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Sometimes my approach is as structured as in the photos, but usually I bounce around between high level and low level, often refactoring when I notice various details about the code. It's very different from constructing a building.
However, my response actually had nothing to do with work per se. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: Now I just attack whichever part I'm inspired by until it starts to breathe on its own
Must... not... quote... Young Frankenstein...
As I've gotten older I tend to do the "hard part" first. That's the part I don't understand immediately or need to learn. I usually do that sort of thing in a throwaway program where I don't have centuries of ancient lore to keep in mind. Once I get a good feel for that, I usually have an outline in my head for the rest of it. A long time ago I tended to do the easy stuff first, and put off the hard part. Of course you know that means I got to throw away a fair amount of the easy stuff because it no longer made sense after doing the hard bits.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Relatable even if for different reasons. I like a challenge, so I go for the hard bits first.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You get it all done, the last frame shows it tilting to the right, and it's cropped poorly?
Every. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing. Time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have 2 desktops wired to Ethernet ports on cable modem. One directly to modem via its ethernet card and the other through an ethernet switch. High speed internet provider (I'll name name's if anyone asks) stopped by without notice to work on the neighborhood cable box, which is in my back yard, that provides service. After they left, directly connected ethernet devices failed to connect to internet. When I finished recovery I discovered that the ethernet card directly connected to cable modem was not functional. Diagnostic confirms. Fortunately I had a second card on that box and it worked fine. The other computer ethernet card was protected by the switch, I guess, but only work if I bypassed the switch. Wireless functionality was unaffected. The takeaway, turn off your machines if directly connected to modem and maybe detach them from modem if cable guy shows up.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Did they upgrade the boxes? Cable modems switch up a couple of the wires in their ports. Some TX and RX pair is reversed - I forget the specifics. Some cards can compensate, some don't. Presumably all hubs can. This is all fuzzy recollection of stuff I half remember reading I don't know how long ago so take with plenty of salt, but your problem could have been related to that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I do not know what they swapped in the box in my yard, but shortly after I discovered the problem, I replaced the cable modem (about 3 years old) in my house with newer one (I rent the cable modems, I don't use my own ... another story). Same symptoms, same problem. The desktop affected is a 2 year old HP so it's covered by warranty and it's hardware should be state of the art. Your line reversal sounds plausible. But the cable modem is connected to the box outside by a standard RJ45 coaxial so what it's doing electrically to the cable modem is a mystery to me. Cause and effect say the cable guy did something to cable box outside to cause my cable modem inside to damage my computer's ethernet card. Worked fine before he arrived. Not so when he left. My computers were online the whole time. Grrr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yeah, if they didn't touch your cable boxes themselves, then the only thing I can think of is a power surge or some kind of firmware reset signal they sent over the line. I mean at this point you could be looking at an "act of God" if you'll forgive the expression. Sometimes hardware is just like that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Are your pc's configured with static ips for networking? Chances are the ip scheme changed and a good dhcp refresh is in order. Th DNS servers may have changed also, that will be configured via dynamic dhcp aquistion also.
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I suspected such. No luck.
Hardware diagnostics said the board is bad when connected to a known good ethernet source.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Using DCHP for IP and DNS.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own.
Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace.
If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image.
I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Nope. Win 11 has been surprisingly reliable for me, with pretty much zero crashes at all with the exception of GTA V, which was down to the new motherboard locating the GPU above the PSU and causing heat problems. Extra fans and some software to control the GPU fan speed have fixed that. Even those crashes didn't generate dumps, just locked the whole machine with a corrupted display.
"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
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Win 11 has been very stable. Video drivers have been only issue and they are vendor specific.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The fact that the monitors went black, seems to confirm that it is probably a video driver issue.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I was just going to say that. I'd be looking for newer video drivers from the manufacturer.
The Windows event log will probably also show some error(s) at around the crash's time frame. The content should pretty much confirm the driver theory.
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Don’t forget that those naughty modders in GTA can crash your game. Apparently, it’s surprisingly easy to do.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Rockstar attitude to modders is ... um ... surprisingly poor. 
"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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As long as it doesn't hit their bottom line financially, R* doesn't care what modders do.
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I had a crash yesterday that was weird. The monitor went black and the audio was machine-gunning the last fraction of a second of audio through the speakers. Did a hard restart and when I found the dump file it was nearly 2GB. Didn't have much going on at that time except a browser with one tab and a freshly-booted PoE, so I can imagine how crazy that file would get if you were really in the thick of things.
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That's interesting. It's my understanding that the default is to create "minidumps" which aren't that large. Do you have an IDE or other tool installed that might have changed this?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Three IDEs: Visual Studio 2019 CE, IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I'm pretty sure that VS2019 doesn't change the dump setting, so you might try the other two. Unfortunately this may not be something that's documented, unless you find it on a discussion forum.
Software Zen: delete this;
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So, I got this new job, where the work is MVC, so I thought that while I waited for all the in-processing stuff to happen (so I can actually start work), I decided to start writing a MVC app.
So far, I've managed to eradicate Entity Framework in its entirety (in deference to my own DAL), created my own Identity code to replace the ASPNetxxx code, created a lot of the back-end static data (I've spent almost a week on this, and still have a ways to go before I'm done with it) so that I can exercise the app, and came up with a dark appearance that I really like.
I really hate everything javascript, but the reality is that it simply can't be avoided, so today, I took on the task implementing "fluff". I pretty much got a set of cascading drop-down lists working in relative harmony (using ajax), and implemented a custom jquery-ui progress bar that shows the percentage of characters remaining in the associated text input (or area) control as the user types The progress color changes from green, to yellow, to red depending on what percentage of characters is remaining.
I'm sure there are better ways to do what I did, but as much as I dislike javascript, if it works, it ships.
Just exercising my MVC muscles...
".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 feel your pain John
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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