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  1. Re: Limited number of controls in control array?

    Maybe it is a limitation of the control itself? It's not trying to read/write to files or anything similar?
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    Re: Led Zeppelin Reunite...

    Hehe, we've had a smoking ban in New Zealand (pretty much any indoor or roofed area) for a while now. Can't say it's made much of a difference to the habits of the smokers or non-smokers that I know.
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    Re: Who's winning the war? HD-DVD or Blu Ray?

    Do you remember the versatility of DVD-RAM? I use it a lot. It has a massive advantage over DVD-RW or DVD+RW. You can use it like a hard drive. Burning a DVD-RW or DVD+RW is timely and usually...
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    Re: Led Zeppelin Reunite...

    mendhak, It's been yet another year since I've been at these forums (I don't expect you to remember me, even from the last time I was here). What happened to the other picture of the frog smoking a...
  5. Determining the worst turn-around times for repairs

    Hi,

    I work for Toshiba fixing laptops, and each month we run this report which creates a list of every job we've done, how long it took, etc.

    I've already created an Excel VBA app to munch the...
  6. Re: Guys ever wanted to peek on your neighbours 18 year old daugther?

    Wow, I'm so gullible I'd probably buy one off a TV informercial thinking it would work.

    Put it into my "Nice try, but no" pile.
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    Re: Function IsIP()

    Not true. I've once set up a firewall that drops pings. Stops a few script kiddies at the very least. Would only allow incoming SSH connections from authorised hosts (and authentication only by...
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    It sounds like they haven't gone at all and that their server is running Windows...
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    I nearly died...

    I was waiting at the bus stop after work today. My mate drove past and picked me up and said there were fire engines and ambulances all the main route which the bus goes through. We had to take a big...
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    Fisher Price make software? They make childrens toys here...
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    Yep... some of Whirlpool's stuff was rebranded Bosch, or so I've heard. Particularly the front-loading washing machines.

    Speaking of which, F&P have released a fully automatic washing machine. All...
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    I would imagine Bosch and Miele are bigger sellers there?
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    I'm not surprised either, the larger fridges (500 litres or more) are all made in Queensland. The serial number of the appliance gives away where it was made. It is always in this form

    XYZ123456
    ...
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    Really? They aren't too popular in Europe except apparently in one small place in Sweden called the F&P shop. A customer was telling me that they were driving through some place in Sweden and had...
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    Re: Fisher & Paykel

    Nope, I'm absolutely serious. It stops the fridge's light turning on, turns off the door alarm, and stops the active air-flow triggered by closing the door.

    And that's strange, because I've heard...
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    That's alright I'm popping over to Brisbane for a holiday next week. :wave:
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    Yeah, you're right. There'll always be personal preference, but both companies know they cannot rely on that alone, they need to market it and show them why they should continue being faithful to...
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    Yep, it will be interesting nonetheless. Lucky for people like me I can get a staff discount and buy both... but mind you, to be completely honest, there is very little mark-up in consoles, most of...
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    Doesn't matter. Sony has had far more experience in the console market than Microsoft. They've been in consoles since the Sega. An Xbox is a cut down PC running a cut down Windows 2000 kernel and...
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    Fisher & Paykel

    Does anyone have any Fisher & Paykel appliances (e.g. fridges, DishDrawers, etc). I sell them, and wondered how they do on a worldwide scale. F&P is a New Zealand owned firm, but I hear they are...
  21. Re: Compare the lengths of two arrays?

    Are you talking about a string, or an array of bytes?

    The length of an array can be calculated by subtracting the LBound from the UBound and adding 1. If you are talking about a string, then the...
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    Re: Xbox 360 Premium - give away??

    Pffft the Xbox 360 sucks anyway. I sell them (since I work in retail) and I can honestly say each time I sell one I feel like I am severely ripping the customer off. In NZ there are only 8 original...
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    Re: Comma delineated text file

    Wouldn't it be much easier, and faster, to do this instead:


    Dim FileContents As String
    Dim FileNumber As Long
    Dim Records() As String

    FileNumber = FreeFile
    Open "C:\Whatever" For Binary...
  24. Thread: mendhak

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    Re: mendhak

    Sorry I brought it back up... see ya parksie... :duck:
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    Re: New JPEG rival

    Of course, Microsoft never supported PNG, probably because it was an open standard. If you ever try loading a PNG in Microsoft Photo Viewer, it shows transparency correctly, however whenever it is...
  26. Thread: mendhak

    by Dreamlax
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    Re: mendhak

    Ohhhh... :duck: :duck: :duck: He was such an inspiration... :duck: :duck: :duck:
  27. Thread: mendhak

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    Re: mendhak

    What happened to parksie? (It's been that long)
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    Re: mendhak

    Shaggy Hiker!!! Now we just need parksie, barrk, and Dennis Wren (hahahahahahahaha Dennis... aheheheheeee)
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    Re: Time in listbox question

    Surely if the compiler was designed with any sort of sense, it would make no difference during run-time. The compiler should check all operands, concatenating strings by converting the operand on the...
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    Re: Time in listbox question

    I'm not quite sure how you're doing it, but while you do your List2.AddItem call, try something like:


    List2.AddItem CStr(Now) + ": " + List1.Item


    Sorry, I've not got VB installed at the...
  31. Thread: SetPixel

    by Dreamlax
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    Re: SetPixel

    Yeah, though I don't know if that's the best way to draw a circle.

    Here's my untested code. It is fairly self-explanatory


    Dim X As Single

    Const PI = 3.14159265359
    Const MaxDots = 1000 '...
  32. Re: GetPixel works great - how about an hidden webbrowser control?

    It should work if the form is hidden but not minimised (e.g. Form.Hide). If that doesn't work, just move the form's Left property to say -4000 pixels.

    Ultimately you could (I forget the...
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    Re: Memory Reading / Writing?

    You want to have a look at the OpenProcess and maybe GetProcessMemoryInfo Win32 API functions.

    Have a look at the "Process Memory" example on this page:...
  34. Re: Use a standard A4 paper to form a largest volume block

    From working in typesetting, I can assure you that an A4 sheet of paper is precisely 0.21 m by 0.297 m = 0.06237 m2. Not that it makes a huge difference here...
  35. Thread: mendhak

    by Dreamlax
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    mendhak

    :afrog:

    I leave the forums for about 3 years now, and you're still here (after you said you'd leave). Not only that your post count has nearly doubled (it would have caused an overflow if posts...
  36. Thread: Linux Distro

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    Re: Linux Distro

    How about OpenBSD? I've installed it on my server and haven't rebooted for months now. Although you'd be putting it on your laptop I see no reason why you wouldn't want a stable OS on there.
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    Re: Inject//Desinyect DLLS

    The program itself choses when to uninitialise a particular DLL that it is working with, and as far as I am aware, Windows has no API to force a program to unload a DLL. You could try to find the...
  38. Thread: instr Count

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    Re: instr Count

    That's not terribly efficient, you want the data that you are searching to be constant, as in, you don't want it to change. If the string is passed by a reference as opposed to by value, a new copy...
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    Re: Installing 5.1 sound card?

    I had a similar problem when I was installing my old SB Live into a Linux machine... at first I blamed it on Linux, but then I found the all mighty volume control, and Master controls only the master...
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    Re: Static on laptop display

    It sounds to me as if the LCD is underpowered. When I worked at a games arcade once, Virtua Tennis did the same thing, I diagnosed it to be a bit of dry solder. When the vertical refresh clock signal...
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