The --staged one cost me several hours, one week. Useful page. He should do more. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

SourceSafe (mis.no.mer.) for active code SourceMausoleum for dead code. My new favourite phrase - "misdirected leisure activity"

The only plus from the support desk side is that, unlike 99% of the people contacting them, we actually know how to write a good trouble report. This doesn't make up for that fact that we only ask hard questions and aren't succeptable to baffling by BS. The net result is that they can't answer most of our problems off a standard script and their standard techniques for blowing off troublesome customers won't work. Otherwise [Microsoft is] toast in the long term no matter how much money they've got. They would be already if the Linux community didn't have it's head so firmly up it's own command line buffer that it looks like taking 15 years to find the desktop. -- Matthew Faithfull

Seem to have the info as well. Need a C# Consultant? I'm available. Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -- Ernest Hemingway

I think you actually need a DU trimmer.

I tried using VNC (tightVNC and realVNC) between my 2k and xp box at home a year ago, but it would randomly stop working and require app reinstalls on both ends to fix every 2 or 3 accesses. Since I needed to plug a keyboard and monitor in to fix VNC so often I just went back to the manual method for everything. MY 2ndary box is an unattended crunchbox that I only need access to when something goes wrong. It's running XP now but I've never setup RD for it. -- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.

If the Xeon is from the 51xx family, it's basically the same as the Core 2 Duo but with more cache (4MB versus 2MB). A greater amount of cache can help with reasonably well-organised code, so you should see a small performance gain on data sets larger than 2MB but smaller than 4MB (code that was built with no real consideration for caching will probably have to hit main memory all the time regardless of having more cache memory on the processor). IIRC Xeons with no model numbers, just a clock speed, and those with a model number below 5100 are still based on the 'Netburst' core (similar to Pentium 4/Pentium D). These are much slower clock-for-clock than a Core 2 Duo. To complicate things, there's also a Xeon 3000 series which claim to be Core-based, but I can't really see what differentiates them from the 5100s. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

From my quick 3-minute perusal of the site and the Neowin thread, I'd say they're doing this one right. You can't do what the Zune guys did, and make a whacky video that is obviously supposed to be a viral video. People have already seen that, it won't work anymore. This time, they're doing what Google and EA have done, present a puzzle and let the geeks loose on it. Heck, just in the first page of the thread, there are guys using Fiddler and a Flash decompiler to try and figure it out. That looks like a success to me. --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Ford, what's this fish doing in my ear?

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Office Lineman wrote: I'd just recommend against Maxtor. I'd second it. The quality of Maxtor HDDs is poor. I'd bought one some time ago and never have come to this brandname again. Maxwell Chen

Judah Himango wrote: They're probably referring to this[^], where NASA's Cassini has discovered potential liquid water geysers on Saturn's Enceladus moon. Yea ... the story is a tad bit overblown ... Bad Astronomy - A “huge” NASA announcement today?[^] Quote From BA: Keith Cowing at NASAWatch.com looked into it earlier (being on the west coast puts me behind other investigators, dagnappit) and he says that this may be a case of someone in the media getting overzealous, and the story snowballed. The story (which is up at Matt Drudge’s website *) is about plumes of what is possibly water from geysers on Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, which would be pretty cool — liquid water is not definitively known to exist anywhere else in the solar system but here (Europa’s undersurface ocean is inferred, and probably real, but not directly detected) , and Enceladus is known to have plumes (the image at the top of this post shows one such plume back in November 2005). Liquid water on another body in the solar system really is amazing stuff! So while this is a pretty interesting story to say the least, it’s not enough to cause quite the hubbub it has in the media ... :..::. Douglas H. Troy ::.. Bad Astronomy |Development Blogging|Viksoe.dk's Site

Now where did I put my last exgirlfriend's picture? John

John Cardinal wrote: The anthems I'm sick of hearing are the German and Italian from watching Michael Schumacher winning incessantly in formual 1. That's why you record it then fast forward through the anthems. (I skip all the way from race end to the press conference.) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke

Yes I have TRIED to set up VSS. Didn't work for even 3 developers on our system. Of course that was probably more user error than the application:~ ------------------------------------- Do not do what has already been done. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.. but it ROCKS absolutely, too.

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You guys are the ones who deserve a Thank You. When things aren't right you guys let us know, offer suggestions, and offer help. You don't just walk away and write us off. Knowing we're actually helping you guys is the reason we've been busting our guts getting things sorted. cheers, Chris Maunder CodeProject.com : C++ MVP

Damn, was hoping you wouldn't say that. I know it is not that hard but is a bit of a luss for just one button. What would be nice is a "Buttoner" extension that let you create XUL buttons with a snippet of code to run. So you don't have to go through all the hassle of setting up an extension for each button. Just have little packages to load into Buttoner. Thanks mate, I'll go and make my first extension, woot. I'll enter it into the Extension competition and win that nice box ;) regards, Paul Watson Ireland Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN! -- modified at 14:33 Wednesday 30th November, 2005

OMG, that rocks. I nearly fell outta the chair.;P;P:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Just wait a few weeks - I bet the major vendors of UI libraries will all be doing Office 12 copies Real Soon Now. ;) --Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | 1ClickPicGrabber | NEW~! CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ There is a saying in statistics that a million monkeys pounding on typewriters would eventually create a work of Shakespeare. Thanks to the Internet, we now know that this is not true.

Another version of the 20 questions game can be found here: www.20q.net -- modified at 16:41 Friday 26th August, 2005