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If you already know VBA then I'd suggest you use Visual Basic. While it's not as powerful as something like Visual C++ it is remarkably good for building small utilities really quickly. I have been using Visual Basic for nearly 5 years and I'm (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) Is ';' a "statement", though? (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Programming Language Choice
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Recently, I have gotten quite a bit of experience programming in VBA due to a database I designed for work. I have had experience programming in several languages before but haven't used it to much until now. I now have a desire to program for (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) thx (...) I may be dense too, just thought of it a ; on a line alone fits exactly the definition as stated. Going to sleep now before I think of more [/:-) DaveG (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) Jacob, there is a problem with your tracert - if you compare it to Frank's tracert and my own you'll see that the packets take different paths (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:G0GMuJ.JFL@lugnet.com... (...) No, definitely no proxy. I'm the admin for our firewall and internet connections and we don't have a proxy. Our firewall uses NAT and does not (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) And a good one. Thanks for the replies. I think I am beginning to see some ways into it that I hadn't thought of. The way I was understanding the puzzle (and you know that people have a tendency to explain things quite poorly AND I tried to (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Programming Brain Teaser
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(...) #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> void rof(void) {}; void main(){ int C; C = 0 // line below ; for (C;C;C) rof; // Ok so its lame } // Should be valid in perl too, but I am not sure. Just an off the cuff answer. DaveG (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Does the code need to compile in all of those, or just some of them? It's really easy in perl. :) Does it have to compile by itself, or can it be part of a larger program? The former is more difficult in C/C++... Also, what qualifies as a (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) it doesn't have to actually produce anything, right? try this: perl -e 'print ,"lalal", tnirp' e- lrep :) I seem to recall some JAPH's code that would actually do things and would still qualify... but I can't find it yet... :) Dan (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Hey Y'all: Someone posed the following teaser to me, and I admit that it has stumped me completely. It has even stumped my programmer buddies (which creates doubt in my mind that there IS actually a solution to the puzzle). The question was posed (...) (24 years ago, 7-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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(...) Using "www.anonymiser.com", I was able to get to the LDraw site to vote on the parts update. However, I was *not* able to download the file, *nor* was I able to see all of the images (exceeded the limits for "free" use of the anonymiser, and (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: I cannot connect to LDRAW.ORG - plz help!!!
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Daniel: (...) If your machine is behind a firewall, it is very likely that you are using a proxy without knowing it. It is not uncommon to put a "transparent proxy", which intercepts HTTP requests, in a firewall. Franklin: Did you get through to (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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"Jacob Sparre Andersen" <sparre@sys-323.risoe.dk> wrote in message news:FzMpLH.K8A@lugnet.com... (...) I have run a tracert from my machine here and there are 32 hops to www.ldraw.org, but I can pull the pages up fine. I don't have my browser using (...) (24 years ago, 6-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)
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| | Re: SSH/SCP GUI Client?
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(...) or, (if you can use it), ssh2 from ssh.com has a built in very nice sftp... Unfortunatly, their licensing is a bit harsh... Dan (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) I don't. Mindterm is nice, but it requires either getting a signed applet (anyone know how to do that? can you generate your own certificates?) or setting up a java virtual machine outside of the web browser, and that might be a pain. Another (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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Maybe this has been asked before. Maybe I'm the one who asked. I don't remember, and I don't think so. Anyway, I've got to do some file transfer and file management on a remote server. This server is going to using SSH/SCP exclusively -- no FTP or (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | "Frag without the lag"
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Sitting in my hotel room processing factorings... I heard an ad for one of the Oz ISPs (optus) and their selling point was that if you went with their broadband solution, you'd get an unfair advantage on your online gaming buddies. The claim made (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What's wrong with my PC?
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(...) I checked with my BIOS, and there does not appear to be any temperature alarm limit setting. This is the Asus P2B mainboard with a fairly recent BIOS upgrade. I also reset the BIOS settings to default, but this did not help. Anyway, thanks for (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Announcing the Brickwise[tm] Shopping Report
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(...) For now, ya, that was the easiest first step. The main reason not to include non-U.S.-based retailers here for now was currency conversion issues. (...) Let's just say that two eight packs of Guinness played an important role and that it is (...) (24 years ago, 4-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.market.theory)
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