jcl

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  1. You haven't defined Menu.addTempCount_Fields.
  2. jcl

    Visual Basic

    There's also Visual Studio Express.
  3. The install script found my installation directory automatically. The only questions I got were a yes/no/quit to confirm the installation and yes/no asking if I wanted to perform another installation. Oh, wait, do you mean the root install? Now that I look at it, it detected the right directory but it did ask me to confirm it. [Edit: Needless to say, I wrote this before your last post ]
  4. Odd. When I installed it, it correctly guessed the location (~/.mozilla/plugins) and just asked me to confirm. AFAICT it doesn't do anything. I think it should be the library that exposes Flash for scripting in Mozilla.
  5. jcl

    Visual Basic

    Or IronPython. VB's declaration syntax sort of makes sense. The leading DIM makes the meaning of the statement unambiguous (it's clearly a declaration) and the trailing type declaration can be made optional with overly complicating the grammar. Lots of languages use the same structure. OTOH, the keywords are retarded.
  6. We had dozens of older kids using Solaris -- with CDE! -- with few problems. No training, minimal tech support, not even a real user's manual.
  7. VB.NET or VB Classic (version <7)? I don't know either of them, but with all the interest in VB 'round here recently I've been thinking of picking up VB.NET.
  8. Flash Player 9 has been released. It has an install script now.
  9. That doesn't sound like a STOP. The format of the message matches the dialog box you get when a process dies with a segfault and both addresses are in userspace.
  10. jcl

    Linux

    Command line to GUI translation: System|Preferences|Theme System|Preferences|Font
  11. They did. Normally you would either use the package manager (yum? I don't use Fedora) to automagically fetch and install the package, or download the package (in RPM format for Fedora) manually and (if GNOME is properly configured) install it with a double-click. Example: to install Firefox in Ubuntu I would select Add/Remove... from the Applications menu to open the package installer, select the Internet category (or search), tick the checkbox by Firefox, and hit Apply. Add/Remove would download the package and install it. Simple as that.
  12. jcl

    Script Error

    Is that an AutoIt script?
  13. Yeah, it looks like its dead. Connection refused from forums.g4tv.com and a database error from forums2. Edit: Oh, it's not just the forums: the main site is also refusing connections. Edit: Or not. Try 38.119.81.122 (forums.g4tv.com) and 38.119.81.13 (forums2).
  14. jcl

    In A Rut

    Windows is an interesting system. When I briefly switched to WinXP a couple years ago (after my Linux laptop died) I decided to really learn the system. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it. Windows sucks in a lot of ways but it has all kinds of neat and weird features that you don't find on Linux. Even Win32 seemed like less of an abomination once I started to grok the logic behind it. There's a really nice operating system underneath all that cruft. I didn't touch VB though. I did a little VBScript when I was playing with WSH and it wasn't too bad. (WSH is really neat. It's the scripting
  15. It was until... erm, GNOME 2.... something. Ah, 2.6. Then they adopted the MacOS-style spatial file manager. It's supposed to be more usable. And it may well be but since I disabled it immediately I don't know. It isn't a feature I miss from my Mac days.
  16. Run gconf-editor. Check /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser. Alternatively, leave it in spatial mode and use double-middle-click to open directories.
  17. That was me. This has been gnawing at me for years. That shouldn't be necessary. If the DLL isn't being used it should either never be paged in or should be paged out eventually[0]. Generally speaking you gain nothing by unloading data that isn't active; the operating system will do it automatically when required. [0] Swapping out a DLL should have close to zero overhead because the .dll file acts as a page file for the static code and data. The operating system can drop the memory without having to write it out to main page file(s). The same is true of executables.
  18. In that case, no, it definitely can't. It could cause a memory leak to manifest or worsen but the bug would present regardless of what you did.
  19. That's why I hate the thread. In order to explain my first post I had to explain that I was using a specific definition of memory leak but the best I could come up with was a stern lecture. I really don't like doing that here. Let's set aside correctness. The problem is that memory leak is ambiguous. shanenin asked a straightforward question and got two conflicting answers and two variations on one of those answers. That's a Bad Thing. It might set me off but not in the direction you'd think.
  20. Sigh. I hate this thread. Memory leak is computer science jargon that should never have been permitted to enter common usage. The majority of people who use the term are using it incorrectly. It is possible that msconfig can cause memory leaks to manifest but it's more likely that it produces other breakage that's misinterpreted as memory leakage.
  21. I can't imagine how it could. [Edit: I should note that Windows has been known to do the unimaginable.]
  22. That could be the problem. If an exception is thrown before MySqlCommand is assigned it will be left null and the MyConnect object will be unusable. Either the ctor should throw an exception (easy solution: remove the try-catch) or Insert() should check whether MySqlConnection and MySqlCommand are null and either create a new connection or throw.
  23. Yeah, I guess. It looks like dumpchk doesn't bother with the hex prefix. Maybe a FAT recovery partition or something? Broken partition table with a ghost FAT partition? I suppose it's possible for the driver to spontaneously combust. Unfortunately the parameters for 0x23 bugcheck are useless unless you're debugging.
  24. FAT file system error. Trying googling "STOP 0x00000023".