Recent content by litesgod

It's pretty easy. When you call the form, use the Form.ShowDialog() method instead of Form.Show(). That way you can check if the OK button was used to close the form, and then access public fields in the form. MyForm frm = new MyForm() int FormReturn; if(frm.ShowDialog() ==...

It all depends entirely on what you want out of learning. If you want to be a leg up on the competition in the fall, by all means choose whichever language they teach. If you want to get serious about what makes a computer tick, Assembler (not a good idea, in my opinion) or C. If you...

Is this a problem with SPIM command line arguments or is it a problem with getting the right system calls? If you execute your program with the -file command, does the string show up in the SPIM address space? In other words, are you sure that the string is loading correctly? It's been a...

I had a lot of PS problems in the past, including one that involved flames leaping out the back of my case. Don't trust any of your components after something like this, if the harddrives spin up count yourself lucky and quickly move all the data onto new drives. If the CPU and RAM are working...

I was fortunate in that my father was a computer geek before me. He did his Masters work on Intel's first processors. As far back as I can remember we always had computers. I know we had an Apple II, but the first I remember was a 286. Then the first one I actually started working on was a...

As far as site layout and things go, it looks pretty good- though the red color makes me think of this as a fire and brimstone kind of church. The code needs to be seriously cleaned up though. Even with all of the tables (something you should avoid- and could avoid if you worked at it) the...

I recently got a Ferarri 3200+ and very quickly started getting blue screens after powering on or coming out of hibernate. The blue screens were Machine Check Exception, and would only happen after the system had been powered off or in hibernate for some time- a simple reboot and the machine...

looks like it

You shouldn't have to convert it. Assuming you are using VS.Net, add a new project to your solution of type managed C++ code. Copy and paste. Load a reference to your new project in the existing project and congratulations, you've just created a .NET library. You may have to play around with...

My understanding has always been that it was a leaked version of the demo that was used to show in game footage at E3 a few years ago. That is, the engine was alpha, yes, but the maps and such were specifically created for the E3 demo.

I just assumed the zombie's getting back up was taken out because of game play issues. Sorry, but killing the same guy over and over again would suck. As for the pinky demons out of the wall- the alpha was originally a demo, right? So they throw in what scripted events they could to make a...

I agree- CE is already claimed by Civil Engineers. I've never heard of CPE's, and I don't really like it- to close to CPA and God knows I don't want to be mistaken for a business major. I have heard of CSE's (being Computer Science Engineers) and mostly CoE's. Anyone know the abbreviation for...

Honestly could not agree with you more. In no way do I feel I was cheated out of any of this by going to a state school/community college. Part of this is because the CC I went to had an Math/Science program run by a retired professor from Cornell with his degree in high energy physics. My...

I would also call it top-notch. In an undergrad program in engineering there is very little difference in curriculum. Yeah, CMU is a better school- and I wouldn't argue that it wasn't. But is it worth 42k per year? Combined cost of my 4 year degree was just over $20k- half of one year at...

And if you do mind going into deep debt, you may want to look into what I did. The first two years of engineering (just about any field, I went into Computer Engineering) are nearly identical no matter where you go. Calc, Physics, and intro engineering courses (mechanics, material science...