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As they say in the Royal Navy:
A good officer is one who makes decisions quickly.
If those decisions turn out to be the right ones, then so much the better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is like the Queueing Paradox. whichever queue you pick the others are faster but moving will make the original queue quicker.
Vilmos, @ Excel London, Queueing
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Queueing is the reason for the existence of Excel...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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This is the place not Dave's favourite sw.
M$ ballax all around.
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Every time I've been to ExCeL, London it's been a disappointment: more time standing in queues that looking at anything useful.
And don't get me started on the Docklands Light Railway...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And don't get me started on the Docklands Light Railway... Getting started on it is half the problem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My missus annoys me with this, because she'll insist on going to a queue with six people with baskets, rather than one with two people with full trolleys, even though she's seen that the "shorter" queue clears faster every time.
It's the people who consume the time, not the item-scanning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Put's me in mind of Rimmer's revision timetable.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yes, but it was beautifully coloured...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Some time?
Most of the time?
Let me think about that a little more.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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OriginalGriff wrote: how many of you do spend more time trying to decide "which is quicker" than the task would have taken if you had gone either way instead. Hmm... Good question... Let me think.... Can I get back to you on that?
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OriginalGriff wrote: spend more time trying to decide "which is quicker"
Oh, you mean like the whole year I took trying to decide between two techniques for a game I wrote? Eventually I chose the easy way.
Or how about another application I started back in 2009. Creating the database and DAL took about a week. Getting most of the core features working took only a couple of months. Then I needed to decide between two other (vital) features. In the last five years all I've done on it was to replace the DAL so it can work with either SQL Server or SQL Server CE at the user's discretion. I still haven't decide what to do about those other features, and the app is useless without at least one of them.
I guess I know how I'll spend tomorrow...
modified 10-Nov-14 22:12pm.
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I was using CamStudio; great stuff.
Hard Drive crashed, had to reinstall.
Bad stuff now.
Install program puts malware on your machine.
Best I can tell, I got it from here: http://www.camstudio.org[^]
Does anyone know where I can get the real CamStudio from the real source ?
I search, and I see SourceForge and CNET and several sites with names that scare me after my most recent attempt to download (what I thought was) a legitimate copy.
Can anybody vouch for a site that has the real one ?
The accurate working URL would be a real favor.
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What's wrong with the green download button here[^]?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Scroll down about a page and read the comments.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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It seems to me, that those last two comments are related to the site you saw...
I downloaded the exe and installed (also checked with antivirus) and got nothing...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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You actually downloaded and installed it just to check if it actually contains any malware?!
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Yes. I'm working in a VMs...so in worst case I can re-create the VM...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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So did I. That's what VMs are for.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can't find any problems with the official download, but if it still worries you, I've got an older version archived.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Okay, we have two witnesses here that the site in question has a clean copy ?
I had a disk crash and reinstalled a bunch of apps; I think every one of them was done by Ninite.
When I put CamStudio on, then the dance of the annoyance-ware started. Every page I opened in my browser popped up warnings about detected malware. (New hard drive; freshly installed apps; Ninite; uh-huh)
I did a restore back to before the Ninite install, reinstalled a bunch of apps all en-masse, and the behavior disappeared.
I'll wait another day and see if anyone else says the copy from his site is okay or malware.
Thanks to both of you for testing it (!) I didn't expect that.
Assuming you two are correct, then I will forever wonder how the malware writer tricked me on that one.
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Update on CamStudio
Just went back to the original site, downloaded the file.
Old (evil, wicked) install was already on hard drive.
When I put the downloaded zip file in my installs directory, there was a file conflict.
Same name, different file. Both are showing up with Malware from various virus scanners.
I will search for an alternative, and start another thread later.
This is quite discouraging, and impedes my plans by a major factor.
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Hi chaps -
writing comp, the topic is "Chris Maunder and the Mystery of Fig Tree Pocket" - the prize is entertainment and the adoration and adulation of your peers.
Make it say - 3 paragraphs max.
Bryce
MCAD
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I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, but a place name like "Fig Tree Pocket" cannot go unused...
There once was a girl with a locket
Who stuck it into a mains socket
But CP's own Chris
He knew what was amiss
She's a nut who comes from Fig Tree Pocket
Don't expect me to make a habit of this.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
modified 9-Nov-14 19:32pm.
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"Damn Kid, get your arse out of here and don't-cha come back ya' hear"
Maunder skittered out of the yard tearing away from Mr Wright's house in Fig Tree Pocket - or as the local kids called him - Mad Old Wogger. Luckily Chris still had his screwdriver set and electronics gear in hand - he'd dropped a resistor or three - but he could pick those up from the shop anytime. Luckily Old Wogger didn't have his legendary shotgun handy or Chris was sure a round or two of rocksalt and beans would be flying in the general direction of his fast moving posterior. He rounded the corner, stopped and caught his breath while leaning on a Jacaranda tree.
Old Wogger's house was rumored to be be the testing lab for a new type of server - Mad Old Wogger, the story went, had been working on new ways of generating power for it from pure alcohol without burning it. No one was sure where the rumours started, Chris had initially thought that Dalek Dave had concocted it for a laugh, however the stacks of whiskey bottles and spare electrical equipment in the bins behind the house seemed to confirm the theory. It was also true that most the kids of the neighborhood had been trying for weeks to figure out exactly what was going on in Old Wogger's basement and Chris had been trying to set up a monitoring system with a new fibre optic camera threaded through the basement window
"Sh*t" thought Chris- "I left my iBook behind."
From a distance he heard whooping and then maniacal laughter.
*boom* went the shotgun.
MCAD
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modified 9-Nov-14 22:19pm.
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