Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:

Windows 10 S is n ... will allow applications from the Store only (hence the S)...

Oooohhh, I thought the "S" meant something else (i.e. that word with the asterisk in it)

no doubt ms will blame it on (1) chrome, (2) changing ANY settings from win10 defaults, (3) goto 1.

In NZ the people are called Kiwi's after the bird of the same name; which btw is a flightless bird. It is said, "a Kiwi usually only comes out at night, during which it eats, roots and leaves." (Those not from NZ, Aus or UK may want to check the urban dictionary on that second item.)

Rajesh R Subramanian wrote:

Windows computes the best time to perform security updates based on your usage pattern

Windows 11 maybe, experience with older to the current version show otherwise. Anyway nothing should wake a sleeping computer unless explicitly set to do so, this 'assumption' by ms just shows their continuing contempt.

Bit soapbox but I'll bite: "Indians do not steal jobs, but rather create new jobs. Indian IT companies have created as many 400,000 jobs abroad..." that's the people needed people to fix the shite these guys put out...

OriginalGriff wrote:

- no debugger, so the mechanic has to know what (s)he is doing!

Few and far between those are, hens teeth comes to mind.

Tricky question because pricing is quite regional. Can understand the $50 charge just for diags, the manufacturers charge a small fortune for the software and more big $ for each update/new model releases. (That's what drove a lot of smaller shops out of business.)

Even better, take it to facebook (as you said you prefer fb and hardly ever come here.) oh I know, you got completely fb unfriended, again.

Aw c'mon, finish the story... please tell us what happens if you choose to "fix automatically"

I found 2015 bit "heavy" on the machine and went back to 2013 - light, nimble, fast, and does everything needed. Would be nice is if the new compiler could be retrofitted into the older IDE (like changing engine in a car). New C# got some nice items - not that they are deal breakers but already seeing some of of those new features showing up in posted codez.

Ouch! Passing a smart phone must really hurt.

Haven't been in the game for 2 years! Means employers will consider you have lost touch: 'the IT world is changing so fast your skills are out of date/irrelevant/superseded ... why? ... have you been studying? do you know what Windows 10 is? know how to program a phone?" The killer: "willing to work under a boss [way] younger than yourself?" - even if you yell "yes" they only hear "no." Welcome back grandpa! (Don't feel bad, in IT that's anyone over 23.)

Jeremy Falcon wrote:

So is sleep.

sleep is a folk remedy??? the years have I wasted on that one...

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

When you should have instead pushed back politely but firmly and said you'd help him on the weekend when you have some free time. :)

In the meantime ask him to put his machine in the dishwasher and run a full cycle to remove the harsh packing chemicals that give you a rash. :|

ie/edge does everything required - admin's not being lazy, they are being smart, and avoiding being called out for complaints resulting from choices made to satisfy a few tech heads. It's not just about what you like for yourself, it's about what is a good, smart and well functioning choice for everybody in the entire company. Chrome is a poor if not the worst choice, fine for those on new equipment, but being such a cpu/memory hog would cause problems for those on older equipment. No sane admin should endorse chrome unless they are sure no equipment in the entire company is more than 2 years old (and their network can handle the entire org checking/downloading updates every 10 minutes.) Finally if it's a work machine, why load it with toys?

Did sound odd to me to keep flipping constraints in and out, but if it's from a script builder then as you say sensibility is also removed. I guess I'm old fashioned and don't use auto generated scripts: if they work fine, but when they fail finding out where is somewhere on-par with looking at junior programmer multi threaded recursive class libraries in visual basic.

If it's just for a single task or two why bother with the updates unless directly affected for the work required? If worried about attacks do you really need network? Just a common/shared folder will do to get info in/out. Either way once done just save the VM image so next time can jump straight back into it. It's not as the ms fanlemmings believe going to not work (or halt and catch fire) just because ms aren't supporting it - there's xp boxes out there in the real word that run literally for years without ever updating it's not that important. (Most system rescue disks use a xp base, they still work fine don't they.)

One guy with a knife out of 8.6 million? I'd say your friend's still pretty safe - odds of meeting the guy are up there with winning a national lottery. (Tell him to quickly buy a ticket.) Problem with the news today, too much of it, seemingly more on s slow day. ... ohh look, Trump just blew his nose, lets assemble a large panel of experts and discuss his odds of surviving ..., wait, Rihanna seen shopping ... wait, a duck just crossed the road near central park ...

Singapore is a very small continent. (But incontinent is very possible there.)

TonyManso wrote:

and libraries (other than stdio) were for sissies!

Why use stdio, the core functions read() and write() were easily sufficient. stdio was just more laggy bloat bet you were one of those softies that used strcpy() and it's friends too - more rubbish that for instance in this case could easily be achieved in a single for(); statement.