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Marc Clifton wrote: Sadly, I can no longer use the license key that came with my MSDN subscription ages ago for Office 2010.
For legal or technical reasons?
Last time I had to go an installation of Office 2007 it activated fine. But I admit that that was a year or two ago now.
If your MSDN key activates (even if your MSDN sub is long gone) then I am pretty sure that MS isn't going to come after you for licence revenue.
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markrlondon wrote: For legal or technical reasons?
Over the years, and computer changes, I now get "too many activations." 
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Ah, sorry to hear it. It has to come to all of us, I guess. 
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New version of VS Code today[^], and what do they post as the first new feature?
Updated Visual Studio Code icon This is for the people who feel my sense of humour is "trapped in the 90s" and "too harsh on Microsoft".  
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Updated Visual Studio Code icon
Ya, so you don't update your product and then look around wondering where it went. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I had one of those eye rolling experiences the other day after installing the latest version of SSMS. Failure to launch...splashscreen for 5 seconds then poof...nothing. Luckily lots of other folks with the same problem and easily resolved by removing a line from the ssms.exe.config file. Still, do they test this stuff?  I would be horrified to find that any of my software was just quitting without letting the user know about it.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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The astonishing thing was that it worked for a short period and then just failed to open, thankfully the fix was simple (after I had reinstalled the bloody thing - note to self check Google before reinstalling).
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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And even better:
> Depending on your platform, you may still see the earlier logo due to the operating system caching the application icon.
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: > Depending on your platform, you may still see the earlier logo due to the operating system caching the application icon.
What!?!
Not having access to this incredible new technology is absolutely intolerable!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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D00d, if you don't realise how important iconz are then you're soooo last century...
It's all UX, the brand is the hero, y'know.
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+ What you wrote says so much; far beyond the thread.
markrlondon wrote: the brand is the hero, y'know. |
In my day, this was said in the form "The medium is the message".
A harsh possible reality is that it's not that the masses are dumber than ever. It's just become easier to observe it.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: A harsh possible reality is that it's not that the masses are dumber than ever. It's just become easier to observe it.
I think this is true.
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Many years ago, I got something in the same class from the other side - the users/customers:
I was teaching a week long course on this great new office automation system; the students had never seen a computer screen before, only typewriters (and some of them were unfamiliar with electric typewriters. In those days we had "NLQ" (Near Letter Quality) matrix printers with a ribbon, like a typewriter.
The last half hour of the last day was set off to reactions: How do you like this working style, where you can move text around without retyping it, have automatic text justification, chapter numbering, generate a table of contents and an index?
Sure, all of that is probably fine, but the color that ribbon in the printer ... It is so cold, almost bluish black. It is unfriendly. Couldn't we have a ribbon with a more brownish-black tone? That would make our letters to our customers a lot more friendly looking.
This was the very first reaction that came up, and every single student agreed that this was an essential compliant. All the other requests or complaints about the system was supported by just a few of the students; the others liked it or had no opinion. But everyone agreed that the ribbon should be more brownish.
We did forward this complaint to the printer manufacturer, who gave it a serious treatment, but I don't know if they ever did make more brownish ribbons; the bluish one was all they could offer when we made the request.
I had just completed my studies, super-proud of all the fancy software technology I brought them. This was like getting a bucket of ice cold water thrown in my face. But it taught me, in what I felt as a brutal way, that customers/users (sometimes) don't give a sh*t about my pride in "my" technology; they may ask for quite different qualities. (Usually, sales people are much better at grasping this than software developers!)
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Well, it's good that they didn't complain about the new system itself. I take it as a win when people reviewing / testing software I've made only have small complaints about cosmetic issues.
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The Register applies its bs-scrapers to the new Visual Studio Code 1.35: [^]
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
modified 7-Jun-19 4:25am.
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I have almost everyone in the office doing that annoying slow bacn-and-forth chair rocking that emits an annoying squeaky door sound.
We're practicing for when our boss comes back from vacation on Monday. 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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I once had a coworker with a bird whistle noise as his notification for receiving a text. I was the maintainer of some in-house software, so I found a gif of the noise and added it to play when a button in the about menu was clicked. So he would get a text and then there would be a chorus of bird whistles from a bunch of other cubicles. Sometimes we'd play it just to make him think he got a text. Good times.
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A much used heavy glass-and metal door down the hall started squeaking really loudly and annoyingly, today.
It's no joke when I say it's been driving me up the wall.
It's the little things in life that make you want to take a sledge hammer and smash the cr@p out of things.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You know that 3-in-1 oil is available, right? 
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That's a temporary solution. Hammer is definitive.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Hey, can I audition? I lean back in my chair and stretch a couple times an hour.
I think my chair sings the song of your people...
Software Zen: delete this;
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When we had a baby, we took over a used baby stroller with squeeking wheels that I should have oiled before we took it into use. It didn't happen until the little girl started making squeaking sounds, just like the sounds from the wheels. I don't remember whether that was before or after she learned to say "mommy" and "daddy", but when she started squeeking, I dug out the old oil can.
Old memories ... It sure was a good idea to write down such things when they happened. I really enjoy digging up my old daddy's notes from those days.
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Is a power tool an annoying boss?
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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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Is a prison warder's boss a screwdriver?
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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