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Well at least I've ruined two people's days.

Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:30 (twenty years ago)

i can get it to work on a single cell but it won't let me do a range. when i use the format painter to copy the formatting it applys the formatting of the original range. so wile for cell C3 i have for condition one cell value is not between =$D$3-3 and +D$3+3 (then i have it set to format it with a bright green cell fill) then condition 2 cell value is not between =$E$3-3 and =$e$3+3 it will work in c3. but when i use the format painter to apply the formatting to cells c3:c9 it still uses D3 and E3 in the formatting.

fuck this i need a goddamn drink. 52 minutes til quitting time, i can be in a bar in 90 minutes.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:38 (twenty years ago)

Oh don't waste any more time with it! Thanks for your help, and please do go have a drink!!

Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:41 (twenty years ago)

when/if you figure it out post it here!

wait a minute, why don't i just go into that damn scorecard and see how i did it?

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:47 (twenty years ago)

actually the scorecard isn't much help as i'm comparing facility scores to a set criteria. that's why i was able to use the format painter last time.

good luck.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I'm giving up. Cheers!

Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 16 June 2006 19:54 (twenty years ago)

two weeks pass...
You still looking to do this? I can probably help.....

I've also made some Excel animation which you might be interested in.

ZOT! (davidcorp), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
http://static.flickr.com/78/194563147_3530b8388d.jpg?v=0

james madison duff (duff), Friday, 21 July 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

Don't use PowerMax -- those assholes sold me a refurb disguised as a new computer. I had to wipe the HD and reinstall the OS because they hadn't done it yet and they didn't know what "Valued Customer"'s password was.

Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

wow, that's pretty bad!

Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

And I have 8 months of warranty left instead of a year because it starts when it was ORIGINALLY sold.

Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

the fuck is a usb music controller doing in startupitems?

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Can anybody advise me on the fake security alerts that have appeared in my winXP system tray? Adaware and Search&Destroy have failed to acknowledge them and googling brings up some false advise pointing to dodgy malware.

Anyone?

Slumpman (Slump Man), Friday, 21 July 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Are they Spyfalcon?

M. V. (M.V.), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

They're not the ones that say you may be using a non-legitimate copy of Windows, are they?

Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 21 July 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Just got an Acer Aspire 5014WLMi laptop. Having a problem with audio playback through the dvd drive. Audio's fine from hard drive i.e mp3's, wmv, games etc but play an audio cd or movie dvd it's distorted and 'clicks' (though picture is fine in dvd). Have upated drivers for the sound card (Realtek AC97) and codecs for windows media player to no avail. The drive is a TSSTcorp TS-L532A DVDRW, couldn't find drivers for this.

Don't know if it's a hardware or software problem, girl I bought it from said she think it started after she installed nero media and windvd, which i've uninstalled. Pity she didn't mention it in her lising, grrr.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

um, might have seen something similar on linux box at home - sound card was ok playing back 44.1khz samples (ie cds and mp3s) but didn't like 48khz samples (dvds). maybe try to find some 48khz samples from somewhere (rip the audio from a dvd?) and see if it's that. see if there's a way of setting sample rate of card? dunno.

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:42 (nineteen years ago)

VLC can force the sample rate to an arbitary value.

steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

(Well, it up/downsamples, but you know what I mean)

steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've noticed lately that my PC has problems playing audio from the hard disk when the DVD drive is being accessed - it skips terribly.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:49 (nineteen years ago)

Are they on the same IDE channel by any chance?

steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Wednesday, 26 July 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

ok, quick work question.

web front ends to oracle? anybody know a good one? do they even exist? boss wants something that'll generate forms from the table definitions to allow people to browse (across tables, picking up details based on ids etc) AND insert data. i've already used the phrase 'moon on a stick' in my response but said i'd look for one. Access forms (that we'd have to write ourselves) is the only thing i can come up with and that's pushing the definition of what he wants. cheers.

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Friday, 28 July 2006 11:08 (nineteen years ago)

is there any way to recover emptied trash in OSX? unlike the PC world, there seem to be a dearth of "undelete" type programs for macs.

-- renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vfoz...), June 12th, 2006 3:27 AM. (vahid) (link)

way late on this one, but we successfully used this a few days ago:

http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php

toby (tsg20), Friday, 28 July 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Andy,

I dunno much about it myself, but Oracle HTML DB exists, though it's more of a programming tool, if you know what I mean. Some of the people at my work use it, though I discourage it. I wouldn't use it; I'd use ASP.NET or JSF; something a bit more mainstream, you know. It's possible though it has some wizards for producing simple stuff like you're looking for.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/application_express/index.html

Looks like it's had a rebrand. Oh joy.

KeefW (kmw), Friday, 28 July 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever my Win XP laptop open dialogue box opens up (like in Winamp or when I'm uploading something through Firefox), all the files are sorted by SIZE. I want them to be sorted by filename, but I've tried restoring defaults and applying a certain style to all folders -- neither of which worked. Help?

c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 31 July 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

Are they on the same IDE channel by any chance?

No - the DVD drive is IDE, the hard disk SATA, on different controllers. This is why I'm puzzled.

Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 31 July 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

ha. ok keith. yes, i had seen apex, sat through the little demo thing they have there. looks impressive but it appears to be for excel spreadsheets to web pages rather than databases (doesn't seem to be any support for normalised tables for instance. ours is actually 140+ tables with squillions of foreign keys etc. not all of it needs to be available though, just the core). cheers.

Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Monday, 31 July 2006 08:12 (nineteen years ago)

How do I set up a wireless network for file sharing across my two wireless pc's? I've got a broadband wireless router (Netgear DG834G), both pc's can access the internet but I'm lost as to how I get them to 'talk' to each other. Anyone care to help a simpleton in this respect?

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Make sure they are in the same IP range (on a PC, open the command prompt found in the Accessories and type ipconfigreturn). The first three sets of IP numbers will probably match and the fourth set should differ.

Open Explorer and right-click on the drive or folder you want to share. Click Sharing and Security (or it may just say Sharing). Click the New Share button near the bottom of the form. Give it a share name (like C, or C_Drive to be fancy). Click the Permissions button and give Everyone Full Control. Okay everything.

From the other computer, search for Computer or People from Explorer. Use the name of the computer you set the share on. It should show up in the search results and when you click on it, you should see the new share. Double-click on it. If a Username and Password form pops up, log in with the name and password of a user set up on the shared computer. It should let you in to the drive/folder.

Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

You also need to check if File and Print Sharing is installed on the network connection. Go to the desktop, right-click on My Network places and click Properties. If File and Printer Sharing isn't in the list on the General tab, install it.

Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

OK, done steps one and two, the IP addresses are in the same range, as you suggested. When I try to find the first (desktop) computer from the second (laptop) it can only find itself even when leaving the search box blank.

Second prob, have right clicked on My Network Places and clicked properties, but I can't see a general tab. I see the Wireless Network Connection icon and underneaths two wizards 'New connection' and 'network setup'.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Whenever my Win XP laptop open dialogue box opens up (like in Winamp or when I'm uploading something through Firefox), all the files are sorted by SIZE. I want them to be sorted by filename, but I've tried restoring defaults and applying a certain style to all folders -- neither of which worked. Help?

Sort by filename, View->Folder Options->Apply to All Folders

(or something like that)

steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I just reread and noticed you already done this! Apologies. In this case, maybe the registry is broken?

steal compass, drive north, disappear (tissp), Monday, 31 July 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, got it sussed, though I'm not sure how. Put the IP addresses into my firewall and it worked ok. Cheers bud.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, File/Printer sharing stuff is on the properties of the connection, after you open the properties of the My Network stuff. Glad it's sorted, either way.

Jaq (Jaq), Monday, 31 July 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to do a form in ColdFusion to get people to register for an event and then be taken to PayPal to pay for it. They fill out their name and address details, then click a button to add it to their paypal cart. They then continue shopping, by which I mean they return to the previous window.

Now, when they click the link to add to the cart, it first checks the form for validation errors, then assuming they're all done and dusted, then it whips you off to Paypal. I want to do two other things at this point though.

Firstly, I want to send an email to them at the same time as they add to the basket, so they have a provisional registration. The paypal button action takes you to paypal, not a page where I can generate a message using CFMail. So, how can I get the button action to do this?

Secondly, some people will pay for more than one person, so having added their details and themselves to the cart, when they return to that page to enter more people. It'd be good if I could find a way to process the adding to the cart through to paypal, send and email, then clear the form ready for the next entry.

Any help appreciated!

Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 3 August 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...
Ok, I am using Windows XP at work. I had a server mapped to one of my drives which disconnects when I log out so I had to remap it in Internet Explorer each time I logged in. It is the crucial one wit most of my work on it. Even if the "recoonect at logon" box is checked it still doesn't reconnect, at least not *most* of the time.

I got fed up with this so I wrote a batch file to run at start-up which automatically maps the server to drive y: using the net use command. Trouble is, every so often the drive does stay connected and so I get system error 85 which says that the batch file is trying to map to a drive already in use.

Can you put an if/then type statement (or something equivalent) in a batch file that says that if (server) is not connected to drive y: then map it, otherwise do nothing?

MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 19 August 2006 07:24 (nineteen years ago)

If you use the /persistent:no switch on net use, then it won't reconnect at logon. Ensure that you've got the drive disconnected via Explorer.

Alernatively, you can use IF constructs in batch files, but I don't know if you can use it to check whether a drive exists or not; other than forcing an error and checking for the error, but it's probably not worth the effort, in this instance, just call:

net use /delete

before you map it. It might fail, but it doesn't really matter; it just ensures that it has been disconnected. You'd probably want to do this anyway, because it's possible the drive might have been (for whatever reason) mapped to somewhere other than where you want it.

KeefW (kmw), Saturday, 19 August 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

my computer stopped booting yesteday, from a SATA drive. I bought a new SATA drive, still wasn't seeing it when I tried reinstalling Windows.

I found an old IDE drive and booted fine from that, reinstalled Windows XP and patched it. Suddenly it could see the old SATA drive again via Windows.

What's happening?

Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 August 2006 07:51 (nineteen years ago)

i just installed fedora 5 on my laptop, and im trying to get the apache working. this is what happens when i try to start the service

/sbin/service httpd configtest
Syntax OK
/sbin/service httpd start
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

-- (688), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I just started it by:

/usr/sbin/apachectl start

For which you'll need to be root.

Which seemed to work fine. I don't know how you're trying to start it, and I don't know much about Apache, but the above worked.

KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

what K said. Also tail /var/log/httpd/error_log (path may vary) to see what it sa

stet (stet), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

tail /var/log/httpd/error_log gives me

[::]:80
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:8443
(13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:8443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

-- (688), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

what Listen and ServerName directives have you got in /etc/http/httpd.conf?

stet (stet), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

er /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

stet (stet), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Do you have another web server running on port 8443? This is sometimes used as a local test version of port 443, which is the SSL port.

It looks as though it's trying to bind to 8443 but failing, because another process is bound to that port.

KeefW (kmw), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

ive gone home now, i'll try again tomorrow

-- (688), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

quick mac question: best browser? safari and firefox are nice but eat all my RAM, i'm using camino but the lack of bells and whistles is disturbing, and opera looks cheap :(

The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

What's yr hardware/OS/RAM? I use 98% Firefox, 2% Safari, but I've got RAM out the wazoo.

Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

it's a core duo mac mini, 10.4.7, 512mb (i know this should be a gig but i can't be arsed to go back to the store)

i bought it as a curiosity but it's taken over my life :(

The Real DG (D to thee G), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)


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