I just close the Explorer window, go do other stuff for a bit, and then delete it from the command prompt.

Back when I still used Windows 98 for programming, a version of the Visual C++ IDE had a user resource leak. It really annoyed me at the time, because I'd be able to do 10-20 minutes of coding and debugging before I had to restart because my resources dropped too low. One day I was fed up with it, so I continued past the danger zone, and eventually UI stuff started drawing weird and I got 6's on buttons and combo boxes instead of their actual labels. I think I eventually switched to NT 4 after that incident.

A dynamic IP just means that your IP is subject to change (as opposed to a static IP). There is nothing to prevent someone from choosing a random range of IP addresses and sending this type of spam.

Nick Parker wrote: have finals next week Lucky ;) I have finals tomorrow. Yes, all 3 finals in all 3 of my classes from 8:30 to 4:20 straight, with a two hour break after my first final. I thought it was a good thing at first since I'd be finished early, but studying is killing me. Stuffing special relativity into your brain just does not work if you're tired.

DeskMod also has a large collection of good wallpapers, with a lot in the abstract category. Epilogue has a lot of sci-fi and fantasy drawings and paintings, with a small selection of wallpapers created from some of them (they're in the downloads section). Be sure to check out the ones by Enayla, they are gorgeous. She has a gallery of her normal drawings here. Greg Martin's art site has amazing space wallpapers. Hope you'll find some cool wallpapers from those!

Trillian is a savior when it comes to instant messenging. I absolutely could not stand AOL's AIM UI. You can get it at here. There's a standard free version, and a professional version that you have to pay for. Don't fret, the free version is perfectly usable!

Try http://www.gamedev.net for DirectX-related forums. You might get better responses there.

I also encountered the concurrent download limit when using Windows XP's IIS, and installed Apache to give it a try. Later I switched back to Windows 2000, but kept Apache because it was so easy to use and configure. Plus, it didn't have any weird restrictions, and I didn't need to do anything that required IIS (ASP, application web development, etc.; I'm really clueless when it comes to anything of that sort). It does everything I need it to do for the moment, so I don't think I'll switch back any time soon :)

It's pretty easy to scan entire blocks of IPs for computers with vulnerabilities or open services. I'm guessing that's how they found your computer with SMTP.

C++ and Python!

I learned Vietnamese first and then English through exposure to US life. I've been in the US since I was 2 years old, and since I've been speaking English for so long, all of my thoughts are in English now. I do have a strange thing where I count in Vietnamese without thinking, though.

It takes around a day for me, but that's probably because I don't have much to set up. Most of the time, I do work with default settings, so when I have to reformat and reinstall, I am back on my feet pretty quickly. I also store data in a couple well-defined points, so backing up means just copying those directories somewhere and rummaging through "Documents and Settings" and "Program Files" for leftover stuff. It's even easier with my new hard drive because I made a data partition and used the junction tool at SysInternals to make links from my main partition to directories on the data partition :-D

You could try using Doxygen and write the documentation in the code itself.

2 - "Hi." The number two in Vietnamese is pronounced like the English "hi." 2222222222!!

From what I have heard from homosexual friends, and friends who know homosexuals, homosexuality is not a conscious choice. Rather, it is just the way they are. Someone wrote something once that went something like follows: "Why would I choose to be discriminated against, made fun of, and be regarded with disgust? Homosexuality was not a choice for me." Basically, my point is that you can tell them homosexuality is not normal, but if they are already homosexual, I don't think it will help them change.

Newest drivers are not necessarily the most stable. I had horrible problems with new Nvidia drivers for a while on both Win2k and WinXP, so I had to use an old version I downloaded a while before. Nvidia's newest drivers are fine now.

I'm writing an IRC client with support for Python scripting. It uses MFC and a couple of controls i found on Code Project. I've been working on it for about a week now and it's close to usable.

I program mainly with the keyboard too, so I use Hungarian notation. I don't attach absurd 50-character prefixes though, most of my prefixes are 1 character in length.