Thank you for this extremely interesting read. There are several GEMS in the essay, most notably these: Mr.Prakash_a wrote: The health problems associated with high noise levels include palpitation, blood vessel constriction, excess secretion of adrenaline and dilation of the pupil. Hahahahahahaaha :laugh::laugh::laugh: And don't forget about the danger of a heart attack from the shock when a cracker explodes suddenly. :laugh::laugh::laugh: Mr.Prakash_a wrote: It is unfortunate that some people treat Deepavali as an opportunity to show off their status or purchasing power. This leads to an "arms race" Oh hohohohohohohohoho... :laugh::laugh::laugh: Mr.Prakash_a wrote: "right to peaceful sleep is a fundamental right of the citizens" Fundamental right??????? :confused: I never knew sleeping was a fundamental right (it isn't). The writer of the essay needs to learn more about what a fundamental right is. Do not use the term loosely, it has a special meaning in the Indian constitution. (S)he is "quoting" the Supreme Court, for <>'s sake!!! Mr.Prakash_a wrote: "hydrogen bombs" ROTFLMAOOOOOOOOOOO :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh: *wipes tears from eyes and tea from monitor* BTW, which high school kid did you copy this essay from? :rolleyes: Mr.Prakash_a wrote: the issue of child labor in India is larger than the context of Deepavali alone This is true, unfortunately. Hopefully, now that the right to basic education has been made a fundamental right, and the government distributes snacks/lunch in the schools for these kids, the problem will go away slowly, because the parents of the kids will find a reason to send them to school instead of work. As I keep saying, education is the answer to most of our problems. Give the kids books to read, and adults work to do. Regards, Rohit Sinha

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Congrats Meg! And your hubby too. :cool: Since you're the one who'll do most of the work ( :) ), take very good care of yourself. I er, don't know what to say, it's all very beautiful. :rose: Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

And a very happy Diwali to you too, Nish. :cool: And everyone else. :cool: Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Thanks, Nish :) Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Trollslayer wrote: Megan is pregnant Congrats Meg!!! :rose::rose::rose::rose::rose: :) :) :) :) :) Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Megan Forbes wrote: Don't say the W-word today please Which word? Wimbledon? :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Roger Wright wrote: Of course, having said that, this post will fail to reach the server. The Internet Router Gods are a fickle lot... Nice counter strategy! Now that you mentioned the possibility, of course it didn't happen and your post did manage to reach the server. :D Regards, Rohit Sinha

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Heh, I faced the same problem once. Turns out the icon in the systray can only have the 16 primary colours. You will need to be really creative with those 16 colours if you want your icons to look good. This limitation is not there in XP though. Regards, Rohit Sinha

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Megan Forbes wrote: everyone's going on holiday except me No, I'll be working too. But I'm glad. Much better than the alternatives. :D Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

LOL!!! :laugh: Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Kant wrote: I can see them. Just try and search for 'Google'. Tried that too. The ads are just not there. :confused: [EDIT] Now I can see them too, YAY! :) I was starting to feel a bit left out. :) All is well now. [/EDIT] Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Ryan Binns wrote: I'm sick of it. I honestly hope I never ever ever hear about it again. Ditto. :sigh: Regards, Rohit Sinha

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Kant wrote: I can see the ads in the articles. (Bottom right corner of the article) I just went to your article. I can't see any ads. I've tried looking at other articles too, but I can't see them. Is it just me, or is anyone else experiencing this "problem"? :confused: Regards, Rohit Sinha

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Sorry, had to add this as a separate post, in case you'd already read my other one and miss the edit. I don't remember much about adwords, but I think it lets you specify negative keywords (or whatever they are called). Ads matching these negative keywords will NOT be displayed on the page. If this is correct, you can just ask people to specify their -ve keywords. That way that can have a bit of control over what appears on their articles. Again, do this on request only. Don't advertise it too much, or everyone will start doing this, and would defeat the whole purpose of content sensitive ads. ;P Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

I can't see any google ads!!! Have you pulled them out? :confused: But if you ask me (though I don't know how valid my opinion is, since the only article I wrote was for the scrapbook and not a technical article), I don't mind the google ads at all. In fact, I welcome it as it allows CP to keep running smoothly. If it makes money for you, even better. I'm happy for you and all others that worked so hard to make CP what it is today. The Code Project, The Community Project, The Cricket cough cough cough... I think today I am a better developer and a much better person than what I was before I joined CP. So thank you Chris, and thank you everyone on CP. :rose: A small suggestion, that might keep everyone happy: Allow article authors to opt out of google ads on request. Most authors won't mind having the ads on their articles, and those who really do, can tell you about it, and you can add them to a list which stops the ads being displayed on their articles. I am willing to bet most people (newcomers, especially) come here to look for stuff on dialog boxes, various controls, etc. Not highly technical stuff. The audience for such articles is very small. Though I haven't really looked at and compared the page views for different articles so please excuse me if I'm wrong. What this means is, not displaying ads on Marc's articles for example, would not have a tremendous impact on the revenues. Because Marc writes highly technical and sophisticated stuff, which is (excuse me but) not what most visitors to CP come looking for. Asking authors to pay a fees to get rid of the ads on their articles, as some others have suggested, is something I don't like (even though I don't think I have a say on this, but anyway). It's something like saying, pay up or else we show ads on your articles. This "or else" element is not very friendly. CP is a friendly place, right? :) In the end though, I don't see what the big deal is. It's an ad. Ads are a fact of life on the internet. You see them everywhere, so much that most of us have learned to tune them out. Hardly anyone notices them. Also, people should understand three things: 1. CP is a service to the community, not just the article authors. 2. Even though CP provides the service for free, it has to be run like a business. 3. It might boost your ego to think people come looking for you and your articles, but the fact is that they come here just to learn something. Or see how something works. Or even a bit of code they can just use. The don't

Nishant S wrote: I hope all that road digging they've done here will be worth it. I don't mind if they dig my grave, just give me broadband. :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Since you can't use GET, and you don't want to use POST... :D Can you split your page into multiple pages? For example, if the form is for collecting people's resume, you could ask them to provide their personal info on one page, then submit it using GET/POST as you like, process it, on to the next page, ask for their educational and other qualifications, submit again, next page, etc... Doing it this way will make it look more organized, and also take care of your little problem. Whenever you get stuck like this, it's time to take a step back and take another look at the design. :D 30 fields on a single page are a bit too much anyway, IMO. Think of the poor user. :) HTH. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy

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Thanks Nish. And wow, that was fast. Looks like everybody's well wishes finally paid off and your bandwidth did improve. So let me do my bit byte MB bit ( :rolleyes: ) too. May you get bit by giga bytes today and each day the whole of next year. :-D And hope Reliance Infocom hurries up on their optical fibre thing so we can finally have broadband. Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

dolimite35 wrote: whats the deal? its just email. Heh. Agreed. :-D Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa

Happy birthday Nish! :) Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa