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I used to do the wallet thing when I first worked in London. For a while I was paid in cash four-weekly, and had to walk across crowded streets and through a market to get to my bank, so I had a wallet I kept in my back pocket, with a number of cards taken from phone boxes (lovely Linda is waiting for you right now) and a folder up picture taken from a magazine involving a young lady and a horse,
It never got taken 
But on occasional nights down the pub I would amuse people by showing them pictures of my 'sister'
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My father-in-law will keep a salesmen on the phone for 1/2hr. with absolutely no intention of buying anything. He'll get out his credit card and look at it just to drive my mother in law crazy.
"Larry, you put that card away", she'll say.
He just gives her a goofy grin - he's in his wheel house - keeping two people anxious for 30 minutes without doing a thing.
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My dad's strung a few phone spammers along for more than an hour while fueling their dreams of big fat comi$$ion$. I don't have the patience for that sort of trolling and just let them go strait to voicemail.
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.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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My Mac was recalled due to a potentially dodgy hard drive.
Took it into the Mac shop today to have it replaced ... Although I do have backups I'm still nervous - and have to wait until after the weekend to get it back .
4 days without it - looks like its back to windows world for a while!
Did find out that boot camp now supports windows 8 though, so looking forward to playing with wait on my 27 inched
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Last time a hard drive failed on me, I went and bought a better one than the previous, and installed it the same day.
Of course, that doesn't "just work" well enough for apple's profits.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Of course, that doesn't "just work" well enough for apple's profits.
Ummmm... this is a recall. Apple is "buying" and installing the new HD for him. 
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I do wish that people wouldn't interrupt my rants with minor technicalities.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You bigoted plonker.
Apple are replacing, for free, the 1Gb hard drives because around 2% have an issue.
Oh, and the Mac is > 3 years old, and not in warranty.
The remove the old drive, replace it and install an OS.
They even try to check you have a good backup first.
For free.
When I called to check what was required (as I didn't have my original OS disks I needed to make sure I could get it done) the phone was answered immediately (they did play one iPod advert before a human answered) the help I got was amazing - they made an appointment for me to take it in (same day) and even emailed me step by step instructions for making a recovery usb 'just in case'
At the store, I was expected, I had to wait 10 minutes for the engineer (who apologised as he was late finishing with the previous customer - but in the meantime another assistant did check I was fine)
He ran through diagnostics with me, checked the status of backups, confirmed which OS was going to be installed and gave me an ETA.
I'm not an Apple Fanboi - not a Fanboi of any description - but it pisses me off when rants like yours spout off out of ignorance and hatred of a company like that.
I'm GLAD apple make good money. I'm HAPPY to pay their prices for quality goods and excellent service, and that service and quality comes at a cost.
If the hard drive had failed, sure I would have gone out and replaced it. I'd have probably just done it myself, but many folk wouldn't be comfortable doing that.
so you stick with your rickety old home-made machine that fails and you can tinker with.
It's the difference between someone owning an old car they keep running themselves, sourcing bits from here and there, and the Rolls driver who just gets it serviced and repaired by professionals.
Neither is better than the other - one pays more cash, the other spends more time.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: Took it into the Mac shop today to have it replaced ... Although I do have backups I'm still nervous
As was I last fall when the same thing happened to me. Be careful, the "geniuses" at my Apple store restored OS X 10.6 (the original OS as shipped) instead of OS X 10.8 (the OS on the HD when I brought it to them). When I got it home I discovered that restoring from Time Machine (in this situation) appears to work but leaves the machine unable to login. A call to AppleCare put me on the right track. I ended up having to install OS X 10.6 from original DVD, update to 10.8 then restore from TM. It all worked just fine.
Since then I made sure I had a bootable recovery USB stick for 10.8.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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I was on Lion but bought Mountain Lion and they're going to install that for me.
I also made a recovery usb first, just in case!
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Was expecting an Elmer post?
oh wait that would have 2D's.
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_Maxxx_ wrote: My Mac was recalled due to a potentially dodgy hard drive.
Same here, brought it in yesterday.
Fortunately I am a Windows and Mac user per se and it doesn't bug me to only have my Windows ultrabook for the next few days.
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...And Echo there, whatever is ask’d her, answers ‘Death.’
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Has nothing to do with the echoes below, just wanted to demonstrate that I'm a literate bastard with good Googling skills! 
Now, over to you, DD!
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I prefer 'The Day is Done' by that American chap.
And I didn't need to google it!
"Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time."
Excelsior is rather good too.
Longfellow wrote that as well.
Not bad for a man who had English as a second language.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Dalek Dave wrote: And I didn't need to google it!
I knew you wouldn't!
Longfellow had English as a second language??? 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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He was American!
You cannot tell me that they speak English.
An American walks up to a bar and says "Can I get a Beer?"
The correct response is "No, you do not work here, but I am happy to get a beer for you!"
See?
They do not even understand the difference between Have and Get.
As for their spelling!
They insist that their words are better as they are more phonetic.
I have one thing to say about that...Arkansas.
And as for a 'Double Eagle' in golf...
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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LOL - I should have know that that was what you meant... 
Why can't I be applicable like John? - Me, April 2011
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Beidh ceol, caint agus craic againn - Seán Bán Breathnach
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Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo!
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Just because a thing is new don’t mean that it’s better - Will Rogers, September 4, 1932
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I have closed a year a couple of days ago and wiped out all the history.
Then remembered that I hadn't moved it to the archive prior to running the year end.
The yells of fear were heard several towns over.
Thankfully, owing to me NOT running a scheduled backup yesterday, I still have Monday night's back-up, taken BEFORE I closed.
Sighs of relief all round.
That could have been...interesting.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Are you sure you shouldn't be on AccountantProject rather than here? 
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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My point was about back-ups, not the data they contain.
Also the fact I missed a back-up meant I had the latest version in the office, not off-site.
That would have been a problem.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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relief .. im sure ill be killed one day for backups ... but still too lazy ..
thanks for your story 
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I have just done this (Monday) a long rather odd project some final updates to the UI (space of labels etc)
sent it off, my boss gets a fuming phone call from client, I had updated a previous version, not the last version egg on face. Blooming SVN gave me the wrong version, back ups good but don't trust auto systems trust your own comments in code! (oh and always make sure you have a version on a memory stick that you can take off site!)
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Remembers me when I was a young accountant (speeking about roughly 20 years ago, yes, now I am developer). I was saving an Excel 2.0 file (remember how huge they used to be?) on a server (located in our office, was the only windows server at that time, 3.11 for workgroups...). The IT guy (not anymore working here) came in, said "Can I turn the server off" and he switched off (during saving). No backup.. Ai Ai Ai. Don't remember how many, but some years of accounting lost, had to recreate it all. Fortunatly the "real" accounting was done on an S36 IBM, and that was there, with the backups..
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Set an accountant to do a man's job...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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