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....especially to those who are at work holding up the rest of the world 
I'm dry again this year, offshore Qatar, but did have a lovely fillet steak for lunch and then just had some excellent roast beef and lamb for dinner.
Been watching all the moaning coming from the facebook groups about the taxes that started today, on tobacco, alcohol and other unhealthy products like energy drinks etc. 100% tax on some products and 50% tax on others. Hate to think what the hotel booze prices will be now!
At least they got a petrol price cut to compensate.
Anyway, Happy New Year everyone and I wish all of you and your families a Healthy, Safe and Prosperous 2019.
Lang may yer lum reek!
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Happy New Year to you as well.
People gonna bitch no matter what you do or don't do for them!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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HNY to Thee and Thine, Dave ! I think I'd be at home in Qatar ... of course I couldn't pay the rent on what the US sends me monthly, while, here, in the Land of Smiles, I can rent a lovely house.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Happy New Year 
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Just realized when going to bed, that started 2019 with setting up my ever first Java application (for Andriod) - it was actually interesting to play with... Didn't felt the pain of the different language (a C like too) and probably was too busy to learn to notice anything really bad about...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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It could be construed as a programming question.. hence I hope you will forgive me for putting it here...
However no code is involved and.. it's just an easy to ignore, VS debugging user experience question...
When I debug with Visual Studio, everytime I break the code, by clicking the pause button it show a goddamn screen (replacing whatever current file I was looking at) "The application is in break mode... here is some useless information in fullscreen for your viewing displeasure..."
How do I get rid of this goddamn f***ing useless, nay irritating, window?!
For now I placed it at the bottom with the various diagnostic windows and VS remember. But it's so f***ing annoying...
Remark: this really started when I disabled Diagnostic Tools. But my VS debugging experience was suddenly very slow after I started collecting CPU info, so I disabled the diagnostics.
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What's this?
Stop all that complaining!
If ms says that that's the most efficient way to do it, then that's the most efficient way to do it, so just get on with it and use it that way!
It's the way of the future!
In other words: The geniuses at MS who turned both the OS and its flagship, MS Office, into time-wasting mockeries of their former selves are finally setting their sights on VS.
It's time to start looking into Eclipse, guys (preferably looking into it with an eye to rewriting it, because it's pretty awful).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Eclipse is a very powerful IDE that could be very useful if it wasn't such a PITA to work with.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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My thoughts exactly.
Just the feeling that you're thrust almost immediately into a world where nothing is named rationally or intuitively, and nothing is where you would think to look* is enough to wilt your enthusiasm. And that's one of the minor hassles!
My first few days with it, a browser with a search-engine spent more time topmost than the IDE.
* E.g. What bright spark put all the CVS commands exclusively in a right-click context menu, under "Team"? Not the first place you'd look? I'd say it's a place where no-one would ever look!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: preferably looking into it with an eye to rewriting it, because it's pretty awful
Let's be honest, it only exists to make vi look good!
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Nailed it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Real men use Edlin
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Real men use a compass and a tiny bar magnet! (And it's still better than Eclipse)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Obligatory xkcd
Real programmers use butterflies!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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what year is it?
why are you still using outdated versions of software?
you realise the instant and every time you start it you are opening yourself to millions of viruses trojans, seemingly well meaning lonely scammers and many other problems?
- at least that's what all of the esteemed ms certified experts tell me when I mention anything less than the very latest version of anything.
i.e. just passing their message along.... chitter chitter squeak [or whatever sound brainless lemmings make]
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36204009/disable-break-mode-page-in-vs2015
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mayerwin.DisableNoSourceAvailableTab
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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"Where are my desktop icons?"
It's going to be a long day...
Edit -----------------
I fixed her issues (mostly Firefox settings). She seems happy - for now...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
modified 31-Dec-18 19:29pm.
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While I was migrating her machine, I remembered that we use Turbo Tax for our annual tax stuff. Since Intuit (I used to work for these guys) isn't as forward thinking as I am, there is not Linux version of their tax app. SWMBO kinda panicked, and I told her, "Relax. We can do it on their web site, or if you don't want feel comfortable doing our taxes on the web, I could install TT on my Windows VM, and you can remote desktop into it and use the desktop software there.
She seemed to calm down a bit, and we have a month or so before we have to worry about it anyway.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hey man, you're in USA. Nothing to worry about till next year.
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Will John survive the OS migration on SWMBO computer if we see him post in a day or two he survived if not dibs on his mustang 
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If you can get it from SWMBO
<sig notetoself="think of a better signature">
<first>Jim</first> <last>Meadors</last>
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When I originally bought the Mustang, she didn't get it.
When I started modifying it, she didn't get it.
When I put the big-ass blower on it, she didn't get it.
When I die, my will stipulates that she doesn't get it.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I guess I'm the only one trying to figure out what SWMBO stands for.  I even looked for clues in the replies, but only get that it's a reference to the wife.
Edit: Nevermind, I got it!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 31-Dec-18 13:46pm.
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