I was just reminising about university days back in the early 90's, when the internet was just starting to get popular. These were the days long before Flash, and Javascript hadn't actually been invented. It was normal to use a text editor to create entire websites.. Anyway, does anyone know of any good websites that still active from that era, and still have that old-school feel? Sure I could go and create on myself in half-an-hour, it would be more fun to find a original 'vintage' site.

In recent times we have heard more about companies out-sourcing their development to other countries, which pay lower salaries, just to save money. There are many ethical questions to be asked about this; what effect will this have on local employment? the economy? I've recently heard of a new term (to me at least); "Off-shore development". Companies are opening development offices abroad with development staff which I suspect will be paid at a much lower rate than local staff would (again for cost-effectiveness). It seems to be a half-way house between in-house dev and out-sourcing. They're part of the same company, but work in a cheaper economy. Do you think off-shore development has the same ethical questions as out-sourcing? Or is it just another way of describing the first stages of a multi-national company? =)

How Far Is It? http://www.indo.com/distance/ uses the Xerox PARC Map Server :-D =)

I vaguely remember Xerox having a related site which would do what you want. I think it was called whereIs, howFar or something like that. You put in two places (or grid coords) and it tells you the bearings and distance between. It also has a really cool mapping function to it with zoom, scan, etc and you can also view the map as flat, or curved to the earths surface. If I remember, I'll post it on here for you. Philip =)

Alternatively.. get that abacuss out temp(F) * 8 / 5 + 32 = temp(C) =)

If anyone is thinking of trying to program for PalmOS handhelds. Check this out.. http://www.mobilesoft-labs.com/mobilestudiopurchase.htm Mobilesoft have created a 'dev-studio-esque' development platform to front end the gcc-based tools. Oridinarily it would cost US$199 (included three months support). But for a limited time you can buy it for US$20(twenty) the catch? No support, and it's new to the market place. It's pretty good to be fair, and well worth a look. I've tried CodeWarriors stuff and found it a little hard to get used to, but this is ok.. =)

The thing that strikes me, is that although free source code is fantastic in bringing lots of heards together to work for a common good. Industry has little or no confidence in using this software, because of the lack of definate support they would get if they used commercial software. Alternatively, lets suppose that free software really does get the better of commercial software houses. The amount of software would decline because less and less people can't afford to write the software full-time, but in a world which is demanding more and more software, if they want the software then they have to pay someone to write it. Bespoke systems will always bounce back over the all-singing all-dancing free stuff.;) Philip =)

the other asy is to group your values into structures or clases (input and output) then it's easy... COutputInfo DoSomeCalcs( CInputInfo in ) { : }:) =)

I found I had problems using CreateFontIndirect() with an existing font. But it was easier to create a new font instead. LOGFONT lf; m_titleFont->GetLogFont(&lf); lf.lfWeight = 700; //Set Bold CFont boldFont; bolFont.CreateFontIndirect(&lf); // continue to use boldFont Hope this helps. =) =)

1. Create a new project under VC++ using the project wizard and make it a dialog based application. 2. Go into the resource and add the edit controls you need and a button to multiply. Use names such as IDC_EDIT_RATE, IDC_EDIT_HOURS and IDC_EDIT_RESULT for your edit boxes. 3. Go into classwizard and to the 'member variables' add a new variables to the controls. This gives you an easy way to get to the data in the edit controls. So you should create some variables such as m_editRate, m_editHours and m_editResult. 4. Goto the 'message maps' tab again in classwizard. Select the button control from the list onthe left. Select the BN_CLICKED message, and create a function called OnButtonClick(); 5. Goto this function in the code and add the following: ---------------------- CString sRate; m_editRate.GetWindowText( sRate ); CString sHours; m_editHours.GetWindowText( sHours ); CString sResult; m_editResult.GetWindowText( sResult ); float fRate = atof( sRate ); float fHours = atof( sHours ); float fResuls = fRate*fHours; CString sResult; sResult.Format( "%f", fResult ); m_editResult.SetWindowText( sResult ); ---------------------- You'll have to include the right header to use atof() (see the help file).. I can't remember it offhand. Well I hope that will get you started. Philip =)