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Nice one
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I'll take it
Admonish
Commercial = Ad
Scotsman = mon ( as in hoots mon there's a moose loose in the hoose  )
is hospital = ish
Carpet is slang for being told off / admonished
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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And you are up tomorrow! 
"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
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Is is hospital = ish east side of the pond colloquialism or CCC idiom I don't know.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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Commercial AD
Scotsman MON
is IS
hospital H
carpet? (8)
ADMONISH
The conventional sign for a hospital on either side of the pond (and most of the rest of the world) is a "H" - for a road sign it's often a White "H" on a Blue background, on a map it's a Blue "H", and so on.
It's a pretty standard CCC convention as well.
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That I can understand.
Thanks Griff.
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
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You're welcome!
"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
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 I wonder of those salt drenched models will make it to market eventually and if they will be "fixing" the burnt ones for market again...
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Probably will be bought by lovers of salted-car-amel 
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I wonder also, if this was a battery fire as VW is going for it in the EV space and there may have been more than a few battery packs on board.
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According to the Portuguese media today (2022-02-21):
- the ship was still on fire although with less intensity
- there are a number (not specified) of electric cars onboard with their lithium batteries which is preventing the firefighters from addressing the fire in a traditional way (they need special equipment)
- a dutch tech team, hired by the ship owner, is waiting to go onboard and tow the ship to Europe
- also, a dutch tow boat, the "ALP Guard" from Gibraltar, is waiting to tow the ship
- a second tow boat, the "Thor B", is spraying the hull of the ship with water to cool it
- the cars include Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Lamborghini (some are/where Aventador Ultimae) and Bugatti Chiron, but there are other models too
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I need to download a driver set for my new notebook, but it always stops before finishing.
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Are they available by ftp? Most ftp implementations have a "resume" feature for interrupted transfers.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Good point. Even normal http downloads when they fail can sometimes be resumed. I just double click them and they either restart or resume in FF.
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I use Vivaldi, and every time I remember having problems, there was a 'resume' button available in the download tabby thingy.
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How humongous? I can download entire 7gb linux distros without a hiccup. How big could your driver set be?
".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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Came here to post that. "Humongous" is relative. The size of drivers ought to be a rounding error nowadays when it comes to other types of files people download. If FF can't resume a broken download, I suspect the server's ability to support it has more to do with the problem.
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dandy72 wrote: If FF can't resume a broken download, I suspect the server's ability to support it has more to do with the problem.
This, right here.
".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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MS-Edge seems to handle huge downloads. Download in a Private tab so you don't accidentally close the download.
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After some years out of IT, I decided to return. I know the basics but need to refresh with the latest. I last created a website under HTML4 and CSS2, so you can see how out of date I am. Plus I need to get a CompTIA A+, which seems to be the drivers license in IT now.
I signed up to a popular, paid, online training site, but was soon disappointed. The "courses" were offered by genuine experts, but consisted pretty much entirely of videos and nothing more. Also, the videos didn't seem to constitute any kind of curriculum. If you go to standard college, they tell you which set of courses major you in accounting as opposed to the set of courses that major you in marketing. I didn't find this on the online training site, even though it boasts of offering "paths" of learning. The paths turned out to be simply groupings of courses according to subject.
Then I discovered the "developer" subdomains of well-known vendors, and I think they are an unsung resource. I'm now working through the web development course at developer.mozilla.org, and it's great! It consists of a mix of reading, videos, and most importantly, exercises and skill assessments. There's also a forum where you can ask for help, and the volunteers are very helpful. I checked other vendors, like Microsoft and Oracle, and they too have developer sites.
What's been your experience with online technical training?
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