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Debate when the throwing event is back on? (10)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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DISCUSSION
Throwing event - DISCUS
is back - SI
ON
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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And you are up tomorrow. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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For months I've been having trouble starting my 10 - 12 year old PC. It goes through the POST test nicely, displays the Windows logo, then shuts down. That sounds like a video system problem to me, so I updated my video card to something a little more current. When I opened the system, I saw for the first time the true resolution of my monitor, and it was lovely. Then I opened Microsoft Solitaire! LOL!!!!
It tries (and fails) to work with the full screen, but the poor cards just can't keep up with the cursor! BTW, there are 618 levels that I know about... Further exploration shows that other functions are having problems, as well. Scrolling web pages is erratic now, since the upgrade. I suspect that the older spec PCiE bus can't keep up with the demands of modern video cards. It appears that I've finally worn out this 2010 - 2012 PC that was state-of-the-art back then. They just don't make them like they used to...
Back then I dealt with TigerDirect and Newegg. Are they still good sources, or are there newbies I should know about?
<edit> Re: the title, when I tried Solitaire with the new configuration, my first thought was of Lucy, in the Christmas movie, telling Charlie Brown, "You killed it, you blockhead!!!!"
Will Rogers never met me.
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Oh, hey, we passed through your way yesterday. Thought of you and locked the doors. 
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Good choice!
Will Rogers never met me.
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I always think of Lucy pulling the football away just as Charlie Brown is about to kick it. The poor sap never learns!
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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Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming βWow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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STUPID STUPID Windows decided to not only restart (completely) without my say-so, but has ALSO deleted all my Chrome cookies. As a result NYT doesn't know who I am and has lost not just my current streak but everything else as well. On the plus side, at least I've got rid of that 98% success score and now have a nice round 100% 
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(And because it also lost my colour-blind settings, after the first guess it looked to me like I had two in the right place. There ARE NO WORDS with those two letters in those places and none of my other letters. Then I twigged and set the colours to something actually useful..)
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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A piece of code I wrote 15 years ago hit its first error, ever. Turned out that a different department broke their own rules on the format of a shared configuration file.
Add a few more defensive checks as I plan to be retired before it happens again.
I am sure that Honey would have solved this with a state table!
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I thought I made an error once, but I was mistaken.
Will Rogers never met me.
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In a similar vein: People who think they know it all really annoy those of us who do.
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Lol ... i.e. I never tell the truth.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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