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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 16, 2012, 10:55 AM »
^ Pretty much what I think.  Other than the bit about prostitution.  Well, prostitution that doesn't involve pimps.  I don't hold the same disdain- they're people like any other, and the negative connotations I have are associated with johns that have other obligations.  A police friend of mine once told me they busted a guy with a ring and a baby seat in the back.  That's low.
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Hooooooraaaaaaaay!!!! Cathy works again on my x64 Win7 machine!!!!  :Thmbsup:  :onfire: :eusa_dance:

The solution: removing the registry entries created by Cathy (I deleted this HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\rOva and everything beneath)

That's why it did work when I logged in with another account. (HKEY_CURRENT_USER)
D'oh!  I thought after you said that the permissions didn't work... then what about the registry?  But most portable apps don't use the registry, either, so I discarded that in favor of permissions. *headdesk*

Glad you got it working!
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 15, 2012, 10:10 PM »
I don't understand why people defend the troll's free speech but condemn the gawker author's free speech of outing him. :huh:

As I said in one of my posts on the subject elsewhere, everyone is responsible for their own use of the right of free speech, and the consequences thereof.  Truthfully, I don't agree with either- him doing it, or their capitalizing on it.  The writer says that it was "to bring it to light" like it was a charitable act, when it really was to make a scoop and get hits.  Just like his was to get attention, basically.  People compare this to someone outing a sexual predator that hasn't been punished or something, when comparing the two acts is comparing apples and oranges.  Both acts were self-serving, truthfully.
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 15, 2012, 09:57 PM »
He doesn't seem to be taking the hang tough and screw you approach.  If you read the stuff he posts on reddit, he says that the whole thing is his fault.  He just says he wouldn't change anything other than the trusting people stuff.  The stuff he posts is pretty abhorrent, and I don't agree with it.  But I don't think its worthy of a witch hunt...
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 15, 2012, 07:59 PM »
Called It.  He's done.
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^ Some people just don't want Java on their machines.  Not saying that there's anything wrong with it.. but some people say the same about .NET, or even the VBRuntime back in the day.  It's a decision, like any other...
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Does Cathy only write to the local folder?
I would think so, since it is portable.

Portable only means that it doesn't need a specific location present at run time, not that it doesn't use another location temporarily.  It's just that if it works for a different user, it seems that permissions is the right path to go down.
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Have you tried making a new user account and testing from there?
I have tried that and guess what: Cathy works as expected for that new user account. (location= C:\tools\catalog\cathy)
Of course that is no workable solution...

It proves - once again - that Cathy can work under Win7 x64 without problems.

Now, what does that mean?
And how could I make Cathy work under my own account?

That does seem to point to permissions problems.  Does Cathy only write to the local folder?  Is there possibly another folder that you don't have access to?  I'd think not... just going over the possible problems.  If not, though, I'd suggest checking the security for the folder Cathy is running in, and set specific permissions for your user on that folder rather than depending on the default user permissions.  Also check to make sure what groups your user is in to make sure that your user groups are what you think they should be.
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2012, 03:11 PM »
Going back to Brutsch - considering some of the pictures he's posted, I think losing his job may be the least of his worries considering how so much of his antics involved photos of minors. With the publicity that's bound to ensue once the main newswires start picking up on this story, somebody in some official capacity is going to be forced to consider charges and possible prosecution. Be interesting to see if it's the feds or some state that goes first. (It's an election year. Spanking somebody like this guy makes for good campaign copy.)

But that's assuming somebody doesn't come gunning for him first and make it all very simple.

I don't disagree that someone might *try*, but as long as (a) the photos are not in the child pornography range and (b) they were obtained from the sources he says (facebook, twitter, etc), then it's not going to fly.  From my understanding, they were sexualized, but not explicit.  And considering what I see on facebook, twitter, and even at malls, that's not going to hold up.  And truthfully, I don't think that either side is pristine in that regard, i.e. adults shouldn't be looking at tweens in that way, but (and I know this is not considered PC), they shouldn't be dressing in that way either.
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2012, 11:38 AM »
In my home state it might not be that easy unless you could show it affected the person's ability to perform their job.

Is your state an exception to the At-Will employment laws?  It says he's in Texas, so he's pretty much screwed.
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Living Room / Re: Outing the Internet's worst troll.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 14, 2012, 10:44 AM »
But the thing about this 'outing' (not saying whether bad or good) is that if he works for a financial services company, and someone truly outed him (i.e. said Michael Brutsch if XX company), he'd most likely lose his job.  Its happened before...
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Living Room / Re: How Many Planets Are There?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 13, 2012, 10:30 PM »
By my definition, 10.  Pluto and his lil bro count.   ;)  8)

I'm with you.
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Living Room / Re: Kids E-Book Ideas?
« Last post by wraith808 on October 13, 2012, 10:29 PM »
I will say, that the thing I like more about the kindle as compared to the nook is that your account supports anything you send to it, so you don't have the whole syncing thing to get non-kindle books on it.  That said, like you said it doesn't support epub and the Nook does.  Calibre is apparently good enough to make up for that, though I've never used it with my daughter's Nook.
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Living Room / Re: Six Strikes Plan - U.S.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 07:24 PM »
That link is there too... not a big deal, but just wanted to point you to the discussion.
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Living Room / Re: Six Strikes Plan - U.S.
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 04:56 PM »
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Track My Stuff!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 02:37 PM »
i know we're off topic (in my own topic to boot!), but have you played with Clojure at all?  That's what I'd planned to learn functional programming in, but knowing a bit of Java already was what made me sit up and take notice of your link, and I wondered if you had any opinions on the merits of the two.
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Track My Stuff!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 02:19 PM »
Also, it would be a chance to do something simple in Play2 and Scala to get familiar with the stuff

Ooh... thanks for that!  I'm going to have to figure out something *else* to build to try those out! ;D
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And TechSupportAlert has a list of several of them: http://www.techsuppo...atalog-organizer.htm
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Bead Designer
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 12:24 PM »
Do you have a roadmap for what features you're going to include?  Just asking b/c I know my daughter loves doing this, and as you said, she uses graph paper and colored pencils right now.
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you could also try the compatibility mode settings
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Track My Stuff!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 07:58 AM »
I personally think TaoPhoenix has a pretty useful insight, and it is one I've subnconsciously followed for all of my apps as well.

It's not that... it just seems a bit premature.  After all, I've only posted an initial precis, and it wasn't really a suggestion like hey maybe you could put this in there to make it more useful or anything like that.  Don't know... just struck me in the wrong way at the time.  Not a big deal, and like I said, most of my apps are created at that intersection of useful for me and useful for learning something/honing skills, and this falls at that intersection.
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Bead Designer
« Last post by wraith808 on October 12, 2012, 07:54 AM »
That looks cool!  And I agree that when (not if!) you finish, you should seek an OEM deal :)
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Pledge: Track My Stuff!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2012, 08:21 PM »
^ That sounds rather... premature.  And a bit negative.  But, we'll see.
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: And so it begins.. NANY 2013
« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2012, 05:36 PM »
Well, I figured almost meant 'I could do it now' :)
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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / NANY 2013 Withdrawn: Track My Stuff!
« Last post by wraith808 on October 11, 2012, 05:36 PM »
NANY 2013 Entry Information

Application NameTrack My Stuff!
Short DescriptionTrack your items and who you lent them to.
Supported OSesWindows XP/Vista/7
Setup FileTBA
DescriptionI have a lot of xbox games because I don't trade them in because I play sporadically.  So when my son's friends come over, they want to borrow games.  I don't mind- but I also don't play enough to notice when they haven't returned them.  This was my solution.
FeaturesTracks your items, and who currently has them.  Customizable description fields, and image of item.
ScreenshotsComing Soon
InstallationWith .NET 4.0 installed, unzip application to location and run.
UninstallingDelete application install location.
NotesRequires .NET 4.0.

I had to cancel this last year... but I will make it this year!
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