The Lounge

Couple of years ago we had a Windows 10 computer decide to update itself despite having been told to only do it on a schedule. It was the early days of W10 - I'm sure you remember the tales of people's laptops rebooting in the middle of presentations. This machine wan't even connected to the internet at the time, and hadn't been for several days, so it had downloaded an update but had saved it up, somehow. Anyway, it just went ahead and started the update process, except it stalled during the restart and we had to power cycle it and manually fix it. Took half an hour to get the update installed. Which doesn't sound too bad, until you realise that it was running the sound cues for a theatre performance and while it was sulking we were dead in the water. We had to abandon the performance and refund the audience. The Mac running Qlab arrived before the next show in the schedule. Shame, as the actual application it was running at the time (SCS) was quite a nice bit of software.

"not allowed" "cat" Hahahahaha

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I've got ~450 tabs open across 4 browsers 😳

Within reason yes. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

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You can rid of that context menu nonsense in Win11 Restore old context menus[^] 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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Oh, come on - you can't expect me to believe that Microsoft would let you go for months without installing an update! :laugh: "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

here is not (my feeble ) attempt to prevent myself from being banned your psychoanalysis of my personalty is "right on the money. kudos unless you are currently satisfactory gainfully employed I would not suggest seeking employment in "customer service " with your (attitude - can use same word you did ?) of "blame problem on the user "...you would not be employed as such for very long...

Okay, I follow you now. They tend to hide behind other vendors if they are spending $$. But the developers tend to play around, and licensing of this sort is so far off the radar... Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

Horrible word though, thanks for the explanation 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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At work Outlook 365. At home Outlook connected to german GMX in one PC (for the archive), GMX web interface in the other PCs. I got a Protonmail account too for testing and doing some staff, and it got deleted due to inactivity because I forgot about it too often. A couple of throw-away emails providers for online services I do not trust. M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Any time I think you can't surprise me anymore... you come with your next crazy success. Congratulations :thumbsup: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

:( "A little time, a little trouble, your better day" Badfinger

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Same problem when trying to use USB devices with Hyper-V, we tried to use an "EV Token" USB dongle for signing purposes but that is not possible with Hyper-V. There seem to be some 3rd-party solutions however.

it generates some beautiful images that will be used in my future articles... diligent hands rule....