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Marc Clifton wrote: You know, it would be helpful if Microsoft put the version number in the "View basic information about your computer" window (right-click "This PC"). I consider information like that to be pretty darn basic.
It's there in 1703:
- Edition: Windows 10 Pro
- Version: 1703
- OS Build: 15063.413
I guess they added it when they moved it from the old Control Panel to the new Settings page.
"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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Start, type "winver" is quicker for just the basic info. Quicker to type and quicker to display.
Kevin
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I lost nearly 2 hours this morning updating to 1703 (Creator) because I thought it was a simple regular update.
I'd rather be phishing!
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2 hours sounds like a 'simple regular update' to me 
(except of course if it was successful, in which case it is not that regular)
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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Only 2 hours! My Anniversary Update took three and a half! Not got Creators Update yet.
Apparently, updates after the Creators Update should be quicker.
Kevin
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I haven't had any of my upgrades take that long (SSDs FTW!); but that it doesn't indicate that it's going to be an extra long update (and by collecting the settings info it needs well in advance of kicking the update off actively makes it easy for you to forget) is a cluster-elephant.
OTOH there's a somewhat risky way to abort the upgrade if it comes at a bad time. Power cycle your box. On restart it'll roll back WTE it's done so far. A process that should take about as long as it wasted starting the install. (I discovered this when something glitched on a box using a DP-VGA dongle and a KVM. For some reason while doing the upgrade the dongle didn't work making the system appear bricked. I had the same problem when first installing the AMD GPU driver, so I suspect it's nominally their fault not MS's. I haven't attempted to verify by using the dongle with a box using an NVidia GPU though.)
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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Researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a new system that not only makes parallel programs run much more efficiently but also makes them easier to code. Quicksort, but for code
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Today, no company would consider using anything except Ethernet for its wired local-area network. But it wasn't always that way. Steven Vaughan-Nichols tracks the history of Ethernet, and its once-upon-a-time networking protocol competitors. I really don't miss token ring
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When we got started here in Summit County Colorado back in 1994, there was still some arcnet and coax ethernet and also a token ring group of true blue gear connected to an AS400 at one of the ski resort reservations systems.
Thank goodness it's all good old CAT 5 and 6 today.
I still have some Ethernet T connectors and terminators at my shop.
I don't know why really.
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I remember sneakernet. And, working remotely, FedEx'ing floppies. Those were the days. 
Marc
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Back in the day, I remember an internet contributor that had as his tagline
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes"
Adjust the technology a little and it's still true.
[later]
Okay it was Andrew Tannenbaum, quoting someone else.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Years ago I implemented a distributed database, where the main DB was a SQL Server instance and various sites had MS Access copies - which were distributed weekly on floppy, and received updates at week end from sites on floppies.
Replication issues were much more real when hundreds of transactions may have occurred on multiple sites with no means of remote communication.
That was actually my second programming job, and the first I didn't get through a friend's recommendation. I remember at the interview I was told the problem, given a couple of hours to think about it - with a sketch pad and pen (no Internet connection - such things were rare back then), and then asked for an outline of how I may approach the problem.
Apparently, I was the only interviewee who came up with a design they though had any possibility of working successfully.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The chief executive of Russia's Kaspersky Lab says he's ready to have his company's source code examined by U.S. government officials to help dispel long-lingering suspicions about his company's ties to the Kremlin. News from the future: New hack attacks Kaspersky AV
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Kent Sharkey wrote: to have his company's source code examined by U.S. government officials
 That'll be effective, but only to end up having their code leaked!
Marc
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Developer turned a novel-generation project into an interactive Infocom tribute. You have been eaten by a grue[citation needed]
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Timeline is designed to allow Windows 10 users to switch between multiple devices, including Android and iOS phones. It's not time for it yet
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Swedish company’s animal detection system can identify and avoid deer, elk and caribou, but is yet to work against the marsupials’ movements I think we're all a little confused by kangaroos, aren't we?
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 Where would they find kangaroos in the wild in Sweden?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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See, confusing, isn't it? 
TTFN - Kent
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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for kangaroos.
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Several Reddit users have begun to notice a rather amusing Easter egg hidden in the latest Windows 10 Insider build for those on the Fast Ring. Which explains some of the lag I've been noticing
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It’s not easy to convince developers that the new C++ simplified many frustrating C++ usage, and there’s a new modern way to improve the C++ Code. Because it's not (just) your grandpappy's C++
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I almost posted a big rant on this last week.
"We use C++11/14/17... except that, that, that, that, that, that...."
"In other words, you use C++03 and nullptr."
"What's nullptr?"
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Ah, C++. The first language I truly fell in love with. It was sleek, sexy, fast, dangerous, moody, adventurous -- all the things a young geek dreams about in a, erm, programming language.
But then I grew up. 
Marc
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