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David, My own views are just as highly biased and ill-informed . :-o And I welcome any form of debate or feedback . As Its a www.Net type Application, I can upgrade the adds as often as I wish, And due to the nature of the software it's "{ Auto-geographically aware }", So I can distinguish between a user in Toronto and a user in Vancouver, etc. If it were not for these factors I wouldn't consider it. Hey and as I ain't based in the USA I don't have nightmares about the DOJ, Like a lot of American developers do. :-) But >>>2. Ask users to register. Get their email addresses and >>>develop some kind of meaningful and valuable newsletter. >>>Email sponsorships are much more valuable than banner >>>ads anyway, and you don't suffer the same problems as >>>you do with "bannerware" You application obviously >>>solves some problem, and you can likely come up with a >>>weekly or monthly newsletter that speaks to that problem. is a darn good Idea, Myabe , if its possible for us to eliminate the Banner Adds for those Users Who have registered for the e-mail news letter. Eg. Select your prefered form of exploitation :-) Regardz Colin

WinDev East is in Boston and next year's Microsoft TechEd is in Atlanta. Also the PDC moves around quite a bit. Not held every year, the one previous to this year's Orlando conference was held in Denver

Yes the Aussie's have put on quite a Games so far. The venues are amazing. Look at the beauty of the Triathlon circuit or even holding Sailing events right in the harbour instead of having to travel away from the host city as is the custom. Leslie you brought up 2 points near and dear to me as a Canadian. First I have to say the U.S. coverage is quite ridiculous. I'm talking about sports coverage not the opening ceremonies. NBC has paid $4 billion and will not show one minute of live coverage. Everything is taped and edited I'm assuming so they can put a dramatic twist on the event or highlight American athletes no matter where they finish. I have some American friends in Vermont who are very happy they can get Canadian coverage which include over 500 hours of live coverage! NBC has 60 hours of taped coverage. I reckon it's tough to be a sports fan in the U.S. Second, It's amazing what Australia is achieving with their medal wins. Canada has more people and we only have 2 medals with not may prospects left. I love the way sports are so revered in Australia and so well supported by the people. This topic is coming up nightly in the news here in Canada. All the officials are wondering how the Australian system works and how we can reproduce it. Of course it takes money but it's sad to say I don't think the people will go for it because they don't have the same respect for amateur athletics as in Australia.

Erik, It was more the concept of pulling together samples of the UIs that people send out that caught my fancy. I didn't really put much stock in the opinions of the site owners. You gotta admit, there are some pretty bad UIs posted there. :

Hello! I second with this. Chris Sells would be very good. Slavo.

>> Again, none of this will prevent a determined cracker, or even a half-good one. Agreed, but what you suggest is cracked in 10 minutes, using RegSnap, RegMon and Regedit. (We use a third party copy protection scheme, which I eh... tested). It uses encrypted keys which also contain some of the information about the type of the license (time/user limited - trial or full version, etc...). Althoug I did not remove the key's encryption protection, I was always able to fool the program in extending (renewing) the evaluation time/license. I do not have an adequate answer to this problem, but maybe it is still worthwile to invest in a good third party protection program (And try to break the security yourself when you are evaluating the product so you have an idea how difficult it is for a thief to rob you from your bread and butter)

After having spent the last couple weeks working with Linux, I can now say with some authority that people will NOT be switching from Windows to Linux anytime soon. It is NOT as stable as people claim! The user interface is REALLY bad (both KDE and GNOME.....they just don't feel anywhere near as good as Windows or Mac OS). The only decent IDE I have found is something called KDevelop (see www.KDevelop.org) which is GREAT for a free software package (better than what Code Warrior has to offer!), but isn't as good as Dev Studio....given time it might make it there, but its not there today. With all this, the only thing I can see that you get with Linux is stability (maybe its better than Windows 2000, but from what I hear Win 2000 is very very very stable) and security.....great for a web server, but not something I think the average person needs...

Well, actually it was tougher than one might imagine. Yes, the three guys were from Wintellect, but one of them has almost nothing about him posted on the web site. He's not listed in any of the course materials, nor does he appear to have a picture there. So there really were two tough names to come up with, not just one.

First of all, MS didn't "try and fail" to convert Hotmail to Win2000. They just took their time making the switch over. *YOU* try to transfer 50 million email accounts to a different OS overnight (with no down time allowed). Further, note that FreeBSD couldn't handle the load either. Hotmail was running a version which they had heavily modified for that specific purpose. Now, to see that MSN, Hotmail and bCentral are all truly being run off Windows, all you have to do is look at the sites themselves. Every link is either an .ASP or a .DLL -- clearly indicatoring that they are running IIS. (OK, most of bCentrals links go to linkexchange.com, which is still FreeBSD, but that will probably change soon

According to Microsoft, "If the browser is HTTP 1.1 compliant (for example, Internet Explorer 3.x and later, or Netscape Navigator 3.x and later), the HTTP header contains the actual domain name requested. IIS uses this to determine which site should answer the request. " (http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q190/0/08.ASP) For my own website (www.NJTheater.com), that would mean just 39 of the last 9266 visitors weren't using a browser good enough (ie, a 99.579% success rate)

Chris, Well, thanks for this, but I think you probably have to be an Aussie to truly enjoy this. I like the "VB" beer though, you should take some pictures and do something with it on the site so we can jab our VB friends :) Gran

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I totally agree about the web development stuff. I still like to consider myself a C++ guy but the advances with ASP+ and .NET leave me feeling like a kid with a new toy. Debugging that actually works, ASP pages using C++ or C#, scheduled server restarts, Session information integrity retained even after reboots, proactive component destruction/recreation,...<Homer Simpson drool...

Thanks for the URL. I think it should be: http://www.eudora.com/email/features/ART\_moodwatch.ht

Yeah, I heard about these a well, but I think these have been there since NT 3.x (maybe i'm wrong). Those eggs you described are associated with the screen savers and not the OS itself. I guess there aren't any. Thanks, Jignes

George is walking on thin ice. If Eddie gets banished next week there goes George's alliance. George's paranoia and Teresa's banishcapades have made George very unpopular with the public.

Quite a few actually. The one comes to mind immediately is codeguru. I've just tried it again and I got '9d0' (hex?) on the top left and other strange hex interspersed on the page. When I refresh the page I get '9a8', so this no. is either random or something IE doesn't understand. The other one is codejock. Interestingly enough, www.microsoft.com is free from this annoying added-in. Anyhow, I still suspect it is my setup problem even though I've tried the rather nice sounding IE's 'repair' action on the installation files. BTW, is it possible to put a 'direction sign' (link) to this lounge on the home page? I love this lounge

Paul, EWBX (earthweb) is more or less a job site if you look where their revenue is coming from. I'm not too bullish on them. I kind of like RWAV (Roguewave). Their new CEO seems to know what he is doing. Their stock price is way down. And I have a feeling that their next quarter will be half decent. At $6... there doesn't seem like there is a whole lot of downside. I also like NMGC which is selling for less than the cash they have in the bank.