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There was a discussion on this board that touched on this a little while ago, I think the starting message was entitled "Linux the Amiga of the 00's". When our company needed to make these choices we set up trial servers and then ran load, stability and timing tests to see how each one performed. Apache is free, and you can get evaluation copies of NT and IIS if you subscribe to the complete MSDN package. I personally think Apache running under Linux is the way to go, but others will disagree

This might not help you, but Clipomatic is a great, free tool which adds multiple (text) clipboard support to the entire OS. It also works in a much nicer way than the office method, IMO. http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml Some other neat stuff on the same site, some of it with source. Hope it's interesting. (I didn't write it but I recommend it.)

Here's a quick link to the Microsoft fastfacts page: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/fastfacts.asp

I think once things reach players at this level the cash limiting factor disappears

Back in '93 I was given the Windows 3.1 SDK. I had to develop a terminal emulator. I knew little 'C' (about 6 months experience), and absolutely no Windows programming at all. I picked up one of the SDK manuals out of the 22 and looked in dismay at the thousands of functions. I thought how the hell I'm I every going to learn this. Charles Petzold saved my sorry ass, I read his book about 20 times. Then started off on my first Windows program. A year later MFC and C++ were the buzzwords and I spent 8 months getting my head round MFC. Believe me it paid off. With all the technologies, SDKs and buzzwords, a newbie to the Windows enviroment can feel rather daunted with the fact that what does he or she learn. If I was in your position I would learn C#. By learning C# now you well be ahead by next year. But the key thing is keep at it. Persistence make a good programmer.

ON another front, and nothing sneaky at all, but it occured to me recently that when I go to fatbrain, a type would yield fatbrian.com. Not knowing if there IS a brian out there, I typed it, and found myself at fatbrain. I'm sure this sort of thing happens often to catch customers who make a typo and might not bother retyping, but I thought it was kinda funny. FatBrian.com. I wonder if Brian has recourse to sue

First I would say that you should understand that the access mode "r+" means read with update... where update means "change". Even though it is, in theory, possible to add data to the middle of a file, I don't know of any way to do it using a language like C. You could possition the file pointer to the insertion point, copy the remainder to a temp holding space such as memory, or a scratch disk file, reposition the file pointer to the insertion offset and overwrite the file with the insert data, then append the data from the temp holding space.

That's weird, since the preview release runs on my crappy old celeron 300 w/ 128Mb without any problems whatsoever. cheers, Chris Maunde

since i found CP a couple months ago, my code is better, my life is better, and my teeth are clean... ;) i'm sure everyone else appreciates your openness and dedication to the community you have built. keep up the good work, and cheers

For those that don't know what SAR is: "The SAR is a value that corresponds to the relative amount of RF energy absorbed in the head of a user of a wireless handset. The FCC limit for public exposure from cellular telephones is an SAR level of 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 W/kg)" This was taken from http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/

I thought of that too, but threw it out when I thought "hey...now THAT would undermine Windows position in the PC platform market. Therefore, I would expect the focus to be on using Linux for servers rather than as desktops. It would make sense from that angle since Linux sucks as a desktop environment today, but is very strong as a server platform

From what I can tell, the project's .NCB file becomes corrupt. Closing the project and deleting the .NCB and then reopening the project (which rebuilds the .NCB) usually will bring back the auto-complete feature. I have read other postings that indicate that the .NCB and .CLW both need to be deleted, but I personaaly have never run into a case where I had to delete the .CLW to get auto-complete bac

For what it's worth, my experience with the MS streaming products was a total zero. I am sure they can probably work correctly, but setting them up is nearly impossible. We need to Webcast audio only for our church. No ammount of effort could make the MS products (MS Encoder and MS streaming server) work. We finally gave up and moved to RealAudio, which worked with few problems. I would rather had the MS stuff, but their docs are all PR and no meat. Just my 2 cents... Ed Dixo

I use my own version of the function which is based on an old SDK sample (non-MFC) since the applications I used it with had to work on older platforms (Win 3.x and 95). Works quite well. Pick up the archive at: http://www.devstuff.com/ftp/code/TransBlt.zip BTW, there is almost no error checking in this version but it can be added without much hassle. Let me know if it works for you.

Hey Jason, :mad: This is your boss and guess what? You're fired! And your wife, she's here giving me a great back rub... ;) Good luck to ya! ;p

>> I've heard that Microsoft uses Apache servers for hosting some of their web pages. Does anyone know if this is true? << A persisent rumour, and one very easy to disprove (visit www.netcraft.com, which does surveys). I heard one varient that, two weeks after the launch of MSN, Microsoft realize the NT wasn't up to it, and switched to UNIX. (The rumourmongers never quite explain how MS was able to pull off such a massive switchover, over night, with no downtime) The truth is, that is MS buys a company which is using Apache for thier webserver, they will leave the Apache server up until they get around to switching the site entirely over to Win2000. For Hotmail, the complete conversion took three years. For LinkExchange (bCentral) the conversion is going much faster.

Well, the good news is that "soon" this foolish will be over. The patent is due to expire on either 10-Dec-2002 (17 years from granting) or 20-Jun-2003 (20 from filing) (depending on which rule is in effect) http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1='4,558,302'.WKU.&OS=PN/4,558,302&RS=PN/4,558,302

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