Comment But do I believe this (maybe)? (Score 1) 324
Andy
Andy
I warned the project manager that sure go ahead and use the data as a basis for programming but not for the production program.
A couple of months later, the competitors lawyers appeared and (cough) out of court (cough) settlement.
Never did find out how much it cost "my" software house...
In the end they had to employ a gaggle of impoverished undergrads to build their own DB.
So, be very very careful. It might be a good idea to *ask* if you can re-use the data - often it's possible for non commercial purposes...
Andy
(and the post grads were *worse* than the undergrads - complaining e.g. that I refused to do a standard deviation on three freaking results).
Working in a real lab is no guarentee though - remember that poor sad biochemist who was an expert on mecury toxicity who ended up killed by one drop of methyl mercury that seeped through her protective gloves?
Andy
(glad to play with considerably safer things like computers for many years)
An investigation by the BBC into cybercrime may itself have broken UK computer crime law.
Andy
Andy
In other words if your CD is XP + SP1, you'll get the SP1 version. SP2, the SP2 version.
So, you'll need to re run whatever update procedure you use to get back to a fully up to date and patched system.
Big hint: google "Heise update" - (I keep all of the updates for XP, vista english on a handy WD pocketdrive (6GB)).
I just checked on my machine and on a fully patched (post SP3) machine you can find a copy of the newest USER32.DLL in "%SYSTEMROOT%\servicepackfiles\i386".
On my machine it has a size of 578,560 bytes (version from properties is: 5.1.2600.5512)
(Then again, maybe AVG hoses that backup copy as well
Andy
A committee is a group that keeps the minutes and loses hours. -- Milton Berle