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Famous in what area? Do you mean a *web development* company? If that, I might agree Wrong, do yourself a favour by searching jobs over the internet and you will see Java is a must have. Why? Because its software can be used in ANY environment (given that the virtual machine available). Can you use the visual basic program you wrote 7 years ago in Windows 98 environment in today Windows XP flatform? I doubt that unless your program is so simple (i.e. require less library). Can you use a Java 1.2 program on today 1.5? yes. Can you use Visual Basic to write program for other platform other than Windows? NO. Can you do that with Java? Ans: that's why Java is here. Bottom line, if you are Windows fan and Windows only, Microsoft products are for you, but if you like to have some freedom, take my advice seriously. I think you are either Windows developers or a highschool kid who's learning how to program. If that's true, nothing more I can say.

First of all, this should not be a question for student who is doing his final year project. The reason is he should know the answer before then. It's not about a language you use, it's about which one you have the most familiarity with. You have to stick with the one you know the most. And more than that, language is a tool, just a tool, how you use that tool is what important. In term of language, there are thousands of them out there. Using google and find the most popular programming language, I got this http://www.developer.com/net/csharp/article.php/3390001/Programming-Language-Popularity-The-TCP-Index-for-August-2004.htm , which is very interesting. I suggest using C/C++, Java or Python in general. For web project, PHP would be a plausible choice. You should probably want to stay away from any .NET, Microsoftish language since they can be *obsolete* eventually.

Yes, I do have firewall which is a part of Norton Antivirus and the system is up-to-date for sure. What I did currently is using a software called Process Explorer. By using this piece of software I can force kill the fake lsass.exe process and everything work fine. However, it cannot be a solution because everytime I restart the system, the process is there again and I have to use Process Explorer again.

Does anyone here know a decent algorithm to play Mancala (Kalaha) game. If you don't know the game, it looks like this http://www.briancasey.org/artifacts/mancala/ . I just use general alpha beta prunning for now but I need a decent evaluating function. This game is kind of new to me, so I don't know which factor is important which is less important.

The first time I programmed? It must be when I was 9 years old.There was the first national programming competition for students in my country. And there was no kid in my city qualified for the national competition so they (the city commitee) must choose from *other source* one that can handle the job. Well, my father was a well-known CS professor at that time so the city comittee believe that I (as his son) can do that. Oh well, I knew nothing about programming since then and he threw me a QBasic book and asked me to program. I found it really fun and the first *big* program was finished 2 months later, which won the national prize. Then, I stopped programming for 9 years, yes, 9 years, until I go to college.I'm a pretty decent programmer, ranked the first in my CS class, won several competition, but that's it. That's my story, fun but there is some sad in it, I wish if there were no that 9-year... Now, after done with college, I stopped programming again )

Somehow, all my web browsers (Firefox, IE, Opera) stopped working. I used Norton Antivirus to check but found nothing. After using hijackthis, I found out that there is a process which rooted at file C:\WINDOWS\lsass.exe , this is an illegal process since the correct lsass.exe should be under \system32\ folder. However, there is no actual C:\WINDOWS\lsass.exe file. When using task manager, there is two lsass processes. I believed one of them is a legal one from Windows and the other one is the nasty one. But there is no way for me to stop the second one because task manager thinks that both of them are legitimate. What should I do?