Jonathan

I'm planing to stay in Beijing for six months with my wife and one year old son. Does anyone have any recommendations for housing? Can you find apartments for rent? If so, how much do they cost (we're trying to stay on the cheap). We'd like a 1 bedroom with our own bathroom if possible. Also, we'd like to stay near Haidian (University District). Thanks for any help you can provide. We're trying to plan a loose budget.

I'm traveling to china for tourist reasons for 6 months. I think the longest tourist visa you can get is a 3 month visa, but it allows for multiple re-entries for up to 1 year.

Has anyone had any experience with this? Is it possible to stay for 90 days, leave the country for a day or two, and then come back for another 90 days? Also, which country do you recommend traveling to (from Beijing).

My wife has had trouble breastfeeding. A friend recommended to her that she try a breast shield, and it seems to be working. Our baby latches on now without problems.

My only concern is that the breast shield packaging states that breast shields are only to be used with the supervision of a lactation consultant. Everything seems to be going fine (well, better the fine, our baby actually likes to be breastfed now). Is there anything we need to know about a breast shield? Any information will be greatly appreciated.

What is user nobody used for? I read in my Linux book that NFS sometimes uses nobody, but I didn't understand for what. Also, I saw httpd was running as nobody. Can someone explain?

Thanks!

On a Linux/UNIX system, what are users daemon, sys, and bin for? I looked in /etc/passwd and found that they can't log in (no shell), but they own some files, and no process is running as them.

Can anyone help me out?

Does anyone know the approximate cost to attend OSCON 2007? I couldn't find the information on their web site.

http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2007/

I'm running Windows XP Pro 64, and I want to find a good, free Java IDE that will run on my system. I tried Eclipse, but it won't run on WinXP 64 (I get an error message stating it can't open a 32 bit dll on a 64 bit system). I tried Netbeans, and ran into the same problem. Is there an IDE that will work for me? I don't know if it matters, but I'm using the 64 bit version of Sun's jdk 1.6.0

Hello,

I've been using AVG-Free as my anti-virus, and I liked it alot. However I just upgraded to WinXP Pro 64, and AVG-Free won't install on the 64 bit versions of Windows.

Is there another good free anti-virus out there that will work on WinXp Pro 64?

Thanks,

Jonathan

I watch a lot of video's using windows media player using a second monitor, while surfing the web or doing other things on my primary monitor.

I noticed that Media Player skips a lot while doing something that's processor intensive, so to prevent this I change the processes priority to real time (under ctrl-alt-del).

I don't want to have to change the processes priority every time I launch it, is there any what to change it's default priority to real-time?

Thanks.

I have a website, and I want to insert the HTML from another file into the web page each time the page loads.

for example, if I had a file called index.html, and another file called header.html, how can I have index.html insert the code from header.html each time the page is loaded?

I tried looking for a javascript function that can read and insert a file off the server, but I couldn't find anything.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

I was wondering if anyone knew any good web sites to find the lates video codecs, such as DivX and XviD.

Right now I use http://www.codecguide.com/ , is there a better one? Which web site do you use?

I'm trying to sort an array of objects, can someone tell me what changes I need to make to make this code work? Thank-you.

Module SortTest

Sub Main()

Dim sTest As CSortTestObject() = New CSortTestObject(4) {}

Dim i As Integer

For i = 0 To 4

sTest(i) = New CSortTestObject(i)

Next

Array.Sort(sTest) 'This line as problems

End Sub

End Module

Public Class CSortTestObject

Dim mValue As Integer

Public Property Value() As Integer

Get

Return mValue

End Get

Set(ByVal newValue As Integer)

mValue = newValue

End Set

End Property

Public Sub New(ByVal newValue As Integer)

Value = newValue

End Sub

End Class

I'm building a new PC to run Linux (Fedora) on. I think I'm going to buy a Athlon 64 processor and use an older/budget ATI or NVidia graphic card.

My concern is that, like on a Windows PC, I'll have to find 64 bit drivers to make my hardware work. Is this a problem on Linux, or does Linux not have the same 64 bit driver problems that windows has?

I'm reading about VB .NET. In the chapter I just finished, it talked about Public, Private, Protected and Friend. I understood the first 3, but I had trouble understanding what friend does. Can anyone explain friend to me?