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Advice to a Junior in High School?
by Howard Nease Jan. 18, 2005

Jan. 18, 2005

Hello, everyone. I would appreciate any advice that someone could give me on my future career path. Here is my situation: I am a bright Junior in a very well-respected private high school, taking almost all AP and accelerated classes. I am HIGHLY interested in technology, more specifically the field of Computer Science and software engineering. I have heard a whole lot about the fact that the market for software engineers nowadays is *HORRIBLE*, and that I should double major or perhaps go into a field of study in which I'm not very interested. I would be devastated were I to find the need to leave computer science. I love the subject, and I've wanted to be a computer scientist ever since I was 12 years old. Does anyone have any advice for me and my future? What should I study in college? Will the market for jobs get better? Do I have any hope at all of finding a decent-paying job in compsci? What languages do you suggest that I study (I'm already studying Python)? thank you very much for your help! --shn

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Gate Oxide thickness of CMOS
by hasi＠rediffmail.com Jan. 2, 2005

Jan. 2, 2005

Hi, I would like to know the following details for a CMOS 1.gate oxide thickness 2.The Number of masks 3.Number of transistors per chip Thanks, Hasi!

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Re: Mailing list hosting?
by jjl＠pobox.com Jan. 2, 2005

Jan. 2, 2005

OK, freelists.org *was* promising. The submit button on the signup page leads to a page displaying raw HTML with no content of interest. I guess the site is no longer active. John

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Parsing apache log files
by Fernando Rodr�guez Dec. 21, 2004

Dec. 21, 2004

Is there any module for parsing apache log files? O:-) I guess it could be done with regular expressions, but I'm not very gifted with them... :-) ----------------------- Fernando Rodriguez

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Re: threading priority
by Peter Hansen Dec. 20, 2004

Dec. 20, 2004

Joe Wong wrote: > Hi, Is there any way to increase/decrease a thread priority in Python? Not really, and as Python does not use a "free-threading" model, it wouldn't work as you'd like anyway. Search Google for "Python GIL" or "Global Interpreter Lock" and you should learn enough to see why this is so. -Peter

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Blank ASP pages
by python Dec. 10, 2004

Dec. 10, 2004

My server is spitting out blank .asp pages which use python. If Python is not declared, the asp pages work fine. I just yesterday stepped up to Python 1.52 and the new win32all After the install, the blanks started appearing. All the paths look fine in registry. Any clues? ( Intel dual PIII 550 Xeon, 1G RAM, NT 4.0 SP 6a, IIS 4) ************************************************** Jason S. Nadler Lead Programmer Channel21 Productions, Inc. ... What are you doing right now? **************************************************

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Python installation breaks Outlook Express
by M. Laymon Dec. 8, 2004

Dec. 8, 2004

I just installed Python 2.3.3 under Windows XP professional. After I did, my wife tried to access her email using Outlook Express and got the error messages: Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'incoming.verizon.net', Server: 'outgoing.verizon.net', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F Your server has unexpectedly terminated the connection. Possible causes for this include server problems, network problems, or a long period of inactivity. Account: 'incoming.verizon.net', Server: 'incoming.verizon.net', Protocol: POP3, Port: 110, Secure(SSL): No, Error Number: 0x800CCC0F (No comments about Outlook, please.I have tried to get her to use a different email program, but she likes Outlook.) I checked the settings, then recreated her account in Outlook, but nothing worked. My Mozilla Thunderbird email client worked fine. Since the only thing I had done recently was to install Python. I used system restore to go back to the point before installing Python. After I did, Outlook started working again. Has anyone else seen this behavior ? Thanks. M. Laymon

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any good, free web hosts supporting python cgi scripts?
by chimera4＠fastmail.fm Dec. 6, 2004

Dec. 6, 2004

Hi, I want to try out using python for cgi scripts, but most free hosts do not support python. Any of you know any free web hosts that do? Thanks a lot.

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Running External Programs from Within Python
by bobmoore＠pobox.com Dec. 1, 2004

Dec. 1, 2004

I'm considering making the transfer from Rexx to Python as a scripting language, but there's one thing I can do in Rexx that I can't seem to do in Python: run an external program. Suppose I have a Tkinter GUI and I want to just push a button and run the Windows utility notepad.exe. Or push another button and run one of my old Rexx programs. Basically I want to send a command line to Python and have it run that command line as if I'm sending it to the Windows command-prompt, an MS-DOS window, or clicking on an appropriate program icon. Can I run (call? exec? eval?) an external program from inside a Python program? I have checked the FAQ and documentation. Thanx, Bob=Moore

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ImageWin Dib draw usage?
by Ilariu Raducan Sept. 30, 2004

Sept. 30, 2004

Hi All, Does anybody has experience working with ImageWin.Dib.draw? I tried to use it to draw in a window in the rectangle return from GetClipBox(). I use the same rectangle for source and destination and the result is a bit strange: a different region from the one expected is displayed. I have looked at the PIL source code. The windows API function used there in StretchBlt. Should that be StretchDIBits? Regards, Lale

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