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Mark_Wallace wrote: Use standard window layout at startup
I work on a multi-screen system connected to a KVM, and I move the solution explorer panel and output panel to the second monitor so I can see more code at the same time.
Every once in a while, when switching back to my dev box, the KVM looses its mind and starts flashing one/both displays, which makes everything completely unusable. The only fix is to unplug the KVM and plug it back in.Unfortunately, Windows sees the loss of video signal as a demand to move all windows from the 2nd monitor to the first monitor. I'd like a menu command or toolbar button that lets me move the windows back to where I want them.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- 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 have the same thing with my travelling laptop. I connect it to a dinky little KVM hub at home, and to a monitor at the hotel (both monitors are the same res), and my windows and desktop are screwed up every time.
It was a conscious decision by ms, with weven, to not remember window positions and sizes. Up until XP, they at least stored the data and restored the windows.
And windows has never bothered remembering how your desktop icons are organised -- desktop-icon positioning is as important as toolbar-button positioning. Perhaps more so.
Worth their weight in gold:
• Shell Folder Fix[^]
• Iconoid[^]
But they only treat the symptoms, not the disease.
Just because their UX nancies don't do anything other than write memos, tweets, and letters to their grandmas with their computers, they think that no-one else needs to do more than that, or to be more organised.
winio is worse. I like my taskbar to be two rows high (with hide on), but every time I restart the PoC at work, it's decided that I only want one row, so I have to unlock it, drag it up, and lock it again (I lock it to reduce the size taken up by the Quick Start panel).
They've taken making things harder to do into the realm of fine art.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Microsoft said it detected Strontium (APT28) targeting VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders. What kind of world do we live in, when you can't even trust your printer?
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zdnet panicked: VoIP phones, printers, and video decoders [Crocodile Dundee]
They're not IoT!
(pulls out links to Griff's IoT postings)
That's IoT![/Crocodile Dundee]
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If you were going to lose your job, would you prefer to be replaced by a robot or another person? If you said robot, you’re in the majority. I think most people would rather not lose their job, but maybe that's just me
As someone who's already been replaced by a robot, of course.
So, managers: when replacing someone, just tell the victim they're being replaced by a robot. They'll feel much better.
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Even when a given open source project once was the right technical choice, sometimes you need to leave it behind. Here's how to tell when it's time to find another option. "So get out your seat and jump around!"
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Microsoft launched today the Azure Security Lab, a sandbox-like environment designed to enable security professionals to test Azure security without actually endangering the company's customers. Are the hacks scalable as long as you pay for more servers?
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So they've finally found it within themselves to provide something that's SOP?
God bless cloud services. Long may they... Be ignored by anyone who has a clue about security.
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Microsoft's new command-line tool, Terminal, gets its biggest update ever. "The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition."
Seems a little a-historical (around MS-DOS' history), but I didn't know the bit about Phoenix (long may they press F2. Or was it DEL?)
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Lots of kudos to these guys. Thanks for making me aware of them.
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You mean... I made a difference to your lifestyle?
TTFN - Kent
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Don't push it.
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Microsoft's new command-line tool, Terminal, gets its biggest update ever. Apparently it wasn't Terminal after all, it's still going
Biggest update? Isn't this the first update (after the 0.2 preview launch)?
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Hold on.
- New colours for buttons?
- Windows narrator?
- "new accessibility features"?
- Background images?
- Cloud access?
Is that all they've got?
Is this the windows 8 of cmd?
It certainly looks like it.
All it's lacking is live tiles to access your scripts.
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Does it support icons?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I do hope they get the colors and fonts right this time at least. The current colors/fonts for terminal is dark, fuzzy and not quite view friendly, like the ones in x-window of *nix system
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IBM accused of targeting older workers as 'up to 100,000' laid off | ZDNet[^]
They will surely be surprised when the next generation of issues pop up
On a serious note:
I don't know if all the "old farts" are that good, but there are for sure a big number of seniors that have better / healthier practices as the youngsters, just out of experience.
Doing such an aggressive campaign against age, is IMHO not a good idea.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The risk arising out of this is already seen in the Boeing Max case.
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And the sad part is that it seems no one has learned from it
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Oh surprise, surprise.
It won't help their image with the young and the hip because it's not cool to work at IBM any more and never will be no matter what they do.
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I can't remember a time when it ever was cool to work there.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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No, but it's easier to convince a 22 year old to work 70 hour weeks for peanuts than someone who's older and wiser. And that's what it's all about.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Using kinetic energy, it's got the potential to be more efficient than solar panels. They thought of everything with that language, didn't they?
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Rust never sleeps, so it might as well do something useful since it's awake, anyway.
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