You ever google for the solution to a difficult and rare technical problem that only you and your Russian speaking human equivalent seem to share? If you said yes, than chances are that you, like me, hate Experts Exchange!
It seems that the more difficult and buried a solution is to a problem the greater the chance that one of the search results from google will be a link to experts exchange. You follow the link which leads to a post that describes someone having the exact same problem you're experiencing. Immediately you're filled with a sense of relief that you're not the only person on the planet with this problem so you scroll down some more and it says "Sign in to see the solution". Okay, no biggy so you click the link to register for the site and suddenly all your hopes come crashing down when you see you HAVE TO PAY FOR MEMBERSHIP?! WTF?! What freaking so-called "experts" would agree to PAY for a site to share their solutions when you can share your knowledge for the benefit of your fellowman in free forums?! Damn it!
After you have this experience once, you despise Experts Exchange more and more each time you see their brief teaser describing your problem exactly in your google search results. Bastards!
Well, in a particular moment of desperation, after searching on many different keyword combinations and exhausting the free search results I decided to bite the bullet, follow the E.E. link and start a trial membership. Of-course you have to enter all your credit card details before you can start your trial, something else I really object to. The whole time during the sign up process I'm thinking "hehe, I'll show them - as soon as this trial starts and they let me see the solution to my problem I'll be cancelling this membership, haha suckers".
So my trial membership started and I navigated straight to the post which described my problem and scrolled down to the expert solution, which read along the lines of:
"There is no way you can do what you want to do, sorry."
NnnnnoooooOOOOO!!! DAMN YOU EXPERTS EXCHANGE!!
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