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Ars Technica wrote: Microsoft is also planning, but has not yet enabled, a new Windows troubleshooter. This will examine diagnostic data and automatically perform any fixes or reconfigurations that appear to be necessary.
Yup.
Got it.
Great idea.
With MS doing that, what could possibly go wrong?
So, should we go for Mint, CentOS, or Ubuntu?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The most amazing aspect of Windows is that the core, its kernel, remains virtually unchanged on all architectures and SKUs. The Windows kernel scales dynamically depending on the architecture and the processor that it’s run on to exploit the full power of the hardware. Posted entirely due to the Task Manager pr0n in the first image
1792 logical processors. My next laptop? (I'm gonna need a new lap)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: I'm gonna need a new lap
And asbestos undercrackers if you ever want to be a father 
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Just tell Chris that you'll be 1792 times more effective.
Let me guess the response: At what, exactly?
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You know him so well 
TTFN - Kent
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FWIW getting an explanation of what/how W10's game mode is supposed to work was interesting.
I'd honestly felt it was a gimic when announced, but based on that description it sounds like it might let me play multi-threaded games while still having boinc CPU apps running in the background by segregating the several cores the game needs off from the rest of the system vs the legacy behavior where the game would end up chugging because it only got about 1 core instead of the 2 or 3 it needed to run well, while 8 science apps each got about 85% of one of the other seven.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm very glad you had the courage to state your intentions, and I respect them, but, I'm sorry, Dan, you cannot use my computer.
cheers, Bill
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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BillWoodruff wrote: I'm very glad you had the courage to state your intentions, and I respect them, but, I'm sorry, Dan, you cannot use my computer.
???
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Several real-world tasks have sparse rewards and this poses challenges for the development of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. A solution to this problem is to allow an agent to autonomously create a reward for itself, making rewards denser and more suitable for learning. Made you look!
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I’ve never stepped into a leadership role without it quickly becoming clear why a new leader was needed. "Who can I blame?" didn't make the list?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "Who can I blame?" didn't make the list?
And neither did "what time does the pub open?"
There are some strange people in this industry!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Reading this article, I felt I was watching a Disney movie, and, I found myself laughing as I reflected on my own surreal experiences at companies like Cricket, Adobe, WildTangent, companies where management of software development was like a ride through the "Fun House" with twisted mirrors.
At the same time, I appreciated the scent of glorious optimism, and the passionate belief in the possibility of rational planning. I do wonder if, when the author is older (as in 40~50-ish), she may look back at this article, and have a wistful sense of a certain loss of naivete.
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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Newly released versions of the libssh library fix an authentication bypass flaw that grants access to the server by just telling it that the procedure was a success. "Locks keep out only the honest"
But really - you had one job... oy
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Sounds to me like the new OB 1 Kenobi authentication. You don't need to see my identification, these aren't the credentials you're looking for.
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Why supporting your team’s information systems should be one of the primary considerations for software projects. "Information is not lost in black holes, but it is not returned in a useful way. "
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Does the author work for Gartner?
(That's an "obvious" "joke"--look down several posts.)
modified 17-Oct-18 18:53pm.
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A new survey by Avecto shows many organizations are unprepared for Windows 7 end of life and don't understand the potential risks of migration. They should upgrade to Vista
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It's been fun upgrading to Windows 10. Especially when you find an app that kills the Start button in Explorer. Click the little Window icon and ... nothing happens. Makes for great Help Desk calls.
Oh, and then, after fixing that and waiting a few MS patch cycles, the app kills the Start menu again, but this time, you can click the little Window icon and it works, but you can't launch anything at all from it. Click any app on the Start menu and ... nothing happens. 
Vendors. I hate vendors.
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Like they didn't see this coming? For goodness sakes people microsoft has a Windows 98 already, you're 91 versions behind!!! Of course they're going to start winding down old versions of Windows.
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It's articles like this that caused my father to panic, which required multiple emails to assure him that Windows 7 wasn't going to just vanish, it just wouldn't be patched.
I have a Windows 7 computer on the other side of my desk which I use for my "weakest computer" testing. I keep it patched, but it honestly doesn't matter due to how it's used. However, I suppose I could have IT implement the "Star Trek" architecture where that computer has full administrative access to all computers in our company and, for good measure, all employee computers as well.
BTW, having had to recently deal with refurbished computers upgraded to Windows 10, I've concluded that you're better off just buying a computer actually designed for Windows 10, meaning 2016 or later. This is nothing new, though Intel's crappy GPUs before 2016 are a big reason.
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I've been preparing for the last three weeks. I'm switching all of my Windows boxes to Linux, and keeping a single Win7 VM. I refuse to put Win10 on any of my machines 11 machines.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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todo:
- Search for Windows Vista end of life article.
- Find Windows XP end of life articles more recently published.
- Copy, Find and Replace "XP" with "7".
Give to editor for approval.- Publish.
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Fee-based service couples the security of a private server with the reliability of the cloud. Hopefully it's easier to configure than sendmail
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Never mind that the email is then sent in clear text and stored and forwarded during its journey. And pay no attention to the fact that nobody wants to read your damn emails anyway. (But Yahoo and Gmail do! And do a sh*tty job with anything they find. Even Amazon does a crappy job with their "suggestions", which are just alternatives to what you just bought.)
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Electrical stimulation of cells in the nasal passages produces sweet fragrances and chemical odors That idea stinks!
That punchline brought to you by the "Incredibly Predictable Punchline Bot 3000"(tm). We now return you to the equally unfunny SnarkMaster-800.
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