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Software installation[^]
Now, tell me you never did that! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, tell me you never did that!
I could tell you that, but then I'd be lying.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Nah, I never do such thing. I always trust the installers and their estimated completion time.
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Yep, all the time.
I also speak kind, loving words to get my computer to do something, as if it can hear me. I then curse its existence, when it can't.
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It's been a while since I installed Visual Studio.
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Snow[^]
What made me laugh? At last an honest politician! (If, I suspect, only briefly...)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Last image.
Mouse over.
veni bibi saltavi
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That quite brilliant.
But why not use a Tokamak?
My plan is to live forever ... so far so good
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Just saw a photo of Morrayfield Shopping Center[^]
Which I think is near @_Damian S_
hope you're keeping your powder dry, buddy! Keep that car out of any hail later on, too!
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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"a bit damp" .... typical aussie style understatement 
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Luxury!
Where I live, we can't afford a pool in the centre of town!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I figure out that to get the content from https://api.github.com/events programmatically (it works from the browser), I have specify something, anything for the UserAgent:
HttpWebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("https://api.github.com/events") as HttpWebRequest;
request.Method = "GET";
request.UserAgent = "Hello There";
Sigh. That was 3 hours spent on what I thought should be ridiculously simple and was hoping to spend on productively writing code to process and display the digest of events.
I'd still be at it, if not for this obscure[^] post by Buddha (at the bottom.)
Marc
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That spontaneously reminded me of this gem:Marc Clifton wrote: if LEN(@accountnumber) >= 4
(WeirdAndWonderful[^])
- Sebastian
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manchanx wrote: That spontaneously reminded me of this gem:
Indeed, the same thought occurred to me. 
Marc
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I went through something similar and learned that painful lesson also when I built my DragonSharq web browser (retrieves the web site as text) which I wrote a CP article for at:
DragonSharq Web Browser: Safe Browsing / Source Viewing[^]
I ended up adding a droplist which let me set the user agent to mimic numerous browsers because sites will respond with different content depending upon the user agent.
DragonSharq also displays the returned headers which is kind of interesting.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I'd still be at it, if not for this obscure[^] post by Buddha (at the bottom.)
That's why I always read all the answers and not just the accepted one.
I have upvoted his answer on behalf of you. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Agent__007 wrote: I have upvoted his answer on behalf of you.
Cool, you actually looked. I didn't upvote it myself yet because I wanted people to see that it at received ZERO upvotes! Heading there now...
Marc
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It's not what you think[^] (video)
//edit//
Yes, it is SFW.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
modified 19-Feb-15 18:47pm.
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Ain't no WAY I'm clicking on that!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Again, it's not what you think. It is definitely safe for work.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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In case someone else is initially intimidated by that link: fbcdn.net is a Facebook static content server and the link points to a pure video stream. And it's a funny video, with german comment, but you'll get it even if you don't understand german.
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Yeah, I didn't want to point to a facebook page. Just the video. Thanks for clarifying.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Maybe one of you are an expert in this area. I'm in a battle with my customer's IT department. I need to set up a couple of VMs to run Windows 7. Of course, you cannot directly buy Windows 7 any more. There are OEM licenses out the wahzoo, but you have to put those on new hardware. So, IT won't allow me to use their OEM in the VMs.
First question - does a virtual machine constitute "new hardware"? I would argue yes, but then I'm doing battle with IT.
Second, Windows 8 downgrade rights - what I've read is that you ONLY have downgrade rights if you have a Windows 8 oem license. Anyone know?
Thanks for any pointers
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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If you have MSDN, you have a bunch of win7 keys for test use including VMs. In theory you should be able to use them. I can't, I believe the problem is that Corporate ITs audit tool can't tell the difference between a VM using an MSDN key and one created using a key that increments the cost of their MS site license. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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