Eldest son has just watched Wrath of Khan for the first time after working through series 1 & 2. He’s bereft.
Chris Wood
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No #tweetbot for me this morning. If it’s permanent, it’s bye-bye Twitter time.
@boiglenoight bet you’d have jumped a mile if “John” had asked “European or African”?
@shanselman guessing a good old URL rewrite would also do the job too and keep things up-to-date? Probably a proxying one rather than a redirect.
My only hesitation is that somebody somewhere will use it to get spammy or abusive with me once the dickheads start to migrate from the bird site too. Kept my profile private over there because I was fed up of the mob!
I even got to activate Windows by telephone for the first time today! Wouldn’t have even gone there in 2008!
Two things I discovered today:
1) a fresh install of Windows Server 2008 R2 can’t activate or even download Windows Updates anymore because of root certificates and TLS issues.
2) once you persuade it to do both, 14 years of Windows Updates take over 12 hours to install.
Unfortunately, and unbelievably in 2022, the above work was actually genuinely necessary! (And kinda fun, if I’m honest.)
Time to de-lurk and make an #introduction ! 👋
I’m a developer / founder based in the north of England (Wigan). 🇬🇧
I spend about 60% of my waking hours tinkering in C# and playing with #azure technologies, acting as a babelfish between techies and non-techies, coaching on energy supplier industry-operational processes and running a brilliant team at redbear.co.uk of whom I’m immensely proud.
For the 40%, I’m a dad of two young sons, dad-taxi driver, #rugbyleague 🏉 fan and #cricket 🏏 fan.
I’m a developer / founder based in the north of England (Wigan). 🇬🇧
I spend about 60% of my waking hours tinkering in C# and playing with #azure technologies, acting as a babelfish between techies and non-techies, coaching on energy supplier industry-operational processes and running a brilliant team at redbear.co.uk of whom I’m immensely proud.
For the 40%, I’m a dad of two young sons, dad-taxi driver, #rugbyleague 🏉 fan and #cricket 🏏 fan.
@vickyharp second biggest annoyance is probably not technically a Windows thing so potentially taking things off-topic, but the constant rewriting of startup and auth code between each major version of .NET really brasses me off.
@vickyharp not one that’s probably solvable, but the “works / doesn’t work on my computer” aspect of it. Every individual machine brings its own unpredictable quirks that bite you in unexpected ways. And when you’re supporting a Windows product, a lot of the time you’re supporting Windows itself as well as your product.