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The company I work with absolutely refuses to do the work-from-home routine, even with a large percentage of the staff being supplied the resources to. Things have been business as usual for the most part.
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Kris Lantz wrote: absolutely refuses to do the work-from-home routine,
I just don't understand that line of thinking.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I am up here in New York. Our work lock-down has been extended to May 15th. But things are starting to re-open but very slowly. I was surprised to see our county parks open already.
Our governor is under tremendous pressure to start re-opening the state but he is holding tough. which I believe is a good thing since our metro area has been hit so hard.
Problem is, the current lock-down situation, no matter where you are, is not sustainable economically and we have begun having protests around the country as a result.
Some are saying these protests are being supported by right-winged groups but who really knows. It could just be that it is a reflection that the populace has inched closer to a breaking point...
Steve Naidamast
Sr. Software Engineer
Black Falcon Software, Inc.
blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Personally, I hoping to never go back to the office. I've got better technology and faster internet access from home than I do in the office, and even before this started almost all of my work related interactions were via Skype and Teams anyway; there are only 2 others on my team in the local office, and their jobs are entirely different than mine.
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Your impression about US lockdown vs. going back to work is both correct and incorrect.
A number of states are opening things up - these states either barely or never really locked down to begin with. Mindless cretins saying that they'd rather die than be "oppressed" into some sort of social responsibility.
Others, like NY, have within the last couple of weeks, had their governor mandate face coverings (masks, etc.) if you are going to be out of your home in any situation where social distancing would be compromised - and you cannot enter any store (or work in one) without said covering.
NY's case rate and mortalities have been going down - roughly half the mortalities/day they were at the peak. Occasionally, groups of nitwits, for various reasons didn't think it included them. Uniformly, they're paying the price for that. NJ is also now experiencing a downturn.
As for places Georgia, N/S Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa - I guess as long as Tyson can make some money, the locals are basically expendable. Well - the mayors of the affected towns don't think so, but their governors do.
Thus - as there are 50 essentially independent states in such matters - you can say nearly anything and find an example of it.
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: and you cannot enter any store (or work in one) with said covering.
I suppose you wanted to say "without said covering", didn't you?
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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Pick one:
[ ] How dare you pay attention to what you're reading ?
[x] Thanks - I fixed it.
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Got an email from CEO that we're allowed to go back in May 4th if we like, but masks mandatory, temperature checks at the door, that sort of thing.
Of course, I can remote to my desktop* from anywhere, so I'm not going back in.
*DT crashed this AM. Reconnected, and afterward VS thought almost everything I'd ever checked out was an add to the repository. Solutions I haven't been in for months. Strange.
Fortunately, I was only working in a couple places in the code, so it wasn't too bad to undo the other projects, get latest, and be back to square one. Spent a few hours getting it straight, pretty sure I'm o.k. now.
Can't explain what I might've done to make TFS think everything's an add, or what a crash might've done. Puzzled, but past it.
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I usually work from my Home office, until She Who Must be Obeyed starts getting on my nerves.
Lately I have had to just grin and bear her. 
Don't tell her...
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In Germany, we're still working from home. Although experts say, the Corona wave is "over the top" already, government is still increasing instead of decreasing coercive measures.
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I've been running Ubuntu exclusively on my home computer for at least 6 months now.
I have dual boot but I never boot into Win10 any more.
During the Stay-At-Home order I've been WFH (work from home) for over 5 weeks now.
I use Remmina[^] to remote into my work computers (Win10) from my Linux machine -- Remmina actually works better than mstsc (RDP).
Dot Net Core
Anyways, I have had .NET Core on the machine for a while and Visual Studio Code, but yesterday I started testing out functionality by writing little command-line programs.
Visual Studio Code allows you to step through code (with the proper plugin).
You can amazing things on Linux that is totally based upon your C# skills. Really cool!
Feels Like K&R C
Also, if you ever got a chance to do some old C programming and go thru the K&R C book I believe you will find this Dot Net Core programming world really cool.
Yes, it's console-based and you have to learn dotnet commands for building and running but it is just so much fun and you can really learn about the OS by writing these little programs.
Coverage
Let me give you some examples:
The Generic collections System.Collections.Generic are all there.
You can do Linq (System.Linq)
You can do crypto and hashing (like SHA-256) using System.Security.Cryptography.
You can do all the IO (files, folders, etc) stuff with System.IO.
System.Diagnostics to get Process info is there.
And the System.Environment stuff is all there (ie How long has OS been running, what is machine name, and so much more).
These are just the ones I've tried there is much more.
Of course, System.Windows.Forms does not work at this time, but think of this as K&R C and you'll be happy. I'm happy.
Linux Quite Different From Windows, But Same Under C#
Think about that. The two environments (windows & linux) are quite different but all of these things work via C#. It is amazing. I'm so infatuated with this right now.
Visual Studio Code and Dot Net Core are so cool. 
EDIT - More libraries tested
Just came back to say that I've now tried:
System.Net - HTTP web communication, retrieve web pages, etc works great.
System.Threading - Thread stuff works over here on Linux. Maybe we all expect this but it is quite amazing I'm writing C# on Linux and running it. Maybe more amazing to those of us who dreamed of Mono being a real thing for a long time.
Also System.Timers - implemented a system timer and it works great. I'm still infatuated, people. 
It's so cool to pull code from my LINQPad scripts, paste them over to Linux and run them. Yippee-ki-yeah!
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Glad to hear I'm not the only one playing with net core on Linux - I've written an ASP.NetCore api service ( in C# ) that I host as a daemon on an SBC ( FriendlyElec Nanopi M4 V2 running Armbian bionic beaver ) that queries a postgresql database and does some pretty serious number crunching and it works like a dream. I have a love affair with SBC's and with the advent of Net Core I can use them to prototype real world scenarios ( I've built my boards with terrabyte SSD M2 drives and 4GB ram ) they have a RK3399 ARM64 hexacore processor and the little beauties fly - did I mention I love net core ? Next step is to containerize this with Docker Nginx is also in the mix as a reverse proxy ( all this on a SBC ) Big thanks to folks on here who helped me with the Web side of things ( you know who you are )
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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That sounds like some very cool stuff. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who is excited about dotnet core and Linux, too.
I need to learn a bit more about nginx and the container stuff is definitely in the future.
You can save a bit of money* running a small container running linux (like I do on DigitalOcean) but you can run C#-based WebAPI or C#-based (MVC) web site or whatever that runs out of the container. Very cool stuff.
*since linux hosting is always less expensive.
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I've never published to a hosting site as most of my work has been backend ( we host our own site and services ) and I never got involved with the rest - I'd like to push what I've built to a public hosting company just for the hell of it - can you give me any hints as to how one goes about doing this ?
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: can you give me any hints as to how one goes about doing this ?
My experience is limited, but here is what I've done.
1. get a DigitalOcean droplet -- mine is $5/month and runs Debian. The first time I set one up, it took 5 minutes. I'm not kidding. Only 5 minutes and I had never done it before.
DigitalOcean is very cool. Just follow the wizard...Droplets on DigitalOcean - More than just virtual machines[^]
2. install dotnet core on your droplet. Follow microsoft's instructions: Install .NET Core runtime on Windows, Linux, and macOS - .NET Core | Microsoft Docs[^]
3. use your Visual Studio Code editor locally to create and build and test the code you want to run on the droplet.
4. move the code up to the droplet and run it.
Now, there are some more advanced things you'll need to learn like exposing a ASP.NET Core MVC to the outside world (via nginx) and that will be more difficult. But if you have console based apps they will run with the first 4 steps above.
Let me know your results. I'm very interested.
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Next, you could run web sites and console apps as services using systemd. Some of us are being paid to do that 
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jesarg wrote: you could run web sites and console apps as services using systemd. Some of us are being paid to do that
Very interesting.
I'm starting my learning with an overview of systemd at: systemd - Wikipedia[^]
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I've been using Visual Studio Code and Dot Net Core (now 3.1) on a Mac for about 3 years, since my only Windows machine back then wasn't handling life well at all, and I really like the eco-system (I started off data mining files produced with ISP outage data using LINQ, Regexes etc so I could tell my ISP in no uncertain terms, there were problems) ..
I use GitHub - natemcmaster/CommandLineUtils: Command line parsing and utilities for .NET for Command-Line parsing btw
I've since expanded my concept of a Command-Line program with the same eco-system, but adding Dependency Injection/IoC with Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection, which means logging is 'easier', and I've been going to the 'async' side where possible as well.
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Very interesting. I checked out the Github repo and it looks very nice. thanks for sharing.
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raddevus wrote: Of course, System.Windows.Forms does not work at this time
Until we can run GUI apps (WPF and Winforms) in Linux, I won't consider .Net Core to be "cross-platform".
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The root of the issue is that Microsoft has a tendency to delete web pages documenting their sins. I live in the embedded world where things never die. So, in my support documentation, I cannot reference web links - I embed captured PDF files. What I have discovered is that printing a web page inevitably leads to text truncation, something I cannot tolerate.
For example, if I use FireFox or Chrome to "print" to pdf - chunks of text are missing. It's hit or miss. Using IE (I mean MS made it right?), I still get the same result. I saved the entire page - IE won't load it. Seems very random.
Suggestions?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: if I use FireFox or Chrome to "print" to pdf - chunks of text are missing. It's hit or miss. Using IE (I mean MS made it right?), I still get the same result. I saved the entire page - IE won't load it. Seems very random.
FireFox or Chrome print to PDF -- I have had good luck with it.
However, I have a guess as to what is happening.
Print To PDF issue
If the page you are attempting to print to PDF is :
1. generated by some process on the web site - where the site adds divs, or table rows, etc, then those items may only be in the in-memory DOM and then when you print to PDF those items are missing. This is actually a problem with the web site itself.
On IE Issue
On the other one where you are saying "saved the entire page" again I think you are doing a Save Page As... which will download the page from the web site, but if there are generated sections of the HTML (DOM) then the web site itself may not generate those upon Save As...
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Yup I agree. A very long time ago I dabbled in html. What a circus. I just think that if a browser can render the web page readable, why can't printing?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I've found printing web pages is generally a good experience these days - much better than in the past. Print to PDF works well most of the time. You can also try Foxit Reader print driver; free, full-functioned and also works well.
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Usually. I'll go back and check print to pdf and cute pdf. I've not tried Foxit printer. Might work.
The technical issue is that the browser of choice is sending date to the pdf printer of choice. I don't think it's the pdf printer.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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