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No need for a cheat sheet. 
Alt + NumPad "0" + NumPad Keys -> Character from the CP1252 (Windows-1252) Set
Alt + NumPad Keys -> Character from your local DOS Character Set (CP437 for US, CP850 for Western European, etc.)
If you enter a decimal value requiring more than 8 bits it just takes the last 8.
So for "æ" I can just type "Alt + 454545" without having to remember it's character 145 in the CP850, or 230 in CP1252
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... I'll stick to the cheat sheet ... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I can just type the ~ or ^ or ' or ` or " key once (nothing happens) and then the key I want to apply it to.
So " + o = ö, ` + a = à, ~ + n = ñ, etc.
For some reason I don't have that at work and it's driving me nuts.
It's some keyboard setting, but I can never figure out which one.
When I mess it up I get Dutch layout, but we Dutch use American qwerty keyboards and all of a sudden all keys become something else.
So I wonder why is that Dutch layout if the Dutch don't use it...
Anyway, be thankful you're not working with Chinese[^]
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That must make coding fun ... I use ' and " quite a bit ...
I think it's in Control panel, "Clock, Language and Region", "Language", "Options" to set an input method - but I'm not sure.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I get two of each symbol at once when I press twice.
So I usually do ""[left arrow] or even "";[left arrow x2]
I even do that when I get these symbols on the first button press.
It's really not a problem
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There's also these options: Thespians[^] and Sea Farers[^]
The latter, an opportunity for coding (for which I'm urgently tempted).
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I have always been fond of
"I invoke eternal diefic condemnation in the person singular neuter pronound"
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. - Lazarus Long
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CHill60 wrote: Sie koennen bleiben wo der Pfeffer waechst" (I haven't worked out umlauts ... apologies)
At first I thought the English in the parens was the translation of the German, and still retaining some German from my childhood, I was wondering, how the heck did you get from A to B?
But then the light dawned as I read on. 
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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I was once sat in an early morning meeting at work with the hangover from h**l, completely mystified as to why I couldn't understand what was being said. It was only when my (non-german speaking) colleague gave me a look of "  I'm lost, what are they on about?" that I realised they were speaking in German not English! The meeting went a little easier after that lightbulb moment (but the hangover stayed for the duration)
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After allowing the server to install sp2 for sql server 2014, customers started getting script errors when setting filters in ssrs reports. Apparently, this bug was introduced in sp2 and fixed a few releases later. So wte didn't the update get the more current release?
Easily fixed by downloading another half-gig cumulative update and everybody's happy again.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When you're done updating SQL, always remember to look for "the patch for the patch".
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...For the patch for the patch...
I wrote a small script that keeps you up to date.
CREATE PROCEDURE KeepUpToDate
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON
EXEC UpdateServer
EXEC KeepUpToDate
END
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So, the upgrade was mostly successful. Desktop icons got re-arranged and my start menu shortcuts were of course obliterated.
Various other oddities, like the Visual Studio shortcuts disappeared.
The most annoying issue is now trying to figure out why the RabbitMQ server doesn't start up.
Otherwise, so far so good. And Windows Update is currently on. But no promises!
[edit]For some reason, the RabbitMQ service hadn't started. Manually starting it, and I'm back in business! Now to get my various shortcuts set up again.[/edit]
[edit2] During startup, it said various apps were being disabled/removed because they weren't compatible with W10. Those went by so fast I didn't have time to note them. Where the heck can I find out what it disabled/removed? Multimon seems to be one of them. I'll ask Google.[/edit2]
Marc
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modified 25-May-17 17:53pm.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Where the heck can I find out what it disabled/removed?
There may be an xml file in your desktop folder or on the root of C: that has that list. I remember seeing such a list popup on my system for W8.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hi Marc,
Marc Clifton wrote: The most annoying issue is now trying to figure out why the RabbitMQ server doesn't start up.
Third-party services sometimes fail to properly list their dependencies. If you know those dependencies you can add it to the registry manually as a REG_MULTI_SZ string:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Your_Service\DependOnService
If you do not know the dependencies then you can instruct the OS to load the service delayed... and hope for the best.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Your_Service\DelayedAutostart (DWORD set to 1)
Might be a good idea to ask the software developers for support.
Marc Clifton wrote: During startup, it said various apps were being disabled/removed because they weren't compatible with W10. Those went by so fast I didn't have time to note them. Where the heck can I find out what it disabled/removed?
Those are kept safe in the Windows.old folder. Look for C:\Windows.old\Program Files
Welcome to Windows 10... resistance is futile.
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Just a comment about multimon:
Multimon should not be needed on W10...
By default it allows to have a taskbar on each display.
The only oddity is that when you press the windows key the menu appears always in the main display, not in the one you have the mouse / focus.
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Welcome to the 'League of Long Sufferers' Semi-Annual Jamboree
I've found the 'WinTweaker freeware from Sergey Tkachenko's 'WinAero site very useful for defanging and partially domesticating the beast: [^].
I've hacked away on my own, and managed, I forget how, to make the Windows' Store' inaccessible, and now I can't run 'calc.exe because I'm using an admin account
'Edge is evicted, but, I still can't kill 'Cortana.
cheers, Bill
«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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Yesterday, my gf fiancee asked me, "do you think my friend actually sent me a link to this website?"
A website on losing weight.
A website that was in an email.
And the email was in her spam folder.
And she said "I found this email from my friend in my spam folder."
And when asked, "why are poking around in the spam folder?" she replied "I occasionally look there to see if something got put into spam."
This, from the woman who got hit by a ransom-ware virus last year. This, from the woman who went to a website that told her her PC was infected, call this number, etc., which she did, then she called me and asked if she should pay the $99. After the person on the other end of the line had already established a remote connection to her computer and asked her if there were other computers in the house on the network.
Maybe I should have bought her an abacus instead of a new laptop (as related to my previous post.)
Fortunately, recovering from the ransom-ware was a 30 minute process of re-installing Windows and restoring her various documents.
In any case, she got a very stern talk from me!
Again.
I think this is going to be a case-by-case conversation. 
Marc
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curiosity + cat = ?
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Oi! I have a friend like that was working as a board tester at a large company. One of the boards he was testing had a major fault to the point where one of the power resistors on it was glowing and starting to burn the board. As you may have guessed the temptation was just too great, he had to touch it. He later exclaimed "I didn't think skin could pop like that!"
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Experience is a great teacher! 
Douglas Adams: Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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raddevus wrote: who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others
That's not quite as rare as he thought. Even an octopus can learn from watching another octopus.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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jeron1 wrote: As you may have guessed the temptation was just too great, he had to touch it
When I was a kid, I got parts for my old computer by desoldering them from any old circuit boards I could get my hands on. With time my fingers adapted and I could simply pull out parts that I was heating from the other side, but I had to be quick. Those parts were still far from glowing hot. I wanted to reuse them, after all.
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."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: With time my fingers adapted and I could simply pull out parts that I was heating from the other side,
I too had that ability, but once we got techs with better eyesight and a steadier hands, they did most of that type of work and I lost that ability.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Sounds similar to a lesson I learned when learning glassblowing: "Hot Glass Looks Like Cold Glass"
Still hot enough to smoke your skin after the glow subsides.
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