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So, periodically, messenger will just die. My internet is fine, the trouble shooter says the network is fine, but it gives an error to say it can't get my contact list. The site they point me to says their servers are all up and running. Why is this stuff so badly written ? Someone tried to play a wink yesterday and MSN Messenger crashed on me as a result. Is it that hard ?
Christian Graus
No longer a Microsoft MVP, but still happy to answer your questions.
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i found trillion to be alright and it does yahoo,AIM,AOL,msn all in one. havent used a IRC chat prg in a while though
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Christian Graus wrote: Someone tried to play a wink yesterday and MSN Messenger crashed on me as a result.
I always suspect a badly written hook or shell extension when something like this happens to me. I do a lot of post-mortem debugging at work and the number of crashes I’ve found that were not out fault, but rather due to a badly written application that uses hooks or is a shell extension, is worrying to say the least. I’d unleash a debugger on MSN and look at the list of loaded DLL’s: look for something strange. You may me blaming MSN prematurely.
Steve
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Blech. I bailed on MSN Messenger a few years ago and switched to GTalk. I suppose that's not helpful to you. Personally, I don't want all that fluff and useless space messenger takes up, and I'm pretty ruthless with people that want to chat with me--either they use GTalk or they can just send me emails. But at least I'm happy!
Marc
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Just saw a show call 'A Handful of Keys'. Quite an old show, but its current performers really gave it stick. Two men, two pianios, and three-hundred years of music and humour. I'm going back to take my folks, and going back to take my housemates.
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Luckily I found waldo. But I wonder where this[^] lad disappeared to? Anyone else use SharpReader and wish the author still did updates or released the code into the wild? His las blog entry was '06.
Todd Smith
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Isn't it .NET based so you could just plug it into Reflector? If it's not being maintained and the author can't be contacted then...
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Ed.Poore wrote: If it's not being maintained and
I've had a few beers at the theatre [see above], and I first read your post as 'it's not being 'marinated'..'
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Brady Kelly wrote: 'it's not being 'marinated'..'
I suppose it could have been worse (just trying to think of some of them but not succeeding).
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I just read these and found them interesting. If it's old or repost, please ignore it.
1. Nobody can create a folder named “Con”.
Try to create anywhere on your hard disk a folder called “Con” (without the quotes). Go to a location on your hard disk, right click, choose “New” and then select “Folder” from the menu that appears. Name the folder “Con” (without quotes) and hit Enter. You’ll see that the folder won’t be named “Con“. It will be “New folder”
2. A text file made with Notepad, with the following content : “Bush hid the facts” (without quotes) won’t display the actual text.
Go to Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> Notepad . Write in Notepad the following text : “Bush hid the facts” (without quotes) then Save the file and exit Notepad. Now go to the text file you created and open it. You’ll see that the text you just wrote and save won’t show.
3. Write in an MS Office Word document this : “=rand(200,99)” (without the quotes) and hit Enter. Magic in the making.
"In the end it's a little boy expressing himself." Yanni
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Yeah. It's got to do with the naming of serial ports (named Com1, Com2, etc). It's an 80's thing, so most of you are too young to know about it.
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not sure how you get com (serial ports) from con. There was a DOS command that used con refering to console.
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CON is short for "console" - again, an 80's thing.
"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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CON is a reserved keyword in DOS/Windows.
It's the name of the CONsole device.
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SimulationofSai wrote: 1. You can't name a folder as LPT(some number), COM(Some Number) etc
that is because everything is using fileopen() underneath it all?
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killabyte wrote: that is because everything is using fileopen() underneath it all?
Nah. I believe all ports in Windows are hidden folders from which data is squeezed through the holes at the back of the computer.
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Hamed Mosavi wrote: Nobody can create a folder named “Con
Yup. Con is a reserved word - short for console. You can't create a directory called LPT1, NUL or PRN either. (There are a few more, but these should be enough to be getting on with).
Hamed Mosavi wrote: A text file made with Notepad, with the following content : “Bush hid the facts”
Not stricly true - works fine on my Vista box.
Hamed Mosavi wrote: Write in an MS Office Word document this : “=rand(200,99)”
This is an old one - and I believe it works differently in Word 2007 - I think you have to do rand.old() here. Basically, =rand fires off a Macro called rand (random) that fires off "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" as a test. The first part refers to the number of paragraphs and the second one the number of sentences in the paragraph. In Word 2007, the macro seems to generate more interesting content relating to the ribbon bar. BTW - the quick brown fox is a well known text that uses every letter in the English language.
Try putting =lorem(10,20) in for more "fun".
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: Try putting =lorem(10,20) in for more "fun".
Does nothing in Word 2003... 
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1.
On the command line: mkdir con\
It works only if you include the final backslash. You cannot delete this folder in explorer, and you can delete it using the command line only if you remember the final backslash.
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