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Most BSoD events are now hidden from the user, as ms has followed apple's example of freezing the state of the monitor (apple shows a screenshot) whilst frantically killing and restarting stuff in the background.
The only way to see that anything happened is by checking the error log -- but even that only works sometimes, because the error log always seems to be one of the first things that stop working,
Personally, I'd rather get blue screens; who knows how much worse they make things by trying to hide errors?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The company IT force upgraded the 7 year computer I was working on from 7 to 10, with zero checks why no indicators ever showed suggesting to upgrade.
Came into work to work one day and "oh, oh! Why is the desktop different. Win 10 upgrade."
Check VS and critical daily tools still worked. Cool.
Enable dual screen strecth. Odd - not finding 2nd monitor.
Odd - not finding graphics card.
Install radeon driver update - crash. but not BSOD crash.
Windows very kindly rolled the change back to using default windows graphics driver without completely falling over.
Issue - dell motherboard driver + some releated graphics driver is not supported for windows 10.
And even better is windows detected such a thing and never prompted to upgrade knowing that the hardware was not supported.
Months go buy, zero mention why I'm not using the 2nd monitor.
There was mentions ages ago that all old hardware would be replaced. Even filled out spreadsheet with computer details indicating serial number and model type which 10 second search would indicate age and if Win 10 supported, and said spreadsheet was used to remotely identify my computer for upgrading.
Suffice to say I started looking up articles on why devs and IT do not get along, wanted to find something regarding how a number of Devs write the software IT use and actually end up with a bunch of knowledge to get their work done which they know why not ... blah ... blah ... blah.
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I am on Windows 7... AKA The Last Stable Build of Windows.
I don't have those problems.
And I wont switch until Microsoft stabilizes Windows 10.
What a gawd awful excuse for an operating system.
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I've been building industrial control systems for a good 20 years now, and all based on the windows platform (okay some embedded stuff out there too), and other than hard disk or power supply failure the systems have been rock solid. I still have some XP machines out there just chugging away, and no one want's to upgrade them, if they are still working.
some machines have user interaction, others don't, I've got one machine (at least) out there that hasn't been restarted in close to 10 years, still ticking away with no issues. honestly the only real troubles I've had were do to system admins and IT people mucking about "tweaking" a system, then i get called out, put everything back the way it was, then they tweak it again, so i get called out again....
STOP TOUCHING THE #### COMPUTER!!! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!!!
I've had control system's running on every version of windows since XP, the only true reason of the stability is: no windows updates can be installed, because there is no internet at these facilities 
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Under start date, can we please have the option to select:
• Immediate
• 1 week
• 2 weeks
• 3 weeks
• 4 weeks; or
• Select Start date (allows us to select specific start date)
 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Pfft wait till they ask you to do the weeks to 3 then months to 3 then quarters to 4 and then years in the same control and still want to specify a specific date.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Use QA !
«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
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Since the last full moon. Minus weekends and holidays.
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What they're saying is, "I want to easily be able to select now, in 1, 2, 3 or 4 weeks, or a specific date." Doesn't seem like an unreasonable request to me. Many apps offer similar functionality.
/ravi
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So ... a drop down, or set of radio buttons (drop down allows for more flexibility in future) and a tiny bit of code. What's the problem?
Sounds like a very nice little feature that is simple to implement and makes the user's life a load easier ...
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
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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Yes thats what I did. Added a dropdown. Making thier life easier that I am not sure of 
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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Developers who refuse to understand what makes life easier for their users worry me.
It is a perfectly acceptable request, which obviously means "Next Monday", "the Monday after that", etc, and I, at least, can see how that would have value to users.
I suggest that you just do it.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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When you inherit project and open it up for the first time, look in References and see System.Data.OracleClient.
![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) me.
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I feel your pain!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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Early morning, caffeine deficient, juxtaposed with your post below, I read that as
Mike Hankey wrote: I feel your paint
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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I drink your watercolors 
«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
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AND YOU JUST_KNOW YOU are going to enjoy all those underscores.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Could be worse, it could've been VB6.
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It is worse. It's a VB.NET project that started life as a VB6 project and was run through the conversion tool, and then you add 3rd party conversion tools to it and you get an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing nightmare.
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I was offered a job as an Oracle DBA.
Luckily, they asked if I would be interested in a different position, so of course I said Yes. Doing front-end web work for something.
But what the heck is "Groovy"? Well, at least it's not Oracle.
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GenJerDan wrote: they asked if I would be interested in a different position
Based on comments from an Oracle app developer I know, at least with something else they'd offer lube.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I work on an Oracle based system and yep it's horrible.
After the current job I will never work with an Oracle database again if I can help it.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I once applied for a job in the military.
"Your resume says you're in IT so we have two available positions, you can become an Oracle DBA or we can test new torture methods on you."
"I'll take the torture methods, please."
They then presented me with an Oracle database 
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Wimp.
You need to embrace it.
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it didn't work!
Technician
1. A person that fixes stuff you can't.
2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
JaxCoder.com
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