Re: NY gov Spitzer Rethinking Plan To Give Drivers Licenses to Illegals
- From: "Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)" <drunk_and_distracted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:10:47 -0500
Scott in SoCal wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:34:20 -0500, "Murderous Speeding Drunken
Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
<drunk_and_distracted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Scott in SoCal wrote:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:57:00 -0500, "Murderous Speeding Drunken
Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein)"
<drunk_and_distracted@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I never looked at your headers to see what reader you were using. I'm
still back on 1.93, although I'm reluctant to upgrade as I know their
.DAT/.NDX file format all too well.
Oh? And what are you doing poking around in that data? ;)
Building my own filters, building exports to whatever DBE, just
messing, you know. :-)
And how did you happen to find the format of the files? Every time I
looked I couldn't find any sort of spec or description.
Reverse engineering. I've got about 90 percent of it, enough that I
can somewhat tie together database engines to Agent instances for the
purposes of driving article selections.
I played around with this stuff at one point, but quickly gave it up.
It was much easier to simply write an NNTP client to fetch the
articles directly from the server. That worked fine for my
application.
At the time I reverse engineered their format, I had no socket
experience, much less any Doze experience, so authoring a client was
beyond the realm of possibilities. I needed a quick and dirty way to
perform external article selection via a command line app. The job I
had before this one involved a great deal of reverse engineering, as
we performed I/O on our competitor's formats as well as we did with
ours. That ability came from various types of reverse engineering of
game and software protection schemes.
What do you think about the latest and greatest?
It's much the same from a user's perspective. I upgraded because my
new laptop came with Vista installed, and I needed a version of Agent
that is "Vista Compliant."
1.93 operates fine and well under Vista Business Pro on my box.
Really? I thought that the directories under "Program Files" were
considered "Write-Only" under Vista, and since that's where Agent 1.x
keeps its data files it had no hope of working. Ah well, the upgrade
was only $19, and they made some other improvements, so I'm still
happy. :)
That might explain the difference; very little of the software that I
use is "installed" into the Program Files folder. Indeed, Agent
doesn't really need to be "installed", as once it's installed, you can
copy it wherever you want. Whenever I decide I want to try a different
news server, or start pulling a different "classification" of content,
I copy an instance of Agent from it's current folder to a new one,
enter the new parameters if necessary, delete all existing groups and
messages, then perform a group listing refresh, and start using that.
Most software I install that I use with any regularity gets installed
to a folder outside of "program files", as I can perform the
equivalent of an "xcopy" (You heard of ZTReeWin?) to copy the
application to any number of thumb drives, portable hard drives,
iPods, or systems lying around the house or office, and pretty well
operate without the same regardless of the processor and version of
Doze I'm utilizing.
Indeed, the only apps I've had that flat out refused to run under
Vista were older Mickeysoft products, like SQL Server 2000 and older
versions of Office apps.
And Developer Studio 2003 :)
My coworkers poke a lot of fun at me because I hate Intellisense, nor
will I use an IDE. I poke fun of them by replying "Why does a jet
pilot need training wheels?" gvim/make/bcc|cl, man! :-)
Oddly enough, the only copy of a Microsoft IDE I have is from
Developer Studio 97, which I use ONLY for the resource editor. Once
it's installed, it can be xcopied and executed on other boxes without
issue, and it works fine under Vista. :-)
--
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
- Admiral Hyman Rickover, U.S. Navy
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