Unfortunately everything they try and do ends up screwing the legitimate consumer. I can't tell you how sick I am of anti-piracy videos on DVDs I've bought and paid for. I know piracy is bad! That's why I paid for this one, idiots! The likes of Starforce on games, that allegedly knacker your CD drives, games that refuse to run if you have any CD emulation software installed, having to keep copies of manuals so you can re-enter CD keys for games you re-install... Swines.

Mustafa Ismail Mustafa wrote:

Sadly that's true. He was a very good writer. I've been on edge ever since he got sick and now that he has departed, thousands of fans and I are anxiously waiting to find out what happens in the very last book of his Wheel of Time (WOT)[^] series.

Brandon Sanderson[^] will be writing the final book in the series.

The only real way to do it without copying them to the UNIX machine is to have them hosted on a webserver on the windows machine, and then directly reference their URLs in the image tags on the unix webserver.

In the UK I have to provide my full bank account details and a £500 handling fee in order to claim my 600,000 Euro lottery win, I've been told.

This is the Lounge. He's not telling Codeproject that he's having problems, he's telling the users. As such, "It works on my machine" is a perfectly valid response.

Big Daddy Farang wrote:

Before I learned C, I was working in Pascal. In that language = is comparison and := is assignment.

Yep. 'Equal to' and 'becomes equal to'. Perfectly logical. Why '=' and '==' were used in c syntax is one of the things that irritates me most about the language(s).

Why not have an option for "custom", that requires that the article poster include the terms of the licence in the body of the article?

dunnydragon wrote:

As this corporate has 13k PCs it seems fairly significant

Meh - The company I work for is six months into a 3-year project to move 360k PCs to Vista. It all balances out :0)

Member 3149068 wrote:

As a native swiss guy I can tell you: it's not that easy to make your own Fondue.

Did you mean to reply to me? I know how to make a fondue, I was just providing an alternative that doesn't require any specialist equipment.

You don't really need any kit for cheese fondues. Next time you go grocery shopping just get some individual camemberts, the ones that come in little balsawood boxes. Get rid of any plastic packaging so you've just got the cheeses in the boxes. Slice the rind off the top, season with salt and pepper and a little paprika, dust over some dried tarragon, pour over a tablespoon of white wine then bake for about 10 minutes in the oven. Voila, each person has their own little fondue, and there's no washing up.

I owe my quality of life to a drug that is produced using lab grown genetically modified hamster ovaries. No vivisection involved in the actual production, but if those hamster ovaries hadn't been there in the first place to test with, this drug wouldn't exist. Plain, empirical evidence that it does work.

I spent two weeks in Kenya on safari for my honeymoon. While it was incredible, the one disappointment was that the food was all standard catering fare - chicken stir-fry, and beef stew. I wanted some kudu, damnit! Luckily I have now found this.[^]

Brady Kelly wrote:

What kind of web server needs its admin to explicitly e=nable static content?

One that's part of a desktop product, not a server. A better question is why is ASP.NET content enabled by default.

What exactly do you think the difference is? A batch file is a shell script for the cmd.exe shell.

No specific question - I just want somewhere where people talk about partitions and clock cycles rather than* refactoring and design patterns. To add to the time I spend here, naturally.

I know, but as I said, it gets 2-3 posts a day, maximum.

Sounds like you need an elephant gun. Or a nearby crevasse.

Does anyone know of anywhere that does for System Administration what CodeProject does for Development (although not as well, obviously). While there are a lot of clever people here, the SA forum gets on average 2-3 posts a day, and doesn't really have the depth of topic coverage that somewhere dedicated might have. Cheers!

Dalek Dave wrote:

it was a bit cold yesterday and some snow fell on a hill up north.

It snowed in Reading - that's pretty damned South for mid-November snow.

Richard A. Abbott wrote:

And use of oil as a weapon has been used previously.

Boiling it and tipping it over castle walls onto people's heads, for example...