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my first car had a starter handle.
too poor to buy a new battery... (petrol, beer and cigs were damn cheap though)
got 2 maybe 3 tries with the electrical starter
- sure to fail if your tongue was in the wrong place.
after that it was the starter handle, bloody hard and hell of a kickback if not turned full round
- one could lose their tongue if it was in the wrong place.
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Also very important to keep your thumb out of the way: make a "U" not an "O" with your hand or the kickback can break your thumb. (You get the same advice about how to hold the steering wheel when driving off-road, and for the same reason.)
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I spent a couple of year on a sheep station in the early 70s. Power was a diesel generator, you learn bloody quickly to make a U when the kickback will toss you across the room (at 16 I was a skinny little runt).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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We're getting hit hard by the Baidu search crawler. Always fun when you battle against the very services that are meant to be helping you and your readers. 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Sorry, forgot the joke flag 
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Can you not adjust the hit rate?
"Crawling Control of Baidu Spider
Baidu spider automatically crawls your content to find the latest updates in your site. If Baidu spider’s crawling affects your site’s performance then you can change the crawling rate in your Baidu webmaster tools account."
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Please note the stand named 'Java'. Should the next one not be 'ASIC' or 'Script', instead of 'asses'?
Wizard of Id[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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90. Open discussion loop with hesitation (5)
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FORUM
Open discussion
loop FOR
with hesitation UM
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yep 
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I'm working on the laptop from hell again and have discovered yet another issue working with offline files. ASP.Net under vs 2010 and 2017 refuse to keep session variables when the project is run from it's normal location, on a mapped drive made available offline. Copy the project over to a local drive and it works fine. 
Other weirdness abounds. Other .Net projects/apps are also failing with generic SocketExceptions when run from the offline folder but work perfectly from a local drive. I first noticed this behavior with my home-rolled ftp utility several month ago but just moved it to an external drive that travels with me.
I've been working with offline/synchronized folders for almost 20 years and this behavior is either new to Win10 or I have some other problem(s) with this laptop.
Regarding this laptop, I call it the laptop from hell due to the fact that it acts possessed sometimes:
0: when trying to login, the login box goes black (loses focus) while I'm typing, sometimes 3-4 times before I'm able to get my password in.
1: at random times, sometimes 4-5 times a minute and sometimes never, the big, ugly winten menu pops up and the cursor has moved to the bottom left...makes it difficult to write code sometimes!
2: typing in a browser is painful as the it tends to skip letters quit oftn. 
Yes, the touchpad is disabled. It's touchscreen, but that's disabled as well. It's about 4 years old now, so it might be time for a spring cleaning, exorcism, reinstall everything. Other than that, it's a pretty good laptop and I should be able to get a few more years out of it. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The keyboard and/or video problems are definitely driver related.
The .NET stuff is pretty much obsolete anyway so why worry about it
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Is there a hardware forum on here?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
modified 13-Apr-19 10:13am.
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I though there was but I can't find it
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Under "General Programming" on the left: Hardware & Devices Discussion Boards[^]
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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It's just over there <----
Seriously, it's not difficult to find.
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It's hard to find 
but you can look under Discussions - Hardware & devices
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There's one, not that used.
The last time I checked, the question was about punched cards. 
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: the question was about punched cards
I could probably answer that.
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I could assist in case it comes to punched tape
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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