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A comment from a news article about NotPetya being programmed too sloppily to make recovery of encrypted files possible:
Quote: Wow. Thats scary you can write crappy code and still wreak havoc.
I have seen some true masters of bad code at work and if I had not known that they really did not have a clue what they were doing, I would have thought it to be nothing less than sabotage. By my experience it's more scary how good your code has to be in order not to wreak havoc.
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"Sounds like a dog reciting a poem, but does it scan?" (7)
Good luck
Andy B
modified 3-Jul-17 3:45am.
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barcode
bark - dog noise
ode - poem
barcode - thing what one scans
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Well done, I thought it may have taken a bit longer than that.
Your turn tomorrow 
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And did I wish I was still on that river cruise when I woke up this morning 
Had an awesome vacation on a Rhine cruise.
I've done lots of hiking and relaxing and seen forests, plains, mountains, castles, churches, idyllic villages, a monastery, some weird mechanical instruments museum, an old fort and some more stuff I can't remember right now 
My grandparents (who this trip was for) and parents also had a great time
And of course I was the youngest passenger aboard by more than 20 years (I even fixed some phones) 
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It is beautiful countryside, especially this time of year. And some very picturesque villages.
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Thanks, I'm liking some of that!
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So VS2017 wants to run an update... It's OK with me, I have older projects to attend in VS2015 meanwhile... But! the installer wants VS2015 out too!
All good... There is work to do on VS2010 either... But behold! No VS2010 allowed either!!!
And all that because they can not decide which devenv.exe belongs to which VS...
So while I'm updating VS2017 - I can play with my tablet... hopefully...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Do what I do - have a separate VM for each tool chain.
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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You beat me to it.
I have VMs for each major version of VS going all the way back to 2005 (I've never worked with .NET 1.0/1.1), plus one more for VC++ 6.0.
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I installed VS 2017 to give it a try and it said it could run alongside VS 2015 with no issues. It seemed to be OK and i could still run VS 2015 for those production projects shared with colleagues who weren't updating (I am the one in the team that researches all new stuff like this).
OK, so I decided, due to various and sundry failures, that VS 2017 wasn't ready for us to moved to just yet and uninstalled it. No problem; a nice clean uninstall... except VS 2015 no longer worked and I had to completely re-install it to get it to work again including setting up all the extensions and plug-ins I relied upon.
So much for not interfering with earlier versions! I also went ahead and uninstalled all earlier VS versions at this point so now I only have VS 2015 installed - and I don't plan on changing this until they take Windows 7 and VS 2015 from my cold, freshly washed hands.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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I join the others in saying that VM's are your friend. Painless to set up and use.
Arguing with a woman is like reading the Software License Agreement. In the end, you ignore everything and click "I agree".
Anonymous
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I just searched for "Android, PDF" here on Code Project, and the first ten or fifteen hits were not what I was trying to find.
I have a new phone. It's an Android.
I want to put a PDF reader on it.
It would be nice if the reader could also do straight ASCII Text.
Suggestions are welcome.
I have found from experience that waiting a day or two for opinions here on CodeProject tends to yield far better results than Google (or Bing, or whomever) provides.
Searching my own previous messages didn't give me anything in the first twenty hits, so, hopefully I'm not annoying the community with a topic that reappears too frequently (or worse, which I asked before and forgot).
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I use WPS office - it reads PDF, DOC / DOCX, and Excel files as well as text.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I use an old version of the free Adobe PDF reader. IMHO, it's much snappier and renders better than the current version. If you like I can make it avaialble to you.
/ravi
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For PDF files, I use Adobe Reader. For TXT files, I use ASTRO File Manager.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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For reading pdf books, I use Play Books. With its horizontal scrolling through pages, night mode and option to add bookmarks, I find it's just right for it.
A downside is that it takes quite a while (minutes) to add a pdf to it. So for things like plane/train tickets, receipts etc, I prefer using the Google Drive pdf viewer. This works for local files, in case the name Google Drive sounds suspicious.
modified 13-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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EBookDroid is the best one I've found as it's extremely fast even with image-heavy PDFs and you can configure it to hide as much of the UI as you like, up to all of it.
I can't tell you whether it does ASCII text but it does other formats such as ePub and RTF.
Xodo is also good if you want to open multiple PDFs in a tabbed interface, or annotate them.
Regards
Nelviticus
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Foxit mobile works well for me. A few other I tried didn't open some of the PDF's I had, but Foxit works good so far. I didn't compare much other than that.
"The primary trait of a good programmer is laziness. Nobody works harder to do nothing than a good programmer." - MehGerbil
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I like RepliGo Reader. Main feature I like is it maintains your position in the PDF when reopening. I'm typically reading several documents at a time. When reading a novel I like to start where I left off.
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Thank you to each and every one who has offered suggestions.
From reading here and one or two of the external sources, my initial choice was Xodo.
At this moment, I'm not totally okay with it, although it may work.
The three big things I want are...
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I zoom it
- Text reformats and fits the screen when I change the phone from vertical to horizontal
- Ability to scroll to the next page without special gestures (i.e., smoothly, like the PC can do)
Do any of the previously mentioned readers have the ability to do that, already built-in ?
Does Xodo have that ability ? So far, I haven't found the config thing to do that.
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