I'm beginning to feel like I want to take an axe to every computer
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Nothing works like you would expect. For example. My latest nightmare. We have this kiosk that plays DVD's, and DVD's can be bad, sometimes. As a result, the DirectX stuff hangs, or throws exceptions, or simply barfs and dies and never comes back. So, I write a separate app to deal with the DirectX DVD playing stuff, and the main app watches it. For things like, does it every return from a call querying position? Does it return if I try to play? Did an error get generated? And one of things the controlling app can do is kill the DVD app and restart it. So I've got this function kills the offending process and restarts it. Except that sometimes, after launching a NEW process (immediately after killing the old one, and WAITING FOR HasExited to be true), the new process dies instantly as well (HasExited is true). I SO HATE PROGRAMMING! I SO HATE THESE P.O.S OPERATING SYSTEMS. I SO HATE THESE G.D.M.F. P.O.S. THIRD PARTY CRAP SOFTWARE. Why, when I kill the process, and it says the process has exited, does starting a new process fail? Sometimes? WTF do I do? Put in an arbitrary wait? Folks, I've just about had it. I really have. I don't know if it's C#, or .NET, or XP, or DirectX, or something I might be doing. But the point is, all this inconsistent, unreliable, garbage that we're using, well...I'm about a straw away from just saying F.I.A and taking a long walk into the woods and never coming back. After I axe every piece of computer hardware in my office. And Anders wonders why I'm in a bad mood. X| Marc
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I'm beginning to feel like I want to take an axe to every computer
Thanks for posting this Marc, nice to know that I'm not the only one to have bad days. It's even more so interesting knowing how skilled you are. Nothing like a little mindless entertainment Channel 9[^] Actually it’s an interview with one of the guys on CE development team doing driver work.