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Sigh. I had that problem and fixed it but I can't remember what I did.

Control Panels -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages -> Install files for East Asian languages.

Memory Usage, Memory Usage Delta, and Page Fault Delta are probably more useful. (I'm not sure if anything in the Performance tab is useful. Available Physical Memory, maybe. Task Manager is baffling.)

PF Usage is the maximum amount of pagefile space that could potentially be used. I don't know where you can find the amount of space actually used.

True. But that's orthogonal to the issue of privacy. The gov't can invade your privacy all it wants if it doesn't care about prosecuting you. Remember that every cop show has 'taught' us that the police can trace your calls and get your phone records on a whim. That's all that happened in this case: the investigators got a court order to trace this guy's Internet activity. Same law, even. Now, as I said above, this "pen register analogue" is a bit dubious. The opinion makes it sound like it -- whatever it was -- was installed on the suspect's machine, which presumably would require a warrant

FWIW, my understanding is that the "non-content" bits of Internet communications have never been explicitly protected (by law or court) and it was generally assumed that they weren't implicitly protected. This is just the first time the theory has tested in court. [Edit: I should add that this particular opinion has been raising some eyebrows because of the mysterious "pen register analogue" it mentions.] To be honest, while I find the law slightly annoying, I think you have to insane to believe that you have any privacy on the open Internet.

You found Andrey Markov's blog.

How easily do you need the access the trailing null? If it's just for interop, I believe .NET strings are internally null-terminated so they can be passed to unmanaged code without marshalling. No idea if that's guaranteed to work. You probably have to set the StringBuilder's Capacity if you really 31 characters -- the ctor argument is a 'suggestion' -- but I'm not sure that's guaranteed to work, and I don't think there's any guarantee that the length of the string returned by ToString() will be the same as the StringBuilder's Capacity. char s[32] = "foo"

If the username and password are the same on both machines, I don't think it'll prompt. At least, I don't remember being prompted. [Edit: Erk. That's with a Linux server and Windows client. I've never tried the reverse.]

"The photo displays members of the team who worked on the Windows Vista DVD hologram design." -Nick White

x86 is little-endian: the MSB is at the highest address.

Ah. That's annoying. Indeed it does. If you know that code works, you can just use it in C# in an unsafe block (with one extra cast). If you'd rather use BitConverter (it does seem more .NETy), you want the last two bytes of the array returned by GetBytes(). Perhaps BitConverter.ToInt16(BitConverter.GetBytes(f), 2);

Convert.ToSByte() returns a signed byte based on the value of the argument, so no. Do you really need 16-bit floats? Would, say, a 16-bit fixed-point (e.g., eight bit whole part, eight bit fraction, no exponent) type be adequate? And if you do need floats, do you really want want truncated IEEE singles? And is there any reason to roll your own compression instead of using one of the bazillion free audio codecs?

Junction points are (limited) symbolic links. They're even called directory symlinks in the older documentation. Junction points are normal files and follow the normal rules for visibility and access control. AFAIK the virtualization JPs are hidden because there's no reason for them to be visible and set Everyone Deny Read to prevent processes that walk the directory tree but don't expect to encounter symlinks from getting confused. You don't want a backup app archiving both \Users\ and \Documents and Settings\ because it didn't realize that the latter is a link to the former.

That's a junction point's raison d'etre: it's an alias for a directory. They're supposed to be as similar as possible to regular directories (but no more so).

Should be enough. I have 2780 packages installed in a bit less than 8 GiB.

Stopped reading at "N.Y. attorney general".

Very slightly. You can run a Windows antivirus app if you want WINE would probably blow up before a virus could do any damage.

((IPEndPoint)socket.RemoteEndPoint).Address.

Seconded. This problem screams "spreadsheet".

The other measurement system to be aware of is the IEC/IEEE/ISO[0] binary system: 1 bit = 1 bit (surprise) 1 byte = an arbitrary number of bits 1 octet = eight bits 1 kilobyte (kB) = 1000 bytes 1 megabyte (MB) = 1000 kilobytes 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1000 megabytes and so on until you run out of SI prefixes 1 kibibyte (KiB) = 1024 bytes 1 mebibyte (MiB) = 1024 kibibytes 1 gibibyte (GiB) = 1024 mebibytes and so on until you run out binary prefixes Binary prefixes follow powers of 2^10 (kibi- = (2^10)^1 = 2^10, mebi- = (2^10)^2 = 2^20, etc) and are formed from the first syllable of the corresponding

sngSalary is a STRING. Either change it to a SINGLE (or DOUBLE) or use the VAL() function to convert it to a numeric value in that expression. Incidentally, I'm surprised, to say the least, that there are still schools teaching QB.

CLS DIM guess AS SINGLE RANDOMIZE TIMER secretnum = INT(1000 * RND + 1) DO INPUT "Please enter your guess ", guess IF guess > secretnum THEN PRINT "Lower" END IF IF guess < secretnum THEN PRINT "Higher" END IF IF guess = secretnum THEN PRINT "You got it!" EXIT DO END IF LOOP Hmm.... Classic Basic: 10 DIM guess AS SINGLE 20 RANDOMIZE TIMER 30 secretnum = INT(1000 * RND + 1) 40 INPUT "Please enter your guess ", guess 50 IF guess = secretnum THEN GOTO 90 60 IF guess > secretnum THEN PRINT "Lower" 70 IF guess < secretnum THEN PRINT "Higher" 80 GOTO 40 90 PRINT "You got it!" Visual

XP.

Same here with XP. CMD tells me "The network path was not found" until I browse the shares with Explorer. (Then it gives me "Access denied" when it really means "CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories", but that's just because CMD sucks.)