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While people frequently gripe about Microsoft, I think the reality in this case is that it's easier to support fewer operating systems, so Microsoft "benefited" by keeping this upgrade route alive.
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That's exactly my point, it still benefits them to keep this loophole...so why close it now?
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I suspect there's a service that needs to be updated or removed and it has a direct impact on this upgrade path.
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Right...'cuz nothing in Windows is self-contained, not even the freakin' license check...
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It's not the current hardware that is an issue, it's the key itself. Folks that upgraded to 10 from 7/8 using a 7/8 key can no longer use that key in the future.
This is a big deal for folks using 7/8 keys on 10/11.
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back to the future or something..
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 updated a 2015 industrial touchscreen Windows 7 computer to Windows 10 last year and was surprised to find the license update process still worked.It was missing a couple of drivers, yellow exlamation points in Device Manager, but for its stopgap purpose worked fine. I needed a computer for a customer while I waited on their new one to arrive in a month or so.
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I wrote a little C implementation of a ring buffer I was using for serial UART code. It wasn't very efficient because it only dealt with puts and gets one byte at a time. I improved it to deal in adding and reading series of bytes at a time.
I wrote it for someone I met on reddit who taught himself to code recently. I respect the effort, but bear in mind he taught himself to code recently.
Not really thinking about that code, I sent it off to him and it didn't occur to me to stash it somewhere. It was just something I threw together to help someone out.
Turns out, that bit of code was gold. And I can't find it. I could get some iteration of it back from the person on reddit, but I know they've already hacked it some - they told me as much. Yikes.
I tried to wrap my head around it to rewrite it, but I'm already dealing with overlapped I/O in windows w/ COM ports right now, and I can't spin that many plates these days, at least at once. I'll have to come back to it later, except I'm blocked now for want of the ring buffer.
I wish I had that code. Nice bit of kit that, a circular buffer you could write entire chunks to and from. I didn't think it was that big of a deal when I wrote it. 
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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That's why I often write a quick Tip here on something I've done - it's come in handy on several occasions when I get to need it again!
"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
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Indeed.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Right?  I do use codeproject that way, but I just didn't here.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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C'mon, you can (re-)do it. It doesn't look so difficult (keeping in mind your skills).
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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Did the person happen to throw your code into a repository?
I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.
I’m begging you for the benefit of everyone, don’t be STUPID.
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No, not by the time they mangled it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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this time you can re-write this gold piece and post on code project. we can keep it for you![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
diligent hands rule....
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I've done something similar, but email had still got it.
If you emailed it do you still have access to that email, or does the recipient?
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Hmmm. I should check my discord logs, as we moved to there from reddit.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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... (we'll call her "Sue") and they get to discussing "That Employee" (we'll call her "Karen"): you know the one - takes 30 minute loo breaks, disappears for an hour and no-one knows where she is, always last in line to do anything. The one no-one wants to work with, or to work on stuff she has done in the past. That Employee.
Anyway, Sue's daughter still works there, so the gossip gets back to Sue, and she passes it on the Herself. The company has had enough of Karen, and is building up a paper trail with the aim of firing her when they have enough evidence to forestall any legal objections.
Karen appears to have noticed that the game is up, and has found a new job, doing the same thing - so she applies online, and gives her reasons for wanting to change job as basically "the management here are sh*t".
Unfortunately, she didn't notice that the company she is applying for is not only in the same group of care homes, but ... is the care home she is currently "working" for ... and her application lands right on the home managers desk. 
Oh, I'd have loved to hear that conversation! 
Names changed to protect the guilty.
"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
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OriginalGriff wrote: "the management here are sh*t".
Burning bridges is never worth it. Can't speak from experience, but it's just not something that should ever be done.
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So they already posted her job in anticipation of firing her... and she applied for it?
Seems like they should let her accept it at lower or same wage and have her start fresh with a probationary period that allows for termination at end of probationary period without any reason by either party.
Fresh Start!
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No, there are very few "single employee" jobs in a care home, especially a fairly big one (and this one has 100 beds if you include the Alzheimer's ward) : you have multiple nurses, care assistants, activity organisers, kitchen staff, domestics, and so on - about the only single job is Home Manager.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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OriginalGriff wrote: "the management here are sh*t"
...because they have to deal with idiot employees like me! 
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Failing to maintain standard circuits in key (7)
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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RELAPSE?
"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
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