wizardbeard

… if they still rely on the decades old vbscript based licensing tool and have not migrated to other solutions such as the equivalent PowerShell tool which is itself around a decade old. Despite Microsoft’s previous warnings, and despite having to take manual effort to re-enable vbscript on modern Windows installs.

This would take multiple levels of mistake to effect anyone.

Important event for Enterprise sysadmins, but awfully clickbaity title.

One I encounter at work fairly frequently is “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good” and “If you don’t have time to do it twice, do it right the first time”.

The reality is that you need to develop a sense for when you’re just spinning your wheels trying to anticipate anything and everything possible, and pit that against the desire to just call something done because it looks like it works in a carefully controlled test situation and you want to move on.

Some things you’re only going to catch after letting your idea/plan/program come into contact with reality, but some things are also far better to plan for in advance.

So you just keep adjusting your “ceiling” and “floor” for how far you go when designing shit, and eventually you build a sense for it.

Do you really not understand that this is meant to be an easy tool to disable them, so that someone could do anything (or nothing) else to them safely?

Holy shit #5. “And now my love, it is time for you to don the coital basket”

I’m pretty sure there’s a specific Bomberman console release you can emulate with 8 players.

You could also emulate Smash Bros Ultimate, as it has 8 player support. Might be boring to just play a Switch game many people have though. Maybe look into mods for it?

And you can always use co-optimus to search for stuff. Just set At least 8 players, couch co-op in the filters: www.co-optimus.com/system/4/pc.html

It loses a lot more than just formatting. Formulas, any graphics, graphs/charts, it only saves the active sheet. And formatting can be super important with date values.

That seems like an awfully convenient way to smear the stop killing games movement.

Exchange Server is effectively dead mid October too. Technically they have Exchange Server SE as an option, but it’s clearly not how they want people using Exchange anymore. They don’t even want hybrid setups.

Which is extra annoying because if you have Azure AD (I guess it’s Entra ID now) syncing from an on prem AD forest, half of the mailbox management shit in Exchange Online just doesn’t work and forces you to make the changes on-prem anyway.

Yep, was literally made as a marketing stunt.

Windows Server is less of a general use server, and more of just a staging platform for Microsoft’s other specific server based software installs. And even a lot of those don’t co-mingle on the same server well.

Have fun with that then. Sorry about your balls.

If you’re competent and technologically saavy enough to use a Linux distro as your daily driver, you can learn to make Windows work for you too.

Waste of effort if you don’t need to interact with any Windows environments for school or work, but definitely possible.

For me? I’m happy to get paid to automate shit using PowerShell that should have been basic built in functionality from the start. PowerShell is just the most convenient scripting language due to being packed-in with most Windows installs, and tons of built in functionality for interfacing with other Microsoft products. So as long as Microsoft keeps sucking, I’ve got a comfy paycheck.

And if the year of the Linux desktop ever finally happens? I’m ready, I’ll be cheering, and I’ll be ready to get paid helping companies to make the switch.

I’m usually a Windows “shill” or at least a casual defender of it, as I work in a Windows environment and it’s not as bad as people pretend it is. No shade against Linux, I love it and Windows is bad. Just not like “I’d rather self-castrate” bad.

Anyway…

But for a home server? Either be super lazy and set up samba shares from your Windows desktop for the drives (avoid having a server at all) or bite the bullet and use Linux. You’ll get so much more out of a Linux server that it’s not even funny.