Try turning off the option: VA Options -> Advanced -> Correction -> insert () and closing } ) ] ' " easy when you know how :)

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

*disclaimer* I do not have a wii, or a PS2, or an Xbox of any kind I find the arguments about the power of the graphics really irritating. perhaps I am unique in this, but here is my reasoning, just for the record. I have a 19" wide screen TV. Yep, it is that SMALL! so the whole "Hi-definition" graphics argument just disappeared. There is no room for a bigger TV in my work room. There is a bigger TV in the living room, but it is only a 21" CRT, nothing to write home about. I have a high end PC, it was very high end when I purchased it :) I am trying to remember the last time I loaded any game, other than spider solitare on this machine. I think I played Lego Starwars for a big 6 months ago, but the dates are fuzzy. I do have a Nintendo DS lite which I get out and play in short bursts every now and then, when I want to relax a bit with some simple and above all FUN games. This "the multi player is awesome" idea about games always strikes me as a strange idea. I live in England, keep hours that are closer to America than England (due to my work) and have enough problems keeping up with email and chat programs. The concept of having to catch up with people I am interested in playing against online is just a headache to me. So any argument for a games console based around words like graphics, surround sound, etc, are a dead loss with me. Space considerations - I looked into an XBox 360 when they came out, and when I discovered the size of the power brick I immediately dismissed it, since fitting it into this room is never worth the fuss. The wii unit is apparently really small, so fitting it in is actually a valid option for me. the games (from what I have read) are all about FUN rather than anything else. fun sounds good :) But I have never tried one, never seen one in the flesh, so I am not rushing out to get one. My final comment on graphics in games, for a LONG time I LOVED the game Rogue Squadron on the PC. It used to run at 800*600, and had very poor graphics by the standard of new games. I did not care a bit! It was fun, put a big smile on my face, and made excellent use of my force feedback joystick. I never could make it run under winXP without it crashing *sob* otherwise I would still break it out now and then. I am not the "average" consumer, I know this, but lets be honest, how many "average" consumers have a massive hi-def TV, surround sound system ready to wire up a games console? Probably not that many :) if you are still here thank you for listening

Interesting, since we are in virtually the same position. Most support is handled via our forum, but some is handled via email. All of the support emails go through FogBugz. FogBugz has 2 projects that I can see. Development - all bugs for the developers to work on, and any confirmed bugs that come in via support go into here. Support - all customer emails end up in here. So when doing support time I just go to FogBugz and call up all open bugs in the Support project and work through them, just as I work through the forum questions. When I do programming I simply call up the development project. Since support "bugs" can be assigned to a specific person this does what you say you want, at least from my perspective :) On a related front I know what you mean about regular questions. Using firefox I am now totally reliant on this extension: http://cfavatar.com/com/cfavatar/_personal/index.cfm I type in a trigger "phrase" (normally 3 or 4 letters), hit the key combo, and up pops a standard reply :-D combined with an ever growing FAQ section this works really quite well for me.

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Odd. So far it works very well for us. If I may ask, what problems or limitations are you running into? If I am about to discover some problem in 6 months time it might be good to see it coming :)

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We use FogBugz for this. It is actually tied to a form not an email address to report the initial bug, but I believe you can tie it to an incoming email address for that as well. Each enquiry becomes a "bug", and go into the "bug" pile, sub pile "support". Then anyone can shift through them, and all emails to and from are attached to the "bug" so we have a history of what happened. There must be other software tools for the job, but this seems quite small and stand alone, and I personally find it very easy to use.

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last time I looked the free server program does not support multiple snapshots. I use VMWare workstation all the time for testing, and snapshots are a must have feature for me! I try to keep my machines below 20 snapshots each, and normally succeed :) but the ability to bounce between different service pack configurations, versions of our software, etc, it is totally invaluable. i have to many snapshots to setup full clones for everything, and linked clones are just overkill for this, especially since you cannot shrink them.

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if I might have a private word with you? *wonders how best to explain that Elaine has been a naughty tiger* *this may need some thought* ;P

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

There is probably room to add my list of people to the same hand

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Probably only while stocks last :((

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

I would have expected the drives to come with cables! I remember when hardware came with the cables and screws required to install it! *doh* does this mean I am getting mature?

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

a very bad spelling of "land" I think, but I had to stop and think about it myself.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

did someone say the magic word? :-D :rose: as for me, its that "I thought I saw a puddy cat, I did, I did" - you need the proper tweetie bird accent for that to work properly :) http://www.wholetomato.com/forum/default.asp I do hope someone gets that joke ;P First there was the "I have just changed jobs, *eeek* I am busy" effect, and then I have had a very busy few weeks, it seems everyone and their brother had a question :rolleyes: hopefully I can come by more often now things are more settled. now one pussy cat to another, what is this about chocolate? :rose:

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

To reply to that, I do not work in web development. I looked at the regex in question, I can post it if anyone cares, and thought "what idiot wrote this?" but then, I have been using regular expressions in Vim, grep, egrep, fgrep, and others for years, so I know they are always a bit different everywhere. But still, unless JavaScript has really feeble regex support then it could have been done much better and more reliably with a far shorter regex. However I am assuming that this is a big organisation, so you have to go through 87 layers of management to get a customer facing website changed. To me, the code change looked like a 60 second job, but what about the re-testing on every system they check? Sorting out the backend effects... etc. So I don't want to assume it is an end to end simple fix. I learned many years ago that even "obvious and safe" bug fixes can have unexpected side effects :)

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

I just have to have a little rant, and I harbour the hope that this rant will remind people not to be so VERY stupid with validation. It started simply enough. I discovered that I could get the Tetris game for my DS lite games console at a very good price from the Tesco (a popular supermarket in England) website. To make my order I had to register. To register I had to give them my phone number. So far so good. Who ever wrote the website used a regular expression in a bit of Java to validate the phone number field. I know this since I spent 45 minutes, 3 web browsers, and in the end a regular expression analysis program trying (after I started digging through the source) to register!!! :mad: Normally I would not name the guilty, but after *finally* registering - I used the regular expression checking program to help me construct a phone number that would pass the validation rules, but I have just received an email from them, after I complained about their stupid website validation rule. This was the "best" bit of the email: 5 and 7 digits numbers - Most LAN lines will have 6 digits and the system is tied in with this area, we are aware that customer still have the old fashioned 5 numbers and some depending on the area have 7. Please can we ask if you have a 5 digit number to add a 0 or a 1 at the end, again if it is a 7 digit number, please remove your last digit. I can sort of understand why they don't want to update the website - concerns over breaking it, but a major supermarket is left telling people to enter invalid phone numbers because some *idiot* hard coded the length of a phone number! It would not be so bad, but this helpful advice turned up 3 days after I registered and then emailed them. God help "average" users with an invalid phone number trying to register. If you are still reading, then thank you for your kind attention :) p.s. the final joy was the note on the registration page saying that all passwords are case insensitive. Gee, thanks. So much for the basic advice on secure passwords.

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

I can still use the program with the keyboard shortcut keys, which helps. It did get me wondering just how many programs properly support changing the windows colour scheme. Even changing the global background colour to off white upsets various programs *rolls eyes* It is editing the code while using bizarre colour schemes (for testing) which is most irritating, since everything looks "wrong" and can be hard to read *sigh*

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

Depending on how many websites you visit regularly you could try Firefox + greasemonkey + platypus to generate the javascript to change the background colour of the pages. http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ http://platypus.mozdev.org/

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

On the display settings, change Window colour 1 to black and Window colour 2 to white, or pale blue, and apply. In VS2005 and VS2003 the menus now have pale writing on a "black" background. In VC6 the menus have black writing on a grey background. So far it appears that in VS2003 / VS2005 the menus are drawn using the Window colours While in VC6 the menus are drawn using the menu colours. Can you guess the current bug at the top of my bug fix pile? :~ Oh and for some things the rules are different depending on XP style vs classic style. :~ I have reached the point where I am going to have to write out a big grid explaining all of the different possible tests I need to run, to find out if I have the changes right *sigh* Oh and the program I am using for screen shots cannot handle the custom colours very well, which makes it hard to use, since I cannot read any of the menus. :|

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

In an "ideal" world everyone would always think before they speak, aim to be kind and respectful to everyone around them, so this would never be an issue :cool: I think we can safely dismiss this posibility, at least for a few years :) My personal answer would be, short of digging up a post where you admitted to some serious illegal act, or you are looking at someone's technical experience in an area, it says more about the person doing the search than it does about you. "Oh look, 15 years ago you said a rude word when you were in an argument" really seems to mean that the searcher is searching for an excuse, or has some other "hidden" motivation. Are they looking to hire a robot or a person who can think for themselves?

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness

replace "blocks of lego" with "lines of code" and consider... she has pictures of cat's inside her creation (oooh, cute!), it is on the web, and people are going WOW that is 3 things that I cannot say about my last project that tried hard to reach 75,000 line's :)

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try this one. it took me a little fiddling to get the hang of it, but it seems to do the job http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

zen is the art of being at one with the two'ness