My DVD player bit the dust, and I would like to upgrade (as it was a cheapy anyway) I was thinking of a Player/Recorder/VCR/what ever else Anyway, does anybody have any recommendations/suggestions? Thanks Paul ;) There are no revolutions only power changing hands

Hi all I did the drive change over, worked great, thanks for all the replies But, I am giving my old PC to my sister (a P3 600, new XP home) She likes games like tetris, mahjongg, card games, puzzle games, etc. Does any body know of any good stable freeware games? Thanks Paul

I need to set up a mail account for reporting services in SQL 2k can anyone point me to some information Thanks Paul

Wish I was that lucky Paul

Thanks you all for the fast replies I thought about taking out the old drive and changing jumper to slave, as their both the same size and partitioned with drive letters and paths the same, but won't windows trip over two master boot records Thanks again Paul

Hi all I am off for the summer and built a new P4 system, I have about 45 programs and about 55 Gigs of data to move with XP pro SP2 installed on both I tried transfer wizard, no luck, used a network to copy (a 100Mbps connection) slow, slow Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated Thanks Paul

Hi all I am in college , and we are not spending a lot of time on the framework We are mostly staying on the basics of coding, structures, etc. I wanted to pick up a solid book on the framework, 1.1 or higher Any suggestions Thanks Paul

Good (and cheap) place to buy P4 CPU and MOBO, HD, OS (XP pro) and some memory Paul Curry

I would like to thank everyone for their replies I am going to give Ultimate Zip a try :)

Thanks Stuart The first semester all we did was command-line programming in C++ and JAVA And command prompt and I have been getting along for years (never did like DOS in a box though) I bought my copy of XP Pro through the school ($5.00) and it came with a CD the school had made, it had some other stuff on it and that must be were I got WinZip from

Maybe I should rephrase this--That I am aware of the Zip that comes with XP is a shareware version of WinZip, mine has expired and I don't like using it And I have found several Free zips on the web and downloaded them All I am asking is has anyone acutually tried any of the freeware zip utilities or know someone who has used any of them Thanks Paul

My programs at school are getting a lot bigger, and we have to zip them and submit Has anyone had any experience with any of the free zip utilities? Also I am using XP Pro if that matters

I know this is a book question, but I am currently taking some beginning programming classes at a local Tech college The book we are currently using for logic and design is pretty lame, it still shows print charts, and we skip some chapters that are out of date(teachers to lazy to change their lesson plan) I am looking for a book that shows both flowcharting and pseudocode, does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks Paul

I am looking for MS oriented non-DOTNET Tutorials on Web design Any links? Thanks Paul

Unfortunately politicians in the US sound the same You hope there a good person and won’t screw things up to much Good luck Paul Curry

Democracy, basic rights and free markets are the basis for western civilization It's the misuse of, or inability to implement properly that effect whether democracy succeeds or not Most nations in the world are trying to move toward these premises, not get away from them you take away the religious dictatorships, right of accession (king an queen silliness), and the feudal warlord systems that plague allot of smaller nations And democracy has had success Most of the people in China under 35 would give anything for democracy In Russia it would have had a chance if it wasn't widespread corruption Absolute power corrupts absolutely, Egos will see that this is always true Your case-in-point of the turd-Reight(yes I spelled it correctly) The destabilization of Europe The nations that fell under the Communist block, countries being forced into that system, having to kill people who tried to leave! The Jews forming the nation of Israel, because of the holocaust, and destabilizing that area On democracy in business, there are many examples of this working, as long as its based on team work and not office politics, or egos Case in point---Harley Davidson, co. went international (board, etc) co. went to hell Employee buy out, everybody has a say--success!!! Just a couple of cents worth Paul There are no revolutions, only power changing hands

Competition (whether it likes it likes it or not) is good for the corporate soul In Microsoft’s case there finally realizing some competition and they---i.e. Linux and Open Source Have made MS start talking about doing some Kernel cleaning, concentrating more on security, and now embracing the MS community more Now all they have to do is follow through But at least there has been a fundamental switch in the way their thinking about things (hopefully anyway) PC Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future---->John F Kennedy

Hi all I’m looking for a text editor W/color highlighting , that I plan on using with the .NETSDK and C# Has anyone used any of the freeware editors? TIA Paul