You probably all know this, but it was claimed at one point that one would be able to ship a small number of DLLs to allow WinHelp to work - it would have been something of the order of 5 DLLs.
Then, once people such as my employer, had produced help files for the new format, Microsoft then said that they were not going to release this set of DLLs and you needed to install the whole of IE4 on the users' machines in order to support the new help format.
I fear you are mistaken, there is a version of DAO (DAO 3.6 if I recall correctly) which works fine with the Access 2000 version of Jet. I too am using Jet from VC++ , using both the CDaoDatabase and related classes and by #importing the DAO DLL (or maybe type library, I forget) - in different DLLs I hasten to add.
I have not found any problems with it (apart from it not working well with the Oracle 7 ODBC drivers for linked tables, but that's no great surprise)
You can also create Access 97 format databases even though you have to guess at one parameter of the Create statement, which is not a great leap of
If you are serious about this rather than pedalling FUD then drop me an e-mail and I will send you the relevant code, which is at work - undocumented Microsoft APIs are not something I carry around in my head.
Rewriting a program because no-one in the company understands the language it was written in, never mind the program itself, is NOT going to be a recipe for success.
You need to learn some humility, take a deep breath, write out a hundred times 'maybe the people who wrote this code knew something, I will attempt to learn from them' and get stuck in to their code.
I don't quite understand the bit about the UK, we have essentially 3 platforms for digital TV, all of which have or will have ITV - digital terrestrial, satelite (Murdoch) and cable (more or less a duopoly between NTL and Telewest) now.
Most TV cable companies offer phones, and the per minute charge is now really the stuff of history.
> I think it'll be about never that they'll put these things on regular jets, for the same reasons that recoilless rifles don't get mounted on school buses.
Explain to me what's funny about buying pet food online? I bought some dog chews on line (half the price of the local pet shop, a saving of 70 UKP for 200 packets). They actually came from another country! (the ROI).
So, can I be the first person to say that I work in the servant's quarters on the top floor of a 19th century manor house in its own grounds by the river Thames?
Our biggest problems are:
a) 'listed' building i.e. we're not allowed to do very much to it
b) we work in what were essentially the servants' bedrooms, they have thick doors, and room for about 4 people in a room. This means that often we can't group people together how we'd like to
c) PCs near the windows often have difficulty starting up in the mornings due to the temperature the offices reach at night, particularly at the weekends
d) random infestations.. mice, wasps, fleas, flies, dead birds in the water tanks (once someone left a glass of water on their desk and came back the next day to find a mouse desparately treading water in it)
e) because we're on the top floor, the 'heat' is often used up before we get to it
f) three flights of stairs (built before elevators and we can't add any due to a) above)
g) difficulty employing young developers, who for some reason don't want to work in a manor house in the middle of rural Oxfordshire
the advantages speak for themselves I guess, also there is a company boat you can hire to go up and down the Thames, more parking spaces than you would believe, and a canteen serving good old fashioned British stodge at reasonable prices
... oh, and we own the building and the grounds and rent some of it out to a government agency.
I thought of Nicholas Lyndhurst for Newton without thinking of David Jason for the other one.
On the other hand Nicholas Lyndhurst is getting on a bit these days, as he was in Butterflies maybe. Maybe they can digitally process him to make him younger.
I would vote for Linux+Apache+Mod_Perl+a relational database (not necessarily a free gratis or free libre one, even). Possibly design it to be connected to from another machine - probably a Windows machine, and therefore don't bother with X or a desktop.
I personally have looked at a number of books / websites / magazine articles about web technologies and found the O'Reilly 'Apache Modules' book very convincing, and felt that I would be inclined to have a go with this - I can believe this might be a usable technology whereas things like ASP look just too grotesque for words.
I can't believe anyone would want to use this nonsense - often people write ASP pages which then contain VBScript so they're essentially writing two levels of macro expansion, both of them some half-baked Basic derivative. Ugh!
I guess many companies are like my employer - they develop software for Windows using Microsoft tools (Visual C++ / SQL Server).
When they want to change their web-site from static text hosted somewhere to something more dynamic, it's not surprising that they think 'let's stick to what we know', set up a test copy of IIS and then develop the site using Microsoft technologies.
This is a fine example of Microsoft's dominance in one area covering over into another area.
I must admit to finding these NetCraft figures a big shock - reminds me of the figures for Netscape Navigator vs. I.E.
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Can I just say that I am one of these people who has bought a copy for approx 200 dollars - I forget the exact amount.
Inter-library loan doesn't go across the Atlantic. In fact, in Britain, it doesn't cover fiction. You can get them within a county, but not country-wide.
Anyway, I bought a copy for approx 200 dollars. The only other place it would have gone is the retirement fund, so what the hell???
I felt that Stephenson's disavowal might not mean very much since his books seem to be getting worse (one could argue that Cryptobloaticon was better than the 'gee isn't nano cool' age, I suppose).
I tend to agree that it's recognisably a first novel, but I would vote for it being republished.
Indeed, Visio is very much an MS-Office style package. It is the only thing I have seen with an MS style amazingly complex and hierarchical automation object model in the style of Word's or Excel's. It is so similar to an Office application I am surprised that Microsoft are buying one of their few convincing references sites.
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You probably all know this, but it was claimed at one point that one would be able to ship a small number of DLLs to allow WinHelp to work - it would have been something of the order of 5 DLLs.
Then, once people such as my employer, had produced help files for the new format, Microsoft then said that they were not going to release this set of DLLs and you needed to install the whole of IE4 on the users' machines in order to support the new help format.
Imagine my delight...
Do you mean these are unusual in the U.S.?, in Britain they are very common.
I fear you are mistaken, there is a version of DAO (DAO 3.6 if I recall correctly) which works fine with the Access 2000 version of Jet. I too am using Jet from VC++ , using both the CDaoDatabase and related classes and by #importing the DAO DLL (or maybe type library, I forget) - in different DLLs I hasten to add.
I have not found any problems with it (apart from it not working well with the Oracle 7 ODBC drivers for linked tables, but that's no great surprise)
You can also create Access 97 format databases even though you have to guess at one parameter of the Create statement, which is not a great leap of
If you are serious about this rather than pedalling FUD then drop me an e-mail and I will send you the relevant code, which is at work - undocumented Microsoft APIs are not something I carry around in my head.
Rewriting a program because no-one in the company understands the language it was written in, never mind the program itself, is NOT going to be a recipe for success.
You need to learn some humility, take a deep breath, write out a hundred times 'maybe the people who wrote this code knew something, I will attempt to learn from them' and get stuck in to their code.
I don't quite understand the bit about the UK, we have essentially 3 platforms for digital TV, all of which have or will have ITV - digital terrestrial, satelite (Murdoch) and cable (more or less a duopoly between NTL and Telewest) now.
Most TV cable companies offer phones, and the per minute charge is now really the stuff of history.
I believe 80% of DVD players sold in the U.K. can play region 1 DVDs. Many VCRs can play 525 line 60 Hz NTSC tapes.
I don't know of anyone who has bought one that CAN'T play region 1 DVDs.
> I think it'll be about never that they'll put these things on regular jets, for the same reasons that recoilless rifles don't get mounted on school buses.
You obviously went to the wrong school.
Explain to me what's funny about buying pet food online? I bought some dog chews on line (half the price of the local pet shop, a saving of 70 UKP for 200 packets). They actually came from another country! (the ROI).
So, can I be the first person to say that I work in the servant's quarters on the top floor of a 19th century manor house in its own grounds by the river Thames?
Our biggest problems are:
a) 'listed' building i.e. we're not allowed to do very much to it
b) we work in what were essentially the servants' bedrooms, they have thick doors, and room for about 4 people in a room. This means that often we can't group people together how we'd like to
c) PCs near the windows often have difficulty starting up in the mornings due to the temperature the offices reach at night, particularly at the weekends
d) random infestations.. mice, wasps, fleas, flies, dead birds in the water tanks (once someone left a glass of water on their desk and came back the next day to find a mouse desparately treading water in it)
e) because we're on the top floor, the 'heat' is often used up before we get to it
f) three flights of stairs (built before elevators and we can't add any due to a) above)
g) difficulty employing young developers, who for some reason don't want to work in a manor house in the middle of rural Oxfordshire
the advantages speak for themselves I guess, also there is a company boat you can hire to go up and down the Thames, more parking spaces than you would believe, and a canteen serving good old fashioned British stodge at reasonable prices
... oh, and we own the building and the grounds and rent some of it out to a government agency.
I thought of Nicholas Lyndhurst for Newton without thinking of David Jason for the other one.
On the other hand Nicholas Lyndhurst is getting on a bit these days, as he was in Butterflies maybe. Maybe they can digitally process him to make him younger.
I would vote for Linux+Apache+Mod_Perl+a relational database (not necessarily a free gratis or free libre one, even).
Possibly design it to be connected to from another machine - probably a Windows machine, and therefore don't bother with X or a desktop.
I personally have looked at a number of books / websites / magazine articles about web technologies and found the O'Reilly 'Apache Modules' book very convincing, and felt that I would be inclined to have a go with this - I can believe this might be a usable technology whereas things like ASP look just too grotesque for words.
I can't believe anyone would want to use this nonsense - often people write ASP pages which then contain VBScript so they're essentially writing two levels of macro expansion, both of them some half-baked Basic derivative. Ugh!
I guess many companies are like my employer - they develop software for Windows using Microsoft tools (Visual C++ / SQL Server).
When they want to change their web-site from static text hosted somewhere to something more dynamic, it's not surprising that they think 'let's stick to what we know', set up a test copy of IIS and then develop the site using Microsoft technologies.
This is a fine example of Microsoft's dominance in one area covering over into another area.
I must admit to finding these NetCraft figures a big shock - reminds me of the figures for Netscape Navigator vs. I.E.
Can I just say that I am one of these people who has bought a copy for approx 200 dollars - I forget the exact amount.
Inter-library loan doesn't go across the Atlantic. In fact, in Britain, it doesn't cover fiction. You can get them within a county, but not country-wide.
Anyway, I bought a copy for approx 200 dollars. The only other place it would have gone is the retirement fund, so what the hell???
I felt that Stephenson's disavowal might not mean very much since his books seem to be getting worse (one could argue that Cryptobloaticon was better than the 'gee isn't nano cool' age, I suppose).
I tend to agree that it's recognisably a first novel, but I would vote for it being republished.
Indeed, Visio is very much an MS-Office style package. It is the only thing I have seen with an MS style amazingly complex and hierarchical automation object model in the style of Word's or Excel's.
It is so similar to an Office application I am surprised that Microsoft are buying one of their few convincing references sites.
In my experience, the fun of installing ODBC for Oracle is just the beginning of the delight.
I personally am far from convinced of the viability of using ODBC and Oracle to create robust software usable by end users.
It may be that the native APIs are better, but are hardly what you would call 'high level'.