Posts by Infarction

I don't know why that would happen, but I was just wondering why you chose to use VS 2003 when you already had 2005?

I don't know for sure. I think Amazon had a webservice that would supply XML data, but I don't know if it was public or if you had to be one of their partners (or whatever they call 'em). That's just what we used at my school. Don't know about other places either.

Do you just want cornered edges, or can it be done by putting your control on top of an image? If layering will work, that can be done with CSS, using the z-index property as I recall. If you want cornered edges on, say, an asp:Panel, look into the AJAX Toolkit which has an AJAX extender for rounded corners. Or is it something else?

Start with paper. Decide how you need to model your data, what operations you'll have to do to it (e.g. sorting, searching), etc... Design your web interface separately. You'll also have to decide where you'll get your data. There may be web services you can take advantage of, or you could just mock up your own. Then you can start coding...

lol... like I said I don't use them. :icon_redface:

Great. Feel like giving us enough info to try helping?

about the links: when you post something in [url=<some url>]<link name>[/url] tags, be sure to put the http:// or else it will be a relative path.

about the topic: you might look into building a Silverlight app. Note: Silverlight 1.0 is unmanaged. I've not used it myself, but it looks like you can use the Expression suite to whip stuff up pretty quick though. Silverlight 1.1 will support managed code.

hey use the following code in the web.config file in u r application

<session timeount="10000" />
Where 10000 in minutes......

Not only did you change units between your posts (from seconds to minutes), but you blatantly ignored the post describing why this method would be ineffective. :icon_rolleyes:

I gave a link for that.

I think I've convinced about half my friends that I'm anorexic. On the other hand, I'm not overweight... :icon_wink:

The new (? I never noticed them before...) icons on the blogs page are kinda, well, obscure. Or at least, most of them seem to be, especially the ones for software and web development. Not that I use them, but they seemed a little out of place without a clearly defined meaning...

What do you mean by "not worked"? Do you have your resources set up properly? You can also try setting it programmatically (refer to the last bit of this page).

Halo 3. 'Nuff said.

I don't feel that I really got comfortable with C++ until I ditched visual studio and used a text editor.

Ditto for me with C. On the other hand, with Java and C#, I always preferred an IDE.

The web doesn't support a multi-file upload, AFAIK. You can make an ActiveX or .NET user control that would do it, but that limits you to an IE base. Otherwise, have a form with multiple file-upload components and get 'em all when the user submits (though it's a pain to add them one by one...)

Using an IDE shows that you are "weak" in that you need auto-completion, syntax highlighting, etc... :icon_rolleyes:

I've found that learning a language can be easier with and IDE because of the aforementioned features. On the other hand, if your eye can parse code fairly well, you might find that you prefer a text editor. It's really a personal choice.

I'd guess that you'd need a proxy which would filter outgoing requests. Don't know what's available for that.

I voted No. I swing through the forum, reply to stuff, check it when I'm done to see if someone was replying while I was doing other stuff, then leave for a while.

Yes, especially in the English department. ".. needs to be scrapped and rebuilt".

It's been a loooong week... my speech is about as bad as my spelling too, maybe even worse... :'(

Like a lot of things in our government, it needs to be scrapped and rebuild. Properly.

i guess it would be better live together in a rented apartment, and have two cars, (one that belonged to each other previously), and stuff...

Or get the stuff on your own and put it in a pre-nup. I've got a timeline for buying myself a house, and it's completely unrelated to any relationships I [currently don't] have. But it'll be my house until I have a damn good reason to agree otherwise.

Seriously? Why not try a better distro, a distro in where all the packages work flawlessly and has a boot up time of ~14 seconds? Cough cough arch cough.

Thought about it, but I've yet to find a "perfect" distro. It gets disheartening after a few distros, and a few releases of each... And boot up time is such a silly thing to worry about, unless your comp measures into minutes. And I have other needs now too :P

Linux has the potential to be for everyone(in fact with ubuntu this time may have already come), Mac and WIndows do not,

That sounds like typical fanboyism. Ubuntu is far from perfect, and IMHO the application quality and level of support on Windows tends to be much better anyways (especially for games). Not to mention that migration is impractical for many organizations.

You'll either have to upload it or create a .NET or ActiveX control that will be able to manipulate the local file. Web apps themselves should not be able to manipulate local files for security reasons if nothing else.

Try setting the font-color to black when you set enabled to false. :icon_wink:

See if the clips at http://asp.net/learn/ work for you. I've only watched one of them though (and without sound, so it wasn't very helpful but I got what I was looking for).

Does it always happen at the same time? Possibility that someone might have set up a cron job as a prank or something?

For me it's been school, but I've spent a lot more time there than any of the others... :P

Most of the popular graphics cards are supported, but obviously not all are guaranteed.

If by "most" you mean nVidia :P

I've gone back to Windows myself. It has the everything-just-works -easily factor, and it's compatible with everything I need. I liked running Gentoo, but the rare broken ebuild and lack of just-works-easily eventually wore me out. Vista ftw. :icon_twisted:

infarction, and how do you defend that theft?
People who earn more money already pay LOTS more money. They pay higher taxes, get a lot less freebies handed out, etc. etc.

I can't and won't defend it. But it's not a problem with the care actually given. I'm just saying that ranking the US low because there isn't socialized insurance is an invalid argument. Personally, I find the cost of healthcare to be ludicrous at best. Thank god my job gives me good insurance and that I've been healthy thus far.

My parents had a quite decent income (several times median) but due to all of that they came close to having to choose whether to send me or my sister to university.
We got lucky, there was just enough money for both of us.
In the meantime people on low wages get so much in the way of grants and breaks that they can send every kid they can breed through every education they wish without it costing them a cent.

My parents had about median income, and my dad quit his job during my first quarter of college. They still managed to pay for my 3 years and are paying for my sister's college now (there was a 1 year overlap as well). I had no grants, and my sister had (past tense) some small scholarship for her grades.

Just because some programmers use goto in kernel programs doesn't mean its acceptable to use it in application programs. I've never written a *nix kernel program or even seen one.

Just because you've never needed it doesn't mean that it should never be used. My original point was simply that one should know both sides of an argument like that, and realize that many people often hear something and pass it on as The Law without questioning it or realizing why it should(n't) be done. Kinda like people using Djikstra's paper discussing the use of goto as an argument saying not to use it, when Djikstra is actually making the opposite point. :icon_wink:

Lack of universal health care I suspect is the main reason US was ranked so low. And I agree with WHO that it is critical to the quality of health care in this country. Quality does not mean only how well doctors do their jobs or how much medical technology we have, but also includes how easy it is for everyone to have ready access to health care. We could have the best doctors and best hospitals in the world but it means nothing if people can't have access to it.

To make this applicable to the US, it's illegal for hospitals to turn away patients in need of care. So, while we don't have socialized insurance, care is still provided for those who need it. Part of why hospital costs are so high here is because hospitals know that their patients often can't pay; so they charge more to those who can.

it sets endwait to be the current clock() value (presumably a timestamp) + a time to wait. It then goes into an empty loop until the clock() value becomes equal to endwait, at which point it exits the loop and continues. This technique is also known as a spinlock (link goes into some detail, certainly not required reading :icon_wink:)

I think everyone knows those things before entering into a lifelong commitment.

With the divorce rate trending as it is, there's certainly a lot of people acting like they don't know... :P

Most, if not all, professional programmers refuse to use the goto statement, and most companies will not allow it. If you are just learning programming for yourself and for the fun of it then by all means do whatever you want. But if you ever intend to make programming a profession then learn the best forms of coding and what to stay away from. Never use goto and never use void main(). Learn that now the right way and you won't have to unlearn it later in a couple years or so.

Not all professionals refuse to use goto, or else the Linux kernel stopped being updated some while back. Goto sometimes is very useful; just because it's hard to use properly doesn't mean it should never be used. Personally, I'll probably not come across a need to use one in the next several years, if ever. On the other hand, there's surely some other professional programmers that use them regularly, especially in embedded systems or low-level code. void main() on the other hand has no supporting arguments (the only one I can think of - "it saves keystrokes" - is also inaccurate).

All men are not fools, some remain bachelor.

For your humor to work, it should be "Not all men are fools." Logically, "all men are not fools" would mean that there are no fools who are men, therefore the second phrase has no implications with respect to the first. :icon_wink:

I don't know. But most here will tell you to never use void main()

They'll probably tell you to never use goto as well, but that doesn't mean you should just listen to them. Find out why, and then do what is best; and yes, the popular opinion can be wrong sometimes.

main() is a special function that, as mentioned, returns to the OS a value signifying if it completed successfully or not (0 being success, any other being typically an error). The OS usually doesn't act on that, but other programs waiting for yours might. The C and C++ standards have specified that main() should return an int-compatible type (which void is not). So, there's both technical and conventional reasons why you should not use void.

If you've still got free memory, why would you want to use swap space?

I know about it, but I get by fine with Gentoo (which I'm using less and less), so I never tried it out. Good luck though ;)

In an attempt to ignore the trolling here (please guys, give up on the rep wars...), I'll chip in my $.02. I think that the gun ownership laws in the US are better than most other developed nations, but I will also admit that they are a bit overboard. Machine guns have no place in the house. Sniper rifles either, though I'll point out that there are many guns which might be considered "sniper rifles" but are intended for valid uses such as hunting.

I was about to say that we should have a right to own handguns, but I thought better of it. We should be given the privilege of owning handguns; as with driving, it is something that should be available with absolutely minimal legal hindrance to those who deserve it. However, as a privilege, it should be (and is) possible to lose the "right" to own guns (or drive cars).

I'll not comment on the validity of arguing that gun ownership is a good or bad thing. I have my opinion that it's good, and I won't change that. Most likely, neither will any of you.

Oh damn. I hoped this thread would be a rant about using RFIDs in passports. <threadHijack>Does anyone know if the new US passports have been hacked yet?</threadHijack>

Rofl Midi, this thread is hilarious...

But we can't run the special scientific applications we need on Windows So we have to use DOS.

Except that we can't find new computers that run DOS 6.2 anymore, and the old ones are dying.

Funny, seems to me a lot of people use *nix variants when they need specialized systesms. Not that they necessarily need it for scientific needs, because as we all know, Cray makes some kickass gaming machines...

But the languages they took away DID support them. They took those functions away because they don't work with Windows running all the time under them.

I wrote a DOS video game in GWBASIC to help children learn their math facts while they have fun. I was about to put it on the market, when WINDOWS happened. The game won't run right in the DOS shell (because those functions were taken away), and I have been searching for a way to make the game WITHOUT paying the MS "toll" on games developed using their development tools.

Aside from DOS being 15+ years ago, you could have just ported your code. If you were shafted, I'm sure others were as well but they seem to have gotten by just fine...

As for the "toll" of having to pay to use someone's product, thats a load of crap. As has been mentioned, Microsoft has been fairly liberal about giving away copies of its development products, especially with the release of the …

You mean from a RichTextbox control (or whatever the name is)? There should be a RichText (or similar) property, which will give you the contents with formatting codes still included (as opposed to the Text property, which is just the plaintext). Converting that to HTML will probably require another function, which someone might have put on the Internet somewhere...

did you create a virtual directory for IIS? I think you have to do that before it will actually serve a website.

>What makes programmers busier than any other profession?

The fact that many of them work 80 hour weeks?

poor fools...

hehe what would that accomplish? So you can port scan, and connect to the host? ;)

With some girls it only takes a quick scan to want to connect to their ports...

/me ducks for cover :icon_twisted:

Hell, I coulda saved 'em a ton of time and money (which are really the same) just by spending a few bucks on some rope... it's reusable too, so they can keep using in and keep saving money.

there's something odd in here... i haven't read any posts about the idea of a smart girl with plastic surgery...

that way, you choose brains, but you eventually get booty too...

That's because no smart girl will get plastic surgery... :icon_wink:

I just asked here because having spoken to programmers. They say they don't have time for it. And I'm still in high school thinking of a career in programming.

I just want to be true to my faith and if not being able to have time for it in the programming field than I should reconsider what I want to do with my life.

They don't have time only because they don't want to have time. Any decent job will still allow you to have a balanced life.

"Iraq's got WMDs"
"It'll only take a minute"
"Just one more drink"

and the greatest of all:
"of course that dress doesn't make you look fat"

It's definitely a start. Hopefully I'll have some time tomorrow to look into it more...