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It's a C++/MFC app. There are all sorts of things I could do to prevent this annoyance.
The best solution would be to detect when the app is being launched from the specific network share where it's distributed, automatically copy it somewhere locally, re-launch the local copy, and let the share instance exit. It wouldn't even be that hard to implement; probably on the order of a couple dozen lines of code.
It's not enough of an annoyance to go to this length, and it rankles to have to engineer a solution to others' discourtesy.
Software Zen: delete this;
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Ah, I see. I don't really know much about native development (I am learning some though, at least I am trying to), so I wouldn't be able to do much with that. I can compile things with MinGW-w64 (and some things with VS, like HTML Tidy).
Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.
- Mitchell Kapor
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I'll look at that as an option the next time it falls in to the parade ground.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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I have experienced that problem with 'something' always wanting to create a 'temp' directory on my C: drive. I solved that problem by manually deleting the directory (or renaming/deleting etc.) and creating a file named 'temp' containing an appropriate text message which I won't repeat here.
I have 2 drives on my system and I don't want anybody leaving droppings on my C: drive dammit!
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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Movie Quote Of The Day
We must not allow ourselves to be influenced by irrational rumors of the Antichrist, hmm? Let us instead exercise our brains and try to solve this tantalizing conundrum.
Which movie?
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terminator: the rise of the Project Managers
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Toy Story
Peter Wasser
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Frank Zappa
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Hint: The Hound of the Baskervilles 
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is (V).
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A Hybrid Tea is perhaps an example?
One of my favourite books!
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"An ambitious project to recreate an entire roundworm, cell by cell, in a software model has reached a crucial breakthrough as the digital animal wriggled for the first time."
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"The short segment of data represents one third of a second of motion and took computers 72 hours to calculate." [^].
Wake me up when it can twerk à la Miley.
“I'm an artist: it's self evident that word implies looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying : 'I know all about it. I've already found it.'
As far as I'm concerned, the word means: 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'”
Vincent Van Gogh
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Queen Pardons Alan Turing[^]
While I'm sure it doesn't mean much to him now, at least his name is cleared. The world would probably be a bit different if he didn't commit suicide at 41 because of what the English government did to him.
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Reminds me of when the Pope pardoned Galileo.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Better late than never I guess...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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There should be a prosecution as well as a pardon here. Marking a homosexual as a criminal is criminal in itself.
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Then I guess we should prosecute the whole judicial system in India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_377_of_the_Indian_Penal_Code[^]
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream. Discover.
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As they said on the BBC news this morning, it leaves a bad feeling that it was the wrong decision.
Why? Because it says that if you are usefull to the state you can do what you like.
The pardon should have been given to all those convicted, not just Alan Turing. And I suspect he would have thought that too.
Never underestimate the power of stupid things in large numbers
--- Serious Sam
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Ahem, it was the British government. England doesn't have a government in its own right.
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England does not have a governmnent. And the government did nothing to Turing, he was convicted in a Court of Law, at a time when homosexuality was a criminal offence. It was some years before the British Government saw the light and repealed this ridiculous law.
Veni, vidi, abiit domum
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The Queen pardoned Alan Turing. Why?
Did he fart or belch?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Taken a lesson from Putin and pardon political prisoners just before they're scheduled for release.
Let's see now. What comes to mind? I got it!
Thanks for leaving me one finger when you cut off the other nine.
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So what took them so long? Or they debated if destroying one of the greatest brains ever lived was a good thing?
Nuclear launch detected
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I pardon the Queen for taking so long to'pardon' Alan Turing - however he did not need pardoning as he did nothing wrong.
Surely it would be better to admit the cruelty committed by her government and for her to posthumously ask for forgiveness.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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