phkninja

Want a simple way to make GUI's, with cross platform compatability and ease of use (only c++ code. no api calls, only calling constructors etc). My suggestion is a library called wxwigets (was wxWindows), has been running for years, is open source and is easy to use. I use it for my programs, and believe me I aint the best programmer in the world (taught myself c and c++ to intermediate level and am an electronics technician by trade)

I agree with LLXX. I am a electronics technician, having studied encryption and compression for a lng time. Truely random data is not compressable, and before you tell me it is I am going by many years of research by numerous "gods" of the compression sector. Firstly before you say engineers dont know anything about compression, just to let you know its the engineering sector who are resposible for compression in the first place. Claude Shannon was the "father" of modern compression, he set down the rules we all must obey. By the way he was an engineer Secondly for copmression to happen there must be some from of pradictability, or pattern to the data. All encoding methods require you to use the statistics of the data to encode it in compression, replacing the most common occuring pieces of data with the smallest compression codes. Thirdly up until today there have been many claims that people have fond a way to compress random data, juts to fade into the background when asked to prove it. Part of the competition your are trying to win is to explain how you did it. And finally just to throw a spanner in the works, as far as i am aware no one has found a more efficient way of encoding the final stage of compression than huffman (or if you wanted Shannon-Fano as it gives roughl;y the same result. its about 2% less eficien, creating some larger codes by 1 bit in some cases). So if you cant do it with huffman, how are you ever going to do it. (All compression schemes use different methods to reduce the data before huffman coding or run length encoding [but huffman is usually the method of choice], reducing the required dictionary for huffman coding) May i also point out from looking at your powerpoint presentation, if you are successful in getting your program written the ststistical analusis is flawed. From the data given in the presentation all you will do is "compress" the data into a LARGER file size. Your coding scheme expands codes instead of compressing them, then you add a bit to notify if compression has happened or not. And from whta i can gather you are trying to balance the number of 0's and 1's so statistically there are the same number of 0's as 1's. Even if you run it through a converter to make the codes comply with Manchester coding or a similar coding method that only allows a certain ammount of 1's or 0's in a constant string before forcing a change, you will still end up expanding the data. Maybe im wrong, but I have faith in over 40 years of analysis. (and as a technicain i am told to always question everything im told.)

I have had the same problem with my 6230. Since i am a technician and used to fix the **** things all day i was able to deduce that the nokia pc suite was my problem. Never bothered updating the pc suite as i only wanted it for backing up the phonebook (which i have done using a spare sim and deleting the numbers i didnt need).

You could also look into an active tv antenna (has a signal booster inside, but is better than having an antenna folowed by a signal booster as it filters the noise better). As already stated the larger he antenna the better the signal. If you had the space (and the technical know how) i would buy a 50m reel of able, put a connector on the end and leave the reel by the computer (basically having a 50m antenna)

I use NSIS, it great but you could try Inno Setup (is also free) Ghost Installer or doing a search http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Program...ll_Creator.html http://www.freewarefiles.com/cat_10_113_Se...e-Creators.html http://www.timelyweb.com/free/Creator_3542s.html http://yippee.i4free.co.nz/html/win/developer/title8439.htm

i use cdburnerxp mostly. Nice litte app that doesmost of what i want

archish:- there is no DOS in XP. its an interpreter, like java is interpreted. Its a "virtual" DOS, doesnt really exists but is there to foolyou to thinking it is. Some peope like cmdline for its sheer power, hence they usualy like DOS. MS put in a virtual DOS to fool peope they had the same control at low levels (in fact in XP it is windows doing the stuff for you rather than the low level programs that used to. much like the Inte Itanium and 32bit programs, a bit of software was written to read what a prgram wanted to do in 32bit mode, converted it to 64bit mode, did the work and gave the answer like it was done in 32bit mode. This made everything slower than the 32bit chips the Itanium was supposed to repace.)

victor_008:- no if doe right it shoud not cause any probems with the install. think about copy protected games, they work with a cd protection. i think most copy protection is based on null blocks of data being inserted on the cd which arent copied by cd copying /burning software. one suggestion is to add null bocks that cannot be copied but are required by the bootloader (a modified bootoaer that checks for the null blocks. coud be a modified vrsion of cmenu's loader)

What do you mean makes a local copy already. As far as i was aware it copied the bootloader and drivers to the hard-drive (only what is needed to bootthe setup program) the installs the rest from the cd. The reason a ghost image takes less time is because its like a zip file. It takes all the files on a harddrive and compresses them into an image file. But it does not do any configuration, the reason why windows install is slow. it has to configure the registry etc to know which files to use for the hardware. Ghost image doesnt care about configuration, it just put on a copy of what was there when the image waas created (like unzipping an archive)

You could add an xcopy command to the commands.txt file to copy the i386 folder from the sourcedisk to the HDD

edonkey 2000 is supposed to be dead. The reason eMule (or eMule Plus) are mentioned is because they do the same thing, are open source and have NO adware. Sharezza is good, but after one too many popups i went to eMule Plus.

Sorry guys wont let me edit my spelling mistakes so you will all have to live with them ( 3 times I tried a full edit, 2 times a quick edit and still it reads badly. Cant fix what is broken let alone what isnt )

The first computer ever was called Colossus. It was used to break the Enigma Encryption Cypher during WWII, hence making the Germans lose the war. It was the size of the room and took days to break one polyalphabetical substitution. http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ The oldest computers i have is a Spectrum ZX, and a Spetrum ZX81 (around the same time). The ZX has a tape drive, the ZX81 has an 8mb cartridge. They were the first thng I learned to program . (in the cupboard. Was 5 when i started programming it) Then had an Amstrad PC1640, with a monocrome screen, a 500MB hard drive and 51/4 inch floppy disks. (was dumped) Had Superbrain for a while (was running on BBC OS), then after a year got rid of it. (around 1987, I was 7) Finbaly in 1999 we got a PC with windows 98, and since then I have become addicted to them (again when I was 19) So out so much for being called a geek or a nerd, Im a newbie as far as most people are concerned *lol*

jcarle: You are quite right, it will work on the SATA controller (if the BIOS is set correctly) but will still only work at 50% of its speed (SATA II being 2x the sped of SATA). If hes going to have a hard drive in his machine, maybe he should stick to having SATA, after all why pay for an option you cant use

Just looked at the spec's for the motherboard and cant see SATA II support so you will have to get a SATA II controller card that goes in a PCI slot or the PCIe slot. Asus Site: http://www.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=K8V%20...Deluxe&langs=01 SATA II Cards: http://www.cooldrives.com/saii3gra4p64.html The problem i found is that you might not find a PCI card, most cards I found with a SATA II controller are PCIe (PCI express). Have a look around and see what you can find that will help you out further.

Only thing i can think of is you dont have SATA II on the motherboard to ineract with the HDD. When you say a western digital SATA II drive i assume you mean WD2500JS or WD2500KS drive. http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?...n&pid=15&swid=9 is the download for th Silicon Image Controller chip http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?...&pid=15&swid=10 is for the Western Digital Controller chip

You should get a driver disk with the hard drive. Not sure but you might need a seperate driver for the SATA II. Wit your floppy drive, are you sure the cable is connected correctly. Sometimes you can connect the cable upsidedown, this puts the led on but wont recognise the floppy drive properly. Are you adding the SATA driver to the i386 folder or are you just using the spilstreamed driver pack? On the problem with yur two hard drives being connected at the same time. I had a similar problem where i had to change the physical connectivity of the hard drives as it was trying to boot a blank SATA drive beofre the SATA drive with the OS. It kept getting a conflict between the drives.

Sounds like XP is not seeing the driver for the SATA II drive, or when the two drives are connected that it is getting a conflict. I have an SATA drive that works fine with one of the drivers supplied (si3112 driver) but when i add the si3112r raid driver it no longer works. The only solution i found was to add both drivers on a floppy disk and press f6 to install both, or to only have one driver integrated into the win xp cd.

how much web development are you going to do. If you are only going to mainatin a few pages, you might not want to waste time learning HTML,CSS,DHTML,Javascript,PHP,MySQL etc (all the crap i know i use for web dev) and concentrate on using something like dreamweaver or frontpage. If you want a WYSIWUG editor then download WeDwarf from my site http://www.nerdyninja.com/webdwarf.exe If you want to learn to develop then w3shools is a good start. also try http://www.webmonkey.com/ for tutorials http://www.dynamicdrive.com/ for rady made scripts

It may be possible, but from a hardware point of view you still wont get 112k from the two modems. Firstly you have to overcom ethe two modems conflicting with each other in wondows (so you have to manyually set up the IRQ's). Secondly you have to find software that will manage both modems (i would suggest setting up one for downlaod one for upload kinda senario). Thirdly, as someone who is from an Electronics background i will tell you that ypu dont get 56k from a 56k modem (v90 or v92 protocol), you get something close to 48k max (due to handshaking etc with the exchange)

Ethreal is the only tool i would use for network analysis. I have used it before for packet analysis (like an Agilent LanMonitor) to analyse the packet headers and determine the traffic content contained in the packets (am an Electronics Tech and had to show the different packets traveling on the college networks. Showing MAC addresses etc contained in the packets). It works on Windows, *nix etc and is completely free. It contains so much that it might take a while to learn properly, but I do know that many hackers/crackers (depending on the word you use for those who break into computers or use data from captured packets fro fraud) use this all the time

limewire is alos supposed to die. As the amaericans get more into "xatching the software pirates" more and more p2p programs are shutting down their servers in an attempt to miss the court cases.

which os. If you want an ide for windows you can try MinGW Studio - Uses MinGW (a port of GCC to windows). DevC++ - Uses mingw as well Rhino - Can be configured to use any compiler once you know the command line. At the moment if you use any c++ compiler it will give more or less the same results (approx same file sizes etc) with all ompilers producing as small as possible an exe.If you really want to compress your exe use upx with options to strip the icons from the file header. Linux use gcc

eidenk: The quick answer is that yes you are right. According to the guys in redmiond this is the case. BUT most of the time you will find that Windows will not reallocte the space in memory to another program, or unlink the dlls fro the process queue, so you usually get the same dll in memeory numerous time anyway (cause they dont like writing code that returns memory top the heap). Instead they do their usual of "if it aint broken totally {if it will run even though its buggy} then just leave it and go to the next bug ridden piece of software".

did you just delete the line or did you edit the reg file to Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] "DefaultUserName"="John" "DefaultPassword"="" just want to know for making an unatten. windows xp cd. Have to creat numerous profiles, but want to have a "Default" profile as well