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Plenty of room on my ZX81
Paul Sanders.
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter - Blaise Pascal.
Some of my best work is in the undo buffer.
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When I get a 16kb extension card, managed to wrote a flight simulator (yes it was me... not the spion one) good old times...
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At one point I was going to build an 8088 machine. I built the power supply and then found out memory was $1.00 a Byte!
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I remember a 64K S-100 bus RAM board that went for $1,495.
Software Zen: delete this;
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About ten years ago, had worked on the data storage requirements of a reasonably big hospital in India.
Considering one department, the Oncology department, which has PET-CT machines, a PET-CT scan for a single patient produces about 250 MB of image data. At a rate of 3 patients scanned per hour, this is 0.75 GB. Considering a 12 hour operation of this machine per day, the data comes to 9 GB per day. There are five such PET-CT machines, making it a data size of 45 GB per day, say, 50 GB per day. Considering 26 working days per month, this comes to 1.3 TB per month. Which is about 16 TB per year.
Like this, there are other image-intensive departments like CT and MR, each producing a similar data, about 16 TB per year each.
Which makes it 50 TB per year, for these three departments alone. There are departments like Ultrasound, Digital X-ray, which are less heavy with respect to data size.
Regulations mandate that 3 years data is to be stored, which makes it 150 TB of data. Plus backup of the same size, 150 TB. This was ten years ago. Now, it would have increased, because images are now of a higher resolution.
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OK, you have lot's of computers and each one has a number of terrabytes. Someplace you should be maintaining 2 backup images for each system, and daily or weekly diff files for each system. That's too much content for the cloud, given today's transfer speeds. You'd spend several days of continuous transfer time making a single backup. I backup all my computers using a pair of NAS-boxes I built (You can buy NAS-boxes, but they usually have huge prioce tags and don't include the drives). Mine run Linux. When I'm not activly pushing/pull from a backup, I keep them powered-down to protect the lifespan of the spinning oxide (harddrives). I have 2 NAS-boxes so that I can keep redundant copies. I don't use a RAID configuration in them. They are built with identical hardware, so if a card quits in one, I can pull a like item from the twin machine.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Do I need this ? I have VS 2019 installed on W 7 pro
With Installer.exe sitting on my desktop
I have set VS to no auto update
the KB says MS wants to make sure it was installed correctly
I have completed a couple of updates last year no issues
I hate to be paranoid. but is this MS just fishing for information ?
It wants to check 2017 2019 2022
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Choroid wrote: I hate to be paranoid. but is this MS just fishing for information ?
Only because you might be paranoid, it doesn't mean that they are not trying to fish on you...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have worked with Visual Studio since v1.0 and NT was in beta testing. I have never heard of this and I see no constructive purpose for it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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why do we need this tool?
diligent hands rule....
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Southmountain wrote: why do we need this tool?
As the first sentence on the page reads:
The Visual Studio Client Detector Utility is a required component that must be installed on client computers for Visual Studio Administrator Updates to be correctly recognized and received. It is used to detect the current versions of Microsoft Visual Studio on client computers, and to determine whether an administrator update applies to those clients. /ravi
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Ravi
Thanks I did read that link before I posted
Sometimes my concerns are founded by my lack of knowledge
At one time I trusted MS but the sad truth is tech companies have this attitude
"Do as we say you can trust us"
I did that with Windows ME & Vista so I have become a little OS shy
Windows 11 really offends me. I have a robust configuration Dell Workstation
Lot of memory and ram and high end graphics card
MS said you need a new computer END of support is OK with me but when you make it End of Life
your playing the "Do as we say card" at my expense
Your reply was appreciated I did the update
Dwight aka Choroid
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Choroid wrote: I have set VS to no auto update
I would make a comment about the security vulnerabilities in VS[^] that you're ignoring; but since you're using an OS that's been EOL for nearly four years, and out of mainstream support for nearly nine, I suspect that's the least of your problems! 
Mainstream support for Windows 7 ended on January 13, 2015. Extended support for Windows 7 ended on January 14, 2020.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I'd set-up a test station (another computer), with the same OS and programs installed, and then enable that update and see what it actually does. Just becuase Microsoft says it is going to do X doesn't mean that it isn't going to do Y also or instead.
I've skipped Windows 10 for the most part, and I have built a Windows 11 system for select newer apps that have internal blocks that keep them from running on Windows 7. However, I've found that Windows 11 is a slow painful environment to use, and frequently needs several hours of warm-up time before I can use it when it's first booted. With that in mind, I haven't moved all the projects I'm involved in over to the Windows 11 system. I can't take a chance on it not working at a critical momwent.
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So my cat abhors a closed door.
Just sayin'
Keep Calm and Carry On
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My older cat has finally come to appreciate them as it allows him to get a break from the kitten.
Check out my IoT graphics library here:
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And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Don't cats also abhor vacuums?
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As long as you keep the box closed, you won't know.
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Erwin Schroedinger would like a word.
Cheers,
Vikram.
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They've been known to chase them around the room. Especially the "intelligent" robot vacuums.
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They're like teenagers; if they're in they want out, if they're out they want in!
I don't think before I open my mouth, I like to be as surprised a everyone else.
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In my experience, teenagers just stay in their rooms* unless they are hungry. Then they come out, yowling "I'm hungry; there's nothing to eat in this house!".
Just like cats.
(*) Where angels with hazmat suits fear to tread.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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