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Comment on Get a hard disk serial number by me

me — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:32:49 +0000

@Lynnmcguire - it will definitely not work with normal user rights. I have tested it on Vista, but no Windows 7.

Comment on Get a hard disk serial number by lynnmcguire

lynnmcguire — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:27:52 +0000

Also, did you test with user mode rights only (no administrator rights? ?

Comment on Get a hard disk serial number by lynnmcguire

lynnmcguire — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:27:12 +0000

How are you building getdiskserial.cpp ?

I noticed that you are using the wide character win32 api. Do you think that is why your solution works better ?

Did you test this on Vista ?

Comment on Steve Jobs on drugs by Nimble Pen » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs needs more LSD

Nimble Pen » Blog Archive » Steve Jobs needs more LSD — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:10:11 +0000

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Comment on Using OpenVPN on Windows Vista by rickyse1236

rickyse1236 — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:05:49 +0000

I also had this issue until I applied this fix, (Thank you for all of your hard work) and it worked for about 6 weeks. I would connect to my network from home; Remote desktop to my computer all is good! About 2 weeks ago my vista laptop started losing connection about 2 min into the session. There is a little popup window that says connection lost trying to reconnect 1 of 20 times. The connection is reestablished after the 5th or 6th attempt but keeps dropping out again in about 2 min. I’ve searched and searched and haven’t been able to find any info on this issue. Any help would appreciated.

Rickyse1236

Comment on Apple reinvents Windows by me

me — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:48:55 +0000

About your first comment - It is obvious how the campaign is designed, thanks for the explanation. My point was, that with negative advertising you can grow from 2% to 6% successfully (an apple showed that), but in the process you create negative feelings towards yourself, which will work against you if you want to make this 6% something more.

About your second comment - if you were carefully reading the post, you would find out this is a quote, so if you wanna be a real apple zealot - you have to comment on Joel’s site.

My personal opinion on the matter is: Yes, the whole world knows how CISC vs RISC compare, besides Apple’s marketing department.

Get back to the ads for the PowerPC please - do they say “Power PC is sometimes better, sometimes worse than Intel”, or do they say “Power PC is better. Period”.

Comment on Using OpenVPN on Windows Vista by me

me — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:39:43 +0000

I am glad I could help. This is what I wrote in an e-mail to jay_dale to solve his problem:

Maybe you forgot to enclose it in “”. Since Program Files has a space in it, it needs quotes

“C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\bin\openvpn.exe” “C:\Program Files\OpenVPN\config “

Comment on Using OpenVPN on Windows Vista by jay_dale

jay_dale — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:41:35 +0000

That worked…Thanks!

Comment on Using OpenVPN on Windows Vista by jay_dale

jay_dale — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 15:46:38 +0000

I’m having problems with this - can you type out the command if the location of the ovpn file is in c:\program files\openvpn\config? I keep getting syntax errors. Thanks!

Comment on Apple reinvents Windows by matte

matte — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:39:06 +0000

Forgot to mention…

“Apple is and always has been severely dishonest in all their advertising when it comes to performance. This is the company that spent years telling us that the PowerPC was faster than Intel”

Benchmarks have proved this time and again. RISC vs CISC is an apples-to-oranges comparison. There is no “one size fits all” solution for an entire industry. You can argue that Intel is superior to PPC on the desktop, but in EVERY OTHER ARENA (including multimedia - Apple’s specialty), RISC dominates all.