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" I logged a bug in J++, it still hasn't been fixed... They just killed the product instead."
Please log as many bugs for Windows 10 as you can!
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Just glad I've been doing this web programming lark for so long now that I've built my own framework (probably started before any of the current ones were even thought of). Anything I now add to it has to have a damn good reason for being there. If I need to add new functionality I investigate implementations elsewhere, rip them apart to see what makes them tick, so that I fully understand them before constructing my own (usually far smaller and less bloated) version.
...keyboards that are designed more for looks that practicality. I loath short-travel keyboards - the one that came with my 2009 iMac is just about tolerable for small amounts of use. For normal work on my PC I'm using a 20-year-old Microsoft* keyboard with nice chunky keys that have lots of travel. It has to be ripped apart and de-gunked every few years but it survives that and is still going strong.
* One of the few decent things MS has ever built.
Uh oh. They are also offering the above crock of shite yet again. Previously, this has been part of GWX (though they've been stating for a while now that there's no GWX functionality in it any more). However, that patch has been proven to bork computers in the past, see:
https://borncity.com/win/2018/02/09/windows-7-8-1-updates-kb2952664-kb2976978-02-08-2018/
YMMV
Yeah, absolutely.
Some years ago a friend of a friend showed me a laptop he'd borrowed off someone else. The "someone else" had said he could buy it off them. I looked up the spec: not exactly new and used a Pentium 4 CPU. My advice: "Don't touch it with a bargepole - what he's asking for it is too much and, being a P4, it will probably overheat and die at some point" (as a lot of P4s had a habit of doing).
Of course, he ignored me and a few months later asked me to look at it as it was no longer turning on. As far as I could tell the CPU had died. "Told you so," I said, handing it back.
Yeah, I know. Total clusterf**k squared!
As someone who started off in 1979 on a CBM PET (original chiclet key version that I managed to upgrade all the way to Basic 4) and at various times owned a C64, C128D, CBM-500 (no, not the Amiga 500 - that came later), CBM-600 (B Series in the US), Amiga 500 and finally a 2000, I watched in horror as CBM crashed and burned in the 90s and was then tossed around like a seal amongst killer whales. I always wonder if it would have turned out any different had Commodore UK managed to buy the whole kit n kaboodle before Escom got hold of it.
..as illustrated more than 20 years ago in Dilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13
When I worked in IT Support back around 1998 we used to get numerous complaints about mice not working due to the build up of crap on the rollers and balls. I used to remove all the balls and take them to the nearest "gents" and give them a soak in a basin of warm soapy water. Other staff entering the loo would ask, "What are you doing?"
"Washing my balls," I'd reply.
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927/
I often find that demanding they tell me their company name is enough to make them hang up. Then I Google their phone number and, if I find any complaints from others about that number, I report it to the ICO and/or TPS, and then block that number. I've got caller ID and a phone that can block withheld numbers so those NEVER get picked up.
My main PC is one of those with a power button on the top of the case, which is fine until the cat jumps up and lands her heel on the power switch before sitting down and turning things off with me in mid-work! A strategically placed book seems to have fixed the "problem" now.
Knew a guy who appeared to have the ability to curdle milk. No hot drink made by him was ever drinkable, there would be unidentifiable scum floating on top even when you watched him do everything in the normal fashion.
Another guy I worked with had the abililty to make any screwdriver, pliers, scissors - well, basically, anything metal he came into contact with - start to rust within a couple of days.
"the researchers have dubbed the bad code ROBOT"