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[URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3I1y3jHgxA"]This[/URL] has got to be among the world's best every written songs! Hope people will enjoy it for hundreds of years to come. :)

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Any way to get just a quick list of just the thread titles so that the list doesn't cover so many pages of the cplusplus snippets (and others too)? Then if I see one that I might want to look at in more detail I could hover the mouse over …

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I'm glad to see that you added the "Toggle Plain Text" to normal code tags (those without a language specified). Thanks for making that change :)

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We've all heard about people having guts or balls. But do you really know the difference between them? In an effort to keep you informed, the definition for each is listed below... GUTS - is arriving home late after a night out with the guys, being met by your wife …

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[URL="http://www.bluemountain.com/view.pd?i=149486103&m=5946&rr=y&source=bma999"]The flasher[/URL]

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Just finished installing this linux-like os and had to post a message. Its kind of nice os, open source and free of course. It all fits on one CD and has several packages that can be added after installation. Its truly an os-for-dummies, It was even easier to install then …

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Every time I click on a thread the browser's (IE7) horizontal scroll bar is placed at the far right and I have to move it back to far left so that I can read the post. It doesn't happen at other websites -- just DaniWeb and I've only noticed the …

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I just came across this interesting article in our local electric coop newsletter, and found an online source [URL="http://www.geocities.com/aloha3003/PoemsBiggestMiracle.html"]here.[/URL] [quote] Moses and the people were in the desert, but what was he going to do with them? They had to be fed, and feeding 2 or 3 million people requires …

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Do you realize they don't work in signatures? I just saw it too, the most recent post anupam_smart, [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread83846.html"]here[/URL]

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Lady Bird Johnson, widow of former US President Lyndon B. Johnson died today at age 94. Her lagecy was to rid our interstates of billboard proliferation and planting wild flowers along hiways/interstates. That is the most any First Lady has done since her time. We in USA are all better …

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Going to Ankeny Iowa (about 20 miles North of Des Moines) tomarrow for a 45-year high school class reunion (class of 1962). Our high school was consolidated in 1957 from five surrounding schools. My sister (class of 1958) will also be attending -- I haven't seen her for about 10 …

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why do I get the message in [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread77423.html"]this thread[/URL] that I must activate my membership before I can contribute ?? Does everyone get that message when viewing closed threads ?

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Did a search for "arrays" and selected "In Code Snippets" then pressed Search it changed the selection to "Entire Site" and produced a list of 3 pages. But it will display only the first page even when I select one of the other two pages. No matter what I do …

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is there any difference between [ code=c ] and [ code=cplusplus ] ? I don't see the difference except, of course, the title. If no other difference why do we need both of them ?

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I'm seeing two tooltip windows for the same thread. See thumbnail. The grey one on top disappears after a few seconds.

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This just started after changing the colors and code tags yesterday. Copy some code and paste it into the Quick Reply box, then hit [b]Go Advance[/b] button. All the line feeds and spaces are lost, eveything is now on one line and I have to manually replace all line feeds, …

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using Vista Home Premium. When I click a link such as [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread77212.html"]this one[/URL] by cutepinkbunnies I see the video but no audio. Anyone know how to correct that ?

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Not sure what causes it but sometimes the computer refuses to shut down. The only way out is to physically press the Off button. I have XP Pro with SP2, Norton Antivirus and Norton Firewall, AMDI 64-bit processor with about 1Gig RAM, 30 Gig hard drive (master) and a 235Gig …

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My son bought this for me a couple weeks ago, and now I'm hooked :-O My only real problem is my character dies quite often and then I have to go hunting for his stuff (he loses all his cloths when he dies). I really hate that in a game. …

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I loved this [URL="https://www.patriotadventure.com/wbt/index.html?bid=2203588&pid=16341685&adid=90264056&rid=0&hrf=http://www.msn.com"]Jeep commercial[/URL]. Not the normal commercial, this one lets you interact with the film, you get to chose among serveral alternate scenes in order to find the end of the commercial. I made it in 17 out of 44 possible scenes.

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I don't like the new format of the threads -- a brief list of thread links at the top of each thread (I don't know what they are called). I find them annoying and almost useless, especially in Geeks Lounge where some threads have hundreds of posts. And it looks …

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Has anyone successfully installed Acrobat Reader? It downloads ok, uncompresses, then gives the error message "The Temp folder is on a drive that is full or is inaccessible. ...". I used command prompt to display the values of all environment variables and the TEMP is in d:\users\<full path here>. Anyone …

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I joined the feeds today using newly installed Vista Home Premium. When I hover the mouse over the DaniWeb feeds link in IE7 it says it was last updated 4 hours ago with 0 new feeds. When I visit c/c++ board I see several new posts during the last 4 …

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Take [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread68614.html"]this thread[/URL] as an example. I want to comment about it on this board instead of hijacking the original thread. How do all those obnoxious color codes get inserted into such posts? It looks like they were created by some other program then pasted into the post. That is …

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When I use firefox version 1.5.09 I can not copy the highlighted text within code tags to the clipboard. But in IE6/7 I have no problem. Is this a DaniWeb problem or Firefox? I only experience the problem on my home computer, where I use Firefox most of the time, …

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sure would be nice to have a delete button so that I can delete my own post but nobody else's. I find it annoying that I cannot delete my post when I see that it duplicates someone else's or that I posted misinformation. Just simply editing the post and deleting …

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This came up on another thread, rather that "pollute" that thread with a side issue, I'll start a new thread. The issue is; Is it better to just to individually declare the members of std to be used in a program, or is the global declaration "using namespace std" being …

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Thursday is the [URL="http://www.holidays.net/thanksgiving/"]American Thanksgiving holiday[/URL]. :) We adopted the annual celebration from the UK -- where they got it from is anyone's guess. It was originally a religious holiday to give thanks for good and bountiful crop harvests that year. Now, its still celebrated during the fall but the …

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what is it supposed to do? I pressed it and it seems to do nothing except highlight the button.

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I am running 64-bit Fedora core 5 and attempted to download core 6. The download (FireFox browser) took about 8 hours and when done the file could not be saved :mad: I know it is not for lack of disk space -- fedora is installed on a 320 gig hard …

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I have read several (numerous really) threads but none of them help me. My computer has two huge hard drives. I have Windows XP on the master drive and I want to install fedora 5 on the slave. During the fedora installation there is a window that says grub will …

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Here's one that was written by Altert Einstein. Can you solve it? (Hint: create a matrix on paper to keep track of who does what) There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type …

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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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any plans to actuvate rep power, like you see on many other boards such as [URL="http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=395306"]this[/URL] one?

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The "Insert Link" button normally presents two dialogs -- one to enter some text and the other for the url. It doesn't do that any more -- only asks for the url. Will you please fix this:?:

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I couldn't access it all day today from where I work using IE6. Kept getting a strange error (I don't recall what it said). But at home using FireFox it was ok. Coincidence??

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Whenever (or most of the time) I hit the bookmark to come to this site I get a File Not Found error from your server -- I know its your sever because it has a DaniWeb banner across the top. Click the bookmark again and everything works normally. This is …

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This is a simple example of how to use recursion to get a list of all the directories (folders) and file names within them. It also illustrates simple use if std::list, std::vector, std::string, std::cin and std::cout. It was compiled and tested with both VC++ 6.0 and Dev-C++ compilers on XP …

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Is there a c++ std:: function that will trim trailing spaces from std::string? I know how to do it myself, but I was wondering if anyone knows of something in <altorithms> or elsewhere? Thanks

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_tempnam() always returns a filename in the "c:\\temp" directory, regardless of the parameters. This example was extracted from MSDN. I need to generate a unique filename in a directory other than c:\temp -- any ideas how to do that other than writing my own function? maybe a c++ solution? Note …

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I just got a VC .NET 2003 compiler and want to learn C# programming. What books would you recommend? I've been reading the book reviews on amazon.com and there appears to be a lot of good books -- or so the readers claim. I'm not at all interested in "C# …

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1. Once we have attached something to a thread is there any way to delete the attachment at some later date? since we have a limited amount of space for attachments how do we clean this up for future use? 2. I added a new contribution to Code Snippets but …

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