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After years of hard work, and the death of my rich great uncle, I am now a billionaire!   
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When my rich uncle gets out of the poor house, I will join you. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Good luck! It's a very special day!
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Buy an island in the South Pacific, preferably next to the island of Chris, but don't touch his wife!
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Good plan!
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Hello uncle Lloyd 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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I discover so many of my lost family today!
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Super Lloyd wrote: After years of hard work
Super Lloyd wrote: the death of my rich great uncle
I smell conspiracy. Now don't make me want to look into this case. You know my name doncha?
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Your uncle ... he was a Nigerian prince, wasn't he?
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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How... do you know?!
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I think I met him once ... or at least saw a picture of him on a website ... "419 eater" I think.
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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Filed under April Fool's - title
I don't know what jackass organization is responsible for driver updates during Windows update, but if I turn off this update, it's because I have a good elephanting reason for doing so. The fact that you dumb***ts keep turning it back on, I want to come to your office and slap you until you cry...
It used to be that "drivers - see the manufacturer" was MS's total f'ing copout from it's stupid crap that it pulls. I swear I want to find a few MS managers and go a few rounds. If I change the GD group policy don't un-change it.
Assholes
f'ing idiots
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Remember when Windows 95 came out and we all thought M.S. was on our side at least?
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The elephant? 
Win 95 was the point when I knew that they had totally lost the plot.
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oh.. so Win3.1 was so much better?! And everything went downhill ever since? 
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I didn't do development on Windows 3.1, 95, 98, 2000, Xp... I used them as necessary.
I cut my teeth on X Windows, Motif and C. I was appalled when I ran into Win32. I was less appalled at mfc. Running OpenVMS, Ultrix (google it), Sun/os, HPUX, AIX, these NEVER went down. EVER. Well, there was that time when the RAID was unplugged, but hey, reasonable....
This crap is from management and "policy" decisions.
Seriously, I want to remove the blood pressure medicine from the MS managers making these asinine decisions. I want to sit in their office and right as they are about to push the Send button, I'm going to pull the f'ing power cord and slap them with it (sorry JSOP, you gave me inspiration). I want to do this until they weep and surrender or have an aneurysm.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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So you're saying that MS went wrong when they licensed Xenix to SCO and focused on DOS? Ahh.. MS Xenix ... Unix running in 256Kb RAM with a 10 MB HD. Hard to believe. But true.
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there's that and then the full retard on Windows 10....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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k5054 wrote: Unix running in 256Kb RAM with a 10 MB HD. Hard to believe. But true.
Luxury!
PDP-11, 128kb, 2.5MB disk pack (yes, removable hard disks, 2 drives but one only worked most of the time.)
Even ran in 64k (though a bit unstable) when one of the core mem cards got a bit flaky and was sent to DEC for repair (yes they actually repaired memory back then.)
Most of the time though ran AT&T Unix v6, v7 worked bt too much of a memory hog and didn't provide anything new that was required.
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We once had six guys working, all at once, on a PDP-11 with RSX-11M+ and 1MB of RAM. You could look at the memory layout display and see six text editors open, each using just a little bit of memory. I thought it was impressive back then and even more so now.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I used to work with Xenix on an Altos 2000 (386 processor, can't remember the spec. but it wouldn't be much) and it wasn't too shoddy in terms of performance.
It was never my favourite flavour of UNIX but it did a job which is more than can be said of some more modern OS's.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Yes, MS doubles down again. New update rolls out, resets all settings. Power management keeps turning off my usb devices.
More buffoonery...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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With great sadness I have to announce that CodeProject founder C.Maunder has decided to stop maintaining the website and that CodeProject will be shutdown next week. While on vacation C.Maunder met a gorgeous Polynesian girl, decided to marry her and spend the rest of his life on an island in the South Pacific (without internet!). The details of exactly how and when the shutdown will take place are not clear yet, but will be communicated soon, probably tomorrow.
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Not to worry, I am moving it to my Pi. Should be on line shortly.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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