sorry, no stats on health or productivity, but am in the process of making a cheapy sit/stand for home and trying to get prices from vendors for work.

thanks!

I've been trying to find something like a balance arm that dentist's use for the overhead light. Would be great to sit for a while, swing it up and stand for a while, swing it over to recumbent bike, etc. no luck so far. all I have is a cheap drafting table that swings over the recumbent, which I use just for reading (I'm not coordinated enough to bike and type and chew gum...)

good habits like using JSLint

+5 here too. when playing w/ C# in visual studio express and saw folding (about 5 years ago) i had to get a text editor w/ folding (settled on JEdit). The IBM Mainframe ISPF editor has an 'exclude line' feature for hiding what is currently noise, but lines must be hidden manually. So with Jedit set as 'fold per indent' all my todo lists look like Python scripts.

not even the code, but the name. A while after a nice old dude named Larry retired, I figured it was safe to delete a clist (old mainframe stuff) named 'Larry'. soon enough the phone was ringing off the hook - "what happened to the Larry command?!"

oh yes, plenty of cobol and assembler, some still going strong 40 years after first program fetch.

Ya Jedit!

* submit only 100 jobs at a time so we dont flood jes 01 counter pic 99, perform submit_job varying counter from 1 by 1 until ctr > 100. 98 99 00 duoh!

being a web dev newbie, was trying to decide between dojo, prototype, and jquery, while trying to learn javascript by studying http://www.tiddlywiki.com/[^] . when tiddlywiki went w/ jquery, I followed.

"Returning to them after some constructive distraction often yields a new perspective that removes the 'block'" the crock pot! a must have

use a browser!

Thanks all for your help

From the other responses, it seems its common for apps to get all kinds of information from user's machines, but I see you point and so while I plan to try to implement the suggested solutions, I will not come right out and ask them to send any info. thanks

Dave, thank you for your response. The app has a small (no corporate licenses) and vertical market and I just want to make it hard enough to beat the ubiquitous 'viral cd with magic markered key'. Users who beat Microsoft (if I understand ghosting), will certainly beat me. If you have pointers to another fairly easy way to protect small projects, or other insights, I'd appreciate it. thanks again

How bad of an idea is it to use the customer's Windows Product Key to fingerprint an installation? I would ask them to run a 'registration utility' that would display their Windows Product Key, and ask them to email it to me. Then provide a version of the application that only works with that key. A quick search did not provide instance of attacks via Windows Product Key. (I guess I should encrypt it prior to displaying and asking to send). Please advise the newbie, thanks

Privatized control is less susceptible to accountability and transparency. They don't believe in govt, in a 'commons', in civilization. 'No take big club from Ogg!'

I've been trying to find this for a while now : XSD -> XSL -> UI -> XML -> XSL -> XSD. the UI would combo box all the previous allowable values for an element, plus allow entry of a new value. If a new one was entered, the final XSD would now have it included, so the next time around it would be in the list of values.

this is a great explanation. Ours is an old mainframe shop, with tons of assembler, the most critical stuff written by 2 guys in the 70's and 80's. Neither talked about reading Parnas or anything but they definitely grasped that good design "does not become more complex over time" as you've said. However, one brilliant guy wrote everything re-entrant, whether rentrancy was warranted or not, and in general wrote very complex code. The other brilliant guy wrote what I call 'baby code', every bit as functional, and as critical, but nonetheless, it's what's used to train new folks since it's so simple. The complex guy could win the perl obfuscation contest, the simple guy could send guy to the moon, but each bit of code would be understandable, even to a beginner. Dan Wasson

where's my favorite? : "going forward.. "