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Why Educational Technology Has Failed Schools
Terrific answers for why Khan Academy is so great! Here is a related essay I wrote in 2007: http://patapata.sourceforge.net/WhyEducationalTechnologyHasFailedSchools.html
"Ultimately, educational technology's greatest value is in supporting "learning on demand" based on interest or need which is at the opposite end of the spectrum compared to "learning just in case" based on someone else's demand. Compulsory schools don't usually traffic in "learning on demand", for the most part leaving that kind of activity to libraries or museums or the home or business or the "real world". In order for compulsory schools to make use of the best of educational technology and what is has to offer, schools themselves must change.
So, there is more to the story of technology than it failing in schools. Modern information and manufacturing technology itself is giving compulsory schools a failing grade. Compulsory schools do not pass in the information age. They are no longer needed. What remains is just to watch this all play out, and hopefully guide the collapse of compulsory schooling so that the fewest people get hurt in the process.Loved that Javascript workaround explained in one answer for the year-long cache problem.
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In favor of it IF you reported it 1st to adversely
Affected vendor, as I did (& the parent poster to my post too) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3489093&cid=42995009
"Which is sad because it's a valid point that you're trying to make, sometimes the name & shame strategy does work." - by Thruen (753567) on Sunday February 24, @09:19AM (#42995051)
It does & CAN, especially if you do it FAIRLY (as I stated in my subject-line above - confront the adversely affected vendor, first... only right & fair to do, imo @ least!).
THAT, is truly "responsible disclosure"
So, yes - I agree, 110%: It IS or can be, something that works...
NOW - what I noted on MS' IP stack & custom hosts files?
Hey, on MY part??
That's NOT the only "fix" I've helped make with vendors over time!
(Even giving them code to do it as with UltraDefrag64 more recently -> (A 64-bit FREE defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873 (I could've posted BETTER code too, lol, but it works in concept porting from Delphi Object-Pascal to C/C++ easily enough).
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 )
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ALSO as I did with FireFox/Mozilla folks years beforehand who came right into NTCompatible.com with us, & helped fix it with the site's owner/webmaster, Philip.
Thus: BOTH issues were patched with my suggestions & notifying them...
From smaller vendors too!
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BOTH companies in FF & UltraDefrag64 were better about it by FAR, unlike MS, whom I notified YEARS AGO, though... & right to the head of the division concerned with PERFORMANCE too, no less!
(& that IS performance gains I proved & he even conceded... nothing was done!).
APK
P.S.=> So, do I agree with "name & shame" tactics? Yes, but... ONLY if you report it validly to the concerned software maker 'oem', first! Only fair...
... apk
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In favor of it IF you reported it 1st to adversely
Affected vendor, as I did (& the parent poster to my post too) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3489093&cid=42995009
"Which is sad because it's a valid point that you're trying to make, sometimes the name & shame strategy does work." - by Thruen (753567) on Sunday February 24, @09:19AM (#42995051)
It does & CAN, especially if you do it FAIRLY (as I stated in my subject-line above - confront the adversely affected vendor, first... only right & fair to do, imo @ least!).
THAT, is truly "responsible disclosure"
So, yes - I agree, 110%: It IS or can be, something that works...
NOW - what I noted on MS' IP stack & custom hosts files?
Hey, on MY part??
That's NOT the only "fix" I've helped make with vendors over time!
(Even giving them code to do it as with UltraDefrag64 more recently -> (A 64-bit FREE defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873 (I could've posted BETTER code too, lol, but it works in concept porting from Delphi Object-Pascal to C/C++ easily enough).
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 )
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ALSO as I did with FireFox/Mozilla folks years beforehand who came right into NTCompatible.com with us, & helped fix it with the site's owner/webmaster, Philip.
Thus: BOTH issues were patched with my suggestions & notifying them...
From smaller vendors too!
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BOTH companies in FF & UltraDefrag64 were better about it by FAR, unlike MS, whom I notified YEARS AGO, though... & right to the head of the division concerned with PERFORMANCE too, no less!
(& that IS performance gains I proved & he even conceded... nothing was done!).
APK
P.S.=> So, do I agree with "name & shame" tactics? Yes, but... ONLY if you report it validly to the concerned software maker 'oem', first! Only fair...
... apk
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In favor of it IF you reported it 1st to adversely
Affected vendor, as I did (& the parent poster to my post too) -> http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3489093&cid=42995009
"Which is sad because it's a valid point that you're trying to make, sometimes the name & shame strategy does work." - by Thruen (753567) on Sunday February 24, @09:19AM (#42995051)
It does & CAN, especially if you do it FAIRLY (as I stated in my subject-line above - confront the adversely affected vendor, first... only right & fair to do, imo @ least!).
THAT, is truly "responsible disclosure"
So, yes - I agree, 110%: It IS or can be, something that works...
NOW - what I noted on MS' IP stack & custom hosts files?
Hey, on MY part??
That's NOT the only "fix" I've helped make with vendors over time!
(Even giving them code to do it as with UltraDefrag64 more recently -> (A 64-bit FREE defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873 (I could've posted BETTER code too, lol, but it works in concept porting from Delphi Object-Pascal to C/C++ easily enough).
Which ended up fixing a "bug" for them later, here -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/ via its implementation (partially, NOT fully yet as I outline it & use in my applications such as this one -> http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&id=5851:apk-hosts-file-engine-64bit-version&Itemid=74 )
---
ALSO as I did with FireFox/Mozilla folks years beforehand who came right into NTCompatible.com with us, & helped fix it with the site's owner/webmaster, Philip.
Thus: BOTH issues were patched with my suggestions & notifying them...
From smaller vendors too!
---
BOTH companies in FF & UltraDefrag64 were better about it by FAR, unlike MS, whom I notified YEARS AGO, though... & right to the head of the division concerned with PERFORMANCE too, no less!
(& that IS performance gains I proved & he even conceded... nothing was done!).
APK
P.S.=> So, do I agree with "name & shame" tactics? Yes, but... ONLY if you report it validly to the concerned software maker 'oem', first! Only fair...
... apk
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Re:Scheme looks scary and unreadable to me
Addendum: All Lisp and C programmers should watch the video:
Readable Lisp S-expressions: Curly-infix-, Neoteric-, and Sweet-expressions
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Curly-infix-expressions are just abbreviations
Curly-infix-expressions (as well as sweet-expressions, which are a superset) are just additional abbreviations. In curly-infix, the surrounding "{...}" indicate that it's a list, but that parameters are written in a different order than they are actually stored. So {a + b + c} is just (+ a b c). We're now wrapping up sweet-expression notation, which is a superset that uses syntactically-relevant indentation (like Python). Check out http://readable.sourceforge.net/ for more info, and in particular, please join the mailing list!!
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Guile supports curly-infix, too!
Another cool thing about GNU guile is that the most recent version supports SRFI-105, "curly-infix-expressions", as developed by the Readable Lisp S-expressions Project. Curly-infix expressions let you write stuff like {a + b} instead of (+ a b), which is a big improvement in readability.
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Re:What about Save As PDF
That's what PDFCreator is for. Just beware the bundled toolbar.
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The day you've done as much in computing?
Is the day you can talk to me that way, & as a peer (if not superior). So, show us you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER (perhaps most importantly, so I know I am speaking to a peer in years, instead of some child) than I have in the art & science of computing:
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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upo
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The day you've done as much in computing?
Is the day you can talk to me that way, & as a peer (if not superior). So, show us you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER (perhaps most importantly, so I know I am speaking to a peer in years, instead of some child) than I have in the art & science of computing:
---
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
----
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upo
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osFree
Have you looked at osFree? (It had a different website, but now, that one requires authorization) It is something similar to IBM's Workplace OS that they tried to design for PowerPC, except that instead of Mach 3, it's based on the L4 microkernel. It has 4 user-interface, or personality APIs and shells - the native one that provides all the L4 services, the PM shell, a win32 shell and a win16 shell. (In case one is wondering about Linux, there is already a Linux distro called L4Linux, similar to the MkLinux that Apple once helped make.) Of the items in your above list, only the OS/2 kernel is totally replaced by the L4 microkernel. The neatest part of this is that the L4 microkernel is written entirely in C/C++ and the little that was written in x86 assembly has been replaced as well. Its portability to various RISC platforms has been verified. So anybody who takes this could port it to other CPUs, such as PPC, ARM, MIPS, OpenRISC, Itanium et al. You mention osFree code at the end - why not just adapt that, and solve your problems? You'd still have the issue of native apps - something that was always there w/ OS/2 as well, but you have a clean start. As long as all the software being used is open sourced, they can be ported to this and supported. And best part - the multi core architecture, as well as the bonanza of RAM available (compared to when OS/2 was running on 16MB) would make such an OS really fly!
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Re:blurb answers its own question
More likely, it hasn't taken off because people haven't found the right way to use it. 3D file browsers have been around since the early 90s at least (Jurassic Park anyone? "It's UNIX! I know this!"), and while they're kind of cool they're just not as fast and intuitive as the standard 2D systems.
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Re:Do not want
Try pinfo. From the description:
Pinfo is an info file viewer. It was created when the author, Przemek Borys, was very depressed trying to read gtk info entries using the standard tools.
Pinfo is similar in use to lynx. It has similar key movements, and gives similar intuition. You just move across info nodes, and select links, follow them... Well, you know how it is when you view html with lynx.
Believe me, it's a lifesaver for reading info pages.
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Proof's in the pudding (small sample)
IF you're attempting to "condescend to me" & that's what I perceive here? Think again ( + show me you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing on YOUR part to your name/credit):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
----
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they
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Proof's in the pudding (small sample)
IF you're attempting to "condescend to me" & that's what I perceive here? Think again ( + show me you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing on YOUR part to your name/credit):
"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
----
What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they
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Re:Am I blind?
Please do NOT bring this type of feature into the Linux kernel.
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Troll - time to make YOU look stupid... apk
You admit being off-topic & that = troll. As to being stupid, on my part? LMAO: See subject-line, & this challenge to you then:
The day you can show me that you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing from this only PARTIAL list of only SOME of my "favorites" over time:
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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
----
Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the
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Troll - time to make YOU look stupid... apk
You admit being off-topic & that = troll. As to being stupid, on my part? LMAO: See subject-line, & this challenge to you then:
The day you can show me that you've done MORE, BETTER, & EARLIER than I have in the art & science of computing from this only PARTIAL list of only SOME of my "favorites" over time:
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"My Name is Ozymandias: King of Kings - Look upon my works, ye mighty, & DESPAIR..."
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Windows NT Magazine (now Windows IT Pro) April 1997 "BACK OFFICE PERFORMANCE" issue, page 61
(&, for work done for EEC Systems/SuperSpeed.com on PAID CONTRACT (writing portions of their SuperCache program increasing its performance by up to 40% via my work) albeit, for their SuperDisk & HOW TO APPLY IT, took them to a finalist position @ MS Tech Ed, two years in a row 2000-2002, in its HARDEST CATEGORY: SQLServer Performance Enhancement).
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, 1997, "Top Freeware & Shareware of the Year" issue page 210, #1/first entry in fact (my work is there)
PC-WELT FEB 1998 - page 84, again, my work is featured there
WINDOWS MAGAZINE, WINTER 1998 - page 92, insert section, MUST HAVE WARES, my work is again, there
PC-WELT FEB 1999 - page 83, again, my work is featured there
CHIP Magazine 7/99 - page 100, my work is there
GERMAN PC BOOK, Data Becker publisher "PC Aufrusten und Repairen" 2000, where my work is contained in it
HOT SHAREWARE Numero 46 issue, pg. 54 (PC ware mag from Spain), 2001 my work is there, first one featured, yet again!
Also, a British PC Mag in 2002 for many utilities I wrote, saw it @ BORDERS BOOKS but didn't buy it... by that point, I had moved onto other areas in this field besides coding only...
Being paid for an article that made me money over @ PCPitstop in 2008 for writing up a guide that has people showing NO VIRUSES/SPYWARES & other screwups, via following its point, such as THRONKA sees here -> http://www.xtremepccentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=ee926d913b81bf6d63c3c7372fd2a24c&t=28430&page=3
It's also been myself helping out the folks at the UltraDefrag64 project (a 64-bit defragger for Windows), in showing them code for how to do Process Priority Control @ the GUI usermode/ring 3/rpl 3 level in their program (good one too), & being credited for it by their lead dev & his team... see here -> http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/handbook/Credits.html or here http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873
AND lastly: http://g-off.net/software/a-python-repeatable-threadingtimer-class where I got other programmer's work WORKING RIGHT (in PyThon no less, which I just started learning only 2 week ago no less) by showing them how to use a "Dummy Proxy Function" as I call it, to make a RepeatTimer class (Thread sub-class really) to take PARAMETERIZED FUNCTIONS, ala:
def apkthreadlaunch():
getnortonsafeweb(sAPKFileName = "APK_1_NortonSafeWeb360Extracted.txt".rstrip())a = RepeatTimer(900, apkthreadlaunch) # 900 is 15 minutes... apk
Where it was NOT working for many folks there, before (submitted to the maker of the RepeatTimer class no less, & yes, it WORKS!)
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What do I have to say about that much above? I can't say it any better, than this was stated already (from the greatest book of all time, the "tech manual for life" imo):
"But by the
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Re:Will this run from a Ubuntu on a USB stick
Of course it can run on a USB stick. Step by step:
Incidentally, some good utilities for "burning" an ISO to a USB stick are remastersys and unetbootin
The thing I like about remastersys is that it will use a snapshot of the host OS it's running on to create the ISO image! If you have customized boot scripts, firewall rules, etc this is the way to go.
Both utils are installable via apt/itutude: aptitude install remastersys-gtk unetbootin
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Re:Learn a language
I like brain training with a dual n-back program. You can almost get into a zen-like state when you really start concentrating.
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Re:Batch
Please explain. I'm under the impression that IBM sells a C/C++ compiler. And even failing that, doesn't gcc work?
Yes, IBM provides their own C/C++ compilers, there are a few third party commercial C compilers available (don't know about C++) and GCC works too (for instance http://gccmvs.sourceforge.net/, but google has more).
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Re:Learn COBOL.- Train your H1B replacement
Or better yet, translate their COBOL to Java and show the company how you can replace their mainframe with a cheaper solution.
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Re:iWatch
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Re:Two Month without adobe pdf and I feel ..
Besides Preview.app, I also recommend Skim.app.
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Re:You're Asking About A Windows App?
Well, you can try BleachBit for Linux.
I like that it handles compacting FF and TB databases too.
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Background Subtraction!
There's a cool trick called "background subtraction" that lets you watch only the pixels that are changing in a video. For an example, check out this open source software: Scene.
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wxCam is easy, for small stuff
I agree, Zoneminder is a mess. Although, potentially powerful enough for a large system. For smaller stuff, I've used wxCam (which supports motion detection, supposedly) but the image (or my webcam) seemed to darken/degrade over time.
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Re:Not surprising
It would work well in VirtualBox, if it weren't for a stupid VirtualBox bug.
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Re:You're Asking About A Windows App?
There's also a Linux version, dumbass.
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Re:Gnome is officially dead. KDE has won.
Gnome has always been on the wrong track from day 1. It was a political response to KDE's use of Qt (which was QPL back then) and always a mishmash of libraries and utility applications rather than a fundamentally solid desktop environment. That it might have been usable at some point is more luck than anything.
I don't use KDE (or GNOME, I prefer RiscOS On X because it's insanely fast and powerful), but at least KDE has had a solid vision from the get-go, if sometimes flawed.
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Re:Prototyping
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Re:Bloated, and not copyfree.
mplayer links to 95% of these as well.
"95%" is a ridiculous guess, but that's not what's important - what's important is whether those dependencies are feature-optional.
XBMC with all `make config` options disabled:
`make run-depends-list -C
`make build-depends-list -C
Mplayer as I use it to play anything and everything (with the following `make config` options enabled: RTCPU, OCFLAGS, X11, X11XV, THEORA, VPX, WIN32):
`make run-depends-list -C
`make build-depends-list -C
Mplayer runs without perl / python / tcl / bash, without any gnome stuff, etc. On Gentoo Linux (my favorite Linux distro before I went all BSD) it can even run on the framebuffer, with no X! I can understand why a media center might want to optionally support any number of plug-in scripting languages, database backends, GNOME desktop integration, network protocols (ex. SAMBA), etc - but making all of them mandatory is just bloat!
it is also very hard to see what makes us not be free software according to your definitions.
I said it's not " genuinely free", with the link explaining what I mean by "genuine" - but only in passing (see above).
the fact that you compare a media center to a mere command line player tells me you are barking up a tree you have never climbed.
First of all, mplayer is not "a mere command line player", it is a modular piece of software. It can be used with a GUI front-end or inside a Web browser. It can run as a daemon and be controlled by another application, like one that shows a touchscreen / mouse / LIRC menu, or takes voice commands, or Kinect input, or whatever else.
Secondly, comparing mplayer to XBMC is like comparing a UNIX system to a caricature of a "fully loaded" Windows PC that won't let you uninstall anything. Some trees are not worth climbing.
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I think that in-browser video is the future, but note that "in-browser" doesn't necessarily mean "online". (Also future browser input device possibilities will be vastly greater than today. Most people will watch movies by sitting on a couch / armchair / recliner in front of a wall-sized screen, but how they control it will be up to them: voice commands, gesture recognition, flexible touch-pads on their couches or clothes, wearable type-on-air finger motion capture, etc, etc, etc. Stay tuned for HTML6, 7, etc...)
Examples of Web Apps that present video would include: whitelisted BitTorrent Web-sites that integrate with a BT download daemon running on your computer, a local RSS downloader daemon with a Web interface (like an in-browser alternative to Miro), an "/index.html6" on removable media, etc. Mplayer can still be a useful component for those apps (ex. launched full-screen by a client-side daemon that is controlled from the browser with a WebSockets API), until HTML5+ video makes it entirely obsolete. XBMC, on the other hand, is just The Wrong Way To Do It.
--libman
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Shamelessly plugging my genetic algorithm project
So.... What you're saying is that it's going to take more than an 8-bit system? Have I just been spinning my wheels fruitlessly? Have my millions of generations been for naught? But what of the pinnacle of evolution!?
Oh... they just kinda flail their swords around and maybe walk forward... hmmm.
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UPX anyone?
I wonder how much space could be saved if parts of the OS were compressed with UPX? Or even with NTFS compression? Or is it using one of those SSDs that requires compressible data?
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Re:DO NOT GET an MSP430 Launchpad
You don't have to use the TI IDE and bootloader, which are highly encumbered with copyright. MSPGCC ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/mspgcc/index.php?title=MSPGCC_Wiki ) exists to allow the whole system to use an opensource toolchain.
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Re:Ubuntu, really?
Err, no, or mind showing your work?
Here's my recent comparison, it's almost a year old and therefore is not valid anymore. And in that post I even state buyers shouldn't upgrade the RAM because Apple charges more for them than third parties do, just as I said in the post you replied to does. Currently comparing Mac Pros doesn't work as the Pros use 2 year old Xeon CPUs, but it will soon hopefully. Tim Cook better keep his word that Mac Pros will be upgraded to the most recent Xeons and include Thunderbolt. However comparisons are possible with laptops, I won't try the all-in-one iMac nor the Mac Mini.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display
- 2.7GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.7GHz
- 15.4-inch (diagonal) LED-backlit display with IPS technology with 2880-by-1800 native resolution scaled to 1920x1200
- 8GB 1600MHz DDR3L
- 512GB Flash Storage
$3,049.00
Dell Precision M4700 Mobile Workstation
- 3rd Gen Intel® Core i7-3740QM Processor (2.7GHz, 6M cache, Upgradable to Intel® vPro technology)
- 15.6" UltraSharp FHD (1920x1080)
- 8.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz
- 750GB 2.5" 7200rpm Hard Drive
$2,498.53, with $700 off making it $1,699.00.
Not quite comparable. A second Dell Precision M4700 Mobile Workstation
- 3rd Gen Intel® Core i7-3840QM Processor (2.8GHz, 8M cache, Upgradable to Intel® vPro technology)
- 15.6" UltraSharp FHD (1920x1080)
- 16.0GB, DDR3-1600MHz
- 512GB 2.5" (SATA3) Mobility Solid State Drive
- Resource DVD - Contains Drivers
- Recovery Media for Windows® 7 Professional,64bit,Multiple Language
$4,187.59 with instant savings of $1,340.03 making it $2,847.56
I tried to configure both of these to be closer to the MacBook Pro, but only the second offered hardware configuration that I saw.
And you're right, it isn't that restricted, aside from not being able to even change your own battery.
I've posted elsewhere that I hated it that the battery is soldered in and is not user swappable. When I bought my MacBook Pro, I got a second battery with it so when the first one drained down during use when I wasn't near an outlet I could swap them, though it's too big for most people I did want a big display and be able to go hours and hours without needing to be plugged in, ie I wanted to take it hiking. Weight? I used to hike carrying 50+ lbs and have hiked carrying 120 lbs. If I can't carry just 10 lbs then I'm in real bad shape.
The bigger problems are their complete disregarded for backwards and forward compatibility and the small selection of software, and no, linux software doesn't count.
Backwards and forwards compatibility? What does that mean? What does small selection of software mean too? And why doesn't Linux software count? Because if it is counted Macs run more software than both Linux and MS Windows? That is an arbitrary limit for no good reason.
However native OS X apps the iTunes app store alone has thousands of downloadable programs. Now I've haven't used iTunes yet, I may use it to download classes from iTunes U which has lectures from a number of universities including MIT. However I prefer to buy my software on media I can keep, CDs or DVDs. Of course a person can download then burn programs on disks, such as from , Source Forge, and
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Just use Retro Share and be done with it
Retro share: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ friend to friend private open source file sharing.
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Re:I don't really see the point
The Google Docs is a very good example for what not do to in the browser. Sure it can open Odf files, but for what? The time when you need to pay 300$ or more for a good Document Writer are long over. LibreOffice or OpenOffice are at least 50 times more capable then Google Docs and are not depending on a good internet connection.
The problem with the midleware of Java is only because of the Browser (and Sun) developer. They chosen long ego to not support Java as good as Flash in the Web browser. My browser is becoming more bloated and bloated (I don't know why but since Firefox 18 the menus are now very sluggish and I conceder to switch to Chrome). Instead to re-implement everything again in the browser (and make the browser more bloated, more insecure and more of a monolithic monster).
In my futuristic world, Orcale and the browsers could come together and make Java a seaming-less experience. In my futuristic world you could have had 3D, canvas, storage, database, etc. as good as a desktop application already, if you could bind Oracle Java and browsers together. In Java all the stuff that Mozilla and Google trying to implement in their browsers is already there in a cross-platform and open source way (OpenJDK).
Why not put your Mindcraft demo as a Java applet and make it seaming-less as here:
http://jchart2d.sourceforge.net/applet.shtml
http://www.blakearchive.org/exist/blake/archive/object.xq?objectid=aro.a.illbk.01&java=noBut that will never happen. Because Mozilla and Google want their own operating system, bypassing Apple and Microsoft. The W3C want to stick to HTML, DOM and JavaScript for everything.
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Re:WTF?
Well I would think it's going to be a local or tunneled set of torrent streams but there's FreeFileSync which works quite well.
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Re:OPENVPN
There's no opensouorce Browser based SSL VPN
Does OpenVPN ALS not qualify?
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Re:From today's TheDailyWTF
Start with teaching the employees the importance of writing good code.
Also teach them how to refactor code in the IDE they use to avoid gigantic monolitic methods/functions/classes.
Then provide them with the tools. In addition to compile at the highest warning level and using the built-in support in the IDEs they should look at Stylecop for C# (even though it's more about style than finding potential bugs), Splint for C, FindBugs for Java.
People that are willing to take in and understand the importance of writing good code will end up being better.
And don't forget that people are competitive to some degree - so if you find a way to measure the quality of the code produced it's fine, and let it come with a small advantage. A movie ticket, a box of chocolate or something similar.
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EFI booting
I just got a new PC with Windows 7 and (non-secure) EFI booting. It seems like only Ubuntu-derived distros know how to set up to be booted on such a system. And it's kind of hit-and-miss with a lot of manual intervention required even at that. Apparently there are more hurdles involved with EFI than just 'turn off secure boot' - a lot more. And there is no consistency between firmware implementations, so no place to go to get a straightforward explanation of what to do. If you're struggling with this too, let me recommend rEFInd - not magic, but its author at least tries his darndest to explain why it's all so hard and what you can do about it. And it works (that helps).
I'm typing this on my MacBook which dual-boots, Snow Leopard and Ubuntu 12.04. I use rEFIt as the boot selector. With Snow Leopard already installed I only had one problem installing 64 bit 12.04. For some reason it would not install when I tried. So I tried installing 11.10 and it wouldn't install, then 11.04 didn't work either. Finally I got 10.10 to install. From there I upgraded to first 11.04, then 11.10, and finally to 12.04. But when I got it installed it was 32 bit not 64 bit. Just for the heck of it I inserted the 64 bit 12.04 DVD and tried again. This tyme it installed. So unless I used a different disk the second tyme than I used the first tyme and the first was bad, I don't know why it didn't work at first.
Anyway, I ended up with Mint
I may try Mint, with Cinnamon, MATE, KDE but I'm not sure. I plan on trying Arch Linux though, it includes software Debian based distros don't, CinePaint. As a photographer I want CinePaint, and GIMP does not cut it as a professional print photo editor.
Falcon
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Re:A grain of salt
Update : Regarding the random source, this is the code they use, and it's from this project. It use mouse and keyboard events (not all, math.random is used to decide which ones), with rc4 as mixing function.
And it seems to be running since page load (started in crypto0001,js) - AES function is from Stanford Javascript Crypto Library btw, and RSA code is from this project.
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You're blind then... apk
"Your try/except block has no code in it, making it useless" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13, @01:55PM (#42575973)
See subject-line above, & this snippet:
try except
Screen.Cursor:=crDefault;
ShowMessage(Trim('Abend in procedure SetCPUPriorityForMainThread'));
end;FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/discussion/709672/thread/f8561602
(You FAIL...)
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"You fail to understand the purpose of try/finally" - by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13, @01:55PM (#42575973)
1st of all, you ALREADY "F'd UP" above, lol!
&
Secondly, no I didn't - it works, and it makes SURE things happen at the end of a try block NO MATTER WHAT, last UNLESS an exception occurs (which then I could dump the 'structured compiler exception message" or, just dump one of my own, bit friendlier to users, which is what the above did).
E.G.-> I often use try-finally to re-enable the control that started a particular part of a process for example, once it's done running in the 'finally' section as just an example of its usage & how I do it sometimes (since I often disable them @ the start so a user can't "double-detonate" it &/or I reset the cursor back to normal, etc.- et al (depends on what needs doing is all)).
* It wasn't bad for a "bang up job" example to post to them, especially considering they used it to fix a bug of theirs @ UltraDefrag!
Lastly - as I said?
The "trolling ac likes of you", who can't show us a DAMNED THING you've ever done is *trying* tell me ME "how to code"? LMAO - you screwed that up ROYALLY above, 1st of all!
SECONDLY, you don't have a DAMNED THING TO SHOW FOR YOURSELF as I suspected...(& I was obviously correct on, no less!)
APK
P.S.=> Again - you FAIL (& it's obvious you're STUPID, and merely trolling, since the guys @ UltraDefrag actually used my ideas to solve a bug - I had no idea they did, I just posted it & let 'em "have @ it"...)
... apk
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Re:Don't trust the cloud
Making your own web interface for file management? somewhat challenging. Finding a canned one that doesn't utterly suck? Well, that's what Sourceforge is for =)
Ajaxplorer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/?source=directory
Simple to use browser app, and there are iOS and Android apps that do a great job.Extplorer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extplorer/?source=recommended
Better support for larger quantities of files and browsing using a traditional tree/file pane, but slightly more complicated UI due to the smaller, more nebulous buttons.As far as getting it to run on something, your best bet is to either try XAMPP, or better yet (if you've got the RAM for it and enough hard disk space), grab a copy of VirtualBox and head over to TurnKeyLinux.org, where they've got pre-configured LAMP stacks with plenty of browser based applications, including Ajaxplorer, which you can have up and running, perfectly configured, in twenty minutes or less =).
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Re:Don't trust the cloud
Making your own web interface for file management? somewhat challenging. Finding a canned one that doesn't utterly suck? Well, that's what Sourceforge is for =)
Ajaxplorer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ajaxplorer/?source=directory
Simple to use browser app, and there are iOS and Android apps that do a great job.Extplorer:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/extplorer/?source=recommended
Better support for larger quantities of files and browsing using a traditional tree/file pane, but slightly more complicated UI due to the smaller, more nebulous buttons.As far as getting it to run on something, your best bet is to either try XAMPP, or better yet (if you've got the RAM for it and enough hard disk space), grab a copy of VirtualBox and head over to TurnKeyLinux.org, where they've got pre-configured LAMP stacks with plenty of browser based applications, including Ajaxplorer, which you can have up and running, perfectly configured, in twenty minutes or less =).
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It works great (stable & fixes bugs + more)
I use it myself here in fact (works perfectly, for all conditions noted below):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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It's completely stable too, produces PERFECT hosts file data outputs, & is a multithreaded single self-contained TRUE 'stand-alone' executable!
* Show us you've done a better app that provides ALL of what is noted in that link it gives users to THEIR benefit on a number of levels, for both added SPEED & "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (plus reliability, and privacy online)...
(GO FOR IT! My guess here? You CAN'T... lol!)
See - unlike you AC mere troll "armchair quarterback" talkers, who aren't DOERS?
I can actually SHOW something it's been applied to that helps it run faster or lower priority in certain conditions (see below)! Can you show you've done the SAME?
Answer = NO!
LMAO @ U, troll!
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I gave the guys @ UltraDefrag the option to use it... why?
Vs. this problem they had & others even RECOMMENDED my code vs. a problem they are having -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
IN FACT? That's one of their coding team saying it... not me (Dmitri - THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE UltraDefrag64 PROJECT, not Stefan Pendl):
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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"I think, this issue can be resolved through changing the process priority as suggested before by Alexander Peter Kowalski http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873" - Dmitri FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
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(Albeit in Delphi Object-Pascal, vs. their usage of C/C++)
It's useful for stopping that, & NOT for raising priority only either, but quite the reverse also!
See - the front end is ONLY A REPORTER: It doesn't NEED to be high, normal, or even below normal priority - there are TIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE LOW even (see next)!
Lowering priority is important in these conditions!
It's more for when they add features the commercial "bigboys" have like Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, O&O Defrag etc./et al:
For LOWERING priority when it's minimized to tray or otherwise (along with stopping display generation of outputs wasting cycles if it is NOT VISIBLE onscreen - that is a waste & drag on the system overall and the app too)
or
FOR running in the background as a scheduled task!
I do it - it works! I have to write them on that much, for when they add those types of features to be more 'competitive' vs. the big boys noted above...
Especially Stefan Pendl, who I don't *think* realizes THAT benefit on lowering CPU & when to do it, & also of course, its ability to help solve their issue noted above by Dmitri, the founder of the project itself...
... apk
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It works great (stable & fixes bugs + more)
I use it myself here in fact (works perfectly, for all conditions noted below):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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It's completely stable too, produces PERFECT hosts file data outputs, & is a multithreaded single self-contained TRUE 'stand-alone' executable!
* Show us you've done a better app that provides ALL of what is noted in that link it gives users to THEIR benefit on a number of levels, for both added SPEED & "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (plus reliability, and privacy online)...
(GO FOR IT! My guess here? You CAN'T... lol!)
See - unlike you AC mere troll "armchair quarterback" talkers, who aren't DOERS?
I can actually SHOW something it's been applied to that helps it run faster or lower priority in certain conditions (see below)! Can you show you've done the SAME?
Answer = NO!
LMAO @ U, troll!
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I gave the guys @ UltraDefrag the option to use it... why?
Vs. this problem they had & others even RECOMMENDED my code vs. a problem they are having -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
IN FACT? That's one of their coding team saying it... not me (Dmitri - THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE UltraDefrag64 PROJECT, not Stefan Pendl):
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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"I think, this issue can be resolved through changing the process priority as suggested before by Alexander Peter Kowalski http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873" - Dmitri FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
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(Albeit in Delphi Object-Pascal, vs. their usage of C/C++)
It's useful for stopping that, & NOT for raising priority only either, but quite the reverse also!
See - the front end is ONLY A REPORTER: It doesn't NEED to be high, normal, or even below normal priority - there are TIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE LOW even (see next)!
Lowering priority is important in these conditions!
It's more for when they add features the commercial "bigboys" have like Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, O&O Defrag etc./et al:
For LOWERING priority when it's minimized to tray or otherwise (along with stopping display generation of outputs wasting cycles if it is NOT VISIBLE onscreen - that is a waste & drag on the system overall and the app too)
or
FOR running in the background as a scheduled task!
I do it - it works! I have to write them on that much, for when they add those types of features to be more 'competitive' vs. the big boys noted above...
Especially Stefan Pendl, who I don't *think* realizes THAT benefit on lowering CPU & when to do it, & also of course, its ability to help solve their issue noted above by Dmitri, the founder of the project itself...
... apk
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It works great (stable & fixes bugs + more)
I use it myself here in fact (works perfectly, for all conditions noted below):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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It's completely stable too, produces PERFECT hosts file data outputs, & is a multithreaded single self-contained TRUE 'stand-alone' executable!
* Show us you've done a better app that provides ALL of what is noted in that link it gives users to THEIR benefit on a number of levels, for both added SPEED & "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (plus reliability, and privacy online)...
(GO FOR IT! My guess here? You CAN'T... lol!)
See - unlike you AC mere troll "armchair quarterback" talkers, who aren't DOERS?
I can actually SHOW something it's been applied to that helps it run faster or lower priority in certain conditions (see below)! Can you show you've done the SAME?
Answer = NO!
LMAO @ U, troll!
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I gave the guys @ UltraDefrag the option to use it... why?
Vs. this problem they had & others even RECOMMENDED my code vs. a problem they are having -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
IN FACT? That's one of their coding team saying it... not me (Dmitri - THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE UltraDefrag64 PROJECT, not Stefan Pendl):
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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"I think, this issue can be resolved through changing the process priority as suggested before by Alexander Peter Kowalski http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873" - Dmitri FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
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(Albeit in Delphi Object-Pascal, vs. their usage of C/C++)
It's useful for stopping that, & NOT for raising priority only either, but quite the reverse also!
See - the front end is ONLY A REPORTER: It doesn't NEED to be high, normal, or even below normal priority - there are TIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE LOW even (see next)!
Lowering priority is important in these conditions!
It's more for when they add features the commercial "bigboys" have like Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, O&O Defrag etc./et al:
For LOWERING priority when it's minimized to tray or otherwise (along with stopping display generation of outputs wasting cycles if it is NOT VISIBLE onscreen - that is a waste & drag on the system overall and the app too)
or
FOR running in the background as a scheduled task!
I do it - it works! I have to write them on that much, for when they add those types of features to be more 'competitive' vs. the big boys noted above...
Especially Stefan Pendl, who I don't *think* realizes THAT benefit on lowering CPU & when to do it, & also of course, its ability to help solve their issue noted above by Dmitri, the founder of the project itself...
... apk
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It works (on a lot of things, even bugs)... apk
I use it myself here in fact (works perfectly, for all conditions noted below):
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APK Hosts File Engine 5.0++ 32/64-bit:
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It's completely stable too, produces PERFECT hosts file data outputs, & is a multithreaded single self-contained TRUE 'stand-alone' executable!
* Show us you've done a better app that provides ALL of what is noted in that link it gives users to THEIR benefit on a number of levels, for both added SPEED & "layered-security"/"defense-in-depth" (plus reliability, and privacy online)...
(GO FOR IT! My guess here? You CAN'T... lol!)
See - unlike you AC mere troll "armchair quarterback" talkers, who aren't DOERS?
I can actually SHOW something it's been applied to that helps it run faster or lower priority in certain conditions (see below)! Can you show you've done the SAME?
Answer = NO!
LMAO @ U, troll!
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I gave the guys @ UltraDefrag the option to use it... why?
Vs. this problem they had & others even RECOMMENDED my code vs. a problem they are having -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
IN FACT? That's one of their coding team saying it... not me (Dmitri - THE ORIGINAL FOUNDER OF THE UltraDefrag64 PROJECT, not Stefan Pendl):
PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:
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http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2993462&group_id=199532&atid=969873" - Dmitri FROM -> http://sourceforge.net/p/ultradefrag/bugs/136/
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(Albeit in Delphi Object-Pascal, vs. their usage of C/C++)
It's useful for stopping that, & NOT for raising priority only either, but quite the reverse also!
See - the front end is ONLY A REPORTER: It doesn't NEED to be high, normal, or even below normal priority - there are TIMES IT'S GOOD TO BE LOW even (see next)!
Lowering priority is important in these conditions!
It's more for when they add features the commercial "bigboys" have like Diskeeper, PerfectDisk, O&O Defrag etc./et al:
For LOWERING priority when it's minimized to tray or otherwise (along with stopping display generation of outputs wasting cycles if it is NOT VISIBLE onscreen - that is a waste & drag on the system overall and the app too)
or
FOR running in the background as a scheduled task!
I do it - it works! I have to write them on that much, for when they add those types of features to be more 'competitive' vs. the big boys noted above...
Especially Stefan Pendl, who I don't *think* realizes THAT benefit on lowering CPU & when to do it, & also of course, its ability to help solve their issue noted above by Dmitri, the founder of the project itself...
... apk