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Marc Clifton wrote: I wonder if I'll ever see baadf00d....
How much time ya got?
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While I was in the Air Force, one of our mission mainframes crashdumps all started with
0XDEAD
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I do the UI's for our products, including the graphics. My graphic tool of choice has been Paint.NET[^] for a long time. Given that acuity in my left eye is poor and my right eye is a prosthetic, I've got the Windows mouse pointer size turned up fairly high. Using paint.net, I would lose the cross-hair cursor against the white background. I'd then have to move the mouse so that I could find the cursor against the gray area outside the image being edited, c-a-r-e-f-u-l-l-y move it back into the image, and get back to work.
The following change in paint.net 5.0.10 almost makes me cry:
- Fixed: All mouse cursors will now honor the Windows setting for adjusting the mouse pointer size
Such a small change for such a big improvement in the experience of using a favorite app.
You bet your ass I sent them a thank-you feedback message.
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Get out of here" says the bartender. "We don't serve your type."
I never even took off my coat.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx
And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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*cough* Arial *cough*
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Comic Sans ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've worked on code bases where I was tempted to change my coding font to Chiller[^]
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I've been tempted by Crazy Killer[^]
At that size, natch.C# private int Double(int value)
{
return value * value;
}
I hope this works ...
[edit]No, it didn't - I didn't think it would work without the font installed. [/edit]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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If you're part of that world.
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Yeah, I know. Arial is merely Helvetica with the serial numbers filed off.
I work in the commercial ink-jet printing business. You wouldn't believe how much crap we deal with because of fonts, data formats, printer language, and rendering issues.
Software Zen: delete this;
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That's a rather bold statement.
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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If I italic you once, I've italicized you a dozen time... we're a professional joint heah... No Comic Sans!
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Were they part of the script?
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Arial walked in and a fight broke out.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Arial goes to a bar, orders three thingamabobs and a dinglehopper.
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i know that bartender . i always make a - for the door . she's a pain in the * .
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I've been playing around with Ansible, Terraform, etc to provision VMs, I was wondering what do you guys use to automatically configure brand new PCs to your liking?
Do you write powershell scripts or similar to install all the software and configure, shortcuts, environment variables, etc?
Is there a tool like ansible to locally configure a system based on a configuration file?
Also, out of curiosity, how long have been without formating a Windows computer? My current record seems to be around 3 years.
Note: I'm only refering to literal personal computers. Not the ones provided by your employer, VM in clouds, etc
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I have loooooonnng done no format.
When I get a new pc / laptop, I install windows offline. Do an image #1.
I install my MUST software. Do an image #2.
I install all needed updates, windows included. Do an image #3
I install all my NICE software. Do an image #4
I install all the fast paced software (browsers, antivirus...). Do an image #5
Start using the computer.
Every time I feel like a good moment, I restore from image #5. Update what I have to update. Do an image overwriting #5
If I change some consumable hardware (i.e. printer). I restore from #4, do all updates, overwrite image #4. Install fast paced software. Overwrite image #5
Continue using the computer.
The only time I start over again is when something really serious happens or when I change the windows version. I do not like the version update, I prefer a "clean" install
with the VMs is something similar. I prefer to have minimalistic dedicated VMs for special software. So I have a VM like #1, #2, #3. Then a couple of VMs of #4 and several of #5
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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modified 11-Oct-23 16:32pm.
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For some reason, imaging my system didn't even cross my mind. I'll have to give that a try!
How to you make image 5? Do you format your pc, restore the image, update and create a new image? Or do you do it using a VM/second PC/other?
Also any software suggestions for creating the images?
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restoring image alrady overwrites the system partition. Format no needed
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Quote: How to you make image 5?Do you format your pc, restore the image, update and create a new image? The first ime comes after all others from clean install. Then after some months of usage, I restore from old #5, update all what I want to update, make the changes I want to make and do an image overwriting #5. You can do a #6 first and if the process is OK, then delete #5 and rename #6 to #5
Quote: Also any software suggestions for creating the images? I have used Norton Ghost from the beginning until Windows 10. I now use Macrium Reflect.
Installed it and created a bootable CD with it. I always do images and restoration booting from other device, so I can overwrite the whole System Partition
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I don't think I've ever considered automating setup of a personal PC, or even my development machine at work. Neither case happens often enough to spend the time automating the process, especially considering most of the application installs aren't amenable to automation.
At the other end of the spectrum, at work I create the system images for our products, industrial PC's that control our commercial ink-jet printing systems. You start with a bootable USB Flash drive and a PC, and end with a Windows 10 or 11 system with appropriate device drivers installed and ready for the product application. This is fully automated since it's used most often by our service folks out in the field.
Creating the Windows 10 images took over a month given the relatively poor guidance from Microsoft for the process and the fact that I had four different models of hardware to handle. Windows 11 only took a week thanks to greatly improved Microsoft documentation and only two sets of hardware.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Quote: I don't think I've ever considered automating setup of a personal PC, or even my development machine at work. Neither case happens often enough to spend the time automating the process,
Me too, but something I didn't mention in my original post is that I have a website running on a Raspberry Pi (like a mini computer) and the install gets borked very often, either due to updates, the power going down and corrupts the file system, etc and creating images is a pain because I have to remove the SD Card, make a copy on my desktop and then put the SD card back. That was my main motivation for this post, to see if someone had comeup with a tool of sorts that I could point to a system (local or not) and it would just configure everything.
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especially considering most of the application installs aren't amenable to automation.
This is my biggest gripe.. Especially with "consumer" apps like Photoshop and the like.
Quote: Creating the Windows 10 images took over a month given the relatively poor guidance from Microsoft for the process and the fact that I had four different models of hardware to handle. Windows 11 only took a week thanks to greatly improved Microsoft documentation and only two sets of hardware.
Ouch! That's a lot of work for something that should be "simple" but yeah I agree, Microsofts documentation is a bit it or miss to put it mildly. Azure is great but older stuff...
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DeltaOrionis wrote: Ouch! That's a lot of work for something that should be "simple" Microsoft's problem is that over time they've developed several systems to let IT manage their PC farm, and the number of tools for constructing system images have grown along with that. As a result for a given goal ("set the default wallpaper" for example) there are multiple ways to reach the goal depending upon the tools you are using and where in the image construction process you're using the tool. Some combinations of goal and tool simply don't work together, and those aren't documented. Also, updating images for minor tweaks is tedious and time-consuming. We have several configuration tasks that should be part of the image that we do in post-install script just because it's such a PITA.
Software Zen: delete this;
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