You have posted the same question on 4 different forums; please, don't do it! The best when asking something is to choose the forum that better matches your subject, and post a unique question explaining as better as possible what is your problem. Thank you!

I think it's time they started a Powershell forum :)

You have posted the same question on 4 different forums; please, don't do it! The best when asking something is to choose the forum that better matches your subject, and post a unique question explaining as better as possible what is your problem. Thank you!

You have posted the same question on 4 different forums; please, don't do it! The best when asking something is to choose the forum that better matches your subject, and post a unique question explaining as better as possible what is your problem. Thank you!

Thanks for replying. I don't need to do this programmatically. I was given a machine at work and I was just curious to know if it was real or virtual. Obviously I don't have physical access to the machine (to see for myself) as it's in another part of the world. So there are some devices that would not be installed on a virtual machine? Something like keyboard and mouse? Thanks, Melwyn

It's the Pitt Street Mall, the pedestrianised section of Pitt Street in the CBD of Sydney, Australia. It is one block long between Market Street and King Street and is one of Australia's busiest and most cosmopolitan shopping precincts....according to it's wikipedia page :)

You should have SHOBJIDL.H and SHOBJIDL.IDL in the platform SDK include directory. Of course, you need to make sure that VC6 is looking in there before it's own directories, and the same for the LIB files (although you may not need them in this project). Steve S Developer for hire

The C++ standard says that if a constructor throws an exception any memory allocated will be freed, but no destructor will be called. It is not a valid object and you cannot invoke members. If you try to do so the behaviour is undefined. In C++, undefined usually means it will crash. I'm pretty sure that VC++ implements this behaviour correctly. In essence it wraps a new operation in a try/catch block and calls ::operator delete (or the class's operator delete, if it or a base class implements one), if C++ exception handling is enabled. Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder

C, C++.....sorry I forgot to mention that. -Mel

Hey Guys, Thank you all for the suggestions. The most popular ones seem to be EditPlus and UltraEdit. Cheers, Mel

Yes, I just applied Service Pack 5....but still can't build debug configurations :( -Mel

Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote: The problem stated a linked list, which I assume is a singly linked list, as doubly linked lists are usually named just that. Actually the interviewer had mentioned that the linked list could be considered as doubly linked, if it could help solve the problem in any way.

You can't do it. Because the original info no longer exists in the lower quality MP3. Have you answered an MTQ? Check out the stats!

No. MP3 is a lossy codec. When the MP3 was originally encoded at 128kb/sec, you've lost data. The only real way to increase the quality of an MP3 is by re-encoding the original uncompressed source. melwyn wrote: By the way is this "kbit" the rate at which the original analog song was sampled at when it was converted to digital format? No. It's the size of each second-long "chunk" in the MPEG stream. Most MP3s are encoded from an uncompressed digital source, such as a CD. When an MP3 is encoded at 192kb/sec, each second of uncompressed digital audio is squeezed into a 192 kilobit block (the actual MPEG blocks may be smaller than this, with multiple blocks per second). - Mike

Nice. :) Actually the initial problem required the original string to be reversed (which i forgot to mention). I have used your nice logic to modify my function :-) void Reverse(char *src) { char *p = strchr(src, '\0') - 1; while (src < p) { *src ^= *p ^= *src ^= *p; src++; p--; } } -Melwyn

Again, there is a Microsoft JVM-specific way which is (supposed to be) simple-- and the JNI way, in which case you create a C/C++ COM wrapper for your Java object. The wrapper would incorporate the JVM and call it to process COM requests in your Java object.

Yeah, it was not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks anyway. Regards, Melwyn

Hi Rohit, Thank you for your reply. I have decided not to take up the offer, but not because I doubt the credibility of the firm, but because I am skeptical of my chances of getting a good job considering the downturn in the US economy and all. Hordes of indians went to the US through firms like this couple of years ago and no one gave it a second thought. At that time since there was a general boom in the industry everyone who went would generally spend very less time on bench. So, it worked out pretty well for everyone. Today however the situation is different due to the economic realities. As far as it being a scam, well it can only be a scam if they were to take some money from me. They aren't asking me to pay for H1 or flight ticket costs. The only thing they ask for is degree certificates which they keep for surety purposes. Yes, I know there are some firms that don't ask for this also. One of the reasons why they do this is that, before during the boom time, many software engineers in india used to accept offers from 3-4 different firms. Now all the firms have invested time and money to apply for the engineer's H1 but only one is going to get him. So basically to protect their investment the firms ask for original certificates. Yes, I know this in no way can guarantee that the engineer cannot apply through a different firm, but it usually is a good deterrent. Also I have been told of all the risks by the firm itself(which is anyway not a big secret, since people in india generally know how these firms operate since they were pretty popular some years ago), so I can't see the "scam" part of it. The firm was founded in 1998 by a Wharton educated entrepreneur. I don't think they could be running a scam for so long!! The only possible illegal part is they paying $500/month on bench, which someone on this board mentioned as illegal as per LCA etc. But that's the way most of these firms operate...only a few of them pay full on bench. Ofcourse the firm will be trying their best also to get me off bench, since they aren't earning any money out of me when I'm on bench and they have already invested in my H1 visa etc. I look at this entire thing as a mutually benefitial relationship, the only prolem is the uncertainity of not knowing how long one will remain on bench. Thanks and Regards, Mel ps: Your bridge offer sounds tempting ;)

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