Dpending on exactly what you are doing, then probably, yes. Drop me a line if you want any tips setting all up - john@johnsinclair.org Cheers

Yep, it does. One other VERY handy feature is a SSH daemon. Enable that and then from your work or other computer you can create a SSH tunnel using putty which gives you an encrypted link back into your home network. Also, you can use putty as a socks proxy, you set it up and then tell your browser to use a proxy server on localhost:8080 or whatever, so then you enter www.codeproject.com in your browser and your browser connects to putty on that port which encrypts enverything and sends it over the tunnel to your router, and your router unencrypts is and connects to codeproject.com... So basically if you have a filter or an insecure connection everything is going over the encrypted connetion to your home router, and thats all anything in the middle can see. You can even tell putty to connect to your home machine via your normal proxy server, if you don't have a direct connection to the net. It can get a bit complicated to get your head around but its very cool and means if you are somewhere that has the most tightly controlled net connection you can use that to route everything through your home connection and basically get full internet access. Tomato also does very good QOS stuff and bandwidth monitoring. Thats its main strong point.

I don't know anything about your setup, but here at home I've got a DSL modem running in "bridged" mode (it doesn't have its own ip address) and a linksys WRT54G plugged into that and using pppoe to establish the DSL connection over the modem. One day I started getting connection dropouts, and I had to reboot the modem or go into the router's management webpages and press "connect" to get things back. The PPPoE settings in the router were set to automatically reconnect if the link went down but for whatever reason it never did. I put tomato (3rd party open source firmware) on the router and had no more problems - if the connection drops then the router picks that up and reconnects straight away. Tomato has lots of other good stuff too BTW, I highly reccommend it if your router is compatible.

I see your logic, but I'd argue that this decade began 1st jan 2000, not 2001.

You realise that the main character (Terry Clarke, mr asia) actually *was* a kiwi, don't you? Man its shocking how you aussies claim kiwis as your own once they cross the ditch - for example: - Crowded House - Sam Neil - Fred Hollows - Phar lap - Russell Crowe Actually, you can keep Russell Crowe

the point of the app switching demo is not how they do it, its the fact that it does it at all. The iphone is like DOS. runs one app at a time. press the home button and the app is sent a close notification and then gets 7 seconds (afaik) to save whatever state it wants and exit before the OS kills the process.

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He clearly won't hold that job very long.

thats funny because its true....

Not just sony or gateway either. Here at work I've got a HP dx7400 pc, which has a core 2 duo E6550, which definitely supports VT but there is no option to enable it in the bios. Pretty damn shabby.

I'm pretty sure its no longer an expensive place to visit, after the econolypse slammed iceland, causing all of their major banks to fail and be nationalized, their unemployment trebled and the value of their currency dropped to 1/3rd of what it was 18 months ago :( So you might say now was an excellent time to visit iceland. I would in a heartbeat, if I could.

Its a Canon MP210, I checked the specs and it supports both TWAIN and WIA but I'm guessing its more likely the microsoft drivers use WIA.

I've actually been using various build of Weven since the beta came out. I did a clean install of the x64 RTM code a week ago. I'm very, very impressed with it. The whole OS seems a whole lot more usable and cohesive than vista ever was. :) I actually don't mind vista, and have used it at work since early 2007 and I never thought it was *that* bad. until now... 7 sh*ts all over it. I had the Beta\RC on my old athlon at home and the general performance and responsiveness was about the same as XP. Vista on that machine would be a joke. Device support is awesome - couple of examples - I plugged an old no-name usb bluetooth dongle in which isn't recognised by xp or vista, and I've lost the disk and don't know the brand, so its useless. 7 installed drivers and worked straight away. 7 also detected my canon printer/scanner and I needed to scan something but hadn't installed the bloated printer management software, but when I right-clicked on the printer I saw a scan option. Selected that and I got managed to scan my docs without any problems. Also media player is very good. Its the first version of media player that I haven't un-installed and replaced with media player classic. Microsoft is onto a winner here. Best. Windows. Ever. no kidding.

Nope not at all. I've worked on apps where we have embedded the SSRS rendering engine in the client, and we've loaded the RDL from a file and chucked a dataset at it. No database at all client side, no instance of SSRS server side for the client to talk to. I'm not sure of the licensing implications of doing this though. IMHO SSRS is a better product than crystal reports 95% of the time. Yes crystal has some extra features that SSRS can't do, but I've done things in SSRS with a minimum of fuss that I don't know if crystal can do at all. If lock-in is your concern you should be more wary of crystal than SSRS.

Pro tip - you can use the google cache to get the answers. If you hit an experts exchange result in google, click on "cached" to view the cached copy from google, which will include the answers. Lately they added some CSS to the page to hide these, but if you click on the "text only" link then you can find all the answers . Direct link to the answers for that question: http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:WxyHTS7gXW4J:www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Miscellaneous/Q_22031739.html+http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web_Development/Miscellaneous/Q_22031739.html&hl=en&client=firefox-a&gl=au&strip=1[^] God I hate experts exchange.

Hmm I used aspose.words and aspose.pdf for a project last year. Basically I needed to develop a "templating" engine that would take a word document as a template (so end-users could edit it) and mail merge in fields and regions, saving the output as either a word document or a pdf. aspose.words gave me complete control over the DOM of the word doc, allowing me to cut/paste sections with ease and a couple of lines of code let me save the doc as a pdf. It worked very well and I had no complaints whatsoever. I never had to use their support but I found some good info on their KB and forum. I know the aspose.words developers are based in Auckland, NZ. They have a "trial" edition which watermarks the output which was fine for our test/dev environments, and the end client sorted out their own license.

Interesting info... Thanks

If the memory isn't recovered when the service is shut down, this is a bug in windows. When a process exits, ALL resources used by that process are freed. Anything else is a serious problem. I'd suggest the memory is going somewhere. Something else besides the service...

Sorry, I know I'm getting offtopic, but there honestly is no reason why you should not expect your newborn to sleep through the night from about 10 weeks, or earlier if you are lucky/want to. I have 2 kids (3 and 1) and they both slept through the night from 8 weeks. Set a feed/wake/sleep routine for your newborn, about 3 hours is best at first, then lengthen it to 4 hours overnight from about 4 weeks or so. Note its feed-wake-sleep, not feed-sleep-wake. Gives them a chance to get wind out and have a play and be ready to sleep when its time. If your baby cries, let it. It will sleep. Newborns don't know *how* to go to sleep. If you keep picking it up for a cuddle when it is crying and supposed to be sleeping, then it won't learn how to settle itself. We would give the baby up to 10 minutes of screaming, then go in and give them a pat and talk gently to them _without_ picking them up. If they stop crying, then start again, the 10 minute clock starts again. Trust me, once the baby doesn't need your help to go to sleep, your life will be 10x easier. We read babywise, found it good but others find it a bit hardcore.

If you are using firefox, check out the extension "scrapbook" http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/[^] It gives you a one-click offline copy, and can optionally crawl x levels deep if you want. has pretty good search and annotation features too. Highly reccommeneded! If you aren't using firefox... then WTF are you doing!! download it NOW!! :-D

I found virtualbox the other day and I'm very impressed with what I have seen so far. Disk and Video performance seems to blow VirtualPC out of the water, and the USB support is pretty cool too. The XP VM I built in VirtualBox will boot quicker than my VirtualPC XM VM will resume from a saved state! The networking is a little touchy to set up, not as polished as VirtualPc, but once it is going I have had no problems. One thing I did notice is when I started VirtualBox with VirtualPc still open (but no VMs running) I got an instant bluescreen! Both were using hardware virtualisation and I guess they didn't play nice. I'm building a new server VM with VirtualBox to replace the virtual server running my website/email so hopefully that works out ok...

I haven't used a GOTO in vb.net, ever. And the only time I ever used them in VB6 was for error handling. I'd also like to point out that C# has a goto statement. As has C/C++. None of these languages reccommend the use of goto, let alone encourage it. In C and VB6 its sometimes the cleanest way of doing stuff like error handling tho.