• DLL's

    From Daryl Stout@1:103/705 to MARK LEWIS on Wed Jul 19 16:15:00 2017
    Mark,

    DLL means Dynamic Linked Library ;)

    I heard of this woman (she might have been a blonde! <G>), who had
    taken her computer into the shop, as it wouldn't boot up. She said she
    was running out of disk space, so she deleted "the pickle files". What
    she deleted were the DLL's -- no wonder her system wouldn't boot up!! :P

    Daryl

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Daryl Stout on Thu Jul 20 12:46:46 2017
    Re: DLL's
    By: Daryl Stout to MARK LEWIS on Wed Jul 19 2017 04:15 pm

    I heard of this woman (she might have been a blonde! <G>), who had
    taken her computer into the shop, as it wouldn't boot up. She said she
    was running out of disk space, so she deleted "the pickle files". What
    she deleted were the DLL's -- no wonder her system wouldn't boot up!! :P

    lol.. Maybe she was a Python programmer? ;) https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html

    I'm wondering how that person figured out how to find all the DLLs on the system.. And I'm sure it wouldn't allow deleting all of them, since some of them must have been in use as Windows was running..

    There are lots of stories like this though.. There's another I've often heard of where someone called customer support because their computer's "cup holder" broke - The "cup holder" was actually the disc tray of the CD-ROM drive.

    I was at an Egghead Software store one day a long time ago (when they still existed), and I heard someone returning a PC game. They said it wouldn't work on their system because it didn't have "DirectX or something". Funny thing is that was always a free download from Microsoft.. Perhaps their system's DirectX was out of date - they probably just needed to download & install the latest one (and perhaps the game didn't come with it).

    Nightfox

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  • From Daryl Stout@1:103/705 to NIGHTFOX on Fri Jul 21 16:28:00 2017
    I heard of this woman (she might have been a blonde! <G>), who had
    taken her computer into the shop, as it wouldn't boot up. She said she was running out of disk space, so she deleted "the pickle files". What she deleted were the DLL's -- no wonder her system wouldn't boot up!! :P

    lol.. Maybe she was a Python programmer? ;) N>https://docs.python.org/2/library/pickle.html

    Talk about being a snake in the grass. <G>

    I'm wondering how that person figured out how to find all the DLLs on the N>system.. And I'm sure it wouldn't allow deleting all of them, since some of N>them must have been in use as Windows was running..

    I think we'd be surprised at some people.

    There are lots of stories like this though.. There's another I've often hear N>of where someone called customer support because their computer's "cup holder N>broke - The "cup holder" was actually the disc tray of the CD-ROM drive.

    That's a classic one. There's another one where a guy couldn't get it
    to print, so he was told to press CTRL-P instead. The caller said that
    "I will NOT P on my keyboard"!! <G> Or like the one where the system
    reported that "it couldn't find the printer". She took the printer,
    shook it in front of the monitor, and screamed "HERE IT IS!! CAN'T YOU
    SEE IT??!!". :P

    I was at an Egghead Software store one day a long time ago (when they still N>existed), and I heard someone returning a PC game. They said it wouldn't wor N>on their system because it didn't have "DirectX or something". Funny thing i N>that was always a free download from Microsoft.. Perhaps their system's N>DirectX was out of date - they probably just needed to download & install the N>latest one (and perhaps the game didn't come with it).

    If you have a more current version of DirectX (I think it's now 11,
    but I'm not sure), but software says you need to install an older
    version, do you just quit the process?? Some of these programs won't let
    you continue the installation without it, even if it's an older version.

    Daryl

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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Daryl Stout on Fri Jul 21 21:03:24 2017
    Re: DLL's
    By: Daryl Stout to NIGHTFOX on Fri Jul 21 2017 04:28 pm

    If you have a more current version of DirectX (I think it's now 11,
    but I'm not sure), but software says you need to install an older
    version, do you just quit the process?? Some of these programs won't let you continue the installation without it, even if it's an older version.

    I think DirectX is generally backwards-compatible. Or you can probably have multiple versions installed on your system.

    Nightfox

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  • From Juergen Ihlau@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Tue Jul 25 13:50:44 2017
    Re: DLL's
    By: Nightfox to Daryl Stout on Thu Jul 20 2017 12:46:47

    Hi, about this stories...

    I heard of this woman (she might have been a blonde! <G>), who had
    taken her computer into the shop, as it wouldn't boot up. She said
    she was running out of disk space, so she deleted "the pickle
    files". What she deleted were the DLL's -- no wonder her system
    something". Funny thing is that was always a free download from Microsoft.. Perhaps their system's DirectX was out of date - they probably

    At the end of 1995-1999 I upgrade many companies from Dos / WIN95 to Win2000 etc. So also a mechanical engineering company. A couple of days after the upgrade weekend, the senior chief called and thanked me for the smooth transition to the new computer. Only, a "foot switch" with him would be broken. I would have to look after this. I thought to myself, what does the man
    mean with "foot switch"? When I came to his office, the new PC was on, the mouse was lying on the floor and even wrapped in plastic. The mouse was the foot switch. ;-) He knew from the machine control and thought that the mouse would be something like that. Then we introduced training. ;-)
    THX & greetz
    Juergen
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  • From Juergen Ihlau@1:103/705 to Nightfox on Tue Jul 25 13:55:16 2017
    Re: DLL's
    By: Nightfox to Daryl Stout on Fri Jul 21 2017 21:03:25

    I think DirectX is generally backwards-compatible. Or you can probably have multiple versions installed on your system.

    I dont think so. So if, MS have to be installes a DirectX switcher...DirectX is the API to a lot of multimedia progs: 2D, 3D, Joystick, Audio and a lot of input devices. With this in mind, there can only be one god in a system. :-) THX & greetz
    Juergen
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  • From Nightfox@1:103/705 to Juergen Ihlau on Tue Jul 25 08:59:32 2017
    Re: DLL's
    By: Juergen Ihlau to Nightfox on Tue Jul 25 2017 01:55 pm

    I think DirectX is generally backwards-compatible. Or you can
    probably have multiple versions installed on your system.

    I dont think so. So if, MS have to be installes a DirectX switcher...DirectX is the API to a lot of multimedia progs: 2D, 3D, Joystick, Audio and a lot of input devices. With this in mind, there can only be one god in a system. :-) THX & greetz

    I know what DirectX is. I'm not sure what you mean by "DirectX switcher" - I don't think an app had to switch to a different version based on what it was using. By backwards compatible, I meant the APIs were basically the same in newer versions, and they might still support older APIs in newer versions so that older games/programs would still work properly.

    Nightfox

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Juergen Ihlau on Wed Jul 26 08:24:00 2017
    Juergen Ihlau wrote to Nightfox <=-

    office, the new PC was on, the mouse was lying on the floor and even wrapped in plastic. The mouse was the foot switch. ;-) He knew from the machine control and thought that the mouse would be something like
    that. Then we introduced training. ;-) THX & greetz

    I've heard similar, except it was a woman who had just bought a new computer and couldn't get the "foot switch" to work. Obviously, she was used to using a sewing machine. :)


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  • From Daryl Stout@1:103/705 to TONY LANGDON on Wed Jul 26 06:59:00 2017
    Tony,

    I've heard similar, except it was a woman who had just bought a new computer TL>and couldn't get the "foot switch" to work. Obviously, she was used to usin TL>sewing machine. :)

    Good one. :) But, I've known ham radio operators who have "a foot
    switch" in their shack, as it frees up their hand for logging.

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    Only if it's green. <G> Now, who gets to put it on, and take it off,
    is up for debate. <BG>

    Daryl
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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Daryl Stout on Thu Jul 27 07:58:00 2017
    Daryl Stout wrote to TONY LANGDON <=-

    Good one. :) But, I've known ham radio operators who have "a foot switch" in their shack, as it frees up their hand for logging.

    Yes, I have heard of that too, good idea. I once had a toggle switch, and had it hooked to a monostable, so the transmitter couldn't be left keyed indefinitely. The timer also prevented me from timing out the repeaters. :)


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