|
My work PC is never turned off because I need to be able to access it without waiting for someone to have to manually power it on. The monitors turn off automatically soon after I lock my workstation for the day. I always shutdown my home PC at the end of the day. Have never experienced a hardware failure. Yet. 
/ravi
|
|
|
|
|
There are valid points made here for both sides, so I'll skip that. I just wanted to let you know that if you DO shutdown stuff, I have written a pretty nice application for doing remote WOL and shutdown. It supports waking up remote servers across the Internet (I do that myself daily). I offer it free and open source to everyone. https://wol.aquilatech.com/
|
|
|
|
|
Well thats cool. Have not looked at it but: Thank you.
Thank you for your time
|
|
|
|
|
Lucky you.
I have lost hard drives, Graphics Adapters, Memory Chips (causing BSOD while running).
But the scariest thing I have ever done was cycle a few Novell servers that had been running for years.
Out of about 10 of these old DOS based network servers, 2 never rebooted because of hard drive failures.
Most had errors in their startup files, from changes that were NEVER tested. And MANY had never been properly backed up.
Trying to explain to a business owner the risk of turning off his Server, and explaining that the hardware is rated for 5 years, he has had it for 8 years, and has not rebooted it in 3 years... Your luck might be ready to run out.
I, too, used to turn my big machine off every day. But I now leave me machine running all the time. My monitors are turned off. The machine self-regulates its power consumption. But a BIG part of turning the machine off before was Power+Noise+(The OS would CRASH if left running too long, like 25hrs, LOL)
|
|
|
|
|
Today, it's "security robots"[^]. Tomorrow, it's ED-209 from Robocop saying "You have 20 seconds to comply!"
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
|
|
|
|
|
Hmmmmm,
That thing has been rolling around Microsoft campus since 2014[^]. It's usually creeping around real slow... but it can move fast too...
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
|
|
|
|
|
Wow! I had no idea. So where do they hide the guided missiles in that thing? 
On the other hand, you have different fingers. - Steven Wright
|
|
|
|
|
That's why we're keeping staircases.. 
The Fall of ED209 - YouTube
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
The best is seeing robocop going down afterwards...
I can't still decide which of both robots is going downstairs more elegantly...
|
|
|
|
|
Slinky-robot.. it's the way to go
How to make a slinky go up the stairs. - YouTube
Now is it bad enough that you let somebody else kick your butts without you trying to do it to each other? Now if we're all talking about the same man, and I think we are... it appears he's got a rather growing collection of our bikes.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
|
|
|
|
|
...Protect the innocent ... Uphold the law ...
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I managed to crash Visual Studio 2015 again but the stack trace is, umm, insightful.
Application: devenv.exe
Framework Version: v4.0.30319
Description: The application requested process termination through System.Environment.FailFast(string message).
Message: System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Specified argument was out of the range of valid values.
Parameter name: position
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.SyntaxNode.FindTokenCore(Int32 position, Boolean findInsideTrivia)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.Extensions.DocumentExtensions.<getsemanticmodelforspanasync>d__2.MoveNext()
Stack:
at System.Environment.FailFast(System.String, System.Exception)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.FailFast.OnFatalException(System.Exception)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.ErrorReporting.FatalError.Report(System.Exception, System.Action`1<system.exception>)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.ErrorReporting.FatalError.ReportUnlessCanceled(System.Exception)
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Shared.Extensions.DocumentExtensions+<getsemanticmodelforspanasync>d__2.MoveNext()
at Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.SyntaxNode.FindTokenCore(Int32, Boolean)
...
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Language.Intellisense.Implementation.DefaultCompletionSetPresenter.ShowToolTip()
...
at MS.Win32.HwndSubclass.SubclassWndProc(IntPtr, Int32, IntPtr, IntPtr)
We all knew that there were problems lurking in the depths of Intellisense. Now we have proof, ha ha!
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
|
|
|
|
|
|
Step 12 is missing! That's the one where Microsoft dismisses the bug as not being reproducable and chucks your bug report in the virtual dustbin! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
-
The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
-
I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
|
|
|
|
|
Not all bugs get closed as "not reproducible". Some get closed because "it's too close to the release of vNext, and we're not fixing any more bugs before that".
Which would be fine, if they fixed the bugs after the release. But they don't. Because the bug report is closed.
So ten versions later, the bug is still present. But if you report it again, it will be too close to the release of vNext+11 for them to consider fixing it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
Richard Deeming wrote: So ten versions later, the bug is still present.
Alternatively they can then dismiss it by (correctly) stating that this bug has already been reported before.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
|
|
|
|
|
|
I don't find it funny at all. DickPic --->Microscope. Oldest joke in the book and often told by 14 year olds.
Did the Twitter generation miss out on growing up somewhere?
|
|
|
|
|
Munchies_Matt wrote: Did the Twitter generation miss out on growing up somewhere?
You really need to ask?
Tom
|
|
|
|
|
|
My thoughts exactly.  
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
|
|
|
|
|
So I'm reading on CodeProject about an article on Buzzfeed about something that took place on Twitter.
This is what constitutes "news" nowadays I guess.
|
|
|
|
|
If you have a fear of speed bumps, can you slowly get over it?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
|
|
|
|
|
If a fake goose bumps is it a quack?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
|
|
|
|
|
Another Place to Start is the XAMP stack using PHP and mySQl to build webapp's with a DB Connection. Generally speaking, there is an excellent amount of support for free be it the documentation or user content. Also this is a pathway to create content with Drupal or Wordpress if that is your thing!
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
