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If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
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AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I pity the fool!
veni bibi saltavi
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Has to be read in the voice of BA-Vilmos 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Do joker?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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no sure I'd do that for It.
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two seconds, two flipping seconds.
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Is that Pennywise or pound foolish?
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
No, it would just have been my former boss, a very evil clown indeed.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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OriginalGriff wrote: If you hold the door for a clown, is that a nice jester?
FIFY: If a clown holds the door open for you, is that a nice jester?
Is a comedian a girl who swa . . . (never mind).
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No it's a nice jester if the clown holds the door open for you.
If there's an OriginalGriff, is there also a DerivativeGriff?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Why would you do that? The Bozo wouldn't do it for you!
I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended.
I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended.
Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like.
Dave
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Saw this "Important Warning"
Firefox's latest update (57.0.1) aggressively tries to reset your default search engine to Google!
First glance looks like a pissing contest,
but more correct term would be: "a pissing-off contest."
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 I was just about to go back to FF. Now this!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm about to throw it out because they FUBARed most of the things I liked to use. But what are the alternatives?
Mickeysoft IE? Thanks, keep it.
Mickeysoft Edge / Win 10? Thanks, keep them.
Google Chrome? Thanks, keep it.
FF is on its way out and right now I see only Opera and Vivaldi as possible candidates.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
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I really liked the information that the Presto based Opera provided, now it's just another face of Blink.
Haven't tried Vivaldi, wiki makes it seem like it was because of Opera leaving Presto; but it in itself is Blink based.
Time to break out Netscape 9, Mosaic, and Lynx
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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I've been using Vivaldi for a year or so, it really does capture the spirit of the old Opera.
I can't promise it'll capture all of the things O12 did that you miss in rival browsers but it did so for me.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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So you're the only person that uses Bing, eh? I knew there had to be at least one.
Jeremy Falcon
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Ixquick. (not really that quick, but it's clean[er than google.]
actually I get pulled in to helping a lot of people whose search engines are set to Ask.com - because they were too stupid to click the No box when installing something or other
Still mozilla shouldn't be so aggressive updating settings without asking, that's just so "why we hate microsoft" - why not show clearly written option page in the installer asking people if that's what they want (and why it's good - again in particular for the the witless types on Ask.com etc.)
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Bing pays me to use them. (Seriously, $5 gift cards for Amazon.)
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I use it too - it's the only search engine accessible from my workplace network. It can't find the broad side of the only barn in a desert even if manually rotating its head towards it and pointing it with both fingers.
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Sounds like you've either got some kind of malware, or your profile is corrupt. I've been using FF since it first came out, and I've literally never seen it reset my default search engine. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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And I remember "cursing in tongues" when they were pushing Yahoo.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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Yup, that's 11GB for 35,000 rows of data in one table.
That's 323K per row.
Why?
Because it's storing XML data, and the XML data is huge. And this is how the company stores its mission critical customer data. As XML blobs.  Now, mind you, that's just a small subset. The complete set has several million records. And this isn't the only table that contains these XML blobs, as they get replicated into different tables as the part of the various workflows.
To me, that just seems in[s]ane. But the core software is built on a third party product that puts everything in XML because that way its, um, extensible!!!
[update]SQL Server's "sp_spaceused" says that the index_size is 49,024,928 KB  [/update]
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Wow...
We have tables of hundred of millions (6 zeroes) of rows, but the larges DB (of the largest client) doesn't cross the 90GB...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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