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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?
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I prefer Graham's number[^]. 
"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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a bound so vast that it holds the record for the largest number ever used in a serious mathematical proof
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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AOMEI backs up the Surface - which it refused to do on the Wookietab: full image backup of the primary disk: 20 minutes including verify.
I gotta get a USB3 card in my desktop ... USB2 is just too slow.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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geez you don't have USB3? must be an old machine. the one i used costed $250 USD and has USB3. It's just an old I5 refurb.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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My motherboard is USB2 only - I didn't worry about it because I didn't know my external drives were all USB3 ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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*sadface* - oh well, you can pick up a USB3 adapter for a song on amazon or whatever.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I did - to put in the PCI Express slot on the refurb I use. I bought it specifically because it came with a video card w/HDMI so it plugs into TV for both working remote and as a media box.
So I open it up to install the PCI Express USB 3 card . . . and find, with only two internal slots, that the one and only PCI Express slot has the video card . . .
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*headdesk*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I like how this diagram pretty much ignores the fact that USB 1.0/1.1 have ever existed.
But then, they'd probably have to redo the diagram to use a logarithmic scale so anything's visible at all at the lower end...
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Don't speak of that abomination 
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Nobody wants to acknowledge USB 1.0. We're all just going to pretend like it never happened.
Nothing to see here. *waves hand in jedi-like fashion*
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You don't need USB3 for a mouse and keyboard, so the "problem" is more to do with the way functionality kept getting tacked on to USB.
It's reached the point where USB-C is probably the biggest SPoF in the history of human endeavour -- and one of the biggest PiTAs, unless you're a lover of dongles.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You don't need USB3 for a mouse and keyboard,
True.
I have a 4-port USB 1.1 hub I still use for my mouse, keyboard, a USB lamp and charging devices. Speed is entirely irrelevant.
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I get a HUGE difference between USB3 connected external drives than USB2 connected ones (and these are all USB3 drives). Definitely worth the price of the adapter card I got for my old machine.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Really pretty hard, or so it seems.
So I'm still working on this early 90's standard, which is pretty impossible to read.
It's basically like this:
You have a code being a certain data field, like 123456 for weight and 654321 for quality.
This goes in a header with two leading zeroes and the fields length (two digits) and precision (one digit).
So a part of a header could be: "0012345605200654321020".
Then comes the value lines, which is just the values, like "00322A ".
The complete (simplified) document would look like:
H0012345605200654321020
V00322A So taking the header and values we get the C# values of 3.22m for weight and "A" for quality.
I've got documentation with all fields, their lengths, possible values, and which fields are mandatory and optional or conditional.
So now I've got this entire document which is completely according to the specs, which must be read by some third party application.
And it fails with an ACCESS VIOLATION EXCEPTION!? 
No "failed to parse value 'x' for field 'y'" or "missing mandatory field 'z'", just an access violation.
So I've got some example files that I know that work, so I decide to look at one and dissect the header and fields one by one (I've written a little program for that) and see if I can spot a difference.
I can spot two differences, the sample file has a lot of optional fields with invalid values and it's missing 20 characters in the value line.
We decided to add those optional fields to our own document, including the invalid values (but with correct length) and it works 
Why on earth is an invalid document read without issues and does a valid document fail with an access violation? 
You can bet your ass that's not the only thing wrong with this application
Anyway, I'm now waiting on a reply from someone who's on a vacation for the next two weeks or so.
Good times 
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Sander Rossel wrote: who's on a vacation for the next two weeks or so.
And now you know why ... 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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heheh
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The best I've ever heard was "I'm quite busy today, but can you call back tomorrow?"
When I called back the other day I got the receptionist telling me today was the first day of his three week vacation
It wasn't important, I only needed access to their systems so I could do my work.
So that meant my three week vacation started that day as well 
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during the .com boom i got hired to write some software for a national ISP, and the first day on the job was the first day of my boss' 2 week vacation.
That was ... interesting. I had *nothing* to do and nobody to go to about it, and nobody cared, so i worked on my own stuff.
i didn't even feel guilty about it.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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A friend of mine recently started at a company.
His job was to streamline their AWS resources and deployments... Except it took months for him to get the access he needed to do his job
He's been "doing research" and writing blogs for two months until he could finally do his job.
I should mention he's a pretty expensive external consultant.
If I were his boss' boss I'd fire him on the spot for wasting my money and my friends time like that
That said, most managers I've worked under would get that treatment if I were their boss...
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That's why we're not in management. LOL. They keep us locked away in the backoffice for a reason.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Imagine all the work that would get done
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It probably took more than 3 months of red tape to have him onboarded!
They don't want to fire him before he can complete the work.
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