Posts by rproffitt

To Reverend Jim. On Dells we have Dell Diags (varies with model) so try this. Boot the Dell and hold down the D key. See if there's a keyboard test.

The next test I try is to see if the issue follows with some USB PC Keyboard.

However the keys are in what looks like a few scan lines of the common matrix decoding so it looks like a hardware issue from here. What about the number keys? 4 and 5 here may fail too.

@rubberman. While this didn't happen to me (ad/malware.) I have a routine I do on a new Windows that works for me. Head to Ninite.com and install my alternative web browsers then install 2 add ons. Between Adblock+ and Web Of Trust, it seems to really help. It's been a year plus and my work horse Windows 8 and 10 machines have yet to suffer such a fate. Not only that but I didn't install another antivirus. It's sort of a test for Defender. So far, so good. Yes I use scanners from time to time to see if anything managed to crawl in.

The download sites today are toxic. Spread the word about Ninite is my response.

For the archives, if the above link dies it wrote "login, go to Preferences > Settings. Then scroll down until you see URL Shortening. You should see a checkbox checked with Auto shorten URLs. Simply uncheck this and update your settings."

Tameat614, if you mark this solved for others to know it's complete.

If that fixed it, good news. I'm just looking into IFTTT so questions like this help be learn more.

Did you try unchecking the box noted at https://michaelsoolee.com/ifttt-links

https://www.google.com/#q=is+perl+a+compiled+language answers that it's something in the middle. If you are compiling Perl then you need a Perl compiler and all the issues that it brings.

For this round I'm going with you are not compiling but using bog standard Perl.

This means your script seems to have run but there's more dragons here. You have a Perl script you didn't write so it's foreign to you and then you seem to be in need of Perlmod and Doxygen. How to install that varies with each Linux so go figure that out next.

You claim you want to compile Perl but didn't reveal which compiler you wanted to use. Maybe it's just a mistake here and you are running Perl?

I've had issues with generic drivers. I know to hunt down the one specific to the machine and OS from the laptop maker. In a pinch there are realtek drivers but that's in a pinch. Also, we have motherboard chipset drivers to check. Finally most laptops I see today have apps to control devices. For example Dell has their Quickset and other makers, other names for this app.

Did you by chance accept ANY drivers from WU (windows update)? You wrote it's not a driver but so far, everytime I encounter this I find a driver in WU's list of installed updates. Otherwise no.

There's a lot of chatter about W10 but just tripped over this due a complaint about network speed fluctuations. Here's a google about what I turned off.

https://www.google.com/#q=disable+windows+10+sharing+updates

At the office we don't try to move entirely to Linux for many reasons. Since we make our bread and butter on being efficient we use the Windows machines for the Windows app development and Linux machines for its development. We did have a fellow that wanted to move entirely over but he became non-productive for a few weeks trying to make the move, missed deadlines and later let go.

Hey, if you want to do this go right ahead but here I've yet to see anyone make the move and still deliver on time with the app tested on Windows etc.

What we do costs very little today. That is we have more than one laptop for the developers. There's the usual servers (on Linux) for revision and source control, but for the time being I've yet to see any developer crack the nut you are going after.

Welcome back. I see posts from 6 years ago but your new post is badly formed and unclear.

Did you try responding to the query I see on line 2 of your log?

Note: read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10413963/telnet-iac-command-answering

Then you have to plan ahead for the next time. Remember that by default, Windows doesn't do this. Think of the million bad things that would happen if Windows allowed you to push a change like this from your admin PC. Oh wait, that's more than a million isn't it?

Get your IT team and CIO in a huddle to migrate to your choice of a managed solution.

The answer is yes but you prepare the 300 machines ahead of time for remote updates. This is done with either a windows server and login scripts or other. What plan did you IT implement to do this?

This sounds like a carry over from https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/503372/create-static-html-page-with-dynamic-data-in-it

If you server backend code is there (you did reveal much here) then your database and dynamic web pages would pick that up and show on the next "view."

It looks dated. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/anyone-use-bufferzone-pro-is-it-still-developed.353645/ was years ago and my thoughts is that anyone that relies on security apps to protect will get taken out to dry then folded.

I know the Kees from that discussion and the advice is spot on. I'll add that the best protection is us.

As it's your first post, the answer is to not put in a logo or watermark in the first place. I have seen folk use TRIAL versions and then ask how to remove even when they know the answer.

After the fact it's a lot of work. Frame by frame editing for some, sometimes you see folk plaster their own over the top.

I have to broach another issue. I'm running into folk that say want or need 6TB diskspace then they don't have backups of that content.

After all these years, why is this lesson still being learned or even asked?

Look at this graphic https://www.backblaze.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/blog-3TB-drives-2015.png and think how many folk got that bargain Seagate 3TB drive.

Why does this look like chapter 13 of the book "Java Foundations Introduction to Program Design and Data Structures"?

As I have cut and pasted such amounts I can write it does work. Way back in 32 bit days or before it was a problem.

And then there's Ghostscipt if it must be automated. Search follows.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gswin64c+-sDEVICE%3Dtxtwrite+-o+output.txt+input.pdf

You tagged this with PHP so I thought wget. https://www.google.com/#q=wget+amazon+price+check in fact finds a prior with PHP and wget. Now you have the page and get to parse it out.

That's been around since well, forever. If I really want to delete something I'll just boot up any other OS and kill the file or folder from there.

No learning Linux. Read http://tips.oncomputers.info/archives2004/0401/2004-Jan-11.htm

Frankly, this issue has been around for over a decade. I'll skip repeating priors and suggest you migrate to Thunderbird so when and if you change OSes your email will just slide over since Thunderbird is now on OS X, Windows, Linux and more.

https://www.google.com/#q=read+pdf+in+vb6 disagrees with you. That is, it appears it's been done before.

I'd disregard that and suggest you forget the PDF but just open the PDF in a reader, select all and past it into some plain text file. Then you're off to the races.

As to field counts, that's for your code to handle.

This just in. I spotted a 480GB SSD for 99.99 USD so that would be noise free and a lot faster.

Found the PCIe HDD mount at http://www.frozencpu.com/products/25980/hdd-aka-10/Akasa_PCIe_PCI_Slot_Mounting_Bracket_2x_25_HDDSSD_AK-HDA-10BK.html?tl=g34c273&id=FZH3LKLv but not 3.5 inches. It appears that 3.5 inch drives exceed the mechanical dimensions for PCIe cards by too much.

@Violet_82. It's a site I keep handy since functions and features change from browser to browser. I used a simply search for arrow to see what it would turn up but you can refine it to your called functions. The example I shared finds it not working in the browser you found not working so as the author you know your code better than I.

It's sometimes a shock to see how disparate the browsers are in terms of feature implementation.

I think the solution is to make a bracket for your unique system. I see that the normal PCIe connection is x1 so the strain on the PCB would be too high for a commercial off the shelf board. Now that you can't count on the lenght of the board to be exactly a number of mm, it's back to your shop bench to cut your mount to just the right size.

Yes you read and printed but then that loop ended with that one last line in the string variable. If you need to go back to basics in coding, do that but your code as-is is very borked.

I'd avoid duplicate posts and dredging up 7 year old posts. Next avoid "best" because you have a lot of criteria to get to the best. You may be stuck in analysis paralysis.

About getting people to buy account upgrades. Is anyone buying these today? Ask why they did that.

First that's poorly formatted code.

Second it looks like you read the last line from the file in lines 32 to 38. Let's call it a bad implementation. Try again. Some folk want others to write their code but it's best you see what's off and rewrite it.

So it must "hold" the 3.5? The 3.5 in such systems is usually mounted to the case since the weight of an average 3.5 HDD is such that, well, that's not a good idea. Time to hit your workbench and make a bracket?

Seems to be from 30 to thousand dollar ones out there.
https://www.google.com/search?q=l+PCI-express+card+on+the+market+with+SATA-&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=PCI-express+card+on+the+market+with+SATA

But reading your post literally, no card seems to hold the 3.5" drives. Are you sure about that requirement?

Just one observation. Why is count initialized to 1 in line 3? I usually start at zero.

Added with edit. Same comment as JamesCherrill. No comments or design notes to decode what this function should do or how.

Woody Leonhard of "Ask Woody" fame had it happen to him.
http://www.askwoody.com/2016/windows-10-upgrade-starting-automatically-and-it-happened-to-me/
So the bottom line is that if you don't have GWX control panel in place and "never check for updates" set in WU, You're going to get W10.

There is a link in the article of Woody's about how to stop this insanity.

PS. Hey, I already moved what would move to 10 so for me, this is only to share what I'm seeing out there.

Break it down to smaller steps. It won't do any good if someone writes the code here. You would be left with a system you don't understand.

What do you think is the first step?

As a beginner the lesson is this. Break down the problem to smaller steps. If a step is too hard, break it down as well. Repeat until you have steps you can do.

While VB6 was good in its day, why not move into something less than a decade old? I worry that what you learn with VB6 won't apply to what you have in the workplace and beyond.

Try to avoid many thousand long code dumps. Your question is one thing but where do you think there is a problem in that code? Surely it's not in all functions.

@Reverend Jim,

Yes there are dongles out there which are rarely copied, but I found the last dozen times someone wanted this they balked at the cost. Even if they didn't balk at the cost them they balked at the steps to secure the app.

I think whole disk encryption may be the next best answer.

I've never seen such to this day. Since I can boot another OS I am free to copy the HDD contents so any OS hack is not going to work.

Maybe you are thinking of some whole disk encrption with a pass key?

Alarm bells went off on this one. Try this. Don't store the actual password. Make a hash of the password so to avoid troubles down the road.

That's it.

Some typo there? By 10 user, I wonder if you have 10 users?

Anyhow, code your way to the solution. Break down the problem to smaller steps. You have some work to query SQL and then control the radiobutton. Break it down.

There are new members showing up asking for others to write their code. Try showing what you tried.

This looks like a job for ... cron ...

Sorry for that typo in my last post. Didn't catch it soon enough to correct with the edit.

@Reverend Jim and others.

I don't want to sound as if I don't like W10. It's the accidental upgrades that I take issue with. This is liked going to be caused by MSFT being pushy about this.

Here, it's all good at over 20 machines between office, home and other places. In fact one dog of a laptop is now working great. I can only guess why but it was some old 2009 Sony VAIO laptop with the old C2D, 4GB RAM and HDD usual config. It was my sons and a return to home when they upgraded. So I don't have any problems on W10 but then I'm pretty seasoned about drivers and apps that need updates as the OS changes.

Folk that don't know their PCs or simple users are the ones that will get tripped up.

Did you check the caniuse web page? I may have the search wrong but it looks to fail on Safari as well.
http://caniuse.com/#search=arrow

@savedlema I see LaxLoafer is pointing us back to the documentation. As you are designing your system I can't tell you what's best. I can however point out that most systems have you tell them "I'm Lex Maxx" and then verify. To go for fingerprint only is rarely done due to speed issues. You have to check your design specs to see which is required.

@savedlema, I think I should share how this is usually done.

The usual: "I'm Joc James." A fingerprint is given and the ID is verified. This is very fast, and usually how it's done.

Your method is only done when you don't have the person there to make a claim who they are. It's slow. And only gets slower as the database grows.

I didn't broach the issue that you rarely store the fingerprint image since that's the stuff you get out of papers on the subject.