Thanks Rob. I feel more confident about sending the letter now. # moliate

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I have a question about how I should write ordinary mail addresses. Basically I don´t know when to use 'c/o' and when to use 'Attn' when I write to a specific person in an organisation. As I understand it 'c/o' is only used when a specific person in the organisation should forward the letter to someone not generally known by the organisation itself? It's a bit embarrasing to have to ask about something that basic, but at least it's not a programming question... Thanks # moliate

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I don't have a direct answer for your question, but I think the reference on the topic is "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1+2". Volume 2 holds a lot of implementation details of the NetBSD? kernel TCP/IP stack. /moliate

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I think the easiest way to do that would be to generate code in an intermediate language, like C. Then you can compile and link using standard tools. In addition you'll take advantage of the optimization of the intermediate compiler that way. /moliate

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I'm looking for a way to find matching regions in a file - much like the LCS (diff) algorithm, but optimized for moved data. For example in the two strings below: "milk and coffee" "coffee and milk" LCS will only find a small matching region, " and ", while the strings themself have larger matching regions. Currently I'm using a "sliding windows" approach (similar to rsync) to do this, but it gets a bit slow for large files. Any suggestions or references would be welcome - I'm looking for both heuristics and algorithms. Im also looking for traditional diff heuristics... /Thanks moliate

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I don't know if this is a repost, but have you taken a closer look at the Frontpage sidebar ad? If not, pay special attention to line 28.. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2026&alloc_id=2509&site_id=2&request_id=2948629&1076027963680[^] / moliate

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I don't know if this is the place to ask general questions about web services, but this forum seemed the most appropriate. I havn't had much experience with web technologies so what I hope for is a "push in the right direction"... What I would like to do is expose a fairly complex framework as a set of webservices. The individual services may take a long time (up to an hour) to complete, so asyncronous calls will probably be used. The output of one service is often input to another, so I'd eventually like to use some kind of server process control. The server will be on a UNIX station and I'll probably implement it in Java. I've looked at some different technologies this week, and this is what I've come up with:

1. The transport will probably be SMTP. I've looked at protocols like BEEP and JMS, but it seems easier(?) to use ordinary mail.
2. The service invocations will probably use SOAP generated by JAX-RPC (is there a standard SMTP binding for SOAP?). Possibly a special mail service (based on Apache James?) handles the requests and orchestrates them (handles the process control and invokes local or remote HTTP services).
3. The responses will be sent as "notifications" over SMTP (something like a REQUEST<=>N*RESPONSE pattern)
4. For process control the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) seems promising. I've not read through the spec, though.

Did this make any sense? Are there better ways? Any comments, suggestions, experiences or links would really be appreciated at this stage so I don't lock myself in with a dead end technology... Thanks /moliate

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Daniel Turini wrote: It won't be anything new. You know that ActiveX signature dialog box on IE? I get your point, but I don't think that is the same thing. With a driver you send your code to MSQL, have it examined by hardware and software specialists and verified on different platforms before Microsoft sign the driver. With an ActiveX signature you just pay some company to create a certificate that is supposed to show that you* were the one who wrote the software. You can apply it to any software you write after that. # moliate * and if you apply for a certificate in the name of "Thor, God of Thunder; Valhalla road 1; Asgaard", I don't think you'll be turned down by most signing companies...

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Vikram Punathambekar wrote: Is it OK for me to save the articles (and source, of course) to my hard disk? I think this goes under the "fair use" exemption of the intellectual property rights. If you use the articles for educational and non-profit purposes and if you don't distribute the copyrighted work further you should be free to do so. /moliate

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Isn't this just cutting out the middleman? I suppose most phone companies have this service on their webpage, so what's the difference? /moliate

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Take a look at the link below: http://www.picciotto.org/math-ed/func-diag/applets/fd-ellipse.html[^] You can scale the function y=1/x to y=n/x by replacing the upper point 1 by sqrt(n). /moliate

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I usually start with the ears, moving on to tail, feets and saving the body for last... BTW, what is this "chocolate" thing everybody is talking about? :confused: /moliate

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You are from Sweden too, I suppose? Well, at least I managed to get to Copenhagen in time to get a few "Carl's Special:beer:", but perhaps you live up north? Happy easter! /moliate

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* SPOILER BELOW * One of those "Blue screen/computer rebooting" flash files. It's pretty worksafe after all.. /moliate

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Joe Woodbury wrote: the hiring company had no idea what they were doing I know exactly what you mean. I saw a company searching for a driver developer: "A kernel mode expert. The languages used for development will be C# and Visual Basic .NET " :wtf: /moliate

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Pasted this from the description of a popular C# article on the main page: Your Dream: A multi-article contribution describing in step-by-step detail on creating your own service with integrated support for setup and custom event logs. This lesson we'll add multiple child services as well as updating the installer to install these services as well. Words like child: Innocence. The new self seeking to develop. Part of self nature is childlike. That pretty well sums up the .NET framework... /moliate

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I suppose you could write a filter and attach it to the driver stack. That way you could modify the IRP before it reaches the RIT. Take a look at kbfiltr in the DDK. There is also another another similar solution at www.sysinternals.com (ctrl2cap), but kbfiltr seems to give you more freedom to manipulate the entire buffer, like inserting keystrokes. BTW, I will probably have to write something similar in a couple of weeks, so if you find another way I'd be glad to hear about it... /moliate

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But it's all part of the plan... ? As soon as all the grids connect through the sixth-dimentional hypercube and punctuates the very fabric of time, Cthulhu shall be awakened from his slumber in ancient R'lyeh (Ia Chutulhu, Ia, Ia, Ia) to once again return to his rigthful throne, and we - his humble servants shall see what once where, what we've only seen in His dreams before (Rith'ham Abdul Al'Hazred). Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn Sorry. I'm very tired and will go away now.. /moliate

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Domenic [Geekn] wrote: I just know that someone must have written this by now, somewhere... Yeah, Edgar Allan Poe wrote it in 1845. Only that it was written in English, not C++. And it's part of a mystery story... http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/mifieapat.html[^] I remember that I have written an file for single and double character frequenecy analysis in Matlab a long time ago. Perhaps I can find the .m files if you are interested.. /moliate

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Cleaning the cache is not just deleting all files in a directory. There are some pretty intense calculations involved (scan phase, purge phase, callbacks and so on. Some handlers also tries to compress rarely used files, I think :confused: ). I suppose it all depends on how the functions in IEmptyVolumeCache and its relatives are implemented... Twenty minutes seems unhealthy, though. /moliate

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