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I designed an algorithm using a flow chart that uses two semaphores that lock and release varying numbers of resources, depending on the context. Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find a semaphore implementation that allows this in C, C++ or Fortran. My algorithm will eventually be written in Fortran, but I am much more familiar with C/C++, so I would prefer to do a proof of concept in either C or C++ I did some google searches and I found that Java supports this. Unfortunately that does not help me much as I do not have access to Java's libraries from C, C++ and/or Fortran. Does anyone know of any semaphore implementations in C, C++ or Fortran that allow threads to lock and release varying numbers of resources? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

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i saw on american idol this week (haha) that old school - means - old stuff that is ok to like.. so .. it is ok to like.. coke, cause it's old school.* or to like andrew lloyd webber - because it is old school so if anything is old school*it is Windows? how many years... 20? 30? my question - is enough "cred" ..enough "props" being paid to old school Windows (and maybe office) the Volks Beetle was old school - and updated - but it is the same design has Windows lost it's old school cool - by removing it?* not improving it / offereing it? is the new stuff (vista / ribbon) nice - but some - old schoolers dont like it? when i see teal and gray i think of windows - like comfort food.* or green and blue xp... conotates - happy. now we have black (vista) ...ok.* is it going to just continue changing in every release? imho - id make those*3 a "stack" to build on youve got the blue luna for business, black vista for media, new and improved classic for win95+... so you take your past - and make it categories - to expand apon not just willy nilly change windows colours with no goal? or should windows just change its UI / colurs per user testing (or whatever they do now)? edit: new ones could be added - but they would then also need to be supported - so when todays 18yr olds are 43 - they get comfort food too ? i guess im saying - a UI forecast - framework.. something thats not random vs ..random edit - plus there is alot of stuff that seems third or fourth tier design (within huge agency i mean) who is putting the thought into brand and legacy and ..etc.. the vista people were all fired.. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> California wages second-highest in nation, per-capita income also ... San Jose Mercury News, USA - 24 minutes ago Hope for Vista haters: Fans of the Windows XP operating system got a bit of good news today from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who said the company may ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

this post is a follow-up of all I want for dinner is a multifunction printer and honey, I shrunk the printer after days of web searches, after several gallons of ink thrown against epson, canon and hp support employees I think I've found it. flatbed scanner with ADF (can load up to 50 sheets of paper all by itself) and both twain and WIA drivers 35ppm black print speed 34ppm color print speed duplex printing accessory included memory card reader ethernet, usb2, pictbridge connections replaceable printer heads fast color/bw fax with distinctive ring detection that can store up to 125 pages in memory big officejet cartridges that can print up to 850 pages (10$ each) and supports xl cartridges (20$ each) that can print up to 2500 pages in bw and 1600 in color. the producer claims that the cost per page is 50% less than a laser printer. can print photos directly from your camera and memory cards and fix them too its price is 300$ but you can find it for 150-200$ after rebates it's the..... http://hpshopping.speedera.net/www.shopping.hp.com/shopping/images/products/cb821a_300.jpg fantastic..... HP officejet L7590! it was reviewed by trusted reviews and the review seems quite positive all we need now is somebody to buy that printer and tell us if it's good or not*:P who wants to sacrifice for the sake of printing science?:s More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Biz break: California wages second-highest in nation, per-capita ... San Jose Mercury News, USA - 49 minutes ago Hope for Vista haters: Fans of the Windows XP operating system got a bit of good news today from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who said the company may ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Biz break: California wages second-highest in nation, per-capita ... San Jose Mercury News, USA - 4 minutes ago Hope for Vista haters: Fans of the Windows XP operating system got a bit of good news today from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who said the company may ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Microsoft's Revenue, 4Q Outlook Disappoint the Street http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9928175-56.html?tag=nefd.top "Weakness in the Windows unit and the Microsoft Business Division, which includes Office, ...." edit:* http://msftextrememakeover.blogspot.com/ although mac sales are up 50%... ""Microsoft is not out there marketing Vista at all, and you got Apple constantly popping up and pointing to problems with Vista. So people go into stores and trying [Macs] and end up liking them," he said. " http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3742731/The+Economy+May+be+Rotten+But+Apple+Isnt.htm oh well... there's always Live Mess ...* err i mean.. More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Dell to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 InfoWorld, CA - 1 hour ago The computers available with the XP option will include the Windows Vista installation DVD in the box so users can later install Vista over XP under the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://research.microsoft.com/searchtogether/ Fancy search tricks from those brainiacs in research :) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Hi All, Does anyone know of a component or web service for speech to text--ideally suitable for 8bit audio like voice mails. Jott would provide a great workaround--but no evidence that it's suitable for this purpose. Thanks, Rhett More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

OK, next step.* I've now got a strongly typed DataContext which I've associated with a stored procedure in my SQL Server 2005 database.* This SP does allow for nulls to be passed in for various parameters; in fact passing in nulls for some of the parameters will result in more data being returned, which is exactly what I want.* However, I don't know how to pass in nulls for the parameters of the method that is my SP associated with the LINQ to SQL result class.* I'll do something like the following to declare variables to pass to the method of the result class: string firstName, lastName, socialSecurityNo; DateTime? dateOfBirth; firstName = "Fred"; lastName = "Flintstone"; MyStronglyTypedDataContext dc = new MyStronglyTypedDataContext(); System.Data.LINQ.ISingleResult result = dc.spCheckData(firstName, lastName, socialSecurityNo, dateOfBirth); As you can see, I've left the socialSecurityNo and dateOfBirth values alone, which will mean that socialSecurityNo will likely equal string.Empty and dateOfBirth will be null.* These are allowed for in the SP, but running this results in nothing being returned.* I know this is not true, because if I run the same query in SSMS I get results.* So, how do I assign values to those variables so that when the call to spCheckData() occurs it will pass in null values to the SP? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ KVAL <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> PCs and Parenting: Tips for Making Them Perfect Together KRIS-TV, TX - Apr 21, 2008 Head to your local library and use one of its PCs to log onto sites such as Windows Vista Team Blog (http://windowsvistablog.com), where you'll learn about ... Why Microsoft Office Going Free Would Be Good For Business (And Users) CIO all 92 news articles More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Switch background color: CNET Blogs, CA - 18 hours ago To use the kit, you need Windows Vista Premium or Ultimate. (Rumor has it there's a hack that'll allow it to work with the XP version of Media Center; ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Dell to offer Windows XP beyond June 30 InfoWorld, CA - 10 minutes ago The computers available with the XP option will include the Windows Vista installation DVD in the box so users can later install Vista over XP under the ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://gutenberg.net.au/contact.html That generated image thing(forget what it's called)...never seen it on a contact form. Usually it's on a signup form or something, to stop bots. Overkill? More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> New Ultimate Extras prove distinctly underwhelming PC Pro, UK - Apr 23, 2008 Vista team blog, which at least showed an admirable smattering of self-deprecation by introducing the Extras with the line: "If you're running Windows Vista ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Automatic distribution of Vista SP1 begins TG Daily - 6 hours ago By Humphrey Cheung Redmond (WA) – Automatic updates of Microsoft’s Vista Service Pack 1 has begun. According to the Windows Vista Team Blog, the downloads ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> 'We could wake up smarter' - Ballmer hints at Win XP reprieve Register, UK - 2 hours ago “We'll be distributing the service pack slowly so that we can help Windows users have a good experience,” the firm said on its Vista blog. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Back at MIX, the Live Platform Services team announced a new standard APP-based protocol for accessing your Live data, and at Web 2.0 the Live Mesh team has announced plans to extend that API with synchronization-ready access to data, devices, application and activity feeds.* Ori Amiga shows*a number of demos showing the native Mesh feeds, WPF applications using Mesh, a Silverlight client that supports working on and offline, a custom Facebook application that syncs Facebook photos with Live Mesh, a Mac client that sends photos to Live Mesh and even LINQ queries over Mesh objects. - Low res version - MP4 version For more Live Mesh coverage: - Watch the demo of the Live Mesh application on Channel 10* - Watch an interview with Abolade Gbadegesin on Live Mesh Architecture - Meet the Live Mesh team - Read the transcript and grab the audio from Jon Udell's perspective series. Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Charles talks to Software Developer Kyle Johns and Architect Marc Mercuri about Microsoft’s new simulated robotics competition, RoboChamps.* A number of subjects were discussed from the technologies used in the competition (and it’s supporting website, RoboChamps.com), how Enterprises are finding the underlying technologies useful for more than just robots, and a first look at one of the 3-D ‘worlds’ participants will be using. - Low res version - MP4 version For more information on RoboChamps, visit: - RoboChamps Website - Channel 10 Overview of RoboChamps - Robotics Homepage - Robotics: A New Approach Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) Download the Video Watch the Video More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Tips and Tricks on Rolling Out Windows Server 2008 NetworkWorld.com, MA - Apr 22, 2008 Windows Server 2008 is easily the broadest and deepest product I've ever seen from Microsoft, and my recent blog posts have just been designed to flag some ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

http://ms-os.com/ The Associated Press <img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Microsoft not ruling out Windows XP extension The Associated Press - 45 minutes ago ... blog posts, cartoons and petitions recently. They trumpet its superiority to Vista, whose consumer launch in January was greeted with lukewarm reviews. ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

<img alt="" height="1" width="1"> Vista Ultimate users left 'dissapointed' PC Advisor, UK - 25 minutes ago Windows Vista Ultimate users have been left sorely disappointed by the latest round of free 'Ultimate Extras'. When Vista Ultimate launched last year, ... More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds

Die TeamConf 2008 ist eine Konferenz rund um das Thema Application Lifecycle Management und Visual Studio Team System. Ich war dort als Teilnehmer und habe während der Konferenz einige Teilnehmer und Sprecher zu Visual Studio Team System 2008 befragt. Unter anderem habe ich Christian Binder, Microsoft Deutschland Damir Dobric, Daenet GmbH Thomas Schissler, Artiso AGans Mikro bekommen. Viel Spaß beim reinhören, Dariusz Listen to the podcast(MP3) Listen to the podcast(WMA) More... View All Our Microsoft Related Feeds