Posts by rproffitt

There are a few ways to go here. But keeping the original definition WITHOUT the illegally word would be best IMO.

The legality would depends on the country, laws and permission. If the access was by the owner's request, legal If not, illegal.
I'm thinking of locksmiths. It would be legal or not for them to open a safe depending on permission.

So hacking doesn't mean it's illegal.

PS. Notice the other caveats at the text "This user has enabled Sync Contacts for all three of these accounts in the Accounts settings. " at
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/providers/contacts-provider#RawContactsColumns

And the Phone Number is mentioned there as well.

Now you need to find a source code example.

Sounds like a limitation to me. Is there any example that shows a read from contacts in the cloud?

I haven't worked this area but are you sure about your permissions?
Also read https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33052002/getting-phone-number-from-contacts-using-contentprovider-android which uses another way.

Microsoft issued the following at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/visualstudio/visual-basic-6/visual-basic-6-support-policy

The Visual Basic team is committed to "It Just Works" compatibility for Visual Basic 6.0 applications on the following supported Windows operating systems:

Windows 10
Windows 8.1
Windows 7
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2012 including R2
Windows Server 2008 including R2

"The Visual Basic team’s goal is that Visual Basic 6.0 applications continue to run on supported Windows versions. As detailed in this document, the core Visual Basic 6.0 runtime will be supported for the full lifetime of supported Windows versions, which is five years of mainstream support followed by five years of extended support."

While the support for the development system is gone and there are issues, the runtime and if you know what you are doing, you can keep your app running for a very long time.

What is gone and I can't find a fast workaround is SQL support. Also known as DAO.

Hope this helps if someone tells you it's dead. While I think it's unacceptable for a new project, just like Cobol, it lives.

Yes, you've been told it's dead, gone and to move off this old beast of a system from 1998 but here you are, tasked with fixing an old legacy app so let me share that I've been there and how I got around some of the issues. These are:

1. Install issues on Windows 10.
2. A workaround to code that seemed fine but failed.
3. What may never work again.

Installing Visual Studio 6.0 from 1998 is a challenge. Be sure to have your media ready and if need be, print out the instructions so you can follow them step by step.
I used this search for how to isntall -> https://www.google.com/search?q=Install+Visual+Studio+6.0+on+Windows+10

This seems to work but badly and you have to deal with the install appearing to fail but I was able to pick up the pieces by copying the missing dao35.dll from my Visual Studio 6.0 CD (or VB6 Media) to the folder where the VB6.EXE is. This might be C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VB98 on a stock install.

Before you try to run VB6, be sure to install Service Patch 6.

When you run VB6 for the first time it may cough up errors and complaints but plow ahead and when it's done, quit and try again. Here it stoped complaining on the second run.

Be sure to experiment with the Compatibility Tab on the VB6.EXE file. For me the usual sluggish behavior in dragging items around vanished when I set compatibility to …

I don't see any code that tests for your admin login. You may have to add code to do that. It should be about line 20 from what I see with another if (admin) do the admin thing else what is on line 20.

In parting it appears you are breaking some basic security concepts as well. Never store user passwords in the clear. There are many tutorials and articles about this so no need for me to do more than note it now. Often folk learn to do these logins incorrectly and are doomed to create leaky and bad login systems for decades.

The thing is, there are many priors to this problem. https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/browser-does-not-currently-recognize-any-of-video-formats/

The real problem is "What is this time?"

What I'm running into are folk upset that no one knows what it is on your PC this time. Even so, you may know what changed on your PC or not. The only good news is that there are priors to read and decide which to try.

More at https://www.google.com/search?q=our+browser+does+not+currently+recognize+any+of+the+video+formats+available.+Click+here+to+visit+our+frequently+asked+questions+about+HTML5+video

If you don't want to write it yourself, why don't you try one of the 176 versions available at https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Greatest_common_divisor

This is a common logic problem -> https://www.google.com/search?q=Java+true+false+confusion

This will be the biggest crossover event since....

Be aware this is an oft asked question so I won't see how it was answered before and proceed with how I might tackle this if your code fails to use a variable.

Total workaround. Since we know this can report from databases, code a short passage to put the items into a database and use that in your report.

Third try? https://www.daniweb.com/members/1145241/sergi-1/threads

You may have exhausted what members know about. Your comment about integration is something I'm running into. That is, non-programmers want to do this. Sometimes you have to just deal with it or hire more staff.

I'm in year eight since I changed my second home to LED. I have one failure out of 50ish lamps. About all I do is the usual dusting and remove cobwebs when we see them.

Does that help?

I think the code is written to not "loop" and deal with more than one image. Unlike some forums there are few that will write code for you. Just to be clear on how the forum works, read https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question

That aside I see no loops. No loops and there your code just runs from begining to end.

@Paresh. There are companies that create such. So far if you use a common off the shelf drive, I can format it using a number of tools. The drives these companies use are "special."

I think this isn't a bad question or topic but it's like you asked for everything. That might get you a very unclear answer.

So there are so many choices to make today that I hesitate to tell you any specific tool since nothing would do this on the first outing. And what you ultimately choose may depend on your web hosting choice.

Why not start off slowly? That is, get a web server up (this alone might take you a few months) and then make a page with a map on it. At that point you might have a way to assess how many years you have to put into this.

We live in a time that commonsense is in very short supply. If you feel you need such a disclaimer, add it.

If you lacking commonsense there are thousands of sites you shouldn't go to. How about this one? http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=manly_suicide

I have to ask. SInce https://www.google.com/search?q=How+can+we+do+guest+blogging seems to give up so many good ideas, can you share what is eluding you?

@T, I'm thinking about a PSA about DNS (that's public service announcement and Domain Name System) since I think I see ISPs (Internet Service Provider) slowing down their DNS or outright hijacking lookups.

You may want to google DNSBENCH and consider changing.

I think I know why you don't see signatures. As part of maybe an anti-spam design, signatures do not show for new members.

This way if a new spammer comes along, their attempts to spam via sig fall flat. I like this design.

Mmm, stealth code. I like it.

I see you already have a sig. So looking at your deleted post, you spammed. Keep those signatures clean of the spam as well.

I agree. You need to explain your question.

That said, "Linux" is a big topic with use being from very small embedded boards, servers, user workstations and what else. The topic is so broad that not only what Linux is being used for matters but what distro you are using along with what issue or topic you want to breach.

Thanks everyone for the entertainment.

I've been told that the price of gas is very important for car sales. I drive a Nissan Leaf and have bought 2 tanks of gas in 2 years since that purchase for my own transportation.

You can imagine I'm not a good candidate for a lot of surveys.

You talking to me?

I'm an embedded electronics designer of many decades. I think what you can do is nearly unlimited but today I'd have to find out if I can use a Raspberry Pi as the platform to host my project. Only you may know this or you may have to ask. Since these Pi can control motors, have many wireless options it's still quite the open plains (no roads where we are going) you can do almost anything you want.

Think about what you want to create. Tell us about that.

That XAMPP, I don't recall that it built in Auth service like https://auth0.com/ I'd ask instead how to test your auth service.

I think you didn't check the forum rules. No problem. Read this first:
https://www.daniweb.com/programming/threads/435023/read-this-before-posting-a-question

@pty. It's a solid answer. And as you noted can be used for other industries and services.

Given Canada's change today you may want to do something in agriculture.

One of the Windows OS complaints is that updates can reset settings and break installed apps. You've found that you can't connect to your server so that's what you work next. I don't admin your setup so you are the expert at this point with you going over your setup and settings.

Is it "All your code?" That is, did you write it all and host it yourself? I have to ask that since every example I read such as http://plnkr.co/edit/OyGY7VVNSSAjdstr54wG?p=preview finds scripts loading from the web.

So how do you check if those sources didn't change?

I'd watch https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/how-to-create-a-toggle-without-js/299814 too.

I see other examples at https://www.google.com/search?q=create+a+toggle+without+JS but your fiddle is dead here. Odd, I really like fiddles.

Actually the start is the concept. Then the team building. Such an app is on phones, PCs, smart TVs and what else today? This means that for you to get such a system up today your team would be quite diverse plus a legal team and a content wrangling team. Even on a small scale this would mean a few hundred team members. For you as their leader, well, you get to do mostly vision planning and of course, find the money.

@Tech_10. No mystery here after years. http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4641/~/collecting-a-full-memory-dump-in-windows-10

https://www.google.com/search?q=SQL+Why+you+never+use+rowid kicks that around but if you want to do your own thing, why not?

Yes, each user has their own login. How else to track down who did what to the database?

I'm not saying what you are doing is incorrect. Your design may not need such logging.

In my apps that used SQL databases we had the user supply their name and password for access to the SQL server. If they didn't have that, then they couldn't use the app. Also, what they could do was limited by their SQL account rights.

I guess you could weave your own security but here, we kept the security in the SQL system. Seemed easier than spreading it out into the apps.

I think pty has it right. Some formula using datediff and then some if > 30 then 30.

It's still good for other things like high speed usb to video cards.

Ask the laptop maker. In your posts you never shared the maker's site or link to what model you have so it's best to talk to the maker's support now.

You asked about some USB to VGA adapter cable but didn't supply the link. That said there has never been a "cable" that adapts USB to VGA without some circuitry but there are scammers that will sell under 10 dollar cables that don't work. Only the new or foolish buy these. Sorry if you feel slighted by me writing that.

I never could find your laptop model so if you want this many monitors the solutions are USB to video convertors which are mildly priced to some USB 3.x to Display Port which will only require one adapter for many displays. The downside is speed but for stock charting, excel and such will be fine.

I'm calling BS on this one. I lived through the printer wars where companies moved from impact printers to laser and other technologies.

Inkjet and laser print quality is more than just laser and ink. Paper matters too.

If you want to get into higher quality printing then you move to offset printing. I've yet to find any office or consumer printer get to that quality. It's not called for in most cases. But you have some that want it.

This seems to be a rehash of https://www.daniweb.com/hardware-and-software/hardware/threads/516307/add-two-external-monitors

If your laptop has Display Port via its USB C port you don't need USB Display cards.

A good case where any of the known free AV might be the better choice. Update, then disable updates while you are out.

-> All that aside I haven't seen a virus in years. All the bad things I've seen were downloaded and installed by the owner. The last few were torrent users that did ask "But I had Norton."

First, Thunderbird has it's own forum. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/get-community-support which is fine you can ask anywhere you wish.

Second, setup is no longer "simple." Read https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1201406 and if you are like most you may need a bottle of aspirin.

As a test edit. Find some unique word and change only that. So the word "The" for example, change that to "QQQ" so it's the same byte length and test. If it can't handle that, the file or text system is not "simple."

It's propreitary and could have code to check a checksum to prevent tampering. There's also the copyprotection issues and I would be guessing if you chipped your game system or such. PLEASE DON'T TELL ME HOW YOU BROKE THE COPY PROTECTION. NO. DON"T WRITE ABOUT IT.

You didn't define what the user was inputting so I will GUESS! the inputs are the lengths of the sides. Armed with that I can google.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Python+draw+triangle+given+length+of+sides

First hit looks vaguely similar to your code and is explained well enough for most.

Don't leave out details to the user or others like this. What if you wanted the user to supply two of the angles? Don't make others GUESS.