I wish we could use Linux at work. One of...

Mark Dain So I'm at work and I RDP into a Windows Server machine. It displays a huge banner asking to restart now for updates or later. I accidentally clicked now. Can anyone explain the logic of Windows is given a maintenance window (1 AM) where it's allowed to reboot every night. It seriously can't wait till then? I just knocked a website offline :/

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👽 Paul Webb Windows never makes any sense, good grief.

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Mark Dain I wish we could use Linux at work. One of these days I think we will start using it but as our platform has been built on Windows for years, there's things that may not work correctly. I run into all kinds of issues developing on my local machine (MacBook Pro) only to see the code completely break when deployed to Windows.

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Haaktu "But it worked on my machine!" Took me years to embrace the possibility of breakage between dev and production. Even on Windows to Windows.

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Mark Dain Do you think it's possible to eliminate works-on-my-machine phenomena? I'm struggling with this at work right now. My most recent project (cloud encrypted backup system) uses a few command line programs like GNU Privacy Guard. This is far harder to make cross-platform friendly than regular PHP which mostly just works. I've been deploying this on each server one at a time. Probably 1 in 4 deployments failed to import the PGP key. One fix was DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR rather than /. But why did the other 3 of 4 servers succeed in importing the key even though the path was wrong? Nothing went wrong predictably.

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