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People, please head on over to the forums, they are getting kind of dry, and we need some more topics!!

Well, I now have the domain name www.edhayes.us and it goes to my personal page.

I changed the webcam to go there instead of the CE page.

-Ed

Yet again I?ve updated CE Self Extractor. You can get the new version here. Some small improvements.

Well I?ve updated CE Self Extractor. You can get the new version here. LOTS of improvements.

Well, I started, worked on, and finished the first version of CE Self Extractor and the Packager. It?s totally free, and it doesn?t suxors. You may download it here.

It?s really quite simple to use. It?s fast. Its multithreaded. It?s relatively small. It compresses the data. It looks good. It works great.

Enjoy!

I found the core code here.

UPDATE: Make sure to include a "setup.exe" for it to run after install or else it will just delete everything and close right after it opens.

Or at least IT thinks it is...

Try this program out. You will need the .NET Framework. If you don't have it, run Windows Update.

What was the rule? Thall shall not devide by zero?

I came up with this program TRYING to get a .Net application to crash so I could see what the crash box looked like. I tried data-type errors but the IDE kept finding them before compile. So I thought, have the user enter a number and devide by it. Then try zero. Well what do you know... I always thought anything devided by zero was undefinined... But I guess I was wrong. Try for your self!

I guess if you have .NET it doesnt even download and it just runs... Um... No?

*SPOILER!!!* For those who don't have Windows, the anwser to "5 / 0" is "Infinity". Any thing devided by zero is infinity. Whatever. Maybe we need new math teachers, or at least Microsoft thinks so.

Go through the Forums and find out how to win $5!!! Only one winner!

Due to CIHost, I have changed the WebCam refreshes to every 30 seconds.

We have unlimited bandwidth, but limited CPU usage. What CRAP!

I have worked out most of the bugs in the list box. I have been working on it in a separate project so it doesn’t crash as much and so its easer to manage. This evening I merged it into the CEControls project and got it to compile; and trust me, it wasn't that easy, VB is picky about public/non-public and it took a while to get all of it straightened out.

I have also got the packager code I wrote a while back working inside the CEDLL along with an external program and beta tested it quite a bit. It works pretty well. I might add compression some time, who knows.

Worked a bit on IB. I’m going to have to do a lot of re-writing to get every thing working along with the new list box. But in the end, it will be worth it.

Some how Ed got banned from the server (cybercoment.com) because of his web cams. “FTP abuse” according to the host. It’s all fixed though. I was trying to get the forums to display a better header, but it didn’t work out. I thought I could ‘include()’ or something like that the normal cybercoment header, but it didn’t work, unfortunately. That’s why it’s been messed up for the past few days; I forgot to undo what I tried. My bad.

So, what have I been working on? The list box of course!

It scrolls, it has custom fonts for EVERYTHING, it has column resizing and reordering, it has editing in place, it has drag-reselect, it has custom item heights, it scrolls as you drag to select (or makes sure new selections are visible), and is pretty dang fast for vb.

It has a few bugs, the scroll bar doesn?t draw perfectly, there are some bugs in editing, doesn?t reorder items by dragging, and column headers don?t draw their own font.

Here is a screen shot.

I'll keep slaving away at it...

I have updated all the pages on the site to include the current date, as well as make it easier for us to work on the site. There is a second webcam on me now, so check it out. I updated the support page to make it a lot less confusing.

Oh, its Charlie and my birthday today!

Happy Surfing!

I made the Support page because, as Charlie said, it wasn?t there. I have also added On Site Support to the service section. Yes, it is Support, but it?s more of a service. So to make everyone happy, there is a link to the On Site Support on the Support page. Hope your having a great weekend!

Fixed up an about us page since it, well, wasn't there.

Another Tangent Computer update; The new laptop is working with Windows XP! I have decided not to complain. I have a working laptop, and I?m sick of wasting my time with such horrible company. If it were a normal company, like Best Buy, they would have given me a replacement within 14 days, no matter what! But no, they had to destroy all thoughts I had that they were a decent company.

I would like to thank Charlie on such a great job with the webcam and the rest of the website. Soon, maybe, I can start reviewing stuff. Who knows?

Well, have a great day, and thank you for visiting cybercoment.com

Well, I have been working more on the list box. It now has working dragable, sizable headers with sub-item (data for under the headers) that all displays correctly. It scrolls; it draws fast; and works pretty well. I will be working a little bit more on it (sorting, better scrolling, re-ordering, etcetera) then I will put it in IB, finish that, and then you can download all my great software and it will work! Well, that’s what I hope will happen.

I fixed up the web cam to just refresh the image and not the page, but alas, it needs JavaScript (If you don’t already have a JavaScript browser, get with it man!).

I’ve completely switched to MacOS X 10.2 finally. It’s still a bit slow on my Andrea (G4 400). Let’s just say it could be faster, but it IS the first OS X to be usable. At least that’s my opinion.

College is going so-so. Smoking, litter (including butts), and loud music are the main negatives. I swear. With all the education about how stupid it is to smoke, there are a LOT of people smoking. What’s the point? It’s expensive, it smells, it pisses people off, you basically have to litter because you can’t through something that’s burning in the trash, it kills you, it does more damage to the people around you than it does you, and there are no reasons TO do it. There was an “infect truth” truck out side in “Centenial mall” (the lamerZ name for a lawn, and that’s with a capitol Z) and I could tell you what would “infect truth”… But I’m not going to go there. It’s inappropriate for our younger audience. And for an “institute of higher learning” this place could learn some stuff from me.

For all those who don’t know this already, Infected Mushroom is/are the best musical artists EVER! (And I mean ever in the truthful way, not the ‘fad’ way.) Go download some of their music, and – well, enjoy. I would suggest “Funchameleon”, “Dancing with Kadafi”, and “Angel Jonathan”. If you can’t find them, search BearShare. It must be legal seeing how all the tracks are in super quality and you can’t buy some of their music, any where.

That’s it for now. <insert closing here>

For all that have been following my Tangent story, there is an update. Tangent is supposedly replacing my computer, and I should have it on Monday.

Hi everyone! You must check out the cybercoment.com forums! They provide computer help plus much more!

Changed the logo back to the old one. It's better. =)

The new forums are up! Check them out (Top of nav bar)...

I just finished adding little icons for my online status for ICQ and AIM. They're below the navigation bar. Aren't they pretty?

Updated! - Added Ed's icons and created MSN and Yahoo! icons for him.