@AviD: Hey, random question for you if you have a minute. Someone on ELU asked about your use of the word "trollpoking". Care to tell me what it means?
The edit summary here says:
cleaned up a bit, removed the trollpoking.
I'm certain removing trollpoking is referring to the removal of:
This answer is going to be deleted as off-topic, isn't it? ^_^
and I know what troll(ing) is.
But what does trollpoking mean?
What I want
I want to run Windows 8.1 in a VM (on Hyper-V) with rich, 3D graphics (Direct3D) - using the host's graphics card. I.e. I want to use RemoteFX with vGPU for this VM.
My problem
Currently, my VM is only Windows Professional (8.1), whereas vGPU is (apparently) only supported on th...
@AviD I've always been a fan of VMWare workstation, not tried the others so much, but it sounds like they at least don't lock down the use of the vGPU stuff to specific editions of the guest software :)
@TerryChia hmm last time I looked you could get some basic things for free and IIRC one host server was one of them, but they may well have changed it since then..
@AviD from an initial google looks like they both have some capabilities in that regard
This has to do with the concept of Certificate Transparency.
The Problem
Browsers currently trust certificates if four conditions are met: (a) the certificate is signed by a trusted CA, (b) the current time is within the valid period of the certificate and signing certs (between the notBefore ...
I have just made the following orders: - Custom holiday plan in Europe - Custom happy birthday song for my girlfriend - A PHP website for facts about ducks (just for the fun of it) - A 300 word article about how awesome I am
@ScottPack I know I know. I know you were attempting to say something smart, but it didn't work that well. Let's pretend you didn't say it and we didn't read it, and move on.
@DavidFreitag Whenever I ran into trouble like that, I used Reflector on the Microsoft provided DLLs to see what their code actually did. It was an enlightening but also often frightening experience.
I'm trying to get decimals to display with the comma for regions that use that sort of thing. Currently my computer is set to Norway but the decimals in this grid are still decimals without the comma
This is the scenario (It's fucking broken so be warned). The Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture is overridden to new CultureInfo("en-US"); so that SQLite won't complain about comma's in the floating point numbers. This means that no matter what locale the software is loaded in the DataGrids all load using decimals not commas.
@Lamia It's usually the idea of the sheer amount of work that needs to be done that forces me to give up. It's like "Woohoo! I have a keyboard driver. Now all i need to do is implement a memory manager, a scheduler, filesystem drivers, get out of 32-bit protected mode, port some network drivers, maybe write the loader in assembly that isn't x86, ..." the list goes on.
But, that being said you don't need much to get a running piece of software. With a port of newlib and a keyboard driver you pretty much have a working OS. Then all that needs to be done is functions that parse input and do actually do what you want like clear the screen etc.
@Lamia They have all the required pieces in PDF form. It just helps to be able to look at a piece of paper sometimes. Especially when one screen is dedicated to gedit, one to virtualbox and one to Netflix
@DavidFreitag I like papers more + I am the kind of person who doesn't keep their papers clean :p I like to add my notes and highlight the interesting parts
That's how I feel about Arabic, which is mandatory in our universities. We need to take two related courses and I finished one, I'm taking the second now and it's about writing which is kinda difficult
@Lamia Thanks. I'm doing pretty well so far (cumulative gpa in the neighborhood of 3.8) but this is a public college which i assume is pretty easy in comparison to a university.
@Lamia Yeah, college is weird here in the US. You have "Community colleges" which are bottom rung. Difficulty is low and so is the reputation. But for that you pay about $1,700 per semester in tuition.
Then there are State colleges. Which are more reputable and are supposedly better educationally.
And finally state universities which are colleges that cover a certain range of majors.
Usually community colleges are 2-year programs where you get your associates. State colleges and universities are 4-year programs (usually) where you get a Bachelors degree.
Yeah, that is kind of puzzling. It's pretty easy to keep your grades up. For Computer Science you need a 3.5 or higher to transfer into the University that i want so there's that..
@Lamia Far more important to many businesses than grades and certificates is what you've done. Software you've worked on, bugs you've found, things you've built. Skills companies want aren't typically taught in schools -- any schools. So you demonstrate that you're useful by showing what you can do.
On the other hand, for many companies, skills they need aren't taught anywhere except schools. The hardcore CS stuff, like finite automata, parsing, solvability, algorithms, structures. That stuff.
It's unlikly that you'll ever have heard of a DFA-lambda if you didn't study CS in school.
If you want to write backend systems for facebook, then you better know your CS fundamentals. But if you want to write webapps for the company down the street, it's not so important.
As for what you've done, If you're 23 then everyone else applying for the same jobs as you probably doesn't have much more experience than you. But if you're the 1-in-1000 applicant that's actually done something to demonstrate she can do more than pass tests, then you've got a chance of getting the job that everyone else doesn't get.
@Adnan I got a request, I would be working with security consultants and a lot of people to learn from, but the problem is, it's more related to information security governance, where I prefer technical stuff
@Lamia Start with anything. Get your foot through the door. From there, you'll discover new interests and make new connections. Only then you'll have the luxury of being picky.
- Step 1: Write down the choices that are **available to you**. - Step 2: Assess them and order them from top to bottom by which ones are closer to your desired career path. - Step 3: Start with the first one. If you fail, go to the next and so on.
Keep this golden rule in your mind: Unless you're truly brilliant, and/or have years of actual experience under your belt, you do not have the luxury of being picky.
The edit summary here says:
cleaned up a bit, removed the trollpoking.
I'm certain removing trollpoking is referring to the removal of:
This answer is going to be deleted as off-topic, isn't it? ^_^
and I know what troll(ing) is.
But what does trollpoking mean?
What I want
I want to run Windows 8.1 in a VM (on Hyper-V) with rich, 3D graphics (Direct3D) - using the host's graphics card. I.e. I want to use RemoteFX with vGPU for this VM.
My problem
Currently, my VM is only Windows Professional (8.1), whereas vGPU is (apparently) only supported on th...
