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Ack! I hate that stuff.
Our local council knew they would be busy throughout April, so they reduced the hours they would communicate by phone to 09:00 to 13:00, Mon to Fri only. (This apparently counts as "logic" in government circles.) So you ring them - not out of choice - and you go on hold. They have three "tunes", each more hideous that the last. And worse, the muzak keeps stopping every couple of minutes, letting you think that you are about to speak to a human. Ten seconds later, it continues as if nothing had happened. (Until 13:00, when it just says "Sorry, our lines are closed" and disconnects you.)
Many years ago when we had hold music we stuck the "Monty Python Sings" CD in there, and left it to it. That stopped after the boss got put on hold and found "Sit on my face, and tell that you love me" playing to him. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Musac now days is loud and mostly unintelligible, with as you say a voice coming on every so often to inform you of how important your call is to them and you will be serviced soon. Well I feel serviced every time I call them...and here I speak specifically of the VA!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Hi All,
In effort to comply/conform/create (one of those...don't really know which one) there was a move to put documents on line/in our system so that they could be viewed and or worked on outside of the office. Good, fine, useful. Now the project I am working on, is a senior citizen, it's been around long enough so I was originally told it would not be entered on the new system (fair enough, there are too many bodies not very deeply buried). I was told off for not using the latest version of the test spec which is on the new system... But... Oh ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) !
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So I'm trying to setup an Azure environment using an ARM template.
Apparently there's a project type for that in VS2017 with a couple of predefined templates.
Too bad it just doesn't work
The template I chose creates an app service plan and an app service in the location of the resource group (West Europe), but the application insights is hard wired to East US.
After fixing that I'd expect the AI to be linked to the app service, but that isn't happening.
I read the documentation, tried examples, read some blogs from people who already solved it, but nothing works.
As a last resort I tried fixing it with PowerHell directly, but to no avail.
So I went in the portal and it seems there's been an (breaking) update to AI, but that's nowhere in the docs...
Thanks Mickeysoft, I got nothing done in the past two hours or so.
Guess I'll skip automatic deployment of AI for now 
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Why not just contact support
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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abmv wrote: Why not just contact support
The last time Microsoft support answered the phone was the day I installed Windows 95, and disk 12 of 13 was damaged.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I think he needs the answer before the next century.
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Rage wrote: I think he needs the answer before the next century.
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Yeah, and tomorrow I'll take my unicorn to work 
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Sander Rossel wrote: So I'm trying to setup an Azure environment using an ARM
I was on this kind of ARM[^] and could not figure out what you were trying to do.
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I clicked on this link (New in Chrome 67: Desktop Progressive Web Apps, Generic Sensors & BigInts) and had the following thought:
Watching a grown man talk about this stuff is really gross. Like, "unmanly."
Well, back to my next geeky article... 
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I don't think it's the content or the fact that it's a grown man that is a little bit "off" about this. It's the hand gestures and that smug little half smile. That's what makes you want to deliver a slap upside the head
This space for rent
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Looks like he done a sales-training too often; the obsessive compulsive handgestures do not convey any extra information, but it does yell to me "SALESMAN!"
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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One of the comments succinctly sums it all up: "nipples!"
(I'm still laughing at the attention he (probably?) didn't want)
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All of these type of videos are the same, more or less. You have someone, most likely NOT a developer, explain stuff to us. They sometimes make us feel stupid for not already knowing about the Sensor API. I mean, come on! Who doesn't know about the base sensor interface. 
I also did not care for his pronunciation of the word "attribute" @ 2:36. 
Manly? most of these guys are beta males. Viking warriors, they are not.
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He has taken "presenting to millennial's, 101"
Maybe it would help use maturial's. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Something along that line anyway. What quickly became obvious to me is that they intentionally had an older guy present this stuff as the "younger guy thing" clearly isn't working out these days, in light of recent Facebook history.
IMO, of course...
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After some recent comments regarding that by default we don't have auto screen lockout after a few minutes, I thought to post (rant) on here for others inputs.
For me when I can spend often times writing things and sketching out on paper while looking at what is on the screen. Having to move the mouse every few minutes to not have the screens switch off or account lock would be most infuriating.
I know i need to (try better) make sure lock computer when i do leave my desk. Maybe at 80% of doing that now.
If you were in a secure room requiring specific door access, how much would locking the computer needs really be?
Any one use camera presence detection, that I can see as a very helpful thing.
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maze3 wrote: If you were in a secure room requiring specific door access, how much would locking the computer needs really be?
"This much". It would still be required; those two locks protect different things.
There's always the occasional cleaner or repairman coming into the room, tempworkers or even 'consultants'. The keyboard lock prevents unauthorized people from abusing your account or planting malware in your absence.
maze3 wrote: Any one use camera presence detection, that I can see as a very helpful thing.
A camera is not a form of protection, but detection. Also just an overcomplicated form of a door-lock that is already in place.
I assume you would confront any unknown face and ask who he/she is and what they're doing there?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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the camera thing i was more thinking that when you leave, instead of simply waiting x minutes, that it can just lock streight away.
Or even better, mixed with those privacy screen peices, that if someone walks up behind you it could dim, warn or even black out the screen until user keys something that. This the opposite swing over increase security.
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Brilliant. Next the screen dims as soon as you do some pair-programming.
Overcomplicating stuff makes the environment less secure. People will disable your security just to get work done.
What you are doing is rarely so extremely top-secret that you cannot trust the people in the room to copy your code from looking at the screen. If it is, you need something more than your fancy idea, like the extreme thing known as a "private office".
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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maze3 wrote: For me when I can spend often times writing things and sketching out on paper while looking at what is on the screen. Having to move the mouse every few minutes to not have the screens switch off or account lock would be most infuriating.
I feel your pain.
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Quote: Having to move the mouse every few minutes to not have the screens switch off or account lock would be most infuriating.
Write a mouse-twitcher?
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I've done that, it was a simple C# application and I called it Busy-Body. Good times!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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