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I really have no desire to write code for Linux. I have a Windows VM I'll use for VS2017, but that's it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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My point exactly. "Being able to fix it yourself because it's open source" isn't a selling feature for any software, IMO. As far as I'm concerned, it seems to absolve the author of any responsibility if he decides to disagree with what you think it should do or how it should operate.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Depending on the KVM switch you're using, this could become a problem because the monitor might not be turned on when you switch back to the machine after the monitor has been turned off by the OS.
You can also ssh into the remote machine and have the application display on the monitor for the current machine...no kvm necessary. A command shell login is what you get by default, but add a -XY as the first parameter and it will open xwindows and show the graphics from the remote machine on your current machine.
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If I had known it was going to corrupt the superblock, I would have looked for that kind of solution, but I'm kind new at this Linux thing.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So I'm at this web shop and they have a product which is expected on "30-11--0001" (for Americans, that's the logical order of day-month--year).
That's a pretty weird date, I'd expect 01-01-0001 or 01-01-1970 or even 01-01-1753 (the SQL min value), but never 30-11...
The extra dash between the month and the year bothers me too, that's not a standard notation anywhere as far as I know.
The best part though, is that I can pre-order the product, so apparently 30-11--0001 is a date in the future!
And to make it worse, it's a best selling product, so they've already sold plenty.
I can only draw one conclusion from all of this: this web shop is centuries, if not millennia, ahead of us (or at least they serve time travellers)! 
Is your software Y10K proof? 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Is your software Y10K proof?
Actually it is. When the y2k problem rolled in, we decided (as a joke) to resolve the y10k problem too, so we can rest a bit when it became actual...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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There's an RFC for that... RFC 2550 - Y10K and Beyond 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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That's a whole lot of words for "add another digit"
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Sander Rossel wrote: "add another digit"
...only when necessary!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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By mutual agreement of the partners in the interchange?
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How many orders did you put on that date? 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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None, I got the hell out of there
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Just place as much orders for that date as possible.
Stuff from this era will be worth a lot by then, and you have time enough to save for the bill 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Sander Rossel wrote: I got the hell out of there
What you don't trust a site that stores it's dates a strings?
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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1 BCE?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Unless they're using the Xiqorcian calendar
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Or Mayan calendar which would be 7.17.18.10.10
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Isn't that an IP address?
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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WouldntYaWantToBeAMayan.com I believe?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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MostSanePeopleDoNotWantToBeExtinct.org
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Its an IP address of a point in time!
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Mike Hankey wrote: 1 BCE?
or maybe 2 BCE?
When Y2K was a hot topic, I was surprised to learn that the church (at least the protestant ones, but I assume that catholic ones agree, and then the other (Christian) ones follow suit) have a discontinuous time line: Year 1 BC is immediately followed by year 1 AD, with no intermediate year 0. So the question is if the time format used here has a year 0. We must assume that value 1 is AD (or if you like: CE), but is a value of 0 then 1 BC, and a value of -1 consequently 2 BC? Or is value 0 illegal?
I was surprised to read in Wikipedia that the numerical value of AD/BC and CE are identical, with "400 BCE corresponds to 400 BC" explicitly given as an example. So the CE concept has adopted a discontinuous number line for labeling years. It is kind of curious that in an attempt to mark an independence from religion defined time scales, still we stick to a highly religion defined number line, rather than a mathematical one.
Maybe it has to do with the zero being invented by the Arabs, and as we all know, their culture is not quite as we want it to be, so we reject it. What I am now waiting for is some (secular) standard that requires 1 = 3.
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Now that you mention it I have never seen or read a reference to year 0. Hmmm
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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The conspiracy theorists probably submit that the Vatican has deliberately done this in order to prevent the masses from learning the truth about whatever it is they might be hiding.
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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I'm sure, all those lonely knights?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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