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Have a look at this article: Guide to Win32 Memory DC[^]
If you try to browse the code the message "Unable to extract file from the Zip archive" is displayed. If I use 7zip locally it says that an unknown compression method was used (some form of fancy WinZip magic I guess).
I reported the problem in the article directly, but I guess it would also be nice to have some kind of a validation mechanism in place to prevent uploading 'unbrowseable' archives.
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tolw wrote: it would also be nice to have some kind of a validation mechanism in place to prevent uploading 'unbrowseable' archives
Great idea - we'll add this.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Please do NOT report lili510 as a spammer if you are reading this and have not been bitten by this spammer.
I want to see how well the automated spam system works without intervention by Chris or with people reporting it here. So, if you are seeing the above spammer for the first time in this post, do NOT report them.
My guess is that the overwhelming amount of spam this person is creating will be seen by enough members that their reports should soon automatically suspend the spammer's member account.
Driven to the ARMs by x86.
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And success. I logged on to give the 4th whack, and someone else has finished the job sometime in the last half hour.
3x12=36
2x12=24
1x12=12
0x12=18
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When I came on this morning, there were 6 notifications of comments against one of my tips, i went to the users account to report, but it wqas already inactive. However, all the comments were still present, had to manually delete them.
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Yeah, I wonder what Code Project's strategy is for that. Perhaps each person spammed will be responsible for deleting the messages they got spammed with. I'm certainly not going to delete the other 300 or so comments the spammer left. However, if we each delete the bits that we've been impacted by (and the occassional other bits here and there), that should help to keep things clean.
It would be nice if, after being reported as a spammer, the spammer's post rate was temporarily capped at one message per minute. That way, we could have more of a chance to stop them before things get out of hand. although, they had already posted about 200 comments before I reported them (first report), so it might be prudent to limit every member to, say, 3 messages a minute. Or maybe the further the timespan, the more rescrictive the limit becomes. So no more than 3 messages a minute, but no more than 10 messages every 5 minutes and no more than 20 messages every 30 minutes. Or maybe base that rate on reputation (more reputation = you can post more frequently).
When I say "message", I mean anything a user can post (forum message, comment, tip/trick, question, etc.).
Driven to the ARMs by x86.
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I think a single report should initially slow down the post rate, and if there is multiple reports (3/5/whatever) there is something clearly wrong and the account is suspended and all the suspect user posts vanish into the ether.
CP Admin comes along and checks the activity on the accounts that have been suspended while they have been away drinking beer,chasing hamsters etc, and hits the nuke button or reinstate button (don't need one of them probably).
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I picked up my email this morning and was surprised by the message count - over half was lili510.
All messages gone by the time I went for the first one to spam it.
Nice one Hamsters!
Real men don't use instructions. They are only the manufacturers opinion on how to put the thing together.
Manfred R. Bihy: "Looks as if OP is learning resistant."
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On the Ask a Question page, the FAQ link to the upper right of the page goes to a missing page.
thanks!
modified on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 8:59 PM
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Oops. I'll have this fixed next version.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In my profile page, under FAQ, I see PrevNext with no space in between. Looking at JSOP's profile, I see a space in his. The only difference is that my Next button is greyed out.
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Chris always gives me a little more space than anyone else.
I think the guns scare him.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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It's prudence, not fear. 
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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How come Prudence gets extra space but Bassam doesn't?
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus!
When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is.
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Fixed in next release.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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No longer displays the history content.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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It happens occasionally. When the server load's too high, they swallow the error and show a blank results page.
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It's been happening for an hour now.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: It's been happening for an hour now.
Must be that new class Chris re-wrote. The one where he said he improved on the .NET class. 
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He must have rewritten this one in Java, because it ain't working (or at least, it wasn't). 
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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I've been pounding our database for a couple of hours. That "ping, tink, ping" you hear is the server cooling down. It should settle down soon. If it doesn't I'll get an ice bucket.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: I've been pounding our database for a couple of hours.
Well, you're both consenting adults.
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ahem.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Embarrassed cough you've got there mate.
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