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Couple of years ago we had a Windows 10 computer decide to update itself despite having been told to only do it on a schedule. It was the early days of W10 - I'm sure you remember the tales of people's laptops rebooting in the middle of presentations.
This machine wan't even connected to the internet at the time, and hadn't been for several days, so it had downloaded an update but had saved it up, somehow. Anyway, it just went ahead and started the update process, except it stalled during the restart and we had to power cycle it and manually fix it. Took half an hour to get the update installed. Which doesn't sound too bad, until you realise that it was running the sound cues for a theatre performance and while it was sulking we were dead in the water. We had to abandon the performance and refund the audience.
The Mac running Qlab arrived before the next show in the schedule. Shame, as the actual application it was running at the time (SCS) was quite a nice bit of software.
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charlieg wrote: So, anyone else had this happen, and how did you fix it?
IIRC, they've added separate settings to Outlook and Teams to override the default browser and use Edge instead.
In Teams, it's under Settings ⇒ Files and links ⇒ Always open links in:, which they default to "Microsoft Edge" instead of "Default browser". I currently can't find the equivalent setting in the "new" Outlook desktop app, but I've definitely seen it in the "old" app.
I expect we're supposed to be grateful that they give us the option to respect our selected defaults, even if they don't default to using our defaults. We'll probably find a future update removes the option and forces us to always use Edge, because not enough people with telemetry enabled have managed to change the option.
"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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For me, when Edge opened, it opened with a pop-up that let you change it back immediately. But yeah, that is BS.
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I’ll pile onto this complaint with this:
I use Foxit as my PDF reader. Every other day I get an alert that Foxit is not the default reader.
When I go to the defaults config dialog, it shows Foxit is the default.
What the elephant?
You’ll probably always get Edge when opening a link from within a Microsoft app. Seems they’ve hard-coded it.
Frustrating and just a little sad that their apps aren’t good enough on their merits, they have to strong-arm and trick you into using them.
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Mark
Just another cog in the wheel
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Hi,
Looking at a Teams collective call going on about a project I am not in (yet) the three people in it in the same office, two sit next to each other the third opposite. Why a Teams call? why share screens when you can look at your neighbors, possibly the only thing I can think, is it is being recorded but why a Teams meeting at your desk,
we have break out rooms for that...
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Because they can?
Some people will use technology regardless of there being a simpler solution.
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I used to sit at the desk next to my team leader. If he wanted something from me he would always send an email.
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Probably not the reason in this particular instance, but Teams now will create a summary of what was said during a Teams call. Not 100% accurate, but still helpful to get all the note down from what was said....
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and then Teams will delete it....
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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That seems to depend very much on the license you have. Looks like you need something like 'Teams Premium'... but I'm lost in the license jungle
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On some level it is easier to collaborate sitting at your own desk. It allows everyone to see the primary screen but the ones not sharing can reference other things, sql tables, vs solutions, google, chatgpt. You can't really do that sharing one desk and pc.
That said, it does seem silly to not just lean back and ask your neighbor a question.
So I guess there are times when either one is more productive than the other.
P.S. Most of us are lazy and don't want to get up.
Jack of all trades, master of none, though often times better than master of one.
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Agreed.
My teammate and I sit 1.3m apart and prefer to collaborate via screen share (no headsets, though. too much echo)
40+ year old eyeballs also are at play… and our furniture setup really does not work for two people unless you standup. (back to your lazy point)
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Quote: 40+ year old eyeballs also are at play
Exactly because of this reason, I prefer to make a teams meeting (of course speaking directly) with my teammate sitting 2m from me and sharing the screens
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More than ten years ago, had heard from a colleague that her mother at home, once called her on mobile, to find out where exactly she was at home; not a big house, but just too lazy to search around.
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Before video conferencing apps with screen share, they still did it with phones, even when desks butted against each other!
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Reminds me of when the company decided to switch to team approach to everything. Out manager called me to his offce to tell me he wanted me to be a team leader. I told him we didn't have any real teams. He asked what I meant?
I told him that real teams have cheerleaders, so could I interview cheerleaders and design their unifoms?
H decided that I was unsuitable as a team leader, whch was my whole point.
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Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Dr.Walt Fair, PE wrote: team approach
I just had another one of these episodes today. After an hour on a remote, the teammate got their problem solved and I got further behind!
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"Hope is contagious"
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My back, neck and eyes (I have to use 125% magnification) really favor doing things from my own desk rather than crowding aroung the single monitor of a coworker.
Add the fact that I can cross-reference with my code an my documentation when asked a question, trather than going back to my desk, seraching and returning (or yelling from one side of the office to the other)... yeah I do prefer teams meetings unless we are brainstorming or just aligning.
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Waxing cynical... it's pretty dang smart if you ask me.
The corpora-spyware definitely looks at teams activity for MSFT to sell your employer a metric on how hard you work (or don't).
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Can you please suggest me a free VS tool which generates code documentation like that:
private int CalcBid(HandCards hand, int player)
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Seems the community edition is free all others paid.
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Thank you.
Looks good but does not catch my return value?
public List<PlayingCard> GetHandTrumpCards(int TrumpCardID)
{
var lopc = new List<PlayingCard>();
foreach (PlayingCard card in Cards)
{
if ((int)card.CardType == TrumpCardID | (int)card.CardValue == 2 | (int)card.CardValue == 3)
{
lopc.Add(card);
}
}
return lopc;
}
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Check what config options it has.
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