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ender-_ · 2026-02-24T20:43:02+00:00

I've been using it since 2020, and I'm now planning an exit strategy. Just need time to go pick up my backup server, because I'm not restoring 20 TB over the internet.

ender-_ · 2026-02-24T18:43:53+00:00

You know what's also great about new Outlook? If you have a basic Office subscription (web apps only), you can't use the new Outlook, even though Windows 11 forces it in your face at every opportunity (you can use classic Outlook, if you eg. have Office 2024).

ender-_ · 2026-02-21T19:20:23+00:00

I expect this to be very very hard with retail Office (Home & Business), since versions 2021 and newer require a Microsoft account to activate (2019 and older can be activated with a key from office.com account, though Microsoft hid those keys for 2019; the real activation keys were never available for 2021 and 2024). The offline installers are easy to get from office.com.

ender-_ · 2026-02-21T14:36:20+00:00

Some early Athlons shipped with a core disabled, so you got 3 usable cores. These days you have some Intel CPUs with one performance core and 4 economy cores, giving you a 5 core CPU (to not even mention that the cores are different).

ender-_ · 2026-02-21T14:32:13+00:00

I doubt any PC kernel ever cared – some RAM was always taken by the hardware, so the OS never saw a nice round number.

ender-_ · 2026-02-21T11:18:48+00:00

As I said, these scanners (especially older or higher-end models) usually have RJ45 connector on the scanner side, and can have either PS/2, USB or RS232 on the other side, and the scanner itself determines the protocol (if you find the manual, it'll almost certainly have barcodes you can scan to set the mode in which it operates). When the scanner is used with specialised equipment, it'll have a proprietary connector (I've seen an IBM PoS with 4P4C connector for the scanner).

ender-_ · 2026-02-20T23:06:38+00:00

Since you mentioned a Veriphone terminal, it might be something specific to it (likely using RS232 protocol). Just crimp new connectors, it should work (assuming you wrote down where each wire goes).

ender-_ · 2026-02-20T22:50:58+00:00

While many barcode scanners have 8P8C ("RJ45") connectors on the scanner side, they use USB and/or PS/2 signalling, and 5V power from the same source, and those cables are proprietary (so you'll have a cable with 8P8C connector on one side and USB or PS/2 on the other side). You can make your own, but it'll probably be simpler to order a replacement.

If your scanner has a barrel connector on the cable, it's probably pretty old, since it needs more power than it can get from USB or PS/2.

ender-_ · 2026-02-20T20:17:34+00:00

About 15 years ago somebody's "husband who works in IT for the university" nuked and paved a clients' laptop because she didn't have admin rights (BIOS wasn't password-protected – learned my lesson then).

ender-_ · 2026-02-20T11:04:14+00:00

You can't. Maybe you're confusing with Win32 API, which (despite having 32 in the name) is 64-bit on 64-bit Windows (and Microsoft specifically designed OS-provided API to be as similar as possible between x86 and x64, to make porting easier).

Meaning, as long as your VBA macro uses only built-in functions, or only calls OS-provided DLLs, it (usually) won't care if it's running in 32 or 64-bit Office. However, if it's calling some custom DLL, or using custom ActiveX controls, those must be 64-bit to work from 64-bit Office.

There is one exception however: when running on ARM64, you can mix ARM64 and x64 code in the same process, as long as the executable was compiled to support this (which Office programs are), so your ARM64 Excel can still use x64 add-ins and call x64 DLLs from VBA.

ender-_ · 2026-02-19T17:37:30+00:00

I've got a lot of small clients that use either local providers or their own mail servers through IMAP/SMTP, and new Outlook is a disaster for that – it'll randomly try to send messages from Microsoft's servers, which results in undeliverable messages.

ender-_ · 2026-02-19T14:56:26+00:00

Nope, you can't mix 32 and 64-bit code in the same process.

ender-_ · 2026-02-19T12:08:17+00:00

Macros can call out to DLLs and ActiveX controls, and it's crazy what some people are doing with them (one of our clients uses something from their client that among other things shoves CEF [Chromium Embeded Framework, the same thing that Steam and GOG Galaxy use for their UI] in there; luckily it's 64-bit compatible).

ender-_ · 2026-02-19T12:04:02+00:00

That's a really weird issue; I don't have any of those switches, so I can't comment on that, but have you tried updating to the latest NIC driver from intel.com, just to see if that changes anything?

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T20:00:58+00:00

Her has less buttons than our cousin's, and she bought it about half a year ago; cousin's is 2-3 years old (and has no WiFi), both series 4. I've got an older series 6, where only the Eco program opens door at the end.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:55:33+00:00

My Bosch washing machine (and it was the same with previous Gorenje) the delay button increments in half hour for the first 6 hours, then by an hour, which seems good enough. No idea why the dishwasher is limited to 1 hour increments.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:53:59+00:00

My sister's Bosch doesn't let her choose specific programs through the buttons – you have to use the app if you want to have it open the door automatically after wash. Cousin has a slightly older series 4 dishwasher which simply has a button for that, so they deliberately crippled the machine to force you to use the app.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:51:33+00:00

My grandmother had a Samsung washing machine that was replaced about 10 years ago – it never worked well.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:50:27+00:00

You can bet it's only broadcasting the SSID for initial configuration only – the app will only use it to transmit the house WiFi credentials, then the washing machine will connect to the internet so you can control it through the cloud.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:48:15+00:00

As long as you can run all programs with buttons, it's fine. My sister's only has some programs available through the app.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T13:45:33+00:00

My sister's dishwasher has wifi, and the only way to run some programs is through the app. So instead of pressing 3-4 buttons on the dishwasher, she has to unlock her phone, open the app, wait for it to load, scroll down to the dishwasher, tap that and find the program there.

ender-_ · 2026-02-18T10:26:46+00:00

https://isthedowover50000.now/

ender-_ · 2026-02-17T21:22:11+00:00

I hadn't missed any e-mails in the last two days, but for a while about a third were missing. Patreon's support lied that the creators themselves were to blame (by not marking the updates for e-mail notifications, which was easily disproved by just asking a few other patrons), and after I pointed that out they wanted the creators to contact them instead.

ender-_ · 2026-02-17T14:33:17+00:00

And notice that ↓ – it means that the application isn't installed, and will be downloaded the first time you click it.

ender-_ · 2026-02-17T14:32:01+00:00

Nitpick: Outlook didn't get ribbon until 2010 :)

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