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for me it is more times than I care to admit. However I always learn alot when trying things like this. Just because you can do something programmatically. it does NOT mean you should.
Today's minor (very minor) fiasco taught me something about a certain software package from Microsoft. It really shouldn't work that way but it does.
Oh well backups!
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Doing what?
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Obviously posting vague demi-rants !
Think of the quality of his/her abstraction - you could post that almost anytime you want.
A work of art
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Ah. A metarant. 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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I don't know why but I am reminded of men dressed as Greeks playing soccer against a very odd German team. I Kant seem to shake the image!
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Thanks for that. I appreciate it. I wish it was forethought. But Alas. I never fore think anything
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Updating a couple hundred share point sites via powershell. It worked in dev. I swear
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Ahh yes, good old:
Remove-Item –path c:\sharepointdata\ –recurse
works wonders for treating sharepoint installsinfections every time. 
PS is there a way to get powershell syntax highlighting?
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I meant can I get highlighting on the CP forums. [Insert Text Editor Here] doesn't help with that.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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You weren't per chance fixing this security issue with SP that is currently all the rage with hackers, no?
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I wish, I was actually doing something as mundane as updating site titles. It should in theory be easy. But those things that work in theory never work in practice. Even when you practice them.
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rnbergren wrote: about a certain software package from Microsoft. It really shouldn't work that way but it does.
You mean Windows? 
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Close. SharePoint.
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C'mon now, don't leave us hanging!  Share so that we can all learn from your mistakes...what are friends for?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Laughing at?
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exactly, that is why I didn't reveal the full extent of my idiocy. It is HUGE I say
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I've always been kind of bummed about the universal garbage collection in .NET because you can't do realtime coding with a GC running in the background.
What I'd have liked to see, at the very least, is a segregated heap that wasn't collected, and an ability to suspend background collection.
You can kind of hack something like it into there using the large object heap and also using .NET 4+'s ability to reserve heap and suspend GC but it's non-optimal.
See, I'd really like to write VST plugins in C# for example, and while there are offerings to do so, they are not realtime. They are kinda realtime. Not good enough for live music performance.
Instead I'm forced to do it in something like C++ or *gasp* Delphi, which is costlier/more time consuming to write solid code with.
I'd be okay with C# code blocks (similar to unsafe) where realtime code could run but apparently that's too much to ask.
Also, I love garbage collection. Don't get me wrong. I even used it in C++ ISAPI server apps (using Boehm collector) for my strings in order to avoid heap fragmentation - in the right areas it can even improve performance.
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Nothing in windows is truly real time - and I never used heaps in realtime apps because of the fragmentation problem. When you are designing an inkjet printer that should just run for years on a conveyor belt with just the ink cartridge needing changing, you can't risk fragmentation or you'll miss product. Windows was never a choice for that!
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VSTs are realtime, and run in windows.
I get that windows is not an RTOS. But windows is pretty good at faking it enough for games and music apps.
That's what's important - not the largely academic technical category of RTOS.
Otherwise people would never use Macs or PCs to write or perform music with.
But yeah, I do know what you're saying. You're talking about writing little things like printer drivers.
I'm talking about much larger animals where ring buffers just won't cut it. Like a vocoder VST or a quadruple osc synth with compression and analog modeling.
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Only thing that allows Windows to do anything in "realtime" is that machines are far faster than the many minicomputers used for realtime work (Xerox Sigma series, Systems Engineering Labs, Modcomp, Harris, Interdata, etc.). These machines had a variety of hardware features that supported quick context switching (think multiple register sets, multiple memory maps, bit level instructions, etc.), and huge numbers of priority interrupt levels to facilitate realtime processing (at least one machine had 127 levels of priority interrupt). Usually it was a simple matter to use an interrupt to trigger a process to go do something quickly in response to an interrupt.
Once the PC came out, these machines quickly died as eventually so did the VAX. market for realtime work was relegated to the embedded processor work and realtime kernels.
In their infinite wisdom the NT designers didn't allow Interrupts to do ANY significant processing. They handed that processing off to something called the Dispatch Priority Level, a sort of netherworld between the interrupts and the OS.
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All garbage collected languages that I'm familiar with take too big a bite in that they don't let you delete things. The GC has to do all the work.
I'd rather see opportunities to delete objects under programmer control via:
* Stack variables that destruct when you go out of scope
* Destructors in classes
* Ability to 'delete' a pointer
These ideas are not incompatible with GC languages but the features are conspicuously absent.
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That's true, and kind of what i'm looking for, whatever form it takes.
the Boehm collector let you mix, but that was C++ code
there are now true value types (stack allocated) in the latest C#
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I wasn't going to tell him. Anyone that uses Finalizers needs to be dragged into the street and summarily shot.
With witnesses so nobody *ever* makes the same mistake.
There's a special hell where they keep the guy who designed them. It's below building 8 on the microsoft campus.
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