Paul Watson wrote: Best of luck! Thanks! I'm sure I'll need it, Paul! BTW, Brian Welsch and I are doing an article together where all CP members can put up a link to their homepages. We're going to ask people to send in their links to a shared email address and update the article periodically. We thought it'd be nice to ask a few of our close friends to send in their homepages *before* the article is first submitted. [voice type="top notch salesman"]So, your homepage is guaranteed of a top spot, and we're asking you, instead of the other way round. You see, you get our product even before it hits the market![/voice] If you're interested, please send the following details to CP_Homepages@Yahoo.com 1. Your CP login name 2. Your homepage 3. A short description of your homepage, not exceeding 2 lines 4. What topic you'd like your homepage listed under (Eg: Personal page, Consulting firm, Blog, Product, etc). You will get a mail notifying you that your homepage has been added when the article goes online. Of course, we need your vote once the article goes online. :-) Best regards, Vikram. I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul, I believe that family is worth more than money or gold. - Affirmation, by Savage Garden. pI vThink aHungarian nNotation vIs iA aWonderful nThing cAnd pEveryone avShould vUse pIt aAll dThe nTime, adNo nMatter pWhat dThe nContext, adEven adWhen vSpeaking.

Vivek Rajan wrote: Is it possible that an impact would break the earth and perhaps move the earth closer to venus or near the meteor belt enroute to mars ? The earth is 99.99% liquid matter, so it is more likely to form blobs under impact then to break or shatter like a twisted apple. Almost any force will alter the earths orbit and rotation and tilt, but it all matters to the degree. To shift earth as far as Venus would require the right angular momentum. Interestingly enough, the moon helps to stabilize the earths orbit, and we are almost in a twin planetary system with it. Regardz Colin J Davies *** WARNING * This could be addictive **The minion's version of "Catch :bob: " It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox

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Thanks David, Although to be honest, I was never much of a maths student... :rolleyes: DavidCrow wrote: I finally settled on "Finding the Median in Linear Worst-case Time." That sounds like something straight out of a Stephen Hawkings book! :eek: John[^]

John Honan wrote: Paul Watson's post[^] reminded me of this... Glad I could be of inspirational value :-D I was watching Michael Palin crossing the Sahara the other night (on telly, not in person) and a few of the scenes showed the original shooting spots for Life Of Brian. The crucifixion scene and the Roman speech scene. Was brilliant. The best bit was Palin stayed overnight in these hotel-caves and there he was in the wee hours of the morning watching Life Of Brian on his portable DVD player. Him singing "Always look on the bright side of life." Going to get LOB out again this weekend, hilarious stuff. Ahh. Wish they would all get back together again and have a final skit. Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: My father-in-law calls yer man bits "weasels"

If I take an arbitrary rectangle (X,Y) and select two arbitrary regions from it (X1,Y1) and (X2,Y2) such that X = X1 + X2 and Y = Y1 + Y2 than I get the following result: The difference between the areas of the triangles formed by the three regions is: (XY/2) - ((X1Y2)/2 + (X2Y1)/2 + X2Y2 ) this expands to: ((X1 + X2)(Y1 + Y2))/2 - ((X1Y2)/2 + (X2Y1)/2 + X2Y2 ) and: (X1Y1 + X1Y2 + X2Y1 + X2Y2)/2 - ((X1Y2)/2 + (X2Y1)/2 + X2Y2 ) or: (X1Y1)/2 + (X1Y2)/2 + (X2Y1)/2 + (X2Y2)/2 - ((X1Y2)/2 - (X2Y1)/2 - X2Y2 which reduces to: (X1Y1)/2 - (X2Y2)/2 or: (X1Y1 - X2Y2) / 2 but: X1Y1 - X2Y2 is merely the difference between the two originally selected arbitrary areas within the rectangle. This is a trivial result, and prooves that any time you take any two arbitrary points within a rectangle you get results similar to those in the "illusion". So, as I originally posted - you are merely comparing two rectangular areas, you do not need to calculate angles or anything else - the results are obvious and trivial regardless of where you select the points. In the case of the illusion, the "hole" is there merely because you subtracted a 15 square unit region from a 16 square unit region. "More capitalism, please..."

I think that's "Best of Show". Christopher Guest & those guys are working on a new mockumentary about Little League baseball. Can't wait for that.

Matt Philmon wrote: Is that the app (Personal Trainer) listed on your sig link for www.silveronion.com? No, that app has been out for a few years. The .NET project I developed was for the day job... ;) John www.silveronion.com[^]

A bit old but it still holds true. Regardz Colin J Davies *** WARNING * Save your work **This link is to reboot your PC It's a real shame that people as stupid as you can work out how to use a computer. said by Christian Graus in the Soapbox

Paul... I think we both have the exact same view of everything that happened in the movie... :-D Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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John Honan wrote: Repeat every idea they express in a baby voice while moving your hand like a chattering mouth Funny.... John Honan wrote: 2 Sarcasm is just one more service we offer. So true. :) -Nick Parker

You can have static variables, properties, and methods in a class, and you can set it up so that the class acts no differently than a standard module would. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." - Jesus "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi

Following up on this problem, I think there was an issue with the server I was running this on. I moved the code to my local IIS server and it works fine. I discovered that PerfMon lets me view the number of connection pools being used. .NET CLR Data / SQLClient:Current # pooled connections. However – I did some testing by leaving connections open on purpose, the app falls over when it reaches 100 (as expected), but the pooled connection counter never seems to reset back to zero, even when I stop/start IIS. This may be related to the following: BUG: SqlClient Performance Counters Do Not Reset ID: Q314429 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q314429 I found this on a google search, but the KB Article no longer exists – So I don't know if Q314429 is still an issue Is there a more reliable way to monitor the number of pooled connections? Thanks, John. www.silveronion.com[^]

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MS le Roux wrote: And yet you're referencing "C:\test\MyXSLFile.xsl"? Isn't that your seperate stylesheet? I should have been clearer on that. The separate stylesheet does exist, but I don't see why I have to go to the trouble of loading it if it's already referenced in the XML. IE can pick it up directly from the link in the XML, so why not .NET? However, from my research and some replies I've received, I don't think the XML classes in .NET can pick up an 'embedded' stylesheet like this, so I'll have to just load it separately anyway. Just trying the lazy approach! :zzz: John. www.silveronion.com[^]

Thanks for the reply and the code Richard - I like the 'GetStyleSheet()' function! - I have a feeling you've been through this before? :-) The XML files I'm using were created by a different Dev team, I have no idea why they are using