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I am more than a little biased since I am in a combined MS/PhD program right now, but I enrolled in it for two reasons. I get paid ~$25k for 9 months of school/research each year with almost all tuition and fees waived. I enjoy research and focus on it. I happen to spend a lot of time with...

If you are in a position to, I would tell her to suck it up and use Vim if that's your company standard. Barring exporting the necessary part of the filesystem via NFS, I am not sure how you could give her seamless access to the remote files. Whether she thinks textmate makes her more efficient...

I suppose you have a point there. I guess I'm a little disappointed that [H] linked a Daily Mail article. Just looking at the rest of that page shows the kind of content they generate.

That article is not close to a piece of journalism. Their reference to the paper is not accurate, and Tamara Denning is a second-year grad student, not a PhD or an MD.

I would recommend Python. It is definitely faster to knock something together in Python than it is in Java because it is not as wordy and does not enforce classes or the like. It has a higher adoption rate than Ruby so far. As far as the other alternatives go, I just find it much more...

I don't know a thing about Coldfusion, but as far as Python goes: Official website tutorial written by the language creator - http://docs.python.org/tut/ Dive Into Python (free book available in pdf, html etc.) - http://www.diveintopython.org/ I don't actually know of any paper-only...

I would say that nothing is that great about Java other than its adoption and the fact that every kid out of college these days probably learned on it. That means that it is easy to find people who know it and there are a ton of libraries and communities. I find it inflexible and wordy...

Transparent PNG files do not work in IE6 and earlier. They just don't so far as I know.

You would really be better off reading a tutorial to get a handle on the basics. There are plenty of them to be found. Even if someone wants to hold your hand and help, a forum is a very poor tool to do so for more than a couple of questions.

Jeez, I had to write a clone of the old Mac game "Artillery" for my assembly final. It was like 5,000 lines of code - and it generated random terrain for each game. Of course, I had half of the semester.

Never trust users, be they malicious or stupid. If you always use prepared statements, you eliminate the problem of SQL injection. Of course, you still need to make sure that user input is not garbage, but prepared statements will ensure that it is not damaging.

If you have any interest in research areas, find a professor who does what you like and ask them if you can just do an independent study for them. My first project was an unpaid independent study. From there, I got summer work, hired as a consultant, and finally a free pass into grad school for...

I know that mikeblas already found your answer, but please use the code tags in the future. It makes things much easier to read.

Yes, but that might invalidate the test.

No, you cannot mount a MS VM on VMWare. They are not nearly compatible. Have you tried removing VM additions? Those are the closest you will get to troubleshooting the VMs drivers.

Glad to be of help. Sometimes it's a lot easier to push through a learning process when you aren't pulling your hair out over the configuration details :D

I think you're just a bit confused on how PHP works and what the point of Apache etc. is. You can write php in any text editor that you want, and simply store the file in your apache root folder (with XAMPP, something like: C:\xampplite\htdocs). Let's say you have written the file and...

I'm new to php and I am really loving phpeclipse and xampp. They are both cross-platform and you get a fully-functional development environment out of the box without having to configure apache, php, and mysql separately. PHPEclipse: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=57621...

Try Eclipse, it is cross-platform and it will work. http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

I have been trying to build an application that a friend of mine wrote and I am getting all kinds of linker errors from the Makefile. He can build it fine on his machine and two other servers that I checked built it successfully, so I am assuming that this is a problem with my...

If you need Linux compatibility and you don't feel comfortable using gcc and vim/emacs, you could always just "apt-get install eclipse-cdt" to install eclipse and the C development tools. You can have your GUI and it will still use gcc underneath.

I'm definitely due for an upgrade....

I didn't claim to supply a deterministic troubleshooting method for Apache. I just answered the apachemonitor question and noted that I don't have any better ideas than you. Using apachemonitor is identical to starting and stopping the process with SCM. It's only benefit that I am aware of is...

I don't have it installed currently, but apachemonitor.exe does what you might expect. It should be accessible via the start menu in the apache shortcut group. Edit: I connected to one of my boxes to check. Apachemonitor just sits in the system tray, shows you the process status, and gives you a...

You are quite correct sir. I'm glad that someone realized I was making things harder than they have to be. Another plus to this is that it will keep people from using my code maliciously to spam wikis.

I just set up mediawiki for my group at work and I have been asked to move a bunch of documentation to it (currently residing in Word docs for the most part). Converting the text of a Word doc to wiki markup is easy, but I am not dealing with uploading each and every screenshot manually. I...

That guide is for Server 2008 and I have already completed all of those steps.

I checked to confirm and also re-installed the certificate. The client definitely trusts the CA. Definitely worth checking though.

Thanks for the help so far. I setup a CA and did as you suggested. I successfully installed the cert, but when I try to connect to the server via terminal services, I get the message "the certificate or associated chain is invalid" code 0x10000. I can't find any useful reference to the error so...

I am running Windows Server 2003 on a number of servers and I want to setup terminal services to run over SSL. I can use Selfssl.exe to generate a certificate and automatically install it, but I can't seem to figure out how to use this certificate on another server for terminal services. If...

Sorry about that, I realize that is an important distinction. VB.NET.

I will have to play with AutoIT. I was trying to limit myself to languages that our developers use for the sake of maintenance, but they are pretty limited and if my little app to find shortcut targets needs to be maintained, I've done something horribly wrong. Since it looks like AutoIT...

I think I'll go with VB for this. Not sure I feel like writing the lines of code required to do something so small in C++. So, any VB suggestions other than what Tytalus turned up? I will just head in that direction and see if I can get it done unless someone has a new idea.

I have been asked to produce a quick little app that will find the targets of all shortcuts in a given directory. I have googled around a bit, but not found anything that looks relatively simple yet. I am open to C++/C#/VB.net, and was wondering if anyone here has looked into this before and...

.NET support in Google's mobile OS is probably the last thing that Microsoft wants to see. Microsoft does have a competing OS and they also... hate Google.

If you are looking for a full-featured solution, I really love the Acronis True Image products. I am running an old version (8.0), but it still works great. Even supports ext3 filesystems.

I've done my resume, a user manual, and a CS research paper in Latex. It appears to be the standard for computer science research papers (the kind of stuff that goes to USENIX etc) from what I have seen. Many conferences even provide their own Latex templates for submitters to use...

Backing up to an external usb drive, with True Image 8.0, I get speeds that are much better than that with the default compression level. Making a full backup of 90GB takes me about 2 - 2.5 hours. What sort of media are you backing up to?

We've had nothing but trouble with the newest version of Backup Exec at my company. There appears to be some obscure conflict between it and MS Virtual Server 2005 that causes right-click to take ~1 minute and makes the backups take at least twice as long. We still have no idea why this is...

I finally found the answer to this one and wanted to share it. It's a bug in Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1, but NOT in Virtual Server 2005 R2. There is no fix at this point, so I just had to roll back to R2. The saved state files are NOT compatible across the versions, so you will need to...