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Sleeping and holding his cellphone right up to his face.
I should take ransom photos. 
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Keep us informed of recent developments!
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And _pleeeaaassse_ don't foget to post them on 'Where I am: Member Photos' 
modified 27-Mar-21 21:01pm.
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This was my first thought, too ...
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Given the amount of time you spend coding I don't blame him 
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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well ,you're married... fml 
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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Let's twist again!
(unshielded)
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Don't bogart that... oh no sorry, that was something later
modified 27-Mar-21 21:01pm.
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RickZeeland wrote: Let's twist again!
(unshielded)
That sounds like something that might be triple X rated.
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That was absolutely not my intention! 
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Triple X rated?
I never thought of that in all the years I heard the words "twisted pair", referring to the wires used to connect the telephone network. "Silver satin" took over in the 1990s.
modified 17-Feb-21 0:49am.
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I went to download something this morning and I was downloading at a paltry 6MB/s and change. (about 50MBits/s)
Normally it's closer to 25MB/s (200MBits/s)
I spent 20 minutes dealing with my ISP - between furbling through their automated system and troubleshooting with the rep (a very pleasant and competent woman. On an unrelated note I always feel good about getting Indians versus Americans on tech support. For some reason they tend to know what they're doing more of the time, in my experience and I'm used to their accents anyway so they aren't hard to understand over the phone. I think that puts me in the minority with respect to that opinion though)
Anyway, after going through the motions of restarting the modem, and checking my wireless LAN for any interlopers, I finally rebooted my machine. I figured I might as well. I kind of enjoy it, since it starts windows so fast.
All of the sudden my download speeds are back up to where they're supposed to be, but my upload speed is now averaging about 1.7MBits/s. Far worse than what it was before the reboot, and obviously not even close to reflective of my ISP's connection speeds with this package.
What the heck, Microsoft? Your "security" updates *always* elephanted. Just stop trying.
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honey the codewitch wrote: What the heck, Microsoft? Your "security" are updates *always* elephanted. Just stop trying.
Complaining about updates? You can turn those off.
We choose not to.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Turning them off leads to other problems. With microsoft you just can't win for losing.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Turning them off leads to other problems.
His choice; and the fact 'e's complaing, proves 'e think there a better alternative. Easy alternative is to not update.
honey the codewitch wrote: With microsoft you just can't win for losing
Is it? Did you try OS4 warp?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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IBM doesn't know how to build operating systems. Every operating system they've ever inflicted on the world proves it.
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honey the codewitch wrote: IBM doesn't know how to build operating systems.
So, both IBM and MS make bad operating systems, that what you saying?
My favorite is the AmigaOS. Yours, I'd guess to be Linux, since you disapprove of the mainstream.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I don't like Linux either. Its updates destroy my MBR on my hard drive.
Really, about the only reliable OS i've used lately is FreeRTOS, but that's not appropriate for a desktop machine.
I'm a windows dev primarily, so I run windows. I want it to *work* though. Microsoft has been really frustrating in recent years. I'm not a fan of windows 10, but at least it's better than 8.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Really, about the only reliable OS i've used lately is FreeRTOS
Amiga, multi tasking OS. In half a megabyte. All that Windows does.
honey the codewitch wrote: Microsoft has been really frustrating in recent years. I'm not a fan of windows 10, but at least it's better than 8.
So.. you too young to remember Win ME?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I was working at Microsoft when it was released. We all made fun of it, just not to our PMs.
If they didn't plan on ME being the last win9x offering, WinME made sure it was.
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Thanks for the heads up about FreeRTOS. 
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Unless you have a little thumbnail sized IoT device that needs an operating system, I don't really recommend it. Nobody writes a good office suite that runs on it. 
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We run RTX from Interval Zero on a windows 7 machine to convert it to real time for some printers and it's kind of a pain to manage. The programming is probably above my skill level, but it's always good to keep an eye out for these things. 
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