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ToFab123··on Ask HN: How do I get my PM to stop using Excel to track bugs?
Yes, this solution make sense. Find a way for them to get the issues into Excel.
ToFab123··on What’s ugliest about M1 Macs and needs improvement
Yesterday, I gifted a friend a Logitech Mx Master 3 Bluetooth mouse to use with his new iMac M1. To our surprise it did not connect and was unable to until we plugged in the USB dongle that comes with the mouse. The dongle is not needed on Windows or Intel based Macs. Something is rotten with Bluetooth on the M1
ToFab123··on How do I set up IIS to debug classic ASP?
Have you enabled ASP?

Server manager > Roles and Features > IIS > Application Development > ASP

or if you a on Windows 10 > Control panel > Programs and features > Turn Windows Feature on or off

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/application-frameworks/...

As for debugging, set a breakpoint in visual studio and attach to W3WP process, reload page

This question is better asked at https://serverfault.com/

ToFab123··on Lab-made dairy products are now a reality
"now this" is a good thing that is happening. The dairy industry (mega farms) pollute like few others and with the way they treat animals it is good if that entire industry can be replaced by something else. The farming industry also receives billion upon billions in farm subsidies (at least in the EU). Money that can be saved when the farms has gone out of business.
ToFab123··on Ask HN: Did you take the vaccine? Why or why not?
I am living in Thailand and it is first now the vaccines is starting to become available. I have registered with the department of health but has not yet received a date for the appointment or a time frame. We first had to wait for all the rich countries up north to stop buying up all the doses before it became available to us (That claim is how it look like from my perspective). This is first happening around now or the past few months.
ToFab123··on The first two hours of MTV (1981) [video]
From a time where music television actually played music
ToFab123··on Microsoft Edge Experimenting with a Super Duper Secure Mode
I have enabled this setting yesterday and I am unable to tell any difference when browsing my normal websites.

I wonder why JIT was put on in the first place. I mean if it has little to none end-user impact when removing it. JIT sounds like a great deal of doing nothing except for creating 50% of all bugs.

It this a case of JIT was meaningful when first introduced but overtime advances in other area has made this obsolete/redundant?

ToFab123··on Clubhouse opens its doors to everyone, is anyone rushing to get in?
Cat videos and food pictures in VR?
ToFab123··on I Hacked My Standing Desk with a Raspberry Pi
This reminds me of many years ago when the entire office got motorized sit-stand desks. We had frequent competitions ..3.2.1.<Who can raise their desk quickest>. Utterly pointless as all tables raised with the exact same speed* but very funny. One day the repair guy came to the office and I explained the situation to him and he somehow managed to tune the electric motor in my desk, so it would raise my desk a lot quicker than the others. The look on the others face when I unleased my new super power. priceless :)

I wonder if the pi would have beaten me?

*Desks with the same number of monitors (weight) would raise with the same speed.

ToFab123··on Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?
I looked into it and it is because I have a folder in "my documents" that is named "powershell". If I rename that folder typing "powershell" opens a new powershell prompt.
ToFab123··on Starlink review, four months in
How long is that ago?
ToFab123··on Why does the New menu even exist for creating new empty files?
On win 11 typing cmd open a command prompt. Typing powersshell makes explorer navigate to "documents\powersshell".

Edit: typing powershell.exe does the trick

ToFab123··on Disable Windows print spooler or you could be hacked, says Microsoft
No, Windows 10 is not a domain controller and it cannot be. A Windows Server can be configured as a domain controller. Windows 10 cannot.
ToFab123··on Windows 365 Cloud PC
I don't recall every to see a post on HN that Microsoft has terminated access to some ones MS (Business) Account. I am sure someone has got their account terminated I just don't recall ever seeing a post about here.
ToFab123··on Ask HN: Best remote desktop software for Mac OS X
https://9to5mac.com/2021/02/02/m1-mac-mini-in-the-cloud/
ToFab123··on Ask HN: I built a site to hire engineers x10 faster. Why is noone interested?
The site is invitation only, so I can't actually use the site for anything and there is no info on how to get invited.

All links that says "See the CVs" takes me to a "create a job" page and not to the CV.

check spelling: styartups

Good luck!

ToFab123··on Do nothing (2020)
The military has a writing style to combat this issue.

BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for "bottom line up front"—that’s designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.

It has previously been discussed here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20964907

ToFab123··on Virgin Galactic Unity 22 Spaceflight Livestream [video]
Are they actually going into space? I have read that they fly up to an altitude of 80 km. Doesn't space first start at 100 km?
ToFab123··on Heinz starts petition to make hot dogs and buns come in equal packs
Of course they is. If the wieners comes in pack of 8, you need to buy 2 packs of 7 from Hebrew National.
ToFab123··on Microsoft’s Windows 11 blue screen of death to become black
it is probably just the beta that are black so MS can see if posted errors screenshots belongs to a release or beta build.
ToFab123··on First Look: macOS Monterey Public Beta
> Apps not having file system access at all until you grant it, and then it’s folder by folder.

This is actually a feature I wish Windows had. On Windows you can enable "protected folders" and mark folders as protected. Applications cannot access those folders until you grant it.

On Windows when granting an app permission to a protected folder you grant it access to all of your protected folders.

You cannot grant a specific application access to a specific folder only eg. grant VLC access to your video folder only but will have to grant VLC permission to all your protected folders. In the default configuration this includes all your personal documents.

I wish Microsoft would make the protected folder feature just as granular as I can hear it is an a mac.

ToFab123··on Ask HN: Why does Microsoft bundle a cheating tool with MS Edge?
From the linked article: We are rolling this out as a preview feature, and are still exploring the possibility of including the feature permanently in the future. Our goal with including Microsoft Math Solver in Microsoft Edge is to bring more equity in learning by democratizing math learning for students who need help but are unable to get access to help.
ToFab123··on Windows 11 will leave millions of PCs behind
Yes, that is true, but hard to convince users to upgrade when the installer refuse to run on their 3+ years old computer.

My desktop is less than 1 year old and still Windows 11 wont install because the disk is formatted using MBR. I know how to fix that. It involves formatting the disk and change bios settings and a lot of work. I can do that. I don't know anyone outside my tech circle that could do the same.

When a <1 year old computer cant be effortless upgraded Microsoft has a big problem.

ToFab123··on Google-Microsoft Truce Crumbles Amid Feud over Cloud, Ad Tech
https://archive.is/QyyWH
ToFab123··on US ranks last among 46 countries in trust in media
I specifically wait The Guardian. That newspaper has gained my trust because of Snowden.
ToFab123··on Ask HN: Why doesn't MS bring Tabs to the file Explorer?
I can only offer you must best guess as I don't work for Microsoft.

The modern UI framework that you use to create Windows Store apps cannot create a treeview suitable for an explorer type of application.

Since Windows 8 how many apps have you seen that features a treeview with tons of nodes? Zero?

So my guess it that the visual guidelines makes it impossible to modernize the UI of explorer.

ToFab123··on Did Windows 10 slow down with each feature update?
It would be interesting to see the results if windows was upgraded instead of doing clean install for each version.

I find upgraded to be the #1 cause for issues with windows. A clean install (using iso downloaded from MS) normally resolves pretty much all problems and upgrade be the one that creates them.

ToFab123··on State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?
Win 3.1 File Open Dialog can be found in Windows 11

https://www.reddit.com/r/windows/comments/o12no7/still_rocki...

ToFab123··on Missouri Has Declared Federal Gun Laws Invalid
I looked up what it is and it is a tool from hell, IMHO. It converts an AR-15 rifle into a machine gun. It can fire a crazy amount of bullets in a short time. No wonder that thing is illegal.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gun/comments/ivzuul/yankee_boogle/

ToFab123··on Thailand bans meme coin and NFT: “no clear objective or substance or underlying”
The only Thai crypto exchange was closed about 2 years ago so it puzzle me how they will enforce this ban.

https://www.livebitcoinnews.com/crypto-exchange-in-thailand-...

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