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http://xkcd.com/1445/[^]
Now, be honest: how many of you do spend more time trying to decide "which is quicker" than the task would have taken if you had gone either way instead.
Yes, I do. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well for me - it's not "always" about which one is "quicker" to implement, it's "mostly" about scalability and maintenance. 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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As they say in the Royal Navy:
A good officer is one who makes decisions quickly.
If those decisions turn out to be the right ones, then so much the better.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It is like the Queueing Paradox. whichever queue you pick the others are faster but moving will make the original queue quicker.
Vilmos, @ Excel London, Queueing
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Queueing is the reason for the existence of Excel... 
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This is the place not Dave's favourite sw.
M$ ballax all around.
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Every time I've been to ExCeL, London it's been a disappointment: more time standing in queues that looking at anything useful.
And don't get me started on the Docklands Light Railway...
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OriginalGriff wrote: And don't get me started on the Docklands Light Railway...
Getting started on it is half the problem.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My missus annoys me with this, because she'll insist on going to a queue with six people with baskets, rather than one with two people with full trolleys, even though she's seen that the "shorter" queue clears faster every time.
It's the people who consume the time, not the item-scanning.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Put's me in mind of Rimmer's revision timetable.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Yes, but it was beautifully coloured...
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Some time?
Most of the time?
Let me think about that a little more.
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0
There's a fine line between crazy and free spirited and it's usually a prescription.
I'm currently unsupervised, I know it freaks me out too but the possibilities are endless.
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OriginalGriff wrote: how many of you do spend more time trying to decide "which is quicker" than the task would have taken if you had gone either way instead.
Hmm... Good question... Let me think.... Can I get back to you on that?
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OriginalGriff wrote: spend more time trying to decide "which is quicker"
Oh, you mean like the whole year I took trying to decide between two techniques for a game I wrote? Eventually I chose the easy way.
Or how about another application I started back in 2009. Creating the database and DAL took about a week. Getting most of the core features working took only a couple of months. Then I needed to decide between two other (vital) features. In the last five years all I've done on it was to replace the DAL so it can work with either SQL Server or SQL Server CE at the user's discretion. I still haven't decide what to do about those other features, and the app is useless without at least one of them. 
I guess I know how I'll spend tomorrow...
modified 10-Nov-14 22:12pm.
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I was using CamStudio; great stuff.
Hard Drive crashed, had to reinstall.
Bad stuff now.
Install program puts malware on your machine.
Best I can tell, I got it from here: http://www.camstudio.org[^]
Does anyone know where I can get the real CamStudio from the real source ?
I search, and I see SourceForge and CNET and several sites with names that scare me after my most recent attempt to download (what I thought was) a legitimate copy.
Can anybody vouch for a site that has the real one ?
The accurate working URL would be a real favor.
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What's wrong with the green download button here[^]?
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Scroll down about a page and read the comments.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Any organization is like a tree full of monkeys. The monkeys on top look down and see a tree full of smiling faces. The monkeys on the bottom look up and see nothing but assholes.
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It seems to me, that those last two comments are related to the site you saw...
I downloaded the exe and installed (also checked with antivirus) and got nothing...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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You actually downloaded and installed it just to check if it actually contains any malware?! 
Your time will come, if you let it be right.
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Yes. I'm working in a VMs...so in worst case I can re-create the VM...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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So did I. That's what VMs are for.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I can't find any problems with the official download, but if it still worries you, I've got an older version archived.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Okay, we have two witnesses here that the site in question has a clean copy ?
I had a disk crash and reinstalled a bunch of apps; I think every one of them was done by Ninite.
When I put CamStudio on, then the dance of the annoyance-ware started. Every page I opened in my browser popped up warnings about detected malware. (New hard drive; freshly installed apps; Ninite; uh-huh)
I did a restore back to before the Ninite install, reinstalled a bunch of apps all en-masse, and the behavior disappeared.
I'll wait another day and see if anyone else says the copy from his site is okay or malware.
Thanks to both of you for testing it (!) I didn't expect that.
Assuming you two are correct, then I will forever wonder how the malware writer tricked me on that one.
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Update on CamStudio
Just went back to the original site, downloaded the file.
Old (evil, wicked) install was already on hard drive.
When I put the downloaded zip file in my installs directory, there was a file conflict.
Same name, different file. Both are showing up with Malware from various virus scanners.
I will search for an alternative, and start another thread later.
This is quite discouraging, and impedes my plans by a major factor.
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Hi chaps -
writing comp, the topic is "Chris Maunder and the Mystery of Fig Tree Pocket" - the prize is entertainment and the adoration and adulation of your peers.
Make it say - 3 paragraphs max.
Bryce
MCAD
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