I don't know Code Project seems fairly snappy ;) It is hard to compare sites. Perhaps the code quality isn't the same. Perhaps asp sites tend to use more eye candy. Perhaps it is the whole stack (asp = windows server and likely IIS, where as PHP might be on a *NIX box and Apache).

I'm not sure what is the threashold of something being OE. But there is numerous words where my Webster's dictonary says the root is from OE (old english). Modern english words are mostly greek, latin, german and french but there is some old french and english thrown in there as well.

While I agree they are words most of your exceptions are due to puting a prefix or a postfix on the root word. Naturally any verb that begins in an i can form a "ei" combo by adding a re- in front, or one that ends in a e with an -ing. The others though a amusing none the less. Also alot/most you'll note were borrowed from french or german, I challenge you to repeat said joke only using words derived from old english. ;P P.S. why did the US decide on math and vocab as the standard for college admissions anyways? Say your planning on doing pure math. Sure your math scores should be through the roof, but your need for vocab is limited as you need a small subset of vocab to be able to do your job.

That's the thing though. Acronis isn't free. Much better than Ghost though, we've used both. We have medical devices configured with dual harddrives and nightly backup the primary hard drive to the secondary. We've had to "roll back" before when we had problems. ~20GB on the drive we were able to be up and running in ~20 min. The scheduling to backup across the network to a shared drive might be an issue if connectivity was intermittent not sure (was running after hours). Anyways a second HDD is "good enough". If things blew up and we had to replace the machine the vendor would have to do it anyways due to FDA constraints. This is just nice to have if we have a patch pushed that screws things up, we roll back to the previous day.

I agree. We use it at my work, it is very very easy to use and works (I've had to restore from a backup several times and no problems). We've tried scheduling backup tasks to run automatically and save to a network share, that has been hit and miss (we have an older version though so it could have been worked out), but a local backup drive has been no problem.

Thunderbox666 wrote:

No job is glamorous, I know that. But just because a job isnt glamorous doesnt mean you dont enjoy it.

Right on :) I have a physics background and weaselled my way into IT because I did a lot of simulation work and electives in comp sci. I liked research because I could be one of very few people that know as much about a particular topic. I thought it was really cool to be able to say "I proved that". IT is kind of that way too where I am. I'm the go to guy for IT, when a user has no clue why something happened I'm the guy that says it is because of how this service listening on this port froze and blah blah. I like knowing the ity bity bits of things and the larger scope (I get to see all the billings/staffing hours/contract negotiating crap and so have a better grasp of the business than most people in other roles).

It all depends on how tied to money your happiness is I guess then. For example I have friends that are content with a job they like to the point where they took a ~40% pay cut to get where they want. I also have friends that quit jobs every few months because someone else was offering 50 cents more an hour. Do you really need what you are making as a developer? I mean say your making 100k but if you'd be happy with a 50k lifestyle you have more options than the guy that needs the 100k to be happy. There are jobs out there that pay just as well, or you could work longer hours in a job you like versus shorter hours in one you don't. Its all up to you.

Perhaps race condition has to do with where you are in the caste system?

Educational licensing, ~1500 per year for everyone in the department to have any and as much of MS software as they want (VS Pro, SQL Server, Office, Windows, etc) nice :) Only works if you are educational though :(

I don't know if cracking software is illegal. I mean just breaking the installation key isn't using the program without paying for it. You'd have to install it after you crack it IMHO for a crime to have been committed. Even then I'm not sure if it is criminal or just civil. I think it would be civil violation and the copyright owner would have to sue for damages (the cops wouldn't care). There isn't any physical property to return to the rightful owner, etc, etc, it is just financial damages which the courts would have to decide.

I don't have a laptop hdd kicking around but there are two power draws on a hdd the data and the power for the motor. My Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM desktop drive: 5V 0.46A (presumably for data) = 2.3W, plus 12V 0.56A = 6.72W total is ~10W. The specs on the site I linked to earlier only showed a drop from 15W to 14W during defrag versus idle. Most of the power goes to spinning the disk so idle really isn't unless you actually power off the laptop after a short period of inactivity. You're probably right on the power for a modern laptop hdd drive though (especially since the mobo's/OS are configured from the ground up to conserve energy for mobile devices.

You might be thinking voltage, the stats I saw (a little old I admit but probably fairly comparible) http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000562.html">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000562.html computer idle at windows desktop 15W, sleeping hdd power draw 14W, defraging drive usage 18W, CPU idle 15W, CPU working 26W. So hdd is roughly same draw as CPU (and similar to screen as well).

Good point. Solid state drives should help a lot too, the peak operating power is much much lower which reduces the peak power load to idle load well.

So when this battery explodes, do you get nano-wires in the eye? Everyone's different but 14 hours or so is the most I can see me ever needing (trip from east coast to japan + airport wait) and usually about 1 hr is fine (compute on a bus or something) before I can plug it in. Quick charge times would be better for me, if I could have 4 hr battery life and < 20 min charge time, it would be sweet (probably could heat coffee on the battery do to the power draw too ;)).

Agreed. My last onsite interview I brought my own laptop, they wanted me to give a 1 hr talk I didn't want to play the will your office like my office game. It's not the monetary value of the item, eg. my company laptop they paid 3k for (IBM T60 core 2 2.0 2GB RAM, I agree they got raped on the price), anyways, say I've used it for 33% of its useful life so its down to 2k in value. But I have my source code repository on it, I do somewhat frequent backups of the little coding projects I do, say once every couple weeks, really important stuff stays on a network share on our SAN, but anyways, I can still have a couple weeks worth of code on my laptop which is worth more than the 2k remaining value of the laptop, especially since it is probably insured.

Indeed :)

Sad to say, but that is one benifit of taking the bus. As long as you don't forget stuff (a good way is to not put it on the floor, keep everything on your lap) you don't have anything to get broken in to.

How many times do I have to tell you to stop calling your XP partner a whipping boy?

npclntxz.dll wrote:

U should write code in the language you speak.

Is your native language different than mine (English)? I haven't found a language that is quick and accurate enough to define an algorithm. Just look at an advanced algorithms book, it will talk for pages describing the logic. Rather than: int x = y[list->Value]++; try doing it with words in any language more effeciently, I dare you :)

I think the issue could be having the setup project in the code containing solution. I'd suspect if your setup project was started in its own solution that this wouldn't be the case. Since compiling your setup file makes it obsolete, your solution has changed. Not saying that MS shouldn't be able to do what gcc has been doing for decades and only compile and link what is new, but ... MS is working on making the compiler parallel (sort of there with team build but at the file level), so if you have 4 cores you'll compile >> 1 (~4X, probably more like 3X) core. As always, that feature is scheduled for the "next version".