David_Wallis

lmfao

Eagle7

this is quite funny, I've never been called an IT *** before!

Mr Footlong

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MarkO

I have, loads of times. And sometimes, without the 'IT' bit.

IWatkins

Not sure if I qualify as I don't drive an Impreza, but I am an IT ***

David_Wallis

im an IT ****.. and own an impreza..

but Si, Dont worry, looking at some of your questions you'll never be an IT ****...

David

GaryK

Si,

thats not the way to get help is it? And Ive given you plenty of advice!

Puff - still looking for help with your small project, I can give you a call if you like?

Cheers

Gary

super_si

Only reason im replying now is yes gary, you nick and HOS seem ok.

Willing to help me when im stuck!

rest of the peope are just to easy to critise, yes it might be stupid either way, i thought it was a good excerise to some how make a program which interfaced with system propertiess.

By reading the comments, i guess no one else either knows how to do it either.

dsmith

Si, the problem that you seem to be trying too much at once. If we saw just one "project" through to a successful end you might not get this repsonse. And I think you'll find that most of your threads actually get the answer amongst the p*ss taking.

Just take a stp back and look at the number of threads you start on such a variety of topics. Its probably better to concentrate on one thing at a time. At the end of the day you're doing the course ot us. You seem to have enough "formal" tasks to get through with out creating nonsensical ones all by yourself.

Deano
(IT *** with Impreza)

p.s. how come as a student you can afford to keep upgrading your PC just to chase benchmarks. I started out with a 5 year old BBC B at university....

druddle

No i dont think anyone has any idea as we have better things to do with our time, like eat bogeys and watch grass grow.

This has got to go in the Scoobynet Golden Moment thread....

ChrisB

Mainly 'cos you've engaged keyboard without engaging brain.

Between Google and the IBM Storage WWW pages, you could work out the 10 hours thing is indeed total BS. End of problem.

super_si

simple answer im rich

As for sucessful projects, want me to email mail all my Uni work?

Last Visual Basic program i got marked 36/40. Using ADO to update,extact information out of datebase.

Java, 34/40 for 2 projects. 1st using a Linked list directory and storing the information in the linked list with the functionality to lookup,delete by string,number and add facility.
2nd was as the above but using a Hash table to store all the information.

fair do's i ask alot of questions, all i can say is its the best way to learn thinks, ask ask ask ask.

dsmith

Ok but ffs learn to use Google aswell.

So far we'd probably grade you at 5/40 for finding information on your own. And trust me that is a skill you will need.

Deano

MarkO

That kind of attitude is precisely why you've gained the reputation you've got. A few people poke fun at some of the sillier questions you've posted (as well as the sheer number of questions you've asked) and you get all aggressive and abusive.

You're doing the computer course, but yet seem to be unable to a) search the web or b) apply common sense. Anyone with half a brain who knows what a hard disc could do would know that to use it for just 10 hours a day would be a ludicrous restriction and would make it unsaleable.

If you'd asked the question "How can I monitor when my HDD is active", you might have got a more sensible response. Your comment in the initial post stating that you had no idea what language to use, etc just made it worse. Surely you should have picked the most appropriate language (in your opinion) that you know. Otherwise I could suggest you write the app in Eiffel, but it would almost certainly leave you none the wiser.

What I fail to understand is that you don't appear to own an impreza, and you seem to mostly use the computing forum of this BBS. WTF don't you find a programming board (e.g., CodeProject or CodeGuru) and ask there?

The whole reason for the computing forum is that people who own (or, did own, in my case) Imprezas, but wanted to share info about computer-related subjects, could do so without irritating those in the general forums who couldn't care less about computing.

Frankly, IMO you've over-abused this forum, and should p*ss off somewhere else more appropriate and ask the questions in a relevant BBS. However, as you're clearly unable to follow through with your promise of leaving and never posting again, I guess we're stuck with you. So don't be surprised if the abuse continues....

super_si

Depends really!

Im asking people who know the answer's rather then going on a wild goose chase!

IWatkins

Si,

Easiest way would be to write to a log file at startup and then again at shutdown. Take startup date/time from shutdown date/time to give you number of hours the machine has been running for. Easy.

However, if you want the actual amount of time the hard disk has actually been doing something (other than spinning the platters) you will have to hook into the hard disk drivers to record read and write times. Not so easy.

You could of course access the performance monitors for the operating system and see if you can get all the information you want from here. Maybe even set it up to write to a log file.

But anyway, pointless exercise IMHO. If the clock says you have used the disk for over 10 hours, are you immediatly going to shutdwon ? No, don't think so. If the hard disk fails, go and get another one. Easy.

Cheers

Ian

MarkO

Presumably you're expecting some kind of medal for this?

How much of that was done completely by you, and how much was done by people on this BBS (and any others that you might frequent)?

super_si

Nick said IBM would only pay out if i used the hard drive got 333hours a month.

As for the language, if you look about about 3months ago i was writing a program using Visual basic, and i think it was martin but im not 100% or maybe even you.
Started crying about i wasnt using the right tools for the right job, that why my only concern with the language issue.

As for languages,

Pretty good at C,Java,Vb,shell scripting.
Used Assembler,Pascal,Hascal,prolog,c++.


Im sorry but , everyone has to start out somewhere, and yes im here till im banned

super_si

think you'll find i bought a book and learn about recordsets, and Cursors.

I did post which no doubt youve already looked, because the Cursor wasnt working correctly.

Which i did figure you due to the universitys database being corrupt.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I WIN! I WIN!

See, back again

(Soon to be unemployed with an Impreza bod )

dsmith

its *** you noob

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GaryK

See above comment

Sorry m8

dsmith

Presumably with 2 resurections in one thread we could charge a lot of gullible Italians to vist S'Net ?

super_si

Sorry

I just love you guys really

MarkO

No, Nick said that IBM recommended the drive only had 333 hours/month usage - which is a totally different thing. A bit of common sense should've told you that what they were saying is that the drive isn't guaranteed to be infallible if used 24/7, and therefore might not be the best choice for a 100% uptime critical system. But for a student's PC which might not always get turned of, WGAS?

I presume you take regular backups, so even if the drive did fail what's the big deal? A new 80Gb drive costs < £100, so if the drive failed and somehow IBM managed to prove that you'd used it for more than 333hrs/month (how they'd do that, heaven only knows) it wouldn't be the end of the world.

I think the main problem is that you're not applying logical thought before asking the questions. IT (and particularly development, which I presume is your eventual career target?) is all about logical thought and common sense, with an underlying theoretical basis. If you can't work out what IBM means when they say the drive should only be used for 333hrs/month, then what hope have you when faced with a career in the industry?

Pumpkin

not only a ****, but someone who breaks their promises!

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Alright - ***, ****, noob, bod whatever Still got an Impreza though



Found me a job yet?

super_si

To be perfectly honest i dont care what you think anyone, your the only one here whos going on and on and on and on and on.

just get to your point..... your getting boring now.

i reply 2mins later, youve picked something out , moan a bit more. I reply same again.

Do you not have anything more productive to do?

dsmith

If you're talking to MarkO, then apparently the answer is "No, he doesn't have anything better to do". Isn't that why you're striving so hard to also get into a nice cushty IT job

Deano

super_si

Im being productive playing champ man i flipping 18th and getting relegated! needed a challenge and chose sunderland