Recent content by Earp

I sat in on a webinar for G.Fast from one of the big hardware providers a month or so ago. They're saying they think this is basically for MDUs (aka, apartments) and European cities where repaving (especially cobblestones) after plowing fiber to each location would cost a fortune. The idea is...

Well that article was massively misleading. Just because you have a fiber network that connects schools and government buildings, that's a far cry from having fiber to every residence. That's like saying every highway should be an interstate just because you have a couple interstate highways...

As one who has had to deal with billing this stuff, it's a royal pain in the &#*$. I would believe any error would err on the side of underbilling you.

Sales only dropped 3.2%, it was profit that dropped 17%.

Seriously, who's going to run 4 drives in RAID 0? Unless, of course, you like a really low MTBF. I don't know how SSD drives compare with rotating rust on reliability, but I'd never chance it on hard disks. I'd also question calling the Highpoint 4xxx series entry level raid cards. Maybe...

I think you're going to be stuck throwing a cursor at the problem. Lookup cursors, and the solution should become appearent.

If you really want to loop over a result set in SQL, you would use a cursor. I'm only familiar with TSQL (Microsoft SQL Server), but any decent SQL server should have something similar. That said, if you find yourselft using a cursor, you're usually doing something wrong. You can usually do...

ACL's are generally setup for Users not Computers. To do what you want to do, you'd probably have to setup firewall rules to block the necessary ports from all but the one pc. A better question is why the heck would you want to do this?

My first thought was Autodesk's AutoCAD, which someone mentioned above. One of the products I work on is an extension of AutoCAD, and while it does have a LISP scripting interface, quite often it's a whole lot easier to do things using the native C++ API (or its .NET wrapper). The AutoLISP...

Your last few lines can be simplified to this: x = "a" x = "b" x = "c" x = "d" x = "e" Perhaps that's enought of a hint...

We upgraded to 2008 almost as soon as it was released, and I can't say it was worth it (although with MSDN it didn't cost us anything). Basically, 2008 gets you LINQ and a few other things. If I was starting a new project, I'd definately be looking at LINQ, but we solved most of the problems...

Bought this chain for my chainsaw, unfortunately, it didn't fit. It's an Oregon S60 chain (60 links) that supposedly fits 18" Mcculloch and Troy-bilt chain saws (except for my specific model). Never been used since it doesn't fit. I'm moving, so $5 gets it shipped to you via USPS in a bubble...

In flow by definition equals out flow. If you suck air out of your case, it has to be replaced or it will create a vaccuum (leaving no more air to suck out) or vice versa, you will create a massive pressure buildup in your case. Neither will happen with pc case fans. Balancing your in/out...

If I had a couple years to spare to port the enough of the app to native C/C++ to do a head-to-head, I could do that. Heck, I might even keep the C/C++ version. Or I could spend a week and try to batch some sql queries together to save on network round trips, NGEN the assemblies to eliminate...

As a C#/.NET developer, in the 3-4 years I've been using it, I have only twice had language/runtime related performance problems, and even then, I'm not sure C++ would have been any better. One is a WinForm that takes forever (2-4 seconds) to load the first time (JITing a lot of code and...