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Remind Me Later

Take a look at this "remind me later" dialog box and the choices it offers:

Am I doomed to having to see this thing at least once every three days until such time when I say uncle and download whatever it is that it reminds me of?

Update: Well, being the loyal Sun bug filer that I am :), I can't resist filing a bug report on Bug Parade. Anyone want to guess how soon I'll receive an acknowledgement from Sun India? (See here, here, and here for my lousy track record.)

Update: Lucky me! It's five days this time. Girish from Sun wrote back today:

I have reviewed your bugreport and feel that there is a way to solve this issue. You could just bring up the Java-Plugin control panel and choose the Update tab. There you could "uncheck" -> Check for updates automatically. Then whenever you are ready for an update just manually click on Update Now.

Problem solved. :)

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Posted by Weiqi Gao on December 17, 2003 7:12:21 AM CST #


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Comment from Brad on December 17, 2003 6:18:08 PM CST #
Just for fun.. Try and reverse engineer this. They must be storing the combobox selection in the registry. Two schemes they might use: 1. Store code 1-6 (i.e. 1="in 30 minutes", 2="in one hour", etc.) 2. Store #minutes (i.e. 1=30, 2=60, 3=120, 4=240, etc.) If they are using the second scheme, set the number to a bazillion.. you will not live to see the reminder again!

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