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I feel for you, I am not really doing Windoze software anymore, part of the reason you have described. Windows Peaked with 7, still have it on a couple machines at home. 10 is OK(ish), 11 as you said, I still have a Windows 2000 machine takes an age to start up (only 16 bit!) but you can beat it with a rock it will keep truckin', make a loud noise 11 will fall over (or drain your battery if you are unplugged!)
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After my first attempt at installing Win2000 on a blank machine succeeded in a fraction under 11 minutes, I fell in love with that version. Sadly I've had to move on, but still remember it fondly... It did everything you could want it to, never complained, never crashed, and everything was pretty much where you would expect it to be. Downhill all the way since then as far as I'm concerned...
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The MOD still (or did use it until recently) use it. It's NT at heart it will work on a stone tablet if it meets the basic boot requirements
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Hi,
I traded someone my Windows ME disks (floppy's) for their copy of Windows 2K.
I believe I got the better part of that deal. Sadly, that disk is long gone. I do have a CD with key for Windows XP laying around somewhere. And a copy of Redhat 7 hiding somewhere as well.
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field 
Welcome to my Chaos and Confusion!
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I still have an ME installer that I never used all legal OEM copy some where.
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Hi,
Sadly, I got rid of my last copy of OS/2 version 4 about a year ago. That was a solid system even running on a Pentium box with 480 meg drive. I tried it on an I-5 and it was scary fast and very very stable.
Cegarman
document code? If it's not intuitive, you're in the wrong field
Welcome to my Chaos and Confusion!
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Seems useful for figuring out recent changes in Google cloud and Java infrastructure, but it's prone to giving outdated solutions, unless explicitly instructed to avoid such.
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From CP newsletter
Majority of companies not prepared for insider threats[^]
"While 76 percent of organizations have detected increased insider threat activity over the past five years"
"The survey data shows that 74 percent of cybersecurity professionals are most concerned with malicious insiders within their organization in 2024, which is an increase of nearly 25 percent when compared to 2019"
About 15 years ago I was able to see a high priced report from a company that specialized in handling data breach problems within large companies.
At that time it reported that people working inside of companies were responsible for 90% of the data theft problems that the company dealt with.
I doubt there was some incredible decrease since then in internal theft. Thus no increase now.
I even wonder if those that participated were in fact underestimating the threat that already exists.
Amusingly enough, well in a certain way, I worked for a company where the CEO (and majority stock holder) had to make an emergency exit from the country as there was a felony arrest warrant issued due to how he was managing the company.
Bet those security experts are not looking in that direction.
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I agree that internal threats are probably greater. Looking outwardly is a low percentage proposition. Looking inwardly is a target-rich environment. But management doesn't want to hear that.
I see a lot of ads about cyber security certification, and I expect that many of the students who get those aren't yet tuned into corporate politics. What the report might actually be indicating is an increase in new cyber security "experts" who haven't yet learned where not to look.
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My manager showed me the logging that this product does -- besides the logs of exceptions that occur on the front-end, it even records, masking all text fields, the web app! I practically fell out of my chair when I saw that. IMHO, a definite must-have for buggy production web-apps. Which is an interesting point -- aren't production apps supposed to be at least "exception free"?
But all too often I open the console window on a website and see all sorts of exceptions flying about. 
Anyways, if you don't know about sentry.io, it's worth a look.
[edit]Even CP, which I saw after posting this message.
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'classList')<br />
at onResize (VM224:32:38)<br />
at HTMLDocument.setupMobileNav (VM224:59:3)Marc
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Is it just error logging or code analysis like SonarQube (which is cool IMO)?
Jeremy Falcon
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I didn't see code analysis but the logging and "replay" features which I did see were amazing, we've just started looking at all the things this does. I'll look at SonarQube too -- thank you!
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Marc Clifton wrote: I didn't see code analysis but the logging and "replay" features which I did see were amazing
Noice
Marc Clifton wrote: I'll look at SonarQube too -- thank you!
You're welcome. It does code analysis only, but it does it very well.
Jeremy Falcon
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Just checked it out, looks cool.... but  I should say, stuff like performance monitoring and being able to replay state is something any serious web developer should already know how to do without a third party tool. Granted, the vast, vast majority of web "devs" couldn't tell you what state management even is, so I totally see the need for a tool that holds your hand. But, that won't stop me from taking a moment to gripe about wishing devs took their job more seriously. lol
Jeremy Falcon
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Jeremy Falcon wrote: any serious web developer should already know how to do without a third party tool.
I totally agree! But reality...Imagine taking a huge web app where nobody considered state... 
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In my student days, many moons ago, the U had a huge Univac 1110 mainframe, running both research projects and jobs for customers in the industry. Around 1978-80, not every establishment could afford their own mainframe!
Every now and then the computing center published a newsletter. One of the stories reported that they had counted the number of divisions by zero, and the result was shocking: Several million every day! (And remember: Even a mainframe of 1976 vintage was magnitudes slower than today's average PC.)
The next issue of the newsletter carried a letter from one of the industry users, explaining that in the matrix methods they were using, elements were frequently 0. The algorithm did not consider the 0-positions, so whatever showed up in those positions later was ignored. However, when they performed general matrix operations, the zero-elements turned up as divisors - but the result was not carried on anyway. Adapting the general matrix library to test for zero and give that case special handling, would have slowed significantly down. Replacing the zeros in the matrix by e.g. 1 (division by 1 does not change a value) was impossible, as later ignoring the zero positions depended on the value being zero.
So, generating a million or two divisions by zero was, by far, the fastest way to run their job.
Even in modern times, I have programmed in ways that says: Try to do operation X, but don't worry if it fails. In other words: ignore exceptions, simply terminate the operation. Some times, that is an appropriate (non)handling of it. (I won't be surprised if someone make a protesting scream )
In the old U1110 days, the CPUs had far less prefetch, pipelining, speculative execution, ... So the cost of interrupting the linear instruction flow was far less costly on today's CPUs, even if you decided to handle the exception. I don't know for sure, but suspect that on modern CPUs, hardware detected exceptions have a cost even if there is no handling for it. (For software exceptions, there certainly is!) So maybe the 'just ignore a few million divisions by zero' would have a higher (relative) cost today than 45 years ago.
Religious freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make five.
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Going to bed with nasty race conditions, and waking up with an easy solution.
Gonna be a good day.
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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Paul6124 wrote: All the best thinking is done while asleep…
Or while running. I run at lunch time three days a week. Many times I've had an intractable problem, gone out and [very slowly] did my miles, and come back with a solution in my head. All of this without overtly thinking about it.
Software Zen: delete this;
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One night at around 9.30 pm, was composing a poem in my language Kannada. Struggled to find two words to fit into the meter (prosody) of the poem, and just went to sleep 😴. At around 1.00 am, these words just appeared, maybe in a dream. Got up and wrote them down. These were perhaps the best words for that poem.
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Taking up farming is not that easy, though.
"In testa che avete, Signor di Ceprano?"
-- Rigoletto
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If only all race conditions were as easy to resolve.
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Oh I was sweating it. What I first thought would take me an hour took me 4. After 4 i needed a rewrite. That's when I called it a night.
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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honey the codewitch wrote: After 4 i needed a rewrite
When debugging and I've munged the code so far I need a rewrite, it's time to step back, breathe, and go back to the original problem.
Software Zen: delete this;
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