This is really odd, most news sources here claim that the leap second is at 00:59:60, right before one in the morning on January 1st. Some of the news sites quote NIST, saying it's tonight at 23:59:60. Which one is correct?

Happy New Year, CodeProjectites and Bob.

For video, Media Player Classic[^] in conjunction with ffdshow for the codecs. For audio, foobar2000[^] is definitely the choice for me. fb2k can do anything under the sun. In the betas of version 0.9[^] it can rip securely from CDs into any format you have configured an encoder for. It has a powerful masstagger to place tags on your files with. It even feeds your cat. You could always sneak into #foobar2000 on freenode and poke random people for help if you're stuck with something. There's also a new pretty informative wiki[^] too.

A while ago I came across The Hackers Diet, a guide to eating right and exercising. It's written by an Autodesk engineer and is probably pretty suitable for the kind of people that frequent codeproject. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/www/hackdietf.html[^]

I agree totally with David here. If you are going to set up a repository, try to use Subversion. But since most projects out in the wild still use CVS, there is still a need for a CVS client I guess. I'd recommend TortoiseCVS. It integrates well with the shell, providing handy commands on the rightclick menu.

jonathan15 wrote: I dont think my brother really wants to see the insides of his brand new Dell spilled out onto his kitchen table. You never know until you try.

The images are stolen from dansdata.com where Dan reviews a commercial hardware keylogger. http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000317047049/[^] http://www.dansdata.com/keyghost.htm[^]

I offloaded three of my seven drives to a spare PSU I found in my closet. The machine started to get a bit unstable with the +5V hanging around 4.5V when idle. The only annoying thing at the moment is the paperclip I have to bridge the green and black wires with to jumpstart the secondary PSU. :-D

To make it is hell. To fail is divine.

I'd use either the diskwriting function of foobar2000 and LAME the files manually. Or use the builtin CLI encoding w/ LAME in foobar2000. But you should know that transcoding (converting from one lossy format to another) is evil and reduces quality quite much. But if you are forced to do it for say a portable, it's ok.

Easy CD Creator has this lovely feature called DirectCD. It puts a small CDFS filesystem with some tools for reading UFS on older computers and computers without EasyCD installed. It then allows drag-n-drop writing on an UFS system on the rest of the disc. They are evil, I tell you. Why can't they stick to standards. They have to do stuff in strange ways.

The Matrox Parhelia has a stretched desktop feature which is exactly what you are asking for. It gives you a nice wide desktop in your resolution of choice. The only limitation is that both monitors must have the same refresh rate and resolution. Gaming or coding in 3840x960 is bliss.

I bought mine from JME Data[^] But that was in July 2002, I did only select them because they were the first ones to have it in stock. If I were to order one today, I would use Komplett[^] or Dustin AB[^]. Dustin has IMO better support and way better shipping. Don't be afraid to contact me about any issues with the card. I've used it for a while now so I'm quite familiar with it.

Congratulations on the Parhelia. They are lots of fun. Make sure you visit the Matrox Users Resource Center (MURC)[^]. They know everything there is to know. Read my post lower down in this thread to see uses for a Parhelia.

I'm using either two monitors and a TV or three monitors. I use the 2+tv combo when I code, where I have VS on one monitor and help, ICQ and IRC on the other. I might play some nice movie or music video on the TV. If I have all three monitors connected, I do usually have VS on center, help on right and Opera on left. When I get bored I play some Q3 or JK3 in Surround on all three monitors. As you might suspect, I have a Matrox Parhelia. I have 1x19" and 2x17" monitors.

A while ago I was going to reinstall a friends computer which had started to act a bit strange. I wiped the primary partition and started installing from a XP Pro CD. The install would halt at different places, saying it could not find some files. The files were on the CD and were readable in another computer. We tried for fun using a Windows 2003 eval CD, but no luck there either. Finally, we popped the case open and saw that the CPU fan had gotten stuck, and I can tell you, a 1200 Athlon gets pretty hot when ran without cooling. After repairing the fan, we could get a bit longer in the install, but it would still stop. I started suspecting the memory, so I produced a 512MB SDRAM stick from the dark corners of my room, and tried it. The install went flawlessly. Apparently the memory stick closest to the CPU had gotten damaged by the heat radiated from the heatsink. Memtest86 wouldn't detect any errors on it, but as soon as we removed it, the computer worked. So, what I'm trying to say here is: Try checking your RAM with memtest86. I suspect that your memory is corrupt. Also, make sure your laptop aren't overheating.