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It takes an unusually long time for PFO to respond to link clicks. I don't think it's my computer because DaniWeb and other sites are ok.

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I'm using VS 2013. I want to use the system.numerics.biginteger structure but VS says there is no such namespace as system.numerics! According to MSDN there should be. What am I missing? Imports System.IO Imports System.Numerics '<<<< error Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim OneLightYearInches As BigInteger = 372469703661417000 End Sub End …

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After the time has expired to edit a post can you just remove the Edit Post button? It's somewhat confusing to make changes then no Save button.

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[Here's](http://www.upworthy.com/one-time-a-guy-gave-a-homeless-man-a-computer-and-the-recipient-did-exactly-what-the-giver-expected?c=ufb1) a good story about a homeless guy that learned how to write programs and was successful.

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Is there currently a way to mark all threads in a forum as read? Every one of the forums I see in the Home Page shows NEW (I assume that means there are some unread threads). If not, will you please add such a feature?

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This is a typical day today at WalMart and other stores throughout the USA http://abcnews.go.com/US/black-friday-turns-dark-twitter-websites-track-injuries/story?id=21048805

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Pictures are better than words, so please see the menu text behind the purple ribbon in the thumbnail. I'm on Chrome Windows 7. ![794108fa58a41a58882210d94372b12a](/attachments/large/0/794108fa58a41a58882210d94372b12a.png "794108fa58a41a58882210d94372b12a")

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How do I search for specific member name? Putting the name in the Search box doesn't work. I tried "<member name>" and "Daniweb: <member name>". google found the name but not at daniweb.

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[Here's](http://norvig.com/21-days.html) an interesting little article I cam across recently. >Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours. ... The conclusion is that either …

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If it's the thread I started upload works ok as long as I attempt to upload the file at the same time that I create the thread. Any other time I don't get any error message such as "file too big" (it's only 124K) or the options where to place …

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http://thelibertarianrepublic.com/robber-tries-to-stick-up-clerk-an-iraq-veteran-who-turns-and-shoves-a-pistol-right-in-his-mouth-video/

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Do you like it? I've seen it in a showroom and couldn't tell the difference between 3d and normal tv. I've read elsewhere that it makes may people dizzy, headaches and other problems. The same with 3d blu-ray movies, I won't buy them. What's your thoughts?

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Last week I bought a new [Lonovo G505 laptop](http://shop.lenovo.com/gb/en/laptops/essential/g-series/g505/) for the purpose of installing Linux. After removing Windows 8 I tried to install three different linux distributions, none of them worked. None had a compatible wifi device driver, and none of them could start the X server after installation was …

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I recevied one vote on one of my posts and got two emails for it dated about 1 minute apart.

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I've been trying all day to find a way to duel boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu. None of the google links I read seem to work on my computer. My computer has two internal hard drives, Widows 8 is installed on the first drive c:. The second hard drive has …

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I have a program with DataGridView which is bound to MS Access table. When I addept to update I get "Syntax error in INSERT INTO", but no explanation about the syntax error. Column names in the table have a space in them, such as "Last Name". Could that be the …

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The other day I installed a second internal hard drive so that I can put ubuntu on it. The primary hd has windows 7. Using the Ubuntu windows installer everything installed without a problem. When I rebooted I got a lot of error messages during bootup and finally the boot …

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Yesterday I crashed my Windows 7 when I attempted to install debian in another partition. Today I reinstalled Windows 7 by repartitioning and reformatting the hard drive. After reinstalling Chrome I noticed it retained all my previous bookmarks and settinbs. How can that be? Does Chrome keep that somewhere in …

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I installed WampServer on my Windows 7 Ultilate computer the other day and WordPress yesterday. I attempted to test WP registration in my web site but I never received the registration confirmation email. Is this not possible on localhost? If it is how do I go about getting email to …

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When I post a URL such as www.programmersforum.org it would be nice if DaniWeb turned it into a clickable link. I thought it used to do that at one time.

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Is there any way to make the size of the tab control expand in both hight and width when the entire window is resized? For example, if I initially set the top of the tab control to be about 1 inch below the top of the window and fill the …

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I have the code below in VS 2012. It dynamically allocates a DataGridView and an Update button, then it binds the grid to MS Access database table. That all works well. When I click the Update button btnUpdate_Click() is called, which calls the DataAdapter's Update() method. That produces the syntax …

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I spent the last 8 or so hours trying to install Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows 8 Pro. Didn't happen. I called iYogi tech support who tryed to help me for the last 3 hours with no success. We finally concluded Office 2010 is not compatible with Windows 8. So, …

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How can you remove bad links under "Linkbacks vis member badges"? The link has not been valid for some time now.

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I'm using VS 2012 and coding a try/catch block in an MS Access database project, but VS says OleDbException is not defined (see line 3 in the code). Anyone know why? I got some of this code from [here](http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/Vsexpressvb/thread/c822d48c-fd90-44a1-a186-a15e16966233/), and according to MSDN OleDbException is valid in vb.net Try data_adapter.Update(CType(binding_source.DataSource, …

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Click the date link should take me directly to the last post of the thread, but it doesn't do that any more.

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I can't get IE10 on Windows 8 keep the address of my desired Home page. I want to use google.com as the home page, I go to Internet Options, Use Current Page as home page, then save. It works for only a few minutes before reverting back to blank address. …

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I accidentally added a comment to Up vote before discovering that it should have been aa comment to Flag Bad Post comment. Now I can't delete the comment. Can you do that for me?

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Two article titles [here](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/8) are still in the list.

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Anyone use this distribution? I have a big big problem with the keyboard -- it misses characters or irradically repeats random characters. I might press a key quickly once and the driver will repeat it 100 or more times. Other times it misses the key altogether.

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I know how to create a function with variable argument list, but how do you create one when the argument type is unknown, something like MyPrintf(...) ? From what I've read CLR/C++ only supports known argument types, such as int, `MyPrintf("...array<Int32>^ arr)` and the calling function int main() { MyPrintf("One", …

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![Untitled40](/attachments/small/0/Untitled40.png "align-left") I'm trying to figure out how to add a new connection to MySQL running on a different computer on my network. When I click Project --> New Data Source a list of drivers appears, but none of them are MySQL (see thumbnail) which I have previously installed. I'm …

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I can't edit a post I just made. The edit button does nothing but take me to the top of the page.

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When my program calls MsgBox it appears in the middle of the monitor. Anyone know how to move it somewhere within the boundries of my program's window?

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I put a shortcut on my desktop to DaniWeb.com, but it shows some default icon. Do you have one that I can repalace it with?

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When I want to copy all the code into the clipboard all I do is double-click then copy. That works ok. But what if all I want is a few lines of the code to paste into an existing program? There is no way to do it because when I …

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I've noticed for some time now that the ribbon frequently is not fully visible as if it is getting painted below the bottom of the browser's window. If I change larger font size (Ctrl+mouse wheel) it shows up again, making font smaller it disappears again. I'm jusing Chrome. It works …

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I want to post ' ' with 4 spaces between the tick marks, but the markup languages removes them. I tried inline code but that didn't help. How can I do that without using the Code button?

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The replacement for the Quote button (mouse left click to add text already in clipboard) is really very annoying at times. If all I want to do is just put the cursur somewhere, such as at the end of the last line of text already inside the edit box, your …

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http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/cpp/threads/332761/ide-linux Something strange is going on here. When I click [IDE \& Lunix | DaniWeb](http://www.daniweb.com/search/query/%2Anix+distributions/0?q=site%3A%2A%2F+%2Anix+distributions) from the google link all I see are empty posts -- posts that have no text. But when I go to that same thread directly within DaniWeb everything is ok. Same problem with all the …

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I copied/pasted the html code for my member badge into my vBulletin web site but it doesn't work. All I get is the html code and not the badge image. What's wrong?

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I tried using [code] and [/code] but that doesn't work. I tried using the Code button but that didn't seem to work either (i.e. past code into editor, highlight, then hit the Code button). So how to add code tags?

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How can I get there without going through another post that's already in Area 51? I don't see a link anywhere for it.

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What is this new advertising I see in threads -- some words look like links but when I hover the mouse over them an advertisement pops up.

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Dani, will you someday change the editor in the Report Bad Post link to use the same advanced editor that is used in other places, so that we can see the "insert link" and smily faces buttons? I could probably insert the tags manually but never seem to remember how …

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Yesterday I bought a new Galexy Tab (similar to IPad but 1/3 the cost), but was unable to log into DaniWeb. Has anyone else tried it with IPad or similar product? After I clicked the login button it just erased my password and refused to let me log in with …

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