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Number of Comments: 289
Number of Words: 19,352
First Comment: 31 Oct 2003
Final Comment: 16 Aug 2004

Number of Topics Posted: 20
First Topic: 31 Oct 2003
Latest Topic: 13 Aug 2004
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16 Aug 2004   The Olympics   Ah! SBS. The channel that introduced me to French ....   >>  
13 Aug 2004   The truth, TWT, ANBTT. So, help me JoS-ers!   >>  
13 Aug 2004   Charles Simonyi hold....   Hungarian notation. Immediate disqualification.   >>  
   The Olympics   The Olympics is held very high in esteem because, ....   >>  
      >> ...how do you square that with our averagely su....   >>  
      >> 'Last olympics I did this table' I see the Ind....   >>  
   The truth, TWT, ANBT....   Philip, precisely. As mentioned earlier, I have ch....   >>  
      Yes. That is how I am rewording the questions. The....   >>  
      Well if I read your or....   >>  
      In fact, that quote was the starting point (sort o....   >>  
08 Aug 2004   Too many bells and w....   Just switch to normal mode. Click "Nero" at the bo....   >>  
   How to link 3D Studi....   Get thee back under that bridge troll!   >>  
   What would you ask f....   A contract for X number of years with a penalty fo....   >>  
06 Aug 2004   Programming books in....   Till I can actually program in my native language,....   >>  
   Great Hacker != Grea....   Read all three of them; Joel, Eric and Paul. 1)....   >>  
05 Aug 2004   A question for our n....   While at the Rocks, drop in at the Globe Bar in th....   >>  
   Programming Difficul....   Abstract creations are emotionally and intellectua....   >>  
04 Aug 2004   How to decide on sw ....   >> all the other posters - even muppet :-) - are ....   >>  
   A question for our n....   Anon, yes and no. As with everything it depend....   >>  
   Programming Difficul....   Anything to do with (possibility of) loss of human....   >>  
31 Jul 2004   Lookout was bought t....   AMS, BeOS been doing that since '97.   >>  
30 Jul 2004   Lookout was bought to beat Google?   >>  
30 Jul 2004      Ah! But it is an _add-on_ to IE. For MSN search. S....   >>  
      It is interesting to note that a fellow co-respond....   >>  
   cmd.exe: net ?? and ....   Tasklist/? should help you.   >>  
   "No Defense for Linu....   IMVHO, the reason why TLAs, across the world, insi....   >>  
26 Jul 2004   Free Online virus sc....   Trend Micro's House Call. Works fine for me. Have ....   >>  
22 Jul 2004   Scripting Mozilla   >>  
22 Jul 2004   Automation Errors   For VB, become a member on VBForums.com. You get a....   >>  
   Scripting Mozilla   Ta. Will check it out. Thanks again.   >>  
      No I can't. The browser profiles are stored in ....   >>  
      Nah! No porn! All porn downloading and surfing is ....   >>  
21 Jul 2004   Handwritten Document....   All the above aside, There is one more point I'd l....   >>  
      >> even though I rarely remember what 7 times 9 is....   >>  
20 Jul 2004   Raymond Chen's blog - comments turned off   >>  
20 Jul 2004   Technology in a Busi....   As Mahatma Gandhi said, 'Find purpose. The means w....   >>  
   Handwritten Document....   Hey! I post on JoS. What did you expect?   >>  
      Staying with children, cursive writing is good to ....   >>  
      Children need pedagogic training. Multiplication, ....   >>  
   Raymond Chen's blog ....   Oops! Sorry! Gotta use the browser once in a while....   >>  
19 Jul 2004   which that? that whi....   I swear! On my grandfather's grave! They were foot....   >>  
      Sir Flexalot, "My bug fix for THAT bug needs to be....   >>  
      Can't cite with reference, sorry! But sentences....   >>  
      Re: Conjunctions - Stephen, :-). I know. But try f....   >>  
      >> c) You can't begin a sentence with 'And' or 'Bu....   >>  
18 Jul 2004   Worst Use of Technol....   The most irritating feature, IMO, is the splitting....   >>  
17 Jul 2004   Average-Negative Score-Logic (common-sense?) prob.   >>  
17 Jul 2004   Average-Negative Sco....   Ankur, actually the mistake I was making was not l....   >>  
      OK. So an increase in the average should mean 'You....   >>  
      >> abs(138) - abs(119) = -19 >> abs(-49) - abs(-4....   >>  
   JoS Nicknames   FCO EIQ NIB Didn't you know? They have to be th....   >>  
16 Jul 2004   Win XP - Development machine - Minimum Services   >>  
16 Jul 2004   Google could compete....   But I ask, again, how will Google sustain itself o....   >>  
   Finding any books on....   I maybe wrong, but if you are looking for some old....   >>  
   Log Anaylser - any r....   It's not that much of a pain though. Also once you....   >>  
      Check out 'awstats'. http://awstats.sourceforge.ne....   >>  
   Win XP - Development....   Trial and Error. Yeah. That was how I was doing it....   >>  
      Thanks. Will look into it imm.   >>  
   Better Windows Explo....   >> ls -c1 *.txt | sed 's/\(.*\)\(\..*\)/mv \0 Newn....   >>  
      Some items in your wishlist are even now possible ....   >>  
10 Jul 2004   Bram's Law: What Cus....   Focus on performance and stability, and you will n....   >>  
   Any Software for thi....   You want a proxy server? Get AnalogX. http://www.a....   >>  
   Myserious billboard   By '*the* equation' I meant it was beautiful, imp....   >>  
      http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/sets/high_logs....   >>  
09 Jul 2004   Ripping DVD   http://vcdimager.com . I think the current version....   >>  
   Myserious billboard   It is! Have you read the posts here? 'I had a w....   >>  
      Soon that ZDnet article will be linked on Slashdot....   >>  
   How to spot a SW dev....   http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/archive/2004/06....   >>  
08 Jul 2004   36% of software is p....   Sorry. That should be 10%.   >>  
      Piracy helps big business. Big time. Anyone who kn....   >>  
06 Jul 2004   Running Linux on Int....   >> I use ftp to transfer files and Windows Explore....   >>  
05 Jul 2004      Get a copy of the Slack-based DragonLinux. It uses....   >>  
03 Jul 2004   Commoditisation   What is the problem with software selling like soa....   >>  
   Men of Cloth in Soft....   Yes, I have. But, I believe that the rule has alwa....   >>  
02 Jul 2004   Men of Cloth in Software Engineering (or Hardware)   >>  
02 Jul 2004   A great day to be at....   spelled --> spelt   >>  
      Canada? Excuse me! It's spelled Kannada, and th....   >>  
   Men of Cloth in Soft....   Good to see that the keepers of the fire are still....   >>  
      That Scriptorium has a pretty good client list. An....   >>  
      I am speaking of recent times. Where really hard c....   >>  
01 Jul 2004   What will the web be....   >>Terminals (keyboard & monitor) will be reaplced ....   >>  
      We still can comprehend black ink on white paper. ....   >>  
30 Jun 2004   Electronic Whiteboar....   MS NetMeeting has a whiteboard component bundled a....   >>  
29 Jun 2004   Now I know where the....   Categorisation does not cease to be categorisation....   >>  
      http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/G/geek.html h....   >>  
   Windows & Time   Did you not rant on this sometime earlier? http....   >>  
   My word processing e....   LOL! Must sharpen my reading-between-the-lines ski....   >>  
      >fifty-thousand page long documents Would you ....   >>  
24 Jun 2004   WinXP Systray Date Control, Online Image Editors   >>  
24 Jun 2004   WinXP Systray Date C....   Greg, the error is "You do not have proper privile....   >>  
      Must as Joel that!   >>  
   Hotmail gets Hotter   Advertising revenue, I would think. You won't see ....   >>  
      None of which is any better without IMAP or even s....   >>  
   Virtual DVD Writer?   Oops! This link : http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dt....   >>  
      Ah! OK. Sorry. I get it now. Check out http....   >>  
23 Jun 2004   GMail Marketing Blun....   >>So what's the point? And don't tell me it's bro....   >>  
   Virtual DVD Writer?   Nero Virtual drive. Installs with Nero 6. 1) En....   >>  
22 Jun 2004   Windows File System   Boot into Safe Mode. Drop into a command prompt. D....   >>  
   Linux distribution   Hmmpf! Slackware rules the roost. With swaret*, it....   >>  
21 Jun 2004   Joel's recent writings - reading between the lines   >>  
21 Jun 2004   Joel's recent writin....   Fog Creek.   >>  
   Portable Business lo....   For Windows development, you could use the Scripti....   >>  
20 Jun 2004   What's a RSS feed ?   I'm surprised. What keyword did you use? http:/....   >>  
   GMail?  Heck No....   No. I am one too :-)   >>  
   So let me get this s....   This thread is just ripe for a mention of those gu....   >>  
19 Jun 2004   Killer App(s) for De....   Any period of exponential growth is always followe....   >>  
17 Jun 2004   Poll: web applicatio....   How many of you own televisions at home and yet st....   >>  
12 Jun 2004   Number line -> Co....   And as expected. One, so obviously a learner and t....   >>  
11 Jun 2004   Number line -> Complex plane -> ? Space   >>  
11 Jun 2004   servlet based pop3 r....   Have you tried http://www.mail2web.com/ ?    >>  
   Number line -> Co....   Matt, I actually am reading that document now. Got....   >>  
      And linguists!   >>  
      On the flip side, "The most practical thing in lif....   >>  
      IIRC, it was the other way around. People saw squa....   >>  
      >> Bet you never thought polar coordinate systems ....   >>  
      >> The square root is thus at 135 degrees (3/4 pi ....   >>  
      I _think_ I am begining to understand why such a s....   >>  
      Just checked Quaternions out at Mathworld.com (1).....   >>  
   Why Not Use Diagrams....   Why? Because it is far easier to CYA using words. ....   >>  
   Hogging two spots (a....   Why have a keyboard at all? http://www.washingt....   >>  
10 Jun 2004   I am fragile   No, that would be me, pal! And yes....   >>  
      Also make sure you include 'So' as a conjunction a....   >>  
09 Jun 2004   Sound   http://www.execnet.com/index.html?page=/filelibs/l....   >>  
   I am fragile   >I am 28 years old. I was born in 1976, on the 11t....   >>  
28 May 2004   Screw math...   The square root of -1 is perhaps the best example ....   >>  
24 May 2004   teach Procedural or ....   Why not Assembly? Since he is starting with a clea....   >>  
23 May 2004   French Words/express....   Philo, you might be t....   >>  
22 May 2004      They are widely used by all English speaking peopl....   >>  
21 May 2004   My tech crystall bal....   - more on osnews & /. - It is more a proof of ....   >>  
      > What would the impact be if Apple ported OSX to ....   >>  
   VB and C   It gets even worse when you....   >>  
   "not alot of people ....   You are most welcome. Do not forget to thank Mr. C....   >>  
   MS Office - Document....   OK. Thaks all of you. Since it has been unanimous ....   >>  
20 May 2004   MS Office - Documents vs. Files   >>  
20 May 2004   "not alot of people ....   http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/10/....   >>  
   Better tools for cre....   Have you heard of a product called "CityDesk"?   >>  
   MS Office - Document....   How is having around 50 odd pages in a Word docume....   >>  
      But then Stephen, is it not inefficient to have N ....   >>  
      My folders for documents are called "Correspondenc....   >>  
   The last time you us....   (Sort of) Second Pietro's comment. Built my own eq....   >>  
   Lots of free time, p....   To those of us who.......... Is it not true that U....   >>  
19 May 2004   What examples to tea....   Just about anything in Haskell.   >>  
18 May 2004   Are there any .Net c....   So are there any advantages that .NET provides for....   >>  
17 May 2004   Indian economy   Whoa! A stock market crash and a whole nation is a....   >>  
   Virtual audio output....   Check out the Remote Desktop Protocol for Win2K3 &....   >>  
   What to download?   Thanks for those links, folks. Much appreciate it.....   >>  
   Joel, check this out....   Funny! Not. <rolls eyes>   >>  
      I'll bite. Around INR 20,000? That is about 50%....   >>  
16 May 2004   Norrick Throws In th....   Illai! Illai! enbavarku kavalai illai Anaal, Iru....   >>  
15 May 2004   What to download?   >>  
15 May 2004   Gotta learn Excel.   Scruffle, http://support.microsoft.com/default.as....   >>  
      Compile the C code into DLLs and call them from VB....   >>  
      If you have some exposure to Functional Programmin....   >>  
   What to download?   LOL! Not likely! And yes, they are mutually exc....   >>  
      Emulators for Amiga, I do have as well :-) WinUAE.....   >>  
      That is true Tom, very true. But still...! Anyw....   >>  
      Ah! Globus http://www.platform.com/products/Glo....   >>  
      Interesting. Will try them out. While I don't have....   >>  
      Got that as well. FreeBSD. Plus 2 "firewalls-in-a-....   >>  
      LOL! No thank you! I'd rather stick to having sex ....   >>  
   FileMaker Pro 7   A desktop database apllication?   >>  
   Joel, check this out....   As in every other industry. The pioneers and inven....   >>  
      And software development will continue to be a _co....   >>  
   Norrick Throws In th....   That makes two of us, Norrick! I'm planning to get....   >>  
14 May 2004   Monitor on it's side   I think Intel cards have a rotate screen built key....   >>  
   Testing sites with M....   Nathan, for Mac, check out Basilisk II or Softmac.....   >>  
   Americans rejoice. I....   You could also get a Tatamobile from TELCO. But th....   >>  
      Yup! Mahindra is for you then. The ubiquitous Indi....   >>  
      I take it a double cab is something like a Tata Sa....   >>  
      The Colaboration, all three, Maruti & TVS with....   >>  
      What! Check out the history. Maruti was Sanjay Gan....   >>  
      Ah! You forgot Maruti Suzuki and Hero Honda and TV....   >>  
      I'm sorry! I did not intend making this into a I'm....   >>  
13 May 2004   Lower cost alternate....   2OS2. Its free for evaluation, I think.   >>  
   Global Shortcut for ....   Russell Thackston, That's true! I thought it co....   >>  
      For context menus, it is also possible by having a....   >>  
      Start --> Programs --> Accessories --> (R....   >>  
   Americans rejoice. I....   When I was trainee bar-tender in Sydney, my Superv....   >>  
      How many of those first languages are 'American', ....   >>  
      Mr. Whatever, Again, where have I critised you?....   >>  
      Thank you very much, Stephen! Why did I not use th....   >>  
      Elephant, Here I was explaining what my apprehe....   >>  
      Mr. Whatever, I repeat, 'I am different than yo....   >>  
      And then there is Arts & Literature. Over 15 diffe....   >>  
      To clarify, An American is easy to identify, be he....   >>  
      To Anon and Philo and others, U. S. of A. (Gene....   >>  
      And Stephen, the South's anti-incumbancy factor, w....   >>  
      That would Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Organisati....   >>  
      Now, now, Stephen Middle-Name Jones! Let's not thr....   >>  
      The 3 points you *have* problems with, are, IMCO, ....   >>  
      for a foreign born Indian citizen holding high off....   >>  
      While I do accept the reasoning for a foreign born....   >>  
      For the umpteenth time, these are *Indian _PARLIAM....   >>  
12 May 2004   Gawddamn Win XP Pro   Try removing them in Safe Mode. Interesting thr....   >>  
   Joel interview   Joel, are you eligible to be on Channel 9? If so, ....   >>  
   Minimum competency   Seriously, [] Understands English (or whatever ....   >>  
      A Maths or a Linguistics graduate. Perhaps one who....   >>  
   Gmail   Spymac is really fun. And you get more than a GB o....   >>  
   Ken Thompson's "Refl....   Actions independent of motives are amoral. Right a....   >>  
   Wanted: Article why ....   Simon Lucy, http://weblogs.asp.net/oldnewthing/....   >>  
   Outsource workers wh....   All men are born equal. They do not remain so. ....   >>  
      Dear Anonymous, I am not for the BJP, but cert....   >>  
      What's all this 'c....   >>  
11 May 2004   Women in IT   Men ogle women at work. And that is worrying becau....   >>  
   Outsource workers wh....   Incidentally, who is the _outsourcer_ and who the ....   >>  
      LOL! That's not very foreign to the outsourcers! N....   >>  
   Self-reproducing cod....   Satyaish should be overjoyed with that, Philo! (c.....   >>  
      I once posted the same (quines) here and it got de....   >>  
   Witty   Just you, Sir, Read Slashdot. It evolves like a....   >>  
      So did quite a lot of others. http://slashdot.o....   >>  
   What's a "Yhw."?   Perhaps this discussion could shed some light. htt....   >>  
   Compatibility and Op....   Incidentally, I do really appreciate you writing a....   >>  
10 May 2004      ....maybe have garbag....   >>  
      IMVHO, both Windows and Mac have not changed their....   >>  
      If I had the talent that you obviously seem to hav....   >>  
   Coding is language!   Stephen, Not much of a musician, but insofar as....   >>  
      If you know the notes to sing, you can sing 'most ....   >>  
      Mathematics is a Language   >>  
   Coding is Math?   LOL! Apologies. a-priory --> a-priori    >>  
      Should there not be a difference between being _ma....   >>  
   A few random ideas   Is not accleration gravity? And gravity the force ....   >>  
   pragmatic innovation....   On a(n) (un)related note, is it more memory effici....   >>  
      Mouse gestures on Windows are, IIRC, much older. S....   >>  
   irreversible   Brush your twice a day and you will have your answ....   >>  
07 May 2004   files+property+summa....   ...Also allows you ....   >>  
      Don't blame me. You've been warned! Oh! Perhaps....   >>  
06 May 2004   Why does everyone th....   .... But, as another poste....   >>  
      Q. Why do Mrs. and Mr. Joe Average, and their best....   >>  
   U.S. Is Losing Its D....   Oops, sorry! That was "A History of Britan".   >>  
      BTW, anyone here watch Simon Schama's "History of ....   >>  
      Oh! I am a _Dravidian_ *AND* and a, how did you pu....   >>  
      Dear Mr. A. Y. Mous, Yes, I am serious. You ....   >>  
      All of you, please understand that India, as the r....   >>  
24 Apr 2004   perfectionism vs. go....   Define. If you can define perfection without g....   >>  
   Error handling - why....   (It's the morning after and there is more blood in....   >>  
23 Apr 2004   Error handling - why at all?   >>  
23 Apr 2004      Sgt. you sure like nailing a nailed nail. Point t....   >>  
      Hmmm.......... speaking past each other. OK, o....   >>  
      Guess I have miscommunicated. Again. Nothing unusu....   >>  
      >False assumptions are shown instantly, and they a....   >>  
      IsDBOpened() That would be the case right down ....   >>  
      I was prompted to think so because of the followin....   >>  
22 Apr 2004   Diversity initiative....   Tapiwa, History has shown that the be....   >>  
21 Apr 2004   When you spend too much time with computers..   >>  
21 Apr 2004   Capturing print jobs   Get in touch with Duncan at http://www.merrioncomp....   >>  
   What an awesome day.....   Evaporation plus dissoultion of impurities Only....   >>  
      You're all just a bu....   >>  
20 Apr 2004   How incompetent am I....   Spike, sign-up to on any number of the tech forums....   >>  
   What an awesome day.....   To stray, yet once more, I've understood 'awe' and....   >>  
17 Apr 2004   Bad Cable, Anyone?   A few I've come across baadf00d BeefBabe dead....   >>  
   SQL-question   Canuck, how's Fidelio doing now-a-days? Or are you....   >>  
   Metadata Driven Appl....   I still do not see significant advantages of using....   >>  
16 Apr 2004      I've always wondered about these 'Meta' - Framewor....   >>  
15 Apr 2004   Software DFT   Since every copy of the ....   >>  
      I would have thought almost every shrink-wrapped S....   >>  
14 Apr 2004   Flash: the new clien....   Flash suffers being the product developed by the c....   >>  
12 Apr 2004   The JOS Game!   >>...no more than $50.... >>...The award are yet ....   >>  
10 Apr 2004   ^C - ^V Everywhere. How difficult is it?   >>  
10 Apr 2004   Loyalty   I guess what I'm mostly wondering is, is ....   >>  
09 Apr 2004   Why do people just w....   Known and acknowledged. The point I was trying ....   >>  
08 Apr 2004      Ah! Somehow the name Dennis Leary comes to my mind....   >>  
      The sentiments of the Founding Fatherers are echoe....   >>  
   Minimal Communicatio....   Subject-object-verb, only. Perhaps, no subject. No....   >>  
03 Apr 2004   Simple vs. complicat....   Plain text files work best only when there is a fi....   >>  
   2 offers, which one ....   Take the bigger company. In the long run it will b....   >>  
02 Apr 2004   Number of developers....   Apologies. I misread!   >>  
      And "you", who is just "Sir" to me, 1/3 of 6 bil. ....   >>  
      Funny thing this, look at the numbers mentioned ab....   >>  
      To answer the question in 2001/2002 --> ~5.9 mi....   >>  
   Gmail.com   How many of us, as in medium to high-end, computer....   >>  
01 Apr 2004      Gmail may be for real, but is this one? http://www....   >>  
   cut and paste tools   Terminal Services on Win2K & above support ctr....   >>  
31 Mar 2004   Office 2000 - Word -....   To put it another way, th....   >>  
      If "much appreciated" presumes "I" as the subject,....   >>  
30 Mar 2004   Office 2000 - Word - printing - footer - bug?   >>  
30 Mar 2004      > 'Much appreciate it!' => 'Much appreciated' ....   >>  
      Hey! Thanks a lot. Much appreciate it! Printing in....   >>  
      Is a forced Page Break a Section? That is about al....   >>  
   About About Box   Elephant, Freecell : Try CTRL-SHIFT-F10 --> ABO....   >>  
29 Mar 2004   VB6 & Pointers   >>  
29 Mar 2004   VB6 & Pointers   Nothing to be offended by! Just an academic curios....   >>  
      Agreed with all of the above, hence "theoretically....   >>  
      The AddressOf operator? Unless calling back to fun....   >>  
   Why are managers clu....   The above was in response to "One Programmer" and ....   >>  
      Fair enough. But that is not the same as 'Almost a....   >>  
   A big usability leap....   Mr. Analogy, that's precisely the point. Hence my ....   >>  
28 Mar 2004      And really awkward to use, unless it can also resp....   >>  
22 Mar 2004   /onSoftware & Jo....   http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/luxury-part-deux....   >>  
20 Mar 2004   /onSoftware & JoSDot   >>  
20 Mar 2004   Open Source CRM?   http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensourcecrm/    >>  
   /onSoftware & Jo....   For other reasons, I agree with what Philo said. L....   >>  
      More that UI of apps., the apps., themselves are t....   >>  
   JOS Usability   Taking things personally is one aspect of it. A va....   >>  
      The best feature o....   >>  
13 Mar 2004   Validating HTML... i....   http://arealvalidator.com/features.html http://....   >>  
   Software for spec'in....   Also take a look at http://www.mztools.com/ for so....   >>  
      With VB you could also have the app. actually writ....   >>  
12 Mar 2004   Conducting A Training Prog. - nervous/confused   >>  
12 Mar 2004   Conducting A Trainin....   D&rfc, LOL! Scroll down! What I was thinking of....   >>  
      Just a taster. In fact Mr. X himself does not exac....   >>  
   Need to run a Window....   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?ur....   >>  
07 Mar 2004   Organize Against Off....   NB: Emphases mine. In m....   >>  
   How come Yahoo conta....   Just an observation, 'Contains'. Was misled initia....   >>  
25 Nov 2003   Good packager for VB....   Also check out Setup Factory by the Indigo Rose Co....   >>  
24 Nov 2003   Useability:: Backwar....   My third comment here. Been reading for over a yea....   >>  
23 Nov 2003   Build tool for VB6   As a VB Developer myself, I am most comfortable an....   >>  
01 Nov 2003   Which way is "forwar....   'slash-bottom-left-to-top-right' LOL!....   >>  
31 Oct 2003   Which way is "forward"? And why?   >>  
31 Oct 2003      | Person standing 'Verticle' / Person fallin....   >>  



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