both on the network and while continuing with the old one I starting to install main development tools.
When all the big players on there places I switch computers. Every time I bump into a missing peace I install it.
After 2 weeks I can drop the old computer...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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At work, plug it in next to my main computer so that I can keep working at about 80% on my old computer for the several days that my new one just needs an occasional click of the next button to keep the installers chugging away. Then after the installs, initial code downloads from source control, etc are all done the two swap places for a few weeks until I'm sure I've gotten everything I need off the old one and that it's safe to send in for a wipe. The last time I did it, the thing I discovered was missing a few weeks after the switchover was my GPG private key. Not having it wouldn't've been a disaster; but losing access to a few of the things I encrypted with it would've been a pain. (Although scrapping all the irRational failware apps that weren't allowed to be configured to use LDAP authentication instead of local login databases has made it much less of an issue than it used to be.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Tim Carmichael wrote:
What is your procedure when receiving new equipment?
Drop coffee on it!! 
normally, install approved development tools and a couple of different software that I paid for personally.
I'd rather be phishing!
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I don't bother reinstalling everything I had installed. I just install VS, Chrome and Firefox, and after... I just start using it until I find something is missing and I just install it when I need it. Too much time spent reinstalling... I can't be arsed losing my time with corporate laptops "standard" image...
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From science fiction to science fact, or just plain delusional?
The US Army is working to develop "revolutionary" smart armour that would give its troops "superhuman strength".
It is calling on the technology industry, government labs and academia to help build the Iron Man-style suit. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24474336[^]
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They've been talking about stuff like that for ages now. Just do it.
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Me think we are still at least a decade away in material science for a practical, light and resistant material that can be easily worn by soldiers.
Gregory.Gadow wrote: It is calling on the technology industry, government labs and academia
Nothing is better than the National Military-Industrial Complex.
I'd rather be phishing!
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If you have the ability to build that why not just build robots and then wars can just be a battle between robots and no need for killing anyone.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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RyanDev wrote: wars can just be a battle between robots and no need for killing anyone
Would you allow some enemy to take over your country just because your robots lost a war? I don't think so.....
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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If Robots invaded my country and destroyed everything would I have a choice?
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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What I mean is that the use of force will always ultimately come down to people shooting at each other.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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But isn't that the point of robots? I'll drive my robot around looking for you until I find you and then shoot you. All while in my pjs eating hot pockets. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Oh I see.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I think it's because robots are not quite there yet!
But they do use robots already as much as they can. There are drones, gear carrying mules, deminers, probably more I dunno about!!
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if you remove the human cost and suffering from wars you will make them the default action rather than the last resort
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Do you mean US sending robots everywhere to obliterate insurgents who barely have a clean bathroom to take a dump in?
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That'll be useful for all that hand to hand combat you get in modern warfare.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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It reminds me of the Star Trek episode where after millenniums of war, two conflicting countries' war evolved to where battles are entirely done by computer.
Every day a missile would be sent to a random position in your country from the enemy's computers, and your computers would fire one back. Anyone in the kill zones must report to the disintegrators or real missiles will be used after the set time for death has been concluded.
That way, you don't lose any of the culture or precious artifacts you have laying around (as the computers don't require changes to property).
And you can keep your dignity by killing people , but being civilised about it! Blood splatters are uncivilised!
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Good summary of the episode (A Taste of Armegeddon). Of course the "moral" of the story was that these people had made war so sanitized and logical that they had removed the element of fear from the equation. In a supreme example of violating the non-interference principle Kirk destroys the computer and re-introduces fear by the imminent threat of real missles being used, thus finally resolving the centuries-old war.
Fear... so under-valued.
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Looks pretty cool and it probably won't be long before they have a working prototype.
I hope they don't outsource the communications;
soldier: sh*t is hitting the fan I need help quick
help desk: this is nnnn I am here to assist you, could you give me your ID to confirm your identity?
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I wonder where they are going to shove the micro pile required to power the bloody thing! Bateries ain't that good yet.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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