Readit NewsFor example, taken out of its original context, this sentence fragment from your comment is meaningless:
"that definition, any language"
That would help with at least a part of this person's complaints, like the underscore being considered a part of the word. But it kind of seems like they want the text editor to just read their mind, sometimes considering a symbol as part of a word and sometimes not.
To make deployment easy and smooth, it was decided to use network booting and running Windows from a RAM disk.
The machines had 8MB of memory and it was found we needed 4MB for Windows to be happy, so we had a 4MB RAM disk to squeeze everything into. A colleague spent a lot of time slimming Windows down, but got stuck on the printer drivers. They had 4-5 different HP printers which required different drivers, and including all of them took way too much space.
He came to me and asked if I had some solution, and after some back and forth we found that we could reliably detect which printer was connected by scanning for various strings in the BIOS memory area. While not hired as a programmer, I had several years experience by then, so I whipped up a tiny executable which scanned the BIOS for a given string. He then used that in the autoexec.bat file to selectively copy the correct printer driver.
Project rolled out to thousands of users across several hundred locations (one server per location) without a hitch, and worked quite well from what I recall.
Oh geez these are annoying! I've spent hours trying to find a setting to disable the flashing taskbar on the Teams client on my corporate issued Win10 laptop. The best I've found is to keep the Teams client minimized in tray just to avoid this behavior.
It boggles my mind there's no way to disable this feature that is so distracting it almost makes working impossible whenever I forget to kill the Teams client window. And really goes to show why people need to resort to these hacks.
i rather enjoy the exposition of the article. he weaved the story nicely rather than just blurt out the answer. the utoronto unix blog in general is enjoyable.
What they probably meant was that Nintendo testers use their non-dominant hands to simulate someone who has no prior experience with video game controls. (Though I'm not sure exactly what that would mean. Maybe OP meant they use "backwards" controllers with all the buttons swapped?)