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Mrs P0mpey2?
I can see she'd be annoyed if people called her French names.
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She had hot buns so I couldn't complain.
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I've been Cross from birth - I was the Cross my mother had to bear!
Dave Cross
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You're more likely to get official notice if you post in Bugs and Suggestions[^] (which is automatically emailed to the big bosses inbox).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Dave Cross wrote: I try to unsubscribe, I still keep getting them.
With the link in the email?
Not that it really matters since it should work.
You might want to try and unsubscribe by changing your settings.
Go to your profile settings (hover on your name in the upper right corner), click on 'my settings' then you'll have a tab 'newsletters and email', un-check all (or just the ones you don't want), click save settings.
That should stop them.
If not (or you already did that) there is definitely a bug and it's best to report it in the sites bugs & suggestions forum.
Tom
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Thanks for the tip - I've done that now so here's hoping!
BTW I'll still lurk occasionally, Regards and thanks to all CP'rs!
Dave Cross
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You can check out but you can never leave
(seem to have heard this somewhere before ho hum)
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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On Thursday one of my monitors since many years decided to give up life, or rather light.
Ok, no problems, I order two new ones. I really don't like working on two monitors with different properties.
And I can give away the other old monitor to someone having a smaller one anyway.
Yesterday the other monitor gave up.
How big is the chance that two seven year old monitors break within a just a couple of days?
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It depends on how your nerve control works in those days...
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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Jörgen Andersson wrote: How big is the chance that two seven year old monitors break within a just a couple of days?
50% +/- 49.9%
veni bibi saltavi
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According to statistics: quite-a-few to one.
According to Murphy: a dead cert.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ah, Murphy, he's an old acquaintance of mine.
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As a reliability Engineer, I would say probality is very high if those monitors came from same Manufacturing process and design. They are in their wear out phase depending on theie MTBF
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Same brand, same batch, same usage.
Come to think of it, this Christmas I almost didn't get home as the electric handbrake of our VW Passat broke in a very stuck position.
With the help of a heat gun, a hammer and a lot of swearing I manage to get to the workshop where I have to change the brake caliper costing just €800.
Two weeks later it breaks on the other side too.
If I had had the engineer from VW close by at that moment, I would have applied the same treatment as I did to the broken caliper.
But worst of all, who the f*** needs electric handbrakes anyway?
<edit>You're not working at Volkswagen are you?  </edit>
modified 10-Feb-15 9:26am.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But worst of all, who the f*** needs electric handbrakes anyway?
That's because cable handbrakes fail once in every 358,976,167,876,563,675 uses, and electronic stuff never fails.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Thats why I always make sure to estimate the cost as twice if we have a pair of parts in any system. If one part fails, I am mentally prepared to accept another failure soon.
Curse of my Job 
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: You're not working at Volkswagen are you?
Wish I did. Anyway I am just live 100 Km from the VW main plant in germany. So Please have the hammer in handy. if you need some support, give me a shout and I will be there in say 45 mins
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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If the usage is identical, sure, but different monitors in a multi-monitor set-up are extremely unlikely to suffer the same wear and tear unless they're swapped around regularly.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It all depends what was the major stress on the Monitor. I have two monitors which are identical and are always ON at the same time.
So the stress of environment/time etc are similar. The only differce is that I use one monitor for purely watching some videos and other one not.
Now failure relating to something unrelated to the "job" of playing video should be similar on both the monitors. May be there is a faulty diode which cannot withstand "Power_ON" for not more than 300 weeks. In that case probability of the failure having at same moment is very high. Similarly Power surge can weaken the monitors and so on. There are many scenariou where usage is not a factor for failure
But I agree with you, Usage is one stress factor which should prevent the identical failire rate.
sorry for rambling on....
cheers,
Super
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super wrote: sorry for rambling on....
Don't apologise. I enjoy reading sensible rambles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Statistics show that the seven-year-itch is when things start falling apart.
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It's no big secret that electronics often have a limited lifetime built in. Often it's something that could easily be protected by a small component that would have cost only a few cents. Without it, some little transistor will slowly degrade and fail after a certain time. With both monitors probably having seen almost identical usage, it's no big wonder if they reach their 'timeout' almost at the same time.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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If they are from the same manufacturer, (and specifically from the same batch) I'd say it's pretty high: I've had it with hard disks (the wife's HDD died, then my identical one died a few days later) and so forth.
To the point where I deliberately use different manufacturers for all of the disks in my NAS: if one fails, it's not likely that a second will go soon after - and before I can get a replacement in.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They were mated for life and one couldn't go on without the other one. Like The Notebook
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