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You don't want to end up like Dilbert[^]
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My Dell desktop has sound output jacks on both the front and rear of the machine. The rear feeds speakers and the front I use when I listen with headphones. A few weeks ago I upgraded Windows to 20H2 by doing a clean install. Today I discovered that the front sound jack was dead. After about an hour's struggle with sound settings, I started to suspect the sound driver that came with the new Windows install.
I dug up the original sound driver installer that came from Dell. Got several warnings from Windows that I am installing an older version of the sound driver, but I insisted. And Presto! Suddenly I had sound from both front and rear jacks. Stoopid Windows!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Indeed. It helps to have "a system" in place.
I have a "drivers" folder on my NAS that contains a subfolder for each of my systems. In turn, under each are various subfolders such as "video", "wifi", "audio", etc.
And then in each subfolder, I have a copy of the current driver ("current"), and the previous one (the last one I was using - "previous"). If it takes me a month to realize something isn't working quite right, finding/reinstalling the one I had before is never a problem. When a newer version comes out, "previous" gets deleted, what used to be "current" gets demoted to the "previous" folder, and the newest goes into the "current" folder.
Whenever I change the OS (and with Windows 10, that hasn't been the case in a long time), only the latest "known good" driver gets archived.
Never trust the latest to also be the greatest.
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I thought this was going to be about Tesla!!!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Well, that's how I feel anyway. I just spent the afternoon installing Visual Studio community on macOS, installing brew and node and npm and webpack and all my node packages and working out how to connect to Azure devops to clone my project and, after some swearing, it compiled. It compiled and the damn thing ran
This calls for another ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
I had a similar experience with Blazor today.
First time trying it ever and I was able to :
1) get Blazor code (server side c#) to call my JavaScript method.
2) "send" data to Blazor code from JavaScript
Those two things are interesting and challenging and I was able to get it working.
Of course I also learned that Blazor doesn't support a thing I need (ability to use cryptographic libraries to gen a Sha-256 hash) but such is the life.
Blazor is quite interesting. Could challenge JS and that is always a good thing.
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Is that becoming a meme now?
I used that (but in all-caps) in a work e-mail a month ago after finding a fix for a bug in some of my code.
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I'll just say yeah.
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Part of me is awestruck because I have to summon lots of inner strength to attempt this sort of thing. I'm next to hopeless at installing and configuring anything complex, partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss.
The other part of me says this is tech support, not programming. How many lines of code had to be written? I guess it's a sign of the times that this, not writing code, is a sign of godhood.
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Greg Utas wrote: partly because I think useful stuff should work nearly straight away, with little fuss.
I'm with on this.
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Good for you, you should feel that good! That's a bit of a handful...
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Chris Maunder wrote: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
Rarely. All too often, I have to deal with "stuff" that programmers wrote with, at best, the context that they are writing it for other programmers. It's a rare thing when a programmer thinks at a higher level: yes, this is for other programmers but I should think of them as users and see how I can make their life as easy as possible.
So mostly what amazes me is that I haven't ditched this career and become an organic farmer.
Regardless, congratulations! And we all knew already you were a programming God. 
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"Installing God".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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++++ Installing prerequisites - prophet..., worshippers... +++++
++++ God cannot install - Universe restarting +++++
++++ Out of cheese error +++++
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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That's my normal; stuff refuses to install. Missing packages and such.
You make fun of it, but it is our daily experience.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Hey, I'm in the same business. If I didn't keep a sense of humour about these things, I'd be even crazier than I am now. :demented grin:
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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I don't need humor, I'm paid as an employee. I just go to the manager and go like "you not gonna like this, but.."
Not my problem, never was, and not paid to.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Chris Maunder wrote: Isn't weird how the the more frustrating something is, the more amazing you feel when you conquer it.
Now don't take this the wrong way, but it reminds me of a recommendation I make (on occasion) to wit:
"If you're going to bang your head on the wall, do it in the corner of the room. It's twice as effective and you can finish sooner."
There may be some relevance. Or not.
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Anilah - Warrior[^]
Sorry for being late, had a busy day.
Apologies to my fans who can't wait for a new SOTW, love you guys (even the haters)! 
This song was actually recommended to me three weeks ago, in the SOTW thread, by @Member-6430.
It's with Einar Selvik who is a black metal musician who "grew up", I guess.
You may now know Einar Selvik from Wardruna, a Nordic folk band (although that label does not do them justice).
And that's what Anilah is throwing at us too, folk and ambient, but I also hear some heavier doom-inspired passages.
All in all it's a great mixture of beauty and heavy, or should I say intensity!
From her Bandcamp page: "Anilah is the solo project from vocalist and composer Dréa Drury, a musician based in the Selkirk Mountains of Western Canada."
So she's Canadian too, which makes it all the more fitting that I'd recommend her here 
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