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You obviously did your research. A technical drinker.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Michael Martin wrote: Woke up this morning hangover free
Wow.
Have some ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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That has the potential of becoming a good blues song:
Quote: Woke up this morning
Hangover was gone
Made it back by public transport
Owoooh the bottlo was closed
etc.
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This angry promise?(9)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This = Crossword
Angry = Cross
Promise = Word
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Is the correct answer - you are up tomorrow!
I didn't think it would last that long, but I liked it!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well when I first looked about an hour ago my instinct was that "this" = "clue", but I didn't make the connection at first. So I convinced myself that "promise" was the definition part, especially as "this angry" is 9 letters. After a minute of failed anagram attempts I gave up.
Then I came back to check what the answer was (as I assumed it would have been solved), it still wasn't so I gave it another try with my original thought of "this = clue". It still took me a few minutes to get it though... I think because I know them as "CCC" is the reason why "crossword" took a while to come to mind.
I still have one in the bank I can use for tomorrow, but after my recent one that went unsolved I fear it may suffer the same fate... I guess we shall see.
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I was very tempted to add "Cryptic" and "Clue" to it, but it made it unwieldy and obvious.
I liked it because it was pretty minimalist but solvable - as you proved!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I need 20 lines of code to execute 3 instructions.
Well done Style Cop 
This is ageism, my poor old eyes requires me to use 110% zoom, I can only fit 6 instructions on my screen! 
(Remark, this is not my decision, default StyleCop rules are mandatory on that new project)
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What did they yell at Edgar Allen Poe when he nearly walked into a tree?
Poetry
Sorry I'll get my coat and see myself out!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Quoth the ravin' lunatic.
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Didn't he score that radio hit "I'm sexy and a poet"?
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Felicia Hemans - Casabianca
The boy stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had fled;
The flame that lit the battle’s wreck,
Shone round him o’er the dead.
Yet beautiful and bright he stood,
As born to rule the storm;
A creature of heroic blood,
A proud, though childlike form.
...
Spike Milligan
The boy stood on the burning deck
Whence all but he had fled –
The twit!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wasn't there a line like:
The Boy Stood upon the burning deck,
Picking his nose like fury,
He rolled it into little balls,
and flicked into the Jury,
and on sadly I can't remember the rest there was whole verse of it.
Heard it originally from my Gran-dad sadly I can't really find the rest of it... 
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Currently sitting here transferring the content of old CDs to a hard drive. To save space, physically, and save me the hassle of looking for a specific disc among hundreds. And it's easier/quicker to make additional backups (this data will just become part of my regular backup set, now that hard drives are so ridiculously large). Anyway, the reasons don't matter.
I have some CDs burned in 1996 that are still reading properly (Kodak InfoGuard; the recording surface is gold-colored). I have some burned less than 5 years ago that are completely unreadable (various brands, with the recording surface greenish/blue/purple). I've discovered a long time ago that the faster you burn a disc at, the more likely it is you'll get read errors further down the road. So I tend to burn to disc at 4x and no faster.
Clearly the old claim that CDs will last 100 years isn't true, at least not for cheap, mass consumer media. I'm sure there's "archive quality" discs that do a much better job.
What's the oldest CD (you've burned yourself) that's still readable in 2018?
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I've got some old discs back from my high school days.
I went there from 2000 to 2006, so that's 12 to 18 years ago, and the last time I checked those still worked (although I don't check them yearly  )
The problem for me isn't in the discs though, but in my hardware.
I have an old PC that I don't use anymore and a laptop from work that doesn't have a disc drive, so I bought an external USB disc drive a few months ago, but mostly for reading music CDs.
Most of my data is on an external HD, which I really hope never dies on me 
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Sander, Sander ... all HDD's die, they are mechanical devices, so it's a matter of "when", not "if".
This is why I have a RAID5 NAS: i can - and have - lose a disk without losing any data. And the chances of two HDD's dying together is a lot lower than one on it's own. (But if they are all from the same batch, it's a good idea to assume they will fail fairly close to each other and preempt the subsequent failures.)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What he said.
Then back up the NAS. I've had RAID controllers go bad.
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dandy72 wrote: Then back up the NAS
And back it up offsite. You can ask a trusted friend to look after the backup set for you, or just store it in a locked drawer in your desk at work.
Given that most decent backup software allow you to encrypt the data, the chances of anyone other than the NSA getting at it are pretty low (and they already have a copy )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I don't trust backup software not to corrupt its own files - because then you're at the mercy of the software vendor to recover anything from these big proprietary blobs. Instead, my backup strategy doesn't get any fancier than robocopy. It's then trivial to get directly to a single file, and the risk of corruption isn't any worse than what you get with standard NTFS.
Then the whole backup drive is encrypted with TrueCrypt.
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dandy72 wrote: Then the whole backup drive is encrypted with TrueCrypt
And then you're at their mercy.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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My understanding is that each sector is encrypted individually (it's not an all-or-nothing thing), so if one of them gets corrupt, you only lose that small amount of data.
I haven't lost any data due to TrueCrypt misbehaving in the 10+ years I've been using it. Of course now having said that, I've probably just jinxed myself.
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I know, I should really do something about it.
Guess I'll put it on my todo list...
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