Posts by Hogbert

But surely you must want a Recommendation panel taking up some space there too!

Re: How is this the fault of "Legacy Systems"?

I suspect the problem with the legacy software could be lapsed support and the inability to run up duplicate installs on new hardware or virtual hosts, in a different location.

The software itself was likely still doing it's job, tho probably only to the minimal original specifications from way back when it was purchased.

Re: “Health Care”

Outside the US, quite a few countries have tax payer funded healthcare. Such organisations usually struggle to get by under strict limited budgets, and have staff who are dedicated to providing the best care they can with the available resources.

It seems particularly stupid for ransomware attackers to target hospitals which have been running many millions over budget for several years, so have no available cash to pay out anyway. These evil people are not very good at researching their targets.

Re: Not exactly much incentive to move

I installed Start11 and got a great looking task bar and menu.

I mostly use Double Commander for files and project work, saving multiple tab sets as favorites makes it a winner for me.

Explorer with it's mess of multi level context menus is a disappointment.

Re: Upwards thumb

Agree, I think I have donated twice, maybe 3 times.

The tools for categorizing are quite excellent. You don't have to have everything in one huge list; if you don't want to sort and group by tags, it is actually quite easy to set up different libraries and move books into the appropriate one. If I want to look up technical books I switch to the tech library. For cooking and food books etc I switch to the home library. Scifi is by far the largest library, and for that I am more interested in grouping by author and series number.

People should really learn to use their tools before complaining about them.

Re: The Microsoft naming department

True, they have made a total mess of the naming and versioning. Trying to search for documentation on specific .Net or C# features is a bad experience as the Microsoft docs try to direct you to the latest version with features that are not present in the framework you have to work with. VS started suggesting code changes which are not compatible with the version of framework we run with, so that made VS code helpers a bit less helpful.

Their philosophy seems to be that everybody should throw out their old software solutions and write a whole new set in the latest version of language and framework. This seems quite disconnected from reality to me.

I keep on working with old ASP.Net forms and would dearly like to be able to start replacing it with their shiny new .Net, but I'm kind of frozen whenever I try to determine which bits of the technology I should concentrate on learning. There are just too many different streams of toolsets and frameworks. At least ASP.Net development and debugging in VS is simple and mostly trouble free.

You may not expect a lot from your fellow countrymen, and you probably know better than I, but a certain percentage of them should have at least accidentally achieved something.

Health IT continues to absorb the most astonishing budgets while appearing to produce nothing it. News headlines at 6.

Re: Running Windows 11 on AMD

I just upgraded mobo, CPU etc, as my gen 2 or 3? i7 and board were not win 11 compliant. It was getting old but still ran super fast, but whatever.

So my rebuild with a Ryzen 7 went well, reinstalled win 10, and the windows update panel now tells me my gear is ready for windows 11, coming soon. I guess it's being pushed out to OEM builders only for now.

Re: Microsoft buys github

It sounds more like a contract which project administrators accepted, possibly without contemplating the consequences. As usual with contracts, it's never easy to just say 'I changed my mind'.

Re: Dark, chaotic pit of not being able to access email or calendars

Sounds idyllic, except that it's easy to pass blame onto someone else by simply saying "I never said that".

In some company environments people will do nothing without having a trail of instructions or authorisations in writing.

Sounds scary. We require useful descriptions on code check-in and having the full change history is so very useful.

Maybe you could start using local GIT instances to maintain projects, then slowly introduce others to the benefits it brings.

Re: Bloody Azure

The weak spot we all need to be wary of is the accounts department. Buying and upgrading servers and software packages gets dumped under capital expenses and goes under the 'bad' column, as it can have large one-off costs. The 'good' column contains operating expenses, which are relatively fixed known amounts per month, such as cloud services.

Once your accountants get control, none of your logic about owning on premise equipment will ever sway them.

Re: Further simplicity and ease of use...

But wasn't that a semantic rule, where T prefixes a type, I prefixes an interface etc?

The silliest naming, I think, is when people make a programming language with a single letter or common word for its name. Then they think about how it will be indexed for searching and add 'lang' to the search keywords. Then again, even .net can retrieve a lot of unrelated search results if you don't include enough specific search terms.

Re: Likely to be supported

They will do one OS update and I believe security updates for 2 years.

After that you get no more cover from them.

I like my Moto G4 plus, but was very disappointed when the security patches stopped coming. I wouldn't buy another Moto device again, unless they have a revelation and start providing ongoing OS upgrades and updates.

No, you are thinking of Python 4, which will use braces to define code blocks instead of indentation.

<ducks>

Re: Why share?

Anybody old enough to have a gun license should be able to differentiate between fantasy and reality.

We have had movies depicting good people fighting bad people for about as long as we have had movies.

I have been playing first person shooters for at least 25 years, and have never had the urge to obtain a weapon and start attacking people in real life. I have watched violent action, fantasy and sci fi movies for even longer, yet have had no desire to blow up anybody's planet.