Sound like Peter's principle in action. Judging by the other posts you made today you need to talk to this guy less. In my team the project manager isn't involved in low level technical decisions such as these.
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RE: Taking out code
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RE: Time's up! (or how I got screwed for buying Paint Shop Pro)
Sounds like it attaches the license to the MAC address of your network card. VirtualBox creates virtual adapters as well for routing between the host and guest. It may become confused when there are more than one adapter installed and they get an enumeration in an order that may not be the same each time.
Try Paint.NET. It's simple, free and after I found out there was a plugin that allows to write any effect in C# it was the perfect tool for me.
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RE: Singleton Shopping Cart
Your customers have to learn to get in line and wait for their turn like everyone else.
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RE: Adobe loves the US of A
I encoutered the same problem once. I complained to the support about it and the reply was something like "I looked up your country in wikipedia and you have this thing called 'departements', it's just like a state, enter this instead !" No it's not, and it's never part of a postal address. I guess I was lucky it was a text input and not a dropbox.
There really should be only some text saying "Please enter your address below" with a big textbox. Many people live in places where there are not street names or numbers, have only a PO box, or otherwise have addresses that don't fit in the model that most forms impose for no reason.
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RE: Questions asked while teaching Windows Vista and Computer Hardware courses
@Jaime said:
However, if the hard drive is considered along with the device that formats it, the system will likely gain mass
From an information theory point of view, it might in fact lose mass. Indeed, a formatted disk contains almost no information (only a few bits), and so it will have higher entropy, therefore lower internal energy, therefore lower mass.
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RE: How many days since jan 1 1985... the hard way
@fatbull said:
No. That's exactly why you can divide the timestamp by 86400 to get the number of days. Posix timestamps are an approximation of UTC where each and every day shall be accounted for by exactly 86400 seconds.
OK, you managed to half-convince me. I guess the idea that timestamps represent the time in seconds elapsed since the epoch is implanted too deeply in my brain :-) So what happens to the unix time when there is a leap second, does it just skip a beat?
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RE: How many days since jan 1 1985... the hard way
@fennec @fatbull : I know this app is probably a game more than a serious scientific software, but I don't understand the logic that makes you say it's OK to replace correct code with incorrect code just to save 2 lines of code and a few nanoseconds of CPU time.
@rad131304 said:
Why not just correct for the initial offset and take the modulus of the average length of a Lunaiton (approximately 255143 seconds)?
You'd have the same problem. Just like the day the lunation is slowing down due to tidal effects, and is slightly cahotic. Whether half a minute of error is acceptable or not is debatable.
@Bulb said:
You will be surprised to learn it is. The UNIX time is defined as the number of non-leap seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z (Epoch).
Correct, that's why you can't divide the UNIX time by 86400 to get the number of days, since actual days have leap seconds.
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RE: How many days since jan 1 1985... the hard way
86400 seconds is not equal to one day. Once in a while, you need to add or remove a leap second. That's why if you want to be accurate -and I presume an astronomical application needs to be- you can't just divide by 86400.
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RE: ISP Wireless Modem WTF
PROTIP: think twice before posting on a website whose main theme is : "le'ts mock the failures of others and feel superior about it".
Also there is no central authority on Ethernet networks that says who can and can't connect to it. If you want to take the IP of another host and wreak havoc, you can. It's the basis of a class of attacks called ARP poisoning. DHCP is a facility invented long after Ethernet.