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Archive for October, 2008

They dont make laptop ide drives anymore?

I wanted to get a 100gb 7200rpm but no one sells one anymore.120GB 5400RPM PATA 2.5" Notebook Drive
7200rpm not found
Ive got an IBM Thinkpad X31 and want to get the most out of it. It stays plugged in most of the time.I think we have a 100gb 7200RPM 2.5" HDD in the store. I’ll [...]

Finished with tech school taking A+ certs this week

Yea so like the title says Im going to be done with tech school and Im taking the A+ essentials this week and soon after the technician exam. Cant wait.
Any one have any ideas of where I can find or look for entry level jobs in IT?Check colleges in your area. They’re a [...]

How would I make this program work? VBA

I am making a timesheet program and I want to convert a week on a monthly chart to a weekly chart. To do this I have coded in a module something similar to this:
Sub Open_Excel_Wb()
Workbooks.Open Filename:= _
"C:Documents and SettingsGarboMy DocumentsBook1.xls"
Sheets("Sheet2").Select
Range("A1").Select
Range("A1").Value = DateValue(Now())
End Sub
How would I then make Range("A1").Value = a value on a [...]

ThinkVantage Wifi Tool

Is there a program similar to IBM’s ThinkVantage? I need a wifi tool/software that can locate devices I can connect to. ThinkVantage is capable of telling me each device’s mac address and allows me to choose which device I am going to connect to. Anyone know of a similar wifi tool?I’ve looked [...]

Why am I getting an Overflow error?

Case 1
Do
If x >= 23 And x < 28 Then
i = "m"
ElseIf x >= 29 And x < 35 Then
i = "s"
ElseIf x >= 35 And x < 41 Then
i = "y"
ElseIf x >= 41 And x < 47 Then
i = "AE"
ElseIf x >= 47 And x < 53 Then
i = "AK"
ElseIf x >= 53 [...]

Is this a hardware or a programming problem

Everytime I play youtube or some other streaming video, my laptop overheats. Then shuts down.well it doesn’t help that youtube sucks, or that your laptop sucks if it’s shutting down because of heat, it’s hardware causing the heat.. but it could potentially be poor software somewhere causing something to overheat blow out your vents [...]

Looking for a fast way to compare two large databases

i have two mysql databases that are supposed to be relatively synched. One is the student database for my school (about 28,000 records), and the other is a Moodle database (about 33,000) which should contain a user account for each student.
The two databases share a few fields, the primary key being the student’s idnumber. [...]

Parent/Child data

This is the content of my table called "Category"
Is this possible through a query alone or do I need to read ALL the data into memory and then recursively sort it all?
This is in PHP+MySQL btw.

mysql> select id, name, parentid from category;
+—-+———–+———-+
| id | name | parentid |
+—-+———–+———-+
| 1 [...]

My Sql root password issues.

I installed mysql about 2 months ago. The computer crashed and I just got around to fixing it. I forgot the root password. I have tried a bunch of them and its not working.
So I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it, but when it gets to the stage where I enter my root [...]

Best audio out for HTPC?

I always thought that the optical was the best audio transmission to go from a HTPC to a receiver. I’ve been told recently that you get better sound quality from having 5.1 analog out to the receiver. My computer and receiver support both so I was wondering which one is better? I [...]