815/900 impressive! :cool:

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SAMBA... then use notepad on your Windows PC :cool: (kidding)

80% Gnome 20% KDE for developing reasons too

I'm in day 40 trying to install my Linux "personal [edit]trainer[/edit] machine", I'm trying a lot of distributions: . Debian (trouble with SCSI and a Matrox G400 DH) . Lorma (Red-Had...) . Mandrake (good, but no way to make it work in a virtual machine . Gentoo (no way, my PROXY doesent permit me to install) until now... :suss:

Today I’ve received a forward email. I don’t know the source of this thing - the original was in Italian. They sent me this, because I'm facing some trouble with Linux lately. It took me some time to translate it, and probably it needs a grammar review - I did this because want to forward it to my friends that are not Italian native language so... I’ll post it here too hoping is not a already seen thing... have fun John A. Johnson :cool: [edit] Dear diary, day 1 ----------------- Today I’ve decided to install Linux. You can’t be a real hacker if you don’t use Linux, and I want to be a real hacker. Especially to strike on girls. Asking around to have some help, I’ve discovered that John uses Linux; John has thick glasses, he is overweight, doesn’t shower much, doesn’t shave and he doesn’t know any girl. In my mind there was someone more cool, with dark glasses even indoors and a black leather jacket. Probably he disguised to not be shown too much. A double life! What an emotion to be a hacker! He suggested me to use DEBIAN saying that it’s the "Linux destruction" for real cool ones. I’m a real cool one! I use PC since I was a small boy; always Macintosh, but when one knows a computer system, than he can say he knows all of them! Consider only the hacker of "Independence Day", he was inside the system of an alien star ship: COOL! I only want to understand why he calls it "Linux destruction". I have to ask him... it’s a COOL name! Dear diary, day 2 ----------------- John explained me that the DEBIAN is a DIS-TRI-BU-TION of GNU/Linux. Not a destruction. He told me that it’s very important that I say "GNU/Linux" because if you say only Linux, Microsoft (that I have to write Micro$oft or Microsuck, didn’t understand why) will get control of the full planet, will start the Apocalypse, will shutdown the sun, make the children cry and will prevent the diffusion of new games under GNU/Linux (in this order of importance). John told me that GNU means "it’s not UNIX", but Linux is Unix and he told me that it’s from all these small contradictions that you can understand who’s a real hacker. All the others are losers and they deserve that a worm virus automatically send emails to your grandmother with porno pictures that you exchange with the girlfriend. Anyway, I can’t be a loser because my grandma is too old and she doesn’t know how to use a computer; and above all, I never had a girlfriend (even if I wrote some stories about Kaory)... My god! I’m already becoming a real hacker! Dear diar

If you are using system based on TERMINAL SERVICE or your PC is shared with other poeple, it's useful to choose "who can use what". In my opinion, ALL the installation software must have that option/page - I'm talking from the system administration side. Of course, if you are working in a stand alone PC then it makes no big difference. :cool:

Shog9 wrote: Personally, i rather like the traditional minimalistic [RSS] links... I must admit that it's for sure the best choice, The help cursor is really cool! Of course, the CP look must remain untouched so... I agree, a small simple implementation sample speaks more than words... Here was the idea of my suggestion (apart that the RSS button was replaced with text because I was not able to use the <img> tag)

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and... on the left, under the "other stuff" menu pane (on the bottom of CP home page):

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Ok, ok, 2 deaf - keep your opinion, you won. So lets resume, please take the following with irony: 1. RSS is the most popular alternative to view a web and only dummies don't know about it and don't deserve to understand some more (thank you for the statistical report of the RSS usage in the full world). 2. RSS bitmapped buttons are perfect (don't understand why you insist in this point, in my second post I was hoping to be more clear about it... was the "Chris" name called really necessary? Right Jesus?). Heath Stewart wrote: If you get mad about something someone wrote, you should probably stay indoors and offline: this world is full of opinions and critisism Your previous post didn’t sound to me like something that gives space to a discussion; anyway I made my try to keep it open – I was the one who open the thread, right? Why: Heath Stewart wrote (2 posts above): Because that RSS button is pretty much de facto button and practically everybody these days knows what it is. Why waste precious page real estate for something so commonly known? You put a "fact" affirmation in what should be an "opinion" without material to give me reference to grow in that direction - the "waste" was inappropriate - anyway I’ll gain some more knowlege and money on that "waste" working with more skilled people (on ASP/PHP). The point: searching in the web, I find more "how to make an RSS" than "what for" and "how to use RSS"; no RSS dictionaries and for the most common web sites I look at, don’t have RSS a bitmapped button (or RSS reference as well - makes no difference). The first time I click on the CP/RSS button, a XML text come out - my conclusions that time where: "good, if someone wants to add CP news in their web site, this is useful", but I didn’t know about the existence of RSS readers - sorry If I’m "dummy". Let me share this experience: sometimes CP members contact me directly with private messages or emails because they don't feel to post a question or a suggestion in CP message boards - this because the "experts" ones will post things that are called "opinions", but at the end are not and make discrimination. These attitudes push people "indoors" and "offline", and sorry if I insist, people never deserves to be pushed away. People are free to say what they want (word freedom - but sometimes "moderators" kill their voice anyway). I didn’t kill your voice, and I was free to let you kn

Heath Stewart wrote: Why waste precious page real estate for something so commonly known? So sure? Lately I'm teaching this RSS thing to a lot of webmasters (to implement) and "common" users (to use)... ;P It's not so unfrequent that people watch me as I come from Mars! Anyway sorry, I didn't like this sentence - seems quite a separation from dummies and gods. Heath Stewart wrote: RSS has been around for a LONG time Yes, true, I've notice it on CP, but apart from CP I never got more about it. I don’t "waste" my time navigating in blogs (or almost nobody have discover me yet :-O). So for me the first opportunity to try, was given by a LINUX newspaper magazine (got only to understand some more about Lx because in that area I’m less than a beginner). Heath Stewart wrote: Many site don't even use an image, so be glad that CodeProject does! I agree that a "change" can be a bad thing, but I was proposing 2 options: the second was to add a text RSS link some were in the left menu - it's useful for search engines to catalogue and to free search a text in a web page with the "search" option of the browser (Ctrl+F). For sample when I develop some web sites, the buttons are always iconic graphics - I always prefer to put text link on the pages (or I put them both in the same page) - this is only a personal choice - thats why I like CP more than others (that abuse of Flash or Graphics). ... and you're luck that CP is so slow lately that I took 20 minutes to open the reply page to answer to your post, so I have time to calm down and get angry for other reasons... To end, I think that first of all, CP is a technical developer web site with a clear teaching mission and haves to work for different levels of knowledge, beginners (what for) intermediate (how to) and advanced (what else). Never discourage a beginner. CP is free to get the suggestion or not... better to ignore sometimes, thanks for the lesson. :cool:

I never understood the meaning of the RSS button until yesterday reading an technical article on a Linux magazine talking about RSS readers. I've try one freeware reader on the web, and now I'm really enthusiast about the thing. Here my suggestion: near the [RSS] button – or on the left column menu - a small link to a "how to" or “what is this?” page explaining the meaning and the way to use it, with the list of all the RSS links that Codeproject offers (I mean the category list) and a list of the useful articles posted in Codeproject about the argument (like this[^] for sample or simply an auto search list). Another point is to change the RSS gif button with a “text” write link – or add a RSS in the menu column on the left - this to allow the “search” in the web page or by an external search engine. Now my “next step” will be to bother some of the web sites I normally visit to make them add their own RSS... :cool: John A. Johnson

Maybe I'm wrong, but I have the impression that the status is updated once a while with a hand-batch process. :cool:

From the Visual C++ 6 help: "A CString object can store up to INT_MAX (2,147,483,647) characters..." Maybe you need something different? When did you find limits? :cool:

Sorry, I didn't read that your was an NT service... In that case, to keep my idea, you need a small "client" app that dialogs with the service... :suss:

Not sure that this is your case, but for child dialogs you have to ensure that the WS_VISIBLE style attribute is set in the resource. :cool:

Create a Window and modify it's region with the written text. Here you can find a great sample of a trasparent application: http://www.codeproject.com/miscctrl/transclock1.asp It's the same tecnique that somebody uses to make skin dialog/windows. So you can look at other sample too. To simulate it on the desktop, you can change the Z-Order with the SetWindowPos, so all the other windows will be above it. :cool:

Sorry I'm not against SQL Server, but I would like to defend Access a bit... Jeremy Falcon wrote: Tables cannot have more than 65K records In my MDB: . I have tables with more than 200k records... . I have more than 250 tables in a database file... . The database size is over 400Mbyte... . I have 40 current clients connected to the MDB file at the same time (in terminal server environment). I'm crazy? :~ Some fiends already answer YES to the question... and they hate me because the develop of the application is around 1 big C++/MFC project that makes the thing easy and fast as butter (the application is over 200k rows code written... with wizards, ok... and it builds 1 EXE file that is over 5000k bytes - I'm not proud of it). Jeremy Falcon wrote: and a MDB file cannot be larger than 2GB don't know if I would like to try in this life :suss: but with the current running... we will go to that size in 4 years! If I have to discuss Access, it's to have a SERVER based database, reduce the net traffic and increase data access security. For the rest, a lot of things are really easier with Access, especially when I ask the users to make their own queries. Consider even to make an application and solve the needing to distribute it as a demo... Access MDB will be easier for sure! And I safe myself from a lot of headache during development and setup... Lately I'm making performance comparison between the 2 databases (SQL/Access); there are not really big differences. For small databases size Access is much better, in big databases the balance gives reasons to SQL. Another point that gives advantage to SQL is "multithreading"; normally SERVER based database drivers (OLE DB) are thread safe. Jet engine was not (in the past, don’t know now... anyway I have to make some simple "tricks" to make code work as well). The real problem for me is a FILE compared to a SERVER database. My applications are still "Windows Framework" based, and there are more advantages to use a database by SERVER. FILE databases (consider even XDB solutions) have the disadvantage that network system administrators have to open a dangerous file sharing to the specific resource, and this increase the network traffic too much. Now I'll really love to try MySQL ($$ reasons). What is attracting me now in the SQL server direction is the "Analysis Server" (data mining, OLAP, ...)... too cool! :cool: Anyway, I like SQL Server, but

I mean, it happens frequently that I go to articles I have used in my projects, and I start to read the post at the bottom to see if I can find a solution to a problem. 70% of the questions don't have an answer... and sometimes the answers are cool, and deserve to be keep in a separated list (a "How to" list). Actualy good answers are bury by the all question posted, and frequently, the questions are repeated several times from different people that didnt notice an answer. I think that there are several solutions. I can suggest a simple one: a field flag near the Subject that indicates "queston" or "answer" (default = question) and a button, to filter the answers from the questions...

In a Italian science newspaper (Focus n° 124 February 2003 page 4), I found this silly paragraph: "Your name in Star Wars". Let me try to translate this small script: "I’ve get an email with this nice formula: it seems to be the one used by George Lucas to create the names of the strange creatures of Star Wars (Jar Jar Binks, Obi-Wan Kenobi, etc, ...). Do you want to know your name in Star Wars? 1. get the first 3 letters of your last name 2. add the first 2 letters of your first name. For your last name: 1. get the first 2 letters of the last name of your mother 2. add the first 3 letters of the city where you were born. Done! – Signed MIRMI CALIL” Then I tried, so, my last name is "Johnson" (I’m 1/2 US and 1/2 Italian), so the first 3 letter are “Joh”. My first name is John, but everybody calls me "Andy", so adding the first 2 letters from the name I use are "an". At the end, my Star Wars name is: "Joh" + "an" = "Johan" For the the last name: the last name of my mother is "Dalle Ore" (she is Italian), so the first 2 letters are "Da"; strange fact, I was born in Germany in the city of "Augsburg"... so the first 3 letters of the city are "aus". At the End my last name in Star Wars is: "Da" + "aus" = "Daaus" My Star Wars name must be: "Johan Daaus" ...nice way to create a new nick names, no? :-D