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My BA (Hons) in Studies in the Humanities was obtained in 1978 from Hatfield Polytechnic (part of de Montford University now). I got a job at Imperial College Computer Centre in London in September that year where I toyed with many arcane languages:…

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So the long speculated purchase of Youtube by Google finally happened for a whopping $1.65 billion (pocket change for Google). However I think this wasnt the right time and that they could of gotten it for cheaper. Youtube had a cost of over a million dollars to run a month …

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I appreciate all numbers but I only care for and like [B]even[/B] numbers (perhaps its an OCD thing ;) ) As programmers we all work with numbers all the time; which types of numbers do you like, prefer, and\or adore, and why? regards, Matty D.

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Hello Everyone, I need help on a part of the script below.The purpose is to accept some filenames as command line arguments and count the number of characters,words,lines in each file, and the total of each of these 3 attributes. My output should look like this... [COLOR="Blue"]file 1 stats: Number …

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I fought for and again miss the lack of being able to highlight what I would like to point out using color. Yes there are the [highlight] tags, but I used to use magenta for bad and blue for good -- kinda like the old days when red meant delete, …

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Is anyone specifically dealing with members who send 419 scam posts by private message? I've just got one from [B]flower55[/B] claiming to be "Miss Odette Amah from Zimbawe" who is keen to give me 15% of "Seven million five hundred thousand United state Dollars". Not great problem but last month …

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There is an algorithm in the software program that other team handed to me on linux. Given a set of requirements, our task is to create a test script/driver to verify that algorithm using a separate data file and spit out the result on the output file. The concept is …

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I want a program, which will set an alarm on a computer at a specific time according to the day and time... and a window will pop up on the screen with your own text on it.... I want the yellow notification box on the toolbar to popup indicating a …

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Exactly, what is the score with Women and computers? I joined this site because of Danni! She is an inspiration to all women out there!! And she has proved that women are just as good (if not better!!) at computers than us men are! So, why are they getting such …

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Hi is there anyone willing enough to help me solve my problem. I'm using both Dev C++ 5 in windows and g++ in Linux to compile this code but was unable to do it successfully. Can any one help mi pliz [code] #include <cstdlib> #include <iostream> using namespace std; // …

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Im bored again so i think i might start a thread that people can post random funny pictures to and heres the first one. [URL="http://www.ssqq.com/romance/images/fat%20guy.jpg"]http://www.ssqq.com/romance/images/fat%20guy.jpg[/URL]

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does anyone review the code shippets that get posted? I was glancing through the list and found one that is full of bugs :eek: -- any newbe would have a difficult time trying to figure out how to correct the bugs. Not a problem for me, but just wondering if …

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