>> 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.

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Pretty simple: Try to be a cracker. Learn how crackers work, what tools they have (SoftICE), and crack some programs. Think as a cracker. You will learn how to protect your software. No need to 3rd party cracker-protection. Just some good ideas

Looking at the big picture , i'd say columbus is a beautiful calm and peaceful place , but if you're an engineer by profession and would love be amongst the teachheads , columbus is definitely not the place to be in . If you've worked long enough to decide that it's time to golf and rest in peace , columbus is definitely the place . Most of the folks out here groom a pot belly , gain a few pounds , gossip more , work less and that's what IT life in columbus is all about . In the valley , you'd never encounter these attributes as people are too busy keeping themselves alive . As I mentioned there is something in the air that is so insipring in the valley that you are driven to work and have fun too . I a lot of ways i miss the valley but sometimes columbus seems good too , but you ought to step up your proiorities and decide on what you are aiming to achieve

Thanks Martin. Tom and I have known each other for nearly 3 years and he's a really nice guy. It's sometimes weird being on opposite sides of the fence, but we try and keep the "my site is better than yours!" emails we send to each other to a minimum :) Actually I think we mostly just tell each other how cool each other's sites are! cheers, Chris Maunde

TM, (my rant for the day). One big problem you might be having is trying to understand everything at once ! And possibly would be better breaking it up into small pieces. Look TM, I have been working on my current project for 3 months, but last week in 4 days I rewrote the whole project from scratch ! So what happend in the other 12 weeks ? No, I didn't waste my time, I was learning ! Possibly TM, what you require is a small project to work on, Rather than concentrating on learning. Also try to purely get the project/application to work, rather than trying to make the program an example of excellent coding practice. The thing I enjoy about programming most is that I am always learning something new. Also what is good about OO programing, is you don't have to create great classes to have a top application. You can use/alter someone elses free class or tools ! After altering some elses class several times, You'll find you'll be able to rewrite it for your own usage ! So get a small project to work on , Even if it isn't useful. Also try to discover the time of day that your brain functions best. Most males brins seem to work better in the morning, when they are more receptive to new ideas, (I saw that info on a documentary so I've adopted an approach of studying in the mornings, and working afternoons or evenings) Regardz Colin.

Wow, people in the states started crying for relief when gas prices hit $1.50 a gallon. I'm amazed there isn't wholesale cheating going on to beat the taxman. People converting their cars to run on LP and petrol, station owners selling "under the table", etc

While it's not so much a shrinkwrap tool, it's every bit as useful, I recommend getting John Robbins' book "Debugging Applications" It's largely a collection of his excellent Bugslayer MSJ articles, but it's handy to have all in one place. Rebasing your dll's, and using the provided code, you can make your field debugging tasks a *lot* easier.

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

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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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You buy outdated computer/math books for your nostalgia collection... which really just doesn't seem to be what it used to...

>> The ideal would be to be pitted against Richard, who is never going to win that final vote. << I believe Kelly has now found the flaw in your logic. (But I'd agree that if she had picked Rich instead of Rudy to be kicked off, Rudy would have won by a larger margin

>>I am actually applauding the IQ of Ausie programmers. Oh goodness, don't let Chris read this ..

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

Abizern Point granted. Of all the billions spent on hundreds of thousands of web sites, Amazon did manage to build a bit of a brand in the online book business... but I don't think it is sustainable. Amazon was first, has plowed through hundreds of millions in losses, and got the benfit of huge prolonged journalistic exposure. But now Amazon is into everything and they are squandering their book "brand." But my point is that the web is not the medium to build a "brand." If "Survivor" proved nothing else it proved the incredible fascination and drawing power of "personality." Survivor the "brand" is not worth anything, if the second round has no "personality" to engage us it will be a big wash out. To stick to my point, I think that web advertising dollars spent to establish a personality would probably work better than trying to establish brand equity. And because I want to "interact" when I am on the web, I think that web advertsing will really start to pay off when the ad is dynamically generated on the fly and specifically targeted to me... with all of my quirks, preferences, interests, and temptations. That gives me an incentive to "interact with it," which is what the web is all about. I think people that are trying to bring "rich media" to the web, in order to mimic TV advertising, had better go back and read McLuhan again... that's not what this medium is all about. John

We have this code. Currently this is small (110k) dll. This dll can download and update files from internet. Update information stored on server in XML format. Currently this dll have interface only for C++. Now we don't distribute or support this dll. But if you want you can test this technology. WinMp3Locator (www.winmp3locator.com) already use this tehnology. Sprry for my bad english. Vladimir Romanov (vromanov@reget.com) =======================update.h===================== #pragma once #ifndef NO_UPDATE_LOG #include "RgLog.h" #endif static const UINT wm_UpdatePresent=RegisterWindowMessage("AutoUpdatePresent"); static const UINT wm_UpdateFinished=RegisterWindowMessage("AutoUpdateFinished"); static const UINT wm_UnlockFile=RegisterWindowMessage("AutoUpdateUnlockFile"); // lParam - it is the handle for further passing to GetMessageInfo BOOL InitUpdateSystem ( LPCSTR szUpdateID, LPCSTR szUpdateURL, LPCSTR szRegKey = NULL); // szUpdateID -Id of update // szUpdateURL - URL of update // szRegKey - main registry key // it should be subkey of HKCU // by default using Software\\ReGet Software\\AutoUpdate // return FALSE if case of error void SetCookie(LPCSTR szCookie = NULL); // szCookie - it would be sent as referer BOOL UpdateFromFile ( LPCSTR szFileName ); // szFileName - File with information about update // return FALSE if case of error BOOL IsAnyUpdateAvailable ( BOOL bForce = TRUE ); // bForce - FALSE check only new update // TRUE check all updates BOOL DownloadUpdate(BOOL bCheckUpdate, BOOL bAskForPackages, HWND hWnd); // downloads update in separate process // if CheckUpdate is TRUE new information will be retreived from server // if AskForPackages is TRUE the message about packages would be shown BOOL GetMessageInfo(LPARAM lParam, LPSTR szBuffer, int nBufferLength); // it is used for getting information about UnlockFile Message void RunAfterExit(LPCSTR szName); // it is uset for post an application to queue for further run (after update) void SetupUpdateSystem(); // it cleans the registry only #ifndef NO_UPDATE_LOG extern CRgLog g_UpdateLog; #endif #ifndef AUTOUPDATE_EXPORTS # ifdef _DEBUG # pragma comment(lib,"T:\\AutoUpdate\\debug\\Update.lib") # else # pragma comment(lib,"T:\\AutoUpdate\\Release\\Update.lib") # endif #endif //AUTOUPDATE_EXPORTS ============ Update.xml file sample ===============