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A friend bought a new Win 8.0 laptop, and asked me to set it up for him.
I tried to update to IE 11, and was greeted with a message that I had to upgrade to 8.1 in order to uupgrade to IE11. ABSURD! IE11 runs fine on Win7 so why do I need 8.1 to install it on a newer version of the OS?!
My first action was to try to update it to 8.1, but it wouldn't let me do that until I'd applied updates first. ABSURD! Updating to 8.1 should apply the missing updates in the process of "upgrading"!
So I went to apply Windows updates. Of course there were a slew of them (101 to be exact), so I simply selected them all and let it go. 30 minutes later, it rebooted and spent the next 1.5 hours configuring the updates, only to displayy a message claiming that the configurtation failed, and that it was going to revert changes - which took another 1.5 hours.
So, I had to applie all of the updates two or three at a time - which took another two hours.
Finaly I was able to upgrade to 81. - which took over THREE HOURS!
I started at 9am and didn't finish this until 5pm! FRAK!
I tried to install MSSE and it told me that Win8 already had Windows Defender on it and didn't need MSSE. How is it that Windows Defender is all I need on Win8, but Win7 needs MSSE and Windows Defender? WTF?!
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I tried to install MSSE and it told me that Win8 already had Windows Defender on it and didn't need MSSE. How is it that Windows Defender is all I need on Win8, but Win7 needs MSSE and Windows Defender? WTF?!
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm so glad I moved to a Macbook Pro. Only problem is I need to sometimes run Windows 7 on a VM. Bummer. I love my Mac though.
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Everybody I've met with a Mac claims that it's great but all of them are running Windows 7 on it along with the Mac OS.
That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
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ScottM1 wrote: That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
OSX is a great operating system. So is Windows 7. Swapping between them to use the best application for the job is a luxury not a problem.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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ScottM1 wrote: That seems like a horrible way to work to me.
No, not really. The Parallels Desktop VM running on my Macbook Pro runs great. I try to avoid working on Windows in any case since I like the Mac OS much better. But, sometimes work intervenes and I have no choice.
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I did exactly the same thing on Saturday with MSSE, a little more Windows and a little less Metro would be good!
I am still unsure about MSSE and am thinking of some third part AV (other than Norton!) 
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Windows Defender on Win8 has MSSE already integrated into it, so an external install is not required.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Windows 8 didn't only suck on saturday
It's an OO world.
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
{
throw new NotSupportedException();
}
}
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I tried to update to IE 11
<cheap shot>
I think I see the problem.
</cheap shot>
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I'm working in a mixed-threat environment with little-to-no documentation (leaning heavily closer to "no" than "little") of Excel spreadhseet files, Access databases, something caled Vista FileMan, xmod files, DAT files created and FTP'd to special locations on the network from SQL Server jobs, and the SQL server databases all appear to be populated with user-created one-time-use tables.
It's a f*ckin' mess.
All of the stuff was apparently created by a non-DBA or non-programmer.
I'd like to repeat that there's little-no-documentation describing why something is done, the order in which it needs to be done, or where the f*cking resources are that were used to create what I am loathe to refer to as "data".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I didn't know you were working on the same project, I also inhereted a mess. What are the odds  .
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8 months ago I got an AS/400 database, with no documentation at all, table and field name was in form of Tn/Fn and I had to interpret the meaning by its content. To goal to convert that old DB to used the data with our application that, that customer bought...Pure joy!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Screams "attempt at job security" to me (by the previous incumbent...)
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Well, a professional developer would have been able to see through the mess and fix it... Just saying! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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A professional developer would scrap it all and start over. It is really that bad.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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So you've scrapped it all and started again?
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Well, I can't delete anything - yet, but I can start implementing better alternatives and once it's all replaced...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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hell is other people's programs
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Chris Losinger wrote: hell is other people's programs
Hell is your own code after 6 months if you haven't documented it...
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Hell is my own code right after it's done - and it just goes downhill from there.
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Have you tried plugging the local ethernet into the mains outlet, to see if that will resolve the issue? 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I'm working in a mixed-threat environment
"If you don't get the coding done I'm going to shoot you then set you on fire"?
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By "mixed threat", I was referring to the software they're using to do their work.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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