The names of the band director's two daughters: Anna One, Anna Two.

I can't wait for this crackpot idea's fad to pass.

Hi, I'm a fan of a functional drive. I've owned WD, Seagate, Toshiba, HGST, Deskstar and a couple other no-namers. For a couple of years, my WD's were shining stars and Seagate was garbage. Then it became Deskstar and HGST with the WD and Seagate's being terminal garbage. Then Seagate's were the king of the world and WD was the dregs. From my experience (for what its worth), Seagate and WD were the consistent drives. Either really outstanding and will go forever or garbage and toss now!! At present, I have a mixture of 1TB, 2TB and 4TB drives running. Approximately half are Seagate and half are WD. An old HGST is in the mix as well. I have a couple of Toshiba portable drives I just purchased. I purchased two portable Toshibas and one of them was DOA. Purchased another and returned the dead one to Amazon. That one is good to go. Your mileage will vary. Cegarman I drink, there for I am Illegitimum non carborundum Welcome to my Chaos and Confusion!

Second option, binary search along the diagonal, e.g. from (0,0), (1,1), ... (n,n) where n is min(max-x, max-y), until you find last pass. Call this point (p,p). If f(p+1, p) passes : binary search for last pass along x axis between [p+2...max-x]. Else if f(p,p+1) passes : binary search for last pass along the y axis between [p+2...max-y]. Else answer is (p,p) assuming I've understood your problem set correctly. If f is not too complex, and your data matrix is not large, then maybe a simple linear search is "good enough" wrt the above. "A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants" Chuckles the clown

I've always known about this and jumped to answer, but I've never actually had to use it and I have no idea how that is possible. Mostly I'm use to seeing it when trying to make old games run in newer windows versions. I guess the games I've wanted to revive have just never been THAT old. Makes sense, that's like CGA I think. Original King's Quest stuff. I'm pretty sure the recent article from the BBC poste here about computer addicts... I think it shows the exact same game that Tom Hanks is playing at the beginning of Big. It looks CGA.

I couldn't wait for the day a staple feature of any C/C++ compiler became something new and shiny. (I did find some optimization related issues inspecting compiler's output on a couple of embedded platforms). GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next

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hmmmm ty for the info... Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

If you send me the Markdown version, I can help you get it posted. sean@codeproject.com Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

will have to look into this. I used to use a product from SciTools, but they got stupid expensive. Guess they decided the small developer market was irrelevant. I don't have a problem paying $1200 for a product. Forcing me to do it every dang year? I don't think so. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

I hear you. Going to college, one of our friends had a 70s something like this: Redirect Notice[^] Trivial to keep it running, basic engine. You did have to do the rotor and points every 5k miles. As compared to my daughter's 2017 Tahoe that has thrown a lifter. Now the engine does have 230k miles on it, but it has one of those efficiency modes that shuts down 1/2 the engine to get better mileage. I shudder at the added complexity of modern cars. Charlie Gilley “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759 Has never been more appropriate.

To me, it looks Netflix pretty much figured out how your brain works :laugh: :laugh: Do not escape reality : improve reality !

Understood, thanks for your reply. I'm looking at some not-very-well-designed legacy code and trying to work out whether its attempts to deal with a potential deadlock are flawed. Given that it's over 20 years old and nobody has complained it's probably better to just leave it alone.

good luck... sometimes it is needed ;) M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.