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Why Microsoft, and I, suck today. Mostly Microsoft though.

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  • R Roger Wright

    It's not too late, Henry. I've heard that, if you nightly consume orally the gonads of seven hundred light-colored moths, you can avert the memory loss associated with aging. Please, I beg you, lest we be deprived of the benefit of your ancient wisdom, buy a bug zapper and a good fork, or even chopsticks if that is your preference, and get to chowing down on mothy goodness. I have a lady friend who owns a Belgian Husky which eats a ton of moths every night when the bug zapper is on, and she's the smartest dog I've ever known. You can't go wrong with empirical evidence like this, and the CodeProject community can't afford to lose your wisdom.

    Will Rogers never met me.

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    Henry Minute
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    Roger Wright wrote:

    I have a lady friend who owns a Belgian Husky

    I wasn't aware that Luc had a sore throat. I hope he feels better soon.

    Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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    • L Luc Pattyn

      You've spent two days on page 3? :omg:

      Luc Pattyn [My Articles] Nil Volentibus Arduum

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      Henry Minute
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      Well, she was a big girl!

      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

        It's a bugger when that happens - you get so focussed on one idea that you don't think to take a step back and look at the problem from the outside. Sometimes, I wish I still smoked, to give me just such a step away from the code face. Not enough to actually take it up again, though...

        Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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        Wander down to the water cooler/coffee machine and get yourself a drink, and wander around with that for five minutes to think. You can take 'smoking breaks' without a cancer stick.

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        • B BobJanova

          Wander down to the water cooler/coffee machine and get yourself a drink, and wander around with that for five minutes to think. You can take 'smoking breaks' without a cancer stick.

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          OriginalGriff
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          I know what you mean - and it doesn't affect me, since I work from home anyway - but wandering around with a drink in your hand is not seen as "useful work" in most companies, while giving yourself cancer is. Strange, but true.

          Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

          "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
          "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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          • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

            I know what you mean - and it doesn't affect me, since I work from home anyway - but wandering around with a drink in your hand is not seen as "useful work" in most companies, while giving yourself cancer is. Strange, but true.

            Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water

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            Rob Grainger
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            I've not found that - most employers will be quite considerate. Especially if you mention you're giving up smoking. Of course, you could always say: "So I'm allowed a break to smoke but not for water/other reasons. Can I have that in writing?". I suspect they'll see the light very quickly, for legal reasons.

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            • A AspDotNetDev

              Henry Minute wrote:

              Microsoft, for reasons best known to themselves, tacked 78 bytes of garbage on the front of those images

              Sure that's not something like a bitmap header?

              Somebody in an online forum wrote:

              INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

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              I am aware of bitmap headers of various descriptions and am pretty sure that this GARBAGE is not a bitmap header (or at least not one that I have seen before). Just for you I have gone to the trouble and expense of taking time out of my busy schedule :zzz: and writing and including in my application a Hexdumper as well as the image display.

              0010 - FF FF FF FF 42 69 74 6D - 61 70 20 49 6D 61 67 65 ÿÿÿÿBitmap Image
              0020 - 00 50 61 69 6E 74 2E 50 - 69 63 74 75 72 65 00 01 .Paint.Picture..
              0030 - 05 00 00 02 00 00 00 07 - 00 00 00 50 42 72 75 73 ...........PBrus
              0040 - 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 20 54 00 00 42 4D h......... T

              This is followed by the standard "BM" header.

              Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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              • H Henry Minute

                Roger Wright wrote:

                I have a lady friend who owns a Belgian Husky

                I wasn't aware that Luc had a sore throat. I hope he feels better soon.

                Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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                Now THAT made me laugh! :beer:

                Gary

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                • H Henry Minute

                  I am aware of bitmap headers of various descriptions and am pretty sure that this GARBAGE is not a bitmap header (or at least not one that I have seen before). Just for you I have gone to the trouble and expense of taking time out of my busy schedule :zzz: and writing and including in my application a Hexdumper as well as the image display.

                  0010 - FF FF FF FF 42 69 74 6D - 61 70 20 49 6D 61 67 65 ÿÿÿÿBitmap Image
                  0020 - 00 50 61 69 6E 74 2E 50 - 69 63 74 75 72 65 00 01 .Paint.Picture..
                  0030 - 05 00 00 02 00 00 00 07 - 00 00 00 50 42 72 75 73 ...........PBrus
                  0040 - 68 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 20 54 00 00 42 4D h......... T

                  This is followed by the standard "BM" header.

                  Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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                  Seems you are right, though it's not exactly garbage. Seems the image has been OLE wrapped (Object Linking and Embedding).

                  Somebody in an online forum wrote:

                  INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

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                  • H Henry Minute

                    Ah yes but I wasn't stuck. I was still taking forward steps. I still had ideas I hadn't tried. If I hadn't solved it I would have asked. Probably not in QA though. I perceived the problem to be WPFish so I probably would have asked in the WPF forum which could have turned out to be another boo-boo. :laugh:

                    Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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                    KP Lee
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                    Congratulations on being self-reliant. You dinosaur you! (I'm a fossel too.) PS I know I'm killing English, just too lazy to look it up.

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                    • A AspDotNetDev

                      Seems you are right, though it's not exactly garbage. Seems the image has been OLE wrapped (Object Linking and Embedding).

                      Somebody in an online forum wrote:

                      INTJs never really joke. They make a point. The joke is just a gift wrapper.

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                      If I don't want it, it's garbage! :-D Didn't think of OLE. Good shot sir!

                      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.

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