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I just discovered a driver in System32\drivers named spaceport.sys. Now that's a cool driver name.
I assume it's for the storage spaces feature.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's probably from an application that calculates storage for Port wine 
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Would you have any grey poupon?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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And right down the street, there's spacedump.sys. You know, the seedier side of Storage Spaces.
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We had a hardware engineer with a penchant for cute acronyms. One board was named PIGLET, which was something like Printhead Inkjet Generator Link Electrical Transmitter, or something like that. This board was succeeded by the Selectable Width Fiber Transmitter, or SWiFT board.
A while back we detected a problem in the power-on startup logic on the SWiFT board. The firmware load would occasionally fail on a cold start (boot from power-up) but always succeeded on a subsequent warm start (Windows restart). We're in the middle of redesigning the hardware and didn't want to deal with a driver update, so I wrote a little program that runs at boot time. If it detects the firmware load failure, it issues a Windows restart.
This program is called SWiFTkick. :rim-shot:
Software Zen: delete this;
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@CPallini
Happy Birthday 2 U!
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Congratulazioni Carlo! 
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Happy birthday Carlo and many more.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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Happy birthday indeed.
But how did you get the missies and cat to dance like that?
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Buon Compleanno, Carlo 
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
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Grazie!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Happy birthday!
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Happy day-after-your-birthday! 
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"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Gz to your mother. She did the work, after all 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Thank you again!
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Is it just me, or are we caught in some software/hardware planned obsolescence?
With several new languages, frameworks, and hardware coming out every day, it's got me wondering.
Have the IT market software and hardware vendors saturated the market, and are trying to increase market share by bringing out minor and unneeded tweaks?
I am not talking about the consumers of IT and the increasing demand for developers.
On the language/framework front it seems like the "Tower of Babel".
I used to be able to keep up by running as hard as I can. But not anymore.
I guess I am just getting old.
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It's completely out of control. 
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
βThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.β BF, 1759
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One needs blinders with so many frameworks, languages and such coming out so regularly.
The less you need, the more you have.
Why is there a "Highway to Hell" and only a "Stairway to Heaven"? A prediction of the expected traffic load?
JaxCoder.com
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For what it's worth, the frenzied churn appears to be by far the worst in the web/mobile application arena. Desktop, system, and embedded development has been fairly stable in comparison. You can argue that stability comes from lack of interest or revenue (and you're probably right), but I don't mind it at all.
I envision being a web developer going for a job interview:
Interviewer: How much experience do you have with MetaXYZ framework version 2.0?
Candidate: Since it was only released a month ago, I've been working with it for a month.
Interviewer: How about version 2.15?
Candidate: I've not seen it.
Interviewer: It was released 47 minutes ago, while you were talking to our HR person. Didn't you take a look between questions?
Candidate: ...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Marginally better than the recruiters' ads requiring 5 years experience in (pick a 2 or 3 year old technology).
Seen more than a few in my time....
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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