Needing a bit of a rant, thanks Microsoft!
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@scottalanmiller said:
My Windows 10 experience is that the Start Button and the Task Manager routinely do not work. I'm currently power cycling easily six to ten times a day because the Task Manager loses the ability to get control of the desktop and cannot show itself in order to kill things.
The degree to which Windows 10 lags behind late 1990s Linux desktops in stability is crazy. I've yet to have a Linux desktop lose control so dramatically that you can't get to a command line and kill the process causing the issue. In Windows 10, I expect in several times a day!
My Win 10 experience has been pretty good up until this morning. I had remoted in and was using my Win 10 box from home last night around 10pm without any issues. I came in this morning and every app I had left open was angry (XenCenter, Adobe Reader [a one page PDF], MS SQL Management Studio, and Chrome), and Windows was complaining about being out of memory (I thought that's what the pagefile was for?).
It wasn't happy until a reboot. It kept insisting on closing Windows Explorer to free up memory. Was very interesting.
We'll see if it happens again. In the moment, I didn't think to check Task Manager to see how much memory it reported was being used, and by what. Next time I'll do that...if it'll let me. The machine in question is a new Dell OptiPlex 3020 with 8 GB RAM.
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And there is little to no chance that I'm not related to the Miller for which your county seat is named, there
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@scottalanmiller said:
And there is little to no chance that I'm not related to the Miller for which your county seat is named, there
I always joke that I can't marry someone from the area because we were guaranteed to be related
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@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
And there is little to no chance that I'm not related to the Miller for which your county seat is named, there
I always joke that I can't marry someone from the area because we were guaranteed to be related
My family is famously the most inbred in America. There is even a hospital in Bucks County dedicated to researching the DNA damage from it. It's very sad.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
And there is little to no chance that I'm not related to the Miller for which your county seat is named, there
I always joke that I can't marry someone from the area because we were guaranteed to be related
My family is famously the most inbred in America. There is even a hospital in Bucks County dedicated to researching the DNA damage from it. It's very sad.
There are just so many things I could input here. I will do my best to resist. But I make no promises...
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@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
Ever visit Amish Country? We have more IT people around than you'd think, but the market is still tiny.
Which of the Amish Counties are you in? I'm a Bucks County descendant myself.
My buddy from college was from Bucks county. He was from Doylestown but he lives in Yardley now.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@travisdh1 said:
Ever visit Amish Country? We have more IT people around than you'd think, but the market is still tiny.
Which of the Amish Counties are you in? I'm a Bucks County descendant myself.
My buddy from college was from Bucks county. He was from Doylestown but he lives in Yardley now.
Almost certain we are related. I'm basically related to the whole county.
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And Windows 10 has died, Task Manager can't do anything.
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What are you doing to that machine to make it crash all the time?
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@Minion-Queen said:
What are you doing to that machine to make it crash all the time?
If it's me, firing up any Adobe application brings it to it's knees. Try to do something else to, pfft, forgetaboutit.
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@Minion-Queen said:
What are you doing to that machine to make it crash all the time?
It couldn't be the terabytes of games he has been downloading for the last week and a half?
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Trying to play games on it. Which obviously pushes it more than normal things do. But nothing, absolutely nothing, should be able to override the task manager. It's a flaw in the graphical handling system of Windows 10 that the Task Manager can't get control of the system.
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I haven't had trouble using mine...
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@johnhooks said:
My buddy from college was from Bucks county. He was from Doylestown but he lives in Yardley now.
Small world. I live in Yardley.
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@BRRABill said:
@johnhooks said:
My buddy from college was from Bucks county. He was from Doylestown but he lives in Yardley now.
Small world. I live in Yardley.
He owns Vault Brewing Company.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Almost certain we are related. I'm basically related to the whole county.
Well, I was born in Bucks County (Lower Bucks Hospital), but grew up in Trenton.
So maybe we aren't related.
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@johnhooks said:
He owns Vault Brewing Company.
GET OUT OF TOWN! Are you serious?
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@johnhooks said:
My buddy from college was from Bucks county. He was from Doylestown but he lives in Yardley now.
I'm forever talking about the wrong Doylestown as we've got one in Wayne County as well
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@BRRABill said:
@johnhooks said:
He owns Vault Brewing Company.
GET OUT OF TOWN! Are you serious?
That was a good GET OUT OF TOWN! BTW.
Love that place.
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@BRRABill said:
@johnhooks said:
He owns Vault Brewing Company.
GET OUT OF TOWN! Are you serious?
Ha ya, we were roommates all through college.
