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Amnesia10
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Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:02 am Posts: 29240 Location: Guantanamo Bay (thanks bobbdobbs)
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You are right that much of the bloat is appearances. An old excel program if it ran would be fast but unappealing to look at. It also might be in a small window, so yes most of the changes are for the good, though remember there is a lot of bloat in some products just to add new features, and a lot of legacy code which does not help unless you actually need it.
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Thu Mar 07, 2013 12:14 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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That I need to plan my extended weekend rather than sitting there wondering what to be at.
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Fri Mar 08, 2013 2:43 pm |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am Posts: 11039 Location: London
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Done all my work and still over an hour until I can go home
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Fri Mar 08, 2013 3:14 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm Posts: 10022
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Sometimes I wonder what the first sentient protohumans made of things like pain, fire, dreams and other things which we routinely experience and ignore.
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Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:01 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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I appear to be developing a head cold, and I'm meant to be spending three days on Dartmoor next week with about 30 video students. Stupid body. Fight it!
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:11 pm |
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TheFrenchun
Officially Mrs saspro
Joined: Wed Jan 06, 2010 7:55 pm Posts: 4955 Location: on the naughty step
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Plenty of orange juice and lemsip?
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Wed Mar 20, 2013 8:29 pm |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm Posts: 12030
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Tons of fluids and vits. Anyway, I'm not a Windows person. My sister's barely a computer person. The last hour on the phone trying to troubleshoot her laptop would've been hilarious, if it had been happening to someone else.
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:38 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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Is it possible to [LIFTED] pure stomach acid?
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 9:57 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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I had to think about that for a minute, but if you mean sh!t then I'm familiar with the scenario. 4mg loperamide immediately and 30mg lansoprazole before sleeping seemed to sort me out last time.
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:05 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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I'm pretty sure we don't have any. Just staying hydrated and hope it goes away before I go offshore on Saturday.
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 10:11 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Why the hell a £1000+ RAID5 NAS system is only transferring at 2.5MB/s  Our internet connection is faster than that!! Hard disks are fine. CPU utilisation is fine. Temperatures are fine. Everything is fine... except it should be going at least 10x faster. This has been wasting me literally days moving stuff about. 
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Thu Mar 21, 2013 11:49 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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OK it's not the NAS, it's the Windows server. Transfer speeds from a Linux box in the same rack go at 30MB/s Yep, that's 1000% faster... Although Linux is using NFS, so maybe the fault lays with SAMBA...
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:21 am |
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am Posts: 2967 Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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Much the same as us I imagine. I don't routinely ignore pain, fire or dreams.
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:16 am |
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forquare1
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:36 pm Posts: 5158 Location: /dev/tty0
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I'm sitting up, waiting for a few hours to pass, getting ready to work Friday night. I was initially going to post a small rant about being given one days notice for the plans. But then I sat and had another think. I am one of two people in the country that does what I do, on a railway line that has a number of world firsts. Yesterday I was in Derby on some ex-37s converting plugs for new screens and installing new software, today I was fault finding shorts in a recently added data logger, and tomorrow I will be guiding a driver through the testing of a new signal box software version, which if successful will be commissioned on the same night. I'll have Monday off as my Saturday will be spent recouping from Friday night, and there isn't currently anything major planned for Tuesday.
There are things to moan and rant about, but on the whole I like my job. The worst two things about it are that Faye has moved away to do teacher training, so I've been living on my own for the last six months and haven't seen her often enough, and that the next job similar to this isn't scheduled for another 3-4 years, which of course will overrun and be 5-7 years.
I wonder what the next few months/years will bring.
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Fri Mar 22, 2013 1:34 am |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Why does changing the stock software on a device sound dirty? Rooting? Flashing? All I want is pre-installed bloatware to fcuk off and die, and to stop crippling perfectly good apps I'm so afraid of bricking the tablet 
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