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Matthew Faithfull wrote: I'll stop ranting now, until the next time.
Hey, feel free to rant.
My own rant on a long-standing and baffling IT headache is..
Why can't we have auto-scaling fonts that resize when desktop resolution changes?
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Then I guess you've never moved desk with your PC and had to plug into a different subnet.
Never had your PC turned off when the leases are renewed every few months and not recieved one when you switch back on because the system is busy or badly configured.
Sounds like you're either a very lucky man or you work in a very stable and unusually well run environment.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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I've moved desks once, and have plugged into wired connections in several different labs/conference rooms; in every case it just worked out of the box.
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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Lucky you and please pass on my congratulations to your IT department. Believe me they are unusually good. If you ever take a work laptop home you may get chance to join in the fun.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Nope. Never had problems with my laptop at home: wired or wifi. I've never dealt with the networking people; my interactions with ITs server admins and general support staff would rate as generally clueful but nothing exceptional.
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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What is the lifetime of the DHCP lease?
It sounds like it has been set to an unusually long period. Perhaps to cover up other network configuration problems.
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I've seen everything from a week to permanent, which doesn't work because addresses are never recycled so they run out. I think somewhere between one and three months is normal.
It's not that I have a specific issue, I'm quite capable of configuring the networking on a variety of OS and machines from scratch and have done so many times.
It's just that I've seen this issue almost everywhere I've worked amongst ordinary users and developers. IP addressses failing to be handed out, needing to be renewed etc and having to go to the command line to do it. I reckon 20% or all IT helpdesk callouts I've ever seen are solved by 'reconnecting' to the network and this is the most common case. Hence I use it as an example of the epic failure across the board of desktop operating systems to actually expose their functionality through their GUI, i.e. make themsleves usable to users.
The ultimate example of course was Netware 4.x which had lots of functionality and it had a GUI. Once you started the GUI the only thing you could access was the clock, that was it. Zero functionality beyond that I kid you not.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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The biggest headache with Windows machines is that the server service isn't required on clients, but it has been set to automatic start by default on every version of Windows NT. Sh*t loads of extra network negotiation, DNS & NETBIOS/WINS traffic.
IOW a big P.I.T.A
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Just one of the many side effects of Microsoft never having actually shipped a network file system.
Despite the number of times it has caught them out including one of the biggest bugs in Vista I guess it's always been a project the other side of WinFS which has never been completed despite vast efforts because the project cycle needed is a little longer than the Windows product cycle itself which means they never get to finish it.
Still we fight on and manage to produce software and even access files over our networks anyway
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Matthew Faithfull wrote: I guess it's always been a project the other side of WinFS which has never been completed despite vast efforts because the project cycle needed is a little longer than the Windows product cycle itself which means they never get to finish it.
Probably won't happen at all now. Seeing as the new Windows lifecycle will be around 12 months.
Wasn't it (WINFS) supposed to be files & folders held as GUID references in a SQL-type database or something?
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Possibly but that sounds more like what was supposed to replace the registry.
There have been numerous rumours, statements, plans and even demos and announcements of WinFS since well before it missed the code freeze deadline for Windows XP after having been bumped from Windows 2000 to stop it becoming Windows 2001. It's also been canned, scrapped, delayed and resurrected more times than Lazarus. It's got to the point now where I'm not sure whether MS are actually claiming that WinFS is what they implemented in Vista (They weren't when it came out) or that the file system changes in Vista were instead of WinFS or to enable WinFS in Windows9 but I agree it probably won't happen at all.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Going by your explanation. It reads more like a deformed relative that they keep in the basement, and it's only allowed out when they feel threatened.
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Right-click network icon, click "Troubleshoot Problems". This will among other things, release & renew your dhcp lease.
wha-lah, wish granted.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Thanks. Given another 2 years Linux might get the the same and Windows might actually tell you that's what it's doing when you click that.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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Well, it does give a series of one-liners as it's going about it's "business". Not terribly informative. But to one in the know, it could be meaningful.
As for linux, I don't understand why the linux gurus don't want to make it easier to use for the "common man", so-to-speak. To me that is the measure of success. When "ordinary" folks can easily and intuitively use the OS.
But then, everything's intuitive when you already know it. Try showing a jungle native a computer and see how "intuitive" it is. Context and basic knowledge are key.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Betanews wrote: Microsoft Windows 8 is the best desktop operating system.
Unless of course you ask MS http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22714048[^].
they appear to be making several "u-turns" since their release of Win8. If it's so great then you would think the need for these reversals would be nil.
as if the facebook, twitter and message boards weren't enough - blogged
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No, literally. Pixar's lighting/rendering systems were completely redone for their new film Monsters University. In my correspondence with Chris, who studied Visualization at A&M and works in the Rendering dept at Pixar (see my interview with Chris about his work on Brave here) he mentioned his work on MU... Oh, that's great, blame it on the little guy. How original.
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Chocolately is a bootstrapper that uses PowerShell scripts and the NuGet packaging format to install apps for you. NuGet is the package management system that Windows Developers use to bring libraries down at the project level. Chocolatey (get it? Chocolatey Nu-Get?) extends that concept to bring applications down at the system level. What if you could install just about anything with a simple command? Well, you can.
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Great... There were NPackD and others too but didn't farewell.
A guy from windows if sent to a debian will cry as well as stunned to see the package management system... and the reverse will cry to see the dll hell!! (Debian Rocks... Windows S_ _ _ _ s (Fill in the blanks plz!!)
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A great idea, but will never be officially added.
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If I wanted to admin my box with cryptic commands from a console I'd install linux.
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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When coding, I use both of my hands for typing and both my eyes fixed on the code I’m writing. When I don’t know a certain keyboard shortcut, I reach for the mouse and in doing so, look away from the main Visual Studio window. My hands stop typing. I’m not productive anymore. For me, being productive is the foundation of my developer happiness.... So why not try to increase our IO using sound? What if we could hear when the build brakes? What if we, using our voice, could tell our editor to format the document in case we forgot that keyboard shortcut? It seems like a perfectly reasonable idea to me. To experiment with this idea, I wrote two extensions for Visual Studio 2012. Voice commands for Visual Studio... and the inevitable fart app.
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From a software development perspective, we use katas to build muscle memory, practice logical thought and teach ourselves familiar ideas but from a different perspective. Katas can stretch our abilities and, similar to how a kata would teach a martial artist to become comfortable with the uncomfortable, they help us write code we may not normally write.... Although katas are typically practiced in a private setting, at 8th Light we often perform katas, once perfected, live in front of an audience of peers. The goal of the kata performance, in this instance, is not to be considered a rite of passage or to demonstrate mastery of the material. Instead, as its name implies, it is simply a performance meant to entertain. We do a lot of improv here. Just stay loose, have fun - you'll be fine!
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In March, readers followed along as Nate Anderson, Ars deputy editor and a self-admitted newbie to password cracking, downloaded a list of more than 16,000 cryptographically hashed passcodes. Within a few hours, he deciphered almost half of them. The moral of the story: if a reporter with zero training in the ancient art of password cracking can achieve such results, imagine what more seasoned attackers can do. Imagine no more. We asked three cracking experts to attack the same list Anderson targeted and recount the results in all their color and technical detail Iron Chef style. Let's just admit it: ALL YOUR PASSWORD ARE BELONG TO US.
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