Why would you not use the facilities offered in the standard JCL? Are you doing this as an exercise for a programming class, or are you coding something for a real-world project?

If it's for a...

My solutions are mundane, yet effective. I use an email whitelist and I browse the web with Opera or at least Firefox. I avoid MSIE.

This makes the process of emailing a bit more formalized,...

Better yet, do youself a favor: stop wasting your time with Windows and put Ubuntu Linux on that laptop. You'll have to borrow a friend's machine to download the image and burn the CD. But it's...

Thank you, Cheenu, for your interesting suggestion. Setting the divider bar does allow the visual effect I want, but unfortunately, it leaves nothing for the mouse to grab, which renders it...

I'm not sure what you mean by "import", but if you're asking how to get out of making static calls endlessly from one method to the next, just instantiate your class inside the main method and then...

The others are correct. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a specialized field of development. It took many years of work in this field before machines could start to read handwriting with any...

I've been trying to find an alternate means of achieving essentially what JSplitPanes can do, except that the hideous-looking splitter bar would be invisible, and you can resize in both x and y...

Hi Caperjack,

I have heard that if you keep on top of Windows and keep running various utilities to clean up after it, you can avoid the slowdown that most people experience after a few months. ...

Simple: don't use IE. Like most other Microsoft technologies, it is willfully non-standards-compliant, badly-broken software that introduces endless opportunities for crackers to take over your...