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General Software Discussion / Re: "Pointer" Directories in Windows

« Last post by Eóin on February 03, 2010, 05:56 AM »

Btw, be VERY careful when dealing with junctions in standard Explorer - deleting a junction won't just delete the junction, but also the folder it points to!

-f0dder (February 02, 2010, 09:10 PM)

Is that true for sure. I use junctions quite a bit created through Link Shell Extension and deleting them (i.e. NOT using the added 'Delete junction' menu entry) never deleted the source folder. However not having used them without the extension installed perhaps that behaviour differs.

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Living Room / Re: HTML...In Britsh?

« Last post by Eóin on January 30, 2010, 08:44 PM »

... their version of 'English' the original, when it clearly is not

-Stephen66515 (January 30, 2010, 11:51 AM)

Well actually my point was that prior to formalization neither was original and hence original doesn't apply.

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Living Room / Re: HTML...In Britsh?

« Last post by Eóin on January 30, 2010, 11:31 AM »

I too used to think the early Americans just couldn't spell but instead it seems the spelling of many words wasn't formalized back then. Later when dictionaries were compiled the two countries just settled on different spellings.

I'd guess Ruby would be American English but as it happens I don't think any of its keywords have different spelling. Perhaps the std library for it does though.

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Living Room / Re: HTML...In Britsh?

« Last post by Eóin on January 29, 2010, 01:13 PM »

Ruby was invented by a Japanese man, he still opted for English keywords though.

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Living Room / Re: Yea, I won't be getting an iPad anytime soon

« Last post by Eóin on January 28, 2010, 05:56 PM »

I've never been an Apple fan anyway but this iPad sounds horrendous. Besides Tablet PCs have been around for a decade, big wow here comes a crippled one.

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Developer's Corner / Re: GUIDs...

« Last post by Eóin on January 28, 2010, 09:34 AM »

TheQwerty: Haha thanks for those links.

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Developer's Corner / GUIDs...

« Last post by Eóin on January 28, 2010, 05:42 AM »

Anyone else ever feel like everytime they generate a GUID that they've just used one up?

Don't know what it is but I feel guilty if I generate a GUID and then don't use it, it's like I've just wasted one of a finite and precious resource.


Ah well, back to more important matters...

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Living Room / Re: External harddisk broken?

« Last post by Eóin on January 28, 2010, 04:58 AM »

There's also the freezer trick. Don't hold me responsible if it doesn't work.

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Living Room / Re: huge gif file

« Last post by Eóin on January 26, 2010, 03:10 PM »

Well I believe animated gifs are shown as they download and each frame probably is quite small.

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Developer's Corner / Re: What's your *favorite* programming language and *why* ?

« Last post by Eóin on January 26, 2010, 12:38 PM »

Here I go again

Without a doubt C++ because

• it's absolutely everywhere.
• there are libraries availible for everything.
• compiles to native code.
• when you start using modern C++ libraries like Boost you feel like you've truly moved away API and c-runtime coding and are actually working in a high level abstraction layer.
• when you get into some of the really advanced template stuff like DSELs (eg phoenix2) you begin to see the amazing power of the language.

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Living Room / Re: Bad Code Offset

« Last post by Eóin on January 25, 2010, 12:49 PM »

Note The Daily WTF link is incorrect, it's missing the 'the'

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Developer's Corner / Re: Resources for learning git?

« Last post by Eóin on January 23, 2010, 11:27 AM »

The original blog seems to be down but check out this pdf of the article I found online, it's a excellent brief intro the branches and merges.

http://ietl.univ-lyo...rging_by_example.pdf. I also attached it in-case the pdf disappears from the web too.

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Developer's Corner / Re: Like gitHub, but better

« Last post by Eóin on January 23, 2010, 11:13 AM »

I use git all the time. Mostly I use it in the server-client role in the sense that I'm always push my work to a server through ssh and all the other machines just pull and push from that. But the ability to continue working even if offline is a huge bonus.

Also if anyone has tried to manage branches or merges with say CVS or subversion you'll be in for a treat with git, it's just so intuitive how it works.

Finally anyone using git on Windows, I'd highly recommend using TortoiseGit with it, it's a joy to use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just discovered a HUGE annoyance in Windows 7

« Last post by Eóin on January 18, 2010, 02:02 PM »

I believe that you select the disk and go 'Properties >> Security (T) >> Advanced (B) >> Owner(T) >> Edit (B)' where (B) is a button and (T) a tab. Then select your user account, tick 'Replace owner on subcontainers and objects' and click ok. One or two folder like system volume info might give an access error but just click continue.

Disclaimer, I'm no expert, this has never caused me any issues but I can't promise it's perfect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just discovered a HUGE annoyance in Windows 7

« Last post by Eóin on January 18, 2010, 10:14 AM »

The harddisk issue is just simply that the files were created on another OS and so aren't owned by the Win7 user accounts.

In honesty UAC does need a bit of a attitude change but almost all cases of improving security there is some increased effort on behalf of the user.

Also a guess about the hot keys, perhaps they weren't setup with the application running with admin privileges hence those hot keys don't apply to privileged process. Only a guess but it would be the most appropriate behavior. User applications shouldn't be allowed disrupt admin programs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just discovered a HUGE annoyance in Windows 7

« Last post by Eóin on January 18, 2010, 06:14 AM »

If you guys are trying to scare me from upgrading to W7 then you're doing a fine job! 

-Curt (January 18, 2010, 04:18 AM)

Win7 is flawless here for me on a range of machines, laptops and a netbook so don't panic just yet

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just discovered a HUGE annoyance in Windows 7

« Last post by Eóin on January 17, 2010, 03:47 PM »

Worse, apps are often unable to write to my own folders on the secondary, non-system hdd, where I keep all my data: access denied. These are folders where I do my work.

-tranglos (January 17, 2010, 09:31 AM)

That's just a permissions issue, make sure the Users group has write access through the Security tab in the harddisk properties.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Just discovered a HUGE annoyance in Windows 7

« Last post by Eóin on January 17, 2010, 03:22 PM »

Haven't missed the UAC one bit since disabling it.

-nite_monkey (January 17, 2010, 03:00 PM)

When you do miss it it'll be too late.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sandboxie goes 64 bit

« Last post by Eóin on January 05, 2010, 01:28 PM »

use Sandboxie to isolate and test software, not to provide watertight protection against malware.

-Lashiec (January 05, 2010, 01:01 PM)

Same here so I'm delighted to see it back. It is important to remember the security weakness though.

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Living Room / Re: Sex Doesn't Sell

« Last post by Eóin on January 05, 2010, 07:53 AM »

Well I didn't mean such a technique never has a place, but what I meant to highlight was that surely a sex scene is as valid in a film as any other.

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Living Room / Re: Sex Doesn't Sell

« Last post by Eóin on January 04, 2010, 07:39 PM »

The "ancient" way of fading to black is really much better. There are rare circumstances when a sex scene can be a part of a plot, but like I said... rare.

-Renegade (January 04, 2010, 04:57 PM)

This approach has been mentioned a couple of times, but surely implying things are happening is defeating the point of the medium. I mean you could fade out the action scenes, the emotional scenes, the establishing shots? Where do you stop? The medium is there to tell and portray a story, otherwise we could all just read the synopsis.

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Living Room / Re: Sex Doesn't Sell

« Last post by Eóin on January 04, 2010, 09:57 AM »

Surely subtle interpertations and messages shouldn't affect box-office performance, rather just the overall tone of a movie.

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Living Room / Re: Ten Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

« Last post by Eóin on January 03, 2010, 05:43 PM »

Perhaps we should add pronunciation errors, too. I'm ready for this century to be "20_._" as in "Twenty-ten," not Two-thousand ten. Yet the idiots on my TeeVee keep saying the latter. I don't remember them saying "Nineteen hundred seventy-five"!

-zridling (January 01, 2010, 06:39 PM)

You have something to do with this site Zaine? http://www.twentynot2000.com/

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Living Room / Re: 2010: Will it be better than 2009?

« Last post by Eóin on January 03, 2010, 04:31 AM »

I'm optimistic

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Living Room / Re: Sex Doesn't Sell

« Last post by Eóin on January 03, 2010, 04:30 AM »

Correlation does not imply causation.