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BillWoodruff wrote: as a former paid up apple fanbois, twenty years ago,
What happened? I thought they went after those who tried to leave the religion, much like scientologists...(oops, did I say that out loud?)
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skipped it nothing much these days...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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To make it so you can only charge/ transfer data to/from your phone using only apple "proprietary" USB C cable.
You can't use any other cable coz the port is paired with the cable.
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"The new iPhone is out, we just have some teething problems with the antenna at the moment so you will either need to use the iPhone under water or you will need to carry it around in a bottle of water.
Rest assured it's nothing to do with the iPhone itself, we are in discussion with the electromagnetic spectrum creator to get them to fix things at their end..."
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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About five years ago I bought a set of unusual drills in Lidl. A taper drill, a stepped hole drill, a drill for widening holes, and so on. You know the sought of thing, an "it's bound to be useful sometime" buy.
Every now and then I see the box in the shed and think to myself, "One day, I'm going to find that really useful."
Finally, yesterday, the day came. I had a job where I wanted to make a conical indentation in a screw head. One of those drills would be perfect but, could I find the box? Of course not.
Next week, when I don't need it anymore, it will be lying somewhere in the shed that I have already looked.
I realize that this is just another manifestation of Murphy's famous law but, does it happen to you too?
Andy
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AndyChisholm wrote: does it happen to you too?
All too often.
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You know the drill ...
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More than I would like to admit...  
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?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Yes, but I usually forget what I am looking for.
I once shared a cubicle with a guy named Murphy. He believed in Smith's law.
>64
Some days the dragon wins. Suck it up.
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That's why I have at least two of everything in my shop!
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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That just gives me two things that can grow legs and run away ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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When you have children they run away even quicker.
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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Well what is there that's not a T-shirt for?
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Only two, you're awesome. I have way more than 2 of everything!
Hogan
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Looks like a minor Pratchett God has diversified ...
Anoia
The minor goddess of Things That Stick in Drawers, Anoia is praised by rattling a drawer and crying "How can it close on the damned thing but not open with it? Who bought this? Do we ever use it?" She also eats corkscrews and is responsible for Things Down The Backs of Sofas, and is considering moving into stuck zips.
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Just a bit chuck
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I think this is very much true with the five external hard disks with me.
Which hard disk has the file I need now? I remember having saved it somewhere, but where?
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At least you can use FileLocator or similar to find it.
It's more complicated in the shed!
Andy
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Agree.
Maybe I should have used my bookshelf example. Sometimes I find it difficult to the find the needed book. I have more about a 1000 books in my personal collection.
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What? You don't file them alphabetically? Insert a book; rearrange all the other books to make room.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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My books are in five different languages - English, Sanskrit, Kannada, Tamil, Hindi.
And on different subjects - Indian Philosophy, Mathematics, Programming, Engineering, Physics. Since my library room is small in size, the books sometimes get mixed up, and it takes an effort to search. Some of the books are stacked vertically so that a book at the bottom of the pile gets hidden.
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Certainly one must have sections. You need more "art" books. 
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Certainly one must have sections
Not by definition. Modern automated libraries tend store everything in complete chaos. When a book is returned, it is put into the first empty folder, in cases with a lot of numbered folders, of the appropriate size. This process includes scanning a bar code of the case, the folder and the book, and this is entered into a search index in the library, before the robot drives the case back to its shelf.
Whenever someone later asks for the book, the library catalog provides the bar code for the book. This code is looked up in the search index, and the robot is sent out to retrieve the correct case. At the sorting table, a camera scans the folder bar code tags for the one in the index, and a mechanical arm lifts the book from the folder. The folder is now free for any other returned book, and the index entry for the book being removed is removed from the index.
The National Library of Norway maintains a library of about two million volumes this way, mostly older books that are not any longer found in smaller libraries spread across the country. Users can browse the catalogs of this central depot library from any public library, or their own PCs, and order the book to be delivered to their local library. The library has an absolute time limit of 24 hours from the order is entered to the book is on the road, but during working hours the delay is usually no more than a couple hours (waiting for the pickup truck to arrive).
Of course the library catalog has sections. They may have an "art" section, listing the book. Another section may be "French books", and the book is listed there as well. And maybe in the "antique books" section as well.
That is the great thing about it. I have copied my huge movie / music library to the PC (still fighting with the copy protection on some BD/DVDs, but most I can handle). I all the time have these questions like 'Is this a blues or a rock album? Where shall I put it?' Or, 'How did I classify that Nina Simone song - blues, soul, rock?' The Explorer 'Find file' helps a bit, but my archive is so huge that it is slow. I can only search on directory/file name; other properties are not searchable (MP3 tags are almost non-existent in my archive, and when present, they are often highly debatable.)
So I have a database index design ready for implementation, for looking up on music/movies on more or less arbitrary criteria. The directory structure of my music/movie disk would mean nothing for the search; the files might as well be located in a single huge flat directory, named by a serial number to avoid naming clashes (I have heard rumors that NTFS can have performance problems with tens of thousands of files in a single directory, though). That would give me the option to make all the sections I like, more or less like hashtags.
If I get around to creating the index/search system, there is the "minor" task remaining: Going through every single BD/DVD/CD/vinyl cover to enter all the information into the index - performers, composers, alternate titles, ... Only some of it can be extracted automatically. Maybe that is why I am so hesitant to implement the index system 
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