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I too am one of the hobbyist Programmer. Once in a while, I use C# to quickly create a program for automating a process. My last work was a manga (comic) downloader which used to categorize and download pictures in batches. I do manage to earn some money by selling softwares on my website. I also took up a Game Development Challenge and won it. For me, its all about building the application and then showing it to the end user. The greatest return I can get from the job is when I manage to surpass the user's expectation. Programming tends to get monotonous at times; and you feel that you aren't doing anything new. That is when the going gets tough and I don't feel like developing anymore applications. I suppose that is what is happening to you, when you say that you are sick of it. In such times, I take a break from it and if possible head back home for a vacation. There, when I can't do programming the passion for programming is rekindled.

My Graduation (Bachelor in Computer Application) and Software Engineering (NIIT's GNIIT Program) degree will be complete by February 2009. I don't understand much about the ongoing financial crisis in the world. But, its imperative to know what its all about and what kind of effect it will have on our careers.Last year, one of my friends was recruited by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India through campus selection held at his college. He was to join the company this August. But, TCS has asked him to wait for a few more months. Also, he says that most of the big IT companies (TCS, CTS, Satyam, etc) have stopped recruiting freshers till next year's August. His source being the HR departments of TCS & CTS.I asked another one of my friends who is currently in the last semester of his B-Tech - Computer Science & Engineering degree about this. He had got placed at TCS this June. He denies having any knowledge of such a complete shut down of the recruitment process. Although, he says that the number of companies coming to their college has decreased since last year. But, he maintains that all the students recruited by TCS from their college last year have been placed.Can anyone confirm the existence/non-existence of this problem? Also, I would like to know what this financial crisis is, in layman's terms; what effect it will have/is having on the IT industry and how long it is going to last.

I used to write C# tutorials over here. I am pretty sure that I had read somewhere in the forum, that we could copy tutorials from other sites, provided they were our own. So, I started writing them for my site maxotek.net first and copying them back over here. Eventually, I was warned by BuffalloHELP regarding the originality of the tutorials and ever since I haven't copied any.I must say that it is not fair to get any points for something that has already been indexed by the search engines at some other site. Google tends to penalize sites which copy content and that means the chances of visitors coming to Xisto will be less. We shouldn't forget that it is from these visitors that Xisto derives its revenue and as such our posts are the payment for the web hosting.Going back and puting quotes around those tutorials would probably result in me having a negative credit of 200. I did that when I was unaware of the rule. Because of all the confusion this causes to new members, I think it should be mentioned in the tutorial rules.

Great to hear that. What do you mean by cycling the battery?

I don't own a laptop yet. But, I will need it in the near future after getting a job. So, I would like to know if there are any other kind of adapters/power sources that should be used for running the Laptop on external power? I have a similar dilema with my PDA which remains mostly at home. Rumor has it that keeping it plugged into the PC (through USB cable) for external power will shorten the battery life. Isn't the power supposed to go directly to the PDA and not through the battery when using such external power. I really hate draining the battery power when an external power is at hand.

I have a HTC P3400i PDA which is a newer version of the P3400 model and it comes with Windows Mobile 6 OS as opposed to P3400's WM5. Using VITO's Audio Touch Notes, I record my calls. The problem is that the recorder doesn't seem to record the audio from the other side when the speaker is off, or when an earphone/handsfree kit is attached. This problem is not specific to this software as other voice recorders are behaving the same way.Another issue I have is with the 2 MP Camera. A friend of mine owns a Nokia N72 mobile which also comes with a 2MP camera. Both the phones shoot photos of same resolution 1600 x 200. But, when it comes to video, my phone's camera lags behind in terms of resolution. It allows a maximum resoution of 176 x 144 compared to the N72's 240 x 320. My question is that shouldn't two cameras with the same MPs, support the same resolution; or is it just for Photos.

I agree with you on that one FirefoxRocks. Speedtest.net is more like the standard test because of the widespread availability of its servers. It even detects my ISP correctly, even though its not a biggie. The speeds reported by Speedtest.net and Speakeasy.net are the most accurate ones for my connection. I have summarized the results of speed tests at various locations below:- Promised Speed: 384 kbps Plan: Executive Pack @ 785 INR Speedtest.net Download: 359 kbps Upload: 309 kbps Test Server: Mumbai, India ISP: Alliance Broadband Services Pvt. Ltd Ping: 96 ms Distance: ~1050 mi Speedtest.jbl.in Download: 280 kbps Upload: 276.45 kbps Speakeasy.net Download: 362 kbps Upload: 321 kbps DSL Reports Ping: 145 ms Download: 293 kbps Upload: 152 kbps (Warning ISP compression was detected) Server: Speakeasy, New York Visualware Download: 323 kbps Upload: 180 kbps Quality of Service: 86% Round Trip Time: 320 ms Max Delay: 100 ms Max Route Speed: 1.63 Mbps TCP Forced Idle: 0% Test Type: Socket Download, Socket Upload Server: Montreal, Canada Internet Forg Download: 325 kbps Upload: 365 kbps Quality of Service: 95% Round Trip Time: 294 ms Max Pause: 259 ms

We had both C (1st Sem) & C++ (2nd sem) in our first year at Sikkim Manipal University. Presently, I am in the last Sem (6) of the course. It wasn't new to me as I had studied C++ for two years in Senior Secondary (which precedes the graduation degree at university). I am mentioning the time periods because it might be different in your conuntry. Anyways, before that, I had done GW-Basic for 4 years in school.The language syntax of PHP is very similar to C/C++, so you shouldn't have any real problems. The main difference between C & C++ is that C is not object oriented and as such, doesn't support classes. In PHP, variable type declaration/determination is implicit. However, in C/C++ you need to handle them explicitly.A few of my friends are also doing Electronics Engineering. Most of them have moved towards a career in software development. Initially, those without prior knowledge of programming had some difficulties. But, they managed to sail through with a bit more effort in the first two semesters. I have seen intelligent lads dump programming because it seemed like rocket science to them. But, as you would know, its quite simple, actually. The main thing one needs to develop, is an understanding of the logic of programming - how to go about writing a program for a problem statement. Apart from that, you need to learn the keywords, statements & syntax of the language.

For the artistically challenged ones as myself, the free and lightweight Paint .NET is a good choice. Its no match for the likes of Photoshop, but its much better than Microsoft's Paint. As the name suggests, its made for Microsoft's .NET Framework. The source code is freely available too. So, if someone wants to build their own Paint program, Paint .NET is the way to go. Also, it supports plugins which further enhance the functionality of the program.

I use PayPal for receiving payments for my softwares and so far their service has been good. I too have heard that they easily suspend the accounts, if multiple complaints are lodged against the seller. Also, their customer support is kind of slow to respond.

By Pick the Cat, do you mean the one used by Rapidshare? Although, they don't seem to be using Captcha anymore. Also, Google's captcha has been quite difficult to recognize, even for a human. If they have managed to crack these, then I guess, Yahoo's Chat Room captcha would have been done with, long ago; considering how simple it looked.

I use Logmein for remote desktop connections. It has a web based interface and requires that an ActiveX component or Addon be installed on the controlling system. Although, it does require a password and the Free version doesn't support file transfers. I haven't used VNC as Logmein seems to fulfill my requirements. But, I presume Logmein is lighter than VNC.

Yes, AutoPlay is a function, but it has been known to be mis-used by viruses to spread themselves across computers. By AutoPlay virus we are implying such viruses. Pen Drive viruses spread by creating Autorun.inf file and a copy of the virus program as soon as the drive is inserted into the slot. Again, when you take the Pen Drive to another computer, Windows reads the Autorun.inf file and executes the virus EXE, thus infecting itself.

Why the hell would you need to install WinRar to see hidden files? It is a file archiver and data compression utility. Just go to Tools > Folder Options > Hidden Files and Folders > Show Hidden files and folders. If the infected application is running, you cannot delete it. You must kill the process from the task manager. Then proceed to delete the autorun.inf and the EXE file. Some of these applications come in pairs. When one of the program starts, it also starts the other EXE. So, if you kill any one of the process, the other one starts it again. In such a scenario, restart windows in safe mode (assuming the virus has put itself into the startup list) and delete the two EXEs along with the autorun.inf file.

Using client side scripts for security or robot denial, greatly increases the chances of the security being compromised. An online voting mechanism for a reality show in India used javascript validation for the captchas and I remember exploiting it. Although, it wouldn't have worked as it required unique E-Mail addresses per vote, which wasn't mentioned until the end of the show. Add to the fact that, greater weightage must have been given to the SMS votes which the people where paying for.They had a form wherein, you had to select a contestant, provide your E-Mail address, enter the captcha and submit the form. There was no registration mechanism, or even to verify that the E-Mail address actually exists. The captcha code was passed onto the browser in the form of a cookie along with the response to the GET request on the captcha image. The validation of the captcha was done using javascript and it gave away the inherent weakness in the protection mechanism.

I find that Visual Studio 2008 compiles the applications much quicker that VS 2005. It seems it is more efficient in managing the object cache of the background compilations.

The basis of creating an undo mechanism is the set of data structures you use. You will have to use a stack (two if you want to allow redo operations too). You will need to create a class which will store the address of the cell (Row, Column) and the value of the cell, before the change occured. C# code for the same is given below. Class Action{ int Row, Column; object Value;} The stack should be of this type:- Stack<Action> UndoHistory, RedoHistory; Now, whenever you are about to change a value, create an instance of the Action class storing the details of the cell, i.e. its location and current value. Then, proceed with the change of value. You can enable/disabled the undo button by checking the length of the UndoHistory stack (disabled if its size is 0). Same goes for RedoHistory. When you do an undo operation, an item from the UndoHistory stack should be popped. The Current value and location of the cell should be stored in a new instance of the Action class. This should be added to the RedoHistory stack. While doing a redo, you must do the reverse. Push the current value & location to the UndoHistory. Pop an item from the RedoHistory and change the current value to match it. This is a simple implementation. Your Action class can be much more complex. It might take into consideration multiple cells being changed by one operation, etc. But, the base mechanism would be similar.

I remember having the same problem with YMSG12Encrypt.dll which was being flagged as a Trojan by Antiviruses. It would be much better if you could include the algorithm's code directly into your program.

I am facing the same problem with my nVidia 8600 GT graphics card. Although, my system lasts longer, about a week or so. Right now, I have removed the card and will install it when I need to play games that won't run without it.

The software that comes along with the nVidia graphics cards has a heat monitoring option. Also, it will show the temperature in different colors depending on how high it is. You should only trust the values shown by this tool. My 8600 GT shows a temperature of around 64 degree Celsius. The temperature goes up by a degree or two after playing a game (Devil May Cry 4) for 10 minutes or so. Although this might be because of the fact that the sides of my PC's cabinet are completely open. Your friend should try playing the game in Vista to make sure its not a driver compatibility issue with Windows XP. If the problem still exists, then he can report the problem to nVidia.

Try uninstalling the drivers and then removing the ports from the device manager. On the next reboot, Windows will re-detect those devices and re-install the drivers. Also, make sure you haven't changed the USB settings from the BIOS. I have had problems with USB devices when switching between Hi & Full Speed.

My Graphics card is 8600 GT and it seems to have the S-Video socket. Is the S-Video cable provided along with the card, the same as the S-Video cable for PS2? The installation disc that came along with the card has an option for Tv Capture, although I never gave it a try because we have RF cables over here. Also, S-Video is supposed to be better than both RF and AV, right?

A friend of mine is going to bring his PS2 at my place. The trouble is that I don't have a TV in my apartment. Is it possible to connect the PS2 output to the monitor via an nVidia Graphics card?

And I thought, I was the only one to use the clumsy alert debugging! Before moving to Firebug, I did some debugging using Visual Studio and Internet Explorer. Although much better, its not good enough to match the integrated debugger offered by firebug. Also, the popups with the message: "Would you like to debug this page?" were quite annoying.There are libraries available for using AJAX which deal with all the browser compatibility issues. Someday, in the not so distant future, they will be useless too - as browsers are getting closer and closer to becoming standardized.

That file might just have been a virus. As far as I know, version 1.9.6 is the latest for FlashGet and there is no mention of v 2.0.2.1028 anywhere on their site. Coming back to the software. Its a good lightweight download manager and requires less user interaction once a download has been enqueued. One problem however, is that, it makes a lot of connections to other sites when you start a download. This can be seen in the Num column which shows something like 50/5. Where 5 is the number of maximum connections made to the original site. I am not sure what all these remaining connections are for.