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My dad, a master carpenter, used to have this hammer he swore by. He said, "They just don't make them like they used to. I've had this same hammer for years. !t's only had two new heads and three new handles in all that time and yet it still works like a new one!". 
PS. I am setting up an old table saw (probably at least 15 years old) left to me by a friend and am looking forward to many happy hours accurately cutting wood for various projects my wife has lined up for me!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I know we're getting off-topic here but, yeah, you just don't need to update your tools until something appears that's going to radically improve the way you go about your work. Enjoy that old table saw! 
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The SINGLE most important feature:
You can RIGHT CLICK the windows icon in the lower left, and get something AKIN to a usable menu of options without beating someone to death out of sheer frustration.
I am proud to say I love windows 7 still. and with that one technique, I can get things done in Windows 10 in MERE MINUTES where windows 7 takes seconds. LOL
Cortana: Kirk, you seemed Pissed at Windows 10. Please try right clicking the windows icon...
Cortana: Kirk, see, now you only seem irritated
Kirk: Cortana, is there a mode where windows 10 works like windows 7?
Cortana: <chuckling> baby steps dahling, baby steps
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I don't blame you. Windows 10 is the first one to make me seriously consider my other options.
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The best thing about Win10 is that it finally pursuaded me to start using Linux. 
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Yeah, I've got the same feelings about Win 10 in its default setup. There's too many negatives in it for me to use it as my main OS. I do have it on my laptop (since it's a recent purchase) but I've set it up as a dual boot system. Mint Linux for all my general computing needs and Windows 10 for games that aren't available under Linux.
You can get overall control of Windows 10 but it requires a fair amount of work and research (to find the registry tweaks). It requires much more tweaking than Mint Linux has for me.
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What's up with all the stupid BOXES? Was this user interface designed by cats?
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Been using it close on 2.5 years and very few complaints.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Compared to what? macOS, Gnome3, KDE5, Unity etc? (face palm)...
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I'm a bit agnostic when it comes to Windows X, granted it is a big leap forward from the version 8 flavor of Windows OS, but I loathe the update process and lack of simple straight forward control that was present in pre-8.x versions.
There are advances to be sure, but I'm wondering at what cost. I'm waiting for the creators update to be pushed and will hold further judgment till that takes place.
WHAT REALLY TROUBLES ME... is Apples iOS and how Microsoft like they have become with it. Seems like every time I use streaming media on my iPad Pro or iPhone 7 I have to reboot them to get them to function properly. This is most noted in email where you will not see the content of the message until you reboot. So I find that I'm doing that as many as 5 times a day. Getting old fast there Apple. MS-Windows only forces me to reboot when they slide in an update (but it sure would be nice to know in advance it was happening or prompting that I needed to reboot due to an update 'hint hint ms'!).
Wish both companies would grow up their OS's a bit more and produce something other than an infinite beta product which is what is see on both their parts!
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lol ... given your "unProfessional Profile" is soaked in Windows only sauce this must be a sad day in your life?
But guessing one of these (profile OR this post) is the joke, as how could it take a windows jockey this long to try Win10 for the first time?
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Member 8007155 wrote: given your "unProfessional Profile" is soaked in Windows only sauce this must be a sad day in your life?
Who the f*ck are you again?
Member 8007155 wrote: But guessing one of these (profile OR this post) is the joke, as how could it take a windows jockey this long to try Win10 for the first time?
I didn't "try" it. That implies a desire to use it. It was already on a machine (that belongs to someone else that I don't even know). Being the only computer person anybody seems to know within my sphere of influence, I was asked to resolve an issue on the box.
And here's some info you might find useful for any future interaction you might direct my way - I don't give a flyin rat f*ck about how you view my "unprofessional profile".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Member 8007155 wrote: given your "unProfessional Profile" is soaked in Windows only sauce this must be a sad day in your life?
Who the f*ck are you again?
Why LINUX?[^]
Slightly ironic dude we got there. Do not feed the troll. If you want to harm him in other ways, go ahead.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote in crayon: I don't give a flyin rat f*ck about how you view my "unprofessional profile".
And yet you replied, nothing more needs said 
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LOL - Too funny
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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PMSL! "Unprofessional profile" ... were you talking about your own?
"How could it take a windows jockey this long to try Win10 for the first time?" - I'm a "windows jockey" ... I've "looked" at Win10, I've "tried" Win10 and I'm happy to stay well away from it until all of the issues are sorted.
But on a more relevant topic ... why are you so negative? Been here 5 years and you only seem to come out of the cupboard to have a go at other members? To quote you.. lighten up
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I like it.
It's a pleasure to use.
That is all.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I've been clearing out the spare room - trying to make it into a bedroom instead of a storage place - and that means going through the boxes we moved in with, and haven't opened since. Some of it has been quite interesting: three watches I'd forgotten about (including my gold fob watch), two sets of cufflinks I haven't worn for twenty years, load of pictures of Herself as a young lady. Some of it has been hideous, as in "why did I keep an ancient sleeping bag that smells like something died in it?"
Then it turned up: my Student Union card from university. Oh gawd. Me, as an 18 YO zit factory in 1977 ... I look young, innocent, sober. And only the first two were true for any part of my stay at university ...
Worse: Herself has seen it and banned me from binning the thing. Damn. And no, I'm not posting it here for a very good reason: Warning - language probably not SFW[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What is even more beautiful than an elderly lady? A still older photograph.
Sorry 
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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After moving countries few times I learned to shed a lot of crap, old photo's were among the first to go.
Really the only significant item I've kept from the past is myself,
... minus the hair on my head, buggered if I know where that went.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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One of the things I've lost over the years is my ability to give a damn. If you find it, no need to return it – keep it and see if it works for you. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Then it turned up: my Student Union card from university. Oh gawd. Me, as an 18 YO zit factory in 1977
I was 8 till the end 0f 1977 you old f***.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Ah. A spring chicken!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll bet the lambs look really small, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...load of pictures of Herself as a young lady. Some of it has been hideous, as in "why did I keep an ancient sleeping bag that smells like something died in it?"
You did not want to put that in the same context, right? 
If only you knew what our grunts mean when they talk about sleeping bags or a NATO matress.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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