The Web Guy

In Microsoft Word…

How to set 2 columns

Click the columns button in the toolbar– it looks like 2 columns of text– and click the number of columns you want.

How to move margin up, for whitespace

On the left side, there’s a vertical ruler. Scroll to the bottom of the page, and find the margin indicator, by default about 1 inch from the bottom of the page. Click and drag it up to where you want.

How to remove margin on second page

This isn’t possible in older versions of Word. As a workaround, you can create a new document with different margins (Ctrl+N) and copy/cut and paste your content there.

How to create TM symbol

Type ™. Open parenthesis, t, m, close parenthesis.

There are some ridiculous things in C++, like the fact that there exists getc(), getch(), getche(), getchar(), and _getch() and they’re all different. Press Enter to Continue getch

If you’re doing cin of an integer, and the user enters a character, they’ll get stuck in an infinite loop. I found a good way to fix this at bytes.com

There are several possible ways to remove the unwanted
characters. Here’s one:

cin.clear(); /* reset stream state to ‘good’ */
cin.ignore(numeric_limits<streamsize>::max(), ‘\n’);

This means: “extract and discard all characters up
to the first newline character, or the maximum possible
number of characters in a stream, whichever occurs first.”

You’ll need to add:
#include <limits> // for declaration of ‘numeric_limits’
#include <ios> // for declaration of ’streamsize’

Answer: ifstream cannot be copied (doesn’t have a copy constructor).

Solution: Don’t store an ifstream. If you must, then declare and create a copy constructor.

This help me figure out this error: Google Groups

They should use SSL (https)… but they’re not. So be careful!

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/

svn update brings changes from the repository into your working copy. If no revision given, it brings your working copy up-to-date with the HEAD revision. Otherwise, it synchronizes the working copy to the revision given by the –revision switch.

For each updated item a line will start with a character reporting the action taken. These characters have the following meaning:

A character in the first column signifies an update to the actual file, while updates to the file’s properties are shown in the second column.

via red-bean.com

I’m looking forward to the Asus Eee PC 900. I’ve always been in love with small laptops, ever since obsessing over the Toshiba Libretto many years ago. Fortunately they’re cheaper nowadays, and the technology is far better, too. Life is great

Here’s a video on YouTube of the 900 series hands-on. It will have multi-touch gestures and use Intel’s new Atom processor. I love small computers. It would be fun to play with one over the summer. Wow, I am seriously passionate about this stuff. I’ll watch the Wikipedia article closely for updates

1. Hulu
2. Joost
3. Miro
4. Network Websites
   ABC
   MTV
   Discovery Channel / TLC / Animal Planet
5. Find Internet TV

What would you add to the list?

P.S. Ditch work for a year and live your dream.

Here’s a great page discussing the topic.

Open port 6112, both TCP and UDP, using Port Forwarding on your router. The difference is night and day! Didn’t work AT ALL without port forwarding, works excellently with it. I used to wonder why hosting StarCraft games worked so much better on my old dial-up modem than with DSL/Cable. Port forwarding on the NAT router is why!