Since dwarf-tossing was outlawed in Australia, they have all gone to work for Microsoft Au. They have been given Windows Phones made to look like Surface Pros in order to help them feel height-enabled. “I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.

Not BS, not to be dismissed just because it's only $1000.00 (US), not an issue over which one should lose sleep. From experience then, but unfortuneatly America not Australia, the Better Business Bureau is the easiest place to make a query about any situation with a company. Next find the state's district attorney's office, online and "way easy" to find a surface address to which a letter of inquiry can be sent. Include all corporate flags found in any "who we are" page of the PayPal corporate listing, a list of chief officers their street addresses, their legal reprentation by name and by street address, the periods of personal business transaction with the organisation, and any other logistical innformation, and be sure to state what you think is your legal right given the circumstance. Chances are you'll get a very fast reply. And if you're lucky a statement to the effect that the company is currently under investigation, if not a legal document case number, presumeably to which your own information has now been added. Don't expect instant results from either of these contact. Cases take time to go to court. And now for the downside of contacting BBB and State's Attourney. You open yourself up to subpeona in crimnal proceedings. And although I'll start talking through my hat now that the the word "civil" comes up, how anyone really expects to proceed on gaining access to $1000.00 of their own money based upon "just because it's my money" kind-of-logic, might be something that determines whether you just cut your loses and move on. Today. That last bit of advice should be taken to heart by anyone who has better things to do than pursue hours/weekks/months/years of fruitless doggedness getting what's owed to them by a company. In short, drop PayPal. And forgettaboutit.

Jörgen Andersson wrote: I never could make up my mind on whether to be annoyed or "honoured". That's how new words are invented: honoyed. Or would you prefer annoured? You still have the choice.... I'm invincible, I can't be vinced

In my day, we had to whistle into a modem! Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;

code-frog wrote: Indeed. Get the common user to understand managed switches and VLAN's and you are one heck of an explainer and you've got a lot of time on your hands Oh, Okay, I didn’t think using a managed switch was all that difficult. I could see it being a little difficult if you bought one of those nice Cisco switches. The 3Com switch I have isn’t so bad for setting up VLANs (not that I used them just poked around). My Bay Stacks Switch is a much nicer but I don’t have the software to manage it :(. But the average user doesn’t need either of those. I’m sure Linksys or the switches your so fond of have nice easy to use user interfaces. ------------------------------- DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.

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Michael Dunn wrote: 1. Turn off all those newbie-friendly Explorer settings like "hide file extensions" and "hide system files" ABSOLUTELY!!!! The "Hide file extensions" is among the worst features Windows ever introduced (up there with the Windows Installer "Install on Demand" feature). But it sure does make it easy for virus writers to hide executable files as other file types. :| "Fish and guests stink in three days." - Benjamin Franlkin

Europeans cannot swallow a coconut ? but they have big mouths ... :-D Maximilien Lincourt Your Head A Splode - Strong Bad

Oh! One more thing, do not do this: if(..) { CPen apen; .... dc->SelectObject(&apen); //Do lots of work with dc } Unless you are going to restore the old pen before leaving the 'if' block, because (of course) apen goes out of scope as soon as you leave the block. CPen apen; if(..) { .... dc->SelectObject(&apen); //Do lots of work with dc } Also it you must use CPen::CreatePen(), instead of the constructor, to create your pens then you must call CPen::DeleteObject() to destroy it or you will get memory leaks. Trust in the code Luke. Yea right!

I have a Dazzle 6-in-1 card reader. As soon as I would plug it in, XP would detect it, then BSOD with different STOP codes. After a week of reboots while on the phone with MS, the system packed up. When I reinstalled XP, I installed the Dazzle first thing. All ok:confused:. Then the ATI graphics card setup gave a warning that it might conflict with the installed drive(s) (Dazzle creates 2)... Light bulb appeared over my head. From now on, I always install dazzle first.

Chris Maunder wrote: thank those who put the time in to write the articles Well technically, you've written some articles yourself. So, where does that place you? ;P (*Falcon).Jeremy.GetLatestArticle() = "Learning Binary and Hexadecimal"

Where I used to work we ported MFC to Mac and used a lot of #ifndef mac... We also wrote our own tools to help port the resources from Win to Mac. We couldn't re-write the code completely because we'd still be doing that as we speak! ;) So we tried to keep the code clean as much as possible but we didn't have to different streams for each platform. If your app isn't too big, he's what I'd do: - Identify the differences between the two platforms (endian is an important one!) and the stuff that work similarly on each platforms and that you could exploit. - Seperate the functionnalities from the UI to create a framework that is usable on both platforms. Create wrappers that will help you use functionnalities from both platforms seamlessly. You could then have two different DLLs for each platforms and your developers could use those libraries to develop without thinking about the platform they are working on. What I mean is to create a layer between the app itself and the platform. - Create platform dependent UI that relies on the framework (layer) you created. It is a lot of work, but on the long run it's worth it if there's actually a demand for you app on Mac. :) --------------- http://www.edovia.com

Alvaro Mendez wrote: According to her, they say it: "shedule" (the c is silent), She's correct. --Mike-- Rollin' in my 5.0 With the rag-top down so my hair can blow. My really out-of-date homepage Sonork - 100.10414 AcidHelm Big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Jamie Salé.

Hmm, sounds a little off base to me. I find it said that you couldn't communicate how to do it to them. If someone doesn't know about dialing a country code, thats one thing. Lacking the ability to explain it to them is another. It's not like your born knowing how that dialing another country requires a country code, nor does it represent something the average joe would do. You sound like another citizen from an insecure country to me.

We can use self signed certificates but we sell to schools which tend to be run by very security conscious, but ill informed, sys admins (1000 inquisitive and destructive students will do that to you!) and many of them will NOT install the software if it is signed with an untrusted certificate. Interestingly, we currently get them to set the security level to Medium and enable the macros. They are actually happier with this :confused: !! Paul Hooper If you spend your whole life looking over your shoulder, they will get you from the front instead.

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