It's because many people (incorrectly) mark *any* message that isn't a personal message as spam. There's a brewing war out there as to what spam is. Some people think that any message that isn't personal is spam, even if it's from a company that the person opt-ed in to their mailing list. (And, jeez, it's easy to get off the opt-in lists too) So, ppl are just getting lazy. At least it's easy to look thru the spam for stuff you want, with it all in one place. :P Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

And what, pray tell is Java written in? Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Yah, I've seen some pretty crazy C++ overloads, case in point the MetaKit toolkit (which I've used for a while and is quite nifty). They do all sorts of stuff with commas. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Guess I'm glad I've never liked Rational's stuff (then again, they are starting to write competing software with my stuff in the embedded world) Not that the Numega profiler I use is anything to write home about. Tried Intel's VTune? I think they have a free trial, and it's capable of profiling all sorts of things on x86 processors. http://developer.intel.com/software/products/vtune/ Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Not that I've found, other than the BITS IE sample (and that's not built-in) There is some command line utils in a reskit for it. I started working on a gui for it, as I got sick of all the spyware download managers, and wanted something that would be able to leech stuff in the background (why oh why can't QoS settings have a 'less than everything else priority', woulda just used that) while playing Shattered Galaxy or some other online game. :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

While I agree, that many *nix commands and tools are powerful, they just aren't in the same class as a good VC setup, with someone of similar proficiency. It takes quite a bit more effort to configure emacs/gcc/gdb(or ddd, or whatever the hell debugger you use) to work like VC. I have this argument often where I work. There simply is *no* better environment for development than what MS provides with VC. Need help on a class, or anything else? Press F1, and all the docs you need are right there. The debugger is fully integrated with the editor. And, most importantly, there are lots of 3rd party tools, and I think that if a developer is going to spend time learning something, these tools are well worth it... for example, I have Visual Assist (I simply can't code without it any more, it's that good), WorkspaceWhiz(ctags stuff), CvsIn, BoundsChecker(and TrueTime, and TrueCoverage). There are similar tools for emacs, and gcc, but they don't work together like in VC. Command line build (using msdev command) in VC6 is very usable, much more than VC5, so I can do my windows builds via command line too. I also find that a lot of the unix power users here don't know a darn thing about the windows command shell in 2k. Once they sit in front of the windows machine, they stop using their beloved command line, and then complain about lack of power tools. From a die hard windows command-line user. :) (oh yah, ya think ls would have some way to do something like dir /s without using find or some other command....) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

And this I think is a big problem for *nix. X is really, really, really awful. Try writing an X server sometime. The idea is great, but it wasn't exactly fully spec'd before implementing, and it's not aged gracefully. Most stuff these days *should* be done on the local terminal, and therefore local speed should be the top priority in the window system design, not networkability. For network access, termsrv (with the latest client) actually works pretty well, and it's a lot easier to tunnel thru a gateway/firewall/ssh since it's simply a single incoming socket for the server. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Gotta love SA. I've been following it since it's early days. :) If anyone here is new to SA, run, don't walk, and read the game reviews there, funny as hell. (Especially the really bad games, like Thundra). His The Sims review is classic. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

I've done all sorts over the years. :) I'm kind of in-between projects now, kinda trying to decide between a number of projects I've started. Looking at doing a new version of my irc client, a subtitling program for videos, a .net-based web game, a re-write of my ancient mapping software for a pbm game, and a few other odds and ends. By far, the largest thing I've done is my custom IRC client. It kinda turned into a platform for testing all sorts of technologies I wanted to mess with. I looked at developing a car mp3 player (and scouted all sorts of sbc's for it and such) and ended up buying a Neo35, because it was cheap and worked (www.ssiamerica.com) Have fun! Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Have already emailed them about it, and they are supposed to have a beta for VS7 sometime soon. I found it *really* hard to try and play with VS7 without VA... I'm such an addict :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

No doubt. I'm addicted to it now, and can't live without it. I don't think I know how to type a full variable name anymore... Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Well, it's not an answer to your question, but have you looked at Lua? Lua is small, fast, and very easy to embed. www.lua.org Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

ack! noooooo! Not someone who gets rid of tabs... hehe. /me runs from the ensuing holy war :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

The S4 is a LOT of fun. Not really anything else like it (4 doors, awd, twin turbo V6) in the US. It's pretty cheap to buy a new chip for the engine, and get ~320hp, and ~350 lb/ft of torque. No word on when the new S4's will come out, there wont be any in 2002 (there was a short production run of the current S4's for 2002, but that run finished in July). The soonest we'll see another S4 is maybe 2003, but possibly 2004. There is no word on what engine it will have in it. Now if they'd just bring the RS6 over here....(here is the US) twin turbo 4.2L V8 :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Pearl White Audi S4, and much fun it is. :D Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

AmigaDOS :) Multi-tasking, object oriented(for the time), graphical OS that ran from single floppy drive. (And yeah, I still use my 'miggy for subtitling work) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Ars Technica reviewed this machine (they also had reviewed it's previous incarnation). www.arstechnica.com Scroll down the page a bit for the Cappuccino PC review. Lotsa other good stuff to read there too. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Yep, but only in Japanese :) Now if local kinokuniya's would just carry Pitaten... Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

These are the things I tend to have running or use: (oh yah, I'm waaaay to lazy and hateful of html to ever make links for the stuff below, so type it yourself in your browser :)) - Visual Assist - As mentioned, after you get used to it, there's no living without it. - Workspace Whiz - Another great tool. I use the ctags stuff from it mostly. - CvsIn - Plug-in for VS for CVS stuffs. I mainly use it for doing cvs edit's on stuff. (I still do commit and queries and stuff from the command line) For other things I use: - BCGControlBar library - I've been using this for years, and it keeps getting better. - Lua (www.lua.org) - Awesome embedded scripting language. Can't say enough good things about it. Check out Joshua Jenson's (Workspace Whiz author) class wrapper for it. - MiwaIRC - my own irc client for the truly brave ^_^ - MSDN Universal Subscription - More CD's than you can count! - Dual monitor setup - Go ahead, cram another vid card into your comp, you'll be happy you did. Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."

Actually, terminal services are also in regular server. It's darn useful. I even use it to log on to my dev machine from another machine when I've so totally hosed explorer that I can't even get up taskman. Just termsrv in, and kill stuff from there :) Jim Wuerch www.miwasoft.com Quote from my readme files: "This is BETA software, and as such may completely destroy your computer, change the alignment of the planets and invert the structure of the universe."