was very cute. Thanks for posting it. It's always fun to find a new interesting website.

LOL :laugh: , I think that's how it works in California, too!

Find out why this guy is eager to send his CV to your father. Does your father own a company and this guy is desperate for a job? Might make sense - but then, if your father owned a company he'd get a lot CVs from people, I imagine. Did the guy get a promotion and send the CV to your father as a, "Hah! In your Face, man!!!1!"? If nothing else, just open it in Google Docs using the HTML view. IMHO, I'd say it's a scam. My father has been bitten so many times by scams that it raises my blood pressure to talk about. So, that thing I said about walloping your father up side his head, that was me picturing myself smacking my own father up side his head! LOL :P Parents just don't listen to their kids these days! When are they going to learn!?

Hrm, that may be why the bank in my parent's incident was to a NYC bank. Maybe the NYC bank is required. Victim->NYC Bank->Canadian Bank->Nigerian Bank->w00t! That actually makes a lot of sense, then, to have an in-country bank that is "in" on the scam. (I used "in" loosely, as I'm not sure how knowing the in-country bank would actually be. Carrying this thought further, maybe it was a shadow company in the US creates a shadow company in Canada to a shadow company in Nigeria. Yup, I think that's it. Bodda Bing, Bodda boom. Victims all over the place. So, no one needs to create a bank. Just have one guy in the America's creating shadow companies in Canada and the US drawing on banks there and the circuit is complete. Damn! That's spooky!

Yeah, no kidding. Here's a favorite saying I know of - "The stupid shall be punished."

Jesus, when are people going to wake up? Smack you father up long side his head. Does your father actually know the person? If so, why did your father and this friend stop talking 7 years ago? Was it something that this friend would send your father a little trojan to as some sort of revenge? Or perhaps, did this person receive a trojan of their own and your father's email addy was discovered by the trojan and now is trying to infect him? Tell your father to think. If the attachment must be opened, let google do it by sending the attachment to Google Docs or viewing it in HTML in Google Mail.

My parents almost got nailed with this exact scam. Basically, when you deposit the check you get cleaned out. Here's how it works - somewhat, as I'm not entirely sure of every exact detail needed to pull this off - nor should I. As a matter of fact, this is my disclaimer, "This information is for educational use only. I am not responsible for what any one or more readers does with this information." If you're a crook, stop reading! ----- Some guy in Nigeria gets some seed money - maybe $5K to $15K. They create a "Parent Bank" in Nigeria and a "Branch Bank" in Canada. I'm not too sure how they get this done but basically it creates a relationship between a Nigerian Bank (real or not) with a Canadian Bank (real or not). Sometimes, as in my parent's incident there is also a bank in NYC, NY, USA - again, real or not. I mean, anyone can be issued a business license, yes? (sigh, yes, I know, banks are scrutinized a lot before opening now....can we move on? Thank you.). The Check issuer writes about 10,000 individual checks from the bank in Canada. Canada has (or had) more lax banking laws and hadn't placed Nigeria on any particular watch list. So, ACH transactions were, effectively, unmonitored - for lack of a better term. So, 10K checks are distributed to people in the US and a few get cashed. Now, half-way-savvy-banks in the US are immediately suspicious of Nigerian banks by default, so checks coming from Nigerian banks are going to grab a lot of unwanted attention. However, Canadian banks are cool. Right? Rigggggghhhhhhhtttt. So, someone deposits the check, and an ACH is set up to transfer money from the account to your account. Guess what. When that happens the Nigerian bank gets your account information - routing number and checking account number. Now, all they gotta do with that info is reverse the ACH transactions and deduct a few hundred dollars at a time from your account and you've just be cleaned out. ----- Fortunately, *my parents* (not the other victims) were slow to deposit the check and a few people before them had already been victim to this attack and the checks had been flagged as fraudulent. They felt stupid and they should have. Moral of the story: Don't be greedy. Don't deposit checks you don't already expect.

"Beats?" Really? :laugh:

I've used the Free AVG for a few years then I even purchased 3 licenses for my former setup. I switched to Kapersky to try something different for them. I might actually try AVG-Free Edition again. This PC is just a 'temp' PC and I don't want to spend a ton of money on some AV. I've already used the Open Source "Norton Ghost" alternative (http://clonezilla.org/[^]) to backup the entire image if something goes really bad or the system gets bloated by something. So recovery is a cinch. I might just go back to AVG Free and give it another spin. :)

I recently purchased a new pc and my Norton AV is about to expire. (yeah) Anyway, I'm using Kapersky on my LT and I like it, I'm simply looking for a viable alternative. How does the CP Community feel about ClamWin - a Open Source alternative? Thanks. :)

woot are you talking about? I woot really like to know.

Yeah, I'm going to chock it up to what my teachers told me in high school - "You (as in I) need to slow down." damn teachers! :laugh:

Before I posted originally, I had already changed this setting: "Linker->Debugging->Generate Debug Info" to YES (/DEBUG). I just now set "C/C++ ->General->Debug Information Format" to Program Database (/Zi). It was set to 'Disabled'. I've never seen a VS disable all debugging in a new project before and certainly not for a 'DEBUG' build. Do I need new glasses? ;) Anyway, thanks for your help. I looked there before but must have missed it. :doh: Cheers!

I'm building a small C app. ATM, I'm simply twiddling with a Hello World app because it seems that any app I create will not hit break points. I opened the project settings and /DEBUG was turned off under the linker settings. I turned that on, rebuilt and located my *.opt file. I attempted to 'debug' again and VS simply skips over the breakpoints. The breakpoint settings indicate that they are set to 'break always' and I *am* running (via F5) the debug version through VS. I've deleted all breakpoints, clean, rebuilt, adjusted settings and it still acts like it's a Release build. If I create an MFC app, breakpoints work fine. Anyone seen this before?

That's a feature!!

I keep a secondary fan blowing on certain laptops of mine to ENSURE they are cooled enough. Had 2 Sony Vaio STB no me because of inadequate ventilation. My HP (with it's 3 huge fans underneath) stays cool enough without the addition fan but I run it anyway.

That was a fantastic reply!

Wow. That was pretty generous of the location holding the performance. I imagine most places would have kicked you out.

CODEBLOCKS. I recently tried it and liked it very much. Not sure what it's like to develop GUI driven apps, though. It had a feel similar to Visual Studio.

Love my G15's. I bought one so I could play games in the dark and I liked it so much that I bought another one for my other machines so I could see the keyboard in low-light conditions.