And still reading. Good to see you here again.

And congrats on the new job. The commute may be long but, like you said, it can be a good time to unwind when you need it

Now, you know that you and I are on the same side of the fence when it comes to the current administration, but I see a fundamental problem with the source you point to - there is absolutely no tangible source quoted and there is no reference. It's just some pretty graphs and a summary statement at the end, posted on a pundit site.

Where did the numbers come from? Was that *original* source reputable?

I concur that the current administration is doing a LOT of damage, but this source does nothing to demonstrate or annotate that. The numbers very well may be legit, but there's nothing to confirm or refute.

I had a "conversation" with taco about it. He told me "it might be a week, it might be a year".

In the past I understand that he was adamant that there was no such blacklisting. So much for that.

The most humorous part of the whole thing is that I logged in one morning and there was a small box on the front page that allowed me to opt out of seeing all of the advertisements, because I am a "valued contributor" or some such nonsense. So, I can opt out of adverts but I cannot be trusted with mod points. I don't care if I get mod points or not, but it's slightly annoying that this site is treated like a daycare filled with bad children by those that should be encouraging the users to participate (which means revenue) rather than playing behind-the-scenes police games.

It's stupid crap like that going on that explains why so many people left and refuse to come back.

I reverse mod-bombed someone (modded up 5 consecutive posts) in 2005 and I have been in the mod point timeout corner ever since. My level of give-a-damn about this site is near zero so it doesn't upset me so much.

A coworker of mine just returned from a trip to Minnesota - he says coming back here is like moving to Florida.

...and you can already pre-order it. According to Amazon, it will ship this coming May. Amazon's ship date doesn't necessarily mean it's going to ship of course, but it's progress toward taking the title off the vaporware list.

Eh, this was just an exercise in curiosity with a dose of insomnia tossed in there for good measure. To be honest I do not think JtS's suggestion of using DOSBox will improve matters but there's little to lose by trying. At a minimum I will come away knowing more than I did when I started.

Of course, I could just compile it under Linux with gcc and watch it fly, but that's a different exercise.

Have you tried Windows console 64-bit? (Assuming you're running a 64-bit version of Windows)

Hardware is 32-bit so I can't even upgrade to Win64 - so, unfortunately, 64-bit console apps are not an option for now.

Er, that was supposed to be I >3 Farscape. Sigh.

Eh, it's early yet. I knew what you meant, regardless.

Happy New Year back atcha.

Here it is, 2011. So far, not much different than 2010, except that I have a LOT of Farscape episodes to keep me occupied...

I have had good success with wxWidgets on both Windows and Linux. That said, it's the *only* cross-platform GUI development library I have used and I am used to it. Rather than use anchors for placing window components it uses something called sizers which are a lot harder to work with until you get used to them. It can be used with a variety of languages (C++ and Python are the two big ones, though there is support for hooking into Java as well) and the licensing is sane.

Though I do favor wxWidgets (as it's all I really know) I believe QT is a lot more complete as a library. Depending on what you're doing, QT may be a better fit for your needs.