I had a problem with Windows Vista not accepting an IP address, being offered from a Linux DHCP server. Apart from changing the already known registry entry (DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle), I had to add the following line to my dhcpd.conf
When reading the newsgroups I follow in Thunderbird, I always like the most recent messages to be displayed on top. However Thunderbird adds them on the bottom by default. No problem there, however when resorting the column, it unthreads the messages, so you need to group them together again. Why? because a setting in thunderbird tells it to. So, in the Options on the General tab, select the config editor and change the the value of mailnews.thread_pane_column_unthreads to false. Now, when resorting the messages by hitting the column title, it keeps all of them grouped by thread.
In regard to the previous entry on tiOPF and MySQL, a course on OOP programming in Delphi might be useful reviewing. Combine this with tiOPF's TtiDataset, separate the user interfaces from the business logic using OOP and you can start creating killer applications with virtually any database in the backend.
Documentation is so very important when writing software. But some never learn: They write their documentation in Word! You can't make a worse choice. Luckily these documents are easily converted to the DocBook format. Infinite-loop made a java application called upCast to do the job. It converts Word documents to DocBook , by saving them to rtf first. Once you have a DocBook version of your documentation, you can start publishing it in whatever format you want using xslt stylesheets. A nifty little program, called DocMan, can process DocBook into html, xhtml, pdf, chm. In other words, you have one source of your documentation and different output formats.
Yep, it's possible. I always found it a pain to have samba installed on a Linux machine in order to have files shared to window$ boxes. Now it seems those days are over for me. I came accross a neat little program that offers NFS on window$. Just take a look at http://www.pavitrasoft.com/products/crossmeta/. At first glance it seems that it simulates a Linux root partition from which NFS can be started. I'll have to investigate all that a bit further, but it works for now...
