I have been suspecting that, too. Not only for spam, but also if the author deletes the entry. Not in this case, though, as there was a new post on page 17, 800+ posts down the list. I wish they wouldn't count purged posts as new, but not knowing anything about the underlaying data structure, I'd accept a claim from the developers / maintainers that it would require significantly more processing for the 99,99% of the requests when there is no purged entries. I guess you could add a 'purged' flag to the data records search for flagging the forum, and skip those entries. Often, modifications to a data structure - even as small as adding a flag - could have consequences far beyond what you first would expect. E.g. you must ensure that the flag is always set when appropriate; that could affect several modules. The information is already stored somewhere; making another copy of the same info is bad database practice; it should be normalized. ...And so on. If the maintainers claim similar problems in using the 'New posts exist' information (causing the orange bullet) to tag another element in the user interface, based on the identity of the new post(s), I'd sure like to see an explanation of why it is 'undoable' or requires an extraordinate amount of processing power.

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I had something similar happen a couple of years ago, except I had a slightly different setup - Netgear router and 3Com OfficeConnect gigabit switch. Three PC's, two servers & printer plugged into the 3Com switch. One day the wife starts complaining about lousy internet speeds. My PC and servers OK. A few days later I started seeing the same problem. Reboot things, seems OK, then over a couple of days goes west again, to the point that it's unusable. Replugged things into the router and presto! All good. Replugged back to the 3Com switch and once again speeds are woeful. Replugged back to the router and gently retired the 3Com switch to the recycle bin. I wouldn't mind betting your OfficeConnect thing is sick. If your neighbours don't listen to The Ramones, turn it up real loud so they can. “We didn't have a positive song until we wrote 'Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue!'” ― Dee Dee Ramone "The Democrats want my guns and the Republicans want my porno mags and I ain't giving up either" - Joey Ramone

Member 7989122 wrote: I do not see clearly what you gain by me replacing one anonymous ID with another anonymous ID It makes it easier to follow discussions, or rather the train of thought that spans many different discussions. A number is less easy for the brain to recognise. I agree with your statements above that one. Member 7989122 wrote: I guess that before I make the switch, I need some training in writing one-liners: I have had lots of negative comments about my explanations, justifications my claims etc., so I will try to avoid that in the future. Pity, I like it when people do explain. I also like those stories on how things were done in the "old times". Maybe I should've told you so earlier? Are you sure those people didn't disagree with you on something you may have stated rather than having disliked getting an explanation as such? Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger

Explorer does two things. Read the entries and sort them. Looks like reading is linear and sorting too. So you get N^2 time behavior. This didn’t change for decades. Some file systems allow accessing the files with a kind of pointer, avoiding the directory once you know the pointer. Nevertheless, adding and deleting files still has to touch the directory. Looking up directory names has the same problem. So better construct a directory “tree”. File size doesn’t matter for name lookups.

Aaah - thanks a lot! I hadn't leaned the difference between LayoutTransform and RenderTransform. Although LayoutTransform is mentioned in my XAML textbook, it isn't illustrated in an XAML example, so I hadn't grasped the difference between the two concepts. LayoutTransfor gives me code that looks a lot more like I want it, a lot more direct and maintaninable. (I still think XAML often requires an extreme amount of red tape to do fairly simple things. That is an inherent "quality" of XAML, not of transforms in particular, but it certainly is clearly illustrated in transforms!)

Using my own two eyes, and my personal experience, I have never seen it as anything but an if\else statement. I appreciate there probably are variances, maybe ones I didn't realise were originally switch statements, but from what I've seen the .net compiler seems to heavily favour the if\else. This convo is a lot like people arguing that god exists....they swear it does, but all I'm asking is for actual simple proof :D

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Good. That is a good basis for efficient compression.

sounds like a niche market/demand kind of thing. I would recommend looking at Photoshop, etc. but if you want to keep this on the cheap and you can't find anything on this site or others, than I would recommend rolling your own software for this. Combine images with Auto-Blend Layers in Adobe Photoshop[^] Combine images |[^] FYI - I have an Adobe monthly subscription and it is fairly cheap if you just want Photoshop.

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You can do it in C#, and yes, you have to do your own registry searches. I can't remember if it had to call down into the Win32 API to do it or not. Unfortunately, the code I wrote (three years ago) that does this is on a network in a building that is closed right now so I can't take a peek and refresh my memory. It wasn't too hard, as I recall, but you do need to roll your own. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein

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Member 7989122 wrote: If you haven't done it before, you'd be shocked by the amount of hairs, breadcrumbs, and soils that have collected under the keytops! You know there's a huge potential for youtube fame there: Tasty Things to Put on Your Sandwich Member 7989122 wrote: ...Especially if you've got a dog or a cat in your household. (I haven't had a dog for fifteen years... lost it in the keyboard?

Member 7989122 wrote: OK, so I understand that you think there is nothing to learn from the past. Anything that has ever been rejected, for whatever reason, under whatever assumptions and circumstances, should forever be forgotten and ignored, and noone should ever suggest that it might have some merit under the new and changed circumstances. A rejection of an idea should always be final and absolute. wonderfully entertaining hyperbole, but, you left out the part where I strangle kittens :) «One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali

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Perhaps you best learn to read what is actually written (per static and dying languages) as only one language is mentioned - and it in no way refers to Member 7989122 wrote: If you seriously believe that all other languages than English are static, unchanging, "corpses" your imaginings - what you'd want to read to make it easy to criticize. Basically almost all you wrote in your reply is similarly "misinformed" (put politely). Your emoji comparison to an entire complex language is absurd. Furthermore, a language derived from caricatures suffers from large numbers of "readers" who've no clue what a symbol means 'they ain't all smiley faces' "not that unlike" - what an absurd argument! Your dragging politics (e.g., 'bombing' into this) perhaps underlies your real motivation. However, lets just consider what your darling French are really like: they're the ones who are constantly limiting freedoms (no head scarfs, no kippas, no this - no that - even an attempt at regulating beachwear so no one "frumps" their beaches!). Freedom of speech/press . . . but you can only use the words they let you use. Sounds to me like a growingly oppressive regime. About all they've got left in life is going on strike out of fear of having to work for a living. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

Now I mean this with all of the best of intentions but it seems to me that you're not as fired up as the poster because, so far as I've heard, sheep don't get the CorVid-19. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010