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This struck a chord with me.
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Just got a popup in Word notifying me that it could no longer show misspellings as there are too many.
I guess that's what happens when you write a 100+ page document in Word with tons of code examples. 
On the bright side, all those annoying red lines are finally gone!
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There is a place in Word where you can turn off that "feature" without waiting for it to go over limit. 
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Since English isn't my native language I have to rely quite lot to the spelling features. What I often do is that I define a separate style for coding. While using different formatting like font for the code I also disable the spelling check for that specific style.
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Wendelius wrote: Since English isn't my native language I have to rely quite lot to the spelling features.
I find it useful too, as it often catches error like "there" or "their" or when my neurons in my fingers type something that they often type in code but the brain wanted a slightly different word in English (can't quite think of an example right now.)
Wendelius wrote: What I often do is that I define a separate style for coding.
Unfortunately I have to write this in the template the publisher provided, and my template-fu is non-existent for figuring out how to tweak it for that. 
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Only slightly different? You have is easy...
My coding fingers and my brain seem to be settled on the agreement that the word only needs to start with the same letter. It usually takes considerable conscious effort to type real sentences these days.
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For some unfortunate reasons I still have to use WinXP, running in a VirtualBox. After installing .NET 4.0 I get some kind of I/O stutter, which shows by the mouse pointer getting stuck in place or keyboard input not being recognized for roughly a second. I had the same thing when XP was still running "outside" of VirtualBox, so I don't think it's a VirtualBox issue.
I have zero clue how I could remedy or investigate this further. Google isn't helping. Anyone got some kind of idea?
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Following WinXP, Microsoft made an effort to make the OS more game friendly by improving the async handling of commands. I do not think there is any kind of 'fix' within WinXP.
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More details needed. Type of keyboard and mouse? Type of machine (basics).
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Are you kidding me? He's running it in a VM.
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Not at all. Let's say he was a wireless mouse. Not unusual at all to have performance issues with these things.
I would dig into the polling rate for the mouse. Smells like the 4.0 update changed some behavior. Long ago, I always tried to avoid a s/w polled mouse - you were very dependent on your system performance. It's been years since I worried about it, as the processors are just so fast it's not much of an issue.
I use VM Workstation, and one of the chronic issues there is with the vm tools going bat crap crazy. It has gotten better, but when things go south, the first thing you try is a re-installation of vm tools.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Meanwhile I made a new observation: Looks like it's not specifically I/O but the task scheduling as a whole that freezes up.
Keyboard is a Cherry MX3000 connected via PS/2, Mouse is a Logitech G5 (USB..). Host system is a i7-2600 running Windows 7. No problems there at all. Only in the WinXP-VirtualBox and only after installing .NET 4.0.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Sascha Lefèvre wrote: Google isn't helping
BLASPHEMY! Google knows all!
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Hi,
If your mouse is freezing in the VM... then I doubt there is much you can do about it besides upgrading to a better CPU with a larger L1,L2,L3 CPU cache and perhaps more cores. That's a clear sign of thread i/o starvation in the VirtualBox parent process.
I would be willing to bet that the root cause is TLB cache misses...
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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Hi All,
Passed my probation period, got my branded jacket and am a full employee now, so I thought I would celebrate by logging in on my PC and not just my phone to make weird and wonderful comments again! 
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Welcome back to work and congrats on getting the Job!
Rules for the FOSW ![ ^]
if(this.signature != "")
{
MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature);
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found");
}
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glennPattonWork wrote: so I thought I would celebrate
Yes its a Friday
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What a weird thing to say.
Congratulations, by the way, I'm glad all your hard work paid off.
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Congrats!
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Excellent!
And you remembered your password as well! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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There are moves afoot to put me on to the IET, IEC, IE something traing course, so I might be taught the correct way that does not involve finger print loss...
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I am glad you caught the specific wording, and, yes, protect your fingers.
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Take caution, if they check your speling they may still change their minds... 
... such stuff as dreams are made on
modified 27-Oct-17 8:10am.
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