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  • M Matthew Faithfull

    You clearly haven't got a copy of our virtual hard drive virtual fan driver, virtfhand.dll[^] then you'd not only be able to hear your virtual drive but many user claim to be able to hear the difference between the SCSI drive fan emulation and the IDE fan emulation. The new 7200 SATA virtual drive virtual fan promises adaptive rpm emulation in real time, full head parking micro rev simulation and realistic startup latency bearing wear tracking over the lifetime of your virtual drive. Only $49.99 per drive available 04/01/08

    Nothing is exactly what it seems but everything with seems can be unpicked.

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    NormDroid
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    I've managed to do this without the reliance of third party products, by the way your thread actually accounts for advertising in the lounge ;P

    If you're struggling developing software, then I'd recommend gardening.

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    • N NormDroid

      Actually I used a K9-Bypass a special type of wire which uses molecular bypass technology.

      If you're struggling developing software, then I'd recommend gardening.

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      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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      sweet! I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan :sigh:

      There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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        sweet! I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan :sigh:

        There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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        NormDroid
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        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

        I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan

        I can give you the principles of fabricating some of these wires, you'll have to sign a disclosure document detailing that under no circumatances is this technology to be passed on to anybody else.

        If you're struggling developing software, then I'd recommend gardening.

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        • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

          sweet! I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan :sigh:

          There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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          Pete OHanlon
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          Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

          I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan

          Let me know how many you want and I'll FedEx them to you.

          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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          • P Pete OHanlon

            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

            I've heard/read about those! Can't get 'em here in Jordan

            Let me know how many you want and I'll FedEx them to you.

            Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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            NormDroid
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            Hey you didn't mention the disclosure aggreement, you know you can't go distributing this kind of technology willy-nilly.

            If you're struggling developing software, then I'd recommend gardening.

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              Hey you didn't mention the disclosure aggreement, you know you can't go distributing this kind of technology willy-nilly.

              If you're struggling developing software, then I'd recommend gardening.

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              Pete OHanlon
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              I like to do things willy-nilly. It's the only fun I get nowadays, nillying my willy. You're right of course - I'll secure the package so that it self destructs if the NDA hasn't been signed first.

              Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                I like to do things willy-nilly. It's the only fun I get nowadays, nillying my willy. You're right of course - I'll secure the package so that it self destructs if the NDA hasn't been signed first.

                Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                email me the NDA, I'll print it and sign it and get it back to you via cpp (Carrier Pigeon Post) ASAP

                There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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                • C c3csystems

                  Hi! I have installed daemon-tools and have a virtual drive. I need my C# program to list all my physical disk-drives and not virtual ones. So far, I could do the following [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern DriveType GetDriveType([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string lpRootPathName); ----and in the code---- string[] allDrives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives(); for (int i = 0; i < allDrives.Length; i++) { if ((GetDriveType(allDrives[i]) & DriveType.CDROM) == DriveType.CDROM) { Console.WriteLine(allDrives[i]); } } It lists my physical disk-drives as well as virtual ones. Any suggestions how to go about enumerating only the physical ones? Thanks.

                  I code at Will!

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                  Steve Hansen
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                  allDrives[i].GetType().IsVirtual

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                  • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                    email me the NDA, I'll print it and sign it and get it back to you via cpp (Carrier Pigeon Post) ASAP

                    There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    How about I email you the pigeon as well?

                    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                    • P Pete OHanlon

                      How about I email you the pigeon as well?

                      Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                      Cedric Moonen
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                      :laugh: :laugh: Oh man, that was funny !


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                      • P Pete OHanlon

                        How about I email you the pigeon as well?

                        Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                        Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                        Interesting. Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?

                        There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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                          Hi! I have installed daemon-tools and have a virtual drive. I need my C# program to list all my physical disk-drives and not virtual ones. So far, I could do the following [DllImport("kernel32.dll")] public static extern DriveType GetDriveType([MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPStr)] string lpRootPathName); ----and in the code---- string[] allDrives = Directory.GetLogicalDrives(); for (int i = 0; i < allDrives.Length; i++) { if ((GetDriveType(allDrives[i]) & DriveType.CDROM) == DriveType.CDROM) { Console.WriteLine(allDrives[i]); } } It lists my physical disk-drives as well as virtual ones. Any suggestions how to go about enumerating only the physical ones? Thanks.

                          I code at Will!

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                          Marc Clifton
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                          Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc

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                          • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                            Interesting. Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?

                            There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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                            Pete OHanlon
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                            Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

                            Do you propose to do that by stuffing the poor bird through, say, your CD/DVD drive, copying its internals into a machine readable format before converting it to a human readable format onto a pdf file and then emailing it to me?

                            Well. Pigeons eat grain which is inherently cerealizable (groan) so I should be able to send a deep copy.

                            Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                            • M Marc Clifton

                              Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc

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                              Pete OHanlon
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                              :laugh:Nice. That's obviously your engineering side coming to the fore.

                              Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                              • M Marc Clifton

                                Well, a physical drive behaves according to Newtonian physics, while a virtual drive behaves according to Einsteinian physics. So, if you experience temporal displacement with the drive, you know it's a virtual drive. Marc

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                                Richard Jones
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                                I would just remove all drives from the computer. Every drive I can now see must be virtual.

                                "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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                                  I would just remove all drives from the computer. Every drive I can now see must be virtual.

                                  "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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                                  Pete OHanlon
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                                  I prefer to think of them as conceptual drives. Drives in the abstract if you like. Drives that might exist in a quantum universe.

                                  Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                                  • P Pete OHanlon

                                    I prefer to think of them as conceptual drives. Drives in the abstract if you like. Drives that might exist in a quantum universe.

                                    Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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                                    Richard Jones
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                                    You mean Schrodinger's drives?

                                    "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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                                    • R Richard Jones

                                      You mean Schrodinger's drives?

                                      "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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                                      Mustafa Ismail Mustafa
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                                      perhaps Heisenberg drives.

                                      There are 10 kinds of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't... ______________________ "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." - Rick Cook

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                                      • R Richard Jones

                                        You mean Schrodinger's drives?

                                        "Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit..." "There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain..."

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                                        El Corazon
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                                        Richard Jones wrote:

                                        You mean Schrodinger's drives?

                                        Don't get those, although they do arive working, they are also DOA.

                                        _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                        • E El Corazon

                                          Richard Jones wrote:

                                          You mean Schrodinger's drives?

                                          Don't get those, although they do arive working, they are also DOA.

                                          _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                          Pete OHanlon
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                                          Well - you won't know until you open the box.

                                          Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.

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