{"id":40553,"date":"2004-02-19T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2004\/02\/19\/no-code-is-an-island\/"},"modified":"2004-02-19T08:31:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T08:31:00","slug":"no-code-is-an-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20040219-00\/?p=40553","title":{"rendered":"No code is an island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/01\/22\/61647.aspx#62827\">  Norman Diamond noted in a comment  that on Windows 2003 Server, the Display Adapter Troubleshooting  slider still lists &#8220;full acceleration&#8221; as the recommended setting  even though the default for Server is &#8220;full minus one&#8221;.\nThis is one of those &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s an easy change&#8221; bugs.  The discussion probably went like this:\nSome guy whose idea this was:  &#8220;For stability reasons, we want to lower the default video acceleration  for Server a notch.  Dear Video Setup team, can you do that for us?&#8221;\nVideo Setup team: &#8220;Sure thing, that&#8217;s no problem.  The default setting is all done by us; it should not have any impact  on anybody else. We&#8217;ll just do it and be done with it.&#8221;\nGuy: &#8220;Sweet. Thanks.&#8221;\nAnd bingo, the default video acceleration dropped to one notch below full  on Server, and everyone was happy.\nExcept that there&#8217;s this text tucked away in the Display control panel  that has the word &#8220;(recommended)&#8221; next to &#8220;full acceleration&#8221;.  That didn&#8217;t get updated.  Oops.  (I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if there is also some  help text that didn&#8217;t get updated for this change.)\nNo code is an island.\n  So when you complain, &#8220;Aw come on, it&#8217;s a one-line change.  What&#8217;s taking so long?&#8221; think about the little video acceleration slider.\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Diamond noted in a comment that on Windows 2003 Server, the Display Adapter Troubleshooting slider still lists &#8220;full acceleration&#8221; as the recommended setting even though the default for Server is &#8220;full minus one&#8221;. This is one of those &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s an easy change&#8221; bugs. The discussion probably went like this: Some guy whose idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-40553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Norman Diamond noted in a comment that on Windows 2003 Server, the Display Adapter Troubleshooting slider still lists &#8220;full acceleration&#8221; as the recommended setting even though the default for Server is &#8220;full minus one&#8221;. This is one of those &#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s an easy change&#8221; bugs. The discussion probably went like this: Some guy whose idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}