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Nelek wrote: I do respect your impressive skills.
*blush*
Thank you. You should see me in the kitchen, tho. 
Nelek wrote: The problem is... I know the risks of staying in Win 7 for long, but I am not trusting the windows 10 to be much more secure even with "regular updates"
Very true. It's a toss. I got nothing. I think though, just for reasons, you'll need to retire win7 eventually. Maybe just based on that it might be better to upgrade? All else considered equal-ish.
I'm not sure. I think I'd stick out the rest of the year on win7 as win10 seems to be having a rough go of things right now.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: And for relatives, stick with win10 regardless of what the knuckleheads here tell you. They won't be the ones having to get phone calls to repair your in-laws' computers
How true.
A lot of the people this knucklehead deals with are still on 7 (I was doing just that last evening), and I tell them all to stick with it, despite now being out of support, until their machine dies, rather than try to move them to anything Linux. For most of them, 10 isn't an option as 7 itself is already sluggish on their old hardware (despite the fact that Linux would probably work a lot better on said hardware if I tried).
As much as I'm...ambivalent (?)...towards Windows 10, if someone must move away from 7, I do steer them towards it. And even though it's not something I would ever purchase for myself, I wouldn't tell someone to avoid a Mac if that's what they wanted - but I'm just not the guy to call if they have a problem with it. And so far, I don't know anyone (who can't do their own troubleshooting) who opted for one.
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I'm with you all the way here. 
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: I started running slackware on a 386 back in the day . . .
Ditto. (Praise Bob.)
But did you install Slackware from 3 1/2" disks? I don't think it counts, unless you did.
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It's like democracy then? The worst system, except from the other one we tested so far...
I like it better that DOS, Win3.1, Win95, WinXP, Win7 and Win8! 
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..well if it was all perfect you'd run outta business lol ....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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I upvoted that, because I do so admire a good rant. 
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I concur.
I had to uninstall a VM update from my work machine because, after it was installed, running an Android virtual device consistently resulted in blue screens.
Everyone else in the team had the same issue after the update.
I have also informed my family not to install 2004, it sounds like a bit of a case of Russian roulette when installing that update.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Upvoted for the rant.
Speaking for myself, I've found Windows 10 to be pretty stable. Of course, I don't stress it as much as some people do...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I don't stress it as much as some people do...
Now swing that around: Does it stress you out?
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There are many ways to be a Linux evangelist.
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The SSD this machine came with sits on the table or the floor, depending on the cat's current mood.
This HDD that has Win7 on it that came out of the last laptop will be cloned onto a new SSD sometime soon.
If windows 10 was burning in a dumpster, I'd look for more refuse to chuck in.
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enhzflep wrote: If windows 10 was burning in a dumpster, I'd look for more refuse to chuck in.
Nice one.
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An SEO expert walks into a bar, bars, pub, tavern, public house, Irish pub and drinks, beer, alcohol, and booze.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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And doesn't get drunk because he didn't have any spirits.
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/ravi
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when the policeman asked me where my passengers were I said; "because of social distancing they are in the vehicle behind me"!
I'll get my coat and show myself out.
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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On a serious note I have always found it silly that all you need is a second human being. That human being could be an infant. The law should be 2 or more drivers.
Also, Atlanta is nuts in that they enforce HOV restrictions 24 hours a day!  
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I hate going through Hotlanta!
I'm not sure how many cookies it makes to be happy, but so far it's not 27.
JaxCoder.com
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Hmmm. Wouldn't that complicate things if one of them gets his / her licence taken away? Where would the actual driver stand then?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Use a mannequin. Works for me.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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You know they are talking about driving - right?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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No amount of caffeine is getting me through my morning, and I've found a bug in my MidiSlicer app. It's not a show stopper, but it's annoying. There are two ways to fix it, and one way is a dastardly hack. The other is complicated, but the Proper Way(TM) to do things.
The problem is such: In the MidiSlicer app you can modify a file while it is playing. However, since playback merges all of the tracks together for playback since they all must play at once, if you "mute" a track by removing it from playback, it changes the number of "events" in the stream. So your current cursor position during playback is now invalid.
Say for example we're playing a track with the following layouts
Drums: 50 events
Bass: 35 events
Guitar: 60 events
Total that's 145 events. So let's say I'm playing back and I'm near the end of the loop, and I remove the bass track. Well I'm on position 140, but it doesn't exist anymore now, because there are only 110 events in the stream now. Make sense?
The dumb way to fix it: Add a "dummy" NOP midi message to the API that never gets played or saved to disk. Replace any events i remove with a dummy event.
The right way to fix it: Before modification, get the absolute time of the cursor position. This should be expressed basically as system ticks or a timespan. After modifying the events, seek back within the event stream to that same *time* based position, wrapping if needed. and get the actual position within the event stream from that.
The latter way is preferable for many reasons, but while I've written code to convert from the current position to an absolute time based position, I do not have the code to go the other way around.
It sounds like a simple computation of time - basically the time each quarternote takes in system ticks, and then measure the score as quarter notes - which is simplified from what i'm actually doing but close. However, it won't work because the tempo can change throughout the track, meaning the duration of a quarter note can change throughout the score.
Measuring it involves starting at 0 and moving through the track, counting up times at the current tempo, and then recomputing durations whenever the tempo changes. That's what I do going the first direction. Converting from Time to position should be roughly the same thing but my brain isn't working this morning.
Real programmers use butterflies
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honey the codewitch wrote: No amount of caffeine is getting me through my morning,
Have you tried with bacon? 
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
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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