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Well...not quite that bad.
But the live url links on the board don't work for me any more; not even when it's me that posted them. I have to copy them into Word and open them from there. Does anyone else suffer this or is it just me?
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haven't noticed that yet. try a different browser?
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I'll try at home, but I don't have that facility here. Always used to work OK. Niggle, niggle, moan, moan.
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Maybe you should stop rhyming post with lost, dixbie. USn servers can only take so much.
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once again, ASp, yul have shone us the way... 
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...the postess with the mostess. 
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Oh, man--thanks for the laughs, you-all! What a great wake-up!
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interestingly, (my instantiation of) IE will only open one(1) extra window for this.
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Well, our IS&T people have just satisfied their need to go through a mysterious process, they say to 'migrate me to a different domain'. Whatever that may mean, coincidentally it seems to have solved my problem and those links are now live. But I've also lost a lot of other stuff - hopefully they can recover it.
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I wo(ca)n't explain... but don't feel *all alone on this one, tsuwm.
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dxb - Yeah, it sounded like a dns issue from here...
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Oh, good. Please don't explain! 
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Since when has migrate been a transitive verb?
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Gives me a headache just thinking about it.
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I'm going to take that with a graine of salt, TEd...
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Since when has migrate been a transitive verb?
OED lists a passive usage from late 18th century.
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Dear dxb: I hope your migration is not like that of birds,
back and forth seasonally.
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No, Dr Bill. They're closing down my old domain. There's no going back.
Migrate has been used as a transitive verb by our IS&T people for some time now. It should be getting used to its expanded role.
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This site suggests 'move' instead of 'migrate' in this context: http://www.office-futures.com/tech_talk.htmI dunno, Seems like 'move' doesn't quite have the necessary connotations. Maybe 'port' is a better choice, but I'm not exactly sure what meaning the word is supposed to be carrying. 'Port' would imply that some computer program was being adapted for a different platform than the one it was originally designed for. What is being 'migrated?'
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>What is being 'migrated?'
I took it that dxb was migrated to a diffenent environment.
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I'm sorry, I hadn't gone back far enough in the thread. Yeah, parbly 'move' would have been a better word.
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Please, please, please let's not get into another slagging match over IT terminology. I'm aware that it's terminally flawed from a prescriptivist viewpoint - which rather pleases me, actually - but irregardably I gotta live with it. I'll migrate anything anywhere in IT without so much as a nod to the transitivity or otherwise of migrate in a strictly grammatical sense. If a thing needs architecting, then architect it I will. If an object needs orientating, I'll orientate it with the best of 'em. Life's just too short.
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That's irregardably®, sir. 
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Please, please, please let's not get into another slagging match over IT terminology. I'm aware that it's terminally flawed from a prescriptivist viewpoint - which rather pleases me, actually - but irregardably© I gotta live with it. I'll migrate anything anywhere in IT without so much as a nod to the transitivity or otherwise of migrate in a strictly grammatical sense. If a thing needs architecting, then architect it I will. If an object needs orientating, I'll orientate it with the best of 'em. Life's just too short.
Sorry ma'am ...
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Some years back I was in a meeting with a bunch of IT types, and one of the mentioned that he had to decompose the program. Having heard the joke about Ludvig decomposing music, I quickly figured out what he meant without making a fool out of myself.
Then I said, "I guess that's a pretty rotten job." Not ONE, not ONE of those people got it. And it was at that point that I realized I was really beginning to look forward to retiring.
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