Brian Russell's Laws of Software Relativity (cf. Belady and Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution) * As a software project approaches release, its mass increases. *The energy required to release a software project is inversely proportional to the time before a scheduled release. *It takes infinite energy to release a finished product on time; therefore, all software projects are both incomplete and late. *Time is relative to the observer of a software project. The last month of development appears to an outside observer to take a year. *If a software project becomes too large, it will collapse into a black hole. Time and money are absorbed but nothing ever comes out.

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A sailor and a priest were playing golf. The sailor took his first shot missed and said, "F**k, I missed." Surprised, the priest replied, "Don’t use that kind of language or god will punish you." The sailor took aim and hit his shot second shot. Again he missed and under his breath the said, "I f**k’n missed again." The priest overheard and replied, "My son, please don’t use that language or god will punish you." The sailor took his third shot and once again he couldn’t help mutter, "Oh f**k…" The priest said, "That’s it god will certainly punish you." Suddenly a bolt of lightning came down and killed the priest. In the distance a deep voice said, "F**K, I Missed".

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Due to increasing products liability litigation, beer manufacturers have accepted the FDA's suggestion that the following warning labels be placed immediately on all beer containers. WARNING: Consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like an asshole. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again until your friends want to SMASH YOUR HEAD IN. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may lead you to believe that ex-lovers are really dying for you to telephone them at 4 in the morning. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may leave you wondering what the hell happened to your pants. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may make you think you have mystical Kung Fu powers. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary (whose species and or name you can't remember). WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may create the illusion that you are tougher, handsomer and smarter than some really, really big guy named FRANZ. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may lead you to believe you are invisible. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you. WARNING: CONSUMPTION of alcohol may cause an influx in the time-space continuum, whereby small (and sometimes large) gaps of time may seem to literally disappear. Believe all that ? Boy...I'm going to stop drinking from Tomorrow ;P

================================ Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Thanks. that works well :)

================================ Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

Thanks a lot. But I think by using System.IO.Compression the same functionality of Dunzip32.dll can be achieved. :)

================================ Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

You can as long as the type you are using can be evaluated to a numerical value.

================================ Wirth's law: Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.

try this... do { foreach (DataRow myRow in dataset.Tables["grant"].Rows) { if (myRow["principal_Id"].ToString() == nPrincipal_Id.ToString()) { myRow.Delete(); continue; } } break; }while(true); ================================ Thanks();

First check to see if the "smtp.your-server.com" is reachable from your workstation. Try ping smtp.your-server.com from command prompt. If it does not suceed that means there is no direct connection to smtp.your-server.com and you will probably have to use a relay server to send your mail.

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According to Microsoft compressed folders in windows uses the following .dlls 1) Dunzip32.dll: Responsible for decompressing files stored in a compressed folder or file when they are copied, extracted, or executed. 2) Dzip32.dll: Responsible for compressing files when they are put into a compressed folder or file. I need these dlls for a Console project that directly uses them to compress and decompress .zip files. But when i try to add any of the above dll's as a reference to my project in Visual Studio 2005 i get the ERROR: Reference could not be added. Please make sure that the file is accessible and that it is a valid assembly or COM object.:confused: Can anybody help me ???:(

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