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I am currently running an HP All-in-One jobbie (I use that term advisedly), and you are right about costs of consumables.
Unfortunately, I am a cheapskate and it seems that whenever I need a new printer HPs seem to be on sale. I look at the prices, compare them to others, Canon, Epson, Kodak - whoever, pound signs roll in front of my eyes and I go home with the cheapest that meets my needs. I am only a very light user though, so I don't spend too much on Ink over the life of the printer. Next time I need one I shall resolve to give the others more consideration, until I see that Reduced sign, that is. 
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Henry Minute wrote: whenever I need a new printer HPs seem to be on sale. I look at the prices...and I go home with the cheapest that meets my needs
That's exactly what they want - all the money is in the consumables!
(I used to design industrial (rather than PC) IJ printers, and we did the same - serious profit margins involved on ink)
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Oh, I know. I'm just a sucker for an apparent bargain.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Why do you complain, you get several years of 24/7 usage out of it! I wish my ink cartridges gave such performance for £12.90!
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I buy cheap Timex watches that usually cost about $30 or $40. That way if I lose it or mess it up it doesn't bother me much. Normally I get about 5 years out of the batteries and by then the watch is so scratched up that it's time for a new one anyway.
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Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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If ut's not water resistant then you can do it yourself, the battery is a small part of that cost.
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Does anyone know if there is a combined roll-up of hot fixes for VS2008 with SP1 already applied? I'm making a DVD that will serve as a single point of install for Visual Studio, SP1, Blend, and all existing hot - fixes for those two products.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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A quick search only reveals pre SP1 roll-ups.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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Yeah, I know. I was just looking for something a little less hassle to download than individual hot-fixes.
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Just in case you haven't found this, there are some instructions on creating a SP1 Slipstream here[^]. Still not seen anything for post SP1 Hotfixes though.
Henry Minute
Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain
Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?"
“I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”
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I ended up just downloading all of the ones that I felt were applicable, and put 'em on the dvd...
"Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997
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"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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I know we all face the same issue of this VS's Add Refefences dialog being pathetic slow to load.
I was googling to see if there was any known workaround to this issue since this issue is making me scream aloud when i am about to click on the "Add References..." since i know it will take about 2 minutes for the dialog to show up!!!!!!!! (Yes, 2 minutes thing i am exaggerating, but it does take a long time)
Now i found this thread... MS's help/support web site link where someone had formally requested a fix.
It looks like MS is saying they will address it possibly in the coming 2010 release of VS, but if you look closely in the metadata of the issue, you can see that MS has set the status of the issue to Closed (Fixed) in 2009 March, althoug it is still open to be resolved.
I can imagine the issue raiser's face going red reading that status in the issue note.
Does this show what MS's Configuartion management system / issue / bug addressing process is?
http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=379498[^]
Pathetic!!!!
BTW, does nayone know of a workaround or a thrid party Addon to make this dialog show up faster. I am prepared to pay for a commercial solution too (upto < $100) ... $100 is considerably less considering it will hopefully save me lot of agony!
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code_wiz wrote: VS's Add Refefences dialog being pathetic slow to load
Yes, it's a real pain. Now I think I saw an add-in somewhere that claims to speed this up. Unfortunately, I didn't make a note of it. I've got an idea where to look and if I find it I'll update this post.
Kevin
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Cheers Kevin, that will be really helpful.
To all voters: I can only guess that there are Microsoft guys roaming the lounge Why would somebody give me such low votes. I have only talked about a valid day-to-day issue here in my post.
Can those who voted me down this low - explain, rather than simply voting my post down. I am more than happy to stand corrected.
Cheers.
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code_wiz wrote: To all voters: I can only guess that there are Microsoft guys roaming the lounge Smile Why would somebody give me such low votes. I have only talked about a valid day-to-day issue here in my post.
I've added my compensatory 5. I've got a few issues with VS and .Net myself, although I don't expect any rush to fix them. I suppose we can hope things might improve in VS2010, although from past experience it'll fix some things and break a few others...
There are three kinds of people in the world - those who can count and those who can't...
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OK, I've found a solution but you may or may not like it.
This plugin solves the issue..
http://code.google.com/p/dxcorecommunityplugins/wiki/CR_QuickAddReference[^]
However, it requires that you install their DXCore extensibility engine. You will automatically have this if you have any of
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Also, I think you can install just DXCore by itself. The good thing about DXCore is that it enables a bunch of plugins, many of which are highly useful.
I tested CR_QuickAddReference and it does the trick. (But I did run into an issue whereby it doesn't work on solutions that have been upgraded from VS 2003 to VS 2005. I don't know whether that is also an issue with 2005-> 2008. My guess is not.)
Kevin
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code_wiz wrote: It looks like MS is saying they will address it possibly in the coming 2010 release of VS,
This will get me some 1's. But, this behaviour is exactly why I stoped using VS migrated all of our clients and products away from .net.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Chris Austin wrote: But, this behaviour is exactly why I stoped using VS migrated all of our clients and products away from .net.
Why? All software vendors in my experience are all pretty much the same. It is purely a trade off between cost to fix and business benefits. Other vendors do the same with features of their software.
Man who stand on hill with mouth open wait long time for roast duck to drop in
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Other vendors do the same with features of their software.
I understand and support their profit motive. However, I am not talking about features but bugs. I can understand not giving new features to people unless they pay for it. But, I find the act of acknowledging a bug and refusing to fix or offer a refund to be unethical.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long
Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
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Pro tip: it adds a single entry to the xml based csproj file.
A little copy'n'paste could go a long way here...
Todd Smith
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Yes, we have an internal tool that builds the references (actually, all the csproj and solution files) for our system. It is probable that the cost comes from the time it takes to load the gac and find / list the system dlls.
So, you can probably pay the cost at load time of the dialog, or when you switch tabs, but either way, you got to pay the piper file system.
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I was just messing with RSA this week, and I wanted to do encryption with the RSA private key. As the .NET framework only allows encryption with the public key (stupid w@nkers!), I was looking for other options. So far I found two:
1) EZRSA (here on codeproject): small and light weight. Doesn't have OAEP padding though, so little less secure.
2) Bouncycastle: open source and very extensive. Bit of a heavyweight solution, since the assembly is 1.2 MB (but who cares nowadays about that huh?). Documentation is very sparse, but it does look like a well designed piece of software. Got this one to work as I want, so for now this is my choice.
Are there any other commercial options out there that anybody knows of? I'm always a bit wary of opensource solutions without a large community behind it to keep it alive.
Wout
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wout de zeeuw wrote: only allows encryption with the public key
You mean you want to encrypt with the private key? How would that make any sense?
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Well, basically it's just signing, but the data package is so small it doesn't make any sense first hashing it, because the hash would be bigger than the data anyway. By directly encrypting the data itself, I can just base64 the encrypted data and send it as a smaller license string in an e-mail.
Wout
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Oh signing.. I'm not sure how bad skipping the hashing step would be for security, my guess is that it wouldn't be all That bad.. AFAIK it's mainly to make the message smaller, but if it's small anyway, well..
Ok, I don't know then, you could just use the open source thing if it works, right?
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