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Quote: Chief Technology Officer, NVision Ideas Inc.
Andreas Mertens wrote: Now I am just the janitor, cleaning up the mess left by others
Looks like you should have some say in that, no?
"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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I am the CTO of my own company. But currently I am engaged in long term contract work, and that is my situation now. Though I am exploring options to change that....
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Andreas Mertens wrote: Though I am exploring options to change that....
 Sounds as though it may be necessary, good luck!
"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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Sometimes my approach is as structured as in the photos, but usually I bounce around between high level and low level, often refactoring when I notice various details about the code. It's very different from constructing a building.
However, my response actually had nothing to do with work per se. 
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honey the codewitch wrote: Now I just attack whichever part I'm inspired by until it starts to breathe on its own
Must... not... quote... Young Frankenstein...
As I've gotten older I tend to do the "hard part" first. That's the part I don't understand immediately or need to learn. I usually do that sort of thing in a throwaway program where I don't have centuries of ancient lore to keep in mind. Once I get a good feel for that, I usually have an outline in my head for the rest of it. A long time ago I tended to do the easy stuff first, and put off the hard part. Of course you know that means I got to throw away a fair amount of the easy stuff because it no longer made sense after doing the hard bits.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Relatable even if for different reasons. I like a challenge, so I go for the hard bits first.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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You get it all done, the last frame shows it tilting to the right, and it's cropped poorly?
Every. ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing. Time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I have 2 desktops wired to Ethernet ports on cable modem. One directly to modem via its ethernet card and the other through an ethernet switch. High speed internet provider (I'll name name's if anyone asks) stopped by without notice to work on the neighborhood cable box, which is in my back yard, that provides service. After they left, directly connected ethernet devices failed to connect to internet. When I finished recovery I discovered that the ethernet card directly connected to cable modem was not functional. Diagnostic confirms. Fortunately I had a second card on that box and it worked fine. The other computer ethernet card was protected by the switch, I guess, but only work if I bypassed the switch. Wireless functionality was unaffected. The takeaway, turn off your machines if directly connected to modem and maybe detach them from modem if cable guy shows up.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Did they upgrade the boxes? Cable modems switch up a couple of the wires in their ports. Some TX and RX pair is reversed - I forget the specifics. Some cards can compensate, some don't. Presumably all hubs can. This is all fuzzy recollection of stuff I half remember reading I don't know how long ago so take with plenty of salt, but your problem could have been related to that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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I do not know what they swapped in the box in my yard, but shortly after I discovered the problem, I replaced the cable modem (about 3 years old) in my house with newer one (I rent the cable modems, I don't use my own ... another story). Same symptoms, same problem. The desktop affected is a 2 year old HP so it's covered by warranty and it's hardware should be state of the art. Your line reversal sounds plausible. But the cable modem is connected to the box outside by a standard RJ45 coaxial so what it's doing electrically to the cable modem is a mystery to me. Cause and effect say the cable guy did something to cable box outside to cause my cable modem inside to damage my computer's ethernet card. Worked fine before he arrived. Not so when he left. My computers were online the whole time. Grrr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Yeah, if they didn't touch your cable boxes themselves, then the only thing I can think of is a power surge or some kind of firmware reset signal they sent over the line. I mean at this point you could be looking at an "act of God" if you'll forgive the expression. Sometimes hardware is just like that.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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Are your pc's configured with static ips for networking? Chances are the ip scheme changed and a good dhcp refresh is in order. Th DNS servers may have changed also, that will be configured via dynamic dhcp aquistion also.
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I suspected such. No luck.
Hardware diagnostics said the board is bad when connected to a known good ethernet source.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Using DCHP for IP and DNS.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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A week or so ago my new Windows 11 setup suddenly crashed. Both monitors just went black for a while and then Windows managed to recover on its own.
Afterwards I found a crash dump log file in my systems drive that logged how the entire memory was dumped to the systems disk. What I resent, is that several Gigabytes of the free space on the systems drive was just gone! I don't want useless crash dumps cluttering up my disk. So I disabled crash dumps in the registry. If the culprit turns out to be the drive - well that is easy to replace.
If I run into a similar situation and worse comes to worst, I will simply re-image the systems drive from a recent Macrium image.
I wonder: Has any other members had experience with similar crash dumps?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Nope. Win 11 has been surprisingly reliable for me, with pretty much zero crashes at all with the exception of GTA V, which was down to the new motherboard locating the GPU above the PSU and causing heat problems. Extra fans and some software to control the GPU fan speed have fixed that. Even those crashes didn't generate dumps, just locked the whole machine with a corrupted display.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Win 11 has been very stable. Video drivers have been only issue and they are vendor specific.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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The fact that the monitors went black, seems to confirm that it is probably a video driver issue.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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I was just going to say that. I'd be looking for newer video drivers from the manufacturer.
The Windows event log will probably also show some error(s) at around the crash's time frame. The content should pretty much confirm the driver theory.
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Don’t forget that those naughty modders in GTA can crash your game. Apparently, it’s surprisingly easy to do.
modified 6-Sep-22 21:01pm.
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Rockstar attitude to modders is ... um ... surprisingly poor. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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As long as it doesn't hit their bottom line financially, R* doesn't care what modders do.
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I had a crash yesterday that was weird. The monitor went black and the audio was machine-gunning the last fraction of a second of audio through the speakers. Did a hard restart and when I found the dump file it was nearly 2GB. Didn't have much going on at that time except a browser with one tab and a freshly-booted PoE, so I can imagine how crazy that file would get if you were really in the thick of things.
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That's interesting. It's my understanding that the default is to create "minidumps" which aren't that large. Do you have an IDE or other tool installed that might have changed this?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Three IDEs: Visual Studio 2019 CE, IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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