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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?

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      How about I email you the pigeon as well?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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                    Richard Jones
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                    You mean Schrodinger's drives?

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                      You mean Schrodinger's drives?

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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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                          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.

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

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                            El Corazon
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                            Pete O`Hanlon wrote:

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

                            yeah, I am trying to work out a quantum interface so I can use it before the box is opened, this way it will always work and always fail, that's better than the 50/50 chance right?

                            _________________________ 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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                            • M Mustafa Ismail Mustafa

                              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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                              Johan Lombaard
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                              The problem with Heisenberg drives is that's is very difficult to figure out exactly where they are and what they are up to.

                              Johan Lombaard Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein

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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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                                c3csystems
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                                Wow! Thank you very much for your replies...Marc's answer concerning Newtonian and Einsteinian physics was hilarious. Will try out the suggested methods and let u know. Thanks once again.

                                I code at Will!

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