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by useerup 12y ago
On Windows there is the Group Policy. If your machine is domain joined, the group policy is controlled by the domain. A non-domain joined machine also has a policy, which can be edited using the "Local Group Policy Editor". The po
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by useerup 12y ago
I have a Dell M4600 running Windows 8.1 (started off with Windows 7). Suspend and resume has always worked. I never think about suspending - I just close the lid or hit the sleep button and throw it in the bag. When I get home I press it
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by useerup 12y ago
PowerShell is strongly typed, parameter parsing is done by the shell - not the command itself. Powershell wildcard ("glob") expansion is performed by the command. This alleviates the problems described in the article. cat *
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by useerup 12y ago
NT is a hybrid kernel for sure. In a monolithic kernel everything would be running in ring 0. NT is a hybrid kernel because some drivers run in ring 0, others (typically peripheral drivers) run outside ring 0. Some drivers (specifically
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by useerup 12y ago
Having used XAML recently for purposes not even related to WPF, I can definitively see what this might bring. XAML is at its core a format to describe an object graph declaratively. The objects can be any .NET object. The current XAML edito
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by useerup 12y ago
We don't like treaty-breakers. We don't like imperialistic ambitions. We don't like bullies that believe they have the right suppress weaker nations, simply because they are stronger. We don't like liars and deceivers. W
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by useerup 12y ago
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd460688(v=vs.110).a... Parallel LINQ is an extension to LINQ (Language Integrated Querying). The "parallel" hints that it is a way to process results in parallel
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by useerup 12y ago
No. That was/is just FSF FUD. You have always been able to build anything on top of it without concerns about patents from the implementation. This claim was so hilarious that it is incomprehensible that anyone ever believed it. You ha
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by useerup 12y ago
async/await is HUGE. It opens an almost frictionless asynchronous pathway from your code all the way down to asynchronous capabilities of the underlying platform. Which was always the problem with leveraging async/overlapped IO:
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by useerup 12y ago
Mono (the code) and .NET Core will merge (per Scott Hanselmann) Microsoft will (in partnership with Mono the project) ensure that .NET core and server stacks run on Linux and OS X. They've just demonstrated deploying an ASP.NET MVC5 ap
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by useerup 12y ago
> With overlapped IO the amount of buffer memory you need is more by a factor of a thousand because each idle socket still requires a buffer to be allocated to it. Use the select function then. Wait for completion of that instead. No
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by useerup 12y ago
Awesome! Thanks!
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by useerup 12y ago
Those are PowerShell cmdlets - and follow PowerShell verb-noun naming convention. There is a finite set of "approved" verbs (though you can use your own) representing the "actions" you can perform against a resource (t
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by useerup 12y ago
> There is no Windows equivalent to epoll/kqueue There is: Overlapped IO: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms68... > But if you bring this up to most Windows people they
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by useerup 12y ago
See also the Restart Manager ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa37... ) Restart Manager along with Windows Installer will manage stopping and restarting running applications/s
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by useerup 12y ago
Linux repositories conflates package management and (library/ABI) dependency management. Windows already has locally deployed assemblies and central side-by-side (SxS) assemblies that can accommodate multiple versions of the same assem
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by useerup 12y ago
Windows 10 command prompt will indeed let you resize the window. It will even re-flow the text already written , i.e. a long string written that flowed across several lines will also flow back into one line, once the window gets wide enoug
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by useerup 12y ago
Indeed: http://www.techrepublic.com/article/command-prompt-improveme...