DEGREE != Ability. DEGREE = getting an interview. While I agree that a degree is valuable, so is experience. When I was just out of college with a CS degree but little professional experience, I know one can feel a bit like a leper. In other words, interview = degree + experience But I agree. I have a CS degree, and I'm glad I do. Craig Dodge This message printed on 100% recycled electrons.

Halloween is when a rabbit comes down your chimney and hides eggs under a tree. Said rabbit then drives the snakes out of Ireland, eats lots of turkey and falls asleep watching American football. Or maybe I'm confused.:) Craig Dodge This message printed on 100% recycled electrons.

It's worth noting that NT4 did this too. This was (as I understand) because many video functions were brought into the kernel. They were brought into the kernel to improve graphics performance. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

Excuse me, but I disagree: I can't believe most good programmers are skeptics unless there are strong evidences. So, you're skeptical about skepticism?:) Personally, I don't believe any of this. I don't even believe in the existance of this thread until somebody shows me strong evidence to to contrary. :) Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I think you are thinking of the Hobbit, not LOTR. I would agree that The Hobbit is written for children. LOTR is a different beast. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

1. The answer kind of depends more on the amount of programming being done. I didn't start programming in earnest (like "this is what I'm going to do for a living" kind of earnest) until my mid 20's. (I think it was about 25 but don't hold me to that.) But I did know some of the concepts way before that. I remember writting a simple BASIC (not the Visual, mind you) on a friend's Commodore (now I'm dating myself) and I wasn't a teenager yet. And in my early days (before I changed to CS) I programmed my HP calculator to graph the Mandlebrot set - for fun. :) 2) I don't think there's a fixed answer to this one. I know people who have gone into the "team leader" role, then later went back to being more of a coder, mainly because the management aspects aren't that fun. This isn't just a couple of cases of people who couldn't hack it; some of the brightest people I know did this. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

What? Were you expecting logic or something? Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I'm working on a project now that does that and I'm able to do it. The domain account I'm using to access the remote computer is a member of the Administrator group on the remote machine. I don't know what registry rights are but I assume Admin rights cover that. Maybe you have some kind of read-only rights to the remote registry? I haven't seen this problem before so I don't know what would cause it. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

(From Michael's link) "Some audience members said the US was ultimately responsible for the attack because of their foreign policy." :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: How can anyone say that killing some 5,000 (or maybe more) civilians is an appropriate response to a foreign policy? Michael, at least one American knows that these people don't speak for you or the other people in your country. While we're forming a wish list, how about the media canning the speculation? It seems like too often during these events the media only seems to fuel rumors instead of dispelling them. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I actually have a couple of these. I use one to store my cell phone when I'm kayaking. Haven't used it for my PDA, though - couldn't see a use for a PDA when I'm in a kayak. :) Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I think like many things, there's enough fault to go around. Personally, I think time would be better spent finding solutions rather than pointing fingers. But pointing fingers is a very human thing to do. :) Since I'm neither Israeli nor Palestinian I can't really how it should or even could be resolved. But any resolution has to come from them. No solution is going to work until both parties are commited to it. Just my $0.02 Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

> In short, I can't see any reason for Linux to exist except for the fact that it is not from Microsoft. Well, it does have it's place. But it will never have the mass user base like Windows. Most end-users just aren't going to have the technical skills to use a *nix OS. Nor, I would argue, should they have to. But it's main popularity right now comes directly from the fact that it's not Microsoft. Which is the main reason I stopped using it; being not somebody else just wasn't enough for me anymore. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I use it at work. It's great for any job where you would use a batch file or script to do what you want. I prefer it to writting batch files because you can have control flow without gotos. I can read the regular expressions reasonablly well. Though I think regular expressions in perl are not a science or art but practically magic. :) I haven't written any GUIs with it, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm not mad. ;P Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I'm trying to create a Windows Service (not a Web Service) in C# with Beta 2. I create a new Windows Service, and add the installer. I didn't do anything else - I just wanted a minimum windows service. When I try to install it with InstallUtil.exe, I get the following output: An exception occurred during the Install phase. System.NullReferenceException: Value null was found where an instance of an obje ct was required. The log it generates tells me the same info it prints out. :mad: Has anybody written a windows service in C#? :confused: If so, could you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

I manage builds for a living and we use Perl scripts, along with cmd (batch) files. We keep logs (text files) of all the builds. Since Perl is good at manipulating text files, it's great for finding a build status, if there's any errors, etc. There's also an intranet web site that displays the progress of each of the builds. I insist you get your own beer, though. This one's mine. :) Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.

Looking at the script code at the page, it's not going through any kind of firewall. It's all running on the client machine (your Dev Machine). A better firewall isn't going to help. Still, this is very bad. Just some VBScript and it could do some really bad things. Craig Dodge A catchy signature should appear here.