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I had to reupload the example project (in ZIP package) for the article Custom Controls in Win32 API: Control Customization[^] as it was corrupted as reported by Taulie in article's comment.
However even the new one has some problems:
(1) It differs from what I was uploading (MD5 of downloaded file is diffeent from original).
(2) User yafan in article's discussion has problems to unpack it.
(3) When tried to doanload on Mac OS X, unzip on it gets this output:
$ unzip customdraw.zip
Archive: customdraw.zip
customdraw/customdraw/Debug/cl.command.1.tlog: mismatching "local" filename (customdraw/button.suo),
continuing with "central" filename version
inflating: customdraw/customdraw/Debug/cl.command.1.tlog
file #2: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 335
file #3: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 1373
file #4: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 1559
file #5: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 1908
file #6: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 2065
file #7: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3051
file #8: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3586
file #9: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3667
file #10: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3750
file #11: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3834
file #12: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 3922
file #13: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4011
file #14: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4092
file #15: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4174
file #16: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 4669
file #17: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 5143
file #18: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 5352
file #19: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 18057
file #20: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 18282
file #21: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 18653
file #22: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 18825
file #23: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 19334
file #24: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 26751
file #25: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 37914
file #26: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 37972
file #27: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 38558
file #28: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 39597
file #29: bad zipfile offset (local header sig): 39800
inflating: customdraw/customdraw/manifest.xml
inflating: customdraw/customdraw/resource.rc
inflating: customdraw/Debug/customdraw.exe
inflating: customdraw/button.suo
inflating: customdraw/customdraw.sln
inflating: customdraw/customdraw.suo
inflating: customdraw/ownerdraw.suo
This makes me think that the zip is broken but some zip implementations can still deal with the ZIP archive and some cannot. Can you take a look on the problem? As an workaround, can I somehow upload a ZIP without having it modified by the site to avoid such issues?
Thanks,
Martin
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We've been fighting zip issues for a couple of days - which I have to say was the last thing I thought we'd ever have issues with.
We've fixed two things so far:
1. After uploading zips, the zips were getting recreated. This no longer happens.
2. We've dropped ShardCompress and are using the .NET 4.5 Zip classes for times when we do need to recreat the zip (eg due to a Git commit to the backing ::Workspaces repository for the article)
These changes were released yesterday around 3PM Toronto time, so if you updated your article before then you may have come across those two issues. If you try re-uploading, and it's still happening, please let me know.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: ShardCompress
Never heard of it. Did you mean SharpCompress?
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Or "char compresse" ?[^]
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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It's what SharpCompress turns into if you accidentally drop it on the floor.
Hmm - maybe that's the problem...
cheers
Chris Maunder
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What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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Should be fixed!
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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Looks like that did it. Thanks!
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I recently published the technical blog post. Then I wanted to fix some misprints and image links. I didn't change type of post. Once I submitted the post for approval, the type of post was changed to Article. I tried to resubmit the post and manually chose Technical Blog type. No luck.
What should I do to update the post with correct type?
Thank you.
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All fixed. You just needed to ensure the "Article Source URL" was set as the location of your blog, otherwise the editor thinks it's a directly submitted article instead of a blog entry sourced from your site.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Hi,
I am new to CodeProject and started writing article from last 2-3 months, I recently publish one article for approval, the moderator says some of its contains are copied from Microsoft , I removed those content and published again but today I found my account is deleted, because moderator still find something which is copied from MS. I mentioned in blog that this specific content is from Microsoft site and i provided link also on same content as a credit to Microsoft.
I got a mail "Your account at CodeProject has been reported as The member is being abusive or is a troll 4 times and is now deactivated."
Now neither i can log in my account nor i can ask for any help or give clarification. I never used any abusive language or intent to troll the web site.
Looking at some discussion on forum I found that copying MSDN content is also offensive. My intention was not copying content but provide info on what classes used in my article. My actual blog is completely related to some other functionality.
Still lesson learnt so is there any way I can get my account back ? No idea my account is deleted or deactivated and is there any chance to get it back ?
My account name was RohitDotNet and Id was rohitandrohit@yahoo.com
Any help in this regard is much appreciated.
Thanks
Rohit
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Sadly there are a few members on here who would obviously have been better employed as Traffic Wardens but for some reason chose a career in Software instead. They lead sad little lives but the 'power' that they gain from being able to remove peoples accounts for the slightest of reasons, gets them aroused a little and now some have got addicted.
The addition of the Spam and Abuse forum has only intensified this problem and some members actually spend hours looking for people to boot off this site.
It looks like you tried to do everything you could to appease the moderators misgivings, but it was to no avail as they had the taste of blood in their mouth and they couldn't wait to go running over to the Spam forum to report you to the other like-minded Traffic Wardens (they were probably happy you didn't remove the MSDN stuff as they enjoy booting people off).
It really is a shame because the report member function would work really well if members implemented it as Chris intended, i.e to ban members who Spam or are abusive (this is the only criteria set-out in the sticky at the top of the forum). However the Traffic Wardens have slowly extended this to mean plagarism or anybody that posts something they don't agree with.
People have been abusing the report thing so much that Chris has had to up the number of reports needed to boot an account. A sure indication that it is not being used as intended. And the saddest thing is that it is some of the most senior members who are doing this.
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Blue Waffle wrote: The addition of the Spam and Abuse forum has only intensified this problem and some members actually spend hours looking for people to boot off this site. Weren't you the member who used to post in that forum when you couldn't find spam?
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Yeah it was my way of taking the mick.
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Hi Blue,
Very well said, they are treating me like I have done a biggest crime of my life. I am clarifying that I copied content from Microsoft, it is not a person whose hard work I wanted to take credit.
Secondly I have give hyperlink on class name which redirect user to go to Same page. If intention is to steal something do you think anyone would link that content to its original author ?
I got 1st info that it is Plagiarized which was shocking for me.
I removed content and on few classes name I kept with a statement that These content is taken from Microsoft Site with hyperlink on each class. then i re posted assuming it is ok.
In morning I got to know my account is deleted.
The kind of word they are using for me (abusing, stealing, behavior, winning) is very upsetting. At least I don't expect these things from senior members who are moderators and on top of the level.
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Exactly.
Chris - Do you really want to ban members who have obviously taken time and effort to write an article for this site just because they have included a referenced part of MSDN which adds background to there article?
How many members have been banned for this sort of thing who haven't taken the effort to re-join and complain?
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In clarification - if you copy the copyrighted work of someone else, this is plagiarism. While you might not see this is being a big deal, lawyers do tend to take a dim view and the people who comment generally have the well being of CodeProject at heart; in other words, they are trying to protect CP from being sued for copyright infringement. If someone wants to use someone elses words to add context, they should just link to that page.
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I can't see the article but the guy says he did also post links.
It looks to me as if he tried to accommodate Griffs suggestions but he still went running over to get his account removed.
One Question - Do you think banning someone who has taken the effort to write an article ( and by all accounts the majority is all his own work) is going to lead to more people or less people bothering to submit articles?
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In this case, I have no idea what happened with the contents of the article other than the initial comment about plagiarism and then a further report later on that the OP had attempted to repost plagiarised content. In this case, a member of the CP staff had reviewed the item so there must have been some grounds to the complaint.Blue Waffle wrote: One Question - Do you think banning someone who has taken the effort to write an article ( and by all accounts the majority is all his own work) is going to lead to more people or less people bothering to submit articles? And there's the rub. Do we want to encourage people to submit articles that aren't their own work? What value does that provide? I would rather have one original article than 100 plagiarised articles. Now, I will add that I've long pondered the use of the vote options there and I think there needs to be a third option in there "Plagiarised" as I would agree that Troll/Abusive is too emotive.
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Removing the offending articles is a better approach than banning the account. Maybe banning the posting of articles for a time for someone who has repeatedly committed the offense
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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