Well, other simpler options are:

  if (input in ['Y', 'y']) then
    WriteLn('blah blah')
  else if (input in ['N', 'n']) then
    WriteLn('blah')
  else
    WriteLn('Input invalid');

And:

  if (LowerCase(input) = 'y') then
    WriteLn('blah blah')
  else if (LowerCase(input) = 'n') then
    WriteLn('blah')
  else
    WriteLn('Input invalid');

I owned this PC and I loved it! It was a gift from my father. I played to Monkey Island and other adventures in it :)

Nice to read this. I also created a fpc wrapper for cfitsio, but never published it as I thought it would have a limited interest.

Thanks for the mention! (I'm the founder of Blogalia :)

IMHO, greaterskies.com is interesting as a project, but:

- I don't think anyone will pay for simple visual star charts: there are free sites, free desktop programs and free tablet/mobile apps out there.

- If not for visual, but deep sky: there is 3Atlas from José R. Torres (9, 11 and 13 mag sky atlas): http://www.uv.es/jrtorres/tools.html Available for free in PDF.

- The marketing problem: find your tribe! There are some forums, like cloudynights.com (or http://www.asociacionhubble.org/portal/index.php/foro in Spanish), but this are mostly for dedicated observers.

My 2 cents.

The first battle SourceForge lost was against Google Code hosting. Google offered a nicer interface and had some features SourceForge hasn't, the most important one, subversion.

SourceForge, like other sites managed by VA Linux/SF/Geeknet, has a terrible record of user friendliness. How many Slashcode-based sites are still running?

When I updated the system to Snow Leopard.

Given the Air's recovery thumbdrive, I think Apple can start sell the next OS X version in thumbdrive form =).

1st thing I did when I receive my Snow Leopard DVD is to RIP it to my firewire HDD.

"While Qt held that promise, it was a long way from the maturity (10+ years) that .NET provides."

What? Qt 3.0 is even older than .NET.

Funny.

I'm frequently saying that .NET 1.1 (and java) is just VCL(Delphi) with virtual machine.

My friend corrects me: In his opinion delegates came from QT.

And .NET 1.0 came out in 2002, which isn't even 10 years ago yet.

Felipe Ortega wrote a Ph.D. thesis devoted to this topic. "Wikipedia: A Quantiative Analysis", available at http://libresoft.es/Members/jfelipe/phd-thesis His conclusions were featured on a Washington Post article, "Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages", discussed here http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10403467-93.html and here http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/160236/Contributors-...

Second opinion (with stats) by Wikimedia Foundation Data Analyst Erik Zachte:

http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/new-editors-are-joining-e... (addendum: http://infodisiac.com/blog/2009/12/why-i-changed-the-title-o...)

- 6,263,507: Browser for use in navigating a body of information, with particular application to browsing information represented by audiovisual data http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,034,652: Attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,788,314: Attention manager for occupying the peripheral attention of a person in the vicinity of a display device http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

- 6,757,682: Alerting users to items of current interest http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

Just going by titles it sounds like the NYTimes related article popup at the bottom of an article would be covered by these even more than some of the alleged companies.