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Duncan Edwards Jones26-Nov-16 0:11

Duncan Edwards Jones

26-Nov-16 0:11

Anagram (scrambled) of fighter jets

OriginalGriff26-Nov-16 0:13

OriginalGriff

26-Nov-16 0:13

Brain: startup sequence beginning...

***OUT OF CHEESE ERROR***
***  REDO FROM START  ***

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Duncan Edwards Jones26-Nov-16 0:18

Duncan Edwards Jones

26-Nov-16 0:18

I think this may be triggered by the famous Times crossword clue:

Gegs (9,4)

OriginalGriff26-Nov-16 0:22

OriginalGriff

26-Nov-16 0:22

I first met it on Drop The Dead Donkey!

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Chris C-B26-Nov-16 0:17

Chris C-B

26-Nov-16 0:17

Anagram, perhaps?

So, answer me this...

OriginalGriff25-Nov-16 11:28

OriginalGriff

25-Nov-16 11:28

Why do we tell a computer to shut down, and people to shut up?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

PIEBALDconsult25-Nov-16 11:31

PIEBALDconsult

25-Nov-16 11:31

Why do we tell a computer to back up, and people to back down?

Sander Rossel25-Nov-16 11:51

Sander Rossel

25-Nov-16 11:51

Why do we tell a computer to Directory.EnumerateFiles("some directory"), and people to look for that file, no not in that directory, wait you're going to fast, you have to double click, you're in the wrong Program Files, that's the wrong folder, it's right under your cursor, no now you've missed it, that's not what I was looking for, let me try it, just let me hold your mouse for a second, no I won't wait any longer, WELL IF YOU KNOW IT SO WELL FIX YOUR OWN DAMN COMPUTER!!! Mad | :mad:

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Shuqian Ying25-Nov-16 13:11

Shuqian Ying

25-Nov-16 13:11

it refers to the relative position of the sub-portion of the target of the operation Smile | :)

SoMad25-Nov-16 16:32

SoMad

25-Nov-16 16:32

Hmmm... I have often told my computer to shut up Wink | ;-)

There is a person out there who refuses to believe me when I say, that an "alarm going off" means it is making noise. I do struggle to explain the logic behind that.

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David Crow25-Nov-16 16:40

David Crow

25-Nov-16 16:40

Why do we turn the air conditioner up when we want it to cool down?

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lopatir25-Nov-16 18:39

lopatir

25-Nov-16 18:39

To load goods onto peoples trailers (long time ago after school manual part time job) had one guy who would always tell the drivers, "OK, go ahead and back up."

Marc Clifton26-Nov-16 2:35

Marc Clifton

26-Nov-16 2:35

OriginalGriff wrote:
Why do we tell a computer to shut down, and people to shut up?

Cute. Shut up - Wikipedia[^]

The phrase is probably a shortened form of "shut up your mouth" or "shut your mouth up".

I'm such a spoilsport.

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Re: I found Wally's brother!

Peter_in_278026-Nov-16 12:12

Peter_in_2780

26-Nov-16 12:12

Shaddup you face[^]

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I found Wally's brother!

Chris Maunder25-Nov-16 7:27

Chris Maunder

25-Nov-16 7:27

Maybe?[^]

cheers
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dandy7225-Nov-16 7:34

dandy72

25-Nov-16 7:34

I think you mean Waldo...?

[Edit]
My bad. I guess he goes by both names.

I was expecting Wally (from Dilbert)

Cortana Is Not Helpful

raddevus25-Nov-16 6:56

25-Nov-16 6:56

I'm running Windows 10 Anniversary edition on a laptop.
Suddenly, my FN key with my _turn off touchpad_ key does not work.
This has happened before in Win10 -- earlier editions.
Yes, I will reboot, but two things first.

1. There used to be an option in Windows 10 that simply allowed me to tell Windows to turn off the touchpad when my external mouse was attacched to USB. It's gone. That is stupid! Mad | :mad:

2. I clicked the home button and Cortana jumped up so I decided to ask it: It resulted in an article from 2011 on how to fix it. Stupid and unhelpful!! Mad | :mad:

Cortana is such a lame technology.

microsoft dev: "I assure you that Cortana is new AI technology that does smart searches to find the best answer. I PROMISE IT IS NOT JUST A NEW WAY OF SEARCHING THE OLD LAME BING TECHNOLOGIES!!!!!"

I'm completely assured. Sleepy | :zzz:

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25-Nov-16 8:11

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25-Nov-16 8:11

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raddevus25-Nov-16 9:28

25-Nov-16 9:28

Leandro Taset wrote:
then complain when you get it?

Complain? That was my celebration. Cool | :cool:

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R. Giskard Reventlov25-Nov-16 8:20

R. Giskard Reventlov

25-Nov-16 8:20

I get this now and again. Delete the driver, reboot. Job done.

raddevus25-Nov-16 9:30

25-Nov-16 9:30

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
I get this now and again.

Thanks. I figured this happens to a lot of people. It's quite annoying.

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
Delete the driver, reboot. Job done.

You forgot one step: Rant about Microsoft.
The fix is not complete without this most important step. Laugh | :laugh:

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R. Giskard Reventlov25-Nov-16 9:33

R. Giskard Reventlov

25-Nov-16 9:33

raddevus wrote:
You forgot one step: Rant about Microsoft.

I have a soft spot for Microsloth as I've made a good living out of them for a long time!

raddevus25-Nov-16 11:56

25-Nov-16 11:56

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
I've made a good living out of them for a long time

Okay, you got me. Sigh | :sigh:

I like Microsoft too. They were more fun when they were more engineering-centric than now that they are now more suit-centric. Laugh | :laugh:

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Mark_Wallace26-Nov-16 8:14

Mark_Wallace

26-Nov-16 8:14

R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
I have a soft spot for Microsloth as I've made a good living out of them for a long time!

That's like a guy who makes steering wheels saying that he makes a good living out of the people who build the roads.

You haven't made money out of ms; you've made money providing services to people who use computers.

ms itself is all but irrelevant in the equation -- as irrelevant as the road-builders, above.

Bill Gates, on the other hand, him you owe your living to.

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