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Finally bought Guitar Hero II on Friday. The game/controller bundle from Target. Still at the Easy level, but have got a little ambitious with Medium .
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Guitar Hero III stinks (not!)
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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We have been evacuated since Monday with another round of wildfires all over southern California. The <a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1005/" rel="nofollow">Slide Fire</a>[<a href="http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1005/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">^</a>] incident is the one that was threatening my home. From reports I have heard that it came less than 1/4 mile from my house. My town has been spared so far due to the outstanding efforts of our local firefighters.
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Back up on the hill
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Now that the school terms are winding down with teaching, going to get caught up on many computer related stuff.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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First snow of the winter today. Finally!
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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It is now Christmas Break for the next two and 1/2 weeks Reading ( The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose), relaxation, family time, codeproject time, etc.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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The laptop was getting pretty trashed up. Backed up all my stuff and put Vista on the machine. Seems to perform okay considering it is a 3ghz P4 with 512 mb ram. Will see what happens after installing Visual Studio
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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...and then the Realtek driver took a dump with Vista and the flash drives froze it left-and-right. Hence, I reverted back to XP
"I guess it's what separates the professionals from the drag and drop, girly wirly, namby pamby, wishy washy, can't code for crap types." - Pete O'Hanlon
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This particular thread is for programming snafus I've done, whether it was caused by hindsight, mind wandering elsewhere, or just one too many whilst writing code. It is for my leisure
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Thread for interesting bits and pieces of stuff...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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From the Microsoft Forum by Paul Clement:
The following will create the table in Access during the import:
SELECT * INTO [Data] FROM
[Excel 8.0;DATABASE=E:\My Documents\Test.xls;HDR=No;IMEX=1].[Sheet1$]
The below statement operates on an existing table in Access:
INSERT INTO [Data] (Col1, Col2, Col3, Col4) SELECT F1, F2, F3, F4 FROM
[Excel 8.0;DATABASE=E:\My Documents\Test.xls;HDR=No;IMEX=1].[Sheet1$]
In each example above the connection should be made to the Access database in order to perform the import.
Found this be potentially helpful when having to deal with any Access projects that require bulk insertion of data. Did a test on the first SQl statement with an Excel spreadsheet containing 72 columns and 65535 rows of test data. Took no more than about 3 seconds on the Toshiba Laptop.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Smart Client Composite UI Application Block[^], suggested by Pete O'Hanlon, looks to be very useful on some upcoming projects
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Windows Vista 32 Bit and 4GB Ram[^]
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Blue Moon Authentication[^] sounds like an interesting approach at verifying if a user is really him/herself.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Programming Blips I find helpful, for me, maybe for you, too
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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There is a CPian who has been asking math questions in the math forum how to implement the equivalent Excel functions in C#. Not sure if Office Interop Libraries are allowed in his project, but here is using the FDIST function in VB.NET:
<code>
Dim myExcel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
' myResult holds the result from FDIST(12.222,7,4) = 0.0145705260672057
Dim myResult As Double = myExcel.WorksheetFunction.FDist(12.222,7,4)
</code>
And the C# version:
<code>
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application myExcel =
new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
double myResult = myExcel.WorksheetFunction.FDist(12.222,7,4);
</code>
This can be verified in Excel by typing into the A1 cell, =FDist(12.222,7,4) ,
and you should get 0.0145705260672057
Must make sure add a reference in the project to the Excel Object Library depending on the version of Excel to be used. Client computers will need to have Office installed in order to use this code snippet.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Spent a good part of the evening last night getting rid of the beta of Silverlight 2 from the laptop. Cleaned up a few other things off the machine. Installed the newest version of Silverlight and appropriate tools for VS2008.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Set up a blog on Wordpress now. Tired of people voting down any blogging I do here.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Here are sigs (signatures) that I have collected over time here at CP...
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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"If you try to write that in English, I might be able to understand more than a fraction of it." - Guffa
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"I'd like to help but I don't feel like Googling it for you."
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"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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"You posted your question here, indicating that you're so thick you couldn't find the VB Forum if it was licking your bung hole." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Try asking what you want to know, rather than asking a question whose answer you know." - Christian Graus
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"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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