Posts by rproffitt

Here that's a 25 buck drive. http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Drive-WD3200AAJS/dp/B000Q85WOK

With the model, here's how I find the test CD: https://www.google.com/#q=wd+hdd+test+cd

Given the age, story it sure sounds like a failed HDD.

Since the other OSes run from CD and USB, that adds to the story the old HDD may be gone.

If you can supply the make and model of the HDD maybe we can find a CD/USB based HDD test?

And yes, some run Windows off USB but most folk gasp for air as they read http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/win7onusb

Your code says otherwise. Look closely as your variable names.

So Kilometres or Kilometre (from data.cs)? Which is it?

Is that still an assignment in class today?
https://www.google.com/search?q=Write+a+Java%28TM%29+application+using+NetBeans%28TM%29+Integrated+Development+Environment+%28IDE%29+that+calculates+the+total+annual+compensation+of+a+salesperson&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

It appears that someone is recycling assignments. My bet is you'll get the same answers folk gave last time.

Remember we are not trying to save the old case. When it absolutely must be opened I've used needle nose pliers of the just right size to remove the TS screw. I've also used a just right size flat head to get in the Torx slot/ring and unscrewed it.

Finally there's the old hacksaw or dremel method in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zesGk1OdwJ0

I agree. Sounds like Torx Security (TS.) Look at the bits at http://www.amazon.com/Torx-Driver-Security-T-10-T-40/dp/B0002SPLQ8/

Long ago I went to Home Depot to buy a set. The folk there gave me grief as if I was trying to buy lockpicking tools. Maybe they don't sell them?

Double or float was never reccomended for currency calculations. More at link.
http://www.javapractices.com/topic/TopicAction.do?Id=13

All I can do is nod. C2D and 2GB RAM will be slow. Should work but you may not be patient enough to keep at it. I suggest you focus on what you want to do and do not try to speed it up unless you want to pop in some SSD and more RAM.

I'm on some Lenovo y510 with i7, 16GB RAM and speed is acceptable.

Small world. A few years back I had that error. I read http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20033231/with-android-studio-no-jvm-found-java-home-has-been-set and one of the prior answers worked.

Let me share that installing Java has got a whole lot easier now there is ninite.com. If I'm setting up the first time I uninstall all older Java's then get it with ninite.

I take you that you write code. http://bavotasan.com/2011/shortcode-for-html5-video-tag-in-wordpress/ shows the basic video player and then you add more for speed control. There are also add ons out there. I don't like to mention those. https://github.com/foliovision/fv-wordpress-flowplayer notes it added speed controls.

Could be wrong directoin but a long time ago in HTML5 I implemented speed control. It's done with a little javascript and there are numorous examples if I google: How to change the playing speed of videos in HTML5?

An example.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/Creating-HP-Restore-Media/td-p/1298017

That's right from HP. For your restore media, look at the web page at HP for your model and somewhere there is an order page. If not, try the chat at hp.com.

PS. "restore media from HP" do something more extensine than that?

Why yes it does. It installs the factory set of drivers and apps that makes the laptop do all the tricks. I'm still running into techs that know "drivers" but blow up over the helper apps. It's something you ran into years ago so unless you install Windows a lot, you are better off using the restore media. I can't write a step by step for the thousands of models out there and after doing so for years have had to move to using restore media because it felt like a tar pit. Never ending details and restore media works best.

Unless there are hardware issues but then you know what to do about that.

It should screen cap fine. And if you want, sure but my bet is on hardware if using the laptop maker's issued OS from the maker's restore media fails.

-> One last thing. Be sure the resolution is at the LCD NATIVE RESOLUTION. I found a few folk that run it at less or not native and complaining.

Just a thought. Use the usual window.onbeforeunload = function(){ your code to save goes here; }

Plugged in and not charging has happened to thousands. But again if narrow your search to only an "HP Elitebook 2540p i7 2.31GHz" then you may come to the conclusion it's rare.

I didn't find where you used restore media from HP. I understand. Folk seem to loathe doing that but it beats learning the ropes (or hanging by them.)

You may be looking for an exact symptom match. That may be too narrow a search. Here I know that laptop OS, driver and helper app install are wiping out folk that don't do OS installs a lot. Even I can't offer an exact step by step. I have a generic process that involves the OS install, then motherboard drivers, audio, video and such but then we're looking for the maker's HELPER APPS that turn on/off WiFi, battery features and such.

Those drivers and apps in your case should be on the web page for your laptop at hp.com. I've watched folk burn for months looking other than the maker's pages.

It's also why I usually install the OS from the maker via restore media. If it's mine I can do the clean install but for clients the time spent racks up a big bill.

Lethugs, I have to go with a banged up OS. It took a few replies to know which OS but I can't tell if you tried another user account or all the ideas so far.

I know you want to keep details private but without clues like "I'm getting popups all the time" or something more, maybe it's time to reload this workstation.

So it's on Windows XP? I have a buddy that their XP OS was so banged up over the years that they finally had to start over. There are those that say never say die but how many weeks did he lose over that?

Never found a merge, but there is an APPEND command. Documented at
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa977271%28v=vs.71%29.aspx

I'm going with no. Outlook with Exchange server didn't store the contacts locally so you'll need to restore the server first. Also, who runs servers with no backup? Try not to grill your IT too badly. Let them get it back first and then go over the disaster plans.

Now about the list you think is on the PC. That sounds like the autocomplete is filling it in. Not from some contact list or database.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Copy-the-AutoComplete-list-to-another-computer-83558574-20DC-4C94-A531-25A42EC8E8F0 and other articles show where the autocomplete file is at.

Once you have that, then you search for or write an extractor.

Sounds like you didn't deploy the app. "copy full project" doesn't sound correct here but which Visual Studio?

Example deployments at https://www.google.com/#q=how+to+deploy+a+vb.net+2012+project

I'd open the drive case but not the drive. That is, I always try these in a new case on something I keep in my PC Medic Kit. It's this thing: http://www.amazon.com/SANOXY®-Adapter-Converter-Optical-External/dp/B001OORMVQ/

Please share the code as it is. Could be a simple thing.

Why not solve it by any means? It's a problem to be solved, not homework, right?

Sadly this is usually the end for tablets. Since it's dead you can watch/find many of the Samsung Tablet disassembly videos and try one thing. Unplug the battery for a minute, plug it back and and hope.

Next up? Another user account, run as admin, XP. and now I recall an over reaching antivirus shutdown a coworker's VS setup.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=run+visual+studio+as+administrator

I have not experienced that one but if I did I might try the reset noted at https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/vstudio/en-US/abcb54bb-5490-48ab-a961-f2c7f64331a3/visual-studio-startup-error-clr20r3

Other causes appear to be XP, Fonts, and region/language settings.

I am of 2 minds on laptop battery replacements.

1. If it's for work or the fretful/fearful you get it from Dell. Done.
2. If you are not placing it in places that are made like a tinder box and know it's slightly ever so slightly risky you get one from Amazon and move on. If you doubt, see answer #1

I've never found it possible to edit with assurity forms I don't "own." That is, to fill out forms, I must have them to test again my app(s).

As to wanting them as attachments to email, your server can edit/create PDF or such things then email them as attachments.

Think it over. There are web forms all around you. You can have them fill that out and on your web server do the form edit/filling and create a file as you see fit.

However it almost always begs the issue of site security. But that's another topic.

Do the work on files on your server.

Yes. Oh, I forgot to add my WDTV Live plays the .ISO just like the DVD player plays the DVD. So rip, toss on the network drive and play with WDTV or just plug the HDD into the WDTV and play. Pretty nice to have the full DVD, menus, subtitles and everything.

Try a continuity test without the power adapter. Do the circuit trace ring out from/to the power jack pins? If not, the jack may have broke.

Container as in a box or bucket you put stuff into. I've taken to just making an .ISO of the full up DVD since with VLC Player it works just like the original DVD with all tracks and was not recompressed. For some that's not acceptable since they want smaller disc space.

@Reverend Jim. My bet is their spec is incomplete. That is they are thinking display lines and not ENTER terminated lines. satyam_1 needs to elaborate.

I understand that. Many folk never had the need for such a thing.

OK, many of the RTC batteries like the common CR2032 are held in with a spring. I've run across many someone was a little too rough and I have to bend it so it holds the battery and connects solidly.

Also some batteries are not so hot out of the package so I have taken to reading the battery voltage before I change it out. This has saved me countless times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMQI5R79lx4 really gets into it but for me I find the unloaded CR2032 if over 3 Volts have been good. Any below 3 are recycled.

Time to move the game up a notch. Bring out your Volt meter and tell me how many Volts the RTC battery is and the model battery.

I don't see the full make/model of the laptop but as you go past a few years they can get cranky and crap out if you twist or stress the frame a little. While I like to take it apart to do a deep clean and reseat all connections this may be too scary for most owners. If so you backup your stuff and move onto a newer machine. Repair costs are getting so close to a replacement here.

Here's a YouTube video showing how to clean and care for a cranky connection. This applies to almost all electronics.
Skip to 3:50 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuwG5wqxTpE

Satyam, I read your requirements a few times but came away that they were not complete. I might make a bet you didn't really mean to disable input once the 12 lines were hit but that you wanted to allow them to edit the first 12 and automatically discard line 13 and on.

That's fine lordrt and shows why so much code is buggy. Bad specs. Go with the sequence or off the web solution but at least you know it's designed to fail. That is, we know that robots and other bad things will hammer this and they'll be back to you to fix it again.

The code to get a random unique was easy to find on the web. Now take that and share your implementaion. I'll share that we went with sequence everytime. Even a 1000 position array of "random" for the sequence would do here.

Back to the person who wrote this spec. They didn't reveal how many they needed in a day so with 0 to 999 possible values, not only is there that "unique" spec but the missing spec on how to handle it running out of numbers.

Frankly the random bit could be tossed on most apps that need this and use sequential 0 to 999 then bomb out when there is no more to hand out. You can google generating a sequence of unique random numbers to find prior works.

Looks simple. You used a post increment.
http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-pre-increment-and-post-increment-operator-in-C++

So you get i for evaluation and later it's incremented so the i for evaluation is zero but as it's a post increment, it exits with i as 1.

I think this is a simple no. For example if I compile my C# code the exe is not "machine code" entirely. The .net clr is fired up to run the C# byte code. That's not a bad thing.

But since the clr is not an OS the answer is again no.

If I were to change your question to assembler then you get machine code that executes without such overhead. And then again, to do most useful things we would make calls to BIOS or OS so we could be back to no as those could use some sort of interpreter.

Long ago I had this app in VB. I used Microsoft's own Webbroswer control (noted at http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?384076-Webbrowser-Control-Tip-and-Examples ) but since that was so long ago I can only guess why you went with Gecko here.

The app was done and has been out and on the shop floor for about a decade now. I can't guess if you did or did not try this with the stock control.

I'm watching http://www.codeproject.com/Questions/1003536/vb-net-executing-JavaScript-in-GeckoWebBrowser to see if others notice this.

I'd use the simpler Me.Text = first 12 lines of text (your code goes here) to strip the rest. Your specification can be taken many ways. I'm reading that they can enter 12 lines, but you strip the rest.

Sorry to read that. My bet is they didn't test it thoroughly on 7. Let the buyers be crash testers.

No excuse on their part but it sort of stuck out like there was some OS change after delivery.

Maybe 10 will work out?

There's usually more than that. That is, not only do you set the port value as you noted but if the pin is input, output, etc. Code alone isn't enough here.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-Inspiron-17-5748-Notebook-Review.122422.0.html and other sites notes it came with Windows 8. I'm left to guess if this is another repeat of the move from 8 to 7 and finding things broke. If you can't stand 8, add Classic Shell. I did and I no longer have any issues with 8.

There are a few ways. Depending on the exact effect you want. My thought is the TextChanged event ( http://www.dotnetperls.com/textbox-vbnet ) would run a small Me.Text = 'code that strips the text to 12 lines.

That allows them to edit the first 12 lines.