Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

After my past last week about the upgrade to Windows 10, I've discovered a few things that have been trying... We have a web site where we post family pictures for our friends and relatives to view. Yes, I know that there are web sites that do this, but we created our own web site long before these other ones existed, and I own all the data on my web site instead of giving all that data to someone else. To make things easier on us, I have a script that takes all the file names from the digital camera and renames them based on the date the picture was taken. So instead of some file "IMG_2754.JPG" it's "2015_12_10_01.JPG" and we can see that the picture was taken December 10, 2015. Well, that code stopped working on Windows 10. The library I was using didn't seem to work no matter what I did, so I ended up creating a new library to read the exif information out of the images. The new library seems to work, but it took several hours to get everything wo...

Last weekend I updated the home laptop to Windows 10. Since that laptop doesn't get used all that often, I honestly don't have much of an opinion about Windows 10 yet. The upgrade seemed to go smoothly, although there have been a couple of "C++" errors reported so far. The desktop UI is quite similar to Windows 7, but the Start Menu is quite a bit different. It doesn't seem to me to be any more or less difficult to use than Windows 7, but it was nice to get a free upgrade and not have to buy anything for that purpose. Down the road we'll end up getting a new laptop to replace the existing one, but at least now I know I can go a year or two before I *have* to replace the laptop.