I remember before scrambling they just put blocks that prevented you from going to certain channels. I somehow figured out if you ran the cable box through the VCR first and put it on channel 2 while the TV was still on 3, it would shift all the channels down one. Cinemax was channel 14, which our box just would not go to. But it would go to 13, so doing my little trick teenage me got to watch a lot of skinamax.

For some reason their API would not return anything for assembly. I was curious to see where it would rank too,

Apparently it due to an issue with Kotlin - https://github.com/code-golf/code-golf/issues/151#issuecomment-1126266250

Biggest things I’m seeing is CVE-2023-21709 for Exchange requires a PowerShell script to be run after patching. Also, CVE-2023-29328/29330 for Teams affect all devices (Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android).

The book I wrote. When I first talked with the publisher he asked, “what skills would you look for in someone who wants to do your job?” And that’s the premise I stuck with writing it.

Very close to VB. Glad I noticed it didn’t have End If and End Function before I guessed.

I feel down a rabbit hole, a few years ago wonder the same thing about C#. Here is what I found.

• C# was developed in 2000 as a successor to C++. Doubling the ++ to a #.
• C++ was developed in the early 80s as a successor to C. Adding plus (+) to a name was a common way of indicating it was an enhancement. Also ++ is the incrementing operator for C.
• C was developed in the early 70s as a successor to the B programming language. C comes after B.
• B was developed in 1969 and was derived from the BCPL language. Basically, B was a stripped down version of BCPL.
• BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) was developed in 1967 and was a designed as an simpler version of CPL.
• CPL (Combined Programming Language) was developed in the early 60s at Cambridge. The original name was “Cambridge Programming Language” but was changed to Combined when it was published jointly with the University of London.

Interesting. As someone who mainly deals in PowerShell, this is very similar to the Where-Object clause and could save me some headaches when I need to work in Python.

From personal experience, it seems like things outside of your normal listening don’t affect too much. At least in my case, my daughter making me play the Encanto soundtrack 250,000 times hasn’t affected my weekly or daily playlists.

That’s pretty similar with what happened with me and the train. Kept getting random drops from a plant. I went out to investigate and everything tested perfect and the network was staying up. That was until a freight train rolled by. Turns out AT&T had run the line by shoving a piece of PVC through the gravel between two cross-ties, then running the cable through it.

I’ve actually had an excavator take out my network. I’ve also had networks taken out by forklift, train, and a semi-truck towing three other semi-trucks.

Basically every Windows sysadmin is indebted to Mark Russinovich and SysInternals. Fortunetly, PowerToys has come a long way because I’m pretty sure sysinternals haven’t been updated since Windows XP.

I kind of do both. I have a powerful desktop with 4 monitors. I can’t stand working on a single laptop screen unless I’m traveling. And I also want to keep work separate. So, I have my laptop sitting next to my PC and I just RDP into it. This way all 4 screens are work only stuff when I’m working. Then at the end of the day I can just disconnect the session and have my personal stuff. I also have ADHD, so I try not never leave the work session during work times. I’ve been working from exclusively for about 6 years now and it has been the best system I’ve tried.