You can use the --no-proxy-server command-line option when launching chrome to force it to make direct connections regardless of the system-wide proxy configuration. There are many chrome command-line options[^] for things that you'd think would be faced in a preferences UI:
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Roger Wright wrote:
On a single laptop there is a OPC Server
Roger Wright wrote:
and OPC is not defined anywhere.
OPC here is almost certainly OLE for Process Control[^]. I wrote one of these buggers back in the late 1990's as a co-op/intern for a company that did process control software. Not the best system in the world (even at the time), but it sure beat the hell out of DDE, which I had seen used for similar things previously.
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For what little it may be worth, I'll chime in and say that the 17" MacBook Pro I bought a few months ago is the first laptop I've ever genuinely liked. Unfortunately, I think there are some hiccups installing Windows 7 via BootCamp (I haven't tried myself), so this may put it out of contention for your purchase because of 2) on your list of tasks you'd like to use the laptop for in the immediate future. In addition, you'd have to shell out $$$ for the Windows 7 copy on top of the already-pricey MacBook Pro. All of the other laptops I've had (HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, non-Pro MacBook) have, IMHO, sucked royally. They all had one or two things that just made them infuriating to work with - keyboard size and/or feel, screen glare, crappy battery life, shockingly slow disk access, etc... . Are you sure there's no room in your carry-on luggage for a mini-tower? ;)
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How about: How I Know Microsoft Hates Me Punchlines From Microsoft Why Microsoft? Why? WONTFIX - B.G.
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Chris Austin wrote:
Anybody else besides me have family members that have bought into the fear of the world ending in 2012? It's to the point that I just don't want to even know them anymore
I bet you'd be able to convince them very quickly that they don't actually buy any of it at all. Just write up a little something that says they irrevocably agree to transfer all of their worldly possessions/wealth/etc... to you on January 1st, 2013 in exchange for $1000 today. They won't sign it, because they don't actually buy it either :)
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Thank you for the snarky civics tip :rolleyes: I was referring to the 'having a new POTUS' part, which in my reading implies that tomorrow morning we could clearly identify the person that would be sworn in as POTUS in January. Such was not the case on Nov 5, 2000, as the results were contested between Bush and Gore in Florida.
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Maximilien wrote:
See'y'all tomorrow with the new POTUS.
Good effing God I hope so! I sincerely hope that the margin of victory is too large to allow the losing party to whine on about it incessantly.
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Shog9 wrote:
I'm just looking forward to being able to make clickable hyperlinks for in-comment bug # references. Without resorting to stuffing actual URLs in the comments. If the new editor allows it, i'll love it, else... Meh.
From the demo I saw (haven't managed to play with it yet), you can pretty much insert your own WPF controls inline with code, or replace blocks of code wholesale with your own WPF controls. The demo was an example addin that completely replaced the comment block for functions/properties with a WPF editor for said things. It had input boxes for typing in the summary, remarks, etc..., and hyperlinks pointing to bug entries in the bug database. The demo is here[^], search to about 91:00 into it.
Mike Mullikin wrote:
As a concept UAC is fine, the RTM Vista implementation was flawed. SP1 is better but not quite there yet.
5. I agree completely.
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Le Centriste wrote:
Looks like Hulu is not available outside the US. Is there any reason for that?
The special tubes that hi-def network programming travels through cannot penetrate the many dragons that be "over there".
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
I've been running Vista64 on two machines for the better part of a year, and the only problem I had with it was my old antivirus, which I subsequently dumped. Haven't had a single issue of unsupported hardware, and my machine has been fine. The antivirus was the one and only program and/or peripheral that didn't work straight-up after installation. I've had one bluescreen since January 2007, and it was directly related to a buggy beta nVidia driver for their 8800-series card way back last year. I develop and play games on the machine, so I give it a hefty workout, and it seems to just keep working happily. I'd like to say that I notice that Vista is faster as a 64-bit incarnation, but it's been so long since I used its 32-bit version that I can't honestly say. I look forward to the day when programs ship with x86 and x64 compiled versions, and then to the day when they only ship with x64 compiled versions.
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At times like this, it is good to have some level-headed, serious perspective... http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=911_morons[^]
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I heard that he can print double-sided on single-sided paper. Also, he has single-sided paper.* * Although to be fair to the geek in all of us, it would potentially be possible to manage this feat by turning a long sheet of paper over on itself to make a Mobius-strip, and then printing on that.
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
As a recent user of OSX (I bought a 24" iMac about a month ago), I must admit that I'm not as impressed as I hoped to be. I do like OSX (as a user), and I think it is definitely a great thing for Apple to have done for itself. But it has fallen short of making me look down on Windows (XP or Vista). Likes: 1. Extremely consistent look-and-feel, although I wish they'd ditch the brushed-aluminum for a solid color or mild gradient. 2. A genuine, honest-to-God CLI 3. A properly rooted filesystem. You can fake this on a XP+ box, but not all apps play nicely with it. 4. The mighty-mouse. I will never again purchase a mouse that does not have the all-pointing-sphere-of-goodness. In addition, I get a devilish chuckle from the fact that whenever I look at it I think of a squished lab rat with a BB lodged in its skull. 5. Built-in X Server. Dislikes: 1. The keyboard. I feel like I'm typing on a My-First-Keyboard. "I'm typing a letter to daddy!" 2. The home/end keys apparently always get mapped to "begin of file" and "end of file". Inside what twisted beret did someone think that moving to the start or end of a file occurs more often than moving to the start or end of a line? 3. I have the mouse acceleration turned up to maximum, and I still have to pick the mouse up and re-seat it in order to move from one corner of the screen to the opposite corner. Not cool. All in all, I'm pleased. But I really was hoping that this time - just this once - a silver bullet really existed.
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Ilíon wrote:
Issues Related to "the Suffering Messiah" (Christian vs Jewish understandings of Isaiah 53), paganism, assertions of Christianity being merely paganistic-syncretism, etc --
It actually lends a little credence to typical Christian beliefs that there were prophecies that were a part of some Jewish traditions at the time that predicted a Jesus character. In fact, there are at least a few references in the New Testament that flatly claim that Jesus is a fulfillment of these prophecies. To my somewhat limited knowledge, there was never a scholarly disagreement that there were not such messianic prophecies in Jewish sects at the time. Any disagreement was most likely how well these prophecies aligned with what is typically part of Christian theology then and now, not with their outright existence. Of course, it cannot lend credence either way (pro or con) to the accuracy of whether or not Jesus was God/Messiah/etc... But it is always interesting to see things in long-established holy texts get backed by some bit of archeological investigation.
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Thermodynamics: 1) You can't win. 2) You can't break even 3) You can't stop playing the game.
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
Oh, the godhatesfags.com guys? They're a tempest in a teapot - as there's only 15 or 20 of them, and they're almost all related to the leader, Fred Phelps. It's not so much of a religious movement, or church even. It's just the really weird family at the end of the street. Don't get me wrong - they're total dicks. I wouldn't bat an eye if they were beaten severely at one of their funeral protests (well, the of-age men and women meaty enough to be considered "fightable"). You have every right to speak your mind, but if you tell some father that his son is in Hell because he fought in Iraq for the US, you get a punch in the face. It's not complicated. You can have free speech rights and get punched in the face for being a total jackass. I don't see the two being mutually exclusive, as longs as it's the private citizenry rearranging your face. Like others in this thread, I feel sorry for the couple of kids raised in that asylum. I have no pity for the adults.
-- Russell Morris Morbo: "WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
Christian Graus wrote:
So, I am working on my new installer. I touch nothing, I am reading it's help. The program disappears, Vista closes. Actually it closed all programs, told me it was installing three updates, and then started again. I was not online.
Check your Windows Update settings and click on Change settings.... If you've got Install updates automatically or Download updates but let me choose whether to install them selected, Vista will grab the updates whenever it sees them while it's online. If Install updates automatically is selected, it'll install them at the specified time, regardless of when it downloaded them. Otherwise, it'll pester you once in awhile. I personally have it set to only notify - not automatically download or install. To verify that this was indeed an automatic update installation, you can go to the Windows Update applet and click on View update history. You should be able to correlate those logs with the time Windows kicked you out.
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Right-click, and select "Pin to start menu"
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I sort of gravitate towards the opposite of that - I'd rather separate the wheat from the chaff, not the chaff from the wheat. If that makes any sense :) I'm thinking of a system that allowed respected community members (gold, platinum, MVP, etc... whatever) that frequent forums to promote questions/threads to 'wheat' status, at which point they would show up in the sister forum tagged as 'wheat'. So, there would be the current C# forum, which any registered user can post to. There would also be the 'C# Wheat' forum, which contained a roll-up of the threads in the regular forum marked as 'wheat' by the respected members of the community. I'm not very active in any of the programming forums myself - too much chaff, too little free time for quite awhile. So I'm perfectly willing to consider that my suggestion won't do any good :) But I thought I'd throw it out there. It just seems like a 'white-list' approach would be the best way to filter out the junk. Everyone who goes into the forum goes looking for the wheat, so why not give them a really simple, easy, direct way to let everyone else know what they found? Like any rating system, its Achilles' heal is the reliability of the people entrusted with voting status. It can't be everyone, but there have to be enough to make sure the forums are being polled frequently enough.
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