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Forum: Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Dec 9th, 2005
Replies: 10
Solved: Text Timer
Views: 17,557
Posted By Real-tiner
The hard way - by trying to control real-time processes.

1/18 second = 55 ms = the length of a Windows jiffy (timeslice). The hardware interrupts the Intel-type computer every 55 ms to switch...
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 6,307
Posted By Real-tiner
Repartitioning a drive deletes everything on it.
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 3
Views: 7,299
Posted By Real-tiner
It usually means junk got into the optical sensors.
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 8,537
Posted By Real-tiner
Possibilities:

1. A higher speed connection.

If you have standard dial-up, it's going to go frame-by-frame. The data can't go out fast enough to do anything except frame by frame.

A 640 X...
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 2,671
Posted By Real-tiner
The .inf file should be downloaded from where you got the driver. It contains the instructions telling Windows how to install the driver.
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 2,746
Posted By Real-tiner
Do you have the latest version 4.2?

There is a compatibility problem between older versions and Windows XP service pack 2.
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 2
Views: 11,582
Posted By Real-tiner
Check the foillowing:

1. That your microphone is the correct type to use with the input. There are several different kinds of microphones, and each needs different kinds of electronics to work:
...
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 13
Views: 3,771
Posted By Real-tiner
There are too many commercial software programmers out there who assume that all computers using their products will have access to the internet.

But there are many applications where internet...
Forum: USB Devices and other Peripherals Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 4,709
Posted By Real-tiner
This is what's wrong with computing today. Stuff with a theoretically projected lifetime of 20 years becomes obsolete after 3 years, after which the company no longer supports it.

:mad:

I have...
Forum: Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 5,265
Posted By Real-tiner
Two thoughts.

- Change the size in a photo editor.

- Make a blank (white or black) space larger than the photo, then do the equivalent of pasting the photo into it.
Forum: Visual Basic 4 / 5 / 6 Dec 7th, 2005
Replies: 14
Views: 150,432
Posted By Real-tiner
I need to create time intervals in the millisecond range (e.g. 30 ms), not the seconds range. These are necessary for real-time control of equipment.

The problem is that Windows takes a time-out...
Forum: Legacy and Other Languages Jul 18th, 2005
Replies: 66
Views: 15,080
Posted By Real-tiner
No, I mean they used C, instead of some language with stronger runtime checking for errors.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 5th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
US Examples:

- There are no checks and balances over government spending. Being part of government automatically makes anyone want to increase taxes and spending, no matter which branch of...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 5th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
Is this like the 72 virgins the Islamic martyrs are promised? If you take all of the islamic texts and references into account, then there is no sex at all in their afterlife. So what is the martyr...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
Meaning that you had the ability before you got INTO the schools.



Yes, but the unions had control in determining what is required for certification. Another problem is that colleges have not...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
The schools may not be at fault, but the teacher unions are.

When I was a kid, teachers put education first. Then the unionization drive started, and now employee rights and the union are more...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 1st, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
The income tax is the cause of much of the disparity. The tax rules make it extremely difficult and costly to own a business and to hire workers.



The real problem is that government is taking...
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 30th, 2005
Replies: 19
Views: 16,890
Posted By Real-tiner
It means the page has no image tags at all in the source code - no places to put a picture.

There are no red Xs either.

So either you deleted them, my firewall deleted them, or you told me the...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 29th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
I just read in the newspaper that the trees are compensating for the warming by stepping up oxygen production. An automatic feedback system!

Scientific American was bought out by a liberal group a...
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 28th, 2005
Replies: 19
Views: 16,890
Posted By Real-tiner
I found no IMG tags in the page.
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 28th, 2005
Replies: 19
Views: 16,890
Posted By Real-tiner
Several reasons why you get red X:

1. If the photo is on your own computer, only you can read it (unless your own computer is a host with a purchased URL). You must upload your photo to your ISP's...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 21st, 2005
Replies: 137
Views: 18,217
Posted By Real-tiner
It's not really science, because there are too many assumptions made, including an assumption that religion is false. If any one of those assumptions is proved false, evolution is false.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 21st, 2005
Replies: 15
Views: 21,038
Posted By Real-tiner
I have a duplicating machine capable of copying any CD big by bit.

And I am asking Congress to outlaw all copy protection schemes. They cause all kinds of other trouble, and prevent legitimate...
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 21st, 2005
Replies: 19
Views: 16,890
Posted By Real-tiner
In the case of the ads, the ad site could be overloaded or down.

If the status line says "accessing doubleclick.net" you can be sure the trouble is not in your PC. That site is oversubscribed.
...
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 21st, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 3,050
Posted By Real-tiner
Thoughts:

1. It might be that your ISP is timing out or imposing some kind of limit.

2. What happens if you euse another browser.

3. Check for viruses and spyware.
Forum: Web Browsers Jun 21st, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 1,379
Posted By Real-tiner
Considering that MSN belongs to Microsoft, it might be hard. Microsoft software is extremely grabby.

You need administrative permission to do most of these things:

- First, turn off IE's...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
They need only 10 percent to do the essentials. The rest is wasted.
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 4
Views: 2,607
Posted By Real-tiner
I'd say that, if it is an attachment block, it is one of two places:

1. Outlook security settings

2. Your ISP (often they won't tell you about security measures implemented to stop attacks...
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 11
Views: 4,604
Posted By Real-tiner
Format the hard drive, and then reinstall the operating system. Of course, you will need some kind of operating system running from the A or D drive to do this.
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 12
Views: 8,860
Posted By Real-tiner
Two possibilities:

1. Both drives have the same IDE or SCSI addresses. Change the address jumper on one drive.

2. One hard drive is formatted with FAT 32, as opposed to the new system. If they...
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 33
Views: 15,806
Posted By Real-tiner
One idea is to disconnect and remove the internet cable during the homework sessions, or put a call restrictor on the phone line which prevents using certain phone numbers (dialup) without dialing a...
Forum: Windows Software Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 12
Views: 4,138
Posted By Real-tiner
Could it be because the .exe files are on remote machines, not on your PC?
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 37
Views: 12,320
Posted By Real-tiner
Asteroid?

The original Greek word which translates into English as "Wormwood" translates into Ukranian as "Chernobyl."

Nuclear reactors and stars have the same energy source.
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 22
Views: 4,671
Posted By Real-tiner
The biometric factors themselves can't be counterfeited. But as soon as you can digitize them and transfer them over the Internet, copies could be made and fraudulently presented as the real thing,...
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
And it doesn't help that government is taking 72 percent of the economy in taxation. That means you are working 4 times as hard as you otherwise would have to.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
So? The entire world is very temporary.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
If it hadn't been for Ross Perot, combined with the faulty Plurality Voting System, Bill Clinton would have lost both elections by wide margins.
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
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Now, how many of those were done to get something for ourselves, and how many were done to stop one country or group from taking over another?
Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 132
Views: 24,127
Posted By Real-tiner
There is one reason why the capitalist system is the only one which works:

This planet cannot feed its human population without work. All of the other systems are attempts to find ways of getting...
Forum: Geeks' Lounge Jun 13th, 2005
Replies: 137
Views: 18,217
Posted By Real-tiner
Notice that all of the other religions have DO as their main theme - the religious person has to DO some kind of work to be acceptable. But one religions has DONE as its main theme - the work of...
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