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I used it a lot and was very happy with. Whenever something got installed on my computer I did not like, I used System Restore to fix the problem. Maybe did not work well for your crashes, but did extremely well at getting rid of unwanted applications that did not want to play nice in the sandbox.
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If the purpose of said sandbox is isolation, then I'll stick with VMs. I could just never tell with any certainty what it is System Restore would leave alone, and what it would roll back.
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That is definately a good solution. Certainly makes testing easy since have a clean system to start with. Just not sure I want to always work with a VM. They are probably better now, but at one time there were some issues is planning to use as a desktop machine.
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I've switched to VMs a few years back and I'm not going back to bare metal. Full system backups are trivial, and the ability to create a checkpoint, try something, then rollback everything back is a godsend as a developer. And since all the (virtualized) hardware looks the same to guest operating systems, I find support for Linux (if that's your thing) to work even better than installing it on real hardware and then fiddling with driver configuration files.
Unless I had a need to directly talk to hardware, I couldn't see myself doing it differently.
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What do you run your VMs under?
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Hyper-V. I was first introduced to virtualization through VMware, but frankly for my own needs here at home, I just find Hyper-V easier to manage.
I know some people claim VMware provides better physical hardware support (ie, accessing USB devices plugged into the host), but I've never really had a need for that.
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Very familiar with Hyper-V. In addition to what you point out is can be much better integrated with Windows since Microsoft controls both. Not sure VMWare would work as well, but maybe. The only other one I know of it the old 2005 Virtual Server I think it is called, and it is pretty old now.
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Somehow I doubt you could even install Virtual Server on a recent version of Windows. I remember using it along with Virtual PC back in the day. Never tried VirtualBox.
I've had the misfortune of having to use VMware's ESX virtual server (running on bare metal). People at my office somehow managed to get it "disconnected" from the drives hosting the virtual machines at one point, and could never get it going again.
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Two or three years ago, Stack Overflow was highly active and would frequently astound me.
My recent experience was a total zero. Not only did I not get a useful answer, I don't think I got a single response.
I just checked; two weeks, 27 views (twenty seven, not a typo).
Another question received 6 views in a week.
Somebody check my math: That's about 1.5 viewers per question per day.
Zero-Clue-King here; what happened ?
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C-P-User-3 wrote: two weeks, 27 views
To increase view count, you have to tag your question with "Pokemon Go"
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It's awesome!
I already asked 7 questions reached 22 in reputation and received 5 answers!
Soon I will be able to answer other people's too!
All of that in only 2 years! 
Just to be clear... my first line was sarcastic! 
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Have to agree that is pretty lame. I do not know how many times I have tried to vote and have been told I need 15 points. Does not tell me how many points I have or how to actually get points. Have not tried to answer any questions, but if you need points to answer I can understand why it is useless.
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Yes, you need point to answer!  
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No, anyone can post an answer (unless they've earned themselves a ban anyway). Voting is gated behind having a small amount of reputation as an anti-vandalism control.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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mm.. commenting then is gated?
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On other people's posts yes[^]; I'm pretty sure commenting on your own questions and answers is free from the start though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I have no idea how long I have been using SO, many years at least, I have never asked a question there, I think I may have answered or at least attempted to answer a few questions.
However I find it an awesome source and is the main reason I have not had to ask questions here! As a community I think it is a non starter but as a knowledge source it is excellent.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Curious.
Maybe nobody knew the answer. Try editing the question, maybe that will make it appear in the recent list. And did you give the question appropriate tags?
I have found SO to be a good resource of knowledge.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: And did you give the question appropriate tags?
I gave it five tags, all relevant.
I will assume that the 27 people who viewed the question were experts in the "C" and "C++" subject, with no knowledge of NetBeans.
I am now starting to question my decision to use NetBeans. The screen shots from its website present a very nice looking user interface for an IDE. I'll invest eight more hours in trying to gain minimal competency before I abandon it.
If there is no workable support community, then I have defacto zero hope of learning how to use something as complicated as that package.
Yes, I have joined the NetBeans Community[^] and have also asked similar (possibly the same) questions on their NetBeans Forums[^]. So far, no response there either.
It appears that the NetBeans community is about 40,000 (forty thousand) in number, and evidently they are quite busy with their lives; which is what I would like to become.
At the moment, I have found no one on the NetBeans forums, nor here on CodeProject, nor over on Stack Overflow, who had the answers about how to configure the compiler and the make facility to fit into the IDE.
Perhaps CygWin is complicating my experience.
TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Maybe nobody knew the answer. ... I have found SO to be a good resource of knowledge.
Yes, you and me both ! My experience gave me higher expectations than what I am observing today with these questions.
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Isn't NetBeans a Java thingy? And yet you're asking about C/C++? I guess it must be some interop situation. Yeah, maybe not a lot of experts in that and those who are are probably busy...
Good luck.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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It's primarily known as a Java IDE, but it has pretty good C++ support as well.
Using NetBeans for C++ is relatively uncommon, though, and it's likely even less common among SO's members. That probably explains the lack of an answer.
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makes sense
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I usually don't ask: I search and research. The whole reason CP has been allowed in my workplace is that MSDN often directs here or on SO.
In almost 5 years of professional developement very rarely I have found answers on SO and most of them are in ages old topics - coincidentally even on MSDN the real juice is on old pages, rarely linked or accessible anymore.
The most common answer on SO is: "what you're trying to do is wrong"... well maybe not my dear smartaxe, either you know how to solve or shut the flock up! Here at least there are articles.
EDIT: lack-of-coffeine-induced typos
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
modified 24-Aug-16 3:37am.
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I agree with you. Alot of toxic in stackoverflow. I upvote you
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Get a room you two! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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