I hope it is not against the rules to post this.I have seen Taj Mahal. It is spectacular. Not only I, but whoever has seen Taj Mahal (from whichever country he belongs) cannot stop admiring it.Please vote for Taj Mahal as one of seven wonders. Only 4 days left.Visit http://www.new7wonders.comto vote....

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can anyone help me solve these problems? i need some hint about at least fourth of them i would be thankful especially i know cilu can give hints.. Exercise 1: Find the difference between "خِرَد پارسی" and "rationality" and express it in a...

It's been three months since I turned into a VegetarianThe following is an excerpt from the book GRACE IN THE HOME:Wisdom for all Ages by Pujya Swami ChidanandSaraswatiji Maharaj (Muniji). The book is available for free in pdf form if someone is interested I can provide the link.Vegetarianism a...

According to a Mexican finacial publication, cited by The Guardian ( http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2117330,00.html), Bill Gates is (after a 12-years reign) no longer the richest man on Earth. The new top billionair is Mexican businessman Carlos Slim Helu ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos...

Hey Guys,I've a question to all the users from the US.If you take a look at the central European online market you can see that there are many large community sites which take photos from people in clubs or at other events and publish them in the internet.You can see some examples at: http://www...

Aliens abducted two developers to reveal the greatest IT secret:<br/> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6guYXarv6I

I bumped into this post from http://futuremark.yougamers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23914 Can this be real or not? :D br0kenrabbit says:hi Greg_ValveOLS says:good evening br0kenrabbit says:What's ip? br0kenrabbit says:up? Greg_ValveOLS says:my name is greg a member of the valve online Support...

What a foolish thing I've done!While the installation of Visual Studio 2005 SP1 lost response for a VERY long time(deal to the lack of space of driver C, Although I managed to gather 2.6g on Disk C for the installtion and 1.7g for SP1, the program eat up them at the very end ) , I cance...

I am into VC++ Programming only recently.To give a head start into serious programming ,I am in search of some kind project which i can start off on my own and develop it with additional features and modifications as required. Can anyone pls suggest me some kind of project work that gives me some st...

I wanted to buy a license for WinXP SP2 Professional from the Company Store, but they're out of stock until August and my current unregistered version of XP expires in 5 days. Does anyone have a spare license? I know the request is kinda odd, but if you have a spare license, please help me.

Hi: When I use startx command in Linux, I get an error message which says Unable to lock authority file. I want to know how to solve this problem, so I can use GUI mode again. Do not try to search the solutions on the Internet. I just did it. Most of them are not working. I want a solution that work...

im a junior CS major and starting to look for some internships/coops...i am wondering how is it like to be an entry level developer? do they just give you a cubicle/desk/office and tell you "Here is what we are doing, start coding xx. If you have any questions, look at our documentation". Or do t...

Congrats Krishnaa ( http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/member.php?u=9234):thumb:<br/>Regard's<br/>Ashish

Yeah, it has been a while since I checked back! So many things have changed, and I am not really sure if I can fit myself back into this family. Uh, oh... I will just start moderating some threads and then lets see how it all fits together!Anyway, I have done my final exams, with an A in almost ever...

Here in the Denver area, I saw some people outside with signs saying...Bush lied. 1000s died. How many soldiers must die?The answer is none have to, but how many do?Not only did this government kill 3000 innocent civilians on 9/11 (I am saying this, doesn't mean they do not believe it though) w...

I've attended a game development course preview. The course offers a diploma for game development and the attractive thing is that it offers testimonials and direct job offers or freelance opportunities for students who make the grade.Also, enrolled students are assigned to be paid game testers...

Checkers 'solved' after years of number crunching ( http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn12296-checkers-solved-after-years-of-number-crunching.html)The ancient game of checkers (or draughts) has been pronounced dead. The game was killed by the publication of a mathematical proof showin...

I just picked up a new LCD monitor (Envision 19" for $145 new) and am curious to if anyone of you have any suggestions on upgrading my video card. I'm not a huge gamer and i'm running a video card that's about 2.5yrs old and can't even remember what it is. (my home machine not...

I'm considering to buy a new machine and as always there are a million things to consider so all good advices are more than welcome.Due to cost I lean towards a ASUS P5K-E/WIFI-AP (DDR2, 1333MHz but in reality RAM limits to 1066MHz)Things still left to decide:CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz...

Recently, I complained about a situation that I currently find myself in: http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=429903&page=2Does anyone else have any stories to share along these lines?Things like non-technical managers forcing really bad design/implementation decisions upon programmers...

Hi all.I'm looking for some advice regarding Amiga disk files.I have dozens and dozens of old Amiga game disks that I can't use anymore because my Amiga hasn't worked for a long time.I want to use the games again. I downloaded the latest version of MAME, so I should be able to emulat...

All: How do you deal with debugging code that doesn't exhibit the bug when compiled in debug mode.I have had to deal with this scenario atleast once a year for quite awhile now. A bug is reported in the production software. You can't reproduce it when the software is compiled in debug m...

Sometimes, I have the strange feeling that somebody is asking a question in order to create a virus, or to send lots of mails, to records keys entered by a user, to bypass security features, etc.<br/>Do you have the same doubts?<br/>Do you think we should give an answer to every question?

Congrats Paul! :thumb:<br/>Great posts, Great help - keep it up!!!! :wave:

hi all<br/>i would like to ask if anybody of u ever used matlab?<br/>is there any coding in matlab to create hyperlink between two GUIs?waiting for your answers...

Congrats Shuja! :thumb:<br/>Definitely 5001 great posts, keep up the good work!!!

Hiya!<br/> <br/>It'd be lovely to catch up with people who have been developing/are interested in developing applications for facebook...<br/> <br/>Anybody?<br/> <br/>;-)

I have found the baby dev-archive webpages when it was run by Earthweb<br/>Se the .rar file attached here.

My pop-tart has a trivia question on it -<br/>What are seven of the planets in our solar system named after?<br/>The answer is Roman gods.<br/>My question out of curiousity is, what is the difference between the Roman gods and Greek gods? Are these different?<br/>Brad!

Keep up the good work man!<br/>Cheers,<br/>Laitinen

Please help me settle an argument that has been simmering for almost a week now at my workplace. I'm having a hard time convincing one of our product designers that there is a really basic design smell in our new product, so I thought I would throw this question out to the gurus and code Jedi...

Since my girlfriend seems to think Im some sort of a loser because I sit infront of my computer a lot typing up programs and doing homework on a Saturday night instead of partying and drinking as she would like. I wanted to find out what you guys do for fun and the like. I mean, what activities do y...

Over the years I've had occasional email problems from people using Apple Macs. The most common problem is that the message body will be empty and the message seems to come in as an attachment. Since I'm very reluctant to open unsolicited attachments I consider this to be a problem.Last we...

http://crazy.codetroop.com/randimg/imgs/computer_bomb.jpg<br/>haha, found this and i was just like ***, how can anyone be serious about this

I'm just new here I find it a very interesting forum with wide range of topics.What do you do here and what keeps you coming to this forum? I want you to make me more interested in this forum... :P It's just a way to test the level of enthusiasm... In any case, I'm glad to be here. :D...

My wife is considering getting a portable game console, she's thinking of getting the Nintendo DS Lite. <br/>I've notice via the forum search that a few people here own one, what do you think of it as a game console ?<br/>:)

US job website Monster.com has suffered an online attack with the personal data of hundreds of thousands of users stolen, says a security firm....Symantec said it had seen reports of phishing e-mails sent out to Monster.com users which were "very realistic" and contained "personal information of the...

A little late, but better than never.<br/>Congrats Hannes! Keep the amazing work coming!!! :thumb: :wave:

Just found this again on YouTube... <br/>Powers of Ten ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1jd8AgjP9k) <br/>30 years old by now, but still impressive... :)

Note: I am using Microsoft Visual C++ .NET (Microsoft Development Environment 2003 Version 7.1)I have a solution comprising of five projects. For one of the project, I enable three compiler flags (PCM_MULTILINEAR, PCM_USE_FILTER16, PCM_USE_IMAGE8) as fallows:1- Right click on the project in questio...

This is a custom built PC I made a bit over a year ago. I came across some unexpected costs this semester for a computer architecture class and since this one is a spare, I'm selling it off to pay for them. It has the following:2.0Ghz AMD 3800+ CPU1 CDRW drive1 DVD/CDRW drive120 GB hard drive2...

Just a shout to all those out there who are still using an older OS such as the one Im using at home. I run a Windows 98 SE machine, Pentium II 400/512/100/1.6V (upgrading to a Slot 370 Pentium III here soon hopefully). I just put an NE2000 Compatible (not sure what brand) cable network card in it a...

Since this is the forum section for anything, I relate here one of those stories from life which each of us collect and tell to friends.A decade and a half ago I was on contract for a small firm of casual and friendly ownership. At the time I was single, for the second occasion in my life, so I happ...

Can i use some code sources i found in codeproj. psc and dev-archive and over the internet in my rentacoder projects?<br/>Or is it a some-kind-of-copyright violation?

Well personally I rather go to hell because being non-existing is too restricted. I mean you can't even think to yourself. Try and just think how it would be not to think. Its completely confusing and its litrelly the WORST fate ANYONE can have.

Interesting news item...The University of Hull is following global institutions including the Swedish Government and the press agency Reuters and computer giant Dell into the computer generated virtual world known as Second Life. http://www.knowledgerich.com/NewsItem.aspx?newsitemid=1424p3...

Which one is the best and why, in your opinion?

Great posts, great articles! :thumb: Keep it so! :wave:

I registered a few domains, and I am going to register another one today. I usually use godaddy because its only $9.00 for the domain. There are many different registars and I talked to registar.com on the phone. I wanted to find out why they charged $29 for the exact same thing. They told me that t...