Depending on raisins...
Get the CD as an ISO, burn a bunch of ISO's to a single DVDR.....
Depending on raisins...
Get the CD as an ISO, burn a bunch of ISO's to a single DVDR.....
@topspin - Most early computers did not have memory sizes that were a multiple of 8 bits. 12, 18, 36, 38 were common and I worked on all of them).
There was also the fact that and adding machine could be adapted as a printer
@PleegWat said in Do you understand ping?:
@Gurth Yeah,
0o
as an octal prefix would be more consistent with the others (including0b
for binary) and avoid certain problems. My guess is octal is the oldest of the lot, but I never investigated.
Back in the day (and I was there)...resources were expensive, a single character would do, and "0" [zero] invokes "O" [The capital letter...
When working with computers invariably meant working with octal, the mnemonic was quite useful.
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Basically none of my students were born at that point.
"I was not even born" is a common comment I hear. Lately, "My parents had not yet met" has occurred, and exactly once "My mother was no born yet (but my father was)"...
Damn, I have gotten old.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
Ah, but did it run Windows of Shitux?
QNX - well suited for the purpose.
@acrow said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
@Tsaukpaetra Digital sound mixing became a thing when all those gigaflops got a lot cheaper than the dedicated mixing hardware. It is actually being done.
Especially when you're mixing 60+ channels at once, like in a live concert.
@acrow said in Linux locks and a kinder, gentler Linus:
@Tsaukpaetra Digital sound mixing became a thing when all those gigaflops got a lot cheaper than the dedicated mixing hardware. It is actually being done.
Especially when you're mixing 60+ channels at once, like in a live concert.
Indeed. I was the workspace developer (faders, knobs, screens, logic, snapshots, et. al.) of the first 100% digital mixing console. Used 12+ Pentiums (1 per module) and up to 72 Sharc DSPS..... And that was about25 years ago.
@Tsaukpaetra sometimes I wonder whether attaching VSCode to the Visual Studio brand helped or hurt its popularity.
Every Microsoft product needs to be attached to one of their major brands [or a new major brand created - which is VERY expensive].... Thus, if not Visual Studio brand, which would you pick? Office???
@HardwareGeek said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
it is mostly funded by the interest they earn from the money I and others deposit with them, not by me giving them money.
If the interest being earned by the bank is not paid into the accounts of the depositors, then it is actually them spending money that could have been yours (assuming you have deposits).
@GÄ…ska said in Resources want to be free!:
By manual, I mean finalizers that get called either directly in code, automatically at the end of using block, or by GC on collection.
WRONG. The Dispose method gets called at the end of a using block, or directly in code [never by the GC] and the finalizer is called (if it exists) by the GC unless it has been explicitly supressed.
@boomzilla - I am sure it is too late to try now, but did you try killing Explorer.exe and then relaunching it?
@Benjamin-Hall said in Embarrassing Car Question:
is there a schedule for such a thing?
There is schedule for everything (e.. timing belt/chain)....
What make/model/year?
Pfft, etc. Mine is 221dpi (15" MacBook Pro 2016, 2880x1800)
Recently was involved with a display that had <1 DPI
(Roadside display the size of a billboard)
@Karla - Let's continue this in private...
@Karla said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
@TheCPUWizard said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
@Karla said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
@TheCPUWizard said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
I must be missing something... can you not do this at the SSRS level?
We can go into each report in Visual Studio and update the datasource and upload the new file to the new CRM server.
But for 50 fucking reports?
I'm a programmer. I'm lazy and don't want to do that shit.
You can do the same thing with the SSRS Web-Service
Only a few lines of C# (or you can even do it in PowerShell)
Shit, really? I think I probably found pieces about the rs.exe but didn't see where I could update an actual report and it seemed to only refer to shared datasources.
OK now, I found:
Is that allowed with CRM? I can't find PS right now...and I believe all the C# code uses the CRM Web API to make any data changes.
I can't find anything specific. I don't even know if the implementation of standard ReportServer is the same when integrated into CRM.
Also, if it that simple why to we have to upload the compiled version of the report? Unless that's wrong.
Can you provide the exact steps from your previous statement:
"We can go into each report in Visual Studio and update the datasource and upload the new file to the new CRM server."
@Karla said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
@TheCPUWizard said in Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SSRS -- migrating reports to new server:
I must be missing something... can you not do this at the SSRS level?
We can go into each report in Visual Studio and update the datasource and upload the new file to the new CRM server.
But for 50 fucking reports?
I'm a programmer. I'm lazy and don't want to do that shit.
You can do the same thing with the SSRS Web-Service
Only a few lines of C# (or you can even do it in PowerShell)
I must be missing something... can you not do this at the SSRS level?
@Parody said in I hate printers, with a passion:
My last couple of HPs would clean themselves every so often when they weren't being used. Uses a bit of ink but no paper.
I don't know if the DesignJets do that too, but then again if you're buying a wide-body roll printer you shouldn't be leaving it turned off for a year.
Yes, the DJ-111 does do that, and for the majority of the time it was left plugged in, and there were never any problems.
It only became unplugged when some equipment was moved while I was in hospital, and I simply never noticed until I needed it.
Full expectation that there would be problems, so that is not really my issue at all. It is much more of an issue with replacing both ink and print heads (along with using a syringe to flush and fill the feeder tubes) and the vendors lack of any helpful info.
@levicki said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@TheCPUWizard Why not just buy a networked color laser with scanner for half the price of ink and head aseembly and use that DJ to make a youtube video of its painful but justified death at your hands?
Because I use it to make 22 inch wide prints that can be well over 10 feet in length.
@topspin said in I hate printers, with a passion:
@TheCPUWizard don’t think so. Shoot!
DJ-111, had it about 7 years, but <350 total pages printed. Not used for about a year. Power it back up and print quality was basically zero. Price out HP ink and heads, about $375. Look at reputable 3rd party, and about $80....
Colored inks do not report levels, Black ink reports failure. 3 print heads failed. Vendor for the heads RMA'ed, but the RMA literally flooded the inside of the printer with ink.
Have I mentioned my (ongoing saga) with an HP DJ-111????
@AyGeePlus said in NetBeans vs UTF-8:
I am so glad I don't do C or C++ anymore.
Modern C++ is quite different than 10 years ago..... If it has been more than 3-5 years since you [not AyGeePlus, specifically] studied C++, your opinion is quite likely different from current facts.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in NetBeans vs UTF-8:
Let's see the vaunted ASCII-7 cope with that!
Pfft... Who needs that... just use RAD-50
@BernieTheBernie said in Value Types:
@Cabbage The code snippet above is a verbatim copy, no line or function call in between left out. So, both value1 and value2 have the same type T. In this simple scenario, it is sufficient to check one value only.
Without seeing the declarations of cameraParameterValue and _value, which your snippet does not supply, it is impossible to make that determination.
@cheong said in DNS is optional:
I would prefer that over editing hosts file of hundreds of machines.
Ahhh.. Just make a hard link between the file systems so that there is only one physical file to edit.
@izzion said in DNS is optional:
@loopback0 said in DNS is optional:
Window$$$ $$$erver is a thing.
Yeah, $972 will kill you [$501 for smaller environments]...and that is full retail!
@izzion said in Stack Exchange experiences Stack Meltdown, by enforcing preferred pronouns in site-wide communications:
@pie_flavor
Back in my day, we used 640x480 with an overlay of static snow and it worked just fine!
Pfff.... Yellow rolls of paper. Upper Case characters only - 7.2 seconds to print one (full) line.....
@MrL said in What do Entity developers do in this context?:
there's no 'things happen by themselves,
Want to consider the "things that happen by themselves" in between the high level language you are using, and the actual transistors that are switching on and off??
ps: I well remember debugging CPU's to find a faulty element. The worst was a time when the carry from bit 7 to bit 8 did not propagate under very specific conditions [turns out there was a "near short" on the wire-wrapped backplane...]
@Unperverted-Vixen said in What do Entity developers do in this context?:
Why not just generate the mapping code in the first place, then?
The mapping tools I use do have the ability to work in a number of ways, including:
a) dynamically create a list of delegates (so everything is a run-time data structure)
b) explicitly generate source code for the mapping (with the resultant source file then being added to the project)
But neither of those are really related to discoverability of a change in an automatic fashion.
The case of a "Source property" being removed has already been touched on (and prompted this discussion), but there are also many other types of changes that can occur.
Even with the Source Code Generation approach, it requires a human to pay attention (which is not a bad thing, but it is not a reliable thing).
On the other hand, having a test that looks for changes and requires human interaction to either accept the change (triggering a new generation, either of source or of meta-data) or "fix" the code hat induced the change is something that greatly mitigates things falling through the crack.
Granted there is a subjective element to evaluating the different approaches. Many times my primary goal is to enable the computer to protect the code from me, at the expense of a little bit of extra effort in certain areas.
@MrL said in What do Entity developers do in this context?:
Someone changes a property name in one of data classes. Everything seems fine. Two weeks later system blows up in some infrequently used module, because mapper doesn't see the change and leaves something as null.
If it blows up, filling db with nulls without anyone noticing is also a possibility, of course.
Sounds like a lack of testing. For mappers, generated tests (that are only generated and then verified by a human) should catch this type of situation.
@MrL said in What do Entity developers do in this context?:
I learned the hard way to stay away from them.
Would like to learn more. I tend to do 90% of my data transformations with the use of Mappers.
@JBert said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
If you want really detailed stuff then I guess a lot depends on how small the details are in physical size,
Pretty detailed "stuff". Loking to reproduce details that are often on the order of 3" or less in real size as a reduction of 160:1. Total size of objects (real size) would be up to 10'x10' (scaled 7.5" by 7.5")
@Choonster said in Selecting distinct rows in Entity Framework:
since it's a view rather than a table, there's no inserting/updating of records
For the "Classic" (but not exactly correct) information on Design Patterns see the book: https://books.google.com/books/about/Design_Patterns.html
But the answer is really even easier.... Design Patterns are anything that is done on a recurring basis. Some are published, but many more exist privately. Key to their effectiveness is documenting when they are (likely) applicable as well as conditions where they do not apply.
For teams I have mentored, one of the first things that gets setup is their own book. When I first started doing this (nearly 25 years ago) it was commonly a physical looseleaf binder, these days it is much more commonly a wiki or similar.
Just an observation. For a few years now, I have been involved in Coder Dojo - with kids as young as 5.
Scratch is our typical second level (the first being "An Hour of Code").
Some of the kids are now in their mid-teens and doing some serious programming (we try to stay in touch). Most of them credit the Coder Dojo sessions as being their starting point, and are appreciative of it.
@MrL said in What do Entity developers do in this context?:
This means a lot of copying of properties back and forth, which indeed is annoying.
Which is why "mappers" were created :)
@sockpuppet7 said in Ask the entrepreneurs advice:
I used to think like that, but then I started thinking there is no incentive to not accept a random connection from recruiters, and it probably makes me appear more in their searches. It seems like doing it wrong, someone explain me a reason to have only people I know connected there
I do accept the "random" ones, but if they do not bear some type of value within 60 days, they are gone... Probably 1% to 2% actually remain, but those have indeed turned out to be valuable (such as leading to a 5-6 figure contract).
As far as people I already know, it gives easy visibility into who they know. Then when I have a desire/need to establish a connection with someone, I can leverage the existing chain..... Does that make sense?
@lolwhat said in Ask the entrepreneurs advice:
Holy , Batman! I was born in '77...
I started as a student in '72, "turned pro" on my 16th birthday [75].....
Yup, I remember when "software was simple holes in pieces of paper".....
@Jaloopa said in Ask the entrepreneurs advice:
using LinkedIn
I firmly believe that there are (at least) two distinct "worlds" within Linked In.
The first is the cesspool of unsolicited attempts at "Connections".
The second is a very viable way of performing certain types of networking. For example from 77 till 92 I worked at a firm. There were about 300 (out of 1800) employees I had a relationship with. Over the years, many of us lost touch. With LinkedIn, about 80% of us have reconnected in a mesh, and we stay in semi-regular contact, get notified of job changes (or retirements), and often use each other as valuable (and trusted) business resources.
@jinpa said in Thinking like a real <X>:
no detrimental effect on UI's if psychologists were never consulted
In many cases that is correct... they are so bad that making them worse would be quite hard.
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Defender is only useful if you are a cheapskate who just absolutely won't pay for software.
Defender is pretty decent nowadays, especially with virtualization-based security additions.
So much depends on circumstance. For example, my "exposed" machines have much tighter security (and high end malware/virus programs); my "internal" machines much less so (and in many cases Windows Defender is sufficient).
Many ways to skin this cat
I personally would not go with DataTables (aka pure ADO.Net). In fact in the past decade, I have only used them when working with existing implementations that are heavily based on them.
At the same time, having the concrete Entity class being exposed all the way to the UI is almost sure to create problems.
Having interfaces on the EntityClasses is one approach I use often. Occasionally use DTO's. Sometimes encapsulation of the Entity within a "UI" (or "BL") class...
@Dragoon said in I hate printers, with a passion:
Have any of you actually done anything with printing? Because holy shit is there is a lot of BS in this thread.
I hear that is actually a 3D organic printer that can literally print shit! Does that count?
@mott555 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
ï…º : We can't install updates because a restart is pending.
: *clicks Restart*
ï…º : We can't restart because updates are installing.
:
Not really a WTF.... Updates have started (and some may have completed). One (or more) of them has set a flag indicating a restart is required...
@loopback0 said in I hate printers, with a passion:
because I'm reliably informed inkjets don't do networking?
I can attest that InkJet printers do a very good job of not-working...... oh, wait a minute.....nevermind.....
@Quinnum said in Fake ASP WTF:
Isn't that standard practice?
The only times I give fixed price:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Are there any programming/IT certifications worth anything?:
ow much does it matter that none of my experience is directly "professional"?
I have been involved in selecting hires for decades. One of the best I ever had was a young man (just graduated high school) looking for a (very) junior position. He had NO experience, except what he taught himself on his Commodore (including Assembly!)... He seemed bright, so I asked if he could come back with his 'puter and let me take a look.
Honestly it was crap, but it was innovative crap, and based on what he had as baseline learning material it was quite impressive. He was hired...
Fast forward (quite) a bit of time, and he ended up as a Senior Technical Executive at a major (worldwide) financial firm. It was very gratifying to watch him progress throughout his career.
@Tsaukpaetra - Agreed (about the printer dialog), but that is (typically) manual; the registry approach does allow for automation (e.g. the printer is relocated but 50 PC's utilize it....
@pie_flavor said in In which millenials realize maintaining open source stuff is hard:
As opposed to a shitty CRUD application.
There was a day when actual computer science was important, and that day is in the past.
Well that would be "Software Engineering" rather than "Computer Science"
FWIW: If you really want to set the printer location in a non-AD windows environment, you can do it with a simple registry edit:
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Printers???\Location
where ??? is the printer name...