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Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat
sniping a fun page number :toot:

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Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

Explorer Has a New "Home" With Your Most-Used Folder Locations



it creates shortcuts to your most-used folders and displays information about the .lnk file instead of about the actual folder


and also i'm the porn in the Movies F folder

brap
Aug 23, 2004

Grimey Drawer
it's important to me to know the size in bytes of my shortcut files.

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice
wtf is in a .lnk that makes it a kilobyte and a half goddamn

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

Pinterest Mom posted:

it creates shortcuts to your most-used folders and displays information about the .lnk file instead of about the actual folder

Windows 10, still using link file hack when real symbolic links have been in NTFS for the last four versions of Windows.

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

fleshweasel posted:

it's important to me to know the size in bytes of my shortcut files.

be glad it doesn't round to 4K motherfucker

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

MrMoo posted:

Windows 10, still using link file hack when real symbolic links have been in NTFS for the last four versions of Windows.

real symbolic links don't follow the file anywhere it goes in the entire corporate network

or have custom icons, command line arguments/working directory, Windows Installer bullshit and all the other crap shortcuts deal with

Luigi Thirty
Apr 30, 2006

Emergency confection port.

lol if you don't use PIF editor. just lol.

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Pinterest Mom posted:

it creates shortcuts to your most-used folders and displays information about the .lnk file instead of about the actual folder
i have to give them credit for brand integrity because that is the most windows approach imaginable

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

pseudorandom name posted:

real symbolic links don't follow the file anywhere it goes in the entire corporate network

or have custom icons, command line arguments/working directory, Windows Installer bullshit and all the other crap shortcuts deal with

All non-problems for normal people? NTFS links do actually support UNC paths:

http://superuser.com/questions/297716/windows-7-ntfs-symbolic-link-network-share-availability-timeout

Shaggar
Apr 26, 2006

eschaton posted:

yeah, how dare cjs want to script and automate their work instead if RDing into each Windows "server" and click around the UI to get anything done

actually, I think I actually agree with Shaggar: they shouldn't have done powershell

they should've left servers to the grownup operating systems
the correct way to do things is specify the state you want and let the system do the work.

cjs are too stupid to properly write automation and scripting languages are too poor to provide the tools to do it properly.

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

move the file from \\remote-server\share\Important.docx to \\different-remote-server\share\Important (Last Year).docx and compare what happens with a shortcut versus a symlink

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
lol if you move any of your files around ever

MrMoo
Sep 14, 2000

not using a DMS :lol: Microsoft even makes one.

Joe 30330
Dec 20, 2007

"We have this notion that if you're poor, you cannot do it. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids."

As the audience reluctantly began to applaud during the silence, Biden tried to fix his remarks.

"Wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids -- no, I really mean it." Biden said.

Phoenixan posted:

*grabs people*

*drags them into the recycle bin*

Wait no

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

Shaggar posted:

the correct way to do things is specify the state you want and let the system do the work.

cjs are too stupid to properly write automation and scripting languages are too poor to provide the tools to do it properly.

wish i could specify the state of your posting as null

FamDav
Mar 29, 2008

Shaggar posted:

the correct way to do things is specify the state you want and let the system do the work.

cjs are too stupid to properly write automation and scripting languages are too poor to provide the tools to do it properly.

shaggar is right but still wrong

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

FamDav posted:

shaggar is right but still wrong

pram
Jun 10, 2001

Shaggar posted:

the correct way to do things is specify the state you want and let the system do the work.

cjs are too stupid to properly write automation and scripting languages are too poor to provide the tools to do it properly.

declarative shitposting

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Shaggar posted:

the correct way to do things is specify the state you want and let the system do the work.

cjs are too stupid to properly write automation and scripting languages are too poor to provide the tools to do it properly.

I had a serial cj today tell us we couldn't automatically upload an ipa because she'd done automation in the past and had gone wrong

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

ahmeni posted:

I had a serial cj today tell us we couldn't automatically upload an ipa because she'd done automation in the past and had gone wrong

you're supposed to drink the ipa

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

Captain Foo posted:

you're supposed to drink the ipa

no dont!!!

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

disclaimer: drinking an ipa right now

A Pinball Wizard
Mar 23, 2005

I know every trick, no freak's gonna beat my hands

College Slice

Miley Virus posted:

disclaimer: drinking an ipa right now

its 7am

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010


it's 5pm somewhere


(it's 11pm :twisted:)

ClassActionFursuit
Mar 15, 2006

as someone who works overnight let me tell you that you get over the stigma of drinking at 0700 faster than you might imagine

Miley Virus
Apr 9, 2010

LastInLine posted:

as someone who works overnight let me tell you that you get over the stigma of drinking at 0700 faster than you might imagine

or if you just never stop drinking and end up passing out at about 10am

that's a fun time

ass cobra
May 28, 2004

by Azathoth
to be young and drunk at 9 am again

now i would probably bedead

PokeJoe
Aug 24, 2004

hail cgatan


beer before coffee, never been sicker

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

!

"Not the least of the board’s problems in finding a new C.E.O. was that there weren’t a lot of outsiders who wanted the job. Gates and Ballmer are both aggressive personalities. They stopped speaking to each other as a result of the bad blood surrounding Ballmer’s resignation. But both were then still sitting on the board, ready to second-guess each other and, perhaps, the new C.E.O.’s decisions."

lol gates forced ballmer out

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

oh i guess ballmer is just airing out all the dirty laundry k good

Ballmer likes to note that the lines of authority were not clear, which is part of what makes thinking about his tenure complicated: “Before I became C.E.O., I felt pretty completely responsible for the company,” Ballmer says. “And I didn’t feel completely in charge until Bill left [entirely in 2008].” It is a well-known part of Microsoft history that Ballmer and Gates fought bitterly during the first year of transition. Among other things, when an engineer was displeased with Ballmer, he’d go to Gates. Some Microsoft employees from that era refer to Ballmer and Gates as “Mom and Dad,” and recall that no one knew which parent was in charge.

“He didn’t know how to let me be C.E.O., and I didn’t know how to do it,” says Ballmer. At the urging of both their wives and Microsoft’s board of directors, the two men patched things up at what Ballmer calls a “really awkward, terrible dinner” at the Bellevue Club in early 2001. It was like My Dinner with Andre, Ballmer says, referring to the 1981 film in which two old friends slowly realize they have radically different worldviews. They officially made up, and Gates turned the company over to Ballmer. “I’m not going to need him for anything,” Ballmer told The Wall Street Journal when Gates finally left completely. “Use him, yes, need him, no.”

Pinterest Mom
Jun 9, 2009

At the Microsoft board meeting in late June 2013, Ballmer announced he had a handshake deal with Nokia’s management to buy the company, pending the Microsoft board’s approval, according to a source close to the events. Ballmer thought he had it and left before the post-board-meeting dinner to attend his son’s middle-school graduation. When he came back the next day, he found that the board had pulled a coup: they informed him they weren’t doing the deal, and it wasn’t up for discussion. For Ballmer, it seems, the unforgivable thing was that Gates had been part of the coup, which Ballmer saw as the ultimate betrayal.

Ballmer erupted in a fit of rage. He told the board in no uncertain terms that if they didn’t approve the Nokia deal he was out. “That was my best idea,” he says today. “If we’re not going to do it, then you need to get someone else who will have the next big idea.”

The board told Ballmer they wanted him to stay, he says, and they did eventually agree to a slightly different version of the deal.

Cold on a Cob
Feb 6, 2006

i've seen so much, i'm going blind
and i'm brain dead virtually

College Slice
wow

Sham bam bamina!
Nov 6, 2012

ƨtupid cat

Pinterest Mom posted:

Ballmer erupted in a fit of rage. He told the board in no uncertain terms that if they didn’t approve the Nokia deal he was out. “That was my best idea,” he says today. “If we’re not going to do it, then you need to get someone else who will have the next big idea.”
oh my god

pagancow
Jan 15, 2001

Video Stymie

Pinterest Mom posted:

Ballmer erupted in a fit of rage. He told the board in no uncertain terms that if they didn’t approve the Nokia deal he was out. “That was my best idea,” he says today. “If we’re not going to do it, then you need to get someone else who will have the next big idea.”

The board told Ballmer they wanted him to stay, he says, and they did eventually agree to a slightly different version of the deal.

!!!

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
jesus that's just sad

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

hahaha msft is hosed up

AtomD
May 3, 2009

Fun Shoe
"im going to eat a turd"
"no man that's gross"
"WHAT? EATING A TURD WILL BE AMAZING!!! IF YOU WON"T LET ME EAT A TURD THEN YOU FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING"

flakeloaf
Feb 26, 2003

Still better than android clock

AtomD posted:

"im going to eat a turd"
"no man that's gross"
"WHAT? EATING A TURD WILL BE AMAZING!!! IF YOU WON"T LET ME EAT A TURD THEN YOU FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING"

laughing on line at this

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Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

i didnt see a link to the article youre reading on this page so

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2014/11/satya-nadella-bill-gates-steve-ballmer-microsoft

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