give www.gentoo.org a go if you're in a tinkering mood and/or have no money . i've got evrything working except bluetooth sync and hibernate - you still need to put in the hours with Linux but I find this distro gets the most out of it. Package installation is nice -it automatically downloads source + dependencies , compiles (your cpu/enviroments optimisations) and installs. Its faster than XP for me after youve loaded up all you need. The forums and doco are up to date as well (no prehistoric howto's => negative usefuleness). legal!=profit!=technical

You get what you pay for. Everyones trying to make money, trying to see how close to the bone they can go, with complex development, with changing requirements, and a wide variety of talent (programmers, and managers on both sides). Following a strict procedure generally works well (our current project is like this) but is expensive (getting customer signoff, testing signoff at various points). A couple of projects ago we had hardly no process but got it done on time as well - this gave the client a lot more functionality at a reduced cost but was HIGH risk/ lucky.

I read they think people are actually 'thetans' who can be freed by overcoming the reactive mind. They measure your spiritual progress during 'audits'- it sounds too much like a performance review at work to me. My manager doesn't use a machine though(they do - an 'e-meter'). I have The Prophet in my cupboard. I remember it being very good. I'll have to let it out again soon.

Have a look at http://www.codeproject.com/wtl/ I found it easier to learn WTL than MFC first. With MFC I found it hard to get the bigger picture with all the wizards and generated code. WTL is smaller and simpler. I plan to learn MFC 7 though. Note I've only written some simple windows apps.

He's got a good voice , a real rocker. I saw them on some TV show and it sounded the business. I don't know how he'd be on all their songs, Hutchence had a pretty versatile voice. He'll work well I reckon (better match than Terance Trent Darby anyway)

Ahh , fair enough. Yes, you couldn't emulate other amps with pedals. Which amp do you use? I had a Fender, now a little soldano combo.

I haven't used either. I've gone back to individual pedals. Over the years I had most of the boss multi-effects boards, but in the end could never get them sounding quite as good as separate pedals. You can also upgrade bits and pieces , keep favourites, etc.. Things keep improving though, I'll have to check out the Yamaha..

Yes. .Net beta is 25% faster than 6.0. Very promising.

The double h2=0.5+ (4.35*100*150/100.0); isn't actually 653 but looks like it is 652.9999999999999 , hence the cast truncate returns 652. printf and the IDE debugger don't show this. we can see by adding this code if ((653.0-h2)==0) printf ("equal\n"); also by adding .0000000000001 to h2 before the cast, it then becomes 653 as expected. The float value must be truncating somewhere and avoiding the rounding error. . (guessing)

With a neutron star you could get them into the size of a sugar cube, but of course this would be more than suffocating..

Been looking at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/prodinfo/purchase/features.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/prodinfo/purchase/pricing.asp professional=$1,079 , enterprise dev=$1,799 enterprise architect=2,499 ($5000 AUD) At work I've started using Rational Rose, but haven't sussed it out yet. At home I can't see myself doing use cases, UML design... anyone else use these Enterprise Architect design features for their personal programming? I might get developer, wouldn't you be better getting a universal msdn rather than architect - almost the same price? -Rob

I've used www.affordablehost.com and www.web66.com no probs

Maybe we should hope we never run into a mega advanced civilisation anytime soon. There's no evidence they'd treat us well. Our record is not the best with lesser lifeforms.

I'd say learn C++. The skill won't go astray and it should be easy to learn c# later if it takes off in a big way. If it doesn't you haven't wasted time. I'm going on a year and wouldn't say I've mastered it by any long shot because of it's depth and/or my stupidity, so good luck mastering it in a few months ! I recommend Scott Meyers 'effective c++' books.

Ah yes, thanks Mike , I added an s1.clear() and it works.

Hello! Why doesn't this work? First time it works, second time it returns blanks. std::stringstream s1(std::stringstream::in | std::stringstream::out); s1<<"hello"; string x1; s1>>x1; //x1 contains hello. good s1<<"more"; string x2; s1>>x2; //nope. x2 contains blank Thanks -Rob

Thanks Ravi, I might give them a go. Good site, - I used to play in bands as well (92-96) and still poke around with music a bit! :suss:

Sounds like a major hassle.. I got adsl, it's starting to work well now (after 6 months) - I've also got some shares! :(( .

I've been looking for a web host to set up simple shopping cart/ SSL . e.g. a typical price for one of the multitudes that seem to exist in the U.S is AUD$22/month => $264/year (e.g. web66.com which has all of these things - (supposedly I've never used them)). I looked at bigpond 'webaction', and added it up to be $2475/yr when adding SQLServer7 and SSL. My question is , is something like web66 a bodgey, or is bigpond mega-expensive, or am I missing something? Regards, Rob

We use MS project for project tracking, and sourcesafe for code, I don't think there's anything easier than sourcesafe? Another one is PVCS tracker/version manager. I think CVS is free you may like to look at that.