I am the father of many children. Two I created. Two I addopted. Countless foster children of all ages over the past 16 years. I have struggled with this question. I have watched people struggle with this question. I have watched as 15 year olds gave up babies. Some have changed their minds and greatly dissapointed adoptive parents. I've seen parents change their minds at the last minute and agree to keep the baby. Some adopt, some don't. Many of these people thought that if they "raise their kid right" they would never have to worry about this. They were wrong. I hope that I have raised my kids right, but that doesn't rule out things like date rape, etc... So the short answer is, I don't know. If it ever happened, I'd keep an open mind up to the day of the childs birth. Brad Manske

Sounds like they are on dangerous ground. If I were a "copyright holder" and I had probable cause to believe that my material was on IBM's or Intel's P2P network, then I could hack them. Being a musician and not a hacker, I could hire a hacker to have it done. Imagine hacking as a viable business. This doesn't sound too far fetched to me. Lots of companies are setting up internal P2P networks. Once you start using VPN tunnels and wireless access points you have blurred the lines between internal and external. If I were in charge of any big company, I'd unleash the lawyers and try to squash this fast. Brad Manske

What are fees like round the world and who is paying the most. I have had to sharply cut back on my internet activities because at work the department that provides internet services has recently started charging the other units on a per Meg basis. (Limiting my visits to CP):(( At home I pay about 45$ per month for a broadband connection shared among 3 computers allowing unlimited data transfer. At work, Off Peak Hours: 7.8 cents per Meg, Peak Hours: 78 cents per Meg. Only an obscenely biological act could describe how I feel about this.:mad: Brad Manske

Tomasz Sowinski wrote: No, when I write 1e6 I mean 1e6 LOL:) I didn't even notice the quantity specified. Now I feel like I really got my money's worth. Brad Manske

I've looked through the documentation and it looks like it might work. If it doesn't, it would only be a little more work to try dismounting the volume. So I now have several more things to try. Thanks for your help. Brad Manske

I'm guessing that it will not. The page in the SDK is under a heading for 95/98/ME. Brad Manske

I'm trying to flush all system buffers associated with a drive on a Win 2k system. The only way I found is to use an Int 21h function 710Dh from the SDK documentation. Can anyone think of another simple way to do this? I think this will help me with my testing, but it isn't worth spending a lot of time on. Brad Manske

Michael P Butler wrote: How much did it cost to put that little lot together back then? I had about $3000 invested. Which is strangely enough about what I have spent for all of the computers I have bought since. (With the exception of my first PC compatible from Compaq. That one was about $5000) Brad Manske

An issue of Popular Science magazine got me started back in 1976. They had an article on building a computer out of a RCA 1802 microprocessor, a whole 1k of memory. Input was 8 toggle switches and a button. Output was 2 hex digits. By 1978 I had a Digital Group Z80 based computer with 26k of memory and a real keyboard, a monitor and dual tape drives. Thus began my spiral into the computing abyss. This should be a lesson for all the kids out there. Serious adictions all start small. Brad Manske

I have a similar tale to tell. The direct managers of the engineering staff successfully build well received products. We hadn't changed our vision, lost our focus or fallen behind. A foreign company bought us. Soon everything had to be justified in terms of money. Everything was a profit center. Managers who were focused on building products were soon reduced to making short term decisions so they could keep their jobs for one more year. On the balance sheet any product that took more than a year was a liability. This was a spin doctor's paradise. A few bad marketing studies, some questionable projections, a little quick and dirty engineering work (a breeding ground for code bugs) and the Spin Doc has a project to sell to upper management. Money gets taken away from serious work. BANG! That's the sound of the first shot going into the foot. The Spin Doc moves up the ladder of success. BANG! That's the sound of the next shot. More people start taking the Spin Doc approach. BANG! BANG! The less politically inclined get their projects canceled. BANG! The "new products" from the Spin Docs start failing and all have to be replaced at the company expense. BANG! BANG! BANG! To make a long story short, the sound of the gun shots were soon defening. So about 4 years ago I quit. Today, there are nothing but dead bodies piled up against ladders. The doors to that engineering facility are locked for good. I console myself with the fact that the product I helped build (I was the senior engineer on the product) has beta sites that are still running today with very happy users. The other system, that got funding, has had most of their systems taken out and replaced at huge company expense. The only constructive things that I can think of to say: 1) This is not just a problem with corporate America, look for this kind of stupidity all over the world. 2) Don't loose your focus and vision for the product. The goal of any company is to make money. The focus of that company should never be money. Here I am, 4 years later and your story touched a nerve that is still a little raw. I wish you a speedy recovery. Good Luck. Brad Manske

Count me in. Brad Manske

The Win CE.NET portion is a very tiny fraction of the entire package. The platform builder is a huge piece of software for those configuring the embedded OS for a target piece of hardware. Think of it this way. There is a core set of tools, then support for various processors. Each processor has its own set of compilers, libraries (compiled in various ways). Libraries further subdivide into Win32, MFC and now... .NET. It takes 700 to 900 Meg for a full installation of each processor that you want to support. It has the ability to generate endless flavors of the core operating system and can export an SDK that contains the compilers, header files, and libraries that contain only the information selected in the build. What you are probably looking for is an exported SDK for the PocketPC that includes the .NET components. I'm expecting a 25 Meg file when it is finally released. Brad Manske

Looks like you are try to compile some code from the Standard Template Library (STL). Embedded Visual C doesn't come with STL but I did see a port of it on the PocketPC Developers Network www.pocketpcdn.com . Brad Manske

I have many collections from http://www.secondnaturecd.com . I prefer the art from the Impressionist time period, but there are some wonderful paintings by contemporary artists like Terry Redlin, Jack Sorenson, Nicky Boehme, Edgardo F. Garcia, and Alexander Chen. The problem with being a developer is that the art is always covered by my work. Brad Manske

If you plan on logging into Windows Advanced Server (NT type domains), then don't use the home product. If I were to use the home version, then I wouldn't be able to login to the servers at work from home. Because the Professional version is an extra $100, and I'm not unhappy with my home computer, I'll wait a while and see if I can find a good bargin. Brad Manske

Perhaps I'll chech out AudioAgent when I'm "finished", but that probably will not happen for a long time. I've been at this for about 3 years and I don't see an end in sight. I've got lots of music left to encode (CDs) and do I really want to mess with records (remember vinyl?). At the risk of getting Christian going again... Thank God I have a job where I can listen to music as part of my quality check process on MP3s. Brad Manske

I use MP3. The tools are mature and I get none of this silly security non-sense. There is no denying that AAC and Twin-VQ sound better, but the tools are not as mature. You've already discovered the problem with letting Microsoft encode them to WMA. OGG has a lot of potential, but it isn't really ready yet as far as I'm concerned. Then there is MP3-pro that looks like the patent holders attempt to take back the money... I mean market. Do yourself a favor and stick with MP3. Let's see... 4000 using Xing. About 14 or 15 Gig? Sorry I just have to brag. I have an FTP site with 90Gig. I'd love to share the URL, but I'm afraid that I would never get any useful work done ever again.;P Brad Manske