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I remember someone, this time not me but out application architect, leaving a message box in a 'never happen' branch of the server code.
Guess when it hit the branch? About 3 frickin a.m. one night, luckily I wasn't in bed. Actually I had been in bed, but I was on my home and had stopped off for a beer...
veni bibi saltavi
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Why use MessageBox? What's wrong with writing to a log?
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Error 18446744073709551616: Symbol length exceeds system limit. (and my screen width)
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Youwrotetomuchwithinonelinewithoutusingasinglespacesothewholetextdoesdropoutoftheframeanditdoesnotonlylookstrangebutalsoiskindaannoyingifyourscreenaintbigenough.
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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Some more for the list:
- Using
MsgBox / MessageBox.Show from the code-behind; - Using
Process.Start to try to open a file on the client; - Using the
FileName property of a FileUpload / HttpPostedFile to try to read the file directly from the client's disk;
All of which "work" when you run the site in Visual Studio. Maybe we should be blaming VS for encouraging incorrect reasoning about the code?
Then there's the "There must be a way to bypass this security feature - my client requires it!" brigade.
And the "I need to show 1 million records in one page without filtering or paging, and it needs to load in less than one second - it's a client requirement!" brigade:
Quote: Agnes Skinner: And you! Start over! I want everything in one bag.
Bag Boy: Yes, ma'am.
Agnes: But I don't want the bag to be heavy.
Bag Boy: I don't think that's possible...
Agnes: What are you, the "possible police"? Just do it!
"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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FOCK! You have some stupid clients. I hope you're taking advantage of them.
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Charles Programmer wrote: You have some stupid clients.
I don't. These are comments that regularly crop up in QA[^].
"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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Weddings, christening and those awful work parties that you're forced into attending! 
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I see a pattern evolving in your function naming scheme. I'd hate to use your libraries. 
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Just write wrappers 
RegisterStartupScript_PS-RTFM
Interop_PS-RTFM
Access-Control-Allow-Origin-PS-RTFM
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How about renaming the courses these students take?
IT Course PS this will only teach you some basics because the teachers don't really know what's going on either anyway if you're a moron now you'll be a moron on graduation (but somehow you'll still graduate).
Minimum requirements:
Common sense Scrapped due to a drop in enrollments
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Yes, but MS doesn't use Java! 
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The WookieTab is dual boot - and it upgraded Win10 to AE last night (successfully, and with much improvement, I was surprised.)
But I just went to switch it from Windows to Android and it's decided to upgrade itself. So it's sitting there going
Getting Windows ready
Don't turn off your computer when all I want is to boot in Android. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The general consensus seems to be that that message is wrong.
It should read, "Don't turn off our computer". 
"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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The exclusive version of "our", to be precise.
* 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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Is this the Chuwi tablet Griff ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Oh yes - this is WookieTab! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I updated mine it took best part of twenty four hours and left a windows.old folder over 20gb but it seems to have worked - I got the message you mentioned several times and it rebooted god knows how many times until it finished. I had to use cleanmgr to remove windows.old though.
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Mine took 45 mins to an hour, booted twice I think - and made a massive difference to the system, particularly the touch-pad on the external KB. Before, it was a PITA: oversensitive, random f**king about with the display, useless to use. Now, it's like a lappie touch pad - not as good as a mouse, but very usable.
Which is yours? The Z8300 or the Z8350?
Where did you get it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Don't know what you mean by Z8300 or the Z8350 - all I know is it's a Chuwi Hi10 10.1 - I bought it from a dealer on eBay who is based in Hayes in the UK £147.99 and so far I'm very pleased with it - I mainly run Android though
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Ah! It's the processor: the Hi10 uses the Intel X5 Cherry Trail Z8300 which is the same as the Hi12 until the middle of last month, when they switched to the Z8350 version. It's a little faster, apparently: but not a massive amount!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not a problem. Just suspend that virtual machine and start the other one. Oh, wait, you still dual boot?
Rules for playing Javascript frameworks.
1. You can't win.
2. You can't break even.
3. You can't get out of the game.
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It has the advantage that you get the whole machine to yourself.
Which means that you can directly compare Win10 and Android on the same hardware. And trust me, there is just no comparison as far as footprint and speed are concerned! Android is much, much smaller, and in 4GB of RAM it flies, where Win10 staggers a little.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'm so happy I left the dual-multi-boot world behind years ago and I'm running everything from VMs these days.
A dual-booting tablet just seems like a bad idea to me. Not that virtualization on a tablet is an option (yet)...
I wonder if one could blow all that away and install Android x86 on this device...? Perhaps that's a way to get an Android tablet running a recent version of the OS on the cheap...
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Agile agent has both sides covered (9)
Slogans aren't solutions.
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