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It's not a site vulnerability. It's an IT inability. Besides that, this was already in the news - the USAF has to replace over 11,000 computers for this "upgrade", and they are also constrained by the 31 March deadline.
They had until 2020 before Windows 7 was EOL'd, but no - somebody somewhere decided that a knee-jerk reaction was better than a planned upgrade schedule over the course of three years.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Considering the Windows driver model hasn't changed significantly since Vista, someone must really have gone out of their way to use some poorly documented "feature" that's now broken on 10.
(I have successfully installed drivers on Win10 that were made, specifically, for Vista).
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 Win10 has some issues but is more usuable than 8, however the changes that have been made to the Hardware Abstration Layer (HAL) mean it impossible to run some legacy software and hardware on Win 10.
I had to wait years for the HAL to become stable enough to run bits of hardware/software on. One thing is 10 based on a type of Linux as I have come across have had bash but not the MinGW compiler. Mind you these were using some very odd configs so it might have been 10 VM...
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glennPattonWork wrote: 10 based on a type of Linux
Not quite. It's still the same Windows, but it now has a Linux subsystem[^], which allows you to run a bash shell[^] (assuming you've installed it).
It's "based on Linux" in the same way that Wine is "based on Windows". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Richard Deeming wrote: Wine is "based on Windows"
Judging from the overall experience with Windows I'd dare to say that it's Windows that is based on wine... cheap wine and in quantity.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Now that is making me grateful that I am not in control of our upgrade, from Windows XP to Windows 10.
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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That'd be an outright replacement (repave/reinstall), as there's no upgrade path going from XP to 10. Or Vista to 10, for that matter.
Besides, those machines running XP must be so old, they're probably not worth trying to run Windows 10 on them.
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Yes we are replacing the machines outright BUT, the software on the other hand is also older than XP
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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so updating a working machine to something that doesn't is an upgrade?
but OTOH updating a government department to one that can't get any work done matters why?
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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For all the new neat features of the site. I actually find it way more usable, intuitive and involving. The "Questions" block in the home page right after the latest posts is useful - I answered a question today after years I did not since QA section is the subtitle of Doom II and I avoid it like STDs;
The "Follow" button is so indispensable that it's hard to think CP without it - in fact I lost the last Maunder's interview on code parallelization and only saw it yesterday!
Overall the site is better than it used to be, so thanks @chris-maunder!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Why I can't understand is why the basic forum format/layout on CP - which I like in compact/normal mode - is not the norm for forums everywhere. It is so much easier and nicer to use and follow threads on than any other, yet CP is the only place that uses it, AFAIK.
Having said that... I've suggested this layout to a couple of clients, and they seem to prefer the usual flat format you see everywhere. Ugh. People are weird.
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Once upon a time I too used CP in the flat format. When I tinkered and discovered Compact/Normal I never looked back.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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We use it internally - it was not a simple thing to implement and ours is nowhere near as functional as CMs. The users love it naturally.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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den2k88 wrote: Overall the site is better than it used to be
And even then it was better than just about every other site around ...
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That is for the community!
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: The "Follow" button is so indispensable that it's hard to think CP without it
Why? Personally, I see no need for it so I am curious why you find it so useful.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I have been using it for a while to keep up with articles from certain authors. We have some really talented and prolific authors and the follow system lets me track whenever they release new articles.
This space for rent
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That makes sense. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I used to be flooded by completely uninteresting (for me) articles so much that it was months since the last time I looked in the "Articles" division of the home page. The filters resetted randomly, most of them are too coarse, and when filtering QA the filter would stay in memory and apply to the articles.
Other than that there are authors - some authors regularly publish about things I'm interested to: internals, assembler, math, algorithms. Having them mixed together with all the bloat of TheNewFramework(tm) meant that I almost always lost their new content. Now CP home page is actually meaningful to me, a real center of navigation for the whole site.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Thanks for the feedback. @matthew-dennis did most of the heavy lifting on this one. We should write up the system one of these days. Maybe when it's finished 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Thanks for the feedback. @matthew-dennis did most of the heavy lifting on this one. We should write up the system one of these days. Maybe when it's finished
So if I invite Matthew out for a beer instead of you, will he turn up? Last past your schmiddy of shandy limit and maybe make it into double figures with me?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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He plays darts and curls. He may actually be able to give you a run for your money when it comes to the shandies.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Went and clicked on today's Google logo animation[^]. What's been done for Bob?
No wonder he's just standing there.
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Bob is continually moving.
Just so fast that he appears stationary to the untrained eye.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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