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15 hours ago, Dr Herbie wrote

@Bas: I'm just using a scheduled daily Windows 7 backup to the external HDD.  Blu-Rays will be done manually, mainly for backup of photos and video.

Herbie

Don't forget to encrypt the data on your external HDD using bitlocker or something similar. That way if someone steals your external HDD he/she will not have access to all your sensitive and confidential data.

1 hour ago, Charles wrote

It's not necessarily about getting it right. When you get something wrong you inevitably learn why. Then, you acquire new knowledge that stays with you. 

All of us would get each of the examples in this thread wrong at some point in time -> the points in time when we didn't know anything about order precedence of mathematical operations.

Here's to ignorance and the pursuit of knowledge. You can't have one without the other.

C

Well Put!

Another way to think about it is terms of a state machine.

We can get from a state of 1."Not Knowing" to a state of 2."Knowing" (here state of knowing may not be absolute) with multiple iterations.

And the transition from state 1 to 2 can be learning/experience/observation/accidental. 

9 hours ago, magicalclick wrote

@evildictaitor: I dislike those things. People start to say add before subtract because those things. I am like, dude, addition and subtraction has the same order.

When operators have the same precedence we associate, i.e., left to right association in case of + and - operators

If it is windows only development (particularly if your application is using the various microsoft frameworks and APIs) Visual Studio is the way to go and is the best IDE for windows development.

That said, I am using slickedit extensively as I am working on a large c++ project which is cross platform. The editor provides all the features that I would require like cross referencing, integrated debug environment, integration with all the popular version control systems etc.

In the earlier editions there were some stability issues like frequent crashes and hangs etc. But the latest version is very stable and I have not faced many problems with it. Moreover the IDE can be customized and extended as per your requirements.

You will need to have a valid windows XP or upwards OS version already installed as a base to start the upgrade process.

At the very beginning of the upgrade process you can select something like a clean install or custom install option (not sure of the exact wording), where by you can format/re-partition your HDD and do a clean install. 

The installation was flawless, from begin to end!! All my Programs, drivers, connected devices and applications just work!

Took less than an hour to complete.

Congratulations Microsoft on a product well done! 

Anybody else upgrade yet?

I used the cpu-z utility to observe processor frequency changes.