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1) Backup as soon as you can.
*) In the event of problems you can extend the live time of a hard disk by placing it in a bag in the freezer for about an hour, so you can back it up.
*) If the laptop is old you can remove the hard disk and place it in an external usb drive enclosure and backup on another system.
A programmer walks into a bar and asks the bartender for 1.00000000000003123939 root beers. Bartender says, I'll have to charge you extra, that's a root beer float. Programmer says, better make it a double then.
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The "virus" is probably the Internet browser.
Replace the HDD, and install a three-year-old version of a browser. I bet it'll work just fine.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I had a similar problem recently.
All of the posts offer sound advice.
If you ignore SMART advice it will come back to haunt you...
"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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[Not a programming question]
My son was just playing Lego Lord of the Rings on his 3DS and hit what appears to the maximum number of studs -- 4,200,000,000 -- so apparently the game uses an unsigned 32-bit integer, but why not the full 4,294,967,295 ?
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Taxes?
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Only 9.4% ? I think not.
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I must admit I don't often encounter "4,200,000,000" and "is that all there is" in the same thought.
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<insert comment on congress here />
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: so apparently the game uses an unsigned 32-bit integer, but why not the full 4,294,967,295 ?
You might also want to check if your son is signed!
modified 5-Oct-13 14:37pm.
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he is a safe assembly then
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: but why not the full 4,294,967,295 ?
Someone put a limit check in an so they wrote the first literal rather than the second. Perhaps because they didn't want to figure out the real number and didn't know how to write a literal as an expression. Or perhaps because there is something that can add a 'large' number to the value and they wanted to make sure the limit was hit well before that could occur.
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Rounding error!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Because when you strip the zeros, you get 42.
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Slideshow: 200+ pics of people getting the bejabbers scared out of them at a Halloween haunted house in Canada. Seriously funny stuff.
Click[^]
XAlan Burkhart
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Picture 2:
Are you sure that the one on the left isn't an exhibit? 'Cause she scares the bejeezus outta me!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Cause she scares the bejeezus outta me!
My favorite was #118. Sheer terror.
XAlan Burkhart
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I only got the the twenties or so before my "same-sh*t-different-day" filter cut in and closed it...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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I was sitting in a Denny's in Wytheville, VA with my laptop and a waitress looking over my shoulder. We went thru the whole bunch.
XAlan Burkhart
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Either of you spot someone you knew?
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
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There was one that resembled one of my ex-wives.
XAlan Burkhart
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This serves as a fine example of quantity over quality.
I think I got to about 23 before I realised I didn't care any more.
What they need to do is do a top 10 - release it then later on add a link to 'even more' - and so on. If I enjoyed the 10 I'd probably come back for another helping - but gorging until you vomit doesn't make you want to come back for more!
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
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(That's an 'M')
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I got thru them all, but that was at least partly because there were two of us looking and we were laughing all the way through.
XAlan Burkhart
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I was flicking through the channels and landed on The Railway Children (the 1970 version).
Next thing I know I am watching it and enjoying it.
Sally Thomsett plays the 11 year old Phyllis, but was 20 years old!
I haven't seen the film since I was about 11, and had forgotten how good it was, in an innocent, simple way.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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