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What a great way to make a yappy dog even more annoying to strangers, and ensure that it gets kicked more often.
Aren't there animal protection laws in the backward country this came from?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Wrong translation.
This seems appropriate...
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... you can set it so only specific contacts can call or text you. Hmmm ... if you set all your contacts as "priority" then cold calls, advert texts, and scammers can't bother you again ... I can see a use for that. Permanently on, in fact. 
Yes, yes, I know. "Real developers never read the manual". I do. Get over it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I'd prefer a hosts-file for that; one could share it, for a fee 
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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OriginalGriff wrote: Yes, yes, I know. "Real developers never read the manual". I do. Get over it.
Referred to the Parliamentary committee for un-British activities. 
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've been reading the manual for the new phone,
I had to stop right there.
WHO DOES THAT?
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The little bugger was hiding in my code, eating my epsilon transitions.
Now it's time for GLoRy, the last word on bottom up parsers. Natural language parsing, here I come.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Does that get you the +25 Sword of Vanquis?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Better. I got the Blade of GLoRy.
It's got +N where N is the number of ambiguities you're up against.
It works well on crowds.
Real programmers use butterflies
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The Blade of Glory only works for Angels and Paladins: none of us are pure enough to wield it! 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Then I'm not sure what I'm doing with it.
Real programmers use butterflies
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It may be a quest item.
Stick it in your backpack and wait for a cat sitting in a unexpected sunbeam ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I have that feature on my phone also, it's called the Off button!
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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I think you missed the right "reply" button...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yep I sure did, my brain is not working right today.
Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!
JaxCoder.com
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Well, you'll have to go all the way around and try again, or you'll miss the treasure chest.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The reply button has +50 evasion. Pls nerf, kthnx. 
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In case you missed my edit to an earlier post on this topic:
About a week ago, Macrium brought out an update to Reflect that appears to have had a bug that interfered with the creation of rescue media. Yesterday (Saturday Feb 15) they brought out the latest update that fixed the bug.
If you use Reflect: Make sure you are running the very latest update (Build 7.2.4732) or you may run into issues with the creation of rescue media. This build version applies to the free version. I don't know if the paid version has the same build number.
modified 16-Feb-20 12:11pm.
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Appreciate the followup!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Good to know.
Thank you 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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My trusty - and fully working - old Moto G (series 1) which has done sterling service for around seven years is being replaced because it just doesn't have enough space. It's only got 8GB, no expansion capability, and Google have shoved so much bloat into it's poor frame over the years that it's got less than 1GB left.
And I need just over 1GB to install the Here WeGo England maps so I have satnav on the way to a funeral in two weeks. And since my Nexus 7 can't find enough satellites if there is a cloud around, and my Surface is far, far too big to attach to the car I've got to get a new one.
Nothing too fancy, just a lot of space and expansion capability, and maybe enough screen to replace the phone and Nexus 7 as my book reader and games-while-Herself-does-something-and-I-wait-around machine.
So I picked a Huawei P30 Lite: screen is only about 3/4" (2cm) smaller than the tablet, but the whole thing is around 1" (2.5cm) longer, and 1/4" (.75cm) wider than the phone, so it should fit in my pocket. And that 8GB rises to 128GB, with space for a 512GB SD card!
And OK, I'm not over interested in the cameras, but ... 48mp rear? 24mp for selfies? Holy moly batman! My first digital camera was a large-for-the-time 1.5mp and cost more than this whole phone ... 
I've bought a case to glue a metal strip onto so I can use the mag mounts in the car, and a nano sim is on it's way from my mobile phone signal provider.
All I've got to do now is install the software and ebooks, music, TV, ... I keep on the tablet (groan).
Plus my contacts / calendar, but Google should handle that for me.
Oh, and learn to use it ... bugger. There's always something.
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I'm on my third or fourth newer model smartphone, (all acquired by way of one or other family member getting a phone on a new/renewed service contract but already bought something much better).
It's true: the newer phones can do all the stuff the older ones did. beyond that I'm not sure.
Does your Welsh provider not free (or really cheap) roam to England? Google maps not part of the old phone?
I've used Here WeGo in the antipodes (offline - coming from Singapore so roaming is ex) - it's really quite good and accurate fully offline (unless worried about speed cameras.).
Remember to update the maps (at home - wifi) before subsequent trips because there's no auto update or nagging just because of an update. (another reason I like it - if not in regular use why update - untill it's needed?)
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I don't like Google maps for navigation, Here WeGo works really well offline, but I normally run with just the Wales maps - to add the England map I just need more space than I have available in the old phone. I like the way it says "turn slightly right" and the edge of annoyance in her voice when she tells you to turn round ...
Plus it's free, accurate, easy to use, and includes speed limit warnings that the other free map systems (which use OpenStreetMap data) don't cover too well. That's really handy sometimes! It's estimates of arrival time are pretty much spot on which takes some doing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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yes the Here WeGo voice is nice (and amusing on indigenous place names - google is just crass).
the "turn around" definitely 'unique' (thankfully she does calm down and actually help with that - particularly if you've wrong turned on a motorway junction.)
then again when google maps says "slide right" (or left) it does inspire memories of a time long ago (before google and even navman etc) when I might have taken that quite literally.
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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