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oh yeah , Go Vista, I really hate to have to rebuild this box To Win 7
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Is it broken?
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No but to many things are not supported anymore(AV,Email Client,Web browser..) on Vista making it difficult to stay on the OS.
But I have so many programs that I use on a daily bases that I hate to take all of the time to rebuild from scratch.
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ledtech3 wrote: But I have so many programs that I use on a daily bases that I hate to take all of the time to rebuild from scratch. I know that pain.
It takes me months before a new machine is properly broken in, and all the programs I need are configured the way I want them -- and that's even with hacking settings out of the registry for most apps.
Being wary of updates (particularly to operating systems) has got nothing to do with being a Luddite, it's about knowing how much extra work and headaches it can give you.
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Even more than the XP/Vista diehards that the author talks about, I'm baffled by the ~2% running 8.0. It's been out of patch for about a year making it horribly unsafe; and I don't ever recall anyone seriously arguing that 8.0 was better than 8.1.
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Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
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Don't forget that a huge number of people don't have a history with/much knowledge of computers, so they think that however they work is the way they're meant to be.
If all you've ever known is win 8, you'll think it's OK.
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AFAIK those people should've been auto-updated when 8.1 became a recommended update. Still being on 8.0 today would require active stupidity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I liked Windows 8.1 and now like 10. My kids, from oldest to youngest, use 10, 7, 7 & 8.1 (but they all have laptops and I'm wary of upgrading laptops so haven't encouraged them.) BTW, at work, I use CentOS 6.8--yes, it sucks.
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“People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses,” according to an old saw. Especially if they know it well enough to want someone else to do the work
Yes, almost a month old, but new to me today (thus, 'news')
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Redmond is still being a bit coy about precisely what Game Mode will and won't do, but the picture has become a little clearer. So, Windows ships with a built-in Xbox?
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UK researchers accidentally uncovered the lurking networks while probing Twitter to see how people use it It's almost like you can't believe anything on Twitter
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Quote: "What's most remarkable is that the tweets posted by the bots is far and away more interesting than 93.718% of non-bot tweets", Professor Shi noted.
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Microsoft performed the study by analyzing the keystrokes and other activities of people who were using computers during their habitual sleep patterns. Nap time!
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I don't suppose this could be used to convince management to let me sleep on the job?
Marc
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft performed the study by analyzing the keystrokes and other activities of people who were using computers Is that a fact?
And people were worried that too much personal information was being sent to ms by winio.
Pish-tosh!
They only have keyloggers on our machines to help us!
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Wow, that is surprising.
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"Go ahead, make my day"
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That's what I said, but she wants to cuddle instead.
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In this blog entry, we would like to discuss some significant changes that were made in the .NET 4.6.x garbage collector (GC). So you can imagine it might actually affect your code
OK, it *might*, but I've only met a few people actually challenging the GC.
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They should remove garbage collection, for a version or two, and force everyone to go back to alloc and malloc.
That'd stop people whinging about it.
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Publicly known “magic string” lets any site run malicious code, no questions asked. Fortunately, it's not "Open Sesame"
Maybe not too common, but common enough
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It’s time to go codeless. And that promises great futures for our developers. As CIO for Salesforce and a 22-year history in technology, I can say that with the utmost confidence. Well, we had a good run, time to find a new job. Sorry folks.
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The turtles still need to write code.
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Yawn, that's been the mantra for more than 30 years. *Snore*
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It seems like every year we’re creeping closer and closer towards a codeless future, as technology evolves to favor low-code and no-code development.
SalesForce is an amazing product, however using it is like coding, it's just been abstracted so much that it doesn't resemble coding like a programmer would expect. Furthermore, having evaluated the product (and several others), while beautiful and powerful, it is so confusing, the updates no longer match the online documentation, and they put no effort into removing obsolete docs from their website, that I estimated for my friend at a non-profit, that she should plan on investing $20,000 in training (time and materials) for someone to get up to speed to do the basic stuff. Oh, and their import "wizard" is like a lobotomized Downs Syndrome child (apologies if that insults anyone.)
That said, their customer service was superb!
Point being, you can abstract the coding all you want until you get something that looks like the interface in Minority Report, but it's still "coding."
The real thing to toot one's horn about is not that you've eliminated coding but you've made a user interface that is so intuitive and easy to use that it doesn't require documentation, tech support, or the equivalent of a hamburger flipper's year salary for training.
Marc
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