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Pity that no stop button released yet
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.
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On my work PC:
0) Start windows update.
1) Check for updates.
2) Wait a minute.
3) No updates found.
4) Check online for updates from MS.
5) Wait a bunch of minutes.
6) 155 important updates are available. 46 optional updates are available.
For the most part they're non-security updates at least; but scrolling down the list shows 1 VS2010 security update, 6 VS 2008 security updates, and one VS 2005 security update (and I never installed that version on any of my computers here) that weren't pushed via normal channels. 
It also shows 36 updates for Office 2013 which I had for a few days before rolling back to 2010 because Lync barfed after I installed all of the 2013 security patches that IT pushed. Gotta wonder if some of the regular patches they didn't push would've fixed it; but now that it's uninstalled why does windows update think I still need them. I also have 8 updates for office 2007 which has been gone for years if it was ever installed on this PC at all.  Looking at my old email I think the 2010 upgrade happened on my old computer; but I won't rule out dregs being left on the corporate image if they did a 2007 to 2010 upgrade there instead of building a new one. OTOH it might all be sharepoint designer 07 crud which is a separate in and of itself, with the amount of time the external site lags behind the internal one a bonus on top of everything else.
Edit: Looked at the optional ones too. 34 of them are language packs; and thus fully ignorable. There're a few driver updates, a SQL server service pack (for as long as it's been since I've ran that locally i should probably just uninstall it actually). The only thing that looks legit on that list is IE11. (Yes, we're still using internot exploded 10 here.) With no evidence beyond past history (every previous IE upgrade followed an upgrade to a new version of it, and it currently being busted in FF), I'm going to blame the Deltek timesheet/etc web app for being the browser blocker again.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The latest Windows 10 updates strengthen Microsoft Edge with industry-leading enforcement against loading unauthorized DLLs into Microsoft Edge content processes. Undoing all the hard work in de-securing IE
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Kent Sharkey wrote: The latest Windows 10 updates strengthen Microsoft Edge with industry-leading enforcement against loading unauthorized DLLs into Microsoft Edge content processes.
How long did they took to figure out that this and activeX are bad things ? 20 Years ? More ?
Patrice
“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” Albert Einstein
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For a company that develops software like Cortana that seem nothing sort of inspired from sci-fi movies, it makes sense to use science fiction stories to narrate the vision it has. There's a joke there about Science Fiction and Windows 10, but it's just out of my mental reach
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It's called Microsoft Works.
GCS 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--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
"When you have eliminated the JavaScript, whatever remains must be an empty page." -- Mike Hankey
"just eat it, eat it"."They're out to mold, better eat while you can" -- HobbyProggy
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What if we could bring the JavaScript language and ecosystem also into the C# world? What if a C# developer could use JavaScript inside C#? There's the 'how'. I leave you to figure out the 'why?'
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The tools/techniques/designs to use when building a tree house differ to those you use when building a nuclear power station. To use either in place of the other is not a good idea.
First - decide what you are building, then select the tools.
Also - please excuse further ranting - but what we call a framework in this context seems more akin to a boyscout's guide to knots[^] than a grand unified theory[^] of everything.
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Odd. It was there yesterday.
TTFN - Kent
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Perhaps they realized how bad of an idea it was. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging 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
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DevOps is cool. Correction: DevOps is mainstream. Correction: DevOps has broken through the mainstream and is now quickly catching up on “Agile”, “Big Data” and the almighty “Cloud” as an excessively used buzzword. So how much substance is there to the hype of DevOps? As in "hole"? (for money and time)
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It seems to me that at its core, "DevOps" is: Don't use humans to do the tedious stuff computers can do (metrics, test, build, deploy, maintain). This seems like ComSense to me.
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: This seems like ComSense to me.
Scarce good this days 
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.
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Among the most "oversold as a cure" methodologies introduced to business development teams today is Scrum, which is one of several agile approaches to software development and introduced as a way to streamline the process. It's Tuesday (or Wednesday), time for a new methodology!
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Agile is old and Scrum is older, we're so cutting edge our next project will be Emoji.
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I have always followed an agile methodology, long before the term was coined and capitalized upon.
Scrum was a formulation and a formalization that I never bought into, personally. I mean "pair programming", for example... Who has ever had that kind of money to burn!?
The article is excellent. Thanks for posting a link to it here.
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Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that entails. "That's it! Game over, man! Game over!"
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Quote: We know we don’t live in isolation. You have a heterogeneous environment and we need to operate within it.
Translation: That's why Windows 10 has to spy on you.
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He's talking about the other meaning of security - insurance...
Windows 10 security (sometimes called spyware) is there as an insurance of Microsoft's future income...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) has found that people's honesty varies significantly between countries. It must be true: he comes from an honest country
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No shiz Sherlock! It's a cultural thing, "white" lies and all.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Or in the words of Billy Joel:
Honesty is such a lonely word
Everyone is so untrue
Honesty is hardly ever heard
And mostly what I need from you
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Language is a wonderful, masterfully evolving beast and we're all just puppets bending to its many whims. 
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Lot of my Thai friends use 555 in their comments and I was wondering what that is until I found out Thai word for 5 is "Ha"...
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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