intel Humour

[JohnNichols]

MSI (s) (58:4C) [17:05:26:820]: Invoking remote custom action. DLL: C:\WINDOWS\Installer\MSI525A.tmp, Entrypoint: DetectVisualStudio
MSI (s) (58:18) [17:05:26:821]: Generating random cookie.
MSI (s) (58:18) [17:05:26:826]: Created Custom Action Server with PID 836 (0x344).
MSI (s) (58:20) [17:05:26:874]: Running as a service.
MSI (s) (58:C8) [17:05:26:880]: Hello, I'm your 32bit Impersonated custom action server.
Action start 17:05:26: DetectVisualStudio2017.

I just installed Fortran 2020 -- told me to look at the logs, I got a real chuckle from the 5th line 

[Devorah_H_Intel]

These log lines are from Window installer. To give credit where credit is due - this is Microsoft humor.

[JohnNichols]

if Microsoft had a sense of humour we would still have Clippy and the famous quote "Never run with scissors"

Then again Intel Fortran is humourless I suppose

[dboggs]

Just for grins, my favorite Microsoft humor (from a few years ago) was a boot-up error message "Keyboard not detected - press any key to continue..."

But I don't think it was intentional humor.

[mecej4]

We can think of a wireless keyboard that is provided with an autonomous sleep function in its firmware for conserving its battery usage. A keypress could wake up the keyboard, which can then be sensed by the PC/Laptop. I have never had a wireless keyboard, so I cannot tell from experience whether this scenario actually occurs.

[JohnNichols]

My daughter has a wireless keyboard - well a Logitech one -- it does not wake the computer. 

Interesting if you have wake on lan - then you can wake your computer -- but it does not work on wifi so you cannot do it over a cell modem -- which is a real pain for deployed devices. 

I did a search on Intel Humour and Steve turned up for his Fortran is not dead poster -- I still have my mug. 

[mecej4]

Wake on Wireless LAN is possible if the device and driver both support that feature, see https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/wowlan , http://revolutionwifi.blogspot.com/2010/11/wake-on-wireless-lan.html , and https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/hardware/wireless/wake-on-wireless-lan .

[JohnNichols]

I have tried for a while to actually get it to work and we use very expensive modems - but there are signficant problems