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    Replied To a Post in Recommended life-time hosting?

    Level3 is a massive hosting company with datacenters around the world. They're known good, but were just an example of the type of operation you should look for rather than …
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    Replied To a Post in Searching for the bug ... but there isn't any

    sounds like a very old Excel file with macros written to expect a hardwired directory?
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    Replied To a Post in Recommended life-time hosting?

    usually with hosting bigger is better, the large established hosting companies will likely outlive the small ones, and have better support infrastructure as well. And I'm talking of places like …
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    Replied To a Post in java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using pas

    ok, I had this exact problem last week. What you need to do is to remove the anonymous users that the mySQL installer creates. For whatever reason all attempts to …
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    Gave Reputation to daisyy in how to store audio in mysql in java using jsp and servlet. And how to retri

    It is not feasible to store audio in a database cause it is an unstructured data, while mysql store structured data in a table. So it is feasible to store …
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    Replied To a Post in how to store audio in mysql in java using jsp and servlet. And how to retri

    sorry, you're dead wrong. Blobs are the way to store binary data in a relational database. AND audio files are far from unstructured. > the audio files that are stored, …
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    static is the equivalent of a global variable in Java. You usually want to avoid it, as it violates object oriented principles. Mostly you'll see it used for constants, and …
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    Replied To a Post in What is the difference between DDL and DML?

    if you know what DDL and DML stand for you know the difference between them :)
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    Replied To a Post in Coumputer scince

    it also helps greatly to learn to write correct English (both syntax AND grammar).
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    Replied To a Post in Trigger

    simply put: your trigger performs an operation on your table which triggers your trigger which performs an operation on your table which... And in the end your database engine crashes …
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    Replied To a Post in Populate Dropdown from DB - Performance

    160k items is way too many for a dropdown. Indeed use an autocomplete or find some other means to reduce the size of the list before you try to fill …
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    Replied To a Post in Display table data using Servlet-to-JSP

    start your own thread, show some effort, and explain your problem in enough detail that others can make sense of it.
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    Gave Reputation to sathishkotha in Display table data using Servlet-to-JSP

    i want to desplay database stored values in browser
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    Replied To a Post in reinstall windows xp, lost validation code

    Microsoft can't give you a new license key as they don't know what key was shipped to you in the first place. Samsung might know what key was shipped with …
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    Replied To a Post in Searching for the bug ... but there isn't any

    > Anyone remember PL/1? never used it, was using Cobol and C on Tandem at the time, but do remember the frustrated PL/1 zombies prowling the halls at night :) …
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    Replied To a Post in The future of DaniWeb

    looks good, but without a menu it's going to be a nightmare to navigate.
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    Replied To a Post in Painful bug becomes costly

    they no doubt get similar stories from a lot of people who ran up the bills themselves and now demand their money back. If I were them I'd not instantly …
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    Replied To a Post in Searching for the bug ... but there isn't any

    it happens. Just as your code isn't immune from bugs on release, neither is any other code. Last month I ran into a major problem writing some JPA code, whatever …
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    Replied To a Post in Mysql is not storing date with the right timezone

    the timestamp is stored in UTC, which is normal, especially if the server is running on Unix. It's up to you to do the conversion if needed.
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    Replied To a Post in Painful bug becomes costly

    Amazon will send you warnings when billing limits are exceeded (or approaching) but you do have to enable those to be sent to you and set the trigger amounts. What's …
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    Replied To a Post in Painful bug becomes costly

    the marvels of open source... Microsft should have tested this better of course, but ultimately the flaw is in the open source plugin provided by a third party (who no …
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    Replied To a Post in com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for ...

    and it's done exactly what you told it to: generate a field that's capable of holding an SQL DATE. Which means a field without a time. The correct way of …
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    Replied To a Post in How to keep a randomized string from repeating

    of course, if you do that it's no longer random...
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    Replied To a Post in package in java

    and I'd change that into "without an explicit import statement" to be fully correct.
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    Replied To a Post in Dazah vs. DaniWeb

    more people is a double edged sword. The quality of the average posts in many forums is already at rock bottom (90%+ dumped homework requests in the Java forum for …
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    Replied To a Post in Tech Workplace Environments

    no, as such conditions change over time, and sometimes rapidly. For example the "guilty" manager leaves for elsewhere, company culture changes. Or the person responsible is an outside consultant and …
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    Replied To a Post in Tech Workplace Environments

    ah yes, or the manager who NEVER gives praise to the tech people when something goes right (when things work well, a job's completed under budget, delivered on schedule for …
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    Replied To a Post in Can you develop mobile apps for android, windows & ios using Java

    uh, no. For Android Java is great. For Windows C# is better. For iOS Objective C or whatever else Apple forces people to use now. Hybrid solutions work but are …
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    Replied To a Post in programming in java for the first time

    A good book is an excellent source of information. Of course you don't want to invest heavily into books for rapidly developing technology, the latest hype, etc. etc. but for …
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    Replied To a Post in things keep in mind

    documentwhat? > Management have some rose-tinted idea that they can replace it in 2,5,8 years or whatever, but once it's in place it's always cheaper to do a "small" fix …
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    Replied To a Post in Can you develop mobile apps for android, windows & ios using Java

    yes, you can. Sorta. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/maf/overview/index.html Oracle Mobile Application Framework can create native runtimes for both Android and iOS from the same source. It's based on Java and Oracle's ADF framework, …
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    Replied To a Post in Tech Workplace Environments

    that's why people have insurance for legal aid :) And of course here an employer needs to apply for a permit to fire you, which they won't get unless they …
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    Replied To a Post in Tech Workplace Environments

    People have called out Amazon for its high stress environment in the past, those claims have regularly been proven to be (largely) incorrect. And where they were shown correct it …
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    Replied To a Post in Tech Workplace Environments

    don't know about where you are, but here unions are utterly useless. The ONLY thing they care about is their own power as a union as a political entity (they're …
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    Replied To a Post in Map.get returns LinkedList instead of String

    > Did he say that he is passing Map<String, LinkedList>? he is either passing a Map<String, LinkedList> or something more generic like an unspecified Map implementation. Either would require him …
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    Replied To a Post in Map.get returns LinkedList instead of String

    yes, a call to that method with a Map<String, LinkedList> shouldn't even compile unless maybe you're doing some very nasty things like adding annotations to circumvent type checking.
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    Replied To a Post in How to write proper code

    An extra thought: if that combination of arguments is common (and especially if they logically make up something) it's often a good idea to make a class to represent the …
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    Replied To a Post in is it better to log exception or exception.getMessage()

    if you have so many exceptions that need logging that it affects performance there's more wrong with the system than just logging performance... Exceptions should be rare, exceptions that need …
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    Replied To a Post in Psychometric Tests

    yes, knew someone similar. Always did poorly on written tests, was brilliant when it came to face to face interviews. Nobody recognised for years that she was severely dyslexic... Had …
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    Replied To a Post in adding a handwriting tablet in project

    I didn't mean you are trolling, OP is. He's clearly not interested in providing any information at all. Wouldn't be surprised if there is no system...
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    Replied To a Post in adding a handwriting tablet in project

    you're clearly trolling here. He already said what type of information he wants quite clearly.
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    Replied To a Post in Psychometric Tests

    @Agilemind intelligence is real, but those "tests" don't test for it. They test for test taking ability. I've found end reported errors in the tests, verifiable errors, but as the …
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    Replied To a Post in Windows 10 Questions

    1) no, it automatically detects and verifies your Windows 7 or 8 key and converts it to a Windows 10 key (or maybe it's the same key). 2) no, as …
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    Replied To a Post in How to avoid multiple if statement in code?

    yup. Unless you're planning on making a system that allows plugging in new types of actions to handle on the fly, or an application framework like Spring, it's almost certainly …
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    Replied To a Post in How to avoid multiple if statement in code?

    ah. You could create a class with an interface with a single method, then have for each case a class implementing that interface. In your approveRequest method you'd create an …
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    I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were actually sending each other skype messages or sms instead of talking despite sitting next to each other. Wouldn't be the first …
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    Replied To a Post in Psychometric Tests

    sadly many companies still use them (and 'iq tests') to determine whether candidates are "suitable for the field", iow whether the guy/gal has the right personality and iq to work …
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    Replied To a Post in How to avoid multiple if statement in code?

    a switch would be appropriate here. And what makes you think chained if statements like that aren't "professional"? Whether something's appropriate to use or not depends entirely on the scenario …
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    Replied To a Post in Junit testing

    though I do wonder what he's done that makes his eclipse project's compiling dependent on the order of dependencies in the project settings window :)
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    Replied To a Post in get image from SQL

    actually, storing the images inside the database is a very good idea as it prevents your data from getting corrupted if the location on the filesystem where the images exist …

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