Sorry, I was experimenting before. I changed it back right after I posted the message, but apparently its too late. Hope this message is OK!

You might want to take a look at Hot CPU Tester as well. Also check this out http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128154-page,10-c,stepbystep/article.html[^] - Rob

norm .net wrote:

Go elsewhere, you'll probably get paid a whole lot more.

I might get paid more elsewhere, but I would like to have some experience at Microsoft and to satisfy my curiousity!

That is something I hadn't thought of before, but I am prepared for it now. Thanks for the pointer! :-D

That clarifies it! Thanks for the information :-D

I would take the second approach also. I wouldn't do any calculation, I just speculate on how it could be calculated to show my thought process. Can I ask one more question? how does the 5 hours interview work? It won't be all gruelling questions?

So how much dos Mt. Rainier weigh? lol Actually, interesting questions. So I should more prepare for how to handle different situation questions, since my technical knowledge is ok! Thanks

That's what I was looking for!!! Thanks!!!

I hadn't read that, but I am reading it now. It's good read...thanks!

Ok, so I have been accepted for the final round of interviews which is in 2 weeks. From what I heard, it is going to be a long 4-5 hours interview(most porbably technical) with the Office team. I am starting to get nervous about it...specially, that it is also my first real job interview! I hope you can give me some pointers to get the job! Or just wish me luck! I really want it! :-D

God I hate spammers! Recentley one of them has been spamming me through an email form on my website. The sweet thing is his IP has been logged! Now, how can I get my revenge?(as well yours ;) ) Here is the IP address: 207.44.132.115 And a whois: Registrant: Daniel Pfile 3628 Frederick St Omaha, Nebraska 68105 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: LAUNCHWORLD.COM Created on: 05-Oct-02 Expires on: 05-Oct-07 Last Updated on: Administrative Contact: Pfile, Daniel daniel@pfile.net 3628 Frederick St Omaha, Nebraska 68105 United States 4022138468 Fax -- Technical Contact: Pfile, Daniel daniel@pfile.net 3628 Frederick St Omaha, Nebraska 68105 United States 4022138468 Fax -- Domain servers in listed order: HERMAN.PFILE.NET NS0.XNAME.ORG NS1.XNAME.ORG

Very interesting!

Firstly Happy New Year to you and all the jewish people! Forgive my ignorance, but I am wondering what was the significance of this day the that jewish people decided to mark it as the New year day day on the calendar. Please enlighten! - Robert

The first one! Easier on the eyes.

I am only using one thirdparty DLL coded by myself. SO I will have to investigate that. Thanks for the lead.

[EDITTED] Got the answer in MSDN forum. It turns out I had a large global array, which I had defined earlier to test something and had forgotten about it! ah...bad programming practice!;P [/EDITTED] Hi, I have a relatively small Visual C++ project using MFC which allocates unusually hight amount of virtual memory as soon as the program starts(roughly 280MB), even before hitting the internal MFC stuff. When I debug them program in Visual Studio 2005 with a breakpoint at the beginning of int _tmainCRTStartup(void) function in crt0.c Windows Task Manager shows the following information: Memory Usage: 5,620K Peak Memory Usuage: 5,620K Page Faults: 1,420 VM Size: 282,360 K Paged Pool: 632K NP Pool: 2K Handles: 102 Threads: 1 GDI Object: 6 Running the program in release mode produces the same result. Also, compiler/linker settings are almost set to default. My question why the program allocates so much VM, before even its started WinMain() function? Is it a Windows issue or Visual C++? Any help appreciated! - Rob -- modified at 23:30 Saturday 16th September, 2006

Nish, You could try The Brick(canadian) or La-z-boy(American), or if you lived in Vancouver try United Boulevard in Coquitlam, The whole area is swarmed with different furniture stores. - Rob

More rant :) I couldn't agree with you more. Especially on the design issue. It's utterly cold and soulness design. It somehow reminds me of a very cold climate where you are cooked up in a studio apartment or forced to live in a communal houses of futuristic novels from early 20th century. What is surprising to me is how people(read girls/women) like it here(Vancouver, Canada)

After reading your discussion and Sarath's talk about Gates, I couldn't resist to mention this: I used to think of Bill Gates as another billionaire who spent little cash for charity to buy some public love, but as I see and read more of his charity work I begin to admire him more as a human being, and wish more rich people could stand up for a worthy cause...*caugh* Steve Jobs *caugh*... -- modified at 3:48 Monday 28th August, 2006

I like the content of the site alot! But as you mentioned it needs some work, especially, the screenshots and charts. They have been resized and the font is almost illegible. But great job! Looking forward to see updates. BTW, is your book going to be in electronic from only?