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So today the joke is:
"I'd give my left arm to be ambidextrous!"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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As a lefthander myself, I'd prefer to give up my right arm to be ambidextrous!
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Amarnath S wrote: International Lefthanders Day[^] for those who care about it.
Being a left hander, my daughter likes this day.
My father is a left-hander. I'm "mostly" right handed, but had trouble learning how to tie shoe-strings as a kid. It was a magic I could not fathom until my left handed father showed me once. After a long time of practicing with Mom, being shown once by a lefthander made it simple and immediately replicated the movement.
Later, in school, I'd made a habit of switching the mouse every few weeks from one hand to the other. Writing with both is a matter of forcing yourself to do it. And can roll a smoke with either hand. Not always pretty, but it works.
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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So I decided to try my hand at a little online gaming, and I'm trying to sign up for World of Tanks.
They have the most elephanted-up registration workflow ever.
First, I never received the account activation email.
Second, when I try to open a support ticket saying that I can't log in because I was never able to activate the account, it wants to know the email address associated with the account. So I enter the email address that I used to sign up with, and it tells me, "There is no account associated with this email address." 
Has anyone else here played this game, and/or found out how to successfully register an account?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Apparently you can't even pass level 1. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Yeah, really! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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ZurdoDev wrote: Apparently you can't even pass reach level 1.
FTFY
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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Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So what happens when you try to sign up again using your original email?
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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When I tried that, it told me that the email address already had an account.
Thanks for your response. It's fixed now, I was able to get them to activate the account for me.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Has anyone else here played this game, and/or found out how to successfully register an account?
Register my own? Why?
OriginalGriff@gmail.com, password "Thanks".
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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Restarted my Dell laptop and I think a Windows update was installed that completely bricked my ethernet adapters.
Did a network reset, tried stuff, deleted them, re-added them, still nothing.
Got wired internet and I'm connected, but still no browsing or connecting to Wi-Fi!
Found out Firefox apparently uses its own settings and was the only browser that worked.
The stupid part is that a coworker had the exact same thing happening to her Dell laptop this morning.
We were the only ones with Dells and the only ones affected.
Spent two hours trying to get everything to work again, but without success.
Just got home and everything works like nothing happened...
I must've done something right this afternoon even though it didn't work at the time 
My coworker's still doesn't work though (she used her backup laptop today).
What the ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) is this ?
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I don't even think the driver was updated, but I'm not sure what was...
Anyway, it works again so I'm not going to tinker with it 
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I feel ya!
Windows 10 is such a complete pile of crap!
Whenever I can, I disable updates for 35 days.
Most of the time, I manage to avoid updates altogether - but probably every 4 months or so, I do a bit of cursing, and then continue on with disabled updates
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First time I've had an issue after an update, but I've read about all the problems everyone's having.
Windows 10 is my favorite after Windows 7 (at the time).
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John Torjo wrote: Whenever I can, I disable updates for 35 days.
Lucky 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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I don't know if you fixed it already or not, but they messed with the windows hosts file.
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I thought I fixed it, but it just seems it works everywhere except at the office 
What changed in the hosts file?
I've got six mapped IP addresses, five for Docker (they put it there, not me) and one for a server mapping for a client.
Other than that it's all comments.
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I was thinking of this [^]. Now thinking it might be unrelated.
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Microsoft: "What would you have done today?"
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Dell apparently has a staff aggressively writing their own drivers faster than Microsoft can support them. And they screw up.
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Sounds like a DNS problem. Firefox is the only browser that uses DNS over HTTPS so if you were having issues with the DNS server in your Wired Connection properties, Firefox would still work since it communicates with Cloudflare DNS over HTTPS instead. This would also explain why switching networks fixed the issue.
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Yes! This is exactly the problem!
Do you know how to fix this issue?
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