Hummm, Just coz someone has a different opinion or religion does not make it ok for you to bomb, torture, kill, or whatever them! This goes to Americans, Brits, members of Al Qaeda or anyone else for that matter. The Americans decry what happened to them as terrorism yet they supply several countries with weapons and other items. They don't do anything about Israel / Palestine or Southern Africa. For the record - I'm British and am against the (pending?) war against Iraq! Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, I've writing an application to interface with a telnet client to provide a nice graphical front-end to a remote piece of hardware. Unfortunately, the telnet interface is designed to be parsed by a human and so has no nice features like terminators and has random lag. Delays as long as 250ms are routine and although this poses no problems for a human reading the response; plays havok with an automated front end. I was wondering if people out there had come across similar problems and what solutions they've tried and the success they've had. Currently, my sockets code runs with an 80% chance of getting all the data from the device. The big issue is that it is sooo slow as I deliberately wait for 250ms just in case. Any ideas... Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Humm, Should have explained that better: Region 1 DVDs - NTSC to the TV Region 2 DVDs - PAL to the TV No converters involved at all... Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, I've managed to add many new and interesting items to the CAMEL - CPU Identifier. These include PCI hardware detection, Dhrystone & Whetstone benchmarking and several other things... The problem: I cannot think of any more! I would like people to suggest random ideas and perhaps something will be implemented. Ideas To Get You Started: 1. Llama detection speed. 2. Expresso Maker 3. etc etc etc... Thanks, Iain :-D P.S. I take full responsibility for any flames; cigars; bungy-jumping llamas; or other strange things that happen in this thread! ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya PAL - 720x576 @ 50Hz NTSC - 640x480 @ 60Hz DVD - Has frame sizes and frame rates encoded... I.e. MPEG-2 stream is 640x480@30fps or 720x576@25fps... Something like that! Some DVD players (multi-region ones normally) have PAL -> NTSC or NTSC -> PAL / PAL60 converters built in to accomodate this. Mine doesn't - I ahve a TV that has NTSC support and so takes raw NTSC from the DVD player with no complaints. Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, It is possible that you have faulty hardware that only faults under specific conditions. Windows drivers are not a good way of diagnosing hardware problems. Simplest solution: 1. Remove all non-essential hardware (i.e. leaving CPU, RAM, MOBO, Boot HDD) 2. Run an intensive test program or similar for 12 to 24 hours on the hardware. If the exception occurs, blank the boot disk; install a fresh clean copy and try again. If the exception occurs again, one of the above is faulty. Now follow a replace and retest on the above items. 3. Should you get this far... Replace the cards, etc. in the PC one-at-a-time. It is important that you do this in steps. Again, test the PC for 12 to 24 hours with a burn-in application. If a BSOD / exception occurs then install a fresh copy of the OS and the latest drivers. If you are using the latest drivers already; go back a release. 4. If everything works fine - your system is OK. NEVER say that there are no faulty drivers or hardware UNLESS you can prove (preferably using Z or some other tool) that they are correct! There may be bugs in hardware / software that are benign until a specific combination of hardware and software occurs. Iain :-D ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, WinXP Pro does and you can set the logging level via the gpedit.msc tool. To see the logs: visit Computer Management -> Event Viewer -> Security and search the times... Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, How about: http://www.codeproject.com/system/camel.asp ? Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya, I've managed to add many new and interesting items to the CAMEL - CPU Identifier. These include PCI hardware detection, Dhrystone & Whetstone benchmarking and several other things... The problem: I cannot think of any more! I would like people to suggest random ideas and perhaps something will be implemented. There is a prize :-D for this: the authors of any ideas that are implemented into the code will be given a free copy of the final release version. YES! FREE! :omg: If you want to see the latest version - check out: http://www.voodoo-magic.net/files/camel/camel_171.msi Thanks, Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."

Heya People, I'm looking for people to test the new version of the Camel CPU Identifer (v1.6 vs. CodeProjects v1.2). It features a host new stuff such as PCI device identification, supports more CPUs, better CPU identification and speed code. BIG THING: It now includes benchmarking code for processors i.e. Integer, FP, MMX / MMX+, SSE / SSE MMX / SSE FP / SSE2 and 3DNow / 3DNow+... The problem is I have little experience in coding benchmarking programs and am looking for both testers to see if they work and people to help me produce better algorithms etc... Next big project: Conversion to a C++ (Non-MFC) ActiveX COM / COM+ control. Think you're up to it. Please tell me how to do this. I've never worked on an ActiveX control before. Thanks, Iain ---- "I would be careful in separating your weirdness, a good quirky quantum weirdness, from the disturbed weirdness of people who take pleasure from PVC sheep with fruit repositories."