• CodeBeater (unregistered)

    Actually AdChoices is owned by Google

  • John G (unregistered)

    Canaries are a technique to attempt to detect buffer overflows.

  • Mitzy (unregistered)

    How can canary be valid if mine's invalid? Canary needs mine.

  • Bernie The Bernie (unregistered)

    The Mac just empties a Trash credit: when the Trash was empty, someone took out 19038 items, i.e. a Trash credit of 19038 items was granted. Emptying the Trash means that the Trash credit has to be refilled - from your harddisk.

  • Rodnas (unregistered)

    A Canary is a bug which is first presented as a feature only later to be discovered as being a fatal error.

  • HdS (unregistered)

    A mac is always slower than a pc... I am always amazed how long its animations are. My girlfried has a 32 gig mac at work, and my 8gb pc runs rings around it. So maybe there is some fancy "throw away trash animation" which needs 999 seconds to play?

    Oh that was my first and hopefully last trollpost.

    As a side note: I tried to sign up for the forum, but I recieved no return email....

  • Ash (unregistered)

    Thsi comment should be never happened.

  • (cs) in reply to HdS
    HdS:
    A mac is always slower than a pc... I am always amazed how long its animations are. My girlfried has a 32 gig mac at work, and my 8gb pc runs rings around it. So maybe there is some fancy "throw away trash animation" which needs 999 seconds to play?

    -3: a trolling attempt I would not feed, even for pity.

  • Matt (unregistered)

    Submitter of the Stock Wizards here... finally after years of submissions one gets picked! And first on the list! The title even!! I'm ten times happier than when I get first post. And none of you care. OK back into my basement.

  • Andy (unregistered)

    No, Andy, you're not so unique. For one thing, I'm also named Andy.

  • Andy (unregistered)

    For another thing, so am I.

  • Lawyer (unregistered)

    Your video is available worldwide Zack. It's the title that is blocked. You see, I've copyrighted the word "test". Now anybody who tests software for a living owes me royalties.

  • Tim (unregistered)

    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    Linux doesn't argue with me... or at least it didn't until they started trying to make it more "friendly"... to keep up with the other systems that treat their owners like idiots...

  • Bill Jobs (unregistered)

    An error occurred.

    Something happened.

    ... there, I've created the perfect error message. You can now all refactor your try/catch blocks down to one per app. Think of how many bytes you can save!

  • (cs) in reply to Lawyer
    Lawyer:
    Your video is available worldwide Zack. It's the title that is blocked. You see, I've copyrighted the word "test". Now anybody who tests software for a living owes me royalties.

    Well, we know that no one at Microsoft will be paying that royalty! <rimshot>

  • dpm (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    If I what something deleted while using Windows, I hold down the SHIFT key while pressing DELETE. It's pretty simple, you should try it.

    ok dpm

  • Fenix (unregistered)

    Dude, your canary isn't invalid. Your canary is an invalid. Everyone knows Microsoft Outlook Web Access is packed full of weak and/or injured canaries.

  • (cs) in reply to Andy
    Andy:
    No, Andy, you're not so unique. For one thing, I'm also named Andy.

    I'm Andy, and so's my wife

  • I forgot how to tdwtf (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    If I what something deleted while using Windows, I hold down the SHIFT key while pressing DELETE. It's pretty simple, you should try it.

    ok dpm

    Also, if you were as smart as you think you are, you'd known that you can disable the Recycle Bin completely. Most people find it useful though.

  • emaNrouY-Here (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    Linux doesn't argue with me... or at least it didn't until they started trying to make it more "friendly"... to keep up with the other systems that treat their owners like idiots...

    You've never worked tech support.

  • (cs)

    I'm going to name my self-published e-book None Found: Should Be? Never Happened! and watch the royalties come pouring in.

  • Dave (unregistered) in reply to HdS
    HdS:
    A mac is always slower than a pc... I am always amazed how long its animations are..

    Trolling or not, you're 100% correct. It's absolutely staggering that there's no way top turn half of them off.

  • Your Name (unregistered)

    Your mine is invalid because your canary is dead.

  • pencilcase (unregistered)

    I'm Andy. Oh wait - I mean Spartacus.

  • (cs) in reply to Andy

    I'm Andy and so's my wife!

  • (cs)

    Hmmm...in the first one, the only obvious "stock wizard" I see, is the one that chooses stock phrases for the links.

  • (cs)

    Emptying the trash on your Mac: You really shouldn't have started by dragging your drive into the trash. Not only will your files be gone, but also your hard-drive.

  • (cs) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    Linux doesn't argue with me... or at least it didn't until they started trying to make it more "friendly"... to keep up with the other systems that treat their owners like idiots...

    Don't forget to remove the file from any and all backups as well, so you're certain it's completely gone.

    (Although, you probably don't make backups, as that's only for idiots that delete some file and want it back later)

  • Andrew (unregistered)

    As someone who went to Ohio State, the second image doesn't really surprise me. As big as the school is, their tech support is a bit dodgy. (Then again, being in the CSE program, I'm probably a bit biased...)

  • neminem (unregistered)

    I actually quite like the recycle bin - I may be smart, but that doesn't mean I haven't accidentally deleted the wrong file, or the wrong version of a file, or even intentionally deleted exactly the file I meant to and then later realized I still wanted it... not to mention when programs programatically delete a file using the Windows API, and I'm like, I still wanted that! The recycle bin is great. My only complaint about it is the stupid name: you aren't really recycling the files in it, are you? I guess you're recycling the space on disk they took up?

  • (cs) in reply to John G
    John G:
    Canaries are a technique to attempt to detect buffer overflows.

    Learned something new today. Thank You!

  • uxor (unregistered) in reply to I forgot how to tdwtf
    I forgot how to tdwtf:
    dpm:
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    If I what something deleted while using Windows, I hold down the SHIFT key while pressing DELETE. It's pretty simple, you should try it.

    ok dpm

    Also, if you were as smart as you think you are, you'd known that you can disable the Recycle Bin completely. Most people find it useful though.

    c:>del /?
Deletes one or more files.

DEL [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names
ERASE [/P] [/F] [/S] [/Q] [/A[[:]attributes]] names

  names         Specifies a list of one or more files or directories.
                Wildcards may be used to delete multiple files. If a
                directory is specified, all files within the directory
                will be deleted.

  /P            Prompts for confirmation before deleting each file.
  /F            Force deleting of read-only files.
  /S            Delete specified files from all subdirectories.
  /Q            Quiet mode, do not ask if ok to delete on global wildcard
  /A            Selects files to delete based on attributes
  attributes    R  Read-only files            S  System files
                H  Hidden files               A  Files ready for archiving
                I  Not content indexed Files  L  Reparse Points
                -  Prefix meaning not

If Command Extensions are enabled DEL and ERASE change as follows:

The display semantics of the /S switch are reversed in that it shows
you only the files that are deleted, not the ones it could not find.

    See that? It's not so hard after all. You crazy kids, with your gooeys, and your whizzy wigs, and fancy visual studios.

  • Paul Neumann (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.

    If I tell my computer to delete something, that's because I fucking want it deleted. I have no ambivalence on the matter. I order it to be gone so I want it gone now.

    If I what something deleted while using Windows, I hold down the SHIFT key while pressing DELETE. It's pretty simple, you should try it.

    ok dpm

    Unless you're app reads Shift + Del on a file as a "Cut", which is what the shortcut does EVERYWHERE ELSE!

  • CannedSkittles (unregistered)

    I've been seeing that problem with the troubleshooter a lot lately... Apparently the viruses and malware I've encountered like to mess with Microsoft's diagnostic tool. :/

  • Evan (unregistered) in reply to Tim
    Tim:
    The "trash" is a great example of why I don't like Mac or Windows. They both assume I'm an idiot.
    It's not assuming you're an idiot. It's assuming that you're not perfect. I know I'm not perfect, and I suspect the same is true for most people.
  • Andy (unregistered)

    I'm not Andy, but I do play one on this message board.

  • doramjan (unregistered)

    Ha ha, get it? MINE's invalid? Canaries? Mines? ... bah, I guess it wasn't that funny to begin with.

  • nobody (unregistered)

    Google's content blocking system is a step backwards from freedom. At least we can still put files on filehosts and/or the Great and Mighty Pirate Bay.

  • Ross Presser (unregistered)

    The canary is an invalid because the part of memory containing its legs has been corrupted. Poor little guy, dragging himself by his wings ...

  • (cs) in reply to Mitzy
    Mitzy:
    How can canary be valid if mine's invalid? Canary needs mine.
    Then craft one!
  • OldCoder (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    I actually quite like the recycle bin - I may be smart, but that doesn't mean I haven't accidentally deleted the wrong file, or the wrong version of a file, or even intentionally deleted exactly the file I meant to and then later realized I still wanted it... not to mention when programs programatically delete a file using the Windows API, and I'm like, I still wanted that! The recycle bin is great. My only complaint about it is the stupid name: you aren't really recycling the files in it, are you? I guess you're recycling the space on disk they took up?
    The files are still in the exact same place on the disk. All that has changed is that they are now under a new, harder-to-find, folder.
  • (cs) in reply to dgvid
    dgvid:
    I'm going to name my self-published e-book None Found: Should Be? Never Happened! and watch the royalties come pouring in.

    Foreword by Nagesh.

  • Matt C (unregistered) in reply to John G
    John G:
    Canaries are a technique to attempt to detect buffer overflows.
    In this case, the canary is trying to detect a Cross Site Forgery Request http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery#Prevention.
  • neminem (unregistered) in reply to OldCoder
    OldCoder:
    neminem:
    I actually quite like the recycle bin - I may be smart, but that doesn't mean I haven't accidentally deleted the wrong file, or the wrong version of a file, or even intentionally deleted exactly the file I meant to and then later realized I still wanted it... not to mention when programs programatically delete a file using the Windows API, and I'm like, I still wanted that! The recycle bin is great. My only complaint about it is the stupid name: you aren't really recycling the files in it, are you? I guess you're recycling the space on disk they took up?
    The files are still in the exact same place on the disk. All that has changed is that they are now under a new, harder-to-find, folder.
    Not relevant: physical items in a physical recycle bin are also still their original items. A recycle bin is a place that you put items you *intend* to recycle - it's after the bin is emptied that its contents get recycled. My point was that files in a Windows recycle bin aren't recycled when you empty it: they're erased.
  • (cs) in reply to Paul Neumann
    Paul Neumann:
    Unless you're app reads Shift + Del on a file as a "Cut", which is what the shortcut does EVERYWHERE ELSE!

    Not only did you invoke Muphry's Law, but you missed the point that this is for Windows Explorer (and things like file dialogs), where Shift + Del won't be mapped to Cut.

  • (cs) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    OldCoder:
    neminem:
    I actually quite like the recycle bin - I may be smart, but that doesn't mean I haven't accidentally deleted the wrong file, or the wrong version of a file, or even intentionally deleted exactly the file I meant to and then later realized I still wanted it... not to mention when programs programatically delete a file using the Windows API, and I'm like, I still wanted that! The recycle bin is great. My only complaint about it is the stupid name: you aren't really recycling the files in it, are you? I guess you're recycling the space on disk they took up?
    The files are still in the exact same place on the disk. All that has changed is that they are now under a new, harder-to-find, folder.
    Not relevant: physical items in a physical recycle bin are also still their original items. A recycle bin is a place that you put items you *intend* to recycle - it's after the bin is emptied that its contents get recycled. My point was that files in a Windows recycle bin aren't recycled when you empty it: they're erased.

    So it's in a place where each item is forgotten, but schedule to be deleted? They should call it Florida.

  • (cs)

    I'm not sure, but it's possible that the "canary" refers to a technique for detecting stack overflow exploits - a number called the canary value is defined at both ends of a given stack frame, and if the value is overwritten (thus becoming an "invalid canary"), something must have overflowed, so the CPU raises an exception to avoid jumping into exploit code.

    The name comes from putting canaries in coal mines to detect toxic gas buildups.

  • Jack (unregistered) in reply to Roby McAndrew
    Roby McAndrew:
    Andy:
    No, Andy, you're not so unique. For one thing, I'm also named Andy.

    I'm Andy, and so's my wife

    That's odd. I heard she was Randy.

  • Sam (unregistered) in reply to dpm
    dpm:
    If I what something *deleted* while using Windows, I hold down the SHIFT key while pressing DELETE.
    Hmmm. Sounds pretty intuitive, sort if, I guess.

    But what is this "key" of which you speak? Does it come with that newfangled seven-button mouse?

  • Freudian Trousers (unregistered) in reply to Coyne

    Emptying the trash on your Mac: You really shouldn't have >started by dragging your drive into the trash. Not only will >your files be gone, but also your hard-drive.

    One reason I never liked Macs - things are not as "inuitive" as they should be. The "drag floppy disk icon to the trash to eject it" was a good example. But yet it allows you to drag a hard drive to the trash to delete all its contents?

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