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Maybe you disinfected yourself drinking vast amounts of gin  . A possible advantage your children don't have (hopefully  )
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You should give them ![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif) instead of Barack Pálinka[^]...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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good luck with both issues - Womiting Ickles and Phone Interview
'g'
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One of them Daddy I want... days.
Poor ickles, I hate when kids are sick, hope they get better.
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My neighbouring cow-orker has just gone home due to extreme womitting so I'm now scrubbing my hands before lunch and hoping against hope that he's taken it all with him. 
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Hope it's not this[^], otherwise you could be next.
Unfortunately, it does say "drink plenty of water", not "fluids", so you can't use vitamin G as a handy replacement.
"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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OMG, I would run away if I saw that in someone's living room.  Still, pretty clever. 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I'd give an arm and a leg for something like that at times. 
While very cute, our kitty sometimes forgets just how soft we are and how and easily we bleed!
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Yes, ours has a habit of diving under the duvet and slashing the heck out of my toes...wakes you up... 
Trouble is he moves faster than I do, so catching him to remonstrate doesn't work too well - and by the time you have done that you are awake anyway. I'm not sure if he's "really, really, clever", or just "thick as a brick and very vicious" but I'll go for the thick version given some of his other demonstrations.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Trouble is he moves faster than I do
So did Lonesome George!
speramus in juniperus
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OriginalGriff wrote: duvet and slashing the heck out of my toes...wakes you up...
One of my cats has the bad habit of scratching his teeth with my fingers... while i am still sleeping. Normally i have to hide under the duvet so i can get some sleep. Then he lays on my head. And all this is happening before the alarm clock and on weekends  And if i have the stupid idea of moving my legs ... well you can guess what happens.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Eouch!
Fortunately, the closest ours comes when we're in bed is the pillow. Every now and again we wake up to find him asleep on the pillow next to/resting against either of our heads.  He even seems considerate enough to share the love, almost always alternating separate visits between the two of us.
Yet at other times he'll perform a vicious sneak attack on the back of bare legs as we walk past. Crafty little mischief maker.
Wouldn't have it any other way!
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enhzflep wrote: he'll perform a vicious sneak attack on the back of bare legs
Dij does that. He goes out when it's raining, gets soaked, and comes in moaning about it. I have to dry him off, and he then has a quick wash and goes back out to get soaked again.
But...if I don't dry him to his satisfaction then as soon as I turn away (to get another set of cat drying gloves, say) he attacks my feet to let me know he isn't finished yet.
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So my HDD has had enough and decided to take a perma vacation now and unfortunately it happened as my warranty just got over. It was about 2 years and it was from Seagate.
I'm looking at a 1 TB Toshiba HDD. Can anyone tell me if they are good in quality?
Any furious flashbacks or personal opinions?
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It still works after a year so this is not helpful to you.
HDDs fail and this is a norm.
So far I had few failures over the years with WD (those were suppose to be "industrial strength" etc. but failed).
I do not remember if Seagate failed on me but I was once warned about those two.
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Well it's a pity that HDDs which I got in 2006 are working without any problem. I got the one which stopped around 2010 or 2011.
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I wouldn't touch a Seagate, or a Toshiba with your most carefully tended appendage. I know of no happy tales to tell about either brand after more than 30 years of designing, building, programming, integrating, debugging, and generally spending far too much time in the company of computers. Both are bottom of the barrel, best used as boat anchors or starting masses for coral colonies.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Yeah, but you can't even drive WindowsUpdate in a straight line.
Bought and used dozens of Seagates and have had one die on me and that includes the Maxtor's I bought before they were swallowed by Seagate.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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I have had a mixture of Seagate, WD, Hitachi and a Toshiba amongst my more than 32TB of storage at the moment. Up until now I have had two failures, both of them with WD drives so I now only get Seagate 2TB drives. I have had some of them since they first appeared and they have so far been rock solid and are still going. Both of the WDs that failed were 1TB drives.
Your experience may vary.
EDIT: I forgot I also have 5 Fantom 2TB drives in my collection; they also seem to be working fine.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Well to start with it's useless to ask about the quality of a HDD brand, they're all having an annual failure rate between 1-4%.
It varies wildly between the different models within a brand. Have a look at this[^] statistics for example. WD is at both the top and the bottom, and the only thing differing between the models is one character.
The next problem is that you won't know how good a drive is until they're already outdated.
So I'll stick out my neck here and tell you that you shouldn't bother about the brand at all.
Buy the drive that has the properties you want, with the best warranties and return policies for the price.
And if I should generalize, the better the warranties the better the quality.
Politicians are always realistically manoeuvering for the next election. They are obsolete as fundamental problem-solvers.
Buckminster Fuller
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I am not sure about Toshiba, I have never used it. But recently after reading many reviews, I came to a conclusion that 'Western Digital Caviar Green'[^] are the most reliable HDD available in the market. And Hitachi has the best performance. And at anytime for the storage, I will go with the reliability.
I bought two 2 TB WD Green HDD. (Also IMO, don't go for 3TB and 4TB drives, get the 1TB or 2TB ones)
Do not look for the price tag when buying a HDD, get the best one, because you can't afford it to fail with your data. You can replace all the other parts on your computer but not the one storing your 'Data'.
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My Google-fu is not working - I keep ending up with maths links! Does anyone have any links to articles / resources detailing the time overhead of logging to file? I've added logging to my undo functions to give a rough session activity trace and my boss is concerned about the time overhead wrt file access (I open, append, and flush every message).
Before I start timing things, can anyone speak about this from experience?
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Actually the best way to do this is to whip up a quick test program. Should be very simple, I would benchmark 10,000 writes and see what the min/max/average time is. Also do this during disk operations (move a big file) to get a good measure.
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A little CodeProject-fu can go a long way: [^].
That's only one of a number of excellent articles on CP relevant to precision Timeing in .NET. You should use the StopWatch Class, not a Timer.
good luck, Bill
"What Turing gave us for the first time (and without Turing you just couldn't do any of this) is he gave us a way of thinking about and taking seriously and thinking in a disciplined way about phenomena that have, as I like to say, trillions of moving parts.
Until the late 20th century, nobody knew how to take seriously a machine with a trillion moving parts. It's just mind-boggling." Daniel C. Dennett
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