I mean you don’t need to be an actual programmer to know you can’t code your way out of a security hole in a closed sourced kernel.
Since you know, that’s just base logic 101. You don’t have the source code, even if you knew how to modify it, you can’t.
Also, I said enterprise IT, not programming per se.
The fact you think IT is programming is even funnier.
Lots in the IT field are programmers… the fact that you do not know that… is funny. And this topic was about OS and how they run. Something a programmer would do. There are IT people who fix OS. They are also programmers. Funny you didnt know that.
And the fact that you think IT isnt programming is the funniest of all.
LOTS in the IT field program. Not all, but lots do.
You began this argument.
And why I said some old OS work better. They run old stuff better as the older stuff was designed specifically for them.
Windows 7 is still widely used.
There are programmers in the IT field and talking about OS is a programming thing as well.
So is Windows 9x for somethings however for the purpose of playing WoW… Windows 7 is less than ideal. The last driver update for Nvidia cards was 473.x which is just a security update issued in August. It misses massive fixes found in the latest mainline driver 522.x.
Windows 7 also doesn’t really support DX12 which is a much bigger issue here. MS created a backported hack version that drivers could opt into supporting and some did. But because they aren’t the latest DCH style drivers most of those drivers haven’t really gotten a ton of optimizations if any at all for DX12.
There are also other API level differences that blizz seems to have stopped bothering to work around for now. They expect people to be on newer hardware, hardware MS has already said they won’t support on Windows 7 (which is out of support so this is already a pointless statement).
As a software engineer I go out of my way to mark my applications as not Windows 7 compatible and if someone asks for support I tell them they need to show me a signed agreement with MS for support first along with a LOT of money to do any sort of fix. Because it’s just not worth the pain when I don’t have any win 7 machines and would have to pay an arm and a leg to MS to get access to safe images.
Thus far… nobody has agreed to pay me yet. /shrug
The expansion is half that cost…priorities! For the love of all things, use that free update link!
…the final update for Windows 7 came out 11 YEARS AGO. The people who created, have stopped all support for it, 2 years ago.
UPDATE YOUR TOASTERS!!
It’s not going to suck you into Tron, you aren’t going to bring Kelly LeBrock to life, and you’re too obsolete for SkyNet. Thank Jessail for the following:
IT is mostly not programming.
I’m a hobbyist programmer though I have to do a lot of scripting at work.
The fact you don’t know what IT even is makes all of this funnier. You think a storage guy that manages a SAN is a “programmer”.
Yeah no, I wouldn’t put the guy that usually does the cabling in the datacenter in charge of fixing the OS.
Guy is pretty godly in zip tying cables into oddly esthetic arrangements, but he probably can’t figure out why is code is constantly hiting the assert() path.
Unfortunately for everyone involved except the hackers.
According to that guy, you’re just “IT” now. No fancy titles like software engineer.
You shouldn’t try to pretend your business of gathering customer needs, prototyping, programming and bundling is entirely different from the guys running the infrastructure. It’s all the same, you’re all “programmers”.
K so you do know your stuff. And you probably are what you say. But yea I use older OS on some comps and the newer OS to play WoW and other games. But yea they have some programmers in IT field.
I mean strictly speaking my official title is “Lead DevSecOps Engineer”, but the reality is my job is to make sure crap gets delivered. I have nothing to prove at this point so it’s all /facepalm.
As the title might suggest I do have some very choice words about how the maintenance went yesterday. But that is very very off topic for here, and I should probably charge for that, my employer gets annoyed when I don’t.
Yes I got 2 error messages at start up. I replaced the dill file but still have another.
Error #132 (0x85100084)
access violation
then some large numbers and a line that memory could not be read.
https ://imgur.io/gallery/XS8cG6U
Is this your PC setup?
If you mean VMware or Parallels they will allow you to do that but running a video game through those virtual systems can be pretty laggy.
I get the error #132 crash every now and then(linux/lutris), so that might be “normal.” Hope they fix this for you guys soon.
Unfortunately for you no matter girl much you want to upgrade older systems, by just a few years, cannot run windows 11 due to its hardware requirements.
They have some pilots in Aviation field too. But there’s also engineers, flight attendants, air traffic controllers and baggage handlers.
“IT” is a huge area and programming is just a small part of the whole kaboodle. And even then “programmer” is not even correct, it’s too non specific, there are many many different skillsets.
I have win 10 on a laptop and on an update last week it installed win11. I was not asked if I wanted it or not. Lucky it was easy to remove.
The problem with the api-ms-win-core-com DLLs is that they ship with an OS and no installers are able to install them. Which sounds like Windows 7 cannot really be supported is my guess on this unless I am missing something.
I replaced the dll file and still can’t get into game.
Xp enthusiasts.
The scope of programming for IT is pretty limited. Know just enough to get the vlans and router back up if things go south, but usually they have a backup at the ready.
Depends if you include the peeps who write the Angular front ends as part of your IT dept or not I guess.
I bet if you asked the Windows OS guys at Microsoft if they are in IT though, they’d probably give you a big “hell no” and then start complaining about Microsoft’s IT department.
Sure they work as part of the IT industry, but then so does the Sales guy at Hewlett Packard (bless his soul, days must be long without customers).
No actually it isn’t because it’s not receiving security updates anymore.