🎶🎶 Well, it was hauntingly familiar Well, I see you doing what I try to do for me 🎶🎶 Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius

#realJSOP wrote: How is that "fixed length"? Agreed, it is variable length - up to a point. But if you try to insert an eleven-character string into a VARCHAR(10) column, SQL is going to bork! But my main point was the restrictions being implemented by the database - rather than in the code.

Thanks guys, one and all. Finally discovered the secret blend of eleven herbs and spices (I swear, I think the magic did involve eleven different ones; and I have some questions about some of those herbs; hope the teenagers don't discover them) Anyway, the documentation on FreeDOS was very close to accurate, but, VirtualBox and/or Microsoft and/or FreeDOS and/or neither of them and/or all of them and/or space aliens somehow made one tiny change to the user interface When I adopted the mindset of questionable mental states (induced by some of those secret herbs) I started making pot-shot guesses as to which things changed between versions, and one of my crazy guesses turned out to be accurate. And always remember, YOU are the idiot, and the experts are the smart ones. Uh-Huh Oh well, I need these guys to do this gig, so, I'm the idiot. yeah. Whatever, whatever, it works now. Thank you every one of you, for the loaned brain cells.

No it's cool. It's a little harder to spot now, but this is at the top: This article is a sponsored article. Articles such as these are intended to provide you with information on products and services that we consider useful and of value to developers Thanks, Sean Ewington CodeProject

Rick York wrote: It will likely take an act of Congress at this point, as it rightly should. Oh absolutely, that is what I am suggesting will happen, albeit not immediately. Also, such a change in the law need not alter the principle of copyright in general; it would only need to alter the legal scope of certain types of algorithm. That's much easier to wriggle through with big money backing than a wholesale alteration of copyright.

Wonder why Google is moving off Oracle to SAP for their finance software? I’ve given up trying to be calm. However, I am open to feeling slightly less agitated.

Yeah, but it being Oracle, I'd expect them to try to get you to sign up for a support contract for the move, then another once it's on their cloud. TTFN - Kent

"Encrypted" passwords are only marginally better than passwords stored in plain-text. Passwords need to be stored using a salted one-way hash, with a unique salt per record. Read the articles I linked to in my previous reply for details. "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

One baby step closer to the end for companies with cluster:elephant:s that are telling their customers victims to just use some browser so old it doesn't have auto-update to access the control page written by someone who quit 15 years ago without leaving any documentation behind. Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt

Ah, that explains it :laugh: Today the upload succeeded, taking about 1 second - so something was not entirely right yesterday, either on my side or CP, or anywhere in between… Espen Harlinn Senior Architect - Ulriken Consulting AS The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.Edsger W.Dijkstra

Nope. ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

Only when adults. Until then they're legless.

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I'm sure, if it got toad, he'd be hopping mad. Ravings en masse^ "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

> ...there is no one to celebrate with because no one else cares about it. sad but true

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