|
_Maxxx_ wrote: Checked the site and there was a link to claim it - expiring 7th April (this was at the beginning of March).
But did it say 2016?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
|
|
|
|
|
Amusingly, I did actually check at the time! Yes 2016.
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
_Maxxx_ wrote: Amusingly, I did actually check at the time! Yes 2016.
Thought it might be a bit of creative selling using out of date offers.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
|
|
|
|
|
I _think_ it might be them reducing the change of having to pay out by removing the claim from their site after the las date you can *buy* the product, rather the last date you can *claim*
Hoping I suppose that if they make it hard enough people will just give up.
Of course, they will by now have spent more than $100 in staff costs just dealing with me!
And I will never buy an HP product again. Personally or for my company.
I'd sell any HP shares if I were you 
PooperPig - Coming Soon
|
|
|
|
|
But did they specify 2016 in the Gregorian calendar? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
|
|
|
|
|
It's because they care.
Just don't ask about what.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
You should print off all the email exchanges and send them via recorded delivery to the local VP of Marketing.
|
|
|
|
|
Same thing happened to me but in case of Lenovo. The offer site was working but its not accepting the product code.
I knew lot of laptop manufactures reject offers if bought online in India. So i bought it from local showroom and they ensured that offer will be applicable on that laptop and i will get 3 years warranty. But while registration it does not work.
So showroom mangager called Lenovo sales manager and this has been escalated up to AVP of Lenovo of India. Lot of mails sent out and finally they made some backend changes to accept my Laptop product code. And then finally i got my Lenovo 3 year warranty offer. 
|
|
|
|
|
HP haven't been any good for years, at least 20 to 30 by my reckoning. I really dont understand why people keep buying their crap, perhaps they're emulating the title of Stanley Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut.
And don't try telling me that their sales numbers means they are any good. Drop a turd on the footpath next to a sandwich and tell me which is the better food, based on the number of flies.
I first used their stuff in about 81 or 82 and it was great - top notch stuff back then. Even then, what I used was an older model, the $795, 1974 model HP-65 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]
Agillient CROs are the best thing to have been associated with them for a long time.
|
|
|
|
|
What happened yesterday to Bob's ANZAC Day uniform?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
|
|
|
|
|
Damn. I missed ANZAC day.
I'll pay my respects today.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
Message Closed
modified 26-Apr-16 8:10am.
|
|
|
|
|
Message Removed
modified 26-Apr-16 8:10am.
|
|
|
|
|
Message Removed
modified 26-Apr-16 8:10am.
|
|
|
|
|
My VM running Windows 7 just went crazy.
A Svchost.exe started running some code which using SysInternals ProcExp I was able to determine was the nsisvc.dll. It was eating 50% of my processor on my VM which was terrible.
You can see a snapshot SysInternals, Regedit, etc which shows details here:
http://raddev.us/images/sysinternals/nissvc1.png[^]
Then I noticed that the places it was writing was into the URLCryptCache directory... What!?
What's going on?
http://raddev.us/images/sysinternals/nissvc2.png[^]
Seems kind of nefarious, doesn't it?
Anyone? Anyone?
Has anyone else seen this crazy behavior?
I shut it down and I'll restart to see if that starts running again.
EDIT
I restarted and the TrustedInstaller is running now. It's probably Nadella installing Win10 on my VM.
Thanks! 
EDIT 2
The svchost running that same nsisvc.dll is running at 50% again.
If it's Microsoft -- they really are a VIRUS. Resistance is futile!!!
If it's a virus, it might be Microsoft.
modified 25-Apr-16 15:03pm.
|
|
|
|
|
I'm assuming that you actually mean nsisvc.dll in which case, yes. Microsoft has pages and pages on problems with it. Google is now and always has been your friend!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, nsisvc.dll and there are pages of Google and there are actually a bunch of pages on Spider Monkeys too.
However, I'd like the exact info I need on spider monkeys, not just billions of search results.
Also, if you read the first few pages of results from Google you'd see that there aren't any on it eating the CPU. There are quite a few on issues with nsisvc.dll missing or whatever.
Thanks.
|
|
|
|
|
There are many references if you use the right search term. I went for Quote: nsisvc.dll cpu use
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
|
|
|
|
|
Yes Google reports there are "About 24,200 results..." for your search.
However, notice that the first page (the only one anyone ever reads -- if they even read those) is filled with those sites which report generic info for every dll you put there.
Let me know when you've read the 24,200 and you've found the right one. 
thanks again.
|
|
|
|
|
Well, I just used words from your own posting, and got precisely the results you were looking for:
nsisvc.dll eating the CPU
Don't blame your lack of common sense on other people, and don't get snarky at other people because you're incapable of doing something.
[edit] It's 39,900 results, by the way, but, because I wasn't stoopid, and I used a logical search string, I don't need to read them all.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
In a recent post you answered your own question (within hours of this post):
Mark_Wallace wrote: When did googling become preferable to sharing expert knowledge?
Here's where you made that statement, in case you forgot:
The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
|
|
|
|
|
Yes, so Imparted some expert knowledge to you on how to google.
I did not google that knowledge.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
|
|
|
|
|
What is the first thing comes to mind when you hear requirement and specification? Do you see them as separate thing or are they one and the same?
|
|
|
|
|
I have always thought that Requirements is what the software needs to do and Specifications is the beginning of how it should do that. The software should be responsive is a requirement. All screens will either respond within 5 seconds or set the wait cursor, is a specification.
Pat O
|
|
|
|
|
I agreed.
The next question is would you create the requirement separately from the specification or they goes together?
|
|
|
|
General 
News 
Suggestion 
Question 
Bug 
Answer 
Joke 
Praise 
Rant 
Admin 
Submit an article or tip
