It is if he's the owner of the company!

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DaveAuld wrote:

i looked under uninstall a program, not uninstall and update!

I looked there first too. But then I Googled "uninstall IE9 and found the answer on MS's own web site! Guess they figured not everyone would want to keep it.

DaveAuld wrote:

did it roll back to whatever you had previously, e.g. ie8, ie7

It sure did. I had to re-delete the default links on my favorites bar, and rearrange my menu, command and favorites bars again, but other than that I'm back to IE8 with no problems. I sure hope they address the appearance issues I mentioned in the next update to IE9 and allow me to move the tabs row. If so I'll use it.

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

Not so. If you look under "Programs and Features", "View Installed Updates", "Microsoft Windows" you'll find an entry for Internet Explorer 9. It's gone from my system. Uninstalling was faster and easier than installing.

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It took me a little longer than 60 seconds, but I don't care for it either. Took 3 tries, and killing almost everything else I usually run, before the installer worked, but finally got it installed and rebooted. It is definitely FAST. Pages load in a snap. The user interface is UGLY - the menu bar, command bar, favorites bar and status bar have not changed appearance significantly, so they don't fit with the new style at all. The result is a horrible mishmash of two different interface styles! The first thing I did was the tabs show on a separate row instead of the same row as the toolbar buttons (whoever thought that was a good idea never had more than two tabs open at a time). Then I found that you cannot move the tabs row! So the menu bar, favorites bar and command bar are all now between my tabs and my browser window!!! I absolutely HATE that. I'd give it 5 stars for speed, and minus 7 stars for ugliness and unfriendly interface. As soon as I post this I'm going to uninstall it.

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Recipe for a monopoly: 1. Buy or build a really good product 2. Give it away 3. Wait for all the competition to disappear 4. Wait for everyone to become hooked on it 5. Start charging for it Drug dealers have been doing it for years. Considering the price of their other offerings, do you REALLY think it's going to stay that (relatively) cheap once they get you used to paying for it?

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The CURRENT contents are: del D:\Temp\__rar* (You can guess what that was for) I use Comfort Clipboard[^], so I've got 99 previous entries dating back to almost a week ago.

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"I'll tell you what makes the code fairly hard to understand: having a single function which is thousands of lines long." You can say that again!!! If at all possible I try not to have a function that goes over the number of lines that will fit comfortably in one screen of my programming editor.

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The only thing I've done lately besides programming is night auditor at a hotel (glorified front desk clerk), and I'd kill myself if I had to do that again. I got good grades in accounting and economics in college (4.0), so I'd probably become a CPA. I've also enjoyed writing training manuals and teaching classes, so that's an area I'd consider as well. Of course, I'd still be a closet programmer at home...

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Couldn't have said it better myself. The very idea of using "architected" make me cringe.

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

That's the funniest thing I've read in quite a while! Thanks for post the link (and thanks to the newsletter editors for passing it on). My boss was wondering why I was laughing so hard, so I had to forward it on to him. Here's another one: Computers can read minds, but they're basically evil. They know That you really didn't want to format your hard drive when you said "format c:" (and replied YES), so why did they format your hard drive? Because they (and Microsoft) are evil!

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

I watch TV, read science fiction, drink beer with my friends and cook.

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

Thanks! Just what I needed: another way to waste time at work!

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

My boss makes the major decisions about languages and platforms, but within that I'm free to use my choice of style, libraries, tools, etc. I've also got a lot of input into design decisions. I also get to wear jeans, boots and t-shirts to work. I love working for a small company!

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There are literally thousands of skins available, so your customer is likely to find one they like. If not, I've created more than a half dozen skins/layouts for DNN web sites, from simple to fairly complex, and it really wasn't that difficult. All it takes it some knowledge of DHTML and CSS, reading the skinning documentation, and browsing through a couple of existing skins to get an idea how it's done.

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We have about 20 small to medium sized web sites built with DotNetNuke running on our server and have very few problems with them. It's not the fastest framework in the world, but it's flexibility and ease of use make up for it. I can set up a new DNN web site in just a couple of hours with blogs, forums, faqs, galleries, newsletters, subscriptions and tons of other features built right in. But the real selling point is that our customers LOVE being able to maintain their own web sites without extra software, without FTP, and without extensive knowledge of HTML or other web technologies. That's what DNN is really about, and that's where it really comes through. If you want speed, nothing beats plain text, but you won't attract much interest that way.

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Not a spare part, actually, but more of a conversation piece: I have a circiut board containing actual core memory. A 16x16 array of tiny magnetic donuts and wires.

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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:

What's an 8-inch floppy?

Insert obvious Viagra joke here...

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

I'm not as impressed by his accomplishment. This article[^] about the E8 figure was published in March 2007 and is titled "Is this the Fabric of the Universe?" It contains this quote which sounds like someone else had already discovered the notion: "This is an impressive achievement," said Hermann Nicolai, Director of the Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, Germany. "While mathematicians have known for a long time about the beauty and the uniqueness of E8, we physicists have come to appreciate its exceptional role only more recently - yet, in our attempts to unify gravity with the other fundamental forces into a consistent theory of quantum gravity, we now encounter it at almost every corner," he said, referring to efforts to combine the theory of the very big (general relativity) with the very small (quantum mechanics). "Thus, understanding the inner workings of E8 is not only a great advance for pure mathematics, but may also help physicists in their quest for a unified theory."

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

You've beat me to the posting, and beat my years experience by a few, but I agree with your comments completely.

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

I have to take some offense at the negative comments about older programmers (I'm 51), former mainframe programmers (I did 8 or 9 years on IBM big irons, from Sytem 360 up), and former COBOL programmers (I did COBOL for 5 years). None of those things has any real bearing on the quality of a programmer or his/her product. Other factors, such as the ability to come up with creative solutions to problems, the willingness and desire (even eagerness) to learn new technologies, and the capability to work well with customers are much more important, and those traits are just a lacking in many young, microcomputer based, C# programmers. Now to the original question: I have little or no "formal training". I took a 9-week course in COBOL in the USMC (I was doing Fortran before that, self-taught) and a couple of 1-7 day classes in various subjects are the only "formal" technical training I've had. I also had little formal higher-level eduction. I've taken a dozen or so college classes. Only two were in computer-related subjects. In one of the classes the instructor told me I could have taught (he worked across the hall from me for 3 years when I was in the Marine Corps, and he was right). I got bored with the computer classes and switched to a broader curriculm including accounting, english and economics. I had a 4.0 average when I got tired of going to school part-time, working full-time, and trying to be a husband and father as well, and dropped out. I've worked with programmers that had degrees in other fields (one with a PhD in Physics), and I could program rings around any of them any day of the week. For most of the last 30 years I have successfully made a living at programming. I've taught myself everything from PL/I and S360 Assembler to HTML, CSS, XML, C, C++, VB, Perl, PHP, SQL, a smattering of x86 machine language, and another dozen or two acronyms. In spite of my mainframe and COBOL background I've never had trouble picking up and using new technologies. I even "get" Object-Oriented Programming. I've never had trouble dealing with users, customers, and other technical people either. I've developed course materials for a couple of 1-14 day computer classes for the US Government. I've taught several different computer classes at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. And I've helped others in countless other ways. I've been a Tek-Tips Tipmaster of the Month. Customers and non-technical users consider me to be one of the best technical people they've worked with because I have the ability to explain things