Posts by jwenting

QBasic AFAIK never supported any networking related coding.

It's an arcane, unsupported, not even Y2K compliant, language that should be left dead and burried instead of trying to drag it up out of the tarpits of computing history to try and make it into a zombie.

Of course some communities may not officially allow illegal stuff but have admins who are either too ignorant or too lazy to police their sites properly.

If I knew of such communities I'd however not mention them...

including graduation work, almost 12 years. If you include school and university programming projects, something like 18 years.

If you're serious about making it a hobby and you want manual control, get a decent DSLR now and don't throw away money on a digicrap (or point and shoot camera as they're called by the politically correct and marketeers) that you'll get disappointed with after a few months and relegate to the function of doorstop.
A highend P&S (what you'd want) will cost you the same as or more than a lowend DSLR.
And while you'll grow out of that too, it'll take a lot longer :)

Start looking at something like the Nikon D40 (or if your budget allows it the D80) or their Canon equivalents, the 400D (or maybe 450D by now) and 40D.
The kitlenses you get with them aren't the greatest, but will serve you well while you're learning the ropes and provide valuable insight into what highend lenses you may want in the future at a very reasonable price.

Nikon's my personal brand of choice, mainly because of their to me superior exterior design and build quality, which to me means better ergonomics and userfriendliness.
But unless and until you've actually handled cameras and lenses of both brands you can't tell for yourself.

One word of advise: never listen to camera salesmen unless you can detect the cowdung coming your way. Most are no more trustworthy than used car salesmen, and will push you towards the purchase that to them means the highest profit margin whether it's …

And on top of that, https is not a "message format" (it's a network protocol), nor is "XML" (it's a definition language for file/message formats) , so you seem utterly confused about what it is you're actually going to be doing.

And you'll need to be a lot clearer than you are.
Just saying you want to convert one format to another "using iso" isn't going to do you any good.
You're going to need at the very least a detailed description of both formats at byte level, possibly at bit level depending on the structure of the formats.
And you're going to need a detailed description of what you mean by "using iso", a phrase that in and of itself is meaningless.

Even if there were a 0.1% chance of failure (and it's 5-10% PER EYE) it would be too much for me.
Rather poor eyesight than no eyesight...

I don't think clean air and water is just for the benefit of socialists!

They won't get those...
They'll get total control over everyone's life through the implementation of draconian schemes to limit travel and other freedoms in the name of the "environment".

All those schemes won't make for clean air and water as they'll ruin the economy which will mean that industry (and government and its subjects) will no longer have the funds to care about "clean" things, have to do whatever it takes just to survive.

Still waiting for that "final year project idea generator".
Given the amount of lazy fools who're too stupid to even think up their own project idea there must be a market for it.

JNI won't work.

The question makes little sense as placed. If the "remote methods" have a published protocol to call them implement that protocol.
If they don't, tough luck.

Too risky, I'm not going to risk my eyes to the 10% chance of permanent damage LASIK means nor my money to the 20% or so chance it won't have a permanent positive effect.

Since you obviously have no clue about what you're trying to accomplish using JNI (which you apparently also have no clue about how to use) to call a program written in C or C++ (which you apparently don't know) isn't going to solve anything.

no, the header field is FREE FORMAT.
It MAY contain that information but there's no requirement.

And that's only for http, for other protocols there is no such information AT ALL.

yes, but such information is not specified in any specific format.
It's usually a free format string of some length.
There's also no guarantee that the software sending the information is telling you the truth.
I've made use of that myself to trick firewalls to let information pass by making it look like it was coming from for example Apache or Sendmail, or reverse to get strict servers to accept packages by making them look like they were coming from Internet Explorer or Netscape.

The most logical thing to start out with would be Java2D...

And a lot of books about the topic to fully understand what you're going to need to be able to do in the software.

Most such tools (maybe all) simply have a list of ports and the services they typically belong to.
For example port 80 is standardised for http, port 25 for smtp, 21 for ftp, and so on.

Others may try to determine what's running on a port by sending some packets to it and analysing the response.

Interesting is it how someone at that stage of his studies is incapable of figuring out for itself where to get such basic information (nor how to write correct English)?

Standard Swing components have no database coupling, which is as it should be (you should not mix database code with user interface code).

Get the data from the database, and use that data to fill your user interface.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cud What does semi-digested food have to do with this?

Whatever is happening is due to the settings of IE. Most likely you do have cookies turned off.

And on top of that, if you're incapable of thinking up even a subject for this how are you ever going to be intelligent and creative enough to actually implement it (or anything else)?

It is, let's all be happy that whatever we're going through isn't as bad as what our parents and grandparents had to endure.

No, it's not a warning - it's an error. Apparently they removed the compareTo(Object) signature from the String API.

You could either cast the elementAt() to String or explicitly call toString() on it.

With the introduction of generics in 1.5 the Comparable interface became Comparable<E> which far better documents it intention.
As a result any class implementing Comparable since 1.5 no longer has a method compareTo(Object o) but a method compareTo() taking a parameter of its own type.
In reality compareTo was always intended to only accept parameters of the type being compared to (or subclasses of it) but the semantics of the language prevented this being enforced at the API level (instead it was intended for enforcement at implementation level).

still?
My mother suffered that, got caned when she used her left hand and eventually had it tied behind her back for days to force her to use her right hand for everything.

My teachers tried to make me change from writing left handed as well, but not forcibly (they just wanted to see if it would improve my test scores, it didn't, that took glasses as the reasons my scores were dropping was that I couldn't read the questions from the blackboard).

That's part of the problem. No matter how absurd the definition given, there are some people out there who'd probably suggest it seriously if they'd heard of it.

Which is indeed the case with "acid oceans", which were the scare story the environmental movement used in the 1970s to get people riled up about "acid rain".

In the Netherlands :-O I'm supprised homes are that expensive there.

why? Space is at a premium with 16 million+ people packed into a country the size of Road Island, half of which is agricultural land or nature preserves.

lefthandedness has been associated with a greater than average ability for logical thought and problem solving, which would explain the higher than normal percentage of lefthanded people in the sciences and IT.
Of course one isn't the cause of the other, rather they're both probably caused by related differences inside the brain.

If you override equals() on a class, you MUST (even though the compiler doesn't enforce it) also override hashCode() on that same class.

You may never notice if you don't, but under specific conditions (most especially when using instances of the class inside a HashMap or Hashtable) it is needed for correct operation.

What I'd personally do is implement Comparable on Item, and maybe on ItemOrder as well.
That way you can easily sort your Lists, and do some other interesting things.
See the JavaDoc for Comparable for more information.

My parents bought their previous home for 35K Guilders in 1970. They sold it in 2000 for 1.5 million.
Admittedly they'd added a 1 acre garden along the way, but still it's a major difference.

Closer to home:
In 2000 I received a brand new Ford Focus as a company car. At the time that car cost about €18K.
Today a new Focus with the same size engine and same options will set you back some €28K.

The current breed of "environmentalists" are purely political creatures who don't care about the environment except as a means to an end, the end being absolute political power.

Personally I like to have clean air (and soil, etc.) as much as the next guy. But I also realise that the REAL environment (the world all around us) is cleaner now than it's been in centuries and that even current environmental regulations are ridiculous in the extreme in that they don't have any basis in scientific fact for the norms and restrictions they impose.
Given the choice between two otherwise equal solutions, I will usually choose the one that causes the least disruption to the world around me, but I won't go out of my way to be "green" in everything (especially with the definition of "green" being dictated not by reality but political correctness as it is these days).

So according to the current breed of environmentalist I'm a heretic, an "enemy of the planet".
According to 1960s environmentalists I'm probably an environmentalist extremist however.

chocolate chocolate chip.
Ideally in combination with mint and/or pistacho.
Add some hot chocolate sauce for effect.

x++ is known as a prefix increment and ++x is a postfix increment.

Actually it's the other way around :)
pre == before
post == after

It sounds like you're trying to justify a purchase more than anything else. The reason I say this is that you instantly shoot down any method that isn't gasoline or diesel based without any substantial proof of your claims.

When you start using words like probably, it's probably time to withdraw your input in this educated discussion.

In other words, anyone who doesn't agree with scru has to shut up?

MagLev is impractical for large scale application.
Construction is hideously expensive (especially switches), power consumption is astronomical (many times that of normal trains), the systems are excessively noisy.

It's nice for small lowspeed systems like are in place or being installed, but not as a replacement for traditional trains.

About the only advantage over traditional trains is the longer maintenance cycles due to reduced wear on mechanical parts, but the increased electricity consumption more than makes up for any savings achieved by that.

If you're completely new to Java, an excellent book to start with is Agile Java(TM): Crafting Code with Test-Driven Development by Jeff Langr

Yup. I was one of the proof readers for it :)
Nice book, nice guy.

and remember to supply the output directory for the compiler as well if you don't want to compile to the directory from where you're executing the compile action.

Whether you're using Notbeans or whatever has nothing whatsoever to do with it.
Change the relevant attribute of the LayoutManager controlling the component's container to set the alignment of components inside that container.

Diesel engines are by now as clean as petrol engines or cleaner. The cancer scare is just that, a scare created by greenies in order to pressure for higher taxes and more draconian anti-car regulation (especially against company cars, which appeals to the far left who can then sell the scheme as "not hitting the poor" as anyone knows only "rich people" get company cars).

The idea is NOT to get electric cars charged from nuclear power stations. Electric cars are another scam from the environmentalist movement.
Get everyone to use electric cars while at the same time trying to get every single means of producing electricity shut down.

Obama impesses me a lot because he knows how to deliver very powerful and inspiring speaches,

So did Stalin...
Obama like Clinton is a leftist extremist. Obama on top of that is a fundamentalist Muslim.

Vote for him if you want Sharia law in the US, vote for Clinton if you want the US to turn into North Korea.

yup. You're trying to access an element either before the beginning or after the end of the array.

You do realise that arrays in Java are 0-based?

In Ur they had neither C nor C++.
Come to think of it they didn't have + either, they used other characters entirely for writing.

and any fingerprint scanner that includes a public API to program it will come with examples.

J2E doesn't exist. And if it did exist there would be no "best" book for it, but a series of books, each with its own pros and cons.

if it's not working well, you need to fix it.
If you show us what you have, what it's supposed to do, and what it actually does, we may be able to give you some hints.

If you have nothing, that's the reason it doesn't work. You can't expect nothing to do something, especially something usefull.

I think that in a decade from now, high school textbooks are going to be referring to the War on Terror as WWIII.

I do hope so. But I fear they may instead refer to it as the Great Jihad.

I don't even bother to read such huge reams of code, especially if it's all in a single class.
It indicates a total lack of interest on your part in not only doing a decent job at your assignment but also in showing what your problem is.

I stole some gum when I was a kid. I wasn't caught by the store but by my grandmother instead. If I don't have the money to buy something, I simply do without. But if my friend isn't using the software that she legally bought because she bought something else, I have no problem with using it. Someone told me that I am also guilty of theft but I don't quite see it that way. I have also bought software/ cds/dvds etc from second stores and at garage sales. Some people say that is wrong as well.

If the original media are passed on, the license is passed on as well. As long as no copies are left behind that's just fine.
With downloaded software there is no physical media and the situation gets a lot more convoluted.
Usually it's licensed to a specific person (or legal entity) rather than to the holder of the media, and that license can't be transferred without action by the company granting the license.

most UK people are afraid to go to a doctor, as the chances are better than even that you'll end up worse before than after...

yes, most Republicans think GWB is far too leftist and has sold them out to the "democrats".

no. Restructure that monstrosity first, think about what it is you want, and give a LOT more information.

As many have found, maxtor/seagate's help is no help at all. They will charge $1000 for the data recovery, or replace it. No other options.

Wrong. Their warranty support is second to none. The recovery service is that costly, they don't overcharge.
The price is market value, probably less than what you'd pay someone else.
And the data is clearly not covered under warranty as there can be no guarantee to recover anything (it all depends on what's damaged and to what extent).

I've had several Maxtor/Seagate/Diamond disks fail over the years, all were promptly replaced under warranty (even the ones where the failure was caused by factors for which the disk was not to blame, like a powerspike in the harddisk controller).

So again, all I want to know is: is there an IDE connectable hard drive inside?

Impossible to tell. It could be ATA, SATA, SCSI, or something else entirely.
But most likely it will be SATA given the size of the disk, and a standard SATA harddisk inside.

You'll have to install some software that encrypts and decrypts the disk content on the fly and make it available only to your own account.

Of course any encryption can be broken (except possibly some one-way systems) given enough time and resource :)