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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on November 07, 2007, 05:11 AM »

Oh dear I'm sorry i obviously didn't read your original post well enough. In that case I'm afraid i have no other suggestions. Sorry for wasting your time  .

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on November 06, 2007, 07:21 PM »

My reply was ambiguous. To omit the unnecessary details, i have an application that shows me the names of all my drives against the drive letters. Basically, looking at this list allows me to match the name of the drive i want to remove with the letter, then i can use the windows safely remove hardware wizard.



Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on November 06, 2007, 04:00 PM »

I wrote myself a tray app a while back that when right clicked displays a list a of all drives on the system with their drive spec and name. It was originally so i could open drives fast on systems where i had to use the start menu. I'm afraid that's the only way I've ever managed what you're talking about.

Ehtyar.

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Living Room / Re: Coders' Watches

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 29, 2007, 08:18 PM »

I too wear mine 24/7, but the reason is simple. 

If I take it off, I forget to put it back on.  Or worse, where I left it...

-Ralf Maximus (October 29, 2007, 03:24 PM)

Ditto.

And what about during ... ummm ... romantic moments? 

-CWuestefeld (October 29, 2007, 05:01 PM)

I guess you got me there.

Ummm. Don't you take it off in the shower at least, so you can clean underneath it? Eeewww.

-CWuestefeld (October 29, 2007, 05:01 PM)

I clean it in the shower, but as soon as I'm done it goes straight back on.

Ehtyar.

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Living Room / Re: Coders' Watches

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 29, 2007, 03:05 PM »

I cop a lot of flack from my fellow geeks for wearing a watch 24/7. It is a seiko chronograph which was given as an 18th birthday present from dad, but i can't find a picture of it. It has a blue face with red hands.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wapache: Free tool makes a standalone windows application from your web service

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 27, 2007, 08:29 PM »

I think the point here is to help you create a standalone application that you could give to a client or a worker, so that they can use your tool like a standalone application without being overwhelmed.

-mouser (October 27, 2007, 07:03 PM)

Not certain of the point of it myself, but i obviously misconstrued the point, so i apologize for that.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Wapache: Free tool makes a standalone windows application from your web service

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 27, 2007, 06:47 PM »

No offense, but yuk. Just get apache, bind it to 127.0.0.1, make all paths relative and use portable firefox (with IETab if you like). Never had a problem.

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 18, 2007, 07:17 AM »

You're right, it doesn't work in explorer. I don't use explorer to launch my portable apps so i never noticed.
I don't use powerpro either, so i cannot speak to your specific problem, but most programs will accept a path without the drive spec and will act as though it is relative the the root of the current drive.

Hope it helps out in the long run, Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 16, 2007, 06:01 PM »

Just remove the drive spec, windows will interpret it as "from the root of the drive this program is running off". Why didn't you just try it?

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Today's GiveAway is the fastest photo resizer I have tried

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 16, 2007, 05:56 PM »

FastStone Image Resizer tops all the other resizers i have ever tried, but i will give this one a go too, thank you. Oh...and it's free

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Active directory tools

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 15, 2007, 07:49 AM »

depends what ur trying to do exactly, but the ds* (dsadd dsmod etc) commands for command prompt are far more efficient than the AD GUI IMO.

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Fixed Drive Letters for Removable Drives

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 15, 2007, 07:47 AM »

Very simple way to handle this: G:\myfavapp\app.exe = \myfavapp\app.exe. Problem solved

Ehtyar.

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General Software Discussion / Re: A closer look at ODF and MS-OOXML, one of the biggest issues of our time

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 14, 2007, 05:04 PM »

For those of us who don't wish to see MSOOXML as an ISO standard (see link below for reasons) here is the official petition to have it stopped. The final decision is set for February 2008.

NO OPEN OFFICE XML

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 07:39 PM »

There is nothing i can say to that.....

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 07:27 PM »

I feel the need to add that regardless of which method you choose to learn, start work on a project that *you want to build*. The project will motivate you to learn without making it feel like you are learning. Just learning to learn, is sometimes hard. Practice exercises aren't always interesting. If you have a pet project you will want to work on it and the learning will come naturally.

-tinjaw (October 11, 2007, 07:17 PM)

Took my first piece of advice right out of my mouth, and i could not have said it better, nor could i emphasize tin man's point more. This is how most people learn to code, because your motivation tends to push you just that bit further than you would ordinarily bother, which is usually all you need. Best piece of advice for any budding software developer.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 07:25 PM »

As are the new borland turbo products. I apologize I don't know what I was thinking. I am uncertain what the license of visual sudio express is like, but i would recommend borland only a hair above MingW due to the apparently lack of....well....anything from borland in regards to upgrades/support/standards compliance/code generation. I would highly recommend visual studio however (or at least the compiler) as it kicks he pants off of EVERYTHING else with features, code generation and standards compliance (i know, sounds rediculous right?).

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 07:09 PM »

OK first you'll need to decide how much you want to leave yourself open to linux/unix in the future as this will significantly effect the way you code and what you use to do it. Secondly, Dev-C++ is not a compiler, but an IDE (a common mistake don't worry ) which happens to come with the MingW Compiler. MingW I'm afraid is not capable of supporting .net, but from the way you spoke about .net in your post, I'm assuming you meant you would code in a dedicated .net languages as opposed to C++.net (please confirm either way). I am personally not a fan of MingW for various reasons, but this is as far as i will go in mentioning it, as there is next to no free alternative unless you're happy in plain C. This should about do it for answering questions, and we should be able to start pointing you to places now.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: The day before the day we've all been waiting for...OLLYDBG 2.0 ALPHA IS OUT!!!

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 06:54 PM »

Now it will be another 4 years before the beta comes out...

-Veign (October 11, 2007, 01:36 PM)

I'm sure Oleh wouldn't mind some competition, lets see how fast you can do it!

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Best way to start learning C++?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 06:52 PM »

I suppose my first question is what kind of C++ do you wish to learn (winapi, linux api, stdlib etc). Also which compiler are you using, and also how high level do you want to go (api only, classes, frameworks like mfc, .net, wx etc)? Also, do you learn best by example or by reading?

Ehtyar.

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Living Room / Re: The worst thing about Macs

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 11, 2007, 03:30 AM »

I'm normally not a religious person, but amen to all of the above

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / The day before the day we've all been waiting for...OLLYDBG 2.0 ALPHA IS OUT!!!

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 10, 2007, 07:06 PM »

Ladies and gentlemen, the day before the day we have all been waiting for has finally upon finally arrived. I am most excited (no, seriously, mouser is worried about the state of my mental health, scan man and i were hugging for an unnatural length of time and my girl suggested i would be less excited if she moved to my country) to announce that OllyDbg 2.0 has been released in alpha form.
It's true, it's incredible but true, Oleh Yuschuk has finally brought the dream of many-a-freeware-developer into reality in the form of the next version of everyones favorite debugger. You can find all the  information here and you can download it HERE!!!!!!!!!.

The child is big enough to show it to the public, so download this and have a look. Is this version functional? Yes. Is it better than 1.10? Definitely not. Is it better than v1.00? In some aspects - maybe, but in general - no. Can you use it for debugging? Yes, but you will miss many, many features... So please don't be too critical and send me no emails - this version is not even a full-featured alpha, and will change dramatically in the next several weeks or monthes. But in the case that OllyDbg will crash and generate errorlog.txt, be kind and do send me this file - I will need it for debugging. And now - enjoy!

-Oleh Yuschuk

And just for the wonderfully sexy people here on donationcoder.com, here is a little something i prepared earlier.




Ups:
- all the features you'd expect in any old debugger are there and then some in true olly fashion
- markedly improved hex dump
- very impressive options dialog
- cleaner UI
- impressive color manager (doesn't appear to work yet)
Downs (keep in mind this is an alpha from the ground up):
- many missing features
- some UI bugs
- does not yet support DLLs
- UDDs are enormous (is being worked on)

Please everyone keep in mind i did this little review in about 10 minutes, so it is by no means comprehensive. I'll leave that up to people who do a more extensive amount of debugging than I.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Recommended/Best/Most Useful IDEs for Language *insert language*?

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 05, 2007, 08:11 PM »

For a freeware C# IDE, you can't go past SharpDevelop.

Ehtyar.

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Living Room / Re: DC Unofficial Meeting #5 Took Place - Veign and Mouser meet

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 05, 2007, 04:11 PM »

*coughatchristmasinnewyorkcough* Anyway, sounds like fun, sexy beard mouse man

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Software Copy Protection Questions

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 04, 2007, 11:19 PM »

I wasn't looking for just a list. I was looking for a prescreened list with plenty of critiques of items listed. For example, product x is inexpensive to purchase but takes five times as long to implement as the others, while product y only does this one thing, but is best of breed, etc.

-tinjaw (October 04, 2007, 07:09 PM)

It is obvious, to me at least, that what you're asking for is not going to be found here, particularly given that the majority of developer regulars on this forum are freeware developers. What you're asking for also fails to take into account the point that rssapphire makes, that your solution will need to be, at least to some degree, tailored to your situation, a topic upon which many solutions have been put forth.

Ehtyar.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Software Copy Protection Questions

« Last post by Ehtyar on October 04, 2007, 05:12 PM »

To be honest, I'm less interested in hearing about this in a blog compared to receiving some feedback from you as to which solutions mentioned so far you're liking and for what reason. If you just wanted a massive list of all protection schemes i imagine Google would have been a better place to look.

Ehtyar.