I can't narrow it down to 3. But Hellsing was in there somewhere.

You can use the key with any Home Premium disc. You're even allowed to buy another copy and change your key after it's been installed (don't know why they have this feature, but it can be useful if...

For me, the list would probably be something like:

surfing the 'net (not very IT, really)
watching anime
knitting (even while watching anime!)
my girlfriend :P

I had the same idea, though I wasn't particular about the caliber of the gun. Of course, whatever choke may have been used, the range would have to be long enough that the shot had mostly dispersed,...

I've largely abandoned Facebook. It's only useful for managing events with people who don't use anything else.

Social networking sites are highly overrated :P

Actually, it was a bad experience writing a PHP website. I was sick of the language at the end, and then came across ASP.NET. Neither's perfect, certainly, but I find the model for ASP.NET easier...

I found the opposite, so you never can tell.

@OP: as mentioned, Visual Web Developer 2005 and 2008 have their own web server. It's not exactly the same as IIS, but you can use it to test and...

I'm again suspicious of your PATH. Here's mine:
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\Wireless\Bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows...

First guess would be that your PATH environment variable is screwed up. If you go to Start, right click Computer, select properties, hit the Advanced System Settings link, and then hit the...

I have a pretty good idea, but I can't remember what the official date is... :P

I hope it's safe to say "first quarter of 2008 (http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsid=9940)"

While most manufacturers are moving to Vista, I believe XP will still be supported for a while to come. Afterall, there will be an SP3 that comes out I think when Vista SP1 launches. XP will...

seredipity, I'm pretty sure you mean Vista SP1.

That said, most any computer store that sells a decent amount of software should still carry XP. Heck, even the MSFT company store still has a lot...

IMHO this is the better plan. It should be considered unacceptable behavior to leave such messages, whether or not the words show up or the comment is rephrased.

If you do decide to use a database, keep all the data together or else it would become a mess to keep it all together. Personally, I'd use a SQL Express database, but I'm familiar with SQL and I've...

I think you might have to do something about taking the repeater and finding the label in its children or something... I had a problem like this once, but I don't quite remember what I did...

Try setting the font-color to black when you set enabled to false. :icon_wink:

it sets endwait to be the current clock() value (presumably a timestamp) + a time to wait. It then goes into an empty loop until the clock() value becomes equal to endwait, at which point it exits...

Not all professionals refuse to use goto, or else the Linux kernel stopped being updated some while back. Goto sometimes is very useful; just because it's hard to use properly doesn't mean it should...

They'll probably tell you to never use goto as well, but that doesn't mean you should just listen to them. Find out why, and then do what is best; and yes, the popular opinion can be wrong...

The EULA for WinXP only allows you to install it on a certain number of machines (2 IIRC but I could be mistaken). That said, for your programming it's a toss up. I find that a Linux distro is...

works fine on mine (Vista, 2.0.0.5)

I don't know that it'd be the most efficient, but you could save the Excel document as XML and use that as a data source on your website. You could then set up permissions to edit the XML data...

My SATA showed up as sda back when I had Linux on it...

Wow, I missed out on a bit of the thread :(


A 3.2GHz processor really isn't all that great anymore. I've got one. My dual core system runs circles around it. Seriously, get a dual core...

On 32-bit stuff (which is most everything still) the Core 2 blows AMD out of the water last I checked. It also comes with a price tag to match. There aren't a lot of 64-bit benchmarks, so comparing...

almost all mobos have thermal cutoffs now, so the temperature throttling shouldn't be a big deal. And most OSs also use dynamic throttling to keep pace with actualy CPU usage, so having a heat...

I'm not a fan at all of Pentium 4 chips. They had high clock speeds but relatively poor performance and high energy usage. Get a newer chip, and one with 2 cores. An Athlon X2 3800+ is also about...

My total was right about $450

I just built a cheap box to run Vista on a couple weeks ago. I was on a tight budget so I stuck with a AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+, 2GB of RAM, and an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard. Don't know how the mobo...

I'd guess that it's due to how floating point values are stored imprecisely in memory, causing the weird results to come up on rare occasions.

The new version of Office has a file format using XML. Vista itself has very little to do with XML, and it's certainly not based on it.

I'd say to just keep writing code for now, when you get to the 4-year school they'll have plenty of resources. You might consider reading a couple books on algorithms or software development, and...

Yes, the use of & is optional in this case. Similarly, when calling the function *foo() and foo() will also be the same.

I don't see the word screen anywhere in his post...

Please don't use bold text when you post. It's meant to give emphasis to parts of a post, not the entire body; using it too much is poor netiquette. Also, please use and tags when posting code...

Different solution using stringstreams:

#include <sstream>
#include <string>
#include <iomanip>
using namespace std;
string foo(string city, string state)
{
stringstream ss;
string str;

If you're copying something, you need to allocate memory and then copy the appropriate values in. When dealing with strings, however, there's several library functions that'll help you along the...

No, drivers ed was about $300 through my school. They stopped offering it a year later, so my sister had to pay $450 to go to another place.

Lucky? Maybe. I had to pay for everything car related (drivers ed, car, car insurance, etc...), and they weren't the nicest cars in the parking lot. I started with an '86 Toyota Tercel station...

While I resent the stereotype that young men are crazy drivers, there is some truth to it. I know I wasn't afraid to speed through areas, although I claim that I only did so to a safe extent. The...