Re: Where is the error displayed?
Why in a Window of course.
Which version of Window?
Looks like it's a luverly day outside, just super for some walkabouts...
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Hailing from a WordPerfect/SuperCalc5/AllyCad/Lotus1-2-3 (for DOS) world, I can say that the software was well thought out, so once you got good muscle memory for the / commands (in SC5 and Lotus) then you can get really up to serious speed, especially when doing fancy things.
AllyCad - once you memorized most of the keyboard shortcuts, you can churn out good drawings in very little time.
Compared the above to today's Windows stuff - there's a lot of clickety click stuff going on with the mouse, and a lot of pecking at ribbons and menus to get what you want... taking you longer in comparison to do documents/drawings/spreadsheets...
...or is it just me?
Going out for some deep ponderings at a pub ====>
Seems as if 2020 is not done yet.
First it was the 'rona.
Then mass layoffs, and still more 'rona.
And mass lootings and burnings in Kenosha, and other diverse places, and yet more 'rona.
Now it's cruddy software, and still more 'rona.
Coronachan must love us.
Time to break out the time displacement device and travel back to 1960 when the world was a better place, and make The Silent Age* happen.
Point-and-click adventure game. Most Excellent.
- All the animations such as when a menu shows or tabs are shown are cute but rapidly become the cause of brain farts. Needs an option to turn them off
Animations are usually the first thing I turn off on any new device, because these suck CPU and battery, and things take a tad longer to finish.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
So... whether you host it on-prem or "in the cloud", you're stuck if this happen to a core router and you cannot access your data...
Ah, the joys of IT.
icon --> getting ready to get out of IT, had more than enough stress, BillyWindows brownstuff and just stuffups in general.
Way back in the 90's I did POS support for a couple of clients in Pretoria.
One difficult client had all the bells and whistles - shiny new Novell 3.12 plus a couple of DOS workstations and a Windows 3.1 workstation for himself. And 120Mb tape drive.
Laughably small in today's terms of Giga- and Terabytes. Anyway.
He made a backup for the day, put it in the safe with the other backup tapes, locked the safe and went home for the weekend.
Come Monday morning we received a frantic call from him - ne'er-do-wells happened during the weekend, they took the file server, workstations and safe (including the backup tapes). So he had nothing to fall back on, and he was due for a SARS (income tax) revenue. Ouch.
This actually belongs in "Who, Me?".... from the programmer/developer's perspective...
"so here we were, the Bossly Unit FUBAR'd our main Java store, and in a flash of inspiration, I checked on the Wayback Machine if they had a copy of our Java, and as luck would have it...."
The rest, as they usually say, is history.
Testament to the solidness of OS/2...
Heard that some folks preferred to use OS/2 when they have to collect massive amounts of data over serial links as Windows could not keep up with the demand.
...still trying to find the article where OS/2 on a single CPU outperformed NT on a quadprocessor setup. Ah, those were the days.
fnarrr fnarrr fnarrr
store it in the cloud they said
it will be always available they said
but "they said" did not take into account network outages (like this one) or a break in your local fibre preventing you from accessing your preciouses files...
naaaaah, old school with on-prem is still king for now.
Sure, use cloud for backup or data retention... and hope that it will be online when you need to restore a file or whatever....
Heh, group of us techs was clustered around a PC, wanting to copy data on (or off, can't quite remember). This was when coax and 10base was the rage.
The motherboard was not installed yet, but was on the workbench along with the hard drive etc. And an Accton NE2000 compatible NIC.
Along came somebody, hot unplugged the Accton NIC and as he was walking away, the copy process we were busy with, dieded.
We had a good laugh on that one, most impressive was that there were no component damage or failure.
Greyhair = experience, knows how to resolve issues in as little time as possible, does not bill the client with lots of $$$ - but employing greyhair costs company a bit of $$$
New guy = no experience of greyhair, will waffle and faffle around trying to resolve issues, billing the client lots of $$$$$ - employing new guy = cheap as peanuts
guess which one they'll choose
and new contracts can be written to stipulate that if no agreeable performance levels is reached, company have the right to terminate contract with new guy and hire another new guy...
no wonder why the natural enemy of the BOFH is the beancounter
Or setting someone's VMS prompt to "Help ?" and seeing how long they persevere trying to get out of "Help".
A good one was to set the DOS prompt to C:\DOS> and leave the user wondering just what the heck's going on, especially when a DIR shows no DOS files.
Or to change said prompt to something else like C:> ... leaving them in limbo just where the heck they are.
Teardropping a Win95 PC of a colleague who's fond of browsing news sites instead of working. Its HDD died before I could teardrop it more, sadly.
I also did the wallpaper-icon trick.
As the I and l is most often similar, I retyped an user's login name , replacing I (Uppercase i) with lowercase L
He swore a blue streak until he jabbed the reset button.
Yay, more fun and games...
For the truly paranoid the idea is to have two cellphones, one for general, daily usage.
The second with only the necessary banking apps, and is used only for online banking, nothing else.
I'm planning to obtain a second device, and use that for general use, whilst the first device is used only for banking and nothing else.
The truly paranoid will most probably do regular factory resets on their device(s).