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Our little community (87 townhouses) spent over $12,000 on the last big storm. This one's dumped about 30% more snow on us and it's considerably heavier. I'm not looking forward to the bill... Neither am I looking forward to the 6-12" forecast for the next storm coming tues/weds. If I can ever dig out, I'm moving south.

My community hired a front-end loader to haul it all away. Well, I think it's over. I'm declaring it over, anyway. Total snow accumulation: 32 inches Anyone who wishes they had some of it is welcome to drive a snowplow / dumptruck over here and take as much as you want!

I know, I have a friend who lives in Ann Arbor who keeps moaning about it, too.

The view out my back balcony. That's 29" of snow on the top of that table, folks. And it's still coming down...

Ditto. Got 6-9" right now. It's supposed to *really* start snowing in an hour or so. Along with sleet/freezing rain...

5:45 pm EST, Fri., Feb. 5, 2010 * ACCUMULATIONS... WIDESPREAD STORM TOTAL ACCUMULATIONS OF 20 TO 30 INCHES... WITH SOME LOCATIONS IN EXCESS OF 30 INCHES. snow snow snow snow snow snow snow........ please, just don't let my internet connection go down...

If I had a nickel for every snow-deprived person who's said that to me, I'd be able to afford a plane ticket to a tropical island right now.

One of my cow-orkers is from Chicago and she's loving it, too. Blech.

I've actually posted a couple LV-related answers to questions so it's time for some fluff. Or a lot of fluff, as the case may be. The current weather forcast has another 1 to 2 FEET of snow heading my way. This is after it snowed wednesday, snowed last weekend, had a freakin' blizzard with 2 FEET of snow in December, snow snow snow snow and more snow. ARGH!! I'M TIRED OF IT!! ahem... sorry... It's not supposed to do that here in the Mid-Atlantic. Winter is supposed to be 40 degrees and raining for 3 months. An occasional 2-4" of snow once or twice in the season. That's it. Once every 5 or 6 years we might have 1 real snow storm, but over and over the whole winter?? Thanks god for Global Warming, or we'd be in real trouble! (that was for you, Paul )

Two possible options: 1) Delete the file before you replace it 2) Break into "Write Characters to File.vi" and write your own version where "General Error Handler.vi" has "no dialog" as the "type of dialog" input.

I'll let you know if the 70% really happens. FWIW, my step-dad is now getting a comparable percentage to the $3.15/$8.99 mentioned in the article.

Thanks for the link! My step-dad has written a book that Amazon sells for the Kindle. He'll be glad to know his royalties will be going up (from about $20/year to $60/year ).

Take a look at this thread: http://lavag.org/topic/10400-queue-memory-management/ Your application is a little different since you are releasing your queue afterwards, but hopefully this will help you figure out what will work for you. Cat

Do a google search on "1easyio.llb". Here are a few results from the NI forum http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&thread.id=168874&view=by_date_ascending&page=1 http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=250&thread.id=42191 http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=140&thread.id=32656

True!

Oh, gawd! It's a really good thing I couldn't access that at work! Urp! I'd return it, if my elementary school hadn't been turned into a bank decades ago.

My problem with the library is a basic belief that once a book is in my house, it's *mine*. So I avoid libraries. I have a copy of The Martian Chronicals I checked out in grade school... The Barnes & Noble Nook has some limited capability to connect to some libraries. As I said in one of my long, numerous posts, the Nook is a Really Good Idea that's not quite there yet. You can get thousands of books for free for the Kindle from Amazon. Thousands more for 99 cents. There are other resources you can connect to for free books, like Project Gutenburg, that I haven't had a chance to explore yet. So many books! So little time...

LOL! That's very true. I think my final statement would have to be -- don't knock it til you try it. Or until you're forced to try it for a few days. You might be surprised. Seriously???

Hmm. While I don't think Real Books will ever go away, just like LPs haven't gone away, eReaders are the future. Kinda like the horseless carriage and that satellite communications magic became the future. The books that I really love won't last 100 years. I read them too often. Besides which, I downloaded The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the other day (for a whopping 99 cents). Do you really think Arthur Conan Doyle would care what format I was reading his words in? Or just be ecstatic that over 100 years later they were still being read? And honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the Kindle becomes obsolete at some point. Part of the reason I was really torn about which variety of eReader to get was because of the whole Beta vs. VHS issue. As crelf has noted, you can tag pages. And take notes that are stored on the Kindle. And, the Kindle automatically picks up at the last page read, even if you're reading multiple books at a time (something I could never handle). And my daughter and I have been fighting over my Kindle since I made the mistake of downloading a couple books I thought she might like to it... Obviously if you *collect* books (as well as read them), that's a different thing. Other than a handful of exceptions, I purchase books just to read them. Often over and over. I currently have over 1000 Real Books, and that's after purging about 300 of them when I moved last year (it was a very painful occasion, but if I'm not going to read it more than once, there's no point in keeping it around. There again -- I'm not a collector). When I was going thru engineering school, I promised myself my big reward after I graduated was that I was going to start purchasing hard back versions of books by my favorite authors. After reading about 10 of them that way, I realized that hard backs are a pain. Too big, too heavy. Paperbacks were easier to read. An eReader is even easier. More convenient. Which is the whole point, for me -- whatever makes it easiest to read. That was exactly my experience. I ran out of books while on vay-cay last summer -- and we were out in the middle of nowhere. I borrowed my mom's Kindle (yup, no book stores for miles, but there was cell service) and was surprised that it wasn't nearly as "sterile" of an experience as I was expecting. I wasn't real keen on the contrast on the screen, tho. It was okay, but not great. But a few months ago, Kindle came out with an international version that also had better screen contrast. The rest is history...

Wow. I'm finding myself in the ironic position of feeling like I have to defend a new technology to a bunch of engineers and scientists. I held off on my purchase until I could get a Nook in my hands. It was okay, but more of a concept thing. The little color interface box didn't seem quite ready for prime time, yet, and the software for the whole thing was definitely in Rev 0 mode. The problem they solve for me is not having to lug multiple books around when I'm travelling. Or pay exorbitant prices at the airport book store. Also, there is a lot to be said for the instant gratification of finishing one book of a trilogy, and being able to purchase the next one without even having to move one's butt off the couch. Saves on gas $$ and puts less wear and tear on my death-trap of a Toyota. Probably high. You need to take 30-50% off the top of the retail price for what the bookstore gets to sell the book. Do you object to industries using robots instead of assembly line workers?? Nope, you only pay for the eReader. No subscription fees. On to the next apologia... I had a days worth of nirvana a couple weeks ago. My daughter and SO were both gone and I did nothing but read all day long. Went thru 4 books over the course of about 15 hours. Only got up off the couch to attend to personal needs and (of course) feed the cats. Someone asked me later how my eyes could stand that. I realized that there had been no eye strain at all for the whole time. Something that is a definite problem for me after 4 or 5 hours of Real Book reading. I hear ya. I'm not saying that it's not a luxury item. However, reading is one of my greatest pleasures, and the Kindle makes it easier. All leisure. I've got the regular Kindle, not the big one that is better for text books.

As an avid reader, I wasn't very keen on the concept of an eReader. After much resistance (and borrowing eReaders from friends), I finally drank the kool-aid... My Kindle is now an essential part of my electronic gear. Especially when I'm travelling a lot. The worst part about the Kindle?? It's having to continually reminding myself that, yes, I am actually paying for all those books, even if I don't have to go to a store or whip out my credit card to buy them.

Thanks for the input, Shaun! I guess you don't fully appreciate my "modern art" avatar. Back to PM before we are severely reprimanded for being off-topic...

And they look so ANGRY, too!

Just for the heck of it... if you're running on a network, try disconnecting it (pull the cable). In the past I've had some issues with LV searching for non-existent links out on the network and slowing down load times.

Trying to interact with Excel is not necessarily the easiest thing to do in LabVIEW. You might want to just use the "Write to Text File" in LV to save your data in a CSV (comma separated value) file, so it would look like: time1, data1 time2, data2 time3, data3 etc... This type of file can still be read by Excel, and you don't have all the problems of trying to format in Excel.