Recent content by ComradeXavier

Another vote for Eclipse ... free and powerful. Even interfaces with CVS :)

I use Mozilla Mail, or maybe KMail on KDE.

Does anyone know if I can successfully put a TBred chip in my AK31A v3.1?

MS's software sales are based on licenses rather than media. If you have a license certificate (should have the serial number/key on it), then you're legal. You can in fact buy just the licenses from some places; for example, that's how corporations buy software--one cd and a thousand licenses.

The Eclipse project provides a Java IDE in their base package; I've just started using it and I've found it to work well. Eclipse is an extensible IDE, so you can load modules that allow it to work in other languages as well.

I usually compile a couple of big packages (I recommend OpenOffice, if you're brave :) ) with gcc or especially g++. This maxes out the cpu the ram (a couple of times I've had bad ram that nothing detected except gcc would segfault) and will also do quite a bit of both read and write disk accesses.

I have a number of *nix boxes and I haven't had any trouble with my KVM. You should make sure, though, that you have a newer KVM that spoofs the keyboard and mouse for the machines that aren't active; some software doesn't take kindly to having the lines just randomly go dead.

I'd recommend getting a laptop rather than the xpc; you'll have greater flexibility in how you use it. First of all, you should talk to the people in the engineering dept. and find out what platform the software you'll need runs on. If it's Intel-platform, I'd recommend the ThinkPad. IBM is...

I assume you can still do normal administrator access... 1) You should be able to find and eliminate the registry entries that are loading the program on startup. 2) Otherwise, you could (assuming you have it) boot the installation cd; you should be able to get into manual recovery mode, which...

Have you tried using XP's compatibility mode? I've used it to run a couple of programs on XP that won't run otherwise.

I'd recommend GCC on CYGWIN as well, if you're up to a bit of a challenge to install it; GCC is an excellent compiler. Otherwise, your best bet is probably to track down the Microsoft C Compiler; like PCHPlayer said, you should be able to find it on MS's website somewhere.

Thanks. If I figure out any way to correct the scrolling speed I'll let you know.

Could you point me to that fix you say you've got? I've got the collector's edition but I haven't been able to get it running since I got XP.

If the restore CDs want to partition the disk, you may have trouble because your new disk will most likely have at least slightly different parameters; if this is the case and it works anyway, there might be leftover unpartitioned space on your disk. If the recovery CDs just reformat the disk...

Well, it's impossible to say for sure, but if we suppose a maximum rate of download of 56 kilobits per second and a maximum upload of 33.6 kilobits per second, then we can make an estimation. 56000 bits/sec * 3600 sec/hour = 201.6 megabits/hour. Divide by 8388608 bits/megabyte = 24 megabytes...