One quite convenient thing is that Windows Installer packages can be installed via Group Policy, making deployment for new nodes work like a charm. How is a sysadmin supposed do this with scripts?
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I am missing the old Microsoft these days. How did we end up in the world where technologies like Windows Installer are replaced with PowerShell scripts that downloads software from the Internet?
As far I remember NAND/NOR memory (used for SSD) is very slow to *erase*. The erase operation can be performed only by big chunks, requires higher voltage etc.
SSD vendors circumvent this by adding several layers of write buffers to achieve good test results.
I think there is relatively cheap way to reduce such scams: make it mandatory for banks etc to perform “training” of the clients. Regularly make a call to clients asking for sensitive data. Then block account if client provides this data.
We're using ESE NT in our product and I'd like to say it's a great DB. Yes, it's have some limitation and quirks, but overall it's great DB. For us killing feature is efficient handling of binary BLOB columns.
AFAIK original was "cvs annotate" [1]. Subversion introduced "svn blame" and "svn praise" aliases for "svn annotate" as some kind of joke. It's funny that git only has "git blame".
You should just ask for refund. I've the similar story, Uber suggested credit. But immediately issued refund once I declined credit and asked to refund money back to my credit card.