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Time to start buying up some guitars it looks like.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Munchies_Matt wrote: What the hell kind of moronic management have they had in there?
Exactly.
The kind that goes out and buys "consumer oriented" companies for no apparent reason.
Of course, the Feds going after them because the wood was naughty didn't help.
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....because for the past 1 or so weeks, i'm being automatically logged out of codeproject randomly!!
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Chris would appreciate your help. If you could capture the codeproject cookies for him (the ones marked idtag, vk and lck). Also, try closing the browser and reopening without logging in manually to see if the auto log in kicks in.
This space for rent
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devenv.exe wrote: randomly
No such thing in computers. 
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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This seems unusual ... I use mostly IE11 and sometimes Edge, and in both cases the CP-login remains stable - never saw a problem with it so far ...
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The company I work for produces a software utility package for our OEM clients, and the executable must be personalised for each client. Does anyone have recommendations for a software package that can do the following:
- Insert personalised binary information in the application, without requiring recompilation of the application
- Will sign the application after the information is inserted (NICE TO HAVE)
- Works on Windows and Linux (32- and 64-bit) executable formats
The host O/S is immaterial.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Looks like someone else tried something similar 7 years ago.
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I don't know an existing utility. But if you have declared a block of fixed size static memory for your binary data in the application it can be replaced by a simple self written tool that looks for that (using a signature) and overwrites the data in the executable file. Afterwards you can sign the application as required.
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Except for the signing, much like what I did to DOS's command.com file. You simply replace a code block with one of a size less than or equal to the existing block. If it includes items such as strings, you may have to consider that ASCII-Z terminator!
Brings back such nice memories - partly because I was so much younger.
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#if preprocessor directive (C# Reference) | Microsoft Docs[^]
You can specify which to include when compiling for the command-line.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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"Sounds like someone guarding a musical composition gets in a spin." (10)
Good luck.
Andy B
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Centrifuge ?
Sounds like Sentry
Fuge = piece of music - although I think it's fugue
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Well done! I was hoping the 'sounds like' bit would carry over into the Fugue - sounds a bit like 'fuge'.
Anyway, well done again  .
Andy B
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It did, it's just that normally sounds like isn't applied to the entire clue - nice clue though 
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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I just started the fantastically easy-to-read Idea Man by Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft)[^].
I recently read (but only got half-way thru before quitting, Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft's Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone by Satya Nadella (Microsoft's current leader)[^]
Allen's book pulls you into the story and makes you think about the possibilities, invention, innovation, starting a business, building something.
Meanwhile, unfortunately, the Nadella book just didn't excite my imagination.
It is interesting that Allen was part of the team who really built the the stuff that built the business and Nadella is just a manager who was placed in the position.
This is very similar to Ballmer v Gates. Microsoft was driven by Gates but Ballmer was just placed in a position to manage a company.
However, I do actually think Nadella is a far better leader than Ballmer.
The contrast of the two books is quite interesting and I'm amazed at how interesting and well-written Idea Man is.
Have you read the two books? Or either?
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Nope, did not read those, I'm not reading a lot of books anymore.
The last one I read years ago was "Batavia's Graveyard" by Mike Dash, excellent book, harrrr 
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First generation creates it,
2nd generation grows it,
3rd generation breaks it.
So in Nad's favour he is filling the 3rd gen role well: Innovation is dead, O/S is dying, H/W dead... watch this space...
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lopati: roaming wrote: First generation creates it,
2nd generation grows it,
3rd generation breaks it.
That does seem to be the way it works.
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Allen had a better ghost writer.
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Those are real free thinkers! 
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Conspiracy theorist: You can't fall off flat Earth edge due to 'Pac-Man effect'
So...a flat projection of what is really a sphere?
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Taking advantage of a short break when I knew that my computer wouldn't be busy, I manually started an installation of Windows 10, Build 1803, also referred to as the Redstone 4 or Spring 2018 Creators Update. The result, Redstone Reverted, illustrates the discoveries I've made in my first day using the upgraded OS. I am both astonished and disappointed that the installation program for such a mature operating system still exhibits such amateurish behaviors as reverting carefully crafted user settings that should be in the user hive of the Windows Registry, and off limits to operating system upgrade programs.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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