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[c#] Stopping files being deleted

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:24:16 +0000

FileSecurity ACL = File.GetAccessControl(InputFile);
                    ACL.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Guest", FileSystemRights.Delete, AccessControlType.Deny));
                    ACL.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("SYSTEM", FileSystemRights.Delete, AccessControlType.Deny));
                    ACL.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Administrators", FileSystemRights.Delete, AccessControlType.Deny));
                    ACL.AddAccessRule(new FileSystemAccessRule("Users", FileSystemRights.Delete, AccessControlType.Deny));
                    File.SetAccessControl(InputFile, ACL);

Im trying to secure films on my raid using the above, and the readonly property but nothing seems to stop me from deleting the files

Any ideas on what i could be doing wrong ?

G'day ^^

Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:00:26 +0000

Hi there ! So basically im Nintendo Ninja... i've been signed up to your forums since new years but i havent really posted anything. As i was at Chase's house having a LAN and he advised me to set up. Me, Chase and Floor are a group of friends and i didn't want to miss out so here I am

And he/she was all like... (Insert Welcoming Statement Here)

Pet Appreciation Thread

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:51:20 +0000

Post pix of your Pet here!

Jack:

Jinx:

Dillinger (Dillin for short) on the left and Isabella on the right.

Dillin = My Dog
Isabella = My Moms

Thor:

My new Kitty

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:40:33 +0000

I'd Like to Introduce a New member to my family; Abby, She's only 6 weeks old:

I could not help but make some ICANHAZCHEESEBURGER photos
She has really brightened up my life and I am very happy with her, she actually used the litter today instead of going on the lounge room rug.

Avatar

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:53:06 +0000

Did you guys see Avatar?

I thought it was great. The story line was crap but the cinematography was incredible!

Any Gaia Users on Win 7

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:51:51 +0000

Bueno.
I just got the Gaia theme for Windows. I'm running win 7 but there seem to be some glitches.

For example, when I hover over my nav bar, it starts flickering.

I removed it. But now I have second thoughts. Could I have fixed it?

Hello! Nice To Meetcha!

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:35:43 +0000

Hey guys (and girls too!).
kewl is the name and kreation is my game. Or something along those lines!

Anyway, I'm Alex. Pleasure to meet you!

A little WP7 announcement of our own...

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:25:30 +0000

Seeing that MIX is underway, it's only appropriate to post this teaser image:

As the Windows Phone 7 Series is likely to be a hit, we're going to be ready by commencing work on a GS app! As time progresses we'll share more on that.

Oh, on a related note, the GeekSmack mobile skin is progressing great (the forum skin is about done, all we need to do now is finish the front page skin), so you can expect its release shortly.

Getting A New Power Supply

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:43:07 +0000

Well it's time to get a new PSU. I've narrowed my search down to a few that I'm pretty sure I would like. I wanted any opinions and suggestions however to getting a new one.

Corsair 750HX

Type ATX12V 2.3 / EPS12V 2.91
Maximum Power 750W
Fans 140mm double ball-bearing fan PFC Active
Main Connector 20+4Pin +12V Rails Single
PCI-Express Connector 4 x 8-Pin SATA Power Connector 12 SLI Ready CrossFire Ready
Modular Yes
Efficiency Up to 90%
Energy-Efficient 80 PLUS SILVER Certified
Over Voltage Protection Yes
Input Voltage 100 - 240 V
Input Frequency Range 50/60 Hz
Input Current 12A
Output +3.3V@25A, +5V25A, +12V@60A, -12V@0.8A, +5VSB@3A
MTBF >100,000 Hours Approvals UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TUV, CCC, C-tick
Dimensions 5.9"(W) x 3.4"(H) x 7.09"(L)
Features Connectors 1 x Main connector (20+4Pin)
1 x 8-Pin EPS 12V
8 x Peripheral
12 x SATA
2 x Floppy
4 x PCI-E Features Guaranteed to sustain its full rated wattage at an ambient temperature of 50°C
Single +12V rail design providing up to 62A
105°C solid state capacitors
Auto switching circuitry for universal AC input from 90-264V
Over Current/Voltage/Power Protection, Under Voltage Protection and Short Circuit Protection provide complete component safety Manufacturer
Warranty Parts 7 years limited Labor 7 years limited

Cooler Master Silent Pro M1000

Type ATX12V v2.3 / EPS12V v2.92
Maximum Power 1000W
Fans 135mm ultra silent fan PFC Active
Main Connector 20+4Pin +12V Rails Single
PCI-Express Connector 6 x 6+2-Pin SATA Power Connector 9 SLI Ready
Modular Yes
Power Good Signal 100-500ms
Hold-up Time >17ms
Efficiency 85% Energy-Efficient 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified
Over Voltage Protection Yes
Input Voltage 90 - 264 V
Input Frequency Range 47 - 63 Hz
Input Current 14A @ 115V, 8A @ 230V
Output +3.3V@30A,+5V@30A,+12V@80A,-12V@0.3A,+5VSB@3.0A
MTBF >100,000 Hours Approvals TUV / CE / GOST / C-tick / UL / FCC / CCC / BSMI
Dimensions 5.91" x 3.39" x 6.5"
Features Connectors 1 x Main connector (20+4Pin)
2 x 4+4-Pin CPU 12V
6 x Peripheral
9 x SATA
1 x Floppy
6 x PCI-E
2 x PCI-E Y Cable
Features Protection: OVP/ UVP/OCP/OPP/OTP /SCP Manufacturer
Warranty Parts 5 years limited Labor 5 years limited

Corsair 950TX

ATX12V v2.3/EPS12V v2.91
Maximum Power 950W PFC Active
Main Connector 20+4Pin +12V Rails Single
PCI-Express Connector 6 x 6+2-Pin SATA Power Connector 12 SLI Ready
Efficiency Up to 85% Energy-Efficient 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified
Over Voltage Protection Yes
Input Voltage 100 - 240 V
Input Frequency Range 50/60 Hz
Output +3.3V@25A,+5V@25A,+12V@78A, -12V@0.8A,+5VSB@3.0A
MTBF >100,000 Hours Approvals UL, CUL, CE, CB, FCC Class B, TÜV, CCC, C-tick
Dimensions 5.9" x 5.51" x 3.34"
Features Connectors 1 x Main connector (20+4Pin)
1 x 8-Pin EPS/ATX12V
8 x Peripheral
12 x SATA
2 x Floppy
6 x PCI-E Features Guaranteed to sustain its full rated wattage at an ambient temperature of 50°C
Up to 85% energy efficiency under real-world load conditions
Single +12V rail design providing up to 78A
Multi-GPU ready
105°C solid-state capacitors
Active Power Factor Correction (PFC) with PF value of 0.99
Supports ATX12V 2.3 and EPS12V 2.91 standards, and is backward compatible with ATX12V 2.01
Auto switching circuitry for universal AC input from 90-264V
Over Current/Voltage/Power Protection, Under Voltage Protection and Short Circuit Protection provide complete component safety Manufacturer Warranty Parts 5 years limited Labor 5 years limited

Obviously the 1Kw is standing out to me. Both are modular. The corsair I know will be made very well. The Corsair is 80 Plus Silver and the Cooler Master is 80 Plus. The only downside to the 950TX is that it isn't modular. too bad there isn't an 950hx

This will be powering my Core i7-920, which will be overclocked once more, meaning it will probably be using much more than the stock 135 watts. Along with a Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5, an EVGA GTX 285 SSC (super super clocked), again more power. A few hard drives/DVD burners, 6GB of DDR3 @ 1.65v each. Then my liquid cooling system. Pump fans, temp sensors/fancontroller.

How many power outlets do you use in your bedroom/home office...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:59:18 +0000

Well, how many do you use and what does that include? Excludes the actual power boards and those things that split one outlet into two.
Firstly, I am using 12 power outlets as of today in my bedroom (which is my "home office").
I have the following plugged in:

My laptop!
A desk lamp
Speakers
Camera battery charger
External Monitor/External Hard Drive (same cable)
Phone charger
Printer
External cooling fan "pack" I made (out of computer case fans, very useful for playing games for a long time)
Rear (louder) speakers with sub
Electric Keyboard
Alarm clock
Reading lamp next to my bed

Spoiler

So, start answering the poll and listing your power-hungry devices.

Can not use "windows" after installation

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:31:36 +0000

I installed windows XP SP3, then I installed audio, chipset and video drivers(Drivers that never gave me problem in the past). I installed a program fo which I can only request 1 license every 2 months and requested a license number and registered my program, after that I restarted windows and everything was fine. Music, video, the program.

After installing current uxstyle version http://uxstyle.com/ I installed a theme(that never gave me problems in the past) and it was applied correctly, after that, some programs started to fail to initialize with code 0xc000001d, I wasn't able to initialize notepad so I thought wtf? and decided to restart windows, after windows restart i get the same error but for every single program(explorer.exe, taskmgr.exe) and I can't start anything on my system now.

Currently I'm on a live CD system, because my big problem is I can't format again because I can't get another license for my program. I already tried to rename uxtheme.dll and uxpatch.sys but after that explorer ask me for uxtheme.dll, I've been playing around and even was able to open add/remove programs with taskmgr but uxstyle doesn't get uninstalled correctly.

Please help me, how do I manually uninstall uxstyle from a live system or console recovery.

Thanks.

[C#] Save contents of multiple richTextBox's and checkBoxes

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:09:17 +0000

The above shows you what I already have.
All the boxes work, and the "New List" button clears them. The main problem I'm facing right now:

Basically, when you Load/Save a list, it only uses the first richTextBox while ignoring the rest of the form. When you load a list it shows this, and when you save a list it shows this.
What I want them to do is save a text document containing the filled out boxes (etc) in a place like %userfolder%\AppData\To-Do List\current.txt
Currently it can be saved under any name in any place.
But mainly I want it to read the contents of all the boxes, then save that information in a text document.

Eg. Contents of the list / Contents of the text document

Meaning: Put a * if the box is checked, leave a space, and add the contents of the box, while putting an _ if the box is not checked, and the rest of the line blank if the richTextBox next to it is blank.

Any ideas? Sorry if I didn't explain it well. :/

[C#] File Permissions

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:23:57 +0000

Hey everyone, it's been a while.

Seeing as though this is probably one of the only sites where I'll get some straight answers, I decided to bring this here.

The Problem:

What this program I'm working on does is it recursively checks folders within a selected directory for files with a specific file header (so yeah, I open the file with EndianIO, read the first 4 bytes, etc.), so whenever I hit a file I can't access - that's fine, the loop keeps on going, but whenever I hit a DIRECTORY I can't seem to access... that breaks the entire operation.

The Goal:

Make it so that when it hits an inaccessible directory, it doesn't break the operation.

Since I really haven't worked with directories or directory attributes before, would anyone have any ideas?

Error example:

Code I'm working with:

try
    {
        string[] folderlist = System.IO.Directory.GetDirectories(KidCuDi, "*", System.IO.SearchOption.AllDirectories);
        ListViewItem lvi;
        ListViewItem.ListViewSubItem lvsi;
        foreach (string yeah in Directory.GetDirectories(KidCuDi))
        {
            DirectoryInfo yee = new DirectoryInfo(yeah);
            foreach (FileInfo file2 in yee.GetFiles())
            {

*rest of my code goes in here*

Help is appreciated, thanks in advanced.

Edit: It doesn't break each time it reaches an inaccessible file, it breaks after 7 errors are thrown (there are two voids going on, one gets the files from the directory chosen, the other gets the files within each subdirectory)

Keyboards and mice

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:46:05 +0000

We're actually on this topic right now in the WLM group, so I thought of making it into a topic.

What keyboard(s) and mouse(or mice) do you have?

I personally use the Microsoft Wireless Desktop 6000 v3 at the moment...

Winamp freezes when switching songs...

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:48:56 +0000

Hi guys. I've recently noticed a small problem in Winamp and was wondering if there was a way to fix it.

Basically, when I go to the next track in a playlist or start a song, Winamp temporary freezes, while delaying the Notification box but amazingly not freezing the music. This gets annoying when when trying to flick through songs trying to find the one I'm looking for. I think it might have gotten a bit worse since I updated cPro, but even if I switch to a non-cPro skin it still happens. This happens with no other visible programs running, although with a couple things in the background.
If anyone needs a video of this happening, I can make one.

A few things I've noticed when it happens:

The delay seems to go until the song reaches 7 seconds!
Processor usage goes up a minimum of 15% during delay.
After the inital freeze, it unfreezes for a split second at 2 seconds, then freezes again until 7 seconds of the song playing.
Win7Shell's (taskbar integration for Winamp) preview turns into a grey gradient with the loading icon until after the 2 second mark
but doesn't actually progress until the 7 second mark.
Doesn't matter which way I go to the next song (selecting it from the Media Library; manually running it from a folder; clicking the
"Next Track" button on the keyboard/Media Player/Win7Shell) or if the previous song finishes then the next begins
With some songs it fully unfreezes itself when the song reaches 2 seconds.
Doesn't occur when I press the "play" button after pausing the song.
The length of the song/playlist doesn't matter.
Turning shuffle on/off does not affect it.
If I click any of the buttons while it's frozen, Winamp performs the tasks after it unfreezes.
Also happens when I use the Previous Track button.

I haven't noticed any other significant freezing. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

My current configuration is:
Winamp Version: 5.572
Windows OS: Windows 7 Professional x64
Winamp Skin: Ebonite for cPro by Skin Consortium
Extra Plugin: Windows 7 Taskbar Integration (aka "Win7Shell") v1.13
Extra Information:

Laptop Model: Toshiba Satellite A300/P00
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz
RAM: 4GB

You've been cheesed...

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:03:03 +0000

Some of you may remember me, I was known as cheesepenguins, cheesecake or Trav on JCXP a wee while ago.

Nice to see so many familiar faces here. =]

Will you buy an iPad?

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:07:02 +0000

You know, it isn't too long before the iPad goes on pre-order, then sale. I had to ask, who's going to get one.

My story is becoming quite obvious, I do a lot of posting on the web, and more and more have I considered getting one, not because it's a bigger iPod, but because I can have a bridge between my laptop and my iPod Touch.

So what's your decision?

Hey everybody

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:09:44 +0000

Hey everybody,
I'm dennis or diamond some may still now me from jcxp.net
let's hope for a good time here on geeksmack

Engadget reviews the HTC Legend

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:53:18 +0000

"After ~~four~~ three flavors of the HTC Hero, the Taiwanese mobile giant has finally brought back the chin with an additional lick of aluminum and a similarly quirky name -- the Legend. If this alone isn't of much interest to you yet, just bear in mind that this is HTC's first Android 2.1 device with Sense UI..."

http://www.engadget....-legend-review/

Looks very nice if you ask me, yet another device to say 'I want it but don't need it'

GTX 470/480 VS ATI 5850/5870

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:36:04 +0000

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=117000

Wow, all I can say is I'm not impressed, NVIDIA spent ages hyping up fermi and the current line ATI cards still top them in almost every benchmark. Hopefully the price rumors for those GTX4x0's aren't true otherwise NVIDIA won't be selling too many of them.

Discuss...