Posts by jwenting

What you want can only be achieved by removing the two disks, installing the new one on its own, installing Windows on it, installing all the software you need on it.
After that, add the old disks back into the system and move over any data you want to keep (or better yet, burn all that data to CD or move it to a network location before you remove them so you don't have to move them back).

SATA doesn't have anything like masters and slaves, that's all handled for you. Just plug the disk on a SATA cable, add a SATA power cable, and turn on the machine.

Fix the bugs, but don't change the file structures.

Thus never introduce ANY new functionality, having the world grind to a screeching halt.

Microsoft added to the file formats for nearly 20 years, maintaining backwards compatibility with pretty much every version of their software (and that of pretty much all competitors) they ever created.

Customers started complaining that the software was getting too cumbersome, too slow, incapable of doing what they wanted to do.

So slowly some things were changed to make things leaner and capable of supporting the future, which also causes complaints by people like you who are stuck in the past (or more likely claim to be in an effort to show how "large companies" are "forcing you to upgrade" in order to "control the world", and that their crimes are just "taking what rightfully belongs to us" and "punishing large companies").
We've heard it all.

The problem is that a college degree is deprecated by the changes companies make to computers.

Wrong. A college degree is not intended to be a course in how to use version X of software package Y on operating system Z. It's intended to be a way to learn people to think and learn for themselves.
If those people are too lazy or stupid to do that, they shouldn't get that degree.

People who got their degrees in computing only 10 years ago are finding no work,

That's their own fault for not keeping …

national healthcare works

it works to bring population numbers down, increase taxes on the survivors, and guarantee decent incomes for bureaucrats working the system.

It does NOT work to provide healthcare of any quality to the people it's supposedly designed to provide such healthcare for.

Prime example is the NHS in the UK. Canada and many European countries have similar (though not as bad, because not as much centralised) systems in place which are also disaster zones.

When you hear you're on a 6 month waiting list for critical surgery without which you won't survive for more than a month or 2 you start to realise something's very wrong with the system.
That's pretty much what happened to my mom in 2002. She got lucky, someone in front of her on the list died and her doc pulled a lot of strings to get her moved up so she only had to wait a month in agonising pain, with a massive and rapidly growing tumour (it was thought, turned out to be harmless though no less painful) in her bowel, with a cathether directly into her bladder.

Or when you spend several hours on a gurney in the ER without anyone looking in on you after a heart attack because there's no room in the ICU and people are unable to find a hospital that will take you closer than an hour's drive away, as happened to my father.

Or spending a decade going …

same here. But living with chickens, rabbits, goats, and dogs which had litters you get the idea pretty soon :)

if you rely on a custom file format and encryption you're not going to be much more secure (and probably less secure, as people will become lax more easily in a false sense of security) than when you implement proper data security procedures and enforce them.

If you want security, contract a dedicated firm to set it up for you and help enforce it.

The best you can usually do for someone is to help him help himself.
Guide him towards the solution without revealing it, hint at where to find information or what information to look for rather than providing the information.

why are there some people think china and US may have a war ???
I really disagree with that

History shows that war between the major powers in any region (and in a global system like we have today that's the entire world) is pretty much inevitable.
The only question is what will trigger it, which historically can be pretty much anything.

OK, so we should launch a police investigation into every miscarriage to determine whether it was intentional or not, and if intentional whether it should be classed as murder or abortion under the law?

no. Unless maybe J# can help you to convert it into an ActiveX component.

What you want to do isn't going to work without a LOT of effort on your part to write plugins for every relevant application and operating system to read your files.

File formats can be anything you want them to be. What they look like and how they're defined is all up to you.
Write a document defining the format, write some software to read and write that format, and hope people start using it (but don't hold your breath).

that's the moment some lawyer decided upon. So the magic that happens is a fat salary for some bureaucrat ;)

If you want a Republican with himour, Ronald Reagan (may he rest in peace) was a prime example.

#1 happens periodically.
#3 never went away since 1944.
#2 is quite possible. In fact given historical record of major wars (wars involving all or most of the largest global powers fighting each other) we're several decades overdue for it.

and rightly so.
The clipboard does not belong to websites. And removing things from it that you didn't put there yourself is something you should never do.

I belive there sort of saying China that say "There are no bad students just bad teachers."
Think about it...

Something I utterly disagree with. There are a lot of kids who are completely unwilling to learn anything if it costs them any effort at all.
Even the best teacher can't do a thing about that if there's a system like the internet where you can just post your homework assignments and get some fool to do them for you while you're lazing around.

Hopefully those kids will fail their exams in the end, but current educational systems are ever more geared towards not making anyone fail, either by reducing the passing score to make sure the failure rate stays low or by getting rid of failing grades completely because failure "hurts the self esteem of students" (yes, I've heard of that happening in several places).

you don't understand what Axis (or web services in general) is all about, do you?
If you did you'd see the error in your statement.

The sentence where he asked people to send him "zuh koduz" was removed.

The Axis documentation is rather good. It's full of hints.

Babies come from the place that money goes to...

it's a standard homework assignment for courses like operating system design, which typically come well after students have learned to program.
Of course the typical way to pass exams these days seems to be to cheat on your assignments so you get the grade without actually learning anything, causing you to get into trouble like this later (and try the same thing again, getting others to do your work for you).

Sadly some people even manage to get university degrees that way :(

1) we're no homework service
2) why are you creating a new account for each question?
3) don't SCREAM AT PEOPLE!!@!!!

AD, it's implicitly copyrighted (as is every single work anyone creates) by the act of creating it.

If you mean he should patent the idea, I doubt that would work.

Are you after "pleasant" or antiseptic?

in his world view, "pleasant" means "politically correct and positive of the far left" it seems. That's as far from antiseptic as it comes, it's extremely dirty :P
It's also of course far from pleasant.
It's the same line of thinking as the Soviet definition of the word "peace" which in their view meant "communist world domination". Which surprisingly is similar to the definition of "peace" according to fundamentalist Islam which have it mean "Muslim world domination".

read the rules, we're no homework service and we're not going to send any private help your way.

include the directory in the classpath for the run by using the -classpath parameter to the java commmand.

no, we're not going to do your homework for you.

http://www.thoseshirts.com/atf.html

better ;)

Since you are from the Netherlands, lets try it there and see if it works. In the US the prisons/labor camps are already full with other folks.

There is a lot of piracy practiced among folks on a limited budget. It is a little like Robin Hood. Most software is pirated to test it out. This way you don't lose your money, there is no refund on software, much of it lousy, some of it good. If we stick all those folks into a "jwentig labor camp", we lose half of our student population.

So if you have a limited budget you're allowed to commit crimes, allowed to steal things just because you want to have them?

Robin Hood never existed, he's a folk tale. Everyone who claimed to follow his example was a common thug who stole to get rich and paid off people in the area to not rat him out for the rewards.

There is NO excuse for piracy, none whatsoever. Open source kiddos are always screaming about how there is an open source alternative for everything... So there's no need to pay for any software as you can always get a free alternative.
And even if there were no free alternatives, not having some new game or other software isn't going to kill you.

I wouldn't mind getting rid of every student who is stupid enough to think that crime is fine. Those students are obviously NOT intelligent and civilised and should …

I find your comments and misspelling disgusting and childish at best. Forum rules tell you too to keep it pleasant! Ask Dani.

Strange isn't it how leftists find calling Shrillary Shrillary offensive, disgusting even, but when they call President Bush "Dubya" or worse they think that's hillarious and quite normal.

Stranger still how noone complains when they do that, right thinking people instead shrugging it off.

Russia is rapidly moving back towards communism under Putin. Hardly surprising, as Putin was head of the KGB and is a hardliner communist.

China is communist to the core. They have some "free zones" set up to trade with the real world, but the rest of the country is run as ruthlessly as it was under Mao.
All those cheap "made in China" goods are so cheap because of slave labour. If they need a new workforce they just arrest a few hundred more political opponents and lock them in a work camp.

I found http://www.altavista.com
It's an excellent search engine for people who find Google too complicated.

animal welfare: conferences for people who don't like fur coats and leather shoes.
and why always "poor black kids in Africa"? Why not start close to home.

90%+ of all money donated to charity (especially Big Charity) is wasted. It never reaches those it's intended to reach, instead being used for self-enrichment of people in the charity corporations.
Those "conferences" are really paid vacations, which is why they're all in exotic places on luxury resorts.

sure they're paid. But they get paid for now.
If everyone starts to expect all software to be free (and that's getting ever more to be the case) sooner rather than later there will be no more people wanting to learn to be programmers because there's no money in it.
When that happens the pool of available people will quickly dry up.

As it is companies (small ones mainly for now) are going under because piracy hurts their sales so badly they can't stay afloat.
If and when that spreads to the point where large companies go under other large companies will count their losses and leave the field.

Remember that the majority of "free" software is created by people who make a living writing other software.
The money made in the OSS sphere is made mainly in support and training services, NOT in writing the stuff.
When there's noone left to write it, that will also dry up.
I've encountered such atttitudes myself, even inside software companies. Worst case I saw myself was a company that basically decided to no longer spend money on creating their own product. The software development teams were drained of people and budgets because they were not making a profit, causing ever longer release cycles and slower response times to bug reports (which caused even more problems, causing them to loose even more budget and people). Of course this eventually meant sales went down the drain...

Let's harvest all the hot air generated by the treehuggers and use that (after filtration of course) for heating.
Gets rid of 2 problems at once: no more gas needed for heating and the greens are muzzled so we don't have to listen to them anymore.

Damn liberals. :D

yah, Condi for President! :P

Like it or not Ezzaral, most people couldn't care less about a guy's (or gal's) colour of skin as long as (s)he makes the right sounds and moves.
Of course that statement excludes John Edwards and Shrillary Clintoon which are not humans at all.
Shrillary should also be excluded on the ground that it's already served 2 terms as president, using its husband Billy "suck it hard, Monica" Clintoon as its cover.

Wrong.
Concerts are often money LOOSING propositions for everyone involved except the hosting companies and venues, unless the increased recrord sales and income from selling promotional items is taken into account.

The massive rate of piracy has directly caused the incredible decline in the quality of music put out by artists and record companies.
Instead of nursing artists till they peak, record companies create masses of one day flies. They cheaply produce a few albums for which beginning artists get paid peanuts (high risk venture), when the artists get popular sales plummet as piracy skyrockets and they're cancelled for lack of sales.
Same with many authors, though there there is luckily still a large majority of customers who actually value having crisp musty paper to browse through, which saves authors from the worst of it.

You see the same thing in the software industry, and especially the games industry.
Ever more this is becoming a scene of constant reruns of the same product with small changes being sold under different names.
Large investments in new development are pretty much doomed to cause a financial loss so are no longer made, instead small incremental improvements have to lead to new products.

Same with movies.

Piracy is rapidly destroying all areas it touches, and the open condoning of this criminal activity by even some lawmakers (usually on the far left of course, the very people who have a vested interest in destroying the …

Someone give me one reason why I shouldn't "pirate" software? Why should I let corporations control my activities and my life?

I would think you, jtwenting, a staunch Social Darwinist, would support piracy. If companies aren't intelligent or competent enough to secure their software, don't they deserve to go out of business?

Why should you let the supermarket control your diet by setting prices based on market demand and supply? Why not just steal from them too.
By your reasoning that would be the moral thing to do...
Or why not steal a Ferrari or Mercedes? The car manufacturers after all dictate that you can't buy them by setting the price higher than your budget can afford so under your reasoning you're fully in your right to steal one.

I'm a staunch Darwinist indeed. Pirates should be made to walk the plank instead of getting away with their crimes. That's the traditional and highly effective punishment for piracy (alternatively hanging and beheading were also employed if the pirates were caught on land).
Being a Darwinist does NOT mean advocating or tollerating crime. It means requiring and accepting full consequences for criminal and other actions which reduce your lifespan and chances of reproduction, which is why I advocate very strong penalties for most crimes.

Most of it would end up being invested in such a way as to provide me with a comfortable income.
A small percentage I'd likely use to buy a house (cheaper in the long run than renting), hire a maid (I hate housework), and make some extended voyages.

Why squander away money when you can make it work for you?

The law on that point is muddy. A friend of mine actually called an IP lawyer and asked whether he could legally download and play an mp3 of tracks he has only on vinyl or tape (he doesn't own a rig to convert those to mp3 himself).
The lawyer told him it would be legal as he has a right to listen to that music.
Whether that would extend to dubbed versions of material I don't know (nor whether it would apply to any other country).

Personally I would never do anything to give the slightest hint of legallity to pirates, which downloading their products comes down to.
So no cracks (even if I own the actual product), no downloaded mp3 from pirate sites so I don't have to rip the CD to my iPod myself, no downloaded CD images if an installation disk gets damaged (any decent manufacturer will supply a replacement at cost of S&H or even for free, I've done that multiple times), etc.

And no, I've not used a single pirated program or had a single bit of pirated music or film on my systems in something like 15 years now. Not in fact since the first software stores opened in the city I then lived (giving me an idea of the actual cost of the stuff), enabling me to purchase software rather than get it through the old boys network which at the time meant swapping floppy disks around and …

Once you start down the slippery slope of banning things because they're "bad for morals" or "improper for people to see" there's no end to what someone will end up banning.

Maybe we should ban the Bible? After all, Muslims and atheists are pretty riled up about it...
Or ban the US constitution. Don't want to put ideas about freedom of expression and the right to self defence into peoples' heads when we're banning things we consider bad for them...
And of course ban opposition political parties. They're obviously wrong, and their propaganda corrupts peoples' minds into thinking improper thoughts.

The most interesting password I've come across was "secret". Especially translated into obscure languages it makes for interesting conversation.
Q: what's the password?
A: it's secret.
Q: I know, but I need it.
A: So why are you asking?

Wait, lmfao. People actually openly support piracy?
I mean if you pirate stuff keep it to yourself, really.

yes, they do.
I've even seen respected (and up to that point respected by me) software creators openly support piracy, even providing pirated software (cracks to protected applications for example) for Windows or for example games as part of their own products.

Pirate is absolutely bad in developed country; however, it can be very helpful for under-developing country.

Yes, Yemenite and Somali pirates make a decent living stealing merchant ships and holding the crews ransom.

by starting at the bottom and working your way up rather than (like many people...) thinking you can get hired into a senior position with no experience whatsoever.

it works by annoying the living daylights out of people and getting whoever uses it kicked off the network.

Get rid of ALL your comments except the header comments.
Replace them all by a proper Javadoc block per method.

Close ALL your JDBC resources as soon as you're done with them. General rule: never let them survive outside the method in which they're used.

Concentrate all database operations in their own class.

Create a special class to hold your records.

Use a custom TableModel to hold the information.

it may open up opportunities for job interviews, but it will never get you past the first round (unless maybe for extreme junior positions where no knowledge is expected).

and oh, it's not urgent at all.

The Black Knight:
"It's only a scratch"

Tim the Enchanter:
"It IS the rabbit"

King Arthur:
"A duck!"