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dandy72 wrote: But cool beans, man, we're good, and I'm happy to leave the discussion at that.
Fair enough. And sorry if I sound on edge... it's just I am. You know how it is online these days. 
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: Fair enough. And sorry if I sound on edge... it's just I am
Everyone seems on edge after these last few years.
Besides, it's sometimes difficult to tell what's intentionally confrontational vs what isn't...and I've been known to sometimes choose my words poorly. 
Jeremy Falcon wrote: You know how it is online these days
If you're only on edge when online, then you're doing better than a lot of people.
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dandy72 wrote: If you're only on edge when online, then you're doing better than a lot of people.
Weeeeellllll.... to be honest it's offline too. Regardless of where I've moved to in the past several years, I always seem to move next to stoners lighting it up. I don't want to breathe that crap and get a second hand high.
I'm sure everyone has their issues though, economy, etc. But, I don't see how getting the world stoned is gonna help.
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: But, I don't see how getting the world stoned is gonna help.
In my (limited) experience, stoners are pretty mellow; seems to me the only thing most of them worry about is what they're gonna do when they get the munchies. 
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That's just it... I'd wish they worried about the other people they affect with their stank. It's strong now. Your neighbors will smell it.
Take an edible if you want to waste your life. At least it's only your life you're wasting.
Jeremy Falcon
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Many of the newer security features being added to Windows 11 use sandboxes by default. In fact, when you turn on some of the Windows 11 security features, Windows 11 becomes a virtual machine running in partition zero of the Hyper-V client.
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That's cool to know.
Jeremy Falcon
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RDC has basically become useless to me for a few of the servers I manage. Two I know are Azure VMs, the other is a customer's system so I'm not sure where it's hosted. Checking at the https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/[^] doesn't look encouraging.
Symptoms: RDC session starts loading and gets stuck. If I'm lucky enough to get to a desktop it is sluggish to completely unresponsive. I also find that my local drive is missing and that copy/paste is not always available...and when it has been, it's failed twice now to copy a little 10MB file...which reportedly will take over 30 minutes to copy. 
I've checked my connection here, reset the cable modem and rebooted the PC to no avail. 
The websites on one the servers with the problem all seem to be working OK so it's not a big deal, though it does keep me from doing work.
On a side note, as part of troubleshooting at Azure, I tried accessing the portal which required me to authenticate through the Authenticator app on my Android phone. The portal gives me a webpage with a number to enter into the Authenticator app. I do this...nothing...is something supposed to happen? Fail
Try the next method available, 'use a verification code': It shows a red error message with a link for error details which shows this:
Request Id: b6114a2e-09d3-4e92-bf64-7ca3a8194f00
Correlation Id: c586a8c8-d656-4ada-9cc4-57d988f1ec79
Timestamp: 2023-06-12T20:16:19.558Z
FAIL! How helpful! OK, there are 4 methods so I'll just keep going...
Next authentication method: a text to my cell phone. Is something supposed to happen? (10 minutes later, still nothing) FAIL!
There's one more method which is to call my cell phone. I'll let you know! 
I've got work to do, but the machines are working against me today! The day is almost gone and I haven't written a line of code!  
Fixed!: Don't ask me how, but changing out a Ring doorbell caused the problem. The house doorbell/chime happens to be on the same circuit as the cable modem and wireless router. Yesterday I did cycle the power on the cable modem, but not the router. This morning I reset both and everything is back to normal.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
modified 13-Jun-23 9:55am.
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RDC?
Residual Dipolar Coupling
Research Degrees Committee (UK)
Regional Distribution Center
Reusable Dialog Component
Resolver to Digital Converter (electronics)
Remote Data Center (failover configuration for disaster recovery)
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: RDC?
It turns out that the RDC problem was caused by a Ring Doorbell Camera! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I gave up on Ring Doorbell. Too many weird things to fix as well.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I’m curious as to why this story was included in the Developer News section of the daily news email, it’s 10 years old.
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I’m going to guess it was because someone didn’t notice the publish date on it.
I’m sure you never make trivial mistakes. Be proud of that.
TTFN - Kent
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You are correct, I’m very proud 😎
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I did notice it mentioned the event took place in 2011, but didn't think much of it, as stories often surface only many years later because someone made some comment and facts were only discovered later.
But in this case...you're right, the CNet article is from March 2013.
ChatGPT strikes again?
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The original article that CNET cites is from 2013 too.
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Well, I would hope CNet's 2013 article isn't quoting an article from 2023... 
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You’ve seen Back to the Future? 😂
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The thought did cross my mind that some CNet employees might have access to a time machine...and that scared me.
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Interesting question.
Insider News forums has all of those stories. So you could add a comment this one and ask?
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Set boundaries by the German edge (7)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Set boundaries
by the German DE
edge LIMIT DELIMIT
"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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Nice and easy for a Monday
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Hi All,
My home machine that gets used as for Email, Typewriter, Odd Video on YouTube etc. none of the fun things just boring stuff, general utility stuff. Has started making the USB device clunk/ping sound at random. So two options, close the door so I can't hear it or have a look and see what's causing it. Digging in Device Mangler I found to things both related to the audio set up with issues. It appears at some stage a RealTek driver was or is being used. Odd as this is a Dell box with no fancy audio used or installed. I have another machine that gets used for recording and the like on the network if any machine has RealTek (weird little crab like thing, sitting on the task bar) it's that one. Could Win11 update down loaded and tried to auto update the drivers for each machine and just applied the wrong one to this PC? Am I being paranoid? (quite possibly) but  Glenn
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It's unlikely that Win11 has downloaded the wrong drivers. OTOH, I did see similar problems on my daughter's portable - the audio which was working perfectly suddenly stopped working.
I would try removing the drivers completely (click on the "delete driver" check box when removing the driver), reboot the machine, then try reinstalling the drivers from the internet. That's what worked for me.
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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