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    Replied To a Post in What's up with Windows 10?

    I've been running Windows 10 in a virtual machine since it was released for preview. They say the Start Menu is back but it isn't really. As for the rest …
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    Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!

    But as long as you can leave the Jag in the driveway to impress the neighbours then who cares, right?
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    Replied To a Post in convert color image to grayscale

    Incidentally, rather than averaging the colors I read somewhere that you get a better result from Dim r As Single = c.R Dim g As Single = c.G Dim b …
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    Replied To a Post in convert color image to grayscale

    Try Dim pic As Bitmap = New Bitmap(PictureBox1.Image) Dim x As Integer = pic.Width Dim y As Integer = pic.Height Dim gray = New Bitmap(pic.Width, pic.Height) For x = 0 …
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    Can you provide a little more detail please?
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    >How about a reference for "noli mentula" which I just looked up. Good one. You are the first person to comment on that. It's a loose latin translation of Wil …
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    Gave Reputation to woooee in Random Facts

    How about a reference for "noli mentula" which I just looked up. Good one.
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    Do you have a source for that?
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    I'm reminded of the following: "The problem with Internet quotes and statistics is that often times, they’re wrongfully believed to be real." — Abraham Lincoln
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    >I thought there would be sources included in each Random Fact Absolutely correct. I just got lazy. Here is the [source](http://content.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1843796,00.html) for the truth in advertising.
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    Marked Solved Status for Summing multiline textbox numbers

    hey guys quick one, im doing an income vs expenses form on VB, i have two mulitline textboxes, one for income and one for expenses. Everything works well but i …
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    Replied To a Post in Summing multiline textbox numbers

    How about Dim total As Single = 0.0 For Each line As String In TextBox1.Lines If IsNumeric(line) Then total += CSng(line) End If Next
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    You add a timer control and set Interval to 10000 (ten seconds). In the SelectionIndexChanged event handler for the fifth combobox you do MyTimer.Start In the MyTimer.Tick event handler you …
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    How is it that on Blue Bloods, everyone in the family speaks so well except for Danny who talks like he was raised in "Joisey"? Imagine how out of place …
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    Replied To a Post in Page rendering problem

    The pages load quickly except for the code behind the controls. And, nope, it didn't get better.
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    Replied To a Post in what is the easiest language to begin learning as a programmer?

    Python. And there is even a great support forum for it on Daniweb.
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    Replied To a Post in Picture Zoom and Pan

    There is a good example of how to do that [here](http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?654846-ZoomPictureBox-picture-control-with-mouse-centred-zooming).
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    Replied To a Post in Page rendering problem

    Yup. Pretty consistent now.
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    Created Page rendering problem

    I've noticed this happening over the last week or so. 1. I select a forum 1. The page comes up and the spinner stops. 1. The "Page generated" stats are …
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    It could be as simple as the drive coming unseated. That happened to me recently. The screws holding the drive in place were loose and the drive had wiggled free …
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    Gave Reputation to jjones0150 in VB Vanderman

    Create a Visual Basic application that meets the following requirements: No buttons can be used. All actions must be handled by menu commands. (Note: This is intended only to provide …
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    Replied To a Post in There is an elephant on the loo!

    Interesting that they could do that considering that nobody has yet managed to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction.
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    In the US, truth-in-advertising laws do not apply to political ads.
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    Replied To a Post in Ancient Dragon

    As for the non-programming posts, I learned a lot from my discussions with Mel on topics where we were diametrically opposed. I'll miss him.
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    Here in Winnipeg we used to have occasional floods from the Red River. The one in 1950 caused widespread destruction. Since then we built the Floodway which diverts the water …
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    When you post >Yes, it should be. in a two year old solved thread or you make two essentially identical posts in the same thread (just changing **every** to **all**) …
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    Replied To a Post in Data loss in MS Access Database

    I suspect you are updating the data in a dataset (in-memory copy of the database) but not updating the actual data in the database itself.
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    Replied To a Post in How to Write Unmaintainable Code

    I did maintenance/development (mostly maintenance) with FORTRAN code for 15 years. I was really pissed when I found INTEGER NINE /5/ but the worst ever code was SUBROUTINE READALL(UNIT,BUFF,*,*,IFIRST) C*TTL …
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    Began Watching How to Write Unmaintainable Code

    I came across this must-read article. I was a maintenance programmer for 29 years and I've come across many of the deadly sins that he discusses and maybe even one …
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    Created How to Write Unmaintainable Code

    I came across this must-read article. I was a maintenance programmer for 29 years and I've come across many of the deadly sins that he discusses and maybe even one …
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    Replied To a Post in Stolen explicit teen porn Snapchat images appearing online

    It seems to me that it's like somebody "flashing" a friend discreetly (if that is possible) in a public place and then complaining because someone else managed to sneak a …
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    Replied To a Post in ok. that's me leaving daniweb

    Glad you decided to stay. Love the code snippets by the way.
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    Replied To a Post in Project form 4

    @Santanu Das - Daniweb is not a homework mill for people to get solutions when they are too lazy to put in the effort on their own. Posts of the …
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    Replied To a Post in Forum Members Read First

    Usually when someone posts a question like that they get a "please show proof of your work so far" response or a reminder of the rules (with a link to …
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    @Irahmiki - Please read the [rules](https://www.daniweb.com/community/rules), one of which states **Do provide evidence of having done some work yourself if posting questions from school or work assignments**
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    Edited Point of sale

    hi guys can you help my project my system is Poit of sale and inventory i want to subtruct my itemsstock to quanty that i buy for every items cen …
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    Gave Reputation to J.C. SolvoTerra in VB 8 cloak program

    That's great to hear. My biggest piece of advice for you is remeber you have an undo button, many many undos. Don't be afraid to change and play with code …
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    Replied To a Post in Drop a table starting with ?

    I think you can get a list of the matching tables by SELECT MSysObjects.Name AS table_name FROM MSysObjects WHERE [Name] LIKE "DailyCashSalesRpt*" Then you can step through the resulting records …
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    The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence. Bill Clinton
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    The only thing polling tells you for sure is what people will say if they're asked a question by a pollster. Jonathan Bernstein
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    Edited BIOS Solution

    Have an old Toshiba Satellite with the latest and last BIOS version. Did not include Boot to USB... a feature I need. Used to see solutions offered online. Is there …
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    Replied To a Post in How would i write the Pseudocode for this program?

    You start by writing comments and putting them in your code. The comments should say what the code does, not how it does it. Then you remove the code. What's …
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    False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing Joseph …
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    Far too many people are looking for the right person instead of trying to be the right person. Gloria Steinem
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    The first step in understanding everything is understanding something. me
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    Replied To a Post in Memorable Quotations

    Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things. Doug Gwyn
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    When Hobby Lobby filed their now-famous lawsuit to avoid paying for employees' contraception on the basis of religious freedom, the company 401(k) plan had more than $73 million invested in …
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    Replied To a Post in Random Facts

    The first working electron microscope was built in 1933, two years before the first working parking meter.
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    Replied To a Post in Memorable Quotations

    "Finally, a study that backs up everything I've always said about confirmation bias." - Kevin Slane
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    Replied To a Post in Preferred Method For Saving Program Settings

    Perhaps it's just me but it seems like a lot of trouble to go through to avoid using the builtin My.Settings. And you have to modify the code every time …

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