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Oy Griff, I didn't know you had a van! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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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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Arrested for theft?!?
Bluddy boring brummies!
It's Rustling!
Lynch 'em!
Another report said that the men tried to run off, but tripped when their boots fell off.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Did you finish her off combleately ?
bill
Google CEO, Erich Schmidt: "I keep asking for a product called Serendipity. This product would have access to everything ever written or recorded, know everything the user ever worked on and saved to his or her personal hard drive, and know a whole lot about the user's tastes, friends and predilections." 2004, USA Today interview
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Oh no, not another thread of baaad puns...
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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"A pig sheep that fine you don't want to eat all at once."
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So my new lappy has been painfully trying to update itself for the last couple of days. Started off well enough, albeit a big update, then couldn't 'Configure' them. Right now it won't let me un-select the updates I don't want to install, and then every time I shut the bugger down the same crap begins. It installs 7 updates, then tries to configure them, fails and I am back to square one. The machine has been unusable for two days.
Honestly, I would punch anyone I met from MS right now. Not because it is the right thing to do, not for vengeance, just as a real-life representation of the gross lack of consideration for your fellow man and random f**kyou-ism epitomised by anyone who would foist a system this unreliable, used by so many people, upon the world, in this condition.
It has been years. YEARS. And we poor sods are still dealing with this malarkey.
That is all. Phew.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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Breath deeply. It could be worse, you could be using a 'MacBook Air' whatever that is.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: you could be using a 'MacBook Air' whatever that is.
Oh, it's a Merkin thing.
It comes with cardboard chips and a ton of sugar-water.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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For what it's worth, when I come to Windows Update problems:
(in a command prompt)
- net stop wuauserv
- del %systemdrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\*.*
- chkdsk c: /r
- (answer yes to question)
- shutdown -r -f -t 0
- (re-try to update Windows once rebooted)
No memory stick has been harmed during establishment of this signature.
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Awesome, thanks.
I too dabbled in pacifism once.
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I would claim it's the %systemdrive%\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\*.* that needs to be deleted.
Datastore is the database keeping track on which updates you actually have installed.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Indeed, yet practice shows that problems often occur in the .edb database. I use this small snippet more than once in a while, and it has until now proven efficient. Deleting the Download directory can't hurt, anyway.
No memory stick has been harmed during establishment of this signature.
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Brilliant.
I've become so used to not using command prompts on Windows that I would probably never have got there.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Hard alternative to duck, with capacity to look forward."(9)
Not too hard, but may be tricky.
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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Horoscope
hard - h
alternative - or
duck - 0
capacity - scope
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 Good one I thought it was difficult.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur .
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I've installed it. I see the new apps. I see the distracting new wallpaper.
But I can't see anything else different.
I think I should ask for my money back.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've installed it. I see the new apps. I see the distracting new wallpaper.
But I can't see anything else different.
I think I should ask for my money back.
What are you on about Maunder? I can't be arsed Googling your cryptic title clues.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Super Lloyd wrote: it's an iThing
So it's about Apple. I had no idea.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I presumed it was Windows 8.1.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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