Thanks for any help ahead of time. The Visual Studio Installer docs aren't a lot of help and I figured I'd appeal to someone who had more experience maybe. The problem is that I have created an installer package but one of the files will not overwrite the file present on the target machine. However, if I delete the file on the target machine FIRST, then run the installer, the file installs perfectly. This tells me the file is there and the path is correct, it just won't overwrite the current file (and doesn't even prompt to ask for permission). The file on the target machine is: Version: 1.00 Creation Date: 7/9/04 Modified Date: 4/1/04 The file I am trying to install is: Version: 1.00 Creation Date: 7/9/04 Modified Date: 7/9/04 I don't know the installer that well. Is this a problem with the versioning or dates? I don't have access to these components (third party) and can't change them manually without going to the company with a definite problem. Any help would be appreciated and I can provide more info if necessary. Thanks, Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

If you still have one I would love a GMail account. cisellis@yahoo.com Thanks! Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I used to work in a computer store when I was in college. If I stated the one lesson I learned the most solidly it would be: DO NOT skimp on a motherboard. Spend the money, get the better one with more options, and make sure it's ALWAYS an ASUS. I realize that there are other boards. I've also had luck with Soyo Dragon boards and even (strangely enough) with EpoX boards. However, time and time again, the most reliable board is an ASUS. Gigabytes have good options and better price, but the general quality is unreliable. I have an ASUS A7N8X Deluxe and it is the best purchase I've made. A good motherboard will hold your (MY) piece of crap computer together for a little longer :) Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I don't think this has been posted yet, but if so......Sorry Joel may have some controversial ideas and be grumpy in general but he's usually pretty accurate. This article is about the Win32 API, OS Lock-in, .Net and the future of WinForms and ASP.NET. Brings up some interesting points. Good read no matter what you think. Anybody have any opinions/ideas about his ideas, the article, etc.? Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

It's cool to hear how it is other places. In the US it's pretty standard to receive a new car with a full tank of gas. I've bought 2 from a dealership and both came with a full tank. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I have a form that is being maximized. The form is a child form of an MDI parent and there is another child form docked on the left as a menu. Therefore, when the form is maximized it needs to be maximized to (for instance:) location 256, 0, 200, 200 instead of 0,0,456,200 (where above is x, y, width, height). I'm having a real issue finding an event that fires BEFORE a maximize command to set the bounds and the maximizedbounds property doesn't seem to be doing any good. Any ideas, events, etc.? Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Are you talking about the album/artist/etc. problems? It drives me nuts. I use Winamp most of the time because when I make the changes to an artist/album/etc. in MP9 it's not really changing the underlying information, plus I always end up with two versions of an album. Same artist, same album, but 1 track under 1 album, the rest under a seperate one. I love the Media Player library but it drives me bonkers! Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Always go with the Dell. Gateway = BAD BAD BAD. Hp used to be a good alternative, but since they sucked up Compaq the virus has spread and they suck too now. On a side note, I need a new computer badly and I can't keep my eyes off of the new Apple Powerbooks...The Dark Side calls to me...I think if I buy a new one I may be looking seriously into a Mac. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

All valid points. I design for IE if necessary because it's the most common browser. I do think open-source people tend to be too "STANDARDS OR DEATH!" most of the time. Most of all though I agree web browser technology is so far from where I thought it would be at this point. However, once again the standards at least set a goal for everyone to try for, a theoretical "limit" that would keep the functionality of them going in the same direction while leaving new features and innovation to the individual companies. I don't think that just because the market leader says so, you throw the end goal out the window and go with their approach. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Rocky Moore said: If that standard is going to break how 90% of the people use the product, then I would think you should power up a few brain cells and add a compatible mode that makes it 100% compatible even if not the standard. I love MS and I also love Firefox. The above statement appears to say "Why develop a standard that 90% of the market doesn't comply with?" (If I read you right). The problem is actually that the standards were there first and MS just refuses to play ball in order to make things work because of IE is old, large, and has a inept code base. The CSS standards started around 1994, HTML around 1990, and IE 1.0 wasn't released until 1995. Sometimes I have to go back to IE and open a page because it just won't render right in Firefox. That's due to IE though. I've been on the web developer end, having to add stupid tags just for IE and it SUCKS. Whether it's CSS, HTML, or even C++, the standards are there for a reason. Nobody really fully complies with any set of standards. They just get as close as they can while keeping their implementation unique. The difference is that MS won't even TRY. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I'm a contractor for the US government (though not in Iraq). Usually the contractors make more money but they are also usually better trained. The usual goal is to get hired as a contractor then move into the government eventually where you get a good pension and can do anything just about without getting fired. We have guys here that make $80k US a year and don't do anything but they can't be fired for some reason. Most of the time has to do with the government being afraid of getting slapped with a discrimination lawsuit from a person (male, female, black, white, young, old, religious, secular, doesn't matter. Anybody can find a reason to sue and probably win). What this leads to is the government hires more contractors to hide the increasing cost of government since they can show the civil service headcount (doesn't include contractors) going down. The remaining civil service people hate the contractors for taking the jobs they don't want to do and hoard information and are generally uncooperative at the best. Throw military personnel in there with their own agenda and you end up with a very inefficient system. One that most people aren't willing to put up with unless you pay them a lot more money. Hence, the high price tag of contractors in general and especially Iraq. It applies to any warzone as well. I knew a guy who went to Kosovo and did 3 years. Nothing to spend money on over there, no taxes, he came home with over $300,000 US in the bank. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Roger Wright wrote: Also BTW, I looked into emigrating to Australia - they don't want anyone as old and out of date as I am. I don't qualify... How does that work? My boss sugguested to me once that I should look into New Zealand / Australia as a place to move/live/work. He said you had to pass a system of points based on age, level of education, etc. before they would let you in. I looked into it for a short while but found no way to look into jobs, entry, etc. Eventually I gave up. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I think it's the "Last Herald-Mage" series. Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise, and Magic's Price. Great series. Also, her "Mage Winds" series. Winds of Fate, Winds of Change and Winds of Fury. Both of those series I've read and are great. Check them out sometime. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I've read fantasy since I was a kid. I tend to stick to stuff that challenges my imagination rather than my ability to remember history and lineage. Hence, I love Terry Brooks (the Scions of Shannara is my favorite of his series so far), as well as Robert Asprin (His myth series is more humorous than anything else.) I always liked the Magician series mentioned above by Raymond Feist as well as a lot of Mercedes Lackeys Valdemar books. On the other hand, I love LOTR immensely but it took me FOREVER to read (asleep ten pages into the description 'Gimli son of Gloin, son of Humperdink, king under the lonely mountain in the year'...blah blah blah.... Same with the Wheel of Time. Don't have enough willpower to force my way through the Silmarillon, although I've had someone give me the details and once again I love the story, just not the way it is written. I even stray into a few less magic/dragon oriented series like Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Stephen King's Dark Tower series (Book VI on June 8th - YEAH!). I'll stop before i get carried away. You get the point though... Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Here in the Southeast USA, gas is running around $2.04 / gallon for the 89 octane plus I use. If it gets much higher the large truck toting rednecks (some of them with tires larger than my car) will probably attempt to secede from the union again. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I hated Tiberian Sun. The C&C games have not done anything new is so long that I just lost interest after Red Alert. The Tiberian Sun game was the worst. I don't really play much of anything now. disclaimer: I haven't played Generals though it looked cool. I took my RTS to Warcraft III and geeked out on that for about 2 weeks. Much better. I have a fascination with ancient civ. though and may try and play Rome: Total War when it comes out. The news online said that the game is so excellent they're using it to display battles on a Discovery Channel special on Roman battles. Cool stuff. "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Now don't even start going off on Roxette...I had that on tape (but it was okay at the time I swear!) :) Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

The Telerena editor was exactly what I was looking for. Tabs, formatting and free. Thanks for the the all the input. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

I'm looking for an editor for legacy ASP code (not .NET). The stuff is old, simple and not worth converting. Mainly I'm looking for syntax highlighting/color coding, formatting (tabs, etc.), and maybe tabbed browsing for multiple files. At the moment my editor of choice is Notepad. Dreamweaver and Frontpage are too large and too complex. Some of my coworkers use Macromedia homesite and swear by it, but we don't have any more licenses. Any ideas/opinions/rants on a cheap/free ASP editor? P.S. Hope this is acceptable as opinion and not programming related. No board for legacy ASP code. Thanks! Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams

Man that sucks. I joined a fraternity in school and sucked bad for my first two years. I spent the next two acing everything and trying to dig myself out of the ditch. I could have used that "Pass at the end, get a great grade overall" philosophy. Anyway, thanks for the explanation. Brian "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." - Douglas Adams