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Unfortunately, for me, they didn't take quite that long to release it 
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Eric Lynch wrote: I've read advice from Microsoft not to click "Check for Updates
That was in the early days of the 1809 update containing FUBARed code, and still available (prior to being pulled in early October); as long as you didn't actively seek it, you wouldn't have ended up with it.
1809's been re-released this last patch Tuesday after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
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dandy72 wrote: after (we've been assured) being "thoroughly tested".
It was indeed thoroughly tested, live in the field.
Back in early October ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They tested it widely. It didn't pass, but it was tested. That's the Microsoft Way! 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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An on-target quote...
Quality means doing it right even when no one is looking. — Henry Ford
And a not-quite-on-target quote that simply makes me chuckle...
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. — Donald Knuth
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I hate to tell you this, but it's still fubar'd! You might want to go read the release notes for it, here[^].
If you're running Trend OfficeScan, you need to install a "Critical Patch" for that before you even try to download the 1809 patch. If you don't, bad things will happen.
I especially love the part where you get a warning that "Mapped drives could not be reconnected" and they show up in with a red X on them. So, if you map and use network drives, you might want to hold off applying this update.
Running a Radeon HD2000 and HD4000? You're screwed.
Apple iCloud for Windows? Yeah, about that...
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: I hate to tell you this
I wrote "we've been assured it's been tested."
I wasn't inferring I thought it was any better. 
modified 20-Nov-18 17:53pm.
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And the sad thing is, if it screws up and you lose data and/or productivity, there's no one you can sue.
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If you're not feline well, do you need a purramedic?
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There there Kitty. We wont tell Paul you’re at it again.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Nah, if you're not feline well, suck it up, don't be a pussy 
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You left me scratching my head. What would be the claws fur anyone to post such a question? It litter-ly boggles the mind.
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You are all pawful people. 
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I won't touch that one furrball the tea in China.
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You might need a cat scan?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Or your friend the dogtor 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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It depends on the capabilities of the display you're using. You're going to have to contact the manufacturer of the display to find out what type of "pens" are supported and whether or not it supports "multiple touch" when it comes to pens. In some touch displays, pens do not work but fingers do. In other displays, it's the other way around. And still others, they can support both.
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There are active touch pens that work with capacitive touch screens like my phone. However, the pen that came with my Lenovo, sadly, doesn't.
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Thanks 
Full Reset
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or both.
So, as you probably know, I gave my notice. The expected and gratifying panic ensued, resulting in lots of "we need to understand how your code works" meetings. During these meetings, various warts are exposed, warts I knew about and for the most part had // TODO: Cleanup comments around.
Why the warts? Because in the two years I've worked on this project, off and on, sometimes with a good several months "off" because management kept shifting my priorities, the project has evolved from basically a simple "read in the XML data and serialize it out into a fixed length delimited flat file" to a complex beast that has to handle numerous variations of the string-based XML data, numerous rules on how additional records need to be inserted, or excluded, or massaged, etc. etc. etc.
Basically, what I have implemented should for the most part be considered at this point a throw-away prototype given the learning that has occurred over the 2 years on just how freaking complicated it is to take denormalized data (as XML strings of all things, so there's no consistency in the naming of lookup values), handle all the variations spit out by the processes that create the XML...point being, I learned a ton of stuff as I went along, and I wouldn't have written the program the way I did had I known all this stuff up front. Stuff that only a couple people in the IT department actually understand.
So, during the code walkthroughs, I keep getting frowning faces and questions like "where did this requirement come from?" Given that the project had a one line requirement "convert XML and report it to the third party agency" (the spec for that is a 200 page tome with a separate addendum), I laugh when I hear the phrase "requirement."
And so this morass is being handed to a junior dev that isn't comfortable yet with what I consider basic C# features -- generics, LINQ, lambda expressions, abstract classes, etc. Management says I'm the only senior developer that the IT department has ever hired.  I can see the argument for "code for the junior developers" - ie, lots of cut and paste. This poor guy, who is inheriting my project, is who really deserves sympathy.
So much for the sympathy. Here's the part where I'm smacking myself. There's only one person qualified to do the code walkthrough -- this person is really quite smart. It's actually a pleasure (in a painful way) to have someone that knows C# well enough go through the code with me. However, her main job is DB admin stuff, not C# development.) In hindsight, I wish I'd set up monthly code reviews with her. At least monthly. She knows the craziness of the processes that generate the XML (which has its own warts that would send you screaming out of the building) and has honed in on the warts that are the result of numerous refactorings instead of rewrites during this development process.
But on the gripping hand, I'm also pissed off. Management promotes a very silo-based development environment -- people work on their own thing and there's no collaboration. There's no training to bring juniors up to more senior levels. There's no concept of code reviews -- see my posts in the weird and wonderful. The way source control is used, it's only there to separate development, quality, and production code -- no branching, no pull requests where someone reviews your commits, etc.
But then I get back to smacking myself -- I know better. I should have taken the initiative to request code reviews. I should have utilized this really smart person's knowledge and skill better. Heck, I should have done better to begin with.
As to why I didn't, I would have to say that my disappointment in management, practices, and processes, which sounded great during the interview, created the psychological "I don't really give a sh*t" mood -- promoted by the punch clock mentality of management (yes, for salaried employees), lack of flexibility, and that everyone has been browbeaten into this mentality -- how many times have I heard "it's a paycheck?" from my coworkers? And besides, I truly have no passion for the insurance industry.
If there's a lesson to be learned here, the main one is, I shouldn't have allowed myself to get into that "I don't give a sh*t" mentality, nor should I have let my lack of passion for this industry to get in the way of doing a good job. I failed. I should have left the company early (I almost did, 2 weeks in as a contractor, but I needed that damn paycheck) or I should have been "professional" about my work irrespective of the crappy management style, tools, equipment, and work environment.
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