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Hi All,
For my first post back on-line for a couple of days its mad!, I mentioned that I was going to be without net access as my parents have moved (and who gets to help?) and they are phone less until the new year. I have managed to sneak up to my flat in Bristol while they are out but have to go back as there is a mobility clinic that my dad has to go to tomorrow. I also had to do one of those on-line coding tests which I did but the phone rang and I had to talk to an agent which probably put my time up. I was wondering are they a good indicator of whether you are a muppet or not?  I have never found one of those tests to be a good indicator.
Glenn
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Sneak out to Asda or Tesco: they both do free WiFi.
It's quite handy to be able to check Tesco prices in Asda, and Asda prices in Tesco - given they are less than 1/2 mile apart... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Might do that, mind you I hate typing on a phone!
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A tablet's better, but not by much. Lappie? Get a trolley, and set it up in the "kids seat"?
Or just sit in the Café with a cuppa Joe...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know the feeling, we've been without internet since the 8th December. Ever since we got our shiny new Docsis 3.0 modem and free 150mbps "upgrade"
Next time anybody offers me something for free I'm going to politely decline.
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It's not free, it never is!
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Sanity check: have you called the ISP to activate the modem? Mine at least needed an explicit button click on their end after it was connected to approve it for my cable port on their upstream gear. Sadly it's not plug and play. 
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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Thanks for your reply, yes its been activated at least three times for three different modems. The problem is definitely at their end, they just need to figure out which button to press. 
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The red...
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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Thanks, that's what my first thought was (I'm really a hardware guy)
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I'm just a guy who upgraded to DOCSIS 3 within the last year.
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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glennPattonBackInThePUB wrote: I was wondering are they a good indicator of whether you are a muppet or not?
They're a mixed bag. Some I do really well, others... not so much. I did one last week where you could code a solution in VS and then paste and compile. I had time left. I had minutes left. I had the solution. Went back to paste it in and the damn thing had closed. Personally, I dislike them; they test your ability to know some esoteric bollocks that you'll probably never use. I have decided to pass on any further roles that require online tests - leave those to the people with eidetic memories and no real-world experience!
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Just a thought, while my Internet is out I've been using my EE "Christmas" SIM in a 4G phone. They give you 100GB per month for two months as a special offer.
It may be worth contacting EE for this deal, the SIM should be with you in a few days and it works well, as long as you have a phone that will support it.
They don't mind if you tether it, which is exactly what I'm doing to type this message.
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Good thinking, I do have a 3G external modem, somewhere!
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That will work as long as your external modem isn't locked to a different network.
You will need to put the SIM in a phone first to activate it, and send the necessary text message to get the 100GB*2 deal. Adding credit can be done on-line once its active.
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Great, Microsoft. Now that it is installed, VS vomits all over the place once started.
TFS? Gone.
Solution Explorer? Gone.
The C# compiler? Can't be found anywhere.
Now I'm trying out the repair wizard. Dull experience so far.
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I don't remember who posted here, a couple of weeks ago, the fact that this update had taken 24 hours on his computer.
I postponed this update until it is replaced by Update 2 
I never finish anyth
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I had no issues installing it. It took about 30 minutes to download and install, and I have had no issues with VS crashing. Everything is still where it is supposed to be.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Marco Bertschi wrote: The C# compiler? Can't be found anywhere.
Interesting situation. I guess you'd now need to start using C++ and JavaScript.
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Our IT department wants to remove Admin privileges on all user's accounts EXCEPT those that can provide adequate justification for the need. (A sensible policy, I suppose, especially for non-devs.)
The problem is, I've had admin privs for so long, that I've basically forgotten what sort of day-to-day activities I might no longer be able to do without them. (Like, back in the day, you couldn't edit the Windows Registry without them. Is that still the case?)
So my question for you developers & techies is: if you don't have elevated privileges, what sorts of things does that prevent you from doing? And for those who still have the rights, what do you use them for? MSDN has compiled an excellent list with regard to Visual Studio[^], but I would like compile a broader and more extensive list for developer activities in general.
So I would like to enlist your help to compile a long list of activities for which administrative privileges are required.
[Of course, if Windows provided sudo, I'd be set...]
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I'm with a small firm, so the other dev and me are Network admins, server gurus and developers.
Things I know I can't do without admin rights:
- Setup the test client (e.g. install the software there)
- Build COM registered libraries into an installer
- Edit the registry
- Manage my SQL Server ( not the same admin privs as local admin, but I count that in)
- Test WCF/SOAP services? As far as I know you'll need admin privileges to tinker with port numbers etc.
- Working with serial ports could also be a valid use case
- Install / Uninstall anything
- As soon as you get to develop anything related to Hardware Admin rights are almost a must
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I work a lot with hardware - exotic hardware like X-Ray generators, X-Ray detectors, Input/Output boards - and our software is often required to lock some functions of the system (like kiosks) or setting itself to real time priority.
Often we need to debug processes while they're running.
And we need many programs for diagnostic and so on... basically wthout Admin rights we would be useless.
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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At the place I work, a lot of computers can barely even open non-approved executeables without specific privileges. A lot of the computer is locked down for specific users if they don't have a specific need to use a lot of things.
They even let us install python to monkey around with, and I wasn't even able to run it outside of IDLE. Makes sense though, as it can prevent a lot of unapproved programs from running and loading the computer with viruses.
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Run a virtual machine like VMware or Virtual Box.
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