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Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2008, 5:42 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 129
Posted By mackenga
Re: About Wireless LAN

When you log the users' IP addresses, bear in mind you're only logging the addresses your DHCP server (probably your router) just assigned to them, nothing that identifies them as such.

Sounds like...
Forum: Other Scripting Languages Jun 27th, 2008, 10:08 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 163
Posted By mackenga
Re: Batch file problems

I have half an answer - hopefully you're still waiting for one! It's been a very long time since I wrote a batch file that did more than start two or three programs then quit (more than that and I...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jun 27th, 2008, 9:59 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 196
Posted By mackenga
Re: Payment for PC Repair

Yes, and often! Many years ago (God I feel old) I helped with a little VB6 project to write a CD browser application. Not sure if they're still common on Windows machines - what I mean is the...
Forum: PHP Jun 26th, 2008, 12:07 PM
Replies: 6
Views: 198
Posted By mackenga
Re: IP address

The IP of their site is reasonably easily found and is unlikely to change; just do:

nslookup www.annoyingjunkads---.com

at the command prompt (Windows or Linux, and maybe other platforms). You...
Forum: Other Web Development Languages Jun 12th, 2008, 2:22 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 128
Posted By mackenga
Re: Unicode email

Hmm, not sure if I know enough about the subject area but this might help so I may as well post it!

It sounds to me like your program is sending the email in Unicode, but your mail client is...
Forum: Community Introductions Jun 12th, 2008, 2:08 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 227
Posted By mackenga
Re: Finding my way around- hello.

Hey man, welcome! Living out in the sticks doesn't need to be a major problem for you, learning to program. There's a ton of information on the web about it.

I know what it's like when you first...
Forum: Visual Basic Jun 12th, 2008, 1:55 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 153
Posted By mackenga
Re: Getting Started

You may have found this already:

http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/VB/CatalogVB.htm

If you type "vb.net tutorial" into google there seems to be a decent amount of material out there that looks fairly...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Apr 6th, 2008, 6:35 AM
Replies: 61
Views: 2,174
Posted By mackenga
Re: What have you been up to?

@Jabo: Lol, if only :)
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Apr 5th, 2008, 7:33 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 218
Posted By mackenga
Re: Trinary (Base 3) computing

I'd suggest you take a look at tri-intercal - this is a joke programming language but uses trinary so might be relevant to what you're doing. It has 'tritwise' operators - AND OR NOT and BUT :)
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Apr 5th, 2008, 7:29 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 172
Posted By mackenga
Re: web hosting

Thought I'd post a warning against using http://www.telivo.com/ - I've got a couple of domains hosted with these people and the creaking old versions of MySQL and PHP they run are embarrassing. I've...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Apr 5th, 2008, 7:14 PM
Replies: 14
Views: 534
Posted By mackenga
Re: What is your occupation?

> Would you have a fair ammount of time to focus on other things or would you have to concentrate all/most of the time on programming? (things meaning like exercising, social activities, other...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Apr 5th, 2008, 6:24 PM
Replies: 61
Views: 2,174
Posted By mackenga
Re: What have you been up to?

Been a while since I've posted around these parts ....

Work-wise I'm still working on supporting and debugging SCADA systems (SCADA: supervisory control and data acquisition), bizarrely written in...
Forum: Project Ideas Feb 21st, 2008, 10:24 AM
Replies: 1
Views: 271
Posted By mackenga
Re: Information Systems Management Research

Chucked in my two cents. Good luck with your paper!
Forum: ASP.NET Feb 21st, 2008, 10:20 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 288
Posted By mackenga
Re: having troubles how to code

I'd suggest that if you're new to programming, you're not going to be able to build a site like this yourself. It isn't a huge project, but there's a lot of background to cover before you can even...
Forum: C++ Feb 21st, 2008, 10:13 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 208
Posted By mackenga
Re: crtbegin.o error

It's been a while since I did any C++ development but in case it helps, I'll suggest checking your #includes and that you defined main(). Maybe your installation isn't quite right - sounds like it...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Feb 21st, 2008, 10:11 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 907
Posted By mackenga
Re: Free Computer Books

Lol, I like the Pirate Bay recommendation :) For some nice overviews and even some slightly deeper technical information, Wikipedia's surprisingly good these days too.
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Feb 21st, 2008, 10:08 AM
Replies: 6
Views: 258
Posted By mackenga
Re: Major Programming Language

Strictly speaking I don't think I'd call an HTML page a script; it's too declarative.

My employer uses a lot of Visual Basic 6 (though not for new developments, thank Eris!). For more recent...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Feb 21st, 2008, 10:01 AM
Replies: 10
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Views: 264
Posted By mackenga
Re: Hi

I haven't tried my hand at Python yet but from very early preliminary skimming of material on the subject online it does look like a good choice for an introduction to programming (amongst other...
Forum: Visual Basic Dec 31st, 2007, 9:21 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 223
Posted By mackenga
Re: Sending keys to a process?

SendKeys is accessible via the WScript.Shell object too; so in VBScript you can do:


Dim objSH
Set objSH = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")


The most interesting methods will be AppActivate (if I...
Forum: Visual Basic Dec 26th, 2007, 9:40 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 215
Posted By mackenga
Re: Auto Save

System.Windows.Forms.Timer isn't relevant to this forum - but the Timer control is. (Note: this is not VB.NET land, but classic VB land, unless I'm much mistaken...)

To use the timer control, just...
Forum: Visual Basic Dec 17th, 2007, 5:50 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 255
Posted By mackenga
Re: please help me to print in vb

Hopefully this helps:

http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/show/86/1/

To be honest I just googled for it and it looked like about the right thing. Good luck!
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Dec 17th, 2007, 5:25 PM
Replies: 13
Views: 440
Posted By mackenga
Re: C# vs C++ Career Move

I recommend C++ for starters, and then a look at Java. It might be a UK thing, but while there's quite a bit of interest in C# the real buzz is still around J2EE rather than .NET. Java and C# are...
Forum: C++ Dec 17th, 2007, 5:18 PM
Replies: 22
Views: 862
Posted By mackenga
Re: Learning curve for C++ ?

I won't try to dissuade you from trying Python for starters - I think it's an excellent choice. But I did think it would be worth adding that while I agree that the learning curve for C++ is steep,...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Nov 30th, 2007, 9:21 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 155
Posted By mackenga
Re: ASUS eeePC?

As you're probably aware, that's 512Mb of RAM, not 512Gb! The upgrade potential is a bit hypothetical at the moment, I believe.

I don't own one of these yet, but my girlfriend does, having bought...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Nov 20th, 2007, 3:03 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 518
Posted By mackenga
Re: Solid dependable job or Career?

I'm actually in quite a similar position in some ways. I am currently employed as a software developer but I don't like the politics in the company where I work and anyway am getting tired of...
Forum: Software Design and Algorithms Sep 6th, 2007, 5:27 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 984
Posted By mackenga
That was dr.p's final suggestion. Rather than...

That was dr.p's final suggestion. Rather than just going with click count though I'd say click counts divided by age, or click counts divided by 'offer' counts (the count of times the post was...
Forum: Visual Basic Sep 6th, 2007, 5:20 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 290
Posted By mackenga
That's kind of weird behaviour. But you'll get...

That's kind of weird behaviour. But you'll get used to it with VB. I maintain embedded systems (quality assurance systems in production lines) for a living. Appallingly, these are all VB6 apps. ...
Forum: Visual Basic Sep 6th, 2007, 5:09 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 972
Posted By mackenga
Ack, first up, string concatenation should be &,...

Ack, first up, string concatenation should be &, not +. The code above shouldn't say file not found - something more like type mismatch (txtPing.Text > lblPing.Caption is True if txtPing.Text is...
Forum: C Sep 6th, 2007, 4:59 PM
Replies: 17
Views: 520
Posted By mackenga
Compiler warnings

Want a ton of compiler warnings from GCC? Try -Wall on the command line. I swear by (and often at) it.

Oh, and you might find using an assignment operator in a condition useful, even though it may...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2007, 5:56 PM
Replies: 40
Views: 1,075
Posted By mackenga
I like: Pink Floyd - High Hopes (a little...

I like:

Pink Floyd - High Hopes (a little cheesy, but atmospheric)

The Knife - Heartbeat (A really energetic and quite uplifting tune)

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (the most beautiful sound I've...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2007, 5:38 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 139
Posted By mackenga
Screw proprietary software. You don't get this...

Screw proprietary software. You don't get this kind of bull with Open Source.

Of course you also don't get Microsoft Physics Illustrator - off the top of my head I don't know of a free alternative...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2007, 5:33 PM
Replies: 12
Views: 243
Posted By mackenga
Yeah, agreed - if you can do both, do both. If...

Yeah, agreed - if you can do both, do both. If only one, do the degree. If you get the qualification now, you'll not regret it.
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2007, 5:31 PM
Replies: 10
Views: 229
Posted By mackenga
Excellent! Nice one, bigguy. Good to see you...

Excellent! Nice one, bigguy. Good to see you back.
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 15th, 2007, 5:29 PM
Replies: 18
Views: 406
Posted By mackenga
Sitting all day is a killer. I have a crap chair...

Sitting all day is a killer. I have a crap chair at work and have a permanent pain in the middle of my back. There's no way my employer will buy me a decent chair, so I plan to buy one of my own...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 11th, 2007, 12:46 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 92
Posted By mackenga
Amazing how they got Arnold Schwarzerneger to do...

Amazing how they got Arnold Schwarzerneger to do the voice ...
Forum: Coder's Corner Lounge Jul 11th, 2007, 12:44 PM
Replies: 48
Views: 915
Posted By mackenga
Heh. I think they should have avoided the...

Heh. I think they should have avoided the console market to be honest. People expect stability from consoles.
Forum: C Jul 11th, 2007, 12:41 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 189
Posted By mackenga
Yup! But then ain't we all? It's definitely...

Yup! But then ain't we all? It's definitely more fun than working in C without regexps. :)
Forum: Software Design and Algorithms Jul 11th, 2007, 12:40 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 164
Posted By mackenga
Whoops, my bad - this IS the Software Design and...

Whoops, my bad - this IS the Software Design and Algorithms forum! Lol. Must have been pretty tired when I posted this last night!
Forum: Software Design and Algorithms Jul 10th, 2007, 7:07 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 164
Posted By mackenga
Sorry, it's been a long time since this post but...

Sorry, it's been a long time since this post but there have been no answers and I've just come across it. Hopefully you're still holding out hope for an answer, Foxandxss!

Software design is a big...
Forum: Visual Basic Jul 10th, 2007, 6:57 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 163
Posted By mackenga
(I know it's been a while since this question,...

(I know it's been a while since this question, but nobody has responded so I still think it's legitimate to do so!)

This doesn't look like classic VB to me - I suspect you would get more of a...
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