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Hi all,
I remember several years ago a codeproject article from 1 Apr featured their new "Server Farm" of Pocket PCs.
I would like to use the image from the article for a prank in our company regarding the current discussion of security leaks thru speculative execution in modern CPUs and that older CPUs are not affected.
Does anyone remember the year, the article showed up, and maybe post the URL here?
Thanks, Dieter
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No, that's not the one 
The once brought an April's Fool article on 1 Apr.
There they had a picture of many many Pocket PCs in racks, claiming that was their "brand new" Server Farm 
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2004... has it been that long ?
I'd rather be phishing!
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I must have annoyed somebody - my spam count has gone from 300+ per day to around 10. Perhaps it's more to do with the holidays being over. Either way, happy not to have to trawl through a huge pile of rubbish just in case a genuine mail got marked as spam. Happy days.
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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Did you sic the Simmons on them? 
(That's one step above siccing the Pournelle on them. )
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Which reminded me how much I enjoyed the Ringworld[^] series. Going to order a new copy and read it again. Thanks!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
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You probably were extremely rude and didn't answered them...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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now that you mention it...
I think it happened to me as well! 
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The price of bitcoin dropped and suddenly all those make $15000 in bitcoin e-mails stopped arriving because the spammers had to get a real job as they lost all their $$$?
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I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
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Nope if you married different women twice in a year.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Every time I see my X I wonder Y.
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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Ron Anders wrote: Did you know that dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish?
That's not so far from the truth:
Why dolphins are deep thinkers [^]
"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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Ron Anders wrote:
The reason Mayberry was so peaceful and quiet was because nobody was married. Andy, Aunt Bea, Barney, Floyd, Howard, Goober, Gomer, Sam, Earnest T Bass, Helen, Thelma Lou, Clara and, of course, Opie were all single. The only married person was Otis, and he stayed drunk.
Interesting - I had never considered that
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Ron Anders wrote: If you’re in Denny’s and it’s your birthday, your life sucks!
So true.
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But is being in Denny's any of the other 364 days any better? 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Now that you mention it, nope.
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Let's be honest...
If you’re in Denny’s and it’s your birthday, your life sucks!
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Ron Anders wrote: I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
Not necessarily 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Ron Anders wrote: I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
That will perhaps be your traditional Western Christian protestant conditioning speaking to you.
Polygmamy and polyandry would enable this number to be odd.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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... or if one (or an odd number) got married twice.
[and I'm still Western, Christian and Protestant]
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Quote: I read that 4,153,237 people got married last year. Not to cause any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
I guess that would depend on how you interpret x people got married. I interpret it as equal to if a person gets married x times that counts as 1 as we are counting people getting married not mariages.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Well if I got married once in 2016 and once in 2017, then I'd say I got married twice.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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