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Mike Hankey4-Feb-20 5:01

Mike Hankey

4-Feb-20 5:01

Most of the time it's White Knuckle support!

Monday starts Diarrhea awareness week, runs until Friday!

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lopatir4-Feb-20 6:30

lopatir

4-Feb-20 6:30

you'd think by now they would start fitting USB ports while they're there?
(certainly less obtrusive than those electriconical hair nets they've been playing with)

... then again the next get USB will offer so much more, maybe it is better to wait.

after many otherwise intelligent sounding suggestions that achieved nothing the nice folks at Technet said the only solution was to low level format my hard disk then reinstall my signature. Sadly, this still didn't fix the issue!

W∴ Balboos, GHB4-Feb-20 7:24

W∴ Balboos, GHB

4-Feb-20 7:24

At the wrist of skirting KSS, it's just his/her way of giving some medico the finger - five times - if they have a tendon-c for such things.

(I suppose I deserve a slap-on-the-wrist for this)

Ravings en masse^
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

pkfox4-Feb-20 8:16

pkfox

4-Feb-20 8:16

Having been to the hospital today surgery might be on the cards Frown | :(

"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP

Cp-Coder4-Feb-20 9:36

Cp-Coder

4-Feb-20 9:36

Quote:
surgery might be on the cards

"Cards?" Which body part is that? Smile | :)

But seriously: Best of luck if they do operate! Rose | [Rose]

I Don't Know How It Happened

MacSpudster4-Feb-20 10:34

MacSpudster

4-Feb-20 10:34

If a SW engineer slugs a bad person who's hitting on another person, was he just offering Tech Knuckle support?

The best way to improve Windows is run it on a Mac.
The best way to bring a Mac to its knees is to run Windows on it.
~ my brother Jeff

I'm stumped

honey the codewitch4-Feb-20 4:14

honey the codewitch

4-Feb-20 4:14

I managed to make my lil' optimizing compiler choke on some unicode i fed it for a very complicated lexer.

It handles it, but you could take a shower while you're waiting.

I'm not precisely sure why yet - i've narrowed it to a routine, but the routine uses a work queue that it keeps adding and removing to so it's hard to know when it's finished or how long an operation will take. There's not really bounded loops i can measure.

I may have to profile the whole function, and it's big-ish

I'm not pleased. I spent two weeks getting past this to avoid this exact slowdown

Real programmers use butterflies

GenJerDan4-Feb-20 4:01

GenJerDan

4-Feb-20 4:01

But I passed my Linux+ cert exam on the first try.

a) I've only been working with Linux since October (My last Unix-like experience was with Coherent back in the 80s) OMG | :OMG:

b) The practice tests I was using for studying bore no resemblance to the actual test. (Yes, they were supposedly for XK0-004, too) Mad | :mad:

c) For the amount of money they charge for the test, they dang well better pass everyone. Laugh | :laugh:

d) My employer will be reimbursing me for passing the test...as opposed to firing me for not passing. OMG | :OMG:

We won't sit down.
We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

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F-ES Sitecore4-Feb-20 4:11

F-ES Sitecore

4-Feb-20 4:11

I assume it covered the really important things, like how to install a Windows VM so you can be productive?

Smile | :)

dandy724-Feb-20 5:52

4-Feb-20 5:52

Wow. I thought the snarky comments only came from the other way.

Got my +5 Smile | :)

lopatir4-Feb-20 6:25

lopatir

4-Feb-20 6:25

OP wrote:
I assume it covered the really important things, like how to install a Windows VM so you can be productive?

I think it's a good and very valid comment. (on linux, installed windows VM's to do my work.)

best part: when windows inevitably breaks itself it can be rolled back
- faster than reinstalling etc - you will be more productive running windows on linux than on metal.
next best thing: can keep your private stuff on linux, away from redmunts snooping eyes.
next next best thing: linux let's you get your money's worth out of your shiny new new gen hardware.

It's the natural and best order of things: windows on bare metal is dead.

F-ES Sitecore4-Feb-20 22:59

F-ES Sitecore

4-Feb-20 22:59

When your arguments against Windows involve having to paint Microsoft as an evil, mustachioed villain, rubbing his hands in the darkness while "stealing" your "private information", you've kinda lost the argument.

dandy725-Feb-20 10:42

5-Feb-20 10:42

Sadly, for some people, that's the only argument and that's all they need. It's hard to have a useful discussion with those people.

Said people never miss an opportunity to remind you that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist. Sure. And in 3 years, that'll be a quarter of a century ago.

dandy725-Feb-20 3:07

5-Feb-20 3:07

lopatir wrote:
best part: when windows inevitably breaks itself it can be rolled back

Well, you don't need Linux to do that. My Server 2012 R2 host is running about a dozen VMs 24/7, and about twice that many more that are powered off but ready to come online for some quick testing against more rarely-used versions of Windows.

Rollbacks, backups, restoring, moving to different hardware - it all becomes trivial with a VM. In my case though I'm more comfortable managing Windows file systems than Linux ones, so until the situation is reversed, the host is probably going to continue being Windows.

lopatir5-Feb-20 5:39

lopatir

5-Feb-20 5:39

true that, VM's are just cool,
and in fairness nowadays the host is hardly a consideration - as you say what you know/like best.

dandy725-Feb-20 10:36

5-Feb-20 10:36

lopatir wrote:
and in fairness nowadays the host is hardly a consideration - as you say what you know/like best.

I'd love to be in a position where I can switch without having to give it any thought.

But, just this morning again, I managed to get a laptop to refuse to load Ubuntu after a botched update somehow managed to screw up some boot data. Initramfs? As an end user, why should I need to know about that? I'm still amazed how easy it is to get Linux to fail to boot. Bad shutdown? Corrupt file system - what's an inode, and why should I care? Bad grub update? Can no longer boot up. I mean, I've seen more than my fair share of botched Windows updates, but rarely to the extent where the OS can't boot up at all. If it happens, it's usually always the same fix. On Linux...there's plenty of different things that could have happened and they all have a different solution.

I'm more than willing to say I'm doing it wrong, but this stuff's supposed to be resilient. If I can break it so often--without really trying, considering how little I use it--I must be doing something very wrong. Linux uptime is awesome - if you never let it change anything.

[random rant over]

honey the codewitch4-Feb-20 4:11

honey the codewitch

4-Feb-20 4:11

good deal. glad you didn't get canned OMG | :OMG:

Real programmers use butterflies

GenJerDan4-Feb-20 22:21

GenJerDan

4-Feb-20 22:21

honey the codewitch wrote:
good deal. glad you didn't get canned

It would have put a severe crimp in my lifestyle. Things like living indoors and eating.

We won't sit down.
We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

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phil.o4-Feb-20 5:34

phil.o

4-Feb-20 5:34

Congrats

And so

is implied.

"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."