Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/02
Lessons learned
- Don’t trust online text entry.
- Always compose answers in an external text editor, preferably one that understands the markup used (Atom often is a good choice).
- Post when ready.
- Wonder why every forum software seems to have invented their own markup.
The story
A few weeks ago, while composing an extensive answer on the Scooter Software: Home of Beyond Compare (a tool which – like any development tool – I really love, but sometimes hate): Keyboard handling driving me nuts: how to make it work like BC for Windows, I pressed the “Image” button which:
- Made all the edited text to dim and non-selectable
- Failed an image selection to show
It was more than an hour of work, so I was determined to try obtaining at least the post text.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/02
Since they’re hard to find on-line, and sometimes I need them when not having access to my collective browser or email history:
Notes:
- The AQTimeDemo.exe is the same as the latest AQTime###.exe (functionality depends in license).
- The installation from Windows Explorer sometimes fails with the below message. Installation from the command-prompt works, but you need to run it from an Administrator command-prompt:
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E:\TEMP\AQtime824.exe
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Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item.
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OK
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To get going for my special case, I watched some sample videos (which I did get to work in Internet Explorer but not in Chrome forty-something):
I needed it to do some profiling comparisons of services running under different configurations.
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