Of course not, people won't put up with a small banner ad in Opera (which costs them nothing) so why would they want to _pay_ anything.. :^) Tim Stubbs

meh i carry a mere 1gig of SD in my phone.. Tim Stubbs

I saw it last weekend with five others - we all hated it. The plotline was, at best, like fishnet stockings are to carrying water, the characters woefully underdeveloped and the script as thin as my hairline... I'm a huge fan of the original books, the radio show and (to some extent) the telly series but as a FILM this did not work. I felt very sorry for two of my friends who hadn't read the book as it was even more disjointed for them.. Avoid where possible. :zzz: Tim Stubbs

...it's big but isn't it just as slow? I get out to malaysia fairly often and the thing that would most affect my journey is it being a heck of a lot shorter! Still mourning the loss of concorde, a plane that STILL hasn't been equalled after decades of 'development', and now just remembered for a crash. Tim Stubbs

I _need_ 1 gig, I want more... Memory requirements post VS6 are quite high, especially if you prefer multiple devstudios vs multiple projects in a single one as I do. On a typical day i'm using a good 80% of memory, but then can spiral on larger projects to much closer to the limit. I'm happy with the amount I have now but i'd image i'll be adding another gig soon enough. I actually specced a striped RAID array (SATA) for this machine as the cost (very cheap now) versus the speed gains (great) are impressive. I can get XP installed in around 10mins on this setup and it copes with the thrashing of .NET stuff far better. The IT guy did question my need for it tho and didn't seem to understand i didn't want a redudancy based RAID (mirrored set) versus a performance one. I had one drive die last week (funnily enough) as Dell were good enough to pack all the hard drives (and floppy) together in a small no-air cooker in one corner of the case.. Tim Stubbs

Consider the following (i've cut things for brevity)... using namespace Gdiplus; CImageList img; img.Create(IDB_USERBUTTONS,32, 52, RGB(192,192,192)); CLSID bmpClsid; if (GetEncoderClsid(L"image/bmp", &bmpClsid) == -1) { ASSERT(FALSE); } IMAGEINFO *i; for (long t = 0; t < numbuttons; t++) { HICON bibi = ImageList_img.ExtractIcon(t); HICON bibi2 = CopyIcon(bibi); Bitmap image(btn.GetIcon()); s = image.Save(name.AllocSysString(), &bmpClsid, NULL); } So, in effect, I'm trying to use the Bitmap class' constructor to load an image from a HICON which itself derives from an ImageList (ExtractIcon). However, although this should work (and i can use the HICON on a button for example) the Bitmap constructor simply blows up, trashes the stack and leaves me with nothing useful to work with. Passing a HICON from an icon resource... works. Why? It seemed like a fine idea to parse an imagelist into a bunch of disk-based image files... :wtf: Tim Stubbs

I just test drove the SEAT Leon Cupra R. Holy cow it's a great car! Dribble.. Tim Stubbs

Oh yeah VC falls over nicely.... I think it's related to the fun and games from a known bug when you've got norton antivirus installed - often i get a 'file in use' error when trying to save a file, which then mysteriously evaporates. When VC crashes, it's usually when i hit alt f, l (save all) - the editor locks up for a second or two and then 4/5 times it dies. Same problemo when i hit f7 (less frequent) as i have 'save all files before compiling' checked in the opts. Then again, I've been using VC since it's 4.1(?) incarnation and it's never been anywhere near bug free... :rolleyes: Tim Stubbs

I'm in Win2k, therefore i consider that *reasonably* secure (in that i have to log in). I agree, you *should* login to srcsafe - but... why do i have to do it all bloody day long ;) I mean, I load a project, therefore i login, VC falls over, I load a project, therefore i login, I load another project, therefore I login... Ad Infinitum. The force is weak in this one... Seriously, there is something wrong if SS can't work out you're logged in thru one devstudio, and therefore don't need to do it all over again when you load a new devstudio instance on the same machine... I mean, user/pw for SS is per user, not per project. Some days I just wanna scream, go postal and 'liberate' the office :) X| Tim Stubbs

We use VC6++ SP5 with Sourcesafe 5 here... every time i load a SS checked in/out project in VC, I have to login to sourcesafe... Really annoying.. There must be a simple dumbass way to get round this??? HELP ITS THE LITTLE THINGS THAT DRIVE ME INSANE!!!!!!!! :eek: Tim Stubbs