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This is a list of latest happenings that I want to blab about. If you find it interesting, then leave a message about your thoughts on it. However, if it wasted your time, just move along 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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My Toshiba laptop had Ubuntu 5.1 Linux distro running along side with Windows XP. All was good until I upgraded the wireless router to WPA from WEP. Ubuntu was not too pleased about it, nor was I when trying to twist its arm to work with WPA. I've seen some CPians discussing PCLinuxOS[^] and decided to give it a try. Downloaded the .iso, burnt it to cd, gave it a try with the LiveCD setup, liked it, and installed it over the old Ubuntu 5.1 partition.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Going to see if I can get it to work on a VMWare test box...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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...and successful, though response is a bit pokey. Only running the virtual machine with 256mb ram. will have to increase to at least 512mb...
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The wonderful article by Marc Clifton on the introduction to XNA has sparked some interest from me to look at fiddling around with XNA. My desktop machine doesn't work with it due to the graphic card not supporting PixelShading 1.1. I will have to look into fixing this or just doing an upgrade 
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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This is a list of websites that I find of interesting and helpful in my daily development tasks.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Code Project[^], I know it is redundant putting this one here, but come on it's the best
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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http://www.connectionstrings.com[^] for connection strings to many of the databases that are out there. The site saves me from loads of grief when trying to recall connection strings from the many different databases I work with.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Op Code Fields from MSDN[^] is a really useful site since I have taken up interest in analyzing the IL code that the .NET compilers generate.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Reportviewer - How To: Set Page Breaks[^] is really helpful since I've always wondered how to get page breaks to work in Report Viewer...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Bacula[^] looks to be a very interesting and useful tool suggested by John M. Drescher [^]...
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Not much, other than being at a workshop all week, hence not really been around CP much since Monday...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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When I first started out in computer programming, it began with a Timex Sinclair machine. I really took off with programming when I got a Commodore 64. One of my favorite authors of Commodore related work was a fellow, Jim Butterfield. I just googled around this morning to see what Jim has been upto, and found out sadly that he passed with cancer this past June.
All I have to say is: thanks, Jim, for getting me into computing ![Rose | [Rose]](/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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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 Slide Fire[^] 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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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:
Dim myExcel As New Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application
Dim myResult As Double = myExcel.WorksheetFunction.FDist(12.222,7,4)
And the C# version:
Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application myExcel =
new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.Application();
double myResult = myExcel.WorksheetFunction.FDist(12.222,7,4);
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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"It's only that urgent if you have to pee..." - Dave Kreskowiak
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"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
"Find it your bloody self - immediately!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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"That's no moon, it's a space station." - Obi-wan Kenobi
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"too much daily WTF for someone..." - Anton Afanasyev
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"The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese" - anonymous, found in Uncle John's Bathroom Reader
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"But your mind is too small and simple to understand anything other than fart jokes." - leckey
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"Try asking what you want to know, rather than asking a question whose answer you know." - Christian Graus
"Try asking what you want to know, rather than asking a question whose answer you know." - Christian Graus
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"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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"I really like comments where I don't have to answer stupid questions" - stfx
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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Light ORM Library for .NET[^] is very good. Have a strong interest in ORM tools and this one isn't bad at all.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
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