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I'm on my second "carpet spot cleaning" machine, which at least make it a little less unpleasant early in the morning (when you can get at it, which wasn't the case this AM).
The first was a Bisell - good machine let down by lack of thought. The suction tube has an internal spiral which traps the waste, and it all starts to stink very quickly. You can't clean it because it's not removable, and it gets plastic fatigue shortly after the warantee expires...
This one is a Rug Doctor - bigger, heavier, and not free of cr@p design problems (try cleaning the waste tanks some day, and the nozzle design traps cat hair where you can't get at it at all easily) but it's a lot more robust and reliable long term.
At least furface jumped off the bed today before he started to puke. vomit on the duvet is a lot less fun. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Tapped out on taps.
I bough, quite some years ago, a budget bathroom sink tap for our "new" bathroom. It was the "big box" store's house brand and an amazing bargain . . . at first. The cartridges wore out surprisingly quickly (at least the cold water side) and the replacements were amongst the most expensive . . . and only sold in pairs.
Eventually I took the cheap way out and bought a new set from a real brand. One of my earliest (but not last) made-in-China bargains. The infestation of untested and overpriced at any price junk had yet to fully encompass the world.
Now I look at the cost of spares to replace things before I buy the new one. Even the lovely Xeon box they bought me for work was against my recommendations. I wanted (and specified) an approximately equivalent gamer's box. It was cheaper up front and was built with standard parts rather than the exotica needed to care and feed a Xeon. Well - it's not my pocket but I spend other peoples money like it was my own (in the positive sense!). A digression - but look for the ability to maintain you purchases of value to you as part of the cost.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Clear up cat vomit under the bed from 04:30.
I will never understand why people want to have cats in their home. 
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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It's like having children but with lower bills, and less teenagers.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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I hope you never have children and if you do that they never read that statement. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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ZurdoDev wrote: I hope you never have children
Everybody tells me that - often the first time I meet them!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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And you can give away your grandcats.
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Well, these days I have the opportunity to work a lot at home. There is nothing worse than being in a deep coding trance, mighty bytes are flowing and suddenly in another room comes the sound of a cat upchucking.... and no, though they be family cats, they are not mine.
To make you feel better, I'll up you one - Saturday evening around midnight - snuggled into deep rem cycles...
Knock, knock on the bedroom door - wife opens the door - son: "Hey I heard the water heater making a weird sound. It's dumping water out the bottom, is it supposed to do that?"
<insert adrenaline="" rush="" here="">
How many of you know where your main cutoff is? 
Yeah, I didn't get back to sleep until about 4am...
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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Great pianist, he'd been a member of Coltrane's quartet.
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"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Didn't hear about that, sad indeed.
phil.o wrote: Great pianist
Agreed! 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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To the tune of “come on Eileen”
Thank me later (or not)
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COVID-19 is not funny to me. Yesterday, news just revealed a new cluster (source of 21 patients) at a restaurant that is within walking distance from my house. 1 confirmed case just a street away from me. It hit too close to home.
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We have it one hop away at my wife's workplace, and a known person of us is already in quarentene...
but I still prefer to try to laugh about it than to get mad by panic and dumbness as many other people around here.
Edit:
And with here I don't mean CP but the area I live in.
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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It's not funny, but in the US alone the 2019-2020 flu season has killed 20,000 to 52,000 people.
COVID-19 hasn't hit that worldwide and it's been around almost as long.
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Flu is still worse then COVID-19.
20K+ deaths in the U.S. already due to the Flu.
John Hopkins has gone on record as saying that this COVID-19 will most likely end up being similar to a very bad influenza outbreak.
None of this is going to cause the end of the world or 70% removal of the earth's human population.
Media is hyping this big time and causing panic on purpose and all of this has been politicized.
The average human's chances of living through this virus is much greater than not....just like with the flu.
It's much easier to enjoy the favor of both friend and foe, and not give a damn who's who. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
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The real problem, in my opinion, are all these people that are overdosing on hand sanitizer. All that does is INCREASE the chances of the virus becoming a real problem. Our bodies need conflict to get stronger and when you remove all viruses and bacteria, you end up weakening your immune system and now we'll have a weak herd and it will be a bigger problem than it should have been.
I'll paraphrase Master Oogway, we often create the future we are so desperately trying to avoid.
Wise turtle.
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I've been using a Dell XPS 17 Laptop since 2012, and I love it. Big 17" screen, full keyboard with a separate numpad, NVidia GPU and Waves Audio. Just a great package and perfect for development. And no problems upgrading from Win 7 to Win 8 to Win 10 Enterprise
But... I was finding it was running really slow the last few years. Updates were painful, Visual Studio took several minutes to start, overall just sluggish.
So last weekend I just bit the bullet, and got an SSD drive to become my primary drive. I had originally planned to remove the DVD drive and install the original drive in its place, but found that there was an 2nd empty drive bay! Bonus.
So got the drive in, and installed Win 10 Ent. fresh. It all went smoothly and all of a sudden this laptop was cooking again. It only has a SATA 2 interface, but still significantly faster. I am just starting the process of copying files across from the old drive and I couldn't be happier.
I hope this gives me another 3-5 years of life...
Andreas
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Andreas Mertens wrote: I hope this gives me another 3-5 years of life...
If I were you, I'd give it a good subnet mask, and be careful it doesn't catch the cortana virus.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You really don't understand how big a different a second monitor, or n SSD instead of an HDD makes until you try it, do you? It's a much, much bigger improvement than doubling RAM ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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if you can bear it make the system fully/only SSD.
having a spinner in even as a secondary disk still causes some slowness.
- booting, file searches, indexing, other background tasks etc still slowed by any present HDD's
- worse: if SSD gets too full windows and other apps will move swap/cache to the second drive
if you really need the spinner for say large/bulk file storage consider moving [it] to NAS.
also remember: once you go SSD you will never want go back.
(pain in the ass when doing things on clients / other peoples machines.)
after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!
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I have a Dell laptop too and am very pleased with it, only problem is that it was fitted with a 128 Gb SSD and a 1 Tb hard disk. As Windows keeps on growing it is a constant struggle to free up space. Worst thing is that I can not turn on System Restore on C: as it is not possible to point it to the D: drive. 
More info here: How to Use System Restore in Windows 7, 8, and 10[^]
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RickZeeland wrote: I have a Dell laptop too and am very pleased with it, only problem is that it was fitted with a 128 Gb SSD and a 1 Tb hard disk. As Windows keeps on growing it is a constant struggle to free up space. Worst thing is that I can not turn on System Restore on C: as it is not possible to point it to the D: drive.
Open it up, pull out the 128GB SSD, put in 512GB or whatever and then use your tool of choice (Acronis, AOMEI, Macrium) to image the old install to the new SSD. Just remember to turn off BitLocker first.
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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That seems like a good idea, I don't have BitLocker turned turned on so that should not be a problem. Good thing is that big SSD's are getting more affordable too.
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When imaging the disk I would recommend you to do a partition image and not a disk image. In my objective experience it gives less problems when changing disks / sizes of the system.
RickZeeland wrote: Good thing is that big SSD's are getting more affordable too.
512 Gb SSD are around 80€ depending on brand even cheaper
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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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Thanks, that's a good tip, and as the price difference between 250 GB and 500 GB SSD's is not that big anymore I think I will go for a 500 GB one. The bigger ones also seem to have slightly better performance.
On the Crucial website I found SSD's that are compatible with my Dell 7577 laptop, the NVMe model looks very promising:
Crucial P1 500GB 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD | CT500P1SSD8 | Crucial EU[^]
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