Now break all that down into blocks of 140 characters or less. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

You want a pfSense-powered firewall appliance. It supports subnets which is what you're trying to do - isolate one group of devices from another group, but still grant access to the internet for both groups. .45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly ----- "Why don't you tie a kerosene-soaked rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt, 1997 ----- "The staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - J. Jystad, 2001

Thanks! I've let the ad team know so they can dig in. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

You can't tell someone he failed. It'll hurt his self esteem. X| X| X| X| 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

Congratulations from me too. I agree that you should get a personal money management program to take care of your finances. Unfortunately Quicken no longer sells or supports their product in the UK (only QuickBooks for businesses) but Microsoft Money is available. I'm sure there are also many free ones if you search. I'm hanging on to my five year old Quicken on XP - which will not work on W7! It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca

It's a microkernel, with some driver management inside the kernel. You can find a little more information about it on the Wiki pages which seem to be attached to the repository. The scheduler uses a lottery-based algorithm, but the random number generation uses FPU-based instructions and I don't like the software FPU emulation. They appear to return 0 until the FPU is initialised, so I load the bootstrap and execute it as the only process; it doesn't get scheduled out, until it initialises the FPU. IPC is exclusively message passing based for now, and I can copy across address spaces quite efficiently, without the need for kernel buffers. I use ELF as the executable format, simply because that's the one I understand the most (dynamic linking, relocations, etc.) My system calls weren't designed to be POSIX-compliant, but are relatively compatible. I still don't see the point of fork(), considering it's almost always followed by exec() or used to create a new process for incoming connections. My kernel has threads for that. However, a process can be loaded with an array of blocks which outline the contents of its address space, and a custom state. Given a little tweaking, that can work as a functioning fork() Virtual memory uses 4KiB pages for maximum compatibility with x86, and because I want a two-layer paging system so that I can keep my kernel heap consistent. At the moment, driver management isn't very secure. A driver is a process with added privileges. A process can become a driver through a simple BecomeDriver system call, passing a few details about the IRQ it needs. I'd like in future to add support for multiple IRQs, and more finely-grained port IO - at the moment a driver can access any port. I don't want this. All processes (including system and drivers) run in ring 3, so they can't freeze the system in two opcodes. Processes communicate and get access to services which aren't important to the kernel by using IPC, after retrieving the list of running processes from the kernel (there's also a fairly large amount of information which can be retrieved. I added a flags DWORD so the process doesn't get any irrelevant information.) OSDev :)

3. .LD and .LST files could just be treated as plain text (no need for syntax highlighting). .S and .ASM files are assembly language, and have the same syntax highlighting rules as a PRE block with the lang attribute set to 'asm'. 4. I've got two pages ready to send. For some reason, the problem doesn't seem to crop up at all with Internet Explorer. I use Opera, Windows 7, 64-bit. 5. Yes, I've cleared my cache and reloaded the page. 6. & 7. Excellent. Thank you. OSDev :)

This has been marked as a bug. We'll get to it ASAP. cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP

Luc Pattyn wrote: Yeah, bitmap/bitmask, same difference; you could still run out of bits. I've already considered that, and have a custom Bitmap class ready for implementation. Perhaps when I allow a process to become a driver, I should let it provide an array of n integers to form a large bitmap? Luc Pattyn wrote: A logical approach would be to consider them an aggregate of multiple devices, however them sharing some resources (such as interrupt logic, DMA) may cause some problems. The interrupt logic is what confounds me about the multiple device approach. For the moment, I just give them an interface (still designing) to adhere to for every bit they choose to set and treat them as a single device. But even then I hit a problem when it comes to code duplication. I might create a shared library of common device management functions, and link my drivers against it. OSDev :)

Pretty cool. Sounds like you're making alot progress, I figured it would take longer than that for one person to get where you are. I'll have to read your articles.

Checking the ignore html ... fixed it :)

It's possible to use microwaves to melt snow, but you wouldn't be able to just turn the microwave oven inside out, that could take hours, if it did anything at all. :( As for the snowball, you would need A LOT of power to melt it that fast, and it would have to be focused all on the same point... Fun idea though :) Oh, another thing too, if you were planning on building something like this, just know that microwave ovens have gigantic capacitors in them (to create the radiation), which is not good if you happen to be taking one apart. :( That raccoon started it.

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Don't complain; my operating systems classes consisted of the following: CEG430: Introduction to PDP-11 assembly language programming. The coursework was done using a cross-assembler and PDP-11 emulator running on the university's IBM mainframe, which we accessed using punched cards. CEG431: Real-time programming. We got to use actual PDP-11/05's for this course. CS4??: Operating systems. Another class using the IBM mainframe, this time written in Pascal running against an O/S simulator. My class was the last one using this approach, as the dozen of us used over $15,000 of computer time in a single quarter. Software Zen: delete this; Fold With Us![^]

Thanks for the tip. It's working now; I can run Virtual PC. :) OSDev :)

_Maxxx_ wrote: (or am I missing something?) Only the background behind the equation; there are a lot of important assumptions and building blocks that mainly have to do with objects traveling at speed of light and the nature of the speed of light. This equation (though a simplified version) simply states two things. 1) Matter is a condensed form of energy. This simplified version of this equation has been used commonly in nuclear reaction calculations. 2) As the kinetic energy of a relativistic object changes so must it's mass because, and this is the cool part, the speed of light & similar e.m. radiation in a vacuum is fixed and finite. And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning. --Isaac Asimov Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell

very cool :)

Kinda silly, don't you think, the two of us arguing over how long the LBW rules would be, in a thread about code comments? :) S. Senthil Kumar wrote: Not really - when the ball hits the pad on the full, the umpire must assume that the ball would go straight on. OK, that's kinda what I meant. The umpire must always assume the ball would have continued in its present trajectory, with the batsman not being present. Also, it's extremely rare for a ball to hit the batsman in line on the full, yet miss the stumps if it hadn't. S. Senthil Kumar wrote: I'd imagine there would also be rules about what exactly constitutes the "leg" part in LBW - thighpad, straps etc. In fact, pretty much any part of the batsman's body and gear, except the bat itself and the glove if in contact with the bat. For all the brouhaha surrounding Tendulkar's dismissal in Australia some years ago, IMO he was out. Journalists in sports who know next to nothing about the rules are as stupid as the journalist who wrote a science article last week where he said the solar system was 16m years old. The wiki article you linked to[^] does it in 6 points. Cheers, Vikram. (Got my troika of CCCs!)

Try using Powerpoint itself. Put the info in a frame, and display it when another object is clicked/after a timer event/etc. It's often advantageous to stop thinking like a dev, when using office apps -- some other dev has probably already built in the tool you need. And remember that people don't care about how clever or pixel-perfect a presentation is; they care about what you say and how you say it, while you're showing them the pictures on the wall. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

Say what? Your OEM Vista64 key would work in a vista32 install on that same PC; and your upgrade key would let you upgrade to either one; with the caveat that you'd need to do a clean install for Weven32. 3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18