Galahad

Well, I guess PERL would be the best choice for such searches, RegEx is a quite powerfull tool... You can connect to MySQL databases from PERL, so that shouldn't be a problem either... You should concentrate on connecting to databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, and others) in PERL, and also Regular Expressions... RegEx will be your best friend in searches for news articles...

Dunno where XAMPP for Linux expects files to be... Generic Apache configuration on my Linux looks in /var/www for files and scripts... Maybe there? You should read XAMPP documentation, or configuration files, to see where XAMPP wants the files to be...

With standard TextBox you can't have multiple fnt styles... If you want that, then use RichTextBox control, that allows multuple font styles, colors and others...

I used to have Nokia 7650, and it kind of ticked me off, since it was blocking often... After that, I bought Siemens SX1, and I absolutely adore that phone, I still have it, and don't plan to sell it... It's a Symbian 60 phone, that's aesthetically lovely to the eye, and functional...But, since this is about Nokias... I have Nokia Communicator 9300, and it has everything you need, period... OggPlay makes it into a portable music player... RealPlayer and SmartMoviePlayer make it into a portable video player... GPRS Internet is kind of slow, but you can always check you e-mails, wherever you are...And 1GB MMC card allows you to do all that at once So, my Nokia 9300 is kind of my best travel companion, be it for reading, listening to music, or anything else...

Well, while going for the median price is easy, I don't think there are a lot of people willing to pay 5 euros for a book that costs 1 euro... I mean, I wouldn't... Unless it's some extremely rare book... It's just my oppinion, but I think paying 4 times the value of something, to get it - it's just not worth buying... But then again, that's just me... Providing unique price for every item, tells your customers you care about them, so that may increase your sales... But that's just going into "running the business" topic...

I would also go with attempting to access the disk via a Linux distro, and trying to copy the data... There are always good tools in Linux to get the damaged data from harddrives... It seems to me that Vista screwed something with the HD, probably screwed FAT table, or something like it...

MD5 is a hash function... Hash functions are one-way, meaning, they create a hash string, based on their input... MD5 doesn't encrypt anything, it just creates hash string...The only possible way to "crack" MD5 is using dictionary attack, that is, using a list of existing MD5:Cleartext pairs, and matching to a desired MD5... There is no way do decode, only "break in"... Only, it requires quite big processing power to do it fast...

Well, for linux, there is youtube-dl, a program that downloads a video from YouTube... If you want to extract audio, you just run FFMpeg program, and voila, you've got yourself an audio file...There are similar tools for Windows and mac too...Frankly, whoever wants to get something, he/she will... There is always that lame method of playing a file from your player, and recording it in parallel... There is still no protection against that... What people hear, they can record...The moment you give out something to the public, you run the risk of being ripped off... But, being ripped off, means your stuff is good, so you should be flattered...

Problem with all mail companies, is they are trying to get the most money out of your shipment... I haven't worked with Royal Mail, but I worked with UPS, DHL, and severl other similar transportational companies... They calculate the shipping cost in the following way... You need to weigh your package, and you need to measure it, WxHxD... Then, WxHxD is divided by some number, generaly 1000, then, they see which value is greater, weight or WxHxD / 1000, and use that value to calculate the cost... You don't have an easy task ahead of you, but you can precisely calculate the shipping cost for the entire collection... The only problem is, you will need to measure all of your books, and the new ones you get, measure them immediately... The good thing is, books usualy have similar dimensions, only their weight is different... Tough job is ahead of you, but once done, I'm sure your customers will be the quite happy...

Nah, generic VB6 Timer doesn't create it's own thread, and it isn't quite precise... Yes, it's satisfactory if you don't need exact time intervals in a millisecond, but when precision is of the essence, it fails misserably... I wrote a programm that needed precise time intervals to poll certain hardware, and Timer failed to do the job, I had to write a separate thread timer using API, to achieve 20ms precision...

I agree with afore mentioned cable usage... I have SBLive 5.1, and I use RCA-to-Jack cable... It extends the distance between your computer and the device, and it's not as thick... If you're tech savvy, you could make that cable yourself... Nah... You would have done it already That's what I do... I make stuff I don't want to buy (or better said, I'm to lazy to go out and look for), so my room is filled with custom made wires, cables, several converted power supplies, and other electronics... They don't do anything special, I just love solderin and making stuff... I'm going offtopic...Cable is the only solution for you, as it will allow you to connect 3 standard Jacks in there, and there will be no cramping... Plus, you get a few feet in length

He could, but Timer object isn't very precise... And if something occupies his program, Timer would miss his turn... So it wouldn't be 10 minutes, it would become 12 minutes... Multi-threading is the best way to go about, have an external process worry about minutes, and when the time comes, execute the code he needs... If on the other hand, those 10 mintes don't have to be 10 minutes, Timer object would be satisfactory...

Did anyone mention the ability to completely customize your system? And did I mention I just LOVE Linux? I just started learning Perl, and already I'm writing insane scripts, that actually work fast, and get the job done... That's right... I wrote a simple email filter for Evolution mail, in Perl, and it works... No learning ability, just simple straightforward filtering, based on rules, black- and white-lists... Also, an email checker... Sometimes I just want to see if I have emails, and who from... Piece of cake, I check all of my accounts, and get a number of new emails, and if I want, sender and subject... Yeah, you could do that on Wintendo too, but it would cost you much more, and would take much more time... One just has to love the command line Khm... What? What's a lot? Any company that wants to increase their profit, switch from Wintendo to one of Linux distros... When you know Linux, you're a guru, when you know Wintendo, you're a user... See the difference? And I wouldn't call Wintendo universal - I'd call it... Hmm... No, I wouldn't call it at all... And that gaming thing? Well, believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around games... Wintendo is hard for newbies too... Because you are used to Wintendo, you claim Linux is hard... Yeah, right... I thought that too... Until I tried... And guess what, Linux actually makes a lot of things EASIER than in Wintendo... Gnome or KDE or other WMs are also straightforward... And explained... Perhaps even better than Wintendo... Synaptic (for example) enables one to install/uninstall EVERY piece of software there is... And no registry to be broken... I'll agree with rvalkass on this one... I didn't have the need for drivers for any of my hardware - not my TV/FM card, my SBLive, network card,USB external hard drives, card readers, monitor, graphics cards, and the rest... All worked after installation... Only drivers I had to download were generic drivers for USB webcams... And it took me like 3 minutes... Yeah, wobbly windows are dumb... But what about a rotating desktop? Isn't it coooool... Ok, let's get serious... Wintendo doesn't give you 100% liberty to cusomize... Gnome and KDE do... And if you install Beryl or some other effects engine... It get's even better... Wintendo will NEVER be able to have rotating desktop cube, running on 1GB RAM machine, with 64MB GFX card... I can bet on it... Yeah, Wintendo doesn't load bunch of fonts into RAM memory, it doesn't have registry to fill up a little more of RAM, and also doesn't have unneccessary services running in the backround, and doesn't allocate 20% of resources to spy on you... Oh, wait, that's not right, that's Linux I'm still trying to get my head around this one - and I can't... Wow... Windows is so cool... Yeah you have to pay for it, and have to pay for much of its software, but you get cool freebies - viruses... Jeez... You like viruses? I'll send you a few, to play around for a while ... Seriousely, dude, this is not an argument, this is... I don't know what this is... As someone above said, prevention is better than a cure... It's like you said "There's a cool fancy restaurant, that charges $15 for a glass of water, but I just have to watch for the germs on the glasses, They've got a bunch of them, some of them nasty. But even if I catch a germ, I get to pay another $15, and they cure me. Sure there is some chance I'll lose an arm, but hey, it's a fancy restaurant. I just have to be smart, and avoid really nasty bugs, like AIDS and stuff. I could buy a microscope and check for those bugs - that would be top smart"... Again, I'm not on a mission to convert anyone, but when I see a list like this, that is not based on real experience, but more on heresay, it ticks me off... Dude, if you're happy with Wintendo, keep using it, and good luck with it...

Well, Vista SP1 sounds like a genuine M$ stuff... "Hey, I don't like this piece of software - let's block it!"... Great... I would say that the likely cause is that SP1 is incompatible with itself, and thus it blocks software... Funny how Norton and McAffee aren't blocked... Dirty competition?Also, why the need for "Vista's Live File System" on CDs? Can't they use ISO-9660 or UDF? Jeez...Well, anyways, not my problem, but I just thought I'd add my two cents here... It's usefull to read stuff like this, so people don't get frustrated due to not knowing what is at hand...