Whoops, sorry. My reply above was meant to be in reply to djork's video link, but I hit "reply" instead of "quote". Why does this forum software have a reply button AND a quote button anyway? Couldn't there just be one that automatically quoted, like every other forum software, and then you could remove the quote if you didn't want it? Also, sorry for double-posting but my editing time limit expired.
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RE: "Could You Explain Programming Please"
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RE: "Could You Explain Programming Please"
Wow that's bad, even by Hollywood standards. This clip from The Core is short but sweet, and makes just a little sense.
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RE: Adobe Acrobat Sucks
@ender said:
Doesn't SUBST command work (SUBST C: X:\Directory should make X:\Directory appear as C: to programs)
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about that command before (and it will save me a lot of work if I ever run into another program like this again).
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RE: Adobe Acrobat Sucks
Grr... the WTForum ate my post, lets see if it works this time...
@RevEng said:I almost forgot, let's not leave out the FEAD Optimizer used with the
downloadable installer. After downloading a plugin to get the
install package, it runs another program to decompress itself into an
installer executable, which then decompresses itself into the actual
program? I didn't know the extra compression helped. And to
think it only takes 2-10 minutes to decompress! It only took me
about 30 seconds to download it...
I also have a deep burning hatered for FEAD, not because its slow, but because it assumes you have a C: drive on your system (two of mine do not due some freak occurances while installing Windows on them). I eventually resorted to assiging C: to a USB flash drive in order to get Acrobat Reader to install. I couldn't find any way to override the hard-coded temp directory of C:\Temp (you'd think they'd just use the %TEMP% environmental variable, but that would be too smart).
Also, the printer drivers off HP's website use FEAD as well. For my model (Photosmart 2610) the driver package also ended up extracting to over 1 gig so my USB flash drive was too small for that. It took a lot of Googling but I found a virtual drive program that will mount drive images as drives so I made a 1.5 gig image that that worked. In the end I did eventually ended up having to dig out my driver CD and using the drivers off that because the one's off HP's website wouldn't work, even though they are the same version as the ones on the CD.
P.S.: Anyone thinking of purchaing a Photosmart 2610 for its built-in ethernet port: DON'T. It's a decent printer but it refuses to print half the time or just stops in the middle of print jobs (and not necessarily large ones either: sometimes printing something as simple as a text document with a graphic will cause it to stop.)
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RE: Adobe Acrobat Sucks
@RevEng said:
I almost forgot, let's not leave out the FEAD Optimizer used with the
downloadable installer. After downloading a plugin to get the
install package, it runs another program to decompress itself into an
installer executable, which then decompresses itself into the actual
program? I didn't know the extra compression helped. And to
think it only takes 2-10 minutes to decompress! It only took me
about 30 seconds to download it... -
RE: Gotta love WYSIWYG
My mother is building a website using GoDaddy.com's Website Tonight service which includes a WYSIWYG editor. The code it produces is absolutely horrible and I think definately qualifies as WYSIWTF. Here's an example (I've changed the text to protect the innocent, but the context is a quote from a book below two images):
<P align=justify><IMG style="WIDTH: 245px; HEIGHT: 177px" height=390
src="img1.jpg"
width=357 wstxclass="Image"
mainsrc="img1.jpg"
uid="6ae6a32b-ae06-48f3-a31e-978550d7b405"> <IMG style="WIDTH:
237px; HEIGHT: 178px" height=367
src="img2.jpg"
width=317 wstxclass="Image"
mainsrc="img2.jpg"
uid="b8965d17-2744-4e37-a497-23ef775300ac"></P>
<P align=right><EM><FONT face=Georgia color=#000000>"Lorem ipsum dolor
sit amet, hac odio fringilla,<BR>ante et, lectus tempus nullam.
Consectetuer <BR> sed hac, vitae dolor, velit odio.<BR>Esse urna.
Eu erat"<BR> -Sample placeholder text</FONT></EM></P>