"I did a rough experiment the other day with strange results. I created two console apps one is C# and the other if Visual C++ 7. The apps do calculations for Generation of the Mandelbrot Set and time how long it takes. The strange thing is that the Visual C# App is much faster than the C++ App. (1.5 secs per set for the C# App and 1.9 secs per set for the C++ App). This seems totally bizarre to me as I would have thought it would be the opposite. It puts me in the strange situation of thinking about rewritting my C++ fractal generator in C# to get more speed !!" [Windows Technology Off Topic Mailing List]

My good friend, Tim Ewald, finally gets a home page, and I have to hear about it on the streets! : ) [pocketsoap.com/weblog]

"The CIS Scoring Tool provides a quick and easy way to evaluate your host systems and compare their level of security against the Benchmarks. Tool reports guide system administrators to harden both new installations and active production systems. The tool is also effective for monitoring systems to assure that security settings continuously conform with the Benchmark." [W2Knews]

sttto Centerfold by J. Geils Band (http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/artists/jgeilsband.htm)

Yes, he walks, yes, he talks!
He’ll be your Code Complete!
That ATL instructor
Sure could put ‘em in the seats.

He could teach like no one else
No one could ever stain
The memory of that DM guy
Could never cause me pain

Years go by, I’m lookin’ through a codin’ magazine
And there’s my DM buddy on the pages in between!

CHORUS:
My blood runs cold
My memory has just been sold
Instructor is the centerfold,
Chris Sells is the centerfold
(Repeat)

Shipped me code ‘bout ActiveX,
While I was thinkin’ about GenX
IUnknown, IDispatch,
He could teach ‘em all

I was shakin’ in my shoes
Whenever he flashed those baby-blues
Something had a hold on me
Whenever Chris passed by

That book and cool code samples
Too magical to touch
To see him in that photograph,
Is really just too much!

CHORUS

It’s okay I understand
This ain’t no never never land
I hope that when this issue’s gone
This memory will TOO be gone

Take your car, yes we will
We’ll take your car and drive it
We’ll take it to a motel room
And leave you there, in private!

A part of me has just been ripped
The pages from my mind are stripped
Oh no, I can’t deny it
Oh yea, guess I gotta try it!

CHORUS

Copyright (c) 2002 Anonymous. :-)

Ted Neward [tneward@JAVAGEEKS.COM]
private mailing list
Tue 7/30/2002 2:06 AM

Now *this* is the way that state should be managed in ASP.NET!

From Michael Weinhardt: "Microsoft plans to deliver this fall a minor update to its Visual Studio.Net suite of development tools, said Eric Rudder, senior vice president of Microsoft's developer and platform evangelism."

"Some of the highlights of the new release include the following: "- Attribute based mechanism for specifying test and test fixtures. "- New Forms Interface that displays Tests and TestSuites in an Explorer like fashion. The interface allows you to run individual tests and/or suites from the forms interface. "- Automatic construction of suites based on namespaces. Just provide an assembly and the test runner constructs a suite of all TestFixtures in the assembly. "- Minimal amount of effort to upgrade due to inclusion of a backwards compatibility class called TestCase and the framework also looks for methods that begin with "test" regardless of case as it did in the past. "- XML output from the console program." [DOTNET-PRODUCTS]

"Basically the class keeps track of the list of outstanding handles, and when it reaches a certain threshold it can force a GC. Basically the goal here is to do a cheap and easy extension to the GC to try and teach it about the relative expensive of unmanaged objects." This is the way that GDI+ deals with unmanaged resource reclamation and can be used for your own non-memory resources.