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Mmm... I need one of those! 
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Probably your mail server has one... sometimes they have it disabled by default.
Once you activate it... it starts killing spam.
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Super Lloyd wrote: I wonder if anyone else is experiencing some similar plight?
Yes.
I admit that I too, take weekends off.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Email spam is normal. (10 or so daily, mostly getting sent straight to the junk folder)
What I have noticed is smarter bots hitting my home/office webserver. Somehow they are now able to construct query strings for dynamic pages.  (googlebot is a culprit) Not only are the query string parameters named correctly, the format for the value is correct. (if I'm expecting a 7 digit numeric customer code, the requests are 7 random digits, if I'm expecting a state abbrev., the request is a valid state abbrev.)
The only way I can figure they are able to do this is by stealing it from a user's (probably mine!) local cache.
I've since enabled url rewrites for the bots that are abusive. I don't mind them indexing my static content, but trolling for data is not cool. After reviewing my web server logs today, I have given up an disallowed all bots from the entire server. We'll see how much this stops the abuse...
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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That might be what happened..
I did an experimental "contact" page on my never visited (or so I thought) web page!
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I have spent the last four hours trying to get BitBlt to work to the display from a large bitmap in C# (preview 100x100 pixel image thumbnails from a 3200x3200 bitmap) and going round in circles because all I get is black rectangles. And I keep finding bits on Google which tell me to use SelectObject on the DC, using the bitmap handle, and I can't get that to work because I can't call GetHbitmap on the image, and...
... then I realise that my large bitmap is declared as
private Image big = ... rather than
private Bitmap big = ...
The second definition lets me call GetHbitmap on the image, and pass it to SelectObject ... and it all works, brilliantly... 
Maybe I need a continuous intravenous drip of caffeine?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There is irrefutable proof* that Caffeine Driven Development is the way forward!
* Metcalf AJ, previously of this parish, has written extensively on its benefits. But then she's also written on Real Ale Driven Development and Red Wine Driven Development.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Real Ale Driven Development and Red Wine Driven Development.
Ah! the Ballmer Peak![^] 
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There is irrefutable proof* that Caffeine Driven Development is the way forward!
Hear, hear!! ![Java | [Coffee]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
I have also heard that the Nagy that is Vilmos winds down at the end of a long day with a nice G&T - ah, life is in balance now. 
modified 11-May-16 6:41am.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: There is irrefutable proof* that Caffeine Driven Development is the way forward!
You're really trying to make this a thing. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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But, but, but...
It is a thing, look[^]. Okay, AJ, myself and few other people use it, but it is still a thing already.
veni bibi saltavi
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Too much lawn on the other day, after all... 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wouldn't be too hard on myself if I were you. Nothing is really obvious when working with BitBlt...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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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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OriginalGriff wrote: private Bitmap big = ...
So finally, you get the big picture!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Either that, or it's a bitmap of his big privates.... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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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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Maybe the black rectangles were a matter of KSS?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have spent the last four hours trying to get BitBlt to work
That's what you get for not posting your problem in QA... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I didn't think of it... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's all right - we do not do your home-work anyway
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Perhaps time to invest in a spa?
For your wife.
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Don't worry. All new developers make mistakes like this. Once you get some experience it won't happen anymore. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I worked with Bitmaps/Images/... in C# lately and basically it is a mess. I'm surprised Microsoft can't handle this better. But perhaps that's just me. 
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... and no this is not a programmiing question.
[^]
Ger
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If you go to Google Maps[^] and search for "Null Island" you get ... the US Library of Congress...
Not quite sure what Google is trying to tell us here!
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