{"id":1507,"date":"2006-02-07T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-06T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1507\/"},"modified":"2014-10-10T12:27:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T01:27:50","slug":"1507","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1507","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to the conclusion that eBay is fickle. I just sold a couple of items on there&#8230; One item I got about three times what I expected, and the other I got about half. Actually the second item was a solar cell. This was a 10W version, and I sold a 5W version for about 30% more a few weeks back. Still, it is good to get these out of the house. I have all sorts of old bits and pieces from old consulting jobs &#8211; things that I will never need and that have been written off totallty. <\/p>\n<p>I have been reading up on the X-Box and found a fairly good <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xbox-scene.com\/index.php?s=1eada62a2f5723bd56ce6547ead8b2dc&amp;showtopic=89346\">FAQ<\/a> on many of the things that people need to know about getting the most out of their X-Box. I am looking forward to getting mine, and I might even get a game to play on it&#8230; After all, I have heard a rumour that you can actually play games on them&#8230; I will have to see if that is actually true.<\/p>\n<p>Overnight I got back the code that I needed in order to save a structure to file on the HDD in VB.NET. The load and save routines are below. The one thing I needed to do was convert my existing &#8216;Collections&#8217; into &#8216;ArrayLists&#8217;. Fairly simple. <\/p>\n<p>fs = File.OpenRead(fil)<br \/>Dim bf As New BinaryFormatter<br \/>a = CType(bf.Deserialize(fs), AStructure)<\/p>\n<p>fs = File.Open(fil, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write)<br \/>Dim bf As New BinaryFormatter<br \/>bf.Serialize(fs, a)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have come to the conclusion that eBay is fickle. I just sold a couple of items on there&#8230; One item I got about three times what I expected, and the other I got about half. Actually the second item &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/1507\">  Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5cfmK-1507","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radio-active.net.au\/web3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}