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3-Mar-17 4:57

If the Power Rangers have a bad accident, is it Morphine Time?

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Mike Hankey3-Mar-17 5:19

Mike Hankey

3-Mar-17 5:19

The wold be a Heroin experience!

New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta
I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!

Nagy Vilmos3-Mar-17 5:24

Nagy Vilmos

3-Mar-17 5:24

Shocking!

veni bibi saltavi

Bryian Tan3-Mar-17 6:02

Bryian Tan

3-Mar-17 6:02

hmmmmmm, such a tragic, definitely Mighty Morphine Time!!!

Bryian Tan

APOD: 2017 March 3 - Sivan 2 to M31[^]

ZurdoDev3-Mar-17 9:08

ZurdoDev

3-Mar-17 9:08

OriginalGriff wrote:
If the Power Rangers have a bad accident

That's called a blessing. Big Grin | :-D

There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.

APOD

R. Giskard Reventlov3-Mar-17 4:44

R. Giskard Reventlov

3-Mar-17 4:44

Coding challenge of the week

Chris Maunder3-Mar-17 3:53

Chris Maunder

3-Mar-17 3:53

Today's challenge is generate anagrams[^] and was suggested by E Ramaswamy. Go forth and code!

I'm travelling for the next 3 weeks for some much needed R&R. Any suggestions on challenges much appreciated.

cheers
Chris Maunder

Re: Coding challenge of the week

Graeme_Grant30-Mar-17 23:26

Graeme_Grant

30-Mar-17 23:26

There was interest from a couple to extend the one that I posted last week. I was surprised that so few replied. What are your thoughts?

I do have some other ideas, I'll find some time this weekend to write them up for you.

Re: Coding challenge of the week

Graeme_Grant30-Mar-17 23:29

Graeme_Grant

30-Mar-17 23:29

As a side-thought about improving visibility for these challenges, have you thought of "pinning" the challenge at the top of each Q&A page for greater visibility? The previous suggestion was as a sidebar on various pages, maybe this is better as an interim solution... your thoughts?

CDOTD

Gary Wheeler3-Mar-17 1:21

3-Mar-17 1:21

We use Inno Setup[^] for all of our installers, and have for years. I estimate we have over a man-year of work in installers for our products, optional features, etc. Yesterday I discovered that the innosetup.com site is now blocked by our IS department, which uses McAfee Web Gateway to manage 'prohibited' sites. Today I received an email from one of the IS yabbos to the effect that Inno Setup was not on the approved list of applications. I was told to apply for approval, and then they would consider beginning the exception process for the web site.

What. The. F***.

My plans are to be the good little corporate drone and fill out whatever numb-nuts crap they ask, and then go right the f*** ahead and continue to use Inno Setup. It works, it's easy to use, it's for crap's sake FREE.

To paraphrase JSOP, they'll take my Inno Setup when they claw it from my cold, dead hard drive.

(*) Corporate Douche-baggery Of The Day

Software Zen: delete this;

Jochen Arndt3-Mar-17 1:39

Jochen Arndt

3-Mar-17 1:39

If I would have to set a list of approved / allowed applications, InnoSetup would be rated much higher than any McAfee product. In fact, the latter would be only on the list when I'm requested to put it there.

OriginalGriff3-Mar-17 1:44

3-Mar-17 1:44

Jochen Arndt wrote:
In fact, the latter would be only on the list when I'm ~~requested~~ forced at gunpoint to put it there.

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Jochen Arndt3-Mar-17 1:56

Jochen Arndt

3-Mar-17 1:56

I was going to write that we don't have any guns here at work.

But then I remembered that there is a compressed air powered nail gun somewhere in the work shop.

Nagy Vilmos3-Mar-17 4:17

Nagy Vilmos

3-Mar-17 4:17

Jochen Arndt wrote:
a compressed air powered nail gun somewhere in the work shop.

From personal experience, NEVER let a drunk plumber in the vicinity of one of these.

veni bibi saltavi

Jochen Arndt3-Mar-17 4:29

Jochen Arndt

3-Mar-17 4:29

Quote:
NEVER let a drunk ~~plumber~~ in the vicinity of one of these.

From personal experience too, craftsmen playing with tools of dissimilar trades are dangerous to your health.

Nagy Vilmos3-Mar-17 4:44

Nagy Vilmos

3-Mar-17 4:44

I think it may be the nail gun that's the problem here. Beer | [beer]

veni bibi saltavi

Gary Wheeler3-Mar-17 1:46

3-Mar-17 1:46

McAfee molests Collies[^].

I can't believe some of the crap they convince corporate IT departments to buy. For example, our hard drives are encrypted using a McAfee product. Guess what happens if you have a motherboard fail, and you need to retrieve the data from the hard drive. You can't decrypt it. The data is completely unrecoverable.

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff3-Mar-17 1:53

3-Mar-17 1:53

So ... ransomware then? Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Gary Wheeler3-Mar-17 1:58

3-Mar-17 1:58

Hmm. I never made that connection before.

(thinks quietly; just ignore the sound of gear teeth breaking off)

Nah. I don't think McAfee is competent to pull off any kind of extortion scheme. Besides, my wife and I are big fans of the old Perry Mason TV series[^], so I've learned how to counter every blackmail scheme known to man.

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff3-Mar-17 4:08

3-Mar-17 4:08

Gary Wheeler wrote:
I don't think McAfee is competent to pull off any kind of extortion scheme.

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure they are an extortion scheme: have you ever tried to remove their software once installed? Laugh | :laugh:

Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

Gary Wheeler3-Mar-17 4:11

3-Mar-17 4:11

Yes. The uninstall procedure was as follows:

1. Boot from a thumb drive.
2. Security wipe the primary drive.
3. Re-install Windows.
4. Re-install apps.
5. Reload data.

Software Zen: delete this;

OriginalGriff3-Mar-17 4:32