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Pulled the hard disk from a Ubuntu system, swapped it into a different laptop. Very different configuration; about the only thing they have in common is a manufacturer's badge and a QWERTY keyboard.
The first boot took a little longer than usual, but it came up seamlessly.
Try that with Windows!
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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A long time ago I did something similar on a Win 95 (or was it 98) machine. Whole new motherboard, processor, etc. When it booted up I saw some messages about updating various drivers, which it did fairly seamlessly. I don't remember for certain, but I think it did ask to be rebooted, but after that it came up just fine...
No idea what Windows does now though...
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I did it recently: changed the MB, Processor, and RAM. Heck, I went from a E6700 to an i5 and a totally different MB and BIOS manufacturer.
Turned on the power and it booted fine - possibly a little slowly but not much off the original boot time.
Only hassle was the "Windows Activation Licence" which - rightly - decided it was different hardware and I needed to reactivate.
That would have gone smoothly if I had less than three monitors, or the remote desktop software MS technical use could see more than just the middle one. Or if the taskbar had been on that monitor, I guess that would have been handy. Of course, if the "activation failure" detector hadn't deliberately disabled any changes to the desktop at all that would have helped.
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I did it with my kid's pc too. Whole new pc. Swapped old HDD out into new box. Win 8.1 Started up just fine!
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See The Lounge[^] (Bug Of The Year, aka Booty! ) posted by Super Lloyd yesterday
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I even quickly checked to see if no one already posted this. Guess I'm blind...
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Indeed, yeah!
Though weird and wonderful is a better forum for it... For some reason I didn't get the link to it that day.. (sometimes the menu link to some other forum is not there, quite strangely )
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And worse, it takes two clicks of the Cancel button to dismiss the print dialog!
/ravi
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And.. you are totally right!
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This is from an enumeration:
Completeed = 2,
I could understand Compleeted , but this just leaves me teed.
Now I'll have this shyte in my code.
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Looks like it's time to add some tech debt to the backlog. I just hope it isn't customer facing.
/ravi
modified 19-Jun-19 22:21pm.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I just hope it isn't customer facing.
No, but when I serialize the enum value to a string (I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values), I don't want the client-side Javascript to continue this atrocity, so it looks like I'll have either a special handler case or map the enum with the typo to my own enum and deal with ordinal value changes if they happen. Or some other half-assed solution.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: I don't trust this company to not change the ordinal values Say it ain't so!
/ravi
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I have to put up with a production code path containing "Intergrated" instead of "Integrated". It's been there for years so no-one wants to touch it!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Inter - place into a grave or crypt
Grated - like to grate cheese, etc.
to place shredded cheese into a grave or crypt. It could happen.
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Slacker007 wrote: Grated - like *******, made grate again. ftfy
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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did they intend
intern_grated ?
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Wow, to not fix that is AMAZING...
What thought process causes this?
Is it risk aversion?
Test Aversion?
It would be fixed by the next build if I worked there. Especially if this affected the client (which makes the company look stupid if the client notices)...
Curious... What is it that causes it not to be addressed/fixed?
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I recently made a typo in my code, quite consistently too.
A coworker pointed it out, we had a laugh about it, and I spent about ten minutes renaming all the properties and variables where the word was used
Another coworker once put the Dutch equivalent of "Are you sute?" (instead of "sure") in a WinForms app.
We fixed it on our own, but no doubt the customer had already seen it
I once found a typo on the pre-printed invoice paper of our customers (it was in the tiny letters).
And an aunt who makes her own soap had a typo on her packaging, which she found after she had quite a few pressed.
A typo could happen to anyone really.
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Sander Rossel wrote: A typo could happen to anyone really.
Of course. But the damn thing should be fixed. Like you did. Good for you!
Sadly, because this is third party software, I can't fix it. I can only "convert" it:
var myEnum = (ProperlySpelledEnum)yourF*ckedUpEnumValue;
Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.
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Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Marc Clifton wrote: But the damn thing should be fixed True, especially when it's "third party" (they should fix it)!
Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt" Spelled, unless you're into wheat[^]
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Either is correct, unless you're using American English, when it's spelled .
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Marc Clifton wrote: Or is it "Spelt", because that's what the Brits and other more civilized people would probably use.
Certainly always has been in the part of Britain I grew up in. Spelt and spelled are both used as past participles, although spelt feels more natural to me. Yes, spelt is also a type of wheat.
See also smelt - past participle of smell, a type of fish, and an ore extraction process.
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Grammar is overateed!
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