dandy72 wrote: and may or may not work if you're going through a virtualization layer. If it doesn't work in the VM, do not install it in the host OS 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.

charlieg wrote: Glancing at my stack of backup laptops.... LMAO A coworker of mine is using a good set of VMs, but refuses to run VS itself in a VM. Too much of a difference in compilation time, he says (and he's using a much faster system than I have). He's not wrong, but I don't tell VS to perform full rebuilds every 8 minutes. He's a little OCD in that way. :-)

jochance wrote: That's wild. I played when it first came out and I really liked the prison break and other team heists. There's so much more that came out since those heists. :-) jochance wrote: Probably never even hit 100 hours in it though. I don't have an exact number, but it's in the thousands. That's with an S, as in, plural... jochance wrote: RDR2 was really really pretty. It still is to this day. Even on my decade old video card. I fully intend to replay it one day, with a better GPU.

I remember reading a few years ago that some states were struggling to find, let's call them, "alternative methods" to use on death row inmates, as there have been instances where their current methods have proven to be ineffective and found to be "inhumane" as they can sometimes just prolong a painful death. These guys might have found their niche...?

For sure WSUS has always had its own set of problems, but as mentioned, by now it's a known quantity, in terms of what to expect and what to do about it. I've come across scripts myself that do the sort of thing you brought up, and wrote a few more of my own. If those are such big problems for people that they'd rather rely on MS to keep evolving patch management, then that's why these on-going services are pay-for. But people can't claim any of this came without their own warnings.

;)| Newegg.com[^] Ok, I see what you mean. [EDIT] You know it has occured to me lately that there's probably a society (by now anyway) for the furtherance of the destruction of all search engines. Now if only they were smart enough to know when they were licked and just commit suicide without any aid from humans: :sigh: | Newegg.com[^] [/EDIT]

I like dark mode because light attracts bugs :)

Yeah, my interface is a typical Windows application standing alone purchased from a well known purveyor of a proprietary language. And their thing, as such being a language, is probably to provide inroads to automaticity of just such a process as a TSR. The fact that I don't complain about having to depress a button on a Windows form shouldn't indicate that I'm probably not going to like something else I'd run into down that road that'll cause lightning bolts to fly from my rearend, it just means I don't know everything about their language yet. But I keep a fire extinguisher handy.

I'll readily admit there are some things that are "so bad, it's good", but no, I think this one is on its own.

dandy72 wrote: b) If whatever you have in mind was actually useful, why would you need to write it now, shouldn't it already exist? Hmm, well, about twenty years ago, while I was writing software for a local taxi company, I saw one of our cabs doing something unwise -- I didn't see its number. It occurred to me that I had access to the data (GPS) required to find out which cab it was, based on location in time and space. So when I got to the office, that's what I did. No GUI though, if I recall correctly I produced a text file of GPS points for cabs which were in the area at the time which I then loaded into whatever mapping software we were using. As far as I recall, the supervisors had a real-time map of where the cabs were, but no way to see history, or a cab's track. Anyway, some time later I was asked if I could do that for another situation -- I think it was thought that one of our drivers may have been in a position to witness some event and the police asked if we could identify the driver who was seen in the area. I said, sure, I already have a utility for doing that. :) Given a GPS point, a time, and how wide to search, I could identify which cabs were there at that time, and produce tracks on a map.

[sarcasm] Nothing like a little greed.... __________________ Lord, grant me the serenity to accept that there are some things I just can’t keep up with, the determination to keep up with the things I must keep up with, and the wisdom to find a good RSS feed from someone who keeps up with what I’d like to, but just don’t have the damn bandwidth to handle right now. © 2009, Rex Hammock

OriginalGriff wrote: Well, they eat mice, rats, moles, voles, insects, slugs, and snails I'm pretty sure we already have plenty other animals that can take care of all of those. OriginalGriff wrote: Canada won't let you import them as pets at all. I'm trying to export them out of Canada. :-)

Agreed. I really enjoyed that series. Software Zen: delete this;

Brilliant film 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

Chad3F wrote: If you felt like using those worthless (and probably very unreliable) SD cards to mess with people, They're only unreliable if you buy 1TB ones from China for $12. All my MicroSD cards are still functional and reliable. You get what you pay for. And why revive a nearly month-old thread for something nefarious like this?

That's an interesting idea. I'll have to read up on the details.

Ah yeah. I forgot about that. I've only used it for hobby stuff. Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix

For sure, a laser printer works much more decently. Despite of this, I should be interested in finding somebody able to repair an Epson LQ100. A little noisy, but worked more than 20 years with no problem. And it does not make a topic of having been unused three months long.

Meh. You know most of it's already running all the time, it's just the browser UI that won't show up until you click its icon...

There is another range of IP addresses 10.*.*.* for larger internal subnets. I would use that instead of 255.*.*.*