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dun DUN!
TTFN - Kent
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That was directed at the noisy software, not you...
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Same here. Audio notifications are only enabled for infrequent, high priority events. Everything else is muted and checked manually when I'm between steps of a task or less often.
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
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Sounds made during normal operation drive me nuts, hence my speaker is muted 99.9% of the time.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Not to sound like a broken record (obligatory-but-muted rim-shot), but I don't have speakers on my working PC's. I have a headset I use for online meetings, but I even keep the volume turned down when I'm not actively using it.
Sound is an unnecessary distraction. If you display a visual indicator (icon in the task bar, plus a notification popup), a corresponding sound is not only unneeded but obnoxious.
Joel Spolsky I believe made the claim one time that these sorts of "micro-distractions" were more of a productivity drain than meetings or phone calls. It produces a pointless break in your concentration, disrupting 'flow', and forces you to consciously decide to ignore it for the moment.
Software Zen: delete this;
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According to a job listing, Microsoft now wants to build a new experience that will involve modernization of the existing user interface. Ooooo! More new icons!
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Some parts were not already broken.
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The Microsoft development flowchart:
+---------------+
| Is it broken? |
+----No-------+---------------+-----Yes----+
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+---------|---------+ +------|------+
|Fix it until it is | |Add new icons|
+-------------------+ +-------------+
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Their technology enables a single device, such as a mobile phone placed in the pocket, to wirelessly power other wearable devices on a user's body, using the human body as a medium for power transmission. "I have the power!"
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Google is announcing some changes to its Workspace suite of apps and services today, including availability for anybody who has a Google account. If you're not paying to edit the document, maybe you're the document
Not a lot of details on pricing (or the tracking/ads it includes "for free")
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Microsoft has updated its official documentation to reflect Windows 10’s EOL date. But it's the last version of Windows! Maybe they know the world will end then?
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Windows 10 was as successful as it has been in very large part because it was essentially free for anyone with a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 product key (and even now it's still free for 7/8/8.1 keys).
I wonder if Windows 11 will continue the policy. If not, upgrades are going to happen very slowly.
modified 14-Jun-21 7:30am.
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Typical F.U.D. from Microsoft haters. The semi-annual major updates to Windows 10 have always been given a defined EOL (end of support) date. This is especially important for companies like mine, where one of my duties is maintaining the Windows 10 system image we load on the industrial PC's that run our products (commercial ink-jet printing systems). Our current image is build 1608 on the LTSB (Long Term Service Branch), originally released in August 2016. Later this year or next we will probably update our base image to whatever is current at the time.
None of this implies that Microsoft is abandoning Windows (or even Windows 10), or any of the other drivel spouted by Joel Hruska, author of the article. I think it's immaterial even if the next edition is called Windows 11 or something other than 10. It will still be an evolution of the current software, nothing more, nothing less. Anything other than that would be corporate suicide on an inconceivable scale.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Gary R. Wheeler wrote: Typical F.U.D. from Microsoft haters...
Not quite. It is actually somewhat humorous, given the statement back in 2015 by Microsoft that Windows 10 would be the last version ever: Windows 10 To Be 'Last Version Of Windows'
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They've been working on a Linux distribution that looks and works (or not works, depending on your outlook) exactly like Windows.
".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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#realJSOP wrote: They've been working on a Linux distribution that looks and works (or not works, depending on your outlook) exactly like Windows.
Do you have a reference for this?
As far as I can see, Microsoft's recent efforts have been to allow Linux apps to run increasingly transparently on top of Windows (and the NT kernel), either via kernel call translation or by transparent virtualisation.
I've seen no evidence of Microsoft actually attempting to port the Windows UI/UX to the Linux kernel.
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Think of me as the CNN of developers. Nothing I say has any basis in actual facts.
".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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Unprivileged attackers can get a root shell by exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service installed by default on many modern Linux distributions. So Linux is really trying to be the new Windows
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If present on WSL: Inception, baby!
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The legislation could have significant impacts on the industry, even giving the Justice Department the green light to break up big companies. It's always great to see a scrappy underdog try to take on a bigger opponent
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Quote: Democrats and Republicans on the House Antitrust Subcommittee on Friday unveiled a package of antitrust bills targeting five technology giants: Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google.
Counting is hard.
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
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Redmond can feel the excitement of Windows users. It wants them to relax by reminding them of how great Windows has always been. It's got a good beat, and you can reboot to it
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I read that quote too fast and thought "excitement" was "excrement".
".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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The next annual update to ECMAScript — the formal specification of the JavaScript language — will be coming out this July Sorry to those hoping it would just fade away
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