I've been using netmeeting for this, and it's okay, but does have some problems and limitations with XP, mostly having to do with stable connections. And it doesn't allow user icons or any other way to differentiate users in the chat window (other than name), which is a feature that several of my users really want.
Mal: Ready? Zoe: Always.
'Serenity'
Buffistechnology 2: You Made Her So She Growls?
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Volans - Jan 25, 2006 2:27:25 am PST #6852 of 10003
move out and draw fire
Gudanov - Jan 25, 2006 5:30:02 am PST #6853 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
Cute article.
Switching to Windows: Not as easy as you think
Review of Windows XP written as a typical Linux distribution review.
Wolfram - Jan 25, 2006 6:17:20 am PST #6854 of 10003
Visilurking
Iger has made it one of his personal missions to patch up the rift Eisner caused between Apple and Disney.
I'd say rift definitely patched.
Tom Scola - Jan 25, 2006 6:18:40 am PST #6855 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Note to self: If Steve Jobs is pissed at me, give him 4 billion dollars.
amych - Jan 25, 2006 6:30:09 am PST #6856 of 10003
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Note to self: Get pissed at Tom.
No, wait, impossible. Pretend to get pissed and bargain for half price.
§ ita § - Jan 25, 2006 9:05:59 am PST #6857 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
le nubian - Jan 25, 2006 9:31:12 am PST #6858 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
awesome.
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 7:23:55 am PST #6859 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What utilities exist in XP for comparing two binary files to see if they're the same, and to count the number of differences if they're not?
I'm thinking there's an old DOS utility which still might be in XP....
eta: Sorry, I really should have googled first. It looks like the DOS utiltiy 'fc' wil do the trick...
le nubian - Jan 26, 2006 8:47:36 am PST #6860 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
why do you need to do that?
May I ask?
tommyrot - Jan 26, 2006 8:54:47 am PST #6861 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We have a computer that a consultant set up with VB 6 that we use to compile DLLs for a client's web server (for a employee timesheet system that serves thousands of employees). The computer is dying, so I set up the VB project on my computer. I wasn't sure what all was installed on the other computer (like, the Dot Net framework (not sure if that's even used for the DLL)) so I wanted to see if the resulting DLLs were the same. They're not - oddly, every other line has a single character difference.
The DLL I compiled on my computer seems to work fine on our test system. I'm just extra paranoid about breaking something on the payroll system.