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Just watched Curtain: Poirot's Last Case.
Forceful performance and very sad.
25 years and the era is over.
No-one else could play him again in my lifetime.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Atcherley, the last ever Poirot story was "Elephants Can Remember", in 1972. "Curtain" was written during WW2.
All this is is the last of one of the (presumably endless) re-interpretation TV series.
Someone else will be playing him in a couple of years (because, God knows, no-one in the TV biz can write original work, any more), and that will be the definitive rendition (until that ends and another definitive rendition comes along).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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1. Stop calling him Atcherley. (Sorry about that non-allCaps shout.)
2. I agree.
3. The next definitive rendition will have the style of the day, but won't necessarily be better and usually it is worse.
4. I am especially appreciative of the "Elephants Can Remember" title. It is similar to my next TV drama which is titled "Sunshine's don't forget".
5. I have a few friends who are crazy about Poirot. Personally, I just can't trust a man, or a woman, who has a moustache like that, or indeed hair like that.
6. The stories are good.
Why a bread knife?
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: The next definitive rendition will have the style of the day, but won't necessarily be better and usually it is worse.
That's what they said when Ustinov quit the role.
grralph1 wrote: I am especially appreciative of the "Elephants Can Remember" title. It is similar to my next TV drama which is titled "Sunshine's don't forget".
I'm holding out for "Raindrops don't give a toss".
grralph1 wrote: I have a few friends who are crazy about Poirot. Personally, I just can't trust a man, or a woman, who has a moustache like that, or indeed hair like that.
Never trust any man with a moustache, unless it's a ridiculous or completely un-coiffured one.
grralph1 wrote: Why a bread knife?
A clean cut would be just too civilised.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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 Raindrops don't give a toss
A precise and eloquent answer to the last question as well. Thanks
"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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grralph1 wrote: It is similar to my next TV drama which is titled "Sunshine's don't forget".
Somebody has already been there, done that[^]! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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"Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." Frank Zappa 1980
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Mark_Wallace wrote: because, God knows, no-one in the TV biz can write original work, any more
Ain't that the truth. 
Suchet is a great actor, but I can't stand the character of Poirot.
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viaducting wrote: Suchet is a great actor
I don't care much for Suchet... But Souffle on the other hand... !!! Yum! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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I'm in Belgium this weekend, so I'll raise a glass of Hercule[^] to him. ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
If, that is, we can get the barman to understand. Every time we ask for it, whatever bar we're in, the barman claims that he can't understand our accent. We go through several iterations of "Hercule", "Pardon?", before giving up and pointing to the menu, at which point he replies, "Ah! Hercule" with no discernible difference between his pronunciation and ours.
Bloody Belgians! Why can't they just speak English?
"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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I use PC Anywhere to support some clients' systems. But PC Anywhere doesn't work well on my Windows 8.1, and the Symantec site says it does not support 8 or 8.1.
I can use Remote Desktop for routine configuration, but RD cannot transfer files.
What do you use when you need to transfer files to a remote machine?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: but RD cannot transfer files
ummm ... are you sure mate ?
What you do is this
a) Bring Up the RDP Panel
b) Expand Options
c) Click Local Resources Tab
d) Click 'More'
e) Expand 'Drives'
f) select the drive you want (local) to be mounted to the remote session
g) finish the connection
h) when you're on the remote machine (Im a bit fuzzy on this bit), in Explorer, you'll see the local drive mounted
copy/whatever
yes ?
[update : at point 'h' the bit Im a bit fuzzy on is 'where'/'how' the local drive shows up in explorer]
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 I had no idea. Thanks.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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well, no blush required - its not obvious, but darned useful, especially when its the only way you can get software onto an (otherwise) secure server for a build process
'g'
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I just tried it, and it worked really well. Thanks, you really saved me a big headache.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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no worries mate - btw, I think RDP manager saves the settings/persists them, so check them when you next fire up RDP and untick the boxes so to speak if you dont want the mapping 
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Quote: But PC Anywhere doesn't work well on my Windows 8.1
PC Anywhere? Didn't people stop using that after Windows 95? I had no idea it was still around.
Great in its days but I thought it died long ago.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Nah, it works great in Windows 7. It's up to version 12.5, but it's been a long while since there has been a new version.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: It's up to version 12.5
Does it still come with a big fat yellow DB25 to DB25 parallel port cable to joing 2 pc's together?
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I've seen you've succeeded so congrats and some extra thoughts just in case you wouldn't have pcanywhere there:
1. Skydrive in both computers.
2. Dropbox.
3. Teamviewer.
4. RealVNC.
5. FTP server (filezilla).
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The RealVNC and FTP might work, but the machine in question does not have internet access.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Why not a pendrive or a shared folder?
Being curious only...
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: What do you use when you need to transfer files to a remote machine?
Email???
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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Do not argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience
Greg King
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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin, Actress
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Johnny J. wrote: Email???
The target machine does not have internet access. Plus, their firewall would block any attachments that contain executable code.
The difficult we do right away...
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: RD cannot transfer files
There's a simpler option than Garth's workaround:
- Open Windows Explorer on the source computer;
- Select the file(s) you want to transfer and copy them: Ctrl+C;
- Open Windows Explorer on the target computer;
- Navigate to the destination folder and paste: Ctrl+V
It works in both directions, and even works for nested RDP sessions.
"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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