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So I'm trying to learn wxWidgets and it seems that Steve Lamerton picked it up pretty quickly so I thought this would be a good place to ask.

What books do you guys recommend, compilers/dev tools, and anything else that I'll most likely need (or find useful) to learn/use wxWidgets. If the cost of these could stay low (especially the compiler, if not free, that would be awesome.

Well, I'm finally doing it. I'm buying a notebook. Anyone have suggestions?

Price range $1500-$2500 USD. Won't be obsolete in 6 months (hopefully longer). I've got my eye on this one:

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Toshiba-Satellite-Notebook-PC-P105-S9312-...

If you suggest something from dell, then you should throw you're computer into a river.

Seriously though, something comparible in features to the above. If you know of one, with a better price, then speak up. I get my student loan in 3-5 days so not a hurry. Help

Found an unusual, maybe even odd, flash drive? Share it!
Thanko's PIN-protected Morse Code Drive

A found this site with a lot of freeware (most seem to open-source and portable :))
www.sysinternals.com

Warning - the licensing terms technically do not allow them to be used on one than one computer, but portable drives are not mentioned. I emailed them to ask for permission, and am awaiting a response.

What if there was a pacakge of portable apps, sort of like the suite, and make a bootable list dislplaying the apps and when u click one or hit enter, u can use an app!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootablecd.html

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/hiren.thanki/bootcd_on_usb_disk.html

I have a Sandisk Cruzer Micro 1GB..................And its been acting wierd latly. The file system just got screwed for some reson. Okey, Says I. No problem. I just backed it up yesterday. So I format it. Then I try to copy and paste the backup files........... when the light whent off and it sayed that therer was a delayed write erroer. I tried agin. Then it said that there was some I/O erroer. HELP

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I visited a well-known college town's brand new, huge public library last week. I signed on as a guest and just happened to have all three of my drives with me--U3,
Ceedo, and a Haller equipped one.

I was very disappointed when the PC would not let me run the U3 or the Ceedo drive
because they both have auto-run which their security will not allow. Then I inserted
the Haller equipped drive and nearly blew a gasket when Firefox could not open because its launcher is an exe. file which security does not permit either.

I spoke with the supervisor and she said their IT people would be informed of the difficulty and maybe something could be done about it. Has this happened to others in this group? Does it mean that the flash drive cannot be used except at friends'

Not sure if anyone has found this annoying, but the two hyphens Thunderbird inserts before each signature. B4 ppl start tellin me why its there, i konw, but don't really care for it.

Anyway i posted a topic on MozillaZine and found a soluiton by editing the thunderbird.exe.

"You need a special editor that can work with binary files. Edit thunderbird.exe and search for hex 2D 2D 20 00 (hyphen hyphen space NUL). In my version I found this at offset 6D9014, but it will not be in the same place in every version. Change the first 2D to 00."

Well this works, but only thing is that Thunderbird dosn't send or receive from my IMAP account (don't use POP, so havn't tried), where there is any change to the thunderbrid.exe file.