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BillWoodruff wrote: Methinks this is a great word to describe the process of making oneself indispensable to an employer by creating code that only you can understand, and maintain, and its awesome, inscrutable, results
My product code is the very picture of scrutability. While complex (I do UI's in C#/WPF), I try to keep in mind the poor mortal who will inherit my pigeon guano should I be run over by a London bus.
In my role as the DSJB(*), however, it's anything goes. Batch files, scripts, and little command-line tools of all sorts abound. Our automated build process is an unholy amalgamation of a Windows application, several batch files, several tool chains, and a VBScript that ties the whole thing together. I spawn SkyNet as a subprocess to ensure that the whole mess doesn't run too long and bring about the Singularity.
(*) DSJB: Departmental Sh't-Job Boy
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: My product code is the very picture of scrutability. While complex (I do UI's in C#/WPF), I try to keep in mind the poor mortal who will inherit my pigeon guano should I be run over by a London bus.
Such aberrations from the sacred duty of a programmer to put implementing lifetime-employment-insurance first at all times can usually be explained by the programmer being either a founder (in the cash-starved start-up phase of the company), or a stockholder laboring under the delusion the stock will, in future, have more than fantasy value.
Bill
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : ‘I know all about it. I've already found it.’
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: ‘I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.’” Vincent Van Gogh
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If you don't want your downloads to be stored for you in Workspace just go to your Settings, Articles, and turn off the option. Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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Oh! I was searching inside the workspaces themselves. I assumed the settings there applied to my (nonexistant) articles. Thanks.
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Whilst Googling for a Crystal Reports solution this afternoon, I clicked a link that exploded...started spawning new browser instances faster than I could close them!  Actually, closing them seemed to be causing more harm than good, in a matter of seconds, resources were low enough that task manager seemed to take an eternity to load...long enough that I considered the only option would be a hard shutdown. Bummer! 
The workstation did come back, so far the only damage was a SQL database that went into Suspect mode. Thank goodness it could be restored easily. As I was surveying the damage, and looking for anything suspicious, my mobile phone rang, the call displaying as a 'Private Call'. I answer and an automated voice informs me that my debit card has been suspended and gives the option to re-activate the account. They never identified the name of the bank, never used my name, and never referenced an 'account ending in XXXX'. I chose option 'hangup'. I am sure it was a scam, but could it be connected to the browser mishap earlier? I did check my accounts, and had no messages or alerts.
BTW, the exploding behavior happened on an article from businessintelligence.ittoolbox.com using IE 11. I won't say for sure this website and/or browser is to blame until I can replicate it in a VM. Weird huh?
I checked the website (it still showed up in history) above in a VM and it didn't explode.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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When something like that happens the first thing to do is disconnet from the network.
It is easy for me just to yank a cable rather than trying to navigate to disable the network card.
If you had your cell phone number some where on the system it is possible that what ever that thing was doing got ahold of that number. along with other info.
You may be able to do a Wireshark trace while doing it in the vm to see whaere the flurry of activity is going and possibly see what is going.
You may also run process monitor.
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Restore from enterprise base image.
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Didn't have to go that far! It must have just been something like a buggy menuribbon or something...it's fixed now! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Pictures speak volumes..
I've been there recently, and it's really quite disturbing how like a ghost town it is. At one point I was driving through downtown during "rush hour" and there were something like 10 other cars on the highway. What's even stranger are the tracks of despair and desolation interspersed with small one or two block long pockets of "obviously somebody is pumping money into here." There's a significant "color" change in the people as well in those pockets, if you get my drift.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: At one point I was driving through downtown during "rush hour" and there were something like 10 other cars on the highway
You must be referring to a different "rush hour" than I experience every day. I have to drive 17 miles to get to work downtown. I take the surface streets and it's about 30 minutes. If I take I-94, it's an hour to get to work.
Marc Clifton wrote: What's even stranger are the tracks of despair and desolation interspersed with small one or two block long pockets of "obviously somebody is pumping money into here."
Yeah, it is kind of a strange sight, even for us who live here. But it's nice to see something new in stark contrast to the wreackage that most of the neighborhoods in the city have become.
Marc Clifton wrote: There's a significant "color" change in the people as well in those pockets, if you get my drift.
Drive across 8 Mile did ya?  From where to where?
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: You must be referring to a different "rush hour" than I experience every day.
Yeah, something was odd that day.
Dave Kreskowiak wrote: Drive across 8 Mile did ya?
It was about 2 years ago now, I'm not where I got off to take the city streets, but they paralleled the highway more or less. I was avoiding some major snarl that seemed to be caused by an accident somewhere.
Marc
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Yeah, most people won't take the surface streets because of the crime. It's so bad now that you could get a gun shoved in your face in the middle of the day demanding your keys while you fill up the tank at any gas station.
People don't want to chance breaking down on these streets where there's little traffic. They would rather sit on the freeway and wait it out. I don't blame them.
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It hasn't been a rapid decline, see here[^], it's been a long road of crime and corruption where politicians have sucked the life out of Detroit.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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I know. Neighborhoods decline at a rapid pace, not cities.
Detroit has been crumbling noticeably since 1960'ish. This city has never really recovered from the riots of '67. It's become the most racially segregated metro area in the country. Mayor Coleman Young didn't help matters back around 1980 when he said "I'M IN CHARGE! If you don't like it, go north of 8 mile." The money and tax base was already leaving Detroit at a steady pace and he did absolutely nothing to try and reverse that during his 20 years in office.
I'm not blaming Young solely for what's happened to Detroit. The corruption has been rampant for, what, 80-90 years now? It's also not a Republican or Democrat thing either. It's self-serving, nepotistic corruption no matter who's in office at the top or in whatever city department they work for that's killed this city, killed its education system, killed its police force, kill city services, and basically gutted everyone who lived here. And it's still going on today, even as the wreckage of this town is piling up around the "leaders" necks.
The problems also don't end at the border of Detroit either. It keeps going straight into Wayne County too. The corruption and mismanagement had become so bad that it was acting as a cancer on the surrounding areas and into the State of Michigan. So bad as to force the State to take action.
The bankruptcy of Detroit should have been filed over 20 years ago...
It's not entirely a sh*t hole. Downtown proper has seen vast improvements and investment. Various companies have gone through great lengths to help the city out with community outreach efforts and consolidating operations, moving them back inside the city, bringing back some of the money and tax base that's been lost over the decades.
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Don't blame the politico's, they were elected, and there is were the responsibility rests. They voted for it.
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A politician lies, cheats and steals to get into office, but if they all do it who do you elect?
We elected them?, I don't think so they either buy their way in or are but in by the elite.
If first you don't succeed, hide all evidence you ever tried!
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I think many of us have the ability to detect liers in our day to day dealings. I think those in Detroit (and elsewhere) can too. It's just that they love to hear the lies. I blame them[^].
modified 6-Jun-14 20:12pm.
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Yeah, but that only gets you so far in that argument.
In the end, it really does come down to the politician making the decision to cross the line. We've actually had a couple of mayors that weren't eyeball-deep in corruption. Dennis Archer and Dave Bing. They may still have been corrupt, but nowhere near the level Kilpatrick and Young were.
I really can't remember another mayor back before Young, so my comparisons stop there.
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“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything.”
― Joseph Stalin
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A quote from a famous dead communist mass murderer is suppose to make one feel better about the political choices of a city in the US, but in a fundamentally transformed city, I think you may have a point.
I guess we are making comparisons at this point between Soviets and Detroit DNC party machine Mayors?
modified 7-Jun-14 5:02am.
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