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Merry Christmas!
P.S. These ad guys are good. You are thinking about Christmas already.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Kill the ad agency, and it's friends, it's family - unto the third generation.
That's not in the spirit of Christmas... 
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I'M
NOT
FEELING
CHRISTMASSY.
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Don't you start! Bristol isn't that far away ... 
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I won't repeat what I think of the ad agency, except to say they are bunch of utter tw*ts 
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C.A.R. Hoare
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About 40 years ago, one hotel/restaurant in Norway made an announcement in mid summer: Make your table reservations for your Christmas party in time!
So this one comedian - good, but not so well known that his voice was recognized by the hotel staff - called up the hotel and asked for a table for the Christmas party ... the coming weekend. He had a long discussion with the head waiter about the availability of Christmas tree and other decorations, traditional Christmas food, music and Santa and Christmas beer and everything. Not until the caller asked for Christmas snow did the head waiter make an immediate rejection.
The recording of this telephone conversation made a great hit on the radio that summer; it was played again and again. The head waiter must have realized, at some stage, that he was having his leg pulled, but certainly not from the start, and then he sort of had to keep a straight face (/voice, in the phone).
Another well known comedian, Rolv Wesenlund, started his carreer in the early 1960s by making and publishiing a long series of such pranky phone calls, but soon his voice was known by everybody, so he couldn't keep it up. But he established the tradition of pranky phone calls in Norway, and serveral others have kept it alive.
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Fear not - it's part of a process I observed decades ago and is progressing as expected.
Each year, xmas (and other holidays) are observed a bit earlier, the sellers wishing to get first dibs on your credit cards. This is going to continue, year after year, until . . .
. . . they finally reach the point where they are selling you things an entire year early!* So, if you live long enough, all will be well some day.
*Begging the question - are we already a year or two or three early and just don't realize it?
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You've done well to avoid the constant barrage of "Christmas in July" adverts for a certain movie channel that have been running for several weeks.
You're also a bit late to start paying in to a Christmas hamper savings club for this year - they usually start a few days before the previous Christmas.
Still, it's only 162 sleeps to go!
(More if you take an afternoon nap.)
"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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One of the crappy movie channels I get (on Virgin cable) has started showing Christmas films already. Burn them WITH FIRE!
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There are some things I'm pretty good at, like programming and writing, and then there are some things at which I'm not so good, like taking care of plants.
In the past three years I've had seven plants of which only two survived, but were dying.
So I decided to fill up all those empty pots and get some green back in the house.
Then I got excited and bought some new ones too.
I now have twelve plants and I've studied them (I read the cards that came with them) and I'm determined not to let them die 
I'm full of good intentions, but still... Say a prayer for all those poor plants
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I hear you. I'm not the best with plants myself. I've found that ivy, spider, and shamrock plants I can do well. The rest I tend to kill. A good Arduino project: moisture sensor. 
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I can grow dandelions, brambles, and grass. Everything else will die if I look at it.
Herself is not impressed with my weed detection system: "if it was easy to pull out, it was a flower".
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That's a good thing, I also try to take care of my plants and still they end up dying.
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Get a self-watering plant pot; or make one yourself.
If you bought a cactus then don't put it near the alarm-clock
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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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In Norway, growing pot plants is not legal.
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With the exception of my youngest daughter, we have quite good success in my family in communing with our chlorophyll hued friends.
I'm a seed sprouter - I've a window full of cactus grown from these tiny black seeds. Also some from fruits I had the pleasure of eating, such as Sabra and Dragon Fruit. Even succulents (very difficult - some seeds look like fine sand). Once they're past infancy, they're rather difficult to kill (over-watering is worse than neglect).
Vegetable garden, too: Five Sweet Millions tomatoes (too many) and seventeen hot peppers of unknown varieties. Actually, I can identify some, now: Serrano, pablano, jalapeno, Anaheim, Hungarian hot wax. The identification comes along with them becoming part of last night's dinner. Hoping for a habanaro or two, and more varieties as their mysteries unfold.
Your problem is that you need to spend the night with them sharing intimate secrets. I don't do that, but then, I don't have problems growing things . . .
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I've killed a cactus. For lack of watering...
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VNC? Remote desktop?
For what you describe... it should do the job
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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Kevin Marois wrote: or maybe from my Office PC to home.
And that's the problem!
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Kevin Marois wrote: it detected that I'm on a business network
I would be quite interested in what are their criteria for deciding this.
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Usually, the free version allow only an amount of use time over a period, if you use it too much, it lock.
You can try UltraVNC or Ammyy
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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Kevin Marois wrote: or maybe from my Office PC to home.
Yes, this is the reason...
They decide you are on a business when you connect two ways between both computers...
In any case... if you stop connecting from one side to the other one probably you'll keep it free...
and if this doesn't work... see: UltraViewer - Remote control software, remote access software[^] Never used it though...
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What does TeamViewer give you that you don't get with VNC or Windows Remote Desktop?
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