At 14:14 2007-01-24, Thomas Hruska wrote: >Victor A. Wagner Jr. wrote: > > At 10:55 2007-01-22, Thomas Hruska wrote: > >> *NEW* VerifyMyPC 2.0 > >> Change tracking and management tool. > >> Reduce tech. support times from 2 hours to 5 minutes. > > > > btw, I'm having some problems w/ VerifyMyPC. ...there seems to be > > NO way to tell it anything....like I'm doing regression testing and > > that generating 45 new/different .DLL files isn't a problem. That's > > what I'm SUPPOSED to be doing... making new .dll files and testing > > them. (it's the boost library, just in case you're interested) > >I have one directory that bothers me too. I've got a NT-junction point >mapped directory to a USB drive. It would be nice to ignore that >directory. You can bet your britches that it will be a feature in a >later version. > >I spent the majority of 2.0 just re-writing the scanning engine and >pulling teeth to make it go faster. The GUI is something that will >definitely improve. There are still many things that bother me about >the GUI...and what bothers me usually gets fixed. > >Keep in mind, though, that I'm not really targeting developers for >VerifyMyPC. Well I am, but I'm not at the same time. We change way too >much stuff on our own computers every day for it to be useful beyond a >"yup, I remember doing that" and exiting the program after a two-second >glance (with the occasional, "cool, it picked up those changes"). We >are also considerably more careful about what gets put on our computers >in the first place. On the average user's computer, however, is where >it comes in really handy. Everyone I run into who asks me for computer >help draws a complete blank if I ask "what did you do?" They don't >remember. And I certainly don't know. But, assuming it is installed on >their computer, VMPC keeps track of that information for them. > >If the Notifier bothers you - that is, the balloon tip thing - you can >disable that from the Task Scheduler. I plan on making it significantly >smarter anyway (the notifier bothers me in its current incarnation). > >Lots of stuff to do - not enough time to do it all in.
Yup, you can say that again. and I forgot to say.... very nicely done >-- >Thomas Hruska >CubicleSoft President >Ph: 517-803-4197 > >*NEW* VerifyMyPC 2.0 >Change tracking and management tool. >Reduce tech. support times from 2 hours to 5 minutes. > >Free for personal use, $10 otherwise. >http://www.CubicleSoft.com/VerifyMyPC/ Victor A. Wagner Jr. http://rudbek.com The five most dangerous words in the English language: "There oughta be a law"
