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Have you checked the Microsoft Action Pack? It is not as feature rich as MSDN, but it's cca £300 / year and includes most MS software. And then (for testing) there are cloud services where you can select the target machine (incl. OS and software), rent it for a few days, and delete it afterwards.
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Tomaž Štih wrote: Have you checked the Microsoft Action Pack?
Ah, I forgot about that - thank you for posting, that looks like it'll fit the bill for a lot smaller bill. 
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Marc Clifton wrote: their Indian support didn't help
You dont say!
I tried to activate a personal MSDN subscription via India. Absolute waste of time. Useless, utterly useless. So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
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Munchies_Matt wrote: So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
I'm sorry sir, but I don't understand where exactly is the difference. 
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The difference is that I speak French too. 
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Munchies_Matt wrote: So useless they could barely speak, or understand English.
I ended up calling a French support line instead...
You found a Frenchman who admitted he could speak English?!  
Ad astra - both ways!
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Er, no, I gave up with the *English* helpline and phoned a French one instead (since I also speak French).
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Munchies_Matt wrote: I ended up calling a French support line instead...
The irony to that is that you at least speak French, but for some reason, you can never get a person on a help line that actually speaks English!
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The state of English in India is shocking. It is almost becoming a different language.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: The state of English in India is shocking. It is almost becoming a different language.
I suspect that's what the Brit's say about us Americans too.
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Yeah, well the possessive apostrophe does not work in a plural.
Sorry, I couldn't find a 'pedant' emoji.
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Nah, not really. American English is actually old British English, 17th century English.
What they speak in India is so badly affected by their accent and particularly way of speaking that it is often incomprehensible.
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The difference is that the French do care about their language. The Americans will gladly sell their language off to make a buck ($).
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I found that the MSDN subscription (the free one where you got the snail-mail CD library) was intermittant.
I would have said be patient the duty cycle has grown longer with the passage of you-know-what ... but in light of all these missile launches ... perhaps those days are truly gone.
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So my internet provider apparently has some issues.
Internet has been off for a while, got back on for a few minutes, and went of for another hour or so.
It's back on now and hoping it stays that way.
I was being very productive until it went off 
Pretty much bored since then...
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That's funny, my productivity goes up when internet is gone. 
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in fact all of our productivity goes up when you aren't on the internet.
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It was work I had to do on a website using the internet, so yeah... 
Besides, Google is like my second and third brain, or 2/3 of my IQ.
*Googles IQ*
That means Intelligence Quotient
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That's funny. When I goole "IQ" it just comes back with "149" ...
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google: google's IQ
Quote: Google's score is slightly below a six-year-old human's IQ of 55.5, but more than double Siri's IQ of 23.9. By their measure, Siri is not as smart as Microsoft's Bing or Baidu, which have respective IQs of 31.98 and 32.92. All AI's IQs are significantly less than an average 18-year-old's 97 IQ.Oct 3, 2017
hmmm, maybe the google.co.uk is a bit smarter than google.com?
btw, that makes Sander's IQ = 83.25 by his own admission (2/3x = 55 => x = 82.5)
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Lopatir wrote: btw, that makes Sander's IQ = 83.25 by his own admission (2/3x = 55 => x = 82.5)
I never said anything about my IQ score, just that it was at 1/3.
I was still pretty brilliant though 
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OriginalGriff wrote: When I goolegoogle "IQ" it just comes back with "149"
You were saying? 
Ad astra - both ways!
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Oscar Levant: There's a fine line between genius and insanity being able to spell. I have erased this line.
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I have a cable internet provider, and the cables are run above ground. One time, a truck somehow snagged the wire going from the pole across the street to my house, ripped it completely off and dragged it a couple hundred feet down the road where the repair crew found it.
More recently, my cable was incredibly sporadic. It would work for a couple days solid, then would be up and down every few minutes. No rhyme or reason -- temperature, sun, rain, nothing seemed to correlate.
And of course when the cable guy showed up, it was working fine. None-the-less, the guy replaced all connectors, splitters, etc., on the outside of the house -- these things aren't even in an enclosure, and why I even need a splitter when the cable goes to one location in my house is beyond me, the only thing I figure is that I need a a single connector to bridge the wire coming from the pole to the wire in the house.
However, once all that hardware was replaced, I've had rock solid connectivity. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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Ouch, we've had that once. Internet had been flaky for weeks. Called the internet provider and they found a knack in the cable. Had to break open the entire street to fix it.
Underground cables don't break so fast, but when they do they're not so easy to replace
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