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After a couple of years away from programming, I am getting back into it. Still looking for some projects from here (notably one that is a Visual Studio style options panel for WinForms), but have most of what I need.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Welcome back !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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Y2K was that bad for you?
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: After a couple of years away from programming, I am getting back into it.
Interesting. I don't think I could ever stop programming.
How long were you programming before you quit?
Did you become bored with it? Or were you forced towards other ventures?
Just curious, and welcome back.
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raddevus wrote: I don't think I could ever stop programming.
/ravi
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Success!
This is why we document.
Also, this is why we document clearly (we hope).
Because we may (and often are) the end-user or our own documentation.
Way to go. 
I writes things down so I don't have to remember thems.
I writes thems down clearly so I don't has to understands them later. 
EDIT
![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
I finally guessed how to add that dancing gif. This is the best thing I've done all week (maybe year).
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raddevus wrote: I finally guessed how to add that dancing gif
Well done! ![Badger | [badger,badger,badger,badger...]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/badger.gif)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Well done!
Made me LOL!
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raddevus wrote: This is the best thing I've done all week (maybe year)
I think you can take the rest of the year off...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Quote: This is why we document.
It certainly is.
I document my code assuming that in six months or more I will be coming back to it and saying, "What the heck does this do? ...and how? ...and why?"
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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CP just justified its existence...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: CP just justified its existence...
Yeah - way better tool than SharePoint! 
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You, are sub species aeternitas !
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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BillWoodruff wrote: You, are sub species aeternitas !
Sadly though, I think there's an expiration date on articles, so no eternity for me!
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BillWoodruff wrote: sub species aeternitas !
The last thing I would want is Eternity in a body that continually grows older (and more decrepit). Eternity in a healthy 20-year-old's body, now...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Alright, time for a rant.
I've just had Office 365 install an update on my system, and as usual, it asked me to shut down Outlook before proceeding.
This is one of those installs that don't show any progress or provide any feedback once the update process in underway. It also never tells you when it's done. So I have no indication as to whether it should be ok for me to restart Outlook or not.
I've relied on the presence of officeclicktorun.exe (as a running task) in the past to determine whether those O365 patches are done installing, but it seems these days I always have an instance of that running and never going away. mscorsvw.exe also seems to commonly get launched when O365 updates are being installed, but I've also seen instances where it's just sitting there, with no CPU or disk activity, so I still have no idea whether it's done or not.
Microsoft, I realize you want to make as many things run transparently in the background as possible, so as not to interrupt the end user, but can you please let me know when I can restart the apps I was asked to shut down? Because while in that state, my workflow already has been interrupted.
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It's very annoying. But I generally find that if I let the updater close the applications, it restarts them for me when it's finished.
Even if I shut Outlook down manually, seeing Skype for Business start up again usually indicates that the update is done.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Silent updates.
Holy elephant.
Where's my gun?
Where's my keys?
Round and round we go bitching bout this.
Don't they know that some'r unstable when pissed?
- drawing a blank - can't finish it.
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I remember seeing a small icon in the notification area when it's updating, unless they changed that?
(It's why I always set pref to show all icons in the notification area.)
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Windows Update != Office Update
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