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FIorian Schneidereit wrote: it underwent a massive change with Service Pack 2 until it really remained pretty much unchanged for the rest of its lifetime
SP3, actually.
/ravi
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A lot of 'they don't build them like that anymore' comes from survivor bias.
Cheap junk knock-down furniture was made in the 1960's and 1970's too, it's chipped plastic laminate and wobbly, spindly legs are mostly in landfills now, out of sight.
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Windows Server 2008 R2 kicks ass and is way more than marketing hype.
Windows 7 is vastly superior to XP. Despite some of the UI pieces, Windows 8.x is better than Windows 7.
Is there marketing in every product? Yes. Often that marketing is annoying as hell, but that doesn't mean they aren't better.
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I still see a lot of POS systems out there that are DOS based.
Reason being?
They are stable
They get the Job done
They are small
Their shortcuts once learned make sense, and make data entry easy
There really are a lot of legacy applications that still have fairly wide adoption because of their original well thought our design, and the fact that the role they fulfill hasn't changed over the years.
[edit] Woohoo, this is my 1000 point in Code Project! [edit]
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I've seen two in the last month that were obviously written in Pascal.
One can assume that they weren't broke.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Quote: POS systems
"Point of Sale" systems is what I assumed you meant.
Other people may have another meaning for the "POS" acronym!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I use an XP box and today it downloaded and installed 9 critical patches.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Forogar wrote: Do you have a problem with a culture of constant update where updates are largely unnecessary and probably driven entirely by marketing
Yes. Yes I do. Not limited to software/technology.
The lack of critical/analytical thinking drives me nuts sometimes. Is the new product demonstrably better than the old? If not, why did someone make the new (other than the reason given by Forogar).
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My car has software (well, technically firmware). It's 14 years old. It hasn't needed a constant stream of updates to keep functioning.
Forogar wrote: without a constant stream of patches and corrections that software will somehow just stop doing it's job properly
That's exactly my definition of broken and buggy software. I find it a never ending source of amusement that on smart phones, if the software isn't broken and buggy and in constant need of updates, its perceived as bad.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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There is no such thing as absolutely perfect software. Absolutely perfect software is only achievable with an infinite amount of time, money, and resources which don't exist in the real world. All one can hope for is that a good testing cycle/philosophy statistically reduces the chances of the one or more paths through the software are not exercised that were not covered during the testing phase.
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It's one type of programmed obsolescence. Companies continue to slowly develop features for their products so the older versions become obsolete. That involves software and hardware.
It's like light bulbs that are not made to last long.
Now, how would I go without that new visual feature of the next game of my favorite series that is only supported on a DirectX version in Windows 8? 
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Let's talk about Microsoft Office 2003...
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Let's not...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Hello all,
I've just got Windows 8.1, which is nice.
Now as I can't seem to get OneDrive to work as it was in Windows 7 and as after all I plan to get an android phone (yes I do come from Blackberry) I've installed Google Drive.
It looks OK, it simply works.
After that I installed Subversion and then the overlay-icon-apocalypse happened... now it seems that the sync status is not shown in the files and folders in the Google drive folder in my HDD...
Overlays for Subversion work ok.
Overlays for GDrive simply aren't there.
I've seen plenty of information in the Internet that explains that Windows 8 has a limit of 16 overlay icons and that this is the reason...
Anyone here knows of a way to get those overlay icons to appear?
I'd like to know how to get both icon sets working at the same time.
I know this probably won't be an "official" solution...
Truly it looks stupid having that limitation... 
modified 15-May-14 12:21pm.
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What's an overlay icon? 
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Overlay icons (I never knew they were named that way until finding that issue) are those small icons that appear at bottom-left on some icons to show extra information:
In case of Subversion they can show you the up-to-date status of each file (green tick) and in case of GDrive they show you synchronized file (green tick), synchronizing file (blue round arrows)...
See: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ExplorerIntegration.html[^]
And that's all about overlay icons...
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Choose which overlay icons you want.
If you want Tortoise icons do nothing.
If you want GDrive icons, uninstall Tortoise, reinstall GDrive, reinstall Tortoise.
And yes, I know you can point to the icons you want in the registry, but uninstalling-reinstalling is easier.
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Yes, of course, and I could also (as you suggest) change the appearing order of them at registry, but I would like to have both of them working at the same time... I was asking (not well enough I see  ) how to get both icon sets working at the same time  .
I know this won't be an "official" solution... I was looking more a trick that could get it done... like a bat file that could activate one set or the other one depending on the preferences...
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Sorry, but you can't. This is a is limitation in the OS. Apparently for performance reasons.
Trust me, you're not the only one being kissed on this.
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That's a pity...
It worked with 7 and SkyDrive...
I tried to remove the skydrive icons (as I'm not using it) and restarted, but that was not enough...
Thank you anyway! 
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With Windows 8.1
If you signin with your Microsoft account details.
It automatically sets up onedrive and sync is online.
Its really simple and is built into 8.1
I much prefer this to the older versions.
It doesn't work like the older versions ****
In your Windows settings (win 8 settings) you will find the onedrive control panel.
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Yes, of course this can be an option, but only for people who are not working on an enterprise with some special policies regarding users...
I would not be able to log in our servers using the MS login... therefore this is not an option for me. At least not one that I've seen till now if I understood how it works (regarding onedrive in W8.1 of course)...
Thank you anyway!
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What about this: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ZA/windows-8/connect-microsoft-domain-account
I think Microsoft thought this version out nicely lol
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mmmm... it looks interesting at first sight, I'll take a deeper look there.
Thank you!
But GDrive will still not work... 
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Microsoft + Google.
Do you have any idea how many hate lists that gets you on?
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