I don't know who came up with Lidocaine, but I'll have your babies. Spoiler, I don't have a uterus. If there was ever a perfect example of defensive programming, I lived it today. You youngsters and oldsters pay attention. Your gun won't fire, the bad guy's chainsaw always works fine, and when you try to run, you will trip. :) So, my son and daughter have somehow achieved a wild hair. They want a fire pit in the backyard. Today, I am delivering small slate to the area. Shoveling complete, cleaning truck bed complete, daughter closes the lift gate to the truck. Now, I'm 65, so looking to the right and left of the bed - nah, not for me. So, I go to the back, flip my left leg over and step on the hitch... sling right leg over toward the ground... tailgate pops open.... this all compresses to 3 seconds. If you laugh, it's okay, but you owe me: me: I'm in physics land. Fuc..... daughter: Ohhhh fuc.......! my head hitting the fire pit rock: fuc..... my butt hitting more rock: where did you come from... My butt still hurts, I'll be posting images tomorrow ;) I'm on the ground, scalp injuries bleed so there is blood runnin down my neck and face. No concussion but first words out of my mouth are "don;t call your mom!" she's on the phone with mom... fml. 3 female rants later, some lidocane and 6 staples to close up the 4cm hole in my head.... So teaching programming moment: 1) assume nothing 2) check your return values 3) see #1. head is throbbing. Oh, it gets better. Youngest daughter's wedding rehearsal is tomorrow.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

staples... read my post. :)

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

Maybe it's just me. 10 years ago, I would occasionally poke around DICE and it seemed like real people and companies were posting jobs. Now? Not so much. This is what I see on every posting: "Employers have access to artificial intelligence language tools (“AI”) that help generate and enhance job descriptions and AI may have been used to create this description." As soon as you go to dice, you get an immediate idiot pop up "is there something I can help you with?" Don't worry, I'm not picking on dice, so many sites and companies have this turd it is a joke. Worse, most of the HUMANS you talk to after getting through the bot are as dumb as a brick as well. Just didn't want to offend bots out there. The last thing I am going to do is submit anything to a recruiter. Anyone else seeing the AI "revolution" just automating shoveling BS?

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

"was job shadow the person doing the job my software was either going to streamline or replace. I didn't write a line of code until I could do the job as well, if not as fast, as the operator doing the tasks my software targeted." is elephanting legend. I have seen so many projects fail over the years, because everyone knew technically how to get the job done, but they were not the one doing the job.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

Looking at your question and the replies, why would you need one for your home office? Does it do something special? Sitting in my home office behind my default ATT fiber firewall.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

:thumbsup: may the CP culture never die.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

thank you for confirming my fear/understanding/anticipation. :)

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

no. I do not want to even know about p-code. What I'm saying/asking/spewing is it seems C# is just the basic tool to get into the .net framework. The analogy I would make would be hey I want to write a C++ interface with MFC. I don't want to do it in win32. Stage 1 is to learn pure C# and stage 2 is to embrace the .net framework. If I have to go into p-code, I've done something wrong.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

So, I have dusted off my project yet again. Written in FORTRAN my goal is to lift it to modern systems. I've asked various questions over the years, but I hope this might just be my last hurrah that pays for the sailboat I want and pay off my mortgage. I also want to pull in some coder whannabees from local high schools (but that is VERY tbd). Digging into this - my experience says the biggest issue with the existing system is that it's a big blob. I'll leave it there. I don't want to get into too much detail and vector my question. In doing my research, I know I want to use C# to implement the initial UI. What I've concluded is that C# is the tip of the Microsoft iceberg. A language is a language - you just need to get familiar with it's quirks. But underneath C# is the mass of .net. Just like mfc, com, com++, dcom, ActiveX and all of the other rot MS pukes out. Don't get me wrong, some of it is okay. But it seems C# is the trivial part. Am I on the wrong trail, or have I got this right?

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

still here but a lot of the originals are getting older and retiring. I don't see a lot of new blood coming in. Circle of life stuff. It's actually a shame - but the core base of users here were actually quite experienced when Chris launched the site. I'd be interested in seeing the statistics. Now, what needs to happen is that new blood needs to be pulled in. And by new blood I mean this mid-tier coder grunts. I see a few from time to time. I do not mean the "will you help me do my homework types." Those just scare me. And now with AI rolling out built into tools, all I see is consulting money. :)

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

well $hit. I certainly respect the right for Chris to do his business, I just hope he took care of his cohorts. If he has sold, new company please email me. I'd be interested in helping.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

pk and all, Maybe a bit more info? I read the part about Chris adjusting his focus, and we have to respect that. I'm chronically anemic at this point in my life, but I'm not dead yet. In my own life, I have found that work is the LEAST stressful to me, so there may be other issues we don't know about. That said.... Maybe it's a time for a group hug sort of thing. Businesses like CP don't happen from a meeting where everyone agrees and its kumbaya. It comes from passion, a huge amount of hard work (x3), and no, we're not going to do that decision making. A lot of us here are old-farts that have retired and run hard all of our lives. Looking at you Hankey ;). Can we preserve the culture? That's what makes CP. God forbid it would ever look like stack*******. Is Chris looking to sell?

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

Dear MS, Please stop messing with my desktop background. Although your pictures are pretty, I actually USE my machines for work. I set the background to a nice solid color THAT I LIKE. It reduces eye strain. It's comfortable. It's home. So, you update your OS "for security patches" <-- lying sons of bitches and change my desktop background to "let's send him a new picture..." If you came into my office and started typing on my keyboard, I would grab your hands. I don't care if you are my wife, girl friend, mistress, child, or random person - you do not elephant with my computer. To MS Marketing - you are obviously working at turning your OS into a data mining device. Meanwhile, you cannot fix the bugs. Good bye.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

that would be Joe Black, right?

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

boy, that's the truth. I live in the embedded world, and when you say things like "we need to update the bootloader" swords come out. The bootloader is the bios for us. I think I have updated one BIOS in my lifetime, and I know, if I elephant it up or the update does, I've bricked my system.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

data mining everything on your computer. This appalls me. But it's not just Microsoft. I've used Quicken for decades, and a few years ago, they went to the dark side. They consistently re-enable backups of your files to the "cloud" where they assure all users the data is safe and private. Girlfriend looking at me: "please explain your hand in my pants...."

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

I had this "use edge" issue. Along with whoever made the decision to force re-boots, the person who decided to add a registry entry for outlook to override the system default browser... burn in OS hell. If my kid did something this stupid, they would get the "dad look." Or mom look, but you know what I mean. Meanwhile, let's talk about desktop backgrounds..... (new topic).

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

Hey, Griff. You'd be surprised how fast it gets fixed. I wish I could see the data from the power companies. One things utilities do very well is stage their teams for the state about to get hit with whatever. Right now in Florida, you have hundreds of crews from Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and of course Florida hitting the power issue (sort of makes me wonder why buried utilities aren't mandatory but I'm ignorant there). The repair process is a triage process. That 6 million will drop very quickly. The pain will be in the outlying areas. The good news - and I use that term lightly - is not too much road damage - unlike Hurricane Helene and western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. This guy Major Hurricane Milton Landfall, As It Happened - YouTube[^] covers weather like a boss. I cannot take "major" news outlets or the Weather Channel any more. I grew up in NC and had my honeymoon in Boone, NC. A couple of years ago, wife and I went up to Boone for our anniversary. It breaks my heart to see the damage, and we don't even know how many more are still buried in mud. :(

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

hey not sure where you are in Georgia, but if you are in the Atlanta area, come north towards Lake Lanier, and I'll feed you. :)

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"

perfect example of why we need to go back to the moon. we need a quantum leap in the current situation of things.

Charlie Gilley “Microsoft is the virus..." "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"