5th Bullet point: " Being relentlessly stalked by a seller for a product that I'd either already bought..." Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius

Ho-ho! You jest ;) TTFN - Kent

answer from chat gpt below ---- As an AI language model, I do not have access to insider information and cannot confirm the veracity of the specific claims made in the article. However, the allegations about Google using data from OpenAI's ChatGPT to train its own chatbot, Bard, have been reported by various reputable news outlets. Google has denied the allegations, stating that Bard is not trained on any data from ChatGPT or ShareGPT. It is important to note that the competition between tech companies in the field of AI and chatbots is intense, and it is not uncommon for such allegations to surface. Caveat Emptor. "Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long

Kent Sharkey wrote: How did Windows manage to duck this one? Are they not speaking about smart phones? :rolleyes: :laugh: And yes... I saw linux in the list, but I had to ignore it for the sick of the joke M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Apologies this is not a common occurrence. Unfortunately I don't have the ability to remove votes of 3. But I did my best to counter act them with my own upvote. Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

Cp-Coder wrote: As a last resort I restored the system drive to a Macrium image taken just yesterday, with little hope that that will recover access to the D drive. But it worked! Now my D drive is visible again! :~ So, something changed on the system drive that lead the OS to think there was no D: drive, and restoring the backup of the system drive brought that back...? Maybe the dying drive is NOT your D: drive at all... I can't help but wonder whether--while your system was in that state--the BIOS was seeing your secondary drive at all. Probably can't determine that now... Either way...yeah, back up religiously. Someone mentioned a RAID configuration...I never miss an opportunity to point out that RAID isn't a backup solution. I've had a RAID controller give up - no fun (all drives individually were fine). Given the extra hassle of setting up RAIDs - while I liked the idea (at first) I stopped playing with the technology, have gone single-drive and never looked back.

My group keeps comprehensive backups due to our products' extraordinary life span, 10 years or more. We limit support to more recent versions. Archived source code is generally available to the team, although some older items take a minor bit of effort to retrieve. We have one application, an in-house debugging tool, that has been in active development since 2000. Software Zen: delete this;