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Volodymyr Kvashuk was sentenced to 9 years in prison, and will be charged restitution of $8.3 million. As punishment, he'll be forced to explain to pensioners why they can't install Windows 11 on their 15 year-old computers
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As punishment, he'll be forced to explain to pensioners why they can't install Windows 11 on their 15 year-old computers
He should be punished to explain advanced users why they can't choose anything else beyond the restart point regarding windows updates 
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?
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Microsoft’s new OS on Microsoft’s old phones And they said those phones weren't good for anything
Narrator: they were actually really good phones
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But... can it run Doom?
M.D.V.
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BSOD still works. "No colors anymore I want them to turn black"
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Should be purple, so we can say it "pissed" (PSOD)(Yeah, a stretch but...)
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I see a blue screen
And I want it coded black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
I see the users walk by
Dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head
Until my darkness goes
I see a line of screens
And they're all coded black
With clippy and my love
Both never to come back
I've seen people turn their heads
And quickly look away
Like a newborn baby
It just happens everyday
I look inside myself
And see my heart is black
I see my blue screen
I must have it coded black
Maybe then, I'll fade away
And not have to face the facts
It's not easy facing up
When your whole world is black
No more will my green scene
Go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing
Happening to you
If I look hard enough
Into the setting sun
My love will laugh with me
Before the morning comes
I see a blue screen
And I want it coded black
No colors anymore
I want them to turn black
I see the users walk by
Dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head
Until my darkness goes
I wanna see it coded
Coded black
Black as night
Black as coal
I wanna see the sun
Blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it coded, coded, coded
Coded black, yeah
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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While remote work has its benefits, workload complexity isn’t one of them; only 32% of IT professionals believe their jobs will get easier in a hybrid model. All those surprised must be new here
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Quote: : Report: IT jobs expected to get harder in hybrid work model
FTFY.
All the easy jobs are being replaced with robots and code.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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
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IT professionals need to realize that this is a rude wake-up call for them either shape up or ship out cause the CEO wants to move them to the cloud in the sky with no life always stuck to the front of the computer doing devops and coding debuging.......never leaving the house...only visiting the toilet to perform some primary operations...
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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If you use a laptop and wi-fi, toilet breaks needn't be disruptive. 
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Ever wondered how long it takes for a Windows Update to install? Well, you don't have to guess because Windows 11 will give you an estimate. It may not be accurate, but it will tell you
And by "may not", of course I mean, "almost certainly will not"
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It will probably be like the old NT4 file copy time remaining estimates.
-2,147,483,647 seconds remaining.
Kelly Herald
Software Developer
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Obligatory XKCD[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It may not be accurate, but it will tell you
Much like the progress bar with a time estimate that stops at 99% and says "0 seconds remaining."
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"It will take ten hours!"
Oh, look, it only took two minutes, aren't we amazing?
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The Scotty algorithm.
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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forever....
by the time first update gets installed microsocks will release another update and so on 
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The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
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Ah, like the old days of copy windows. 1 minute, 40 seconds, 7 minutes, 12 days, 1 second, 1 hour...
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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Bingo!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I don't want an estimation... I want a "I don't want this damned update" flag that is respected when set to TRUE by the user.
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
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Ah, the "good old days" of perpetually-vulnerable machines that could never be updated because the user decided they never wanted to install one update, which then prevents other updates that depend on it from being installed.
But of course, MS should have no problem correctly updating the infinite variety of installations caused by letting users pick and chose which OS updates they do and do not want installed, right? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, they could display a dependency graph of updates, with nodes labelled with different colors (e.g., red for a critical security update), also indicating which updates the user had blocked, so that better decisions could be made.
Actually, this isn't tongue-in-cheek for serious systems with knowledgeable administrators. We had live patching 40 years ago and eventually developed a system to track which patches were prerequisites for others, superseded others, and so on. The patching capability was so good that many customers asked for new features to be delivered via patch, as this allowed the short outage for a new software release to be avoided. Naturally, the yes-men acquiesced.
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