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As time goes on, I keep moving forward with resolution capabilities. I always prefer the highest (so far).
I just dropped the resolution on one of my monitors to 1440 x 900 to adjust something on one of our internal tools. I can't figure out how i ever navigated computers with this resolution. It makes me think of a super mario level[^].
It's just odd that it wasn't that long ago this was normal.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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I worked on a system that had a mandated maximum dialog size of 600x400. That seemed soooo biiiig. 
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We have some stuff here written in qbx, going between 40 column mode and 80 column mode.
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I've got the opposite problem with my laptop. It's got a 3200x1800 display, and some apps have text too small and overlapping controls. For the applications that don't have jacked up formatting, the display is super nice and readable.
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I think the obvious solution here is for everyone to always use the resolution I am using.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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800*600 was fricking awesome when I first had it
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Not a nutter[^]
So with the Rolf verdict, does that mean that the legal system is actually going to work in two cases involving celebrities? 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Well, Oscar's defence doesn't have a leg to stand on.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Quote: Harris guilty of indecent assaults
I didn't realize that there's such a thing as a decent assualt.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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The chairman of the jury held up the verdict and said "Can you tell what it is yet?"
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 another kick in the gonads of what remains of my childhood.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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I cant bear thinking about 'tie me kangaroo down' anymore .....
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A friend bought a new Win 8.0 laptop, and asked me to set it up for him.
I tried to update to IE 11, and was greeted with a message that I had to upgrade to 8.1 in order to uupgrade to IE11. ABSURD! IE11 runs fine on Win7 so why do I need 8.1 to install it on a newer version of the OS?!
My first action was to try to update it to 8.1, but it wouldn't let me do that until I'd applied updates first. ABSURD! Updating to 8.1 should apply the missing updates in the process of "upgrading"!
So I went to apply Windows updates. Of course there were a slew of them (101 to be exact), so I simply selected them all and let it go. 30 minutes later, it rebooted and spent the next 1.5 hours configuring the updates, only to displayy a message claiming that the configurtation failed, and that it was going to revert changes - which took another 1.5 hours.
So, I had to applie all of the updates two or three at a time - which took another two hours.
Finaly I was able to upgrade to 81. - which took over THREE HOURS!
I started at 9am and didn't finish this until 5pm! FRAK!
I tried to install MSSE and it told me that Win8 already had Windows Defender on it and didn't need MSSE. How is it that Windows Defender is all I need on Win8, but Win7 needs MSSE and Windows Defender? WTF?!
".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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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I tried to install MSSE and it told me that Win8 already had Windows Defender on it and didn't need MSSE. How is it that Windows Defender is all I need on Win8, but Win7 needs MSSE and Windows Defender? WTF?!
Make sure you click 'Yes' under 'Was this helpful?'[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm so glad I moved to a Macbook Pro. Only problem is I need to sometimes run Windows 7 on a VM. Bummer. I love my Mac though.
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Everybody I've met with a Mac claims that it's great but all of them are running Windows 7 on it along with the Mac OS.
That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
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ScottM1 wrote: That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
OSX is a great operating system. So is Windows 7. Swapping between them to use the best application for the job is a luxury not a problem.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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ScottM1 wrote: That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
No, not really. The Parallels Desktop VM running on my Macbook Pro runs great. I try to avoid working on Windows in any case since I like the Mac OS much better. But, sometimes work intervenes and I have no choice.
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I did exactly the same thing on Saturday with MSSE, a little more Windows and a little less Metro would be good!
I am still unsure about MSSE and am thinking of some third part AV (other than Norton!) 
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Windows Defender on Win8 has MSSE already integrated into it, so an external install is not required.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Windows 8 didn't only suck on saturday
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I tried to update to IE 11
<cheap shot>
I think I see the problem.
</cheap shot>
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm working in a mixed-threat environment with little-to-no documentation (leaning heavily closer to "no" than "little") of Excel spreadhseet files, Access databases, something caled Vista FileMan, xmod files, DAT files created and FTP'd to special locations on the network from SQL Server jobs, and the SQL server databases all appear to be populated with user-created one-time-use tables.
It's a f*ckin' mess.
All of the stuff was apparently created by a non-DBA or non-programmer.
I'd like to repeat that there's little-no-documentation describing why something is done, the order in which it needs to be done, or where the f*cking resources are that were used to create what I am loathe to refer to as "data".
".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 didn't know you were working on the same project, I also inhereted a mess. What are the odds  .
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