Sorry for the blatant plug, but see my signature... should give you a clue where it's gone.

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Hockey wrote:

I recall reading a while back about a lsser known design pattern...I swear it was called the address book pattern or something to that effect... It had to do with storing SQL statements outside your application on calling them into your application via an address book interface???

I think you're after a Phrasebook? For example: Class-Phrasebook-SQL[^]

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Josh Smith wrote:

I wonder what they did with all that chocolate once he got out...

Cadbury's would probably still sell it ;P

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Just wondering what the best Atari ST emulator is (that can run in a window and/or full screen on Windows)? It seems like there are quite a few available. Not sure where to start. Any ideas?
I recommend STeem Engine.

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But then they brought out the "sequel" awhile back to Elite Frontier? Bah, talk about disappointment. I remember looking forward to that for ages. Then it came out, then I bought it, and played it, and ... :sigh:

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The Atari ST version was the definitive version IMHO.

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Brilliant :-)

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Yeah, just look at the enormous difference between the 'Love Conquers All' version of Brazil vs Brazil the way it was meant to be shown. Oh dear - you mean there's a version where they chop off the final scene(s)? That's just not right! Sounds nearly as bad as what they did to Blade Runner with the "dumbed-down voice-over and happy ending" version X|

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Both client and server - got the Apache module version of the server on my Linux fileserver machine, and use TortoiseSVN and the command line svn command for the workarea on my Windows machine. Haven't done anything particularly complicated with it yet; just one user (me), and just one project so far (the program in my signature). But so far I like it; it's pretty unobtrusive and hasn't done anything unexpected, and I feel a lot better having the code under proper backed-up source control at last. Have a look at: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/book.html There's also a chapter at the end specifically for CVS users explaining the differences.

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I've been looking for a while for a (preferably free) source control system I can live with, and I finally settled on Subversion. I tried CVS but I was never quite happy with some of its quirks. I'm used to a system called CCM that I use at work (now called Telelogic CM Synergy, unless they've renamed it again) which seems to be the opposite in every way to CVS, so I've had to adapt to a different way of thinking. Subversion claims to be a 'better CVS' - I never actually got very far with CVS, but it certainly seemed to address many of the issues I had with CVS. (And there's TortoiseSVN which is to Subversion what TortoiseCVS is to CVS).

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: It said they found over 4000 Francs in there! That's about £500 or US$900 Well, they say rich food is bad for you ;P (I'll fetch my coat).

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Colin Angus Mackay wrote: Well, she lives near Cambridge. They let cows wander round the city in Cambridge. Well, not round the city, but there are various commons here that they wander around on, which aren't far off from the city centre (then again most places aren't far from the centre, Cambridge is by far the smallest city I've lived in).

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Mike Osbahr wrote: Did humanity get wiped-out in that one? The one I remember is about a hunting party going back to 'bag' a T-rex just prior to its original death. Things go awry and they come back to find that Germany had prevailed in WWII? And that's when one of them notices a butterfly on the bottom of his shoe. Of course, I may be thinking of an 'Outer Limits' episode instead of a book. They didn't get wiped out, they came back and things were different. They were dinosaur hunting in the story; I definitely remember it being made into an Outer Limits episode, which sounds like the one you mention. Here's the story: A Sound Of Thunder[^]

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Tom Archer wrote: What was the work that had a time-traveler stepping on a cockroach millions of years ago and as a result wiping out humanity? Not sure - earliest one I know of is the short story 'A Sound of Thunder' by Ray Bradbury, and it was a butterfly in that. (Google says it was published in 1952).

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Jim Crafton wrote: I was playing in the mac yesterday and came across the cool 3d screen savers that are included with it. So I thought it'd be nifty to have them on windows too, and found this: http://www.reallyslick.com/\[^\] This makes me want to get a a newer graphics card just see how much better they'll run. SolarWinds is cool, as is Helios. Ooh, very cool. I particularly like Lattice - although probably not recommended for people who get motion sickness, if you turn the speed up X| ;)

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Tools / Internet Options / Programs Tick 'default browser' box at bottom. Exit all IE windows and/or restart, IE should soon notice it's not default browser and ask you whether you want to set it back.

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Only in Norway though.

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Probably just inaccurate reporting; it's unlikely to be 2 billion, it'll be 2^31-1 = 2147483647, i.e. max positive range of a signed 32-bit integer. Which represents the date when Unix times break, in 2038. Not 4 billion. One way to buy a few more years would be to make time_t unsigned so it would go up to 2^32-1 = 4294967295. Or go 64-bit which buys you considerably more time! They probably saw the 2 billion somewhere, then saw this company's software broke halfway to that and doubled instead of halving. 2^30-1 is 1073741823, which matches up.

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Kant wrote: I can log into my neighbour's wireless connection which is not encrypted. Had the same thing happen at the previous place I lived at - we've got a DI-614+ sharing broadband between my computer and flatmate's computer, but whilst setting it up we managed to screw up the encryption key so we couldn't connect to it. But somehow flatmate's laptop was still getting through to web pages - it had reconnected to a network named 'default' with no encryption. Sure enough, it was another DI-614+ with the default settings, but at least had an admin password set. Must have been in the same building since the range is nowhere near what they claim, had a hard time getting it to transmit from one room to the next. Bit of a Catch-22 with these things, ideally they shouldn't allow running wireless without encryption, but you've got to connect to the thing in the first place to turn encryption on, so it can't be encrypted out of the box, or if it is it'd just be a default key which is about the same really. I now live just down the road from there, got line of sight to the old place but seem to be out of range, can't see that other network any more.

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Ray Cassick wrote: Is there anything that can be done to locally change the density of the air? Change its temperature? Ionize it? Magnetize it? Ionisation seems to be the theory: google groups[^] Although the rest of the thread claims it's a fraud.

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