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I like their stuff, especially recently.
I prefer the general development ecosystem on Linux based platforms. But the amount of really high powered tools and technologies in the Microsoft toolchain that "Make it easy to do big things" makes development fun again.
But I'll always be a pure "platform agnostic" C++/perl/SQL guy at heart.
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mikepwilson wrote: "Make it easy to do big things"
Unfortunately, it can lead to making small things more difficult.
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Thus they are a necessary evil.
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That's the spirit! Just enjoying the "coolness" of what you're doing without all the analysis and paralysis. Good for you! 
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VT100 was advanced technology! How about an IBM 360 with punch cards via COBOL! First program ever was 250 lines(cards). Got the program back from the University data center and it had 700 errors! lol. (circa 1970). C# and .Net have been great but I think the industry is now embracing JavaScript (TypeScript would be nice) and Angular along with a barrage of JS libraries. Microsoft has some serious catching up to do. They should have made .NET native to the IE browser. Never developed anything in Silverlight but it was a good idea. Cheers to all.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: Since I stopped developing almost exclusively on VAX/VMS, I have worked with Microsoft based systems.
Looks like we old farts all have something in common! 
I still remember the day in '92 I decided I'd learn Windows instead of MacOS. I had 2 books in front of me - Petzold's Programming Windows 3.1 and a couple of Mac programming manuals. After a brief read, I decided to go with Windows. Owning a PC helped. I haven't looked back since. I continue to have a lot of respect for Apple's software and UX - I just don't program for it.
Have once again started to feel the rush as I delve into Android (using C# as a development platform). 
/ravi
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I'm sure those that worked for the gestapo also liked getting a paycheck.
Wait.. did I just compare Microsoft to Nazi Germany? 
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I'd stopped with VAX/VMS 21 years before. How old are you?
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Started using VAX/VMS in college in January 1983... so, I've passed the half century mark.
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I thought it was going to end badly at one point!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA TRITON HELL, ALL OF THEM
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
Software Zen: delete this;
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Well the MS security update for SQL Server works. No one can access the database now.
You cannot even start the service.
Well I need to get to work finding the fix for the update.
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Ah! Finally, the perfectly secure system 
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So. MS have finally realised the potential of WOM1?
1 - Write Only Memory
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Do you have Crazy Cat working in the server room?
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 Quote: When the CU4 setup package runs on a SQL Server instance, the setup program creates a temporary mdf file to get a certificate using the SQL Server instance’s default database directory. The setup program tries to save this temporary file in this directory. In this case, the directory “E:\SQLServer\Data” for the SQL Server instance didn’t exist causing the CU4 setup program to fail the installation.
I’m not really sure why the SQL Server default directory was set to “E:\SQLServer\Data”; however, to fix the problem I created the directory “E:\SQLServer\Data” and restarted the server. After rebooting it, all SQL Server services were running properly and I was able to log into Microsoft Management Studio without a problem using my domain account.
To make sure this issue didn’t occur again, I modified the database default directory to an existing directory. I logged into SSMS and right clicked on the instance name to get to the properties option. Under the “Database Setting” option, I changed the “Database default locations” data and log values (see Figure 2) and used “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Data” as the default directory.
Maybe this happened to you too?
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It's very secure!
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Well, the reason Bill Gates tried to shave a couple seconds off of the boot time of Windows, claiming this would save the world countless thousands of man-hours each year, is because he wanted, out of the generosity of his heart, to compensate us for the countless thousands of man-hours wasted each year fixing the latest MS update breakage.
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: . . . because he wanted, out of the generosity of his heart, to compensate us for the countless thousands of man-hours each of us wasted each year . . .
(clarification added)
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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W∴ Balboos wrote: (clarification added)
Exactly!
Marc
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"There's comfort in knowing who you're afraid of!"
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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