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Laughed so hard I spilled tea all over my keyboard
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Can somebody tell me how to get the screen shot I'm commenting on get in this comment?
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And what the hell is vac blower? How do you blow a vacuum? Apart from, you know, failing somehow?
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Hey, my computer spit out the same thing! Of course, I had a million monkeys typing on it for a million years at the the time. I'm hoping that in a few hundred years they'll start producing some of Shakespeare's works.
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My wife played 'Kafka' (a monkey attempting to do what you describe) in this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words,_Words,_Words
...at a 'Darwin Days' party at a local paleontology museum. The party was jammed with local hoi polloi (we're a college town), and the best part was the three actors gradually acting more and more like monkeys, without any of the partygoers knowing what was going on. Nothing like a crowd of intelligentsia looking on uncomfortably while a girl goes loping through, casually eating a banana, peel and all...
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Moan, moan, moan. It's always the losers who find such excuses
CAPTCHA: ideo, therefore I am
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For some reason, my first thought was that the computer had cought a cold...
What I don't quite get is "Etility" in the first line vs "Edilidy" in the fourth line. Is this thing progressively getting worse?
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"Fristing," as any fule no, involves an orifice and the terminating appendage of a second consenting adult.
The act to which you possibly refer is "thriding." This is an increasingly popular feature in the art-house cinema currently produced in the San Bernadino valley, as I understand.
(Warning: South African Presidential Candidates should take a shower afterwards. Yes, Zuma, I'm talking to you. Even if you only watched the grainy YouTube clip, you daft git.)
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(seventy) First!
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Rong place for that.
Also, 73rd!!!1!!cos(0)
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it didn't occur to you to save your data before clicking the button which you didn't know what it does?
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1st? :)
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It occurred to me to NOT press the button which explicitly stated it would reboot my machine. Instead I pressed the X at the top right of the window which, generally, dismisses a window without doing anything else. This would have allowed me to finish what I was doing without a fucking great (undraggable) stay-on-top window obscuring the screen. This being the first time I'd seen this fuckwit behaviour, I was a little surprised.
The application in question DOES NOT ALLOW ONE TO SAVE THE DATA I WAS INTERESTED IN - as explained in the OP and further explained in later replies.
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Yes, I had something very similar happen to my PC when the graphics card began to fail. I don't think this really qualifies as a WTF.
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That is the kind of output you get from HighPoint controllers if you have a problem in the setup of your hard drive, namely the master/slave jumper.
I once had a controller detect a "Pountul" (Quantum) brand hard drive, and promptly corrupted it's MBR.
Basically you get a combination of bad error handling and memory corruption running away.
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well, i'd call "up, down, up, down" pretty unstable. especially when it's happening often. like.. the once a second kind of often?
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Really? That bugs you? What you don't realize that this was, in fact, an intermittent hardware issue, and not intentional. You do realize that you just made yourself look stupid on the INTERNET, don't you?!
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Always mind the OnUnload event
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Needs another button - "Of course I'm sure, do it and don't ask me again"
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isFileOpen() can return one of 3 values: true, false or fileNotFound...
The programmer calling it obviously got their boolean logic confused somewhere in there. We'll have to teach them.
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Actually one thing that has always irritated me about Windows is when an application is slow so while you are waiting for it you push it into the background and work on something else. The application finally is ready and decides to push itself into the foreground when you are not ready for it or wanting it to.
Then of course everyone knows the updates annoyance when it wants to restart your computer, you say to restart later and 2 minutes later it asks you again.
Plus the fact it will often just restart itself overnight without asking you.
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I remember those versions of Norton AV, and even killing off the process wasn't good enough. It seemed that They Really Wanted You To Restart. And You Were Going To Obey!
I have that same HighPoint RAID controller. Hope it never has a bad day like that one did...
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Oh come on, stop quoting the spammer's links. Copy the text but pull out those links.
You're only doing his work for him.
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Clearly the video checkout, which should have been in Earth mode, was set for some other planet with at least 96 hours in its day (thus allowing 48:00 pm).
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The display with bad spelling was probably a bit-line problem (bad memory chip) on the graphics card. L1 or L2 cache problem? I doubt it; the code itself would crash before it could display much of anything.
(signed) Lurking Hardware Dude