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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Dude, you got your money's worth.
Yes, I suppose so. Things tend to last with me.
One of my cars (driven daily) is a little over 25 years old (I bought her new in '91). My Black & Decker toaster oven is 26 years old and works perfectly, as does my circa '91 Casio watch[^]. Almost all my furniture (Scandinavian teak) is also more than 25 years and still looks good. I don't recall ever buying an extended warranty. 
/ravi
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Clearly, you have the gift of longevity. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Yes, I think my brother and I were both brought up this way (preserve and protect).
/ravi
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My main email is via Live Mail on my desktop, using POP3 - so all emails are received and controlled by the one computer, though the various tablets can access new mail via IMAP so it isn't removed from the server.
And this has been working find for years. Suddenly, sometime today, I realized I wasn't getting emails, but I still do via IMAP. So I figured I reconfigure as IMAP and see if it's Live Mail that needs a kicking, or the hosting service POP3 server.
Stage one: back up the emails.
"By heck!" I thought. "That was quick!"
So I check, and it's backed up nothing at all.
When you highlight a folder in Live Mail it doesn't assume you want subfolders as well... 
Now it's still running - halfway through the inbox and 5 minutes in!
Damn glad I checked! 
[edit]
Yep: It was Live Mail. deleted account, recreate it and it's working...
[/edit]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
modified 8-Mar-17 12:44pm.
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So your live mail was only sort-of dead.
Zombie mail! Quick! Grab a bicycle!*
* There are plenty to grab, because none of the idiots in zombie movies ever use them
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Starting a UI refresh project on your website with your CSS files stripped down to practically nothing and every browser, including Edge of all things, correctly figures out what "text-align: left;" means, except IE.
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I am fairly certain that a thousand years from now we will still be damning the creation of IE. I wonder if the word "Bing" translates to IE in some foreign and/or space alien language.
IE --> Bing --> Rubbish --> Disease
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Bloody conservative* developers!
* Leftpond: "republican"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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[START_RANT]
Dear Bing
I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience.
It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site.
And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy.
But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page.
Until the next day when it's back again. 
How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else.
Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in.
So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life.
[END_RANT]
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer
But ... but ... you were the only user Bing had that lasted several days!
(I lasted several minutes)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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[longer than me]
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: that lasted several days!
or years.
or centuries.
or...you get the idea.
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I've been a bing user for years! Someday, I'm going to win something with my Microsoft Rewards, I know I will! It was the pictures that got me started. Normally, I enter "google" in the search box but sometimes I search for realz with bing.
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I use it for months since I upgrade my windows to 10
And it my favorite search engine when I want to search for code or VS things or something that relate to MSDN website 
modified 12-Mar-17 4:22am.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in.
And then every website you visit shows ads based on what Google knows about you. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Bing is a worthless search engine. Many times it doesn't find anything relevant while the same keywords in Google do the job.
I am forced to use it at work and I faaaarking hate it.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Coupled with Cortana it is part of an experiment to determine just how far users can be pushed before they start to smash the vdu ( rather than the actual pc ).
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Cortana has been the first service I closed on my Windows Phone, and on PC I still have 7 and rocking.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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den2k88 wrote: Bing is a worthless search engine.
Not entirely. From what I hear, Bing finds more nekkid ladies than Google. Now, Google finds me enough nekkid ladies already, so I've never had the need to verify personally. 
Of course at work (unless you have a fantastic job) this is rather a moot point.
But worthless? Nah!!
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Actually, I like bing because it finds different stuff than google. When I'm not finding enough stuff, I'll try bing.
I also like duckduckgo.com because it uses google, but doesn't remember my preferences, so I get a clean slate.
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At work I have only bing accessible, while at home I'm ok with Google.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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And in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, 'Ing[^]' is the Luminoth[^] word for 'terror', so Bing is 'B Terror'
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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