Looking for your opinion on what is the easiest XML class that supports commenting? ie: Thanks Darroll Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton

I was sitting at me desk today thinking how I do not like the layout. There is a shelf on the top that takes away from my work area and the slot for my computer makes it difficult to work on. so I ask.... What would the perfect desk intail? Easy access to multiple systems? storage space? Please share you ideas. Darroll Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. - General George S. Patton

Is he serious? Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. -General George S. Patton

As I stated earlier, the main problem I am trying to combat is the company that pays for one copy then installs it on several machines. There have been several cases of companies buying one license of say AutoCAD and installing it on over a 100 machines. How to stop those is my main quest. Not stopping a user who would never pay for my app to begin with from using it. What are your thoughts on how to stop office piracy? Darroll

Our main site is for McGuire AFB only. There are actually units on base that cannot access our site due to the way the firewall is set up. We average just over 1000 hits a month. I do have a site that I use for updates, but I warn you it is my win 2000 server running on a cable modem. The URL is http://www.swingtimers.com/Observer/[^]. It will be slow, but it is the cable modems fault. Let me know what you think. Darroll

Lets see. I am a forecaster for McGuire AFB in New Jersey. The closet to war I got was in bosnia where I was sent as the lone Air Force guy to support Apache helicopters that the Army deployed due to rioting in the area. The Army does not have weather personnel. So I was sent to give weather updates for the forward location. It was the best assignment I have had yet. Comming soon: Korea. Now why is a weather man at a programming site? Well programming is my second love, second to flying. Since flying cost thousands and programming only cost me time, after the cost of VS. In my job the biggest problem we have is that whenever the weather goes bad EVERYONE calls us for the same reason, asking the same questions. Most weather shops then develope a web site that will allow people to seek information there instead of calling. My latest programming projects have been developing an easy to update interface to our web pages. We now deploy our mission planning forecast via a slick, error checking, GUI front end. There are also several other front ends to web pages I developed as well. I also designed and deployed our first website. It's fun. So nothing to exciting on my end Darroll

I am trying to develop an anti-pirating scheme. Ok I know that a good assembler programmer can crack just about anything, but here is my thought. Have the installer only install a registration and update app. Upon registering, where you grab and record the MAC address and other info, you allow them to download the remaining files to their computer. Then every time they run the app you both check for updates and confirm their registration against their MAC address. If there are updates then you just download them. If there registration fails you start deleting their application in the background. If they replaced their NIC or simply get a new computer a quick reinstall of your app reregisters it to the new NIC. This would effectively only allow one copy of your program to function per registration. So what do you think? I am sure there is a hole in the process somewhere. But, imho, a little incontinence to the customer when they switch out a NIC is nothing compared to having only one working copy per registration. Please comment on this. I need feedback before I go about designing this. Thanks Darroll

I am trying to develop an anti-pirating scheme. Ok I know that a good assembler programmer can crack just about anything, but here is my thought. Have the installer only install a registration and update app. Upon registering, where you grab and record the MAC address and other info, you allow them to download the remaining files to their computer. Then every time they run the app you both check for updates and confirm their registration against their MAC address. If there are updates then you just download them. If there registration fails you start deleting their application in the background. If they replaced their NIC or simply get a new computer a quick reinstall of your app reregisters it to the new NIC. This would effectively only allow one copy of your program to function per registration. So what do you think? I am sure there is a hole in the process somewhere. But, imho, a little incontinence to the customer when they switch out a NIC is nothing compared to having only one working copy per registration. Please comment on this. I need feedback before I go about designing this. Thanks Darroll

What is the best way of upgrading an application via the web? I would prefer it to be included as a dll instead of a stand alone exe. My thought would be to check a dat file for a version change and a url to the upgrade. How would I close the running app to replace it with a newer version? How could I control who had access to download upgrades? Any sudo code would be nice thanks in advance. All ideas are excepted, thanks. Darroll