Posts by alc6379

Your motherboard is probably whacked out. Why did you pull out your BIOS IC?

Take your setup out of the case, and set it on something nonconductive. hook up the powersupply, etc, and see what you get.

By removing it from the case, you ensure that there's no airflow obstructions. If it's still heating up, clear out the dust from the card's fins, and consider a 3rd party cooling solution. Either that, or purchase a new video card.

Are you sure you're using the right kind of connector?

You could have a bad card/connector on your hands. I'd get a 4-pin Molex to floppy power adapter, and try a different line coming off of there. That might make a difference, if you're already using a bunch of splitters.

That header's not going to do anything for you.

Do you see ANYTHING when it boots? If the answer is no, you might want to consider purchasing a new video card, or even a power supply. If you see the BIOS POST screen, it could just be a driver issue.

Is the card dusty? Do you have proper ventilation in your case? What kind of card is this?

If your system is so cramped, might you need to reconsider the kind of graphics card that you have?

You probably need to replace the LCD panel. It could be the connection to the motherboard, or the cable, even. I would suggest that you contact the manufacturer of the laptop, and see if they have a spare parts department that offers replacement LCDs.

AI Programs?

Depends on what you're doing, I guess. You'll probably have to do some C programming to do it. For that, you'd need to get some kind of compiler.

Have you programmed anything before, ever? What is your experience like?

Hey there,

I'd do it, but unless there's one I'm not aware of, there are absolutely no digitized photos of me in existance, anywhere. :(

But, I really wanted to address your disclaimer, and bump your thread. It's okay to post stuff like this, so long as posters keep the pictures clean. If there had been another thread like this, I or another mod would have merged the threads. :D

Alex, you are a beast. I bet you could really whoop some bobo. I also bet your were the only nerd that no one picked on in school?

LOL :D

I got by in school simply by being cool to everyone. But, that's not to say I couldn't handle myself with some well-placed roundhouse kicks :)

I dunno. I kind of hope that Microsoft will stick around for a good while.

With the advent of .NET 2.0, and some of their more recent releases, I've started to see something different in them. They're becoming more developer-friendly. They're becoming more interoperable with other OSes. They're making tools that are REALLY useful for administration and systems development. I like that.

I think that regardless of how much time MS has left, I really appreciate the steps they're taking as of late to be a "good member" of the "software community".

It's legal.

You have a license to use it, as obviated by you having a CoA sticker. The disc, no matter where you get it from, is just the media you install the OS with. As caperjack put it, if you're using your own key, and not someone else's, or a pirated key, you're good to go.

Does it show this in the BIOS, or just in Windows? How is the RAM installed in your system? When did this start happening?

Please provide us some more information. For all we know, this isn't even a Windows problem, but a bona fide hardware problem.

My current PC runs Vista just fine. At least, it has run every one of the betas I've installed on it.

But, incidentally, I will be building a new PC that will run Vista. It's not just because of Vista's coming out, it's just my regular upgrade cycle. I plan to start with these components:

• Athlon64 x2 4200
• 2x1GB PC3200 Dual channel
• 1.25TB of disk space (1x250GB primary boot volume, 3x500GB in RAID5 storage)
• 1xNVIDIA 7900GS, to add a second one in the future.

It's going to be a pretty tough machine-- I think it will be up to the task of choking on Vista :)

Not being able to add a whole lot to your code, I'm willing to bet that the reason why dunretnda (redundant) shows up more than one time is because there are duplicate characters in the string. For instance, in the case of dunretnda, position 2 == 'n', and position 6 == 'n', as well. Even though each position has the same literal character in it, it's still at a different position in the string.

Also, one way you could get around not running out of memory is to formulate some way to write the results to a temporary text file, just to purge it from RAM. It's been a while since I've programmed Python, but you could then manipulate the results stored in that file using streams, so you'd make more efficient use of the RAM available in your system. You could use a stream to write lines to a file, and then use a stream to read lines from the file, one by one. I think that Python allows you to set the position in a file, too, so you could still reference particular lines in the file, if you needed.

this is insanly easy, and you more then likly have not even tryed to google tutorials on this because there are thousands that cover this single topic.

To go one step further:

Les Google

Hello,
You can try to use the professional .net component for ms excel.
It support MS Excel , MS Word, HTML , XML , PDF , MS Access ,DBF, SQL Script, SYLK,DIF,CSV ,MS Clipboard format and more.
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good luck!

Sure, you could probably do that, but I wouldn't advise following the advice of someone who just bumped a somewhat old thread to push a for-pay feature that is already available in the .NET framework, mostly. Sounds a bit spammy, if you ask me.

Hi there,

Just for future reference, please make sure your connection string doesn't contain sensitive information like usernames and passwords. I took the liberty of editing out the user name and password from the string.

But, given your issue, it doesn't sound like permissions are set properly on your database server. As such, that's not so much of a C# issue, but more of a server configuration issue.

Looking at the connection string, though, what database server are you using for your backend? I know on SQL Server, you use "User ID=foo;Password=bar" in your connection string, rather than "UID=foo;PWD=bar". It could be different depending on the type of database. Like, an ODBC connection string might be different from a SQL connection string. Since you mentioned MSSQL server, you might just need to change that.

You'll want to buy a book that covers the topic of ADO.NET

Access Data Objects are how the entire .NET framework deals with most types of databases. If you really don't know where to begin with database connectivity, you should pick up a book that deals specifically with ADO.NET, or pick up a C# reference that contains a chapter or two on it to use as a primer.

My favorite C# book at the moment is Core C# and .NET. It contains an entire section on database programming with C#. That should be enough to get you started, and then you can reference some more comprehensive texts on ADO.NET should you want some more advanced guidance.

If it's lots of people whose first and only post on the site is "Give me a free subscription" then I agree with you. However, I don't feel the posts should be deleted if they have other posts on the site or if there is two way communication between people who want and people who have, as is the case with the Gmail invites.

I concur.

We are now officially on the same page :cool:

I'm really dreading having to fool with configuration for some reason. I can understand C# well enough, but I'm having a tough time with XML. I'm just hoping that when the need finally does arise for me to really use an app.config file, I'll have a little more knowledge under my belt regarding the topic.

Would running Python server-side work? Apache supports Python as a web development language. You can generate HTML on the server, and then browse that in IE.

OK... Maybe I can weigh in on this one.

Using what VERY LITTLE I currently know about XML (learning more every day), it appears that the type attribute specifies a type that's outlined in a particular XML schema. So, you could have an XML schema that defines a type, and then you'd use the type="xs:foo_my_schema" to tell the parser that's what your type is.

What does that mean? I dunno. I'll reiterate that I don't know a whole lot about XML, and I know especially less about XML Schemas. (haven't found a good book on it yet, really) But, maybe this link will help:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/

I at least was able to use it to discern what the type= bit is used for. I'm guessing that if you don't use a schema, it's optional.

First definately database oriented. Next using webservice. Then go into deeper to XML, device drive like capturing media message message and process etc...

These are really great ideas.

Personally, I'm working on code-behind stuff to generate ASP.NET tables on the fly, based on queries using a SQL database. Fun times had by all!

I'm 6'5". Wife's 6' even. Does that throw your stats off any?

The only way that I will agree with you is if all of the posts are "I want a free Xbox subscription!" and there aren't any posts offering them as well.

I'm not looking at past issues-- my post was made solely on recent posts. All those posts have been "Please gimme one. " I don't object in any way to people offering, and others recieving-- I just take issue with freeloaders.

Bridge.DLL was different. This is a computer help forum, those people were asking for help. Completely on-topic. You've done an awesome job with the SEO on this forum, no doubt, but going on my premise these posts are spammy it seems like the high PageRank for this particular thread is a double-edged sword.

I agree with you mostly on this: If people come for computer help, and they get what they need from this, a computer help forum, they might be moved to stick around and contribute, or at least ask more questions. More questions answered means more content, and more value is provided to the community as a whole. But I don't see someone having a case of the "gimmies" for a free Xbox subscription sticking around.

> Thing is, though, that they're not the rage, and they never have been, at least not on this forum.
But they ARE all the rage if we're getting a bunch of them. :)

:p

That's the thing-- they aren't all the rage. The initial thread is getting overblown because of such a high Google ranking. The people asking are just a bunch of freeloaders who don't want to pay for an Xbox Live subscription. Do we really want that type of person here, anyways?

> I really don't like these types of threads.
Personal opinions are irrelevant. Obviously, other people do like these types of threads, or else they wouldn't exist.

Point acknowledged regarding opinions. But, I still contend that people generally aren't interested in these threads. The people posting them are looking for something for nothing, and as such I regard them as being spammy, because a spammer is looking to use our forum as a platform to get their point out without paying. I really don't see the difference in this.

But, before we go any further, I would just like to point out that this isn't something I'm hell-bent on proving my point on. But, it's just that posts like these are junk in my eyes, and to be regarded in the same manner as spam. Call that an opinion, but I think that it's valid enough to consider lumping them into the same category when it comes to post moderation.

Still, if it's the hot thing to buy, sell, and trade, I see nothing wrong with opening up one thread in the Geek's lounge for it.

Thing is, though, that they're not the rage, and they never have been, at least not on this forum. My concern is that one post from LONG ago has been highly rated for a given search term in Google, and it's causing people to spam, in my opinion.

I could be for creating a single thread if we did get a lot of volume on this topic, but it just seems like it's pointless. Perhaps we should just be vigilant on closing them, or something. I really don't like these types of threads.

Gang,

I'm guessing people are typing "Free XBox Live Subscription" into Google, and they're coming here. We're on the front page for that keyword:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=free+xbox+live+subscription&btnG=Google+Search

Anyways, I think we might need to be pre-emptive. I've been deleting recent requests for those free 2/3 month subscriptions, because it could easily turn into some lame "OMFG, D00D CN 1 H4B 1 2000???" types of deals.

Should I go back and delete the first instance of that post, where the person actually offered one for free? They had one over a year ago, and it got given away, but people registered just to ask if they could have it.

What's the exact error message? Can you provide the code for what you're trying to do?

It sounds like the data you're passing might have been part of a private variable, or part of another object. But, without seeing your code, I couldn't tell you.

What do you mean with flamefests? :confused:

He means bringing up such a heated issue in an unsolicited fashion. Threads like these always turn ugly, an always need to be closed.

I'll leave this one open, but as soon as it gets out of hand, it WILL be closed.

C#

using System;

class onetoten
{
	public static void Main ()
	{
		for (int x = 0; x < 11; x++)
		{
			Console.Write(x);
		}
	}
}

Blah... you have to show off the features of object orientation:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;

namespace counting
{
    public class Counter
    {
        private int count = 1;

        public int Count
        {
            get
            {
                return count;
            }
            set
            {
                count = value;
            }
        }
    }

    class Program
    {
        public static void Main()
        {
            Counter number = new Counter();
            do
            {
                Console.WriteLine(number.Count.ToString());
                number.Count++;
            } while (number.Count <= 10);

        }
    }
}

Looks like a lot more code... Well, it is, but now I've created a reusable object that does all of the work, and I could change it later on so to have a different starting number, or even determine the number some other way. :cool:

This is not the case. The 1st amendment says that Congress cannot pass a law abridging freedom of speech.

A private/public business, such as an ISP, has no such obligation.

Case in point-- the very forum you're on right now.

Congress can't make a law saying that you aren't allowed to talk about running a get-rich-quick scheme, so long as your scheme is legal. But, here at Daniweb, it would be our prerogative to delete your comment. Not that we'd do it, but we could even do it despite there not being a provision in our Terms and Conditions about your post. Why? This place is privately run-- trying to claim 1st Amendment here will just get you laughed at.

What kind of system are you running? What kind of motherboard is in the machine?

That CD uses a version of Windows called WinPE, and it often has limited driver support.

It's probably pirated. Stay away from it.

Besides, any version of an Office product from 97 is going to expose you to some major security flaws. Not that they were bad software products, but they're showing their age, and many people have had time to figure out exploits for it.

You might have to get a newer version of Word. As time went on, Word got better at converting these files. IIRC, I think Word 2003 supports that format...

Did you try just removing them from Add/Remove programs?

For future reference, uninstall all programs from Add/Remove programs. Simply deleting the folder really isn't a good idea.

Nope-- there's really not a way to do it as you've described.

You could disable the Local User account, and use shutdown -l from a command line. Might that work for you?

Especially in a littigationhappy society like the current USA that's a major concern.

You'd be surprised how seriously this threat is taken. Most large companies, even if they've done nothing wrong, have entire divisions of people devoted to settling lawsuits, be it a small-claims suit, or a class-action one.

People will sue over this. I say go for them-- teach the greedy telcos a lesson. Believe it or not, companies do care about their public image, and will really take strides to avoid that type of bad PR.

You've got an odd using statement in there:

using Wilson.ORMapper;

Do you have a particular question about the code, or a method within the class exactly?

Usually, it helps me to draw out my code, using something like UML, or just a pen and paper.

In most circumstances, I use a wrapper class to do all of the talking to my database. That way, all of the calling classes/methods don't have to know anything about what type of database I'm connecting to.

Encapsulation is the word of the day in this matter-- the thing to focus on is this question:

"If I change something in class A, will I have to change anything in Class B to keep using Class A with it?"

If your answer is yes, then you probably need to change something in your design. The whole idea with object orientation is to have the object you've created be almost entirely responsible for doing stuff to itself. At least, that's how I understand it.

Can you post some code snippets of some parts that make you uneasy about your design? I'll admit I'm somewhat of a noob still at this game, but after reading the book Object Oriented Thought Process (disclaimer:informational link, no referrals, or anything), I really feel stronger in what exactly you're supposed to accomplish with OO design. I'm not through with the book yet, but they really reinforce the idea of encapsulation in EVERYTHING they do.

Basically, make a method that describes what you want to do. Then, the class that instantiated your object can call it, without knowing anything about what …

If not, perhaps the

.Dispose();

method will dispose of it?

That was my first thought, actually. But, then I found the using directive, and it looks like it does the Dispose() for you.

Keep in mind, I'm still somewhat new at C#, but there was some reason for including using rather than disposing it directly. I'll have to grab one of the books I've bought to figure out why...

I thought that once the Method has finished all of its work, the garbage collection would take care of itself?

Ie, I thought that once the method ends, any object that was instantiated would be disposed of properly. Is this not occurring?

check this out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/csref/html/vclrfusingstatement.asp

Personally, I look at it like this-- you're already paying for your Internet connection. Why should there be anything else to be concerned with after that? If the ISPs don't feel like they're getting a fair shake out of their agreements with certain websites, they need to renegotiate their deals with the website.

Bottom line: The "Net" as we know it has no rights, and there isn't any First Amendment, per se. The people providing the physical lines can do whatever the heck they want with the connection media, and what they charge with it.

Is it right? No. I don't think so. I think everyone has paid for their Internet connection already, and all of the Tier 1 ISPs have made agreements on how to pass the traffic. But, are they within their right to do it? Sure, I believe they are. It's their ball, and they can do what they want with it, be it take it home, let everyone use it for free, or charge whatever they feel like for the service.

...But one of the benefits of a capitalist society is that if you don't like your current provider, you can change. There will be ISPs that don't agree with doing this, and as such, they won't participate in the program. If you vote with your dollars, then you'll get your message across.

I've got a 1986 Dodge Ram B250.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/alc6379/van_pics.htm

That's it right there. You guys get all the great gas mileage, though-- it costs $100 US to fill up, and I get about 12 miles to the gallon.

Why haven't I gotten another vehicle? Well, for starters, I'm 6'5", and I DARE you to find a compact car that fits me comfortably. Also, I ride around with my dogs, to parks and stuff. Besides, the thing runs like a TANK.

[edit] By the way-- the oil spill underneath it in those pictures isn't from the van. A buddy had a truck over that was about 30yrs old, and it's his fault the mess is there! [/edit]

It depends.

If the pictures were sent in an attachment, yes.

If the pictures were sent as links in an HTML email, maybe. Some email clients act like web browsers, and they cache content locally. Sometimes, this includes pictures you've downloaded.

Do you have a link?

Are they anything like Nightwish? I'm a pretty big fan of theirs-- if this other band is anything similar, I might check them out.

Have you run any diagnostics on your hard drive? It's possible that you could have makings of a bad drive.

thats what i have been doing... I wouldn't have been able to get anything on my friends comp if I hadn't done that... The question is this, can i get the music transfered to my friends comp with 4-ch surround from my on remote desktop? As opposed to 2 ch stereo. That works fine. Both sound cards are identical, and setup identically. thanks

I'm telling you, it's not going to work. Remote desktop just isn't set up to do more than 2-channel audio.

What are you trying to do, anyways?

If you disabled your Ethernet controller, it will still show a ? by it because you didn't install the driver. If you're really not interested in using the NIC on the machine, then just disable it in the BIOS.