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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Is that good?
Being old and not dead is always very good. Mike Hunt is rhyming slang for ladies parts and is generally not a good thing to be called, though here in Australia it is a term of endearment used amongst close mates.
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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Yah crappy day and you got the brunt of it  Xamarin has got get better than this FFS.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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Rick York wrote: and ready to punch one of those dimwitted dumbasses in Redmond.
get in line. The forced updates "we will help you" decision, in my opinion, is grounds for summary dismissal. If you worked for me, the conversation would go:
me: Who decided to force updates and reboots on users?
DD: That was me, it will make us more secure.
me: Ever thought about developers, people who run multiple virtual machines?
DD: Sure, but it will make us more secure.
me: take it out now
DD: No, the marketing manager made me put it in.
me: Okay....
DD: Hey, that's my keyboard!
me: Not anymore...
The arrogance shown in that they continue this nonsense...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: On top of it, Microsoft will tell you if your pin is "too easy"?!
Y'know, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they came up with "This four-digit pin code is too easy because it only contains four digits".
Seriously, no level of stupidity from ms would shock me, any more.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: All Windows updates are now "paused" by me. Note: I can't stop them.
Although it's overkill for most people, if you have other needs for it anyway, then WSUS is the way to go if you're trying to have the final say on OS updates. And that covers all versions of Windows.
Not a single update can slip through without you (a) asking for it and (b) approving it. IF you configure it right (which is pretty trivial).
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Thanks for the tip!
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Or just turn off the update service.
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Not that I've ever tried this, but wouldn't the OS start popping up warning messages incessantly? At least with WSUS, you don't have to turn off Windows Update on the clients...
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Interesting.
So you can turn off WU without a single warning, yet if you dare turn off the firewall, OMG, the sky's falling...even though you're sitting behind a router that does a much better job than the Windows Firewall could ever wish to be capable of doing. Or the AV.
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yeah, but you can turn off firewall warnings too cant you? Pretty sure there is a setting for it somewhere.
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I've never had to leave it off long enough for me to look into it to be honest.
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You signed in with Microsoft Account?
I don't think this happens with local or domain accounts.
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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MS account. Nothing has varied from my sigin / sleep procedures. No setting changes. Nada. This was triggered by their update. While in sleep mode.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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PIN only happens on MS Accounts. You may have been lucky till now.
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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Why the fuss? I have one pin to sign in to Windows, and different pins for my bank and credit cards.
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It wouldn't let me sign in without setting one up.
Why do I object to someone "putting a lock on my own house"?
Or consider this: it wanted a new pin without me signing in ... in which case, "whose" pin is it?
No explanation, no "cancel" ... just a loop.
I have yet to make any sense of it ...
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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I'm with you.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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Myself I actually like to turn my computers off when I am not using them.
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Working on a project that involve many components (code, images, text files, etc.). It's nice being able to come back to a session in that case.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: It's nice being able to come back to a session in that case.
Virtual Machine stopped... main pc shut down 
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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You must have a monster machine to run multiple copies of VS, Remote desktop, Visio, Netflix, Edge, FireFox, Paint.Net, Picture Viewer, Snippet, PDF Reader, Age of Empires, 3 monitors, .... in a VM.
"(I) am amazed to see myself here rather than there ... now rather than then".
― Blaise Pascal
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Working on a project
I break my work up into small components. Makes everything easier.
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Assuming this is the same update that I applied to another PC here about an hour ago. It is restarting again for at least the 5th time...just watching the spinning dots for now at 75%....must be a major update.  It did give me the choice to put it off, but I had no idea it was going to take this long.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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"Up to and including version 9, Java only has two sorts of values - primitive types, and object references."
they have deliberately ceased passing by value of composite data types and they have forbid using any form of programming paradigm other than object oriented.
now they want and need to be able to compare composite data types by value and they will need to pass composite data types by value.
"[in Java]One consequence of this is that the object's identity would be lost, and values would be equal if and only if all their fields are equal. This would make values behave similarly to the primitive types - each copy of the value 42 does not have its own identity after all."
in fact by forbidding options for "our own good" they have made a great burden on all programmers, because they had such a great influence on the industry and academia, not by good deeds, but by advocating for their own benefit.
i'll quote Bjarne Stroustrup here - "[Java] It owes much of its initial popularity to the most intense marketing campaign ever mounted for a programming language. From its initial commercial debut onward, Java was marketed as radically different from, and better than, all other languages. Interestingly, Java was marketed to individuals at all organizational levels -- not just to programmers."
in a way you were forced to use Java, thus you were forced to complexity and fanaticism, verbosity too. now new languages like: Go, RUST are either procedural or like Kotlin allow you to program in that fashion.
sooner or latter those advocates of Java will preach that there are other ways than OOP, but they will not say to you at least "we are sorry for this burden". it will be just like those fanatics creating web pages that only work on IE6. they were the loudest criticizers of IE6 much latter.
brilliant intellects were wasted trying to solve problems the Java way. heavy tomes were written to support this. if you relocate enough talent and resources you will be able to solve problems even with Java. YES, you are not reading me wrong. "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" is a burden compared to "Principles of Program Design" by Jackson.
the most painful is maybe the fact that someone decided to make JavaScript too similar to Java and now JS is crippled forever as a functional programming language with this passing by reference. those are not the ways that map and filter work in a good FP language. delete an object from the source array of map or filter and you have destroyed it in the destination array.
it is time to let go of Javaism and enter a renaissance in programming.
whatever THEY do, how many versions of Java THEY write they will never make Java as good and powerful as simple programming languages that don't need a 1200+ pages volume to describe.
i am talking about the likes of: C, Component Pascal, LISP, Modula-2, Smalltalk, REBOL...
i'll just wait and C
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