I work for Bisk Education which partners with Florida Tech to deliver it's online education program so I am somewhat biased. I can say I have three colleagues who are in various stages of either the MSIT or BS in Computer Information Systems (about the same thing as Computer Science if you look at the program) and seem to be getting a lot out the experience. Florida Tech: http://www.floridatechonline.com/[^] Florida Institute of Technology is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, GA 30033-4097; (404) 679-4501) to award associate, baccalaureate, master’s, education specialist and doctoral degrees. The university is approved by the Office of Education of the U.S. Department of Education. The university is a member of the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida, the American Council on Education, the College Entrance Examination Board and the American Society for Engineering Education.

Hello: I guess any post you have to qualify as not being a programming question is suspect. But really, this isn't a programming question. I have searched for a simple web based business rule repository/catalog/database that would simply store each business rule my group owns. I can't believe this hasn't been thought of and open sourced, but it is so doggone hard to find anything on my topic of interest because of the preponderance of business rule engines which implement the business rules in the database. With most enterprise architectures existing in many different systems, it is not reasonable to store and use and execute all business rules in such a manner. I just need to track what, where, and how these rules are implemented and be able to link into the system from a separate QA system. I simply want to store the following entities: Business Rules: Store information about the rule such as the rule itself, the owner of the rule (dept. or person), any messages the rule should return when failing, etc, where implemented (componentid's). System Components: A catalog of the various components within the system such as Business Objects, user interface objects, etc, and any other information about that component, such as history, where it is running, etc. Environment Information: ? Tests: Tests would be visible either from the Business Rule or a separate test UI, indicating the actions necessary to test the rule. I would like to be able to have a simple means to link into the database from another QA system such that as we develop tests, etc, I could link to the business rule being tested. Does anyone know if such a system exists already and post a link to it here? -Kenneth

Now all we need is a live-cd with this on it... I bet it would be a hit!

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Wow, nice reply. I have always been impressed with RDP ever since Windows NT Server 4.0 Terminal Server Edition, which I used to run as my desktop operating system since it came out as beta 2. I remember running network captures on the stream, and being able to read window titles and the like in the packets, very cool. My question is, does anybody know of an enhanced RDP client for Windows Mobile? I am thinking I saw a .NET based RDP client on Codeproject somewhere? In any event, I have an Axim X51v which has a beautiful VGA display and I typically run it at VGA resolution. The thing is, I can only connect on RDP default port and only at the default color depth of 256 colors. Since I have only one public IP Address, I change the default port of RDP and use my router to forward packets to each of my workstations ... which means I can connect to only one of my machines directly from outside on it. Anyway, thanks again for the great explanation and video tips!

Bob X wrote:

No, it was just taken so out of context that I didn't recognize the reference. I do also remember: "do not put the lord your god to the test." I guess they missed that one.

I take it you aren't a Baptist or Pentecostal... Cause where I went to church growing up, they whole-heartedly believed in 'laying on hands' ... which by the way is a form of putting a deity to a test, and yet wouldn't drink the poison or be bitten by the snakes: hence the snake biting cults. In any event, this is definitely one of my more favorite examples of where a certain religious text/quoted person essentially say the exact opposite; and therefore it is impossible for an intellectually honest person to derive any meaning from said works.

Bob X wrote:

Are you smoking something?

Mark 16:18: "They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." See Snake Handling in the Pentecostal Church: The Precedent Set by George Hensley[^] for more information. I guess you either didn't attend or weren't paying attention in bible school. Also of interest, note that this is the only place in the new testament that talks of being able to 'lay hands' used by all the televangelists, thus, if they are able to lay hands on the sick and heal them, then by reference they must also be able to drink poison and be bitten by snakes, hence the snake biting cult. And no, I do not smoke anything.

This almost beats (but not quite imho): Custody of 'snake-bite orphans' split between grandparents[^] NEWPORT, Tennessee (CNN) -- A judge ruled Friday that grandparents will share the custody of five children whose parents both died handling snakes during church services. During the school year, maternal grandmother Mary Goswick will have custody of the children, Jonathan, 12; Jacob and Jeremiah, 7; Sarah, 5; and Daniel, 4, the juvenile court judge ordered. His ruling said that the paternal grandparents, John and Peggy Brown, who also believe in handling serpents, can have custody of the children during the summer and during holidays as long as they don't take the children to services where snakes are handled. The Browns, who have their own snake-handling church in Marshall, North Carolina, have admitted that they have already taken the children to a snake-handling service, in violation of a previous order from the judge, but said they would refrain in the future. Their son, John Wayne "Punkin" Brown Jr., a preacher from Parrottsville, Tennessee, had been bitten more than 20 times over an 18-year period before he suffered a fatal snake bite in an Alabama church last October. He was 34. His 28-year-old wife, Melinda, mother of their five children, died of a bite in 1995 at a religious revival in Kentucky. The book of Mark in the Bible's New Testament calls serpent handling one of the "signs" that true believers must follow. The practice is most common here in Kentucky, at least that is where I started my google search "kentucky snake bite service" You can find loads more of these.

Omnibook 6100 PIII 933 mhz w\1GB memory no Aero Glass... anybody know how to turn that on? I do have 16 mb ATI m6/7000 accelerated video...

Ryan Roberts wrote:

Mine are that undemocratic, belligerents theocracies should not be allowed to have nuclear weapons any more than I would like to see an assault rifle in the hands of a schizophrenic.

Oh, the irony!

Sweet! Straight from the horses mouth no less![^]

Gas will have to rise to something like $5.00 a gallon before HEV is best economical choice for me. Additionally, there is typically a close correlation between the amount of energy required to manufacture something and the cost of that something. Not always, but usually. So, any saving to the economy done by increased fuel effeciency may be at the expense of additional energy expenditures during the manufactoring process. I of course don't know for certain, but it sounds good anyway. Google Answers Energy required to manufacture typical vehicle[^] In any event, I did the math when I bought my car last November, when I was driving 36 miles each way to work, which essentially worked out to gas needing to cost roughly $5.00 a gallon before the huge cost differential between a hybrid that may get 50 mpg on average is more economical than a $13,000.00 Neon. Plus, I only drive 8 miles to work these days, and even considering that I go home for lunch at least two or three days a week, and it would take a lot higher gas prices to account for the 11K price difference between something like the Honda Civic Hybrid and my car ($23,700 in my zip code on CarsDirect.com). If I were to buy a car today, I would most certainly go with the Toyota Yaris ($13,960), which gets 40 MPG, is bigger than the original Corolla was (which is now bigger than the original Camry), and pocket the 10K difference.

Sue-Vee ... I love SUVs: nothing chears me up quite the same way as driving next to a dumb-a$$ driving a 12mpg, 30 something thousand dollar SUV Nissan Titan or Nissan Armada or other equally stupid vehicle in my 32 mpg, $13,000.00 Dodge Neon. My friend, who just gradumated from Useless F in Tampa, FL, with a Mechanical Engineering degree, paying no head to reality, bought a Nissan Titan for his daily commute: keep in mind, he doesn't have a boat, doesn't have kids, nothing, fresh out of college, and he buys a Nissan Titan. His payments are $500.00 a month. When gas was just breaking the $2.00 barrier, he confided in me that he was paying in excess of $500.00 a month in fuel costs, tack on to that something like $300.00 a month for insurance. That is more than I spend on the mortgage, home owners insurance, property taxes, and utilities on my $130,000.00 house. Enjoy your SUV's!! I'll be happy knowing I contributed as little as possible to Lee Raymond's $440 MILLION DOLLAR retirement package :).

Rex, First, great reply. My misspelling wasn't exactly on purpose, I wanted to convey the question as best I could, and I honestly couldn't remember the correct acronym nor could I find it after searching through several .NET books like the MS Press Book Inside the .NET IL Assembler. I have never had to work with Intermediate Language: I think Visual Studio.NET (any version) is more than sufficient for writing great code, and it doesn't have accessible facilities/capabilities for getting into MISL code, that I am aware of. I try to limit the scope of what I am working on/thinking about to as small a domain as possible, and there really isn't much gain (at this time) in a greater understanding of the low-level nuts & bolts of .NET. I agree 100% with you about the need to feed ones family, I have two daughters and a stay-at-home wife who depend upon me to bring home the bacon. I am quite willing to suck it up when I have to, but I have a great contract right now, and was only interviewing with that job because it sounded like a great permanent opportunity. I really just wanted to gripe and get feedback from some guru type programmers: specifically with regard to my references to the applicable Dilbert Principles, and others experiences with said principles.

I have been developing applications using SQL Server for over ten years, and I have ALWAYS called it Sequel Server... not spelled out s q l server. Sequel is elegant, it rolls off the tongue. I read in a sidebar in one of my old database programming with VB 4 books a little history of the word and proper pronunciation, and the authors concurred that it was appropriate to call it 'sequel' as the original Sequel programming language was long dead. Every Microsoft employee I have ever met calls the product Sequel Server, and it is their damn product, if they don't know how to say it, who does? What does the rest of the community think? S Q L Server or Sequel Server? Whenever I hear someone say S Q L Server... I think 'Newbie'. In addition to saying Sequel, I also have a huge gripe with wannabes using an acronym in spoken English as opposed to saying what it is they are trying to say in the first place. I say all this because I had a telephone interview today for a position roughly 50% SQL DBA, the other half maintenance and development of new and existing C# web based applications. In the interview, I was struck by the amount of questions involving the use of said acronyms, instead of focusing on object oriented programming methodologies, use of best practices in coding, etc. Nothing about development methodologies, documentation, configuration management, just "Do you know what AWE Is?" "Do you know what IDLASM is?," and a bunch of other esoteric minutia, to which I simply replied, "Nope." I actually had a clue, but in the past when I have gotten these questions, it was because the person asking them didn't have a clue. The last straw in this interview: the majority of my ASP.NET development experience (about 4000-5000 hours worth) was spent developing IBuySpy Portal & DotNetNuke modules. The incumbent interviewer told me that at his particular company they didn't embrace such open source projects. Furthermore, they were in the planning stages of purchasing a 'real,' 'enterprise grade' CMS, and I would not be able to use such petty, insignificant tools in my role as lead ASP.NET web developer there. He didn't exactly use the words petty or insignificant, but he may as well have with his condescending tone. I was reminded of Scott Adam's writing in the Dilbert Principle where he discusses how to properly train ones replacement, in how it's very important to leave out that one important detail about ones job to ones replacement, such that when the s#$t hits the fan, everybody wistfully thinks back to w

The build quality on HP Professional/Business Lappies is very good, I have two Omnibook 6100's which are simply amazing, and they are both nearly five years old. That being said, a lot has changed since they were new, including merger of HP & Compaq: but from what I have seen, on the business notebook front, HP won out in the merger. NC 8430[^]was just announced last week, and keeps me up at night dreaming about the day I can walk around with that kind of horsepower, in a business notebook chasis (until you have owned one, you wouldn't know what I am talking about!). Most important thing about this unit: Intel Core Duo combined with ATI Radeon X1600 256mb graphics .... !!!! It will score over 4500 on 3DMark05. The difference between 'consumer' & 'business' notebooks is substantial: business notebooks are built for use: I think consumer notebooks are just built for the occasional use. DVI available on Docking Station...

Heh-heh... I was just pushing my own mini-agenda, for what it's worth. Me just being the typical programmer: customer asks for x, and programmer gives them 2xy ... The original post was asking about German cars, and ... if this thread were perfectly on track, if no one had anything to say about German cars, then they would have been off-topic. I have not a clue about Mustangs: my complaint is the stock seats/seating position in that generation of Mustang was very uncomfortable. After driving a Ford Winstar, and sitting in a sports car with almost the exact controls/steering column, etc, the last thing I wanted was a Mustang. Whereas, the Camaro seats are form fitted, wrap around the driver: the Camaro is much more of a sports car. Here are a few matching $9,500-10,500 under 45k miles. [^] I would personally rather drive my Neon :).

I love my brand-new $13,500.00 Dodge Neon SXT! $280.00 a month, averages 32 mpg after 11,000 miles. I love it, very comfortable, very peppy, very fun to drive. I have owned 1990 Geo Storm GSI (5 speed) (used, 10K Miles, 14K), 1994 Acura Integra GSR Sedan (5 Speed) (new, 22K), 1999 Chrysler Concorde Lxi (Used, 10K Miles, 18K), and now the Neon (I don't count a minivan I had for just over a year ). I got to say I would have liked the Neon as much as the Acura, and it cost less than any of the cars I bought before it. On top of that, it's got 80,000 mile warranty. Used, you can pick up Neons ultra cheap as there is a weird perception they are crappy cars. -- modified at 21:27 Friday 12th May, 2006 How could I have forgotten my 1994 Camaro Z28???? Got 12 Mpg on premium, mostly driven by my wife as a babymobile, but boy oh boy was she ever fast... http://aciasoftware.com/camaro[^] Plus, after 11 years, her paint looked like my Acura did at 40,000 miles. I bought her at 103,000 and she served me well: I bought Neony to replace her. And I forgot to mention: Neony's stock stereo is very nice. I got an aftermarket kit for 40 bucks on Ebay and used the CD Changer input for direct RCA inputs which I use with my Dell Axim X51v. The stereo is amazingly loud and full ranged: and it wasn't even the top level kicker version, just the standard SXT mid-grade. Keep in mind, whatever you see for prices... new they were 13,000... for SXT Model. I just did a search on Autotrader within 25 miles of my zip code and got 43 matches. The SXT's were averaging 13,000. I talked to a lady who had one just like mine but 2004, she said she paid like $8,500.00 for it used with 20K miles... which seemed about right. Add to that a thriving aftermarket for the Neon ... I love my car: most of the time I have a big smug smile on my face, especially when I drive next to stupid SUV drivers getting 12 mpg.

Herndon, VA - Topeka, KS in 1993 en-route to Valejo, CA for my submarine's permanent change of duty station from Norfolk, VA to Mare Island Naval Shipyard. Dem was the days! I got something like $1,700.00 to drive my car and move a little bit more than a duffel bag's worth of stuff across country, then fly back for a barbecue on the back of a submarine in the Panama Canal! According to Google Earth (what I would have given for Microsoft Streets & Trips 2006 then !) 1,138 miles, about 17 hours, 4 minutes. I honestly can't remember how long it was.

Sysinternals.com SDelete[^] Follow link for free utility + great discussion on the subject. And, like any codeprojecter ... you can also download the source version.