That's right, Yahoo shareholders, this is where your money is going.
At least I won't have to look at those horrible pictures of crying, naked children running down Vietnamese streets anymore.
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And meanwhile, the OS has Long File Path support, but File Explorer does not !
It's dismal winapi that doesn't support long paths. File exploder (and everything else) is based on winapi.
Luckily there's the subst command, great for accessing long-pathed files that somehow come to be as well as making crudely-named and undeletable files on cow-orkers desktops.
They locked up the thug
And the price of street drugs
Increased by a penny on the dollar.
The taxpayer did pay
To put him away
Their wallet 76 large per year smaller
The other drug sites
Took quite a fright
Upping their security
The drug war raged on
And on and on and on
In perpetuity
I suspect CEOs who put all their eggs in one basket will probably take the company down with them.
"Since you took over as CEO this company has lost 87% of its value, the DOJ has brought no less than thirty six charges against us, employee suicide rates have gone up by 862% and there has been a mob of over 1700 people outside our headquarters that have been protesting against you specifically for over three months! You're fired! Take your $207 million in severance and get out!"
You would also need to make sure that the management server had no dependencies on other systems...
The dependencies for the management server could easily be brought up in the necessary order by using another management server. I swear, I have to think of everything.
The convoluted jenga stack that passes for 'modern' servers, not so much.
A lunatic sketch-lord I used to work for had two server racks. One day the server at the very bottom of one of the racks failed. There were three 4u servers on top of the failed server, a bunch of UPSes on top of that and some networking hardware on top of those. Did I mention that none of this stuff was actually attached to the rack? It was all just a big pile of schlarf.
Due to the rats nest of cabling in the back it would have been impossible to lower the pile down while removing the bottom server. I disconnected the bottom server and, bit-by-bit, pulled it out whilst shoving random office shit in place of where it had been.
Once the server was fixed I just tossed it on top of the whole horror show and reconnected it. Over time the foundation of office shit progressively and non uniformly compressed causing the pile to skew noticeably.
Ah memories.
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An academic study last month found 90 percent of users will ignore security warnings if they are slightly distracted, meaning developers should throw messages only when their application has the user's undivided attention.
A pneumatic piston with a boot attached to the end, mounted to the underside of the user's desk might solve this problem. Simply fire it at the user's groin prior to displaying security warnings.
This is pretty cool stuff. Not only do I look forward to access to space becoming significantly cheaper, but reusing components will bring design and manufacturing defects to light that would not have been noticed otherwise.
Kudos SpaceX, you're a shimmering light in the black, dismal swamp that is modern civilization.
I had good luck with WSUS offline the first time I used it, but not last time. WSUS offline requires a CAB file that it downloads from Microsoft and each version of said file that I was able to get my hands on at the time was corrupt. I found a form on which people were talking about the issue and one of the posters had managed to get a functional copy of the CAB file by...downloading it 30 times. It seems that almost all, but not quite all, of MS's mirrors have a corrupt version of the file.
I find it really hard to escape the conclusion that MS is actively sabotaging Windows 7 update. If I ever get WSUS offline to run successfully again I'll definitely be saving its install directory (and backing it up).
wget
is broken and should DIE, dev tells Microsoft
When I have the time I keep them on the phone for as long as possible, my current record is 45 minutes...
My best is 3 hours. I had them trying to troubleshoot my non-existent fax machine, my then non-existent smart phone and my email client. They really wanted those financial details. I finally used an internet fax service to send them a Chase bank statement I found on Google images, pixilated to the point where it was barely not legible, followed by thirty pages of black.
When the guy on the line was livid when he figured out what was going on. I never get calls anymore. :(
I got a fax on my dorm phone in uni at 7am every Saturday for several weeks. I eventually hooked up a fax modem and received some very confidential legal documents. I faxed them back, telling them that they had the wrong number but if they wished to continue to send me confidential information that I could leave the fax modem running.
I never heard back.
The problem with the popup window is that users have to click on such windows _all_ _the_ _time_ and that the message is completely non-specific. A message such as:
"This software wishes to:
- install itself for all users to use
- add itself as a service
- hook into explorer.exe
- hook into winlogin
- perform low-level disk modifications
Do you wish to continue?"
Would help immensely. Of course this would require some sort of capabilities-based privilege elevation and associated API.