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A virus is a self-replicating program that replicates without permission from the system it is infecting. In Java this is rather hard to do because of the security restrictions Java operates under. And indeed creating a virus is illegal and goes against anything a professional considers social behaviour. We're not …

The compiler will tell you what line to look for the error. Look there and apply your knowledge of what a character literal is and you'll see where you've tried to use something as a character literal that isn't.

Sounds indeed like the operating system is rejecting request to allocate the 2.5GB of RAM to the JVM initially. You should probably ask in a specialised Linux forum instead.

that's insane, but that's the price for innercity living in a metropolis... Apartments in Amsterdam (single floor, maybe 60-70 square meters) can do as much as half a million Euro when sold, 3-4000 a month to rent. I guess similar sized apartments in Manhattan cost something similar.

Sorry to blow your bubble but Firefox has some rather serious problems with especially CSS2 but also the ECMAScript (which is the official standard for Javascript) support is far from perfect. IE6 has far more complete support for the standards in fact.

Use a LinkedHashSet instead. It can be iterated over in insertion order, but is of course heavier as it needs to keep track of the insertion order (which it does by backing the Set with a List or array).

in fact, all compilers that I know of are free. It's the editors you can elect commercial offerings for (which often offer production enhancing features not found in the free ones). But when learning the language, don't use a full blown IDE. Those prevent you from learning important concepts like …

Recursion causes StackOverflow, not often OutOfMemory :) You're probably trying to read in some very large file or otherwise reserving a lot of memory. Figure out where you are doing that and try to find a way around it.

For applets a single VM will typically run all of them for a single INSTANCE of the browser executable (though one could theoretically create a browser that instantiates a new JVM for each applet instance such is AFAIK never done in practice). The applets will exist in the JVM as …

do your own homework. There's tons of such things out there for you to steal and turn in as your own.

You almost certainly do not have write permission to the remote location. And if you do have write permission there's an extremely serious security hole in your server which allows any cracker to come in and take over at any time.

yup, that's the term I think. In Dutch there's a special word for it, but I don't think there is in English.

Sure. Everything that's been written can be written again if you know how to :) What you want would require native code, therefore most likely C(++) and/or ASM (Delphi can almost certainly do it to).

Access (or any desktop database) is a poor choice for any database of that size, you really need to look at a full RDBMS. Take a look at Firebird, MS SQL Server, Oracle, products like that.

No, you can not delete a thread. Let others learn something from it if they can (and go to the trouble to search for an answer before asking a question), that's what a public forum is for.

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Creators of 3D modelling software seem to be extremely excentric. I've seen (and to a degree used) several packages and each works completely different from all the others even in the core concepts used. ACAD indeed isn't bad (though I've only limited experience with it and that with old DOS …

By definition a parent can't know what it's children are. There is no way to determine all children of a class that may exist. You can look through all existent classes you know about and determine their superclasses all the way up to the root of the class hierarchy and …

This is just another "I need to think up a subject for my final year project but I'm too stupid to do my own thinking after X years of having others do all my homework for me" topic...

never expect pirated content to be fully compatible with official content. And that includes "backup copies" which by definition are created using the same systems as pirated games (cracks, etc.).

Or just read a good book... We're not here to write your research papers for you, nor to find things for you to plagairise.

then use that. It's incredibly rude to use shorthand like that in civilised discussion, especially if you're then asking people to spend a lot of time helping you out. It shows you're uninterested in spending even the time to ask your question, yet expect others to spend their time for …

Learn the language and you won't need any flashy tools. And you've obviously not bothered to look at the official tutorials, or you're too dumb to understand them. You also seem too cheap to want to spend money on learning something so I'll not recommend you any books as you'd …

Microsoft is doing a lot right. They've been instrumental in driving one of the most prolific spammers on the net into bankruptcy already, as well as seriously harming several others. They're also deeply involved in the fight against virus authors. Microsoft in 2003 (I think it was) designed and built …

good luck. Write up a design and get working.

Mine's 46x47x49 centimeters. If you ask how big it is, that's the answer... ;) The CRT diagonal is 19" which is probably what you were really interested in. I'd love to have multiple highspeed flatscreens but they're just too expensive still if you want really good ones (and I'm done …

Python is good for learning. Java has a lot more resources available for it though, and is used more in the real world (making your new skills more marketable at least in theory).

Read a book, pay attention during lectures, and experiment.

I guess it's a security error and that the OP doesn't understand about applet security restrictions, an issue which is quite simple to understand really but does require reading the documentation and maybe doing a bit of research (all the information if publicly and easily available so I won't copy …

sourceforge is your friend.

There exists no perfect hashing algorithm. Libraries full of books exist about the problem of creating optimal hashing algorithms for all kinds of solutions, good luck reading all that in a few months, retaining that knowledge, and finding in it a general ground which would give you a common best …

Depends on what you call a project... Dug out a cavern under some fallen trees in lue of a treehous around 1976, that would probably classify :) Professionally, hard to tell. I've spent so much time in consultancy and maintenance programming there are hardly any projects I completed on my …

No, you'll have to compile and link on Windows. A .so is the Linux equivalent of a DLL and is platform specific (just as are DLLs to Windows and OS/2 (OS/2 has DLLs though not compatible with Windows DLLs)). That's the problem using platform dependent libraries, they have to exist …

Probably failed to activate the AGP slot after deactivating the onboard chipset.

Beans? Why the demand to use beans? Any specific things you should do using the bean? Do you even know what a bean is? You can't copy a file to another machine without some sort of access to that machine. That means either an open ftp or http connection that …

They're in fact really easy to make... Just read the instructions which are clear, all you need is a single line of text in your manifest file, how hard can that be? If you're too dumb or lazy to create that, there's no hope for you in the industry and …

Maybe if you were to show some maturity in your wording of your topic and announcement I might be tempted.

There is no one source for C/C++ libraries, and most available are custom APIs and commercial products. There's therefore no one place to find information about all of them. boost.org is a nice effort but hardly complete (they too have information only or mainly about their own product).

Asking someone to do a self-imposed assignment for you is even more stupid than asking him to do your homework for you. Apparently you're interested enough in the subject to want to start learning it but too lazy to put any effort into it.

get another school, one that uses something that's remotely modern.

I know Google runs (at least in part) on Python and Linux servers, but the software itself is most definitely NOT public. Yahoo! almost certainly is similar. Of course pretty much three quarter of the web runs on Apache or Apache related products :)

You forget the mandatory book for all serious C++ programmers, Stroustrup's classic "The C++ Programming Language". As long as that book is too complicated for you don't even think about writing games, especially 3D games with AI, physics engines, etc. etc. (which you shouldn't start out with anyway, start with …

== in fact has only one meaning in Java. It compares the actual values of the left and right operands no matter what they are. The equals method also has only one meaning. It compares the content of the class instance it is executed on with the content of the …

Worse than pointless. Active support for your nation's enemies is treason. Treason in times of war is typically dealt with rather quickly and decisively. The fact that the US isn't doing that at this time shows they've become weak and are an easy target (at least that's how the terrorists …

Complicated? If you think a basic loop is complicated you'd better give up now and look for employment as a bellboy in a hotel without an elevator.

Read up about MVC architectures, JSTL, Servlet controllers, and things like that. O'Reilly's JSP book is a good start (get the latest 3rd edition). Don't get suckered into using Struts. It's an overly complex monstrosity, to which there are far better alternatives (the main reason it is still prominent is …

All that information is clearly and openly available from Sun's Java website at [url]http://java.sun.com[/url] so I wonder why someone had to go and present it all to you? If you're confused by the acronymophobia in Java, C is a disaster with a thousand mutually incompatible libraries to do things for …

And why would you do that? Proxy servers are completely useless for most purposes, especially this. If you think it's for "security", think again. Noone can steal your personality and bank account based on an ip address, but the person running the proxy server can do just that because you're …

By default the compiler includes debug information. You can add compiler flags to turn that off. This is the reverse of how many C/C++ compilers work.

Now if you'd taken the time to write that program instead of getting someone else to write it for you you'd have figured all that (and more) out yourself...