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re: How do FILE_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL_SCAN and FILE_FLAG_RANDOM_ACCESS affect how...
Do these two flags only give hints to the cache manager of the local machine when calling CreateFile for a file on a local hard disk or do they also get transmitted to a remote machine when calling...
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re: Can OANOCACHE be used for non-debug purposes?
Joshua: I've sometimes found irritations like that - of course, if the problem showed up in the dev environment, the code would never have gone out like that in the first place! I had a very...
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
On the other hand. We have always had coins up to £1 (notes from £5 and above) and just dealt with it. I guess it is just a case of you get used to what you are raised with. Thinking about the $2 bill...
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Wouldn’t it be nice if the world just got on with it and introduced electronic payment by mobile phone or card for low-value transactions? Who cares if money flow can be tracked? It would likely reduce...
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@Tom: This paper disagrees with you: arxiv.org/pdf/0809.0400
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@Pink Duck I would certainly appreciate the ability to pay by phone becoming popular here. I have a prepaid phone, and go through the balance slowly enough that I always have money left over when the...
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@Tom, GWO The problem is pseudo-polynomial. Using the dynamic programming solution, the time to make $N of change is polynomial in terms of N, but NP-completeness deals with the input length. Each time...
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
Best part of Mario's article: watching Google try to translate "Il Debug è lentisssssssiiiiimo."
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@Crescens2k - I'm guessing you're somewhere other than the UK then, but use £s, since the pound coin was introduced about a decade after the switch to decimal currency (as the £1 was phased out).
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@Crescens2k As Damien said, it's well within living memory that pound notes were in circulation south of the border. I'm not sure if it's still true, but within a few years ago, there were plenty of...
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
I'd love to combine Method 1 with Method 2, but ... what is Method 2, actually? Did a paragraph fall out?
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
@Henning Method 2, from the MSDN link: Â Rundll32.exe fthsvc.dll,FthSysprepSpecialize
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@Jon: I spend my extra phone credits by buying MP3s with premium-rate SMS. My balance is reset each month so there's a great incentive to use it. Just an idea...
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
Well, I guess we cannot really call ourselves literate as programmers if we aren't fluent in Italian.
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@Richard Deeming I'm pretty sure they don't teach "maths" in Japan.
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re: A single-handed effort to keep the memory of $2 bills alive
@MIkeGall: I'm guessing that since there's no "Japanese English" it's hard to say he's /wrong/ for writing "maths" and, even if there were a "Japanese English", it's still not exactly "wrong" to use...
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
Software that (accidentally/maliciously) does this in their installation would fail Win2k8R2 logo cert right?
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
Method 3: If you can, develop under Server 2008 R2 which does not have the fault-tolerant heap! :)
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re: Can OANOCACHE be used for non-debug purposes?
I had bitten by 3rd party bug as well. That is related to a form that used embedded web browser control, but the user's running a PC that have IE bugged to a level that it can't be started. (This user...
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re: How do I disable the fault-tolerant heap?
#Aaron.C: Is that function a proper prototype for Rundll32? Or is it gonna cause some future developer some pain in maintaining rundll32 because it's been hacked to do things it really shouldn't? And...
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