You welcome :-) Great that Krista is doing well :-D With all of this and as I soon re-locate to Munich and get a net connection, I'll have lots of spare time except learning german, to do something technical and finally write a article on CP. This is a thing I must try to do while I'm here before trying getting some lovelly german girl :rolleyes: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Congrats Tom, It's clearly deserved. I know that you're a very hard worker and really have the patience to enlight even the dumbest of the programmers. I'm having been out of touch with CP for a long time, but sometimes life takes some really suprise turnarounds. Got divorced, I really need to find a intelligent woman, worked in Siemens Portugal for 2 years doing a lot of "legacy" coding in c++/java/corba on Solaris SPARC machines, now I'll be leaving Portugal for working as a contractor in a german telecommunicatios company in Munich doing radio-comunications programing using the same set of technologies... The Bavarian state in Germany is lovely and the people are fairly friendly, and of course the beer rocks, the german women are also quite nice :-) It's a pity I'm staying away from Microsoft technologies for too much time, but oh well at least they're complex projects... I also expect since the last time, your wife has fully recovered from the serious problem that she had :-) Hope that everything is rocking with your work and that your books sold well :) Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Yeah, we were unable to beat the superb defensive greek system. Otto Reh­hagel did an outstanding job with the once upon a time vulgar greek national team. The last 3 years were surely the best ones for the greek football. The greek team formed an extremely organized , cohesive and solid block that is very though to beat. They were stronger than us, they deserved to win. On a personal note, I hate this kind of system, but it is very pragmatic , they played with their best arms and this system albeit not pretty is extremely efficient. Truly the Olympic gods were with the greeks. Glory to the winners, honour to the losers. :beer: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Pavel Klocek wrote: Hope we (cz) win, the final will be much more interesting than with the defense oriented Greeks. Sniff. Unfortunately not !!! Czech had horrible bad luck ! I wanted Czech in the final because they were easily the best team in the tournament, I feel disappointed for us portuguese not playing with you guys , what a final would have been , the 2 teams playing at attack ... :(( Now let's see if we can revenge ourselfes and beat the damn hard greek defense team :doh: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Thank you. Now sunday playing with Greece !!!!!! :eek: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Portugal ! Portugal ! Portugal ! yeah ! Suffering until the end ... Let's see who reachs the final , Czech or Greece, by logic Czech, but ... Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Johan Rosengren wrote: You must have a really shitty development environment Solaris SPARC machines are reliable but damn slow ... X| Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Daniel Turini wrote: And why Java on the server? In my experience, CIOs are afraid that C++ deadlines aren't met, and finding good C++ programmers is hard. Even CIOs know that VB is out of question, now. So, you come to C# and Java. The part of finding good C++ programmers is very true, but isn't the only reason. It has to do with productivity! With c++ you lose too much time regarding obscure and technical issues instead of actually solving the business problems. You loose too much time waiting for the damn thing to compile, it only gets worse with templates. Java and c# are so much productive !!! Currently I doing mixed c++/java programming with corba, on the c++ side I waste somedays 50% of my time compiling , many times we really are forced to think extremely well if doing the *right thing* is better than wasting until 6 hours for the program to compile for the programming thing that we implemented right. On the java side , the programming is so much easy , the time spent with compilation is minimum, my productivity gains are great. With Eclipse with it's own incremental background compiler, the compilation time is minimum and their refactoring support is great, sparing me a lot of wasted time doing error prone labour. The level of code that I make on the java side is an order of magnitude higher than on c++.Beacuse IDEs matter in IMHO C# will gain a lot when jetbrains the company of a great java editor IntelliJ Idea finnishes Resharper their c# pluggin for VS.Net 2003, this stuff will make finally good refactoring support for VS. For larger projects java and C# will rule the market, C++ will be used in much more restrict markets and products. On this world where time is a precious thing and the world RAD is imperative, java and c# will flourish and C++ is going to be used less and less. I only hope that C++ doesn't disappear like many guys are saying , and I'm most certain it's not going away anytime soon. I love the language , and it still continues to be the most powerfull language out there. Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

João Paulo Figueira wrote: Absolutely! Meanwhile ... let's enjoy the moment until wednesday, where the nerves will return stronguer than ever :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Michael Dunn wrote: . The shooter starts at mid-field and has X seconds to get the ball into the goal. (Well, maybe not mid-field, that would be too far for soccer, but you get the idea.) A good ideia. At leat more fair than the shoot-out system. Michael Dunn wrote: MLS used this system for the first couple of years So, they don't use it anymore ? Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

OmegaSupreme wrote: Perhaps England where a little bit tired but I believe it was a matter of will, since Portugals will was stronger they didn't feel tired. Well, being totally impartial , Portugal had one more day for resting , but yes the will of our players was impressive . Being even more impartial, I think it's not fair that group A winner have more days to rest than the rest of the other teams, with england was 1 day, but with the winner of sweden-holland will be 2 days !!! Now 2 days isn't fair at all ! Our team will have 5 days to rest and the other team only 3, now this can make a huge difference at this stage and after a long and fatiguing football year. This distorts the sport’s truth. OmegaSupreme wrote: 'goals' like that are never given not even in the premiership. You simply can't challenge the goalkeeper like that in the modern game, rightly or wrongly. I saw the replays a couple of times , and being totally impartial it was fault, and this is the honest truth !!! So england lost was bad luck, I simply don't understand the english newspapers , you weren't robbed !!! You simply had bad luck like the last 3 times that you lost on shoot-out !!! This makes the fourth time * YIKES !!! * :eek: OmegaSupreme wrote: I think Portugal can win and hope you do, you've got a great squad of players and a great spirit. Let's see , first will be a tough game with sweden or holland , then if we manage to pass through, I seriously doubt that we can win France or Czech Republic, they're the best teams IMHO and they're too strong for us. Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Promote yourself, do a blog , talk about your tastes , the usual stuff ... Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Ramanan Sivan wrote: think England have a lot to take away especially the fact that their team's core is still pretty young. As is , they have a good future, but the mentality must change, Portugal had +60% ball possession, IMHO was a tactical error. They commited the same mistake with France. Cole was a great defender of our fantastic player Ronaldo. Ramanan Sivan wrote: As for Portugal let's see if they can bury the demons of past years and go on and win this time. Let's see, I still don't believe that we can win the Euro cup. The perfectely valid goal that english are saying that was invalidated near the final 90 minutes,was welll invalidated IMHO, watching the replay it was a charge inside the goalkeeper's area and the UEFA laws are very clear concerning this issue, but of course I'm strongly biased, so I'm can be here totally wrong. Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Shoot-outs is a lotery , fortunately for me Portugal won !!! :rolleyes: The game was great, extremely exciting, and none of the teams deserved to be sent off. The England team dignified an astonishing victory from Portugal. As I'm typing this,in all my 28 years in Portugal I'm amazed because excluding the victory over Spain, I never saw this mass histeria ... of course this is worse!!! This incredible number of flags on the people's houses and this love for the portugal flag and this incredible no stopping noise and car traffic beats the shit out of me ... it's a extraordinary social phenomenon :eek: An honest farewell for a great english football team with fantastic players that deserved to be on the final :beer: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

RichardGrimmer wrote: Superb..... Superb ? Yikes ! I would say poor animals ... :wtf: Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Funny and true :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Well, DVD Shrinker is your friend . And yes it's free. Fine piece of software. Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Ramanan Sivan wrote: I started watching football with Italia 90. That tournament totally blew my mind ! That Italy team was probably the strongest I've ever seen (pity they didn't make it to the final). Yeah, they're very strong indeed . Ramanan Sivan wrote: So I started playing footballm, became pretty good and even made it to a professional club when I was 16. Unfortunately that was the last of that. Nice , I don't have the talent to play football. Ramanan Sivan wrote: Nowadays I only play on weekends with some South Americans here. Good for you :-) Ramanan Sivan wrote: But the old love remains. You'd have to look faaar and wide to find a more rabid Italia supporter than me Let's then hope that Italia and Portugal both reach the finals and that the best win ;-) Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Kochise wrote: Then I work at home. But ALL what I do at work is MINE, 50% only what is done at work (from intellectual property point of view) ! So I keep a copy of every of my home production, and sometimes share it (like the CSkinProgress), sometimes reserve it for further production ! I'll get 'paid' with my own work once I'll release some shareware things based on my home works ! It's a different situation that I'm used to, but this doesn't work with my current employer. This software is very specific to Telecoms, it runs on Solaris SPARC machines ,the core have well over 1 million lines of code in c++ , apart from other components in c++ and java . No way that my employer will accept that part of the intellectual property was actually mine, they have a very strict policy concerning licensing. In this kind of company unfortunately I cannot do what you do. Kochise wrote: Turn bad situations into your own advantage ! Fortunately for you it works :-) Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie

Ramanan Sivan wrote: I think one of the things that holds great promise for you is that your team is mostly young (esp players like Ronaldo and Deco.. even Pauleta is quite young). Yeah, this is true. I think that Portugal can have a good team for the world cup 2006 in Germany. Ramanan Sivan wrote: If they fail to make it out of the group tom. I'll back Portugal with you the rest of the way ! Thank you , you're being friendly ... Ramanan Sivan wrote: Tell you what .. I've traditionally supported Italia for over 10 years. :eek: Strange world this one , constantly being suprised , how can a Indian guy like you be a football supporter for such a great time ??? In India you like more the cricket, right ? And since you have a american degree ? , it's even more suprising, usually the footballl isn't very popular in the US. How can you like so much football, just for curiosity ? I'm trully suprised, albeit since talking here on Code Project it's normal to be suprised by this immense diversity of smart people all around the world . Cheers,Joao Vaz Three primary LAN architectures for Network Engineers, under the sky, Seven OSI layers for the Open System Architects, in their halls of stone, Nine N-xDU operations* for mortal Developers, doomed to die, One protocol suite for the Dark Sysadmin, in his dark server room, In the land of mordor.net, where the shadowed fibers lie