Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.
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Nay, the existence of such a bug wouldst suggest the vessel to be otherwise. Contemplate thou the very meaning of such, and thou shalt find the creature itself to be thine bug. Bring down thine the power of the sharpened sea, and smite the insect! Ok... I can't do this anymore... It gives me nightmares about a religious upbringing I didn't even have :) So... Minimum patch to fix the bug, then scrap the damn thing and build one that works. I did that ten years ago at my first hedge fund job... Of course, it shut down before I could decommission the old version...
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels)Ian Shlasko wrote:
Minimum patch to fix the bug, then scrap the damn thing and build one that works.
That's the plan. *crosses fingers*
Jeremy Falcon
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code
And when you're done don't forget to do a ritual burning of your computer... :~
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code
And when you're done don't forget to do a ritual burning of your computer... :~
Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Good thinking.
Jeremy Falcon
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
And how are you planning to compile it. Some of the old VB6 code we have will only run when compiled on an old XP computer rather than anything newer. (it will compile on 7, but not run properly) I have to keep a XP virtual machine just for the task.. (I'm hoping to have got rid of all VB6 programs in the next 12 months.. Yipee)
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
I assume you were getting paid for such a service... which goes to show your just a tart like the rest of us ;P
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
He catched you.
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
:omg: I hope you did so on a VM, so all you need to do is a secure erase of the VM files, rather than calling in the hazmat team.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
I'm rather shocked it is willing to run under Windows 7. Or are you running it in a Windows 2000 VM?
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
How cool is that! I would love to tinker with some old vb6 code; brings back the old days. You should write an article about it. :)
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On Wednesday, August 5th of the year 2015 AD on the Gregorian calendar, I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
You do know that, after seeing VB, Satan added another level of Hell just for us programmers! In fact, there are all sorts of rooms in the level, especially tailored for Javascript and Ruby on Rails as well. The irony is that people who go there actually think they died and went to heaven, hahahaha! Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
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Jeremy Falcon wrote:
I just installed VB6 to update some legacy code.
You do know that, after seeing VB, Satan added another level of Hell just for us programmers! In fact, there are all sorts of rooms in the level, especially tailored for Javascript and Ruby on Rails as well. The irony is that people who go there actually think they died and went to heaven, hahahaha! Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!
Ha, the devil works in mysterious ways!
Jeremy Falcon
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:omg: I hope you did so on a VM, so all you need to do is a secure erase of the VM files, rather than calling in the hazmat team.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. --Winston Churchill
Nah man, I went bareback. Live on the edge.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm rather shocked it is willing to run under Windows 7. Or are you running it in a Windows 2000 VM?
Software Zen:
delete this;So far it seems to be working under compatibility mode for XP SP3 and running it with admin privileges.
Jeremy Falcon
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What have they done with you? Tortured with money, drugs or waterboarding? :confused:
Press F1 for help or google it. Greetings from Germany
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Jeremy Falcon
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I assume you were getting paid for such a service... which goes to show your just a tart like the rest of us ;P
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
Hey man, money talks.
Jeremy Falcon
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And how are you planning to compile it. Some of the old VB6 code we have will only run when compiled on an old XP computer rather than anything newer. (it will compile on 7, but not run properly) I have to keep a XP virtual machine just for the task.. (I'm hoping to have got rid of all VB6 programs in the next 12 months.. Yipee)
I'm not actually. The build process is on another machine. I just need to edit some code and hope to God it doesn't crash.
Jeremy Falcon
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So far it seems to be working under compatibility mode for XP SP3 and running it with admin privileges.
Jeremy Falcon
Lucky you. We have a body of code we maintain with Visual Studio 2003 X| . It runs under Win7, but with a number of options set on the shortcut to make it run: admin and a couple graphics things turned off. It also has a bug in that if you run under the debugger, you then have to exit VS2003 before compiling again. The debugger fails to close a handle to the debugger symbols file, which causes subsequent compiles to fail.
Software Zen:
delete this;
