[quote user="ender"]Sounds almost like .NET Framework - download the base version first (through Windows Update), reboot, get the service pack (again through Windows Update), reboot, download more updates (for .NET), reboot. I've been wondering for years why couldn't they make an unified...

Enjoy your DEBUG.

[quote user="dlikhten"]The only problem is that cmd.exe does not have coloring like linux shells do so ls --color gives bad output [/quote] Why not use MSYS, then? Just tried ls --color , works fine. (Well, except it messes up Cyrillic filenames. Grrr.)

Surely it can pass the anti-spam filters, but what's the point? It's not like I'm going to telepathically figure out what do they advertise and where I can get it. I used to receive these "no quack" letters, and was always puzzled about their purpose.

[quote user="MasterPlanSoftware"]MCIsendstring is using Window Media Player.[/quote] Well, as a self-proclaimed MCI expert I can say that it actually doesn't. To use WMP you should invoke ActiveX. Of course, this doesn't detract from the point.

[quote user="Quietust"]Amusingly enough, those strings seem to be translated in all languages of Windows. A Google search indicates that the Japanese version of Windows uses "オーディオ" and "その他" (which translate as "audio" and "other"); while I couldn't...

[quote user="rbowes"]*unofficially nominates for best-of-the-side-bar article*[/quote] Well, to put it on the front page, Alex'll have to anonymize it, right? And it's kinda tough to anonymize this. 8=] [quote user="rbowes"]Also, I love your avatar. How did nobody else think...

A while ago I promised a story/rant about Microsoft translators. Well, here it is. I'm not sure if the issue I describe is known stuff, or whether it is appropriate to the forum, or if it's too long, so "AS IS", etc. You probably know that Microsoft distributes a lot of localized Windows...

[quote user="boomzilla"]Notepad?!? What a bunch of bloat. Ed is the standard text editor .[/quote] Isn't that ironic that, ed is an order of magnitude more full-featured and powerful than Notepad? Would not call it "bloated", though.