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Despite the fact Microsoft is giving away Windows 10 free of charge, activation is still required and it seems the company still has a few kinks to iron out before launch day on July 29. You know what would help with that? A Beta-test program.
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I have installed Windows 10 Insider Program on one machine that I own, and if this is the case I might be looking for my USB stick to install the OS on my own system also. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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FYI, I dropped any further attempt to join the insider program because it seems there's no (easy) way to update my 10074 release to any newer. I tried 5-6 times, but all the times (after Gigs of download) the updater breaks with a strange error...
I'll wait for the definitive release, although this instability scares me a lot.
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I have a VM installed with version 10130, but I had to install it from scratch after the upgrade from 10074 failed.
I will be waiting until the end of the free upgrade period in order to decide whether I should upgrade. I may not upgrade until my employer's IT department starts deploying Win10; paying for an upgrade is much cheaper than having to roll back from a broken install!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Agree.
The "Win 10 upgrade" icon popped out on two PCs (out of many), but since both are very important for my business usage, I think I won't upgrade these machines sooner.
I also tried on a VM (VmWare), but as far I tried, the OS gave many problems on stability: graphics, networking, and other stuffs. I seen the VM closing by itself without any apparent reason while downloading the upgrade.
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Whenever you fix some code in a legacy application you should not leave bigger mess behind you than the mess was when you arrived. But no one follows this rule. ... because no one wants to go there, and you have to ask the barista for a key?
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Good programmers are plumbers. They know when to take a plunger to the clogged toilet, flush the whole stinking pile of crap that the previous coder wrote, and replace the whole contraption with a composting toilet so that after a couple of years of rewriting, you get nice compost to spread over the flowerbed growing on graves of the previous programmers.
Marc
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That... makes the analogy work for me. Thank you. 
TTFN - Kent
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This is, presumably, how the previous programmers died:
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/last.bug.html[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Good one.
He died at the console,
Of hunger and thirst.
Sadly, that is how some gamers die. 
Marc
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Quote: With memory-dumps, punch cards.
Well, that's the problem right there! What the eff is that shiz?
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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It's how the Real Men (and quite a few Real Women) of the past wrote and debugged their programs.
'memory dump': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_dump[^]
'punched cards': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card[^]
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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  It was a mischeviously rhetorical query!
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Sometimes it’s not how well something is made, but that it was made at all. I don't think it meets the System Requirements for Windows 10
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In the beginning, open-source software was meant as a way for developers to scratch each other’s back. "Fear is the mind-killer."
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The licensing nightmare of open source, yeah, ok, potentially scary. But what I find really scary is that droves of mediocre programmers are now pushing open source projects that get used without much any thought with regards to the underlying cruft, including the overall architecture. And even scarier still is the "Ooh, look! A shiny new open source project to use on our cancer cell zapper neutron beam gun!"
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: cancer cell zapper neutron beam gun
I totally want to start an Open Source project for this, now.
It would be nodejs, of course. 
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Vark111 wrote: nodejs
yeah, that's gonna workout well. You can even spel* it corectly*!
*yeah, I know it's spelled "spell" and "correctly".
#SupportHeForShe If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
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
Only 2 things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Well, technically, it was a punctuation error. Not a spelling error.
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There were a number of interesting tweets in response to The Little Singleton. Here are a few. "The pusher is a monster. He's not a natural man."
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Mozilla has almost faded from memory, but Rust could make it hip again. "It's better to burn out 'cause rust never sleeps"
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On July 4, NASA got an unexpected surprise: Its spacecraft, New Horizons, cut off communications with Earth as it was headed towards Pluto. It crashed into Mickey?
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Well sh*t. This ain't good.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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