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Fangs a lot! I missed that one.
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Only the Black Tie vampires; the Black Ribbon ones have sworn off. 
(See the Discworld novels for details)
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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Not today I guess.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Oi! I used that one tomorrow.
Not fair: using your time machine to pre-post my Thoughts!
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Great minds would've thought alike tomorrow.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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For you, it appears, today was already yesterday. No need to guess.
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My daughter will be turning 11 next month. She just asked her mother for two '1' shaped candles to put on her cake.
I told my wife that I'd like to get a 'B' shaped candle; she was not impressed.
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Ohhhh....
I thought she was base10 3. 
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Well, then just put "1011" on the cake instead.
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Better: four candles, but only light three of them.
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I like it....
We need to adopt this for birthday announcements in the lounge.
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Maybe...next birthday, I will need 6 candles, 4 of them lit... we could make it "Candles Of The Day" or something.
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With 'Mastermind' rules... 3 black, 2 white.. until we figure the REAL age.
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Oh no... Did I just start a meme?
There goes the planet...
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It's been five minutes and I am still laughing at this one. 
You have just been Sharapova'd.
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Maybe she didn't like the alternate interpretation that your daughter was only in beta.
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Well, at that age she isn't ready for Release To Market!
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OriginalGriff wrote: she isn't ready for Release To Market!
I which I thought of that - but I'm rather glad you did, instead.
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Suppose you are able to adapt a library from a freeware product to do your bidding, in this case, using 7-zip to build self-extracting archives for deploying and updating different resources used by an application. So, after a couple of days, I've got it working and piped into the deployment chain...then I notice the file properties tool-tip on the archives with some undesirable information...Author, Company, etc. While it's doubtful that my clients would ever spend the time to see this information or even think twice about what it said, it still seems to misrepresent the most basic information such as who created the file and what's in it.
The question is this: Is it OK to replace the Author, Company, and Icon resources in the freeware library so that you and your company are credited with the contents of the created archive?
Edit: Just to clarify...I am only referring to the properties of the self-extracting executable that is basically just acting as an installer, not any 7-zip libraries. I don't mind having a short blurb in an installer to give credit.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
modified 30-Aug-16 9:59am.
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No.
When you opted to use a freeware product, you opted to use the terms that came with it. Removing the author, company, etc. is essentially plagiarism.
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What do the terms of use and the license say in the source library?
This space for rent
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If you want to seem pro, use an installer.
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An installer is overkill, plus the way the application is built, some customers would have dozens of our installers cluttering up their programs/menus. 
This has been one of our primary methods for module/utility deployments and/or updates for over a dozen years. The previous self-extracting archive builder was starting to show it's age and needed replacing. The new system now works better than the old system...less intermediate files, cleans up after itself perfectly, uses a custom icon, and best of all, doesn't puke on long filenames anymore!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: An installer is overkill, plus the way the application is built, some customers would have dozens of our installers cluttering up their programs/menus.
If your installer is leaving a shortcut on the start menu, YOU are DOING IT WRONG and have been breaking the guidelines dating back to at least win2k ([^] who should have their keyboards broken). They should only leave an entry under add/remove programs.
PS that citation was picked not to single out a specific offender but because MS's love to randomly reorganize the URLs to all their online documentation and break existing links to the older versions meant I couldn't easily find the official documentation.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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