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Sounds like you're a little depressed. What you're writing is indeed far from the real world of a programmer. Yes, you have to be creative each and every day, which can be tiring, but that's also the case in other creative jobs. And yes, you have to keep yourself up-to-date for the rest of your life, but it's not going to stay as intense as it is now. As soon as you are a little more experienced and have found your niche in a technology that you like and that is modern enough to keep your employment chances alive, you can sort of settle down for a few years and only specialize deeper in what you already know. But you're also right that software engineering IS crazy. 
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Try taking fewer classes. Manage the load. Take a semester off and work a dirty job to catch your breath. Try to find out if you can transfer in a few credits from somewhere else. As a former CompSci student and a former CompSci prof, and a current developer, I can tell you that trying to get too much learning done too fast can ruin the experience.
Take on some simpler project for a volunteer organization, or any wider view on resume building that doesn't involve grinding classes. If you get a semester off, make a list of online tutorials you want to walk thru. But if you're just getting a short break, take a break.
Seriously, your schedule tightens once you win the big "prize" and have a full time job. You won't have the same chances later on.
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I was very pleased with myself today as I've been modifying my image viewer with single instance behaviour. Image filenames selected in Windows10 Explorer are forwarded to the first viewer process when the Enter key is pressed.
It worked very well until one test when an image somehow got displayed as the desktop background. There is nothing in my code that could have done that and was surprised to discover some bizarre 'why oh why oh why' windows magic.
When 1 to 15 image files are selected the action of the enter key is to open each file with the associated program (my viewer). If you dare to select 16 or more Microsoft have decided that what you want is a desktop image slide show. And to make sure you get the message they remove the 'Open' option from the context menu.
Aaaaargh!
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was it not clear for you yet?
The do know what you want better than you  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Alan N wrote: When 1 to 15 image files are selected the action of the enter key is to open each file with the associated program (my viewer). If you dare to select 16 or more Microsoft have decided that what you want is a desktop image slide show. And to make sure you get the message they remove the 'Open' option from the context menu.
Just tested this and it doesn't happen for me. I selected 21 JPG files and the Open item on the context menu remained available. Clicking it opened the images in my default viewer. My desktop background was unchanged.
Are you sure you didn't hit 'Set as desktop background' by accident?
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Thanks for the reply. I went away and reset the default app for the Photo viewer category to the MS recommended Photos app and the 15 file limit went away. Is that what you are using? Also Windows 10 Home may not be helping.
On switching back to my own viewer the problem reappears as it does if I select MS Paint, Paint.NET, VLC Media Player, Firefox or Visual Studio 2017 as the viewer.
All of which leaves me the Aaaargh state. So much so I may need to adulterate my afternoon coffee with whisky.
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I've been having a problem with my MagicJack not working fully (the other party cannot hear me), and the tech says:
Quote: What we advice right now is to contact your Internet Service Provider/router manufacturer to request them adjust the Ping it should be less than 25ms and completely open the internal UDP ports 5060 to 5070 and disable the SIP ALG setting on the router/modem. This ports control the audio signal on the magicJack.
Does this sound right? My (Sprint) hotspot WIFI tests out at a ping of 48 ms.
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First, I'm no expert on this. But Ping is a tool that simply measures network latency (delay), so it can't be "set" to an arbitrary value. It's a result of how the network is configured. However, I don't see why it has to be under 25ms. The longer it is, the greater the chance that you might notice delays in the conversation, but it shouldn't cause one-way speech issues.
SIP uses the UDP ports that you mentioned. I don't know what "completely opening" them means. If they were blocked, SIP wouldn't work at all, otherwise it should be OK.
I found this article[^] about SIP ALG. It explains how to disable it on many different brands of routers and why you should do so. I would start by investigating that.
EDIT: With regard to the UDP ports, your ISP might limit the bandwidth provided to SIP ports. I think it's unlikely, because VoIP users should consume far less bandwidth than people streaming video, for example. But if your ISP also provides phone service, it would be a naughty (and probably illegal) way to discourage customers from using VoIP.
modified 15-Feb-21 18:18pm.
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A brick.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What else is red, but twice as bad for your teeth?
Two bricks!
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Shark infested custard.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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A newspaper.
(For the young'uns, a newspaper was a paper product, printed daily in black & white (only!) that gave us oldsters our daily dose of news)
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I'm going to stop there before I get to ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) jokes ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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...or a sunburned Nun.
...or a sunburned Zebra.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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or my black greyhound Hera, who has an unfortunate fondness for laying on her back in the sun in the back yard. We have to watch and make her come in before she gets sunburnt.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Thanks for the warning, just had a root-canal treatment today which took almost two hours.
And of course on the day I had to drive to the clinic, code-red was declared and the advice was not to use the car 
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RickZeeland wrote: code-red was declared
"code-red"? I have no idea what that means.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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No, nothing todo with a nuclear attack by the Russians 
It's a warning from the Dutch meteorological institute KNMI - About KNMI[^]
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Has Dutch culture so declined that no little boy will run over and use his thumb to plug the leak in the dyke dike dyke dike (OK - I see the problem) anymore?
| Ravings en masse^ |
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| "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 |
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Those days are long gone, now the little boys are driving around with their cars on the ice and have to be rescued after sinking through the ice
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RickZeeland wrote: have to be rescued after sinking through the ice
have to be ?
Charles Darwin would disagree.
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| "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 |
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word of great wisdom! 
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I recently find out Microsoft supports only OpenGL 1.2 standard by looking at its header files gl.h and glu.h installed under Windows SDK kit folders.
Amazingly, I tested several current OpenGL examples from Internet, it is working well after working with freeglut.
diligent hands rule....
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