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    Replied To a Post in Things I hate about TV shows

    >Also, in terms of most sci-fi, why if you have a military space ship do you equip it with a brilliant white gleaming hull so it shows up beautifully? Why …
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    The Help America Vote Act was passed after the 2000 election in which George Bush was elected by Fox News. That act created a bipartisan commission dedicated to making voting …
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    Replied To a Post in Why does Windows XP refuse to die?

    I would imagine that if you are in possession of an original disk with the activation number then you are legal. The means by which you acquired the disk may …
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    Here's a radical thought. Why not have a talk with the employees to find out what management is doing to piss them off to the point where they would consider …
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    >We have enough voter fraud in the USA with the various paper systems, electronic systems just make it easier to skew elections. In spite of the claims from Republicans of …
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    I did this Dim key As String = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{002568CE-7595-46A3-A1C1-53F41A4ADC34}" Dim regKey As RegistryKey = Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(key, False) If regKey Is Nothing Then MsgBox("Registry key does not exist!") Else MsgBox("Registry key exists.") …
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    Replied To a Post in Delete Prevention

    You can't. If a user has the rights to save (modify) a file then by saving gibberish or blanks the file is effectively, if not physically deleted. All you can …
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    Does the same thing happen if you use IE or chrome?
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    This might be tricky but you could try to edit the partition table on the disk. You could try [this free one](http://www.pendriveapps.com/partition-table-editor-ptedit/). Make sure you save a copy of the …
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    Chrome Version 33.0.1750.146 m on 32 bit Windows 7 Pro. And this happened with the previous version of Chrome as well. It's just happening more frequently now. I reported it …
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    Except that if you don't trust online banking then you can choose not to use it.
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    >I loathe the word "brung" You'd think it would be ok considering sing, sang, sung, ring, rang, rung, etc. Song she sang to me Song she brang to me Play …
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    In the FormClosing you could always do e.Cancel = True But you should also give the user some other way to exit. For example, if the user selects **Exit** from …
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    I think we need a dual system. The voter makes his/her selections on a computer monitor, then a ballot is printed with the selections clearly indicated. The voter reviews the …
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    what do you think about non-electronic electoral voting? is that trustworthy?
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    Replied To a Post in Get Count in text box from Access

    Your query would be "SELECT COUNT(*) AS numRecords FROM Commi_Cus" and you can copy the value to a textbox by txtNumRecords.Text = rec("numRecords").Value
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    Replied To a Post in how to create Control Array in VB.net at design time(its urgent)

    There are several examples in the [Code Snippets](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/_/58) including [here](http://www.daniweb.com/software-development/vbnet/code/423678/create-controls-at-run-time-with-events). If you want to create an array of references to existing buttons then it helps to pick good names. For …
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    Replied To a Post in Problem with Chrome

    Firefox is just fine. Same with IE.
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    Edited Problem with Chrome

    I started havinig an odd problem with Chrome a couple of weeks ago. Today I tried to resolve it by uninstalling and re-installing Chrome but the problem persists. The window …
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    Created Problem with Chrome

    I started havinig an odd problem with Chrome a couple of weeks ago. Today I tried to resolve it by uninstalling and re-installing Chrome but the problem persists. The window …
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    Replied To a Post in Problems Removing a Panel at Runtime

    OK. Try Dim name As String = "pnl" & ChrW(columnsCode) & ChrW(rowsCode) Dim pnl As Panel = Me.Controls(name) Me.Controls.Remove(pnl)
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    Replied To a Post in Problems Removing a Panel at Runtime

    Your loop is creating a new Panel (pnl) then trying to remove it from the Me.Controls collection but you never added it to the Me.Controls collection to begin with. If …
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    When you say the numbers are off I presume that, for example, you had 100 records numbered 1-100, then you deleted the last ten leaving you 1-90, then the next …
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    Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?

    The one line from a Stephen King book that always gives me chills is from The Stand. One of the characters (Stu Redman) is in a gully and trying to …
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    Replied To a Post in Get Count in text box from Access

    Is there a question? I've seen some of your other posts and you seem to think that we are willing and able to answer questions that you can't be bothered …
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    Replied To a Post in Data MissMatch Error

    You haven't provided us with the relevent code. You call connection, Recordset (a bad name for a sub, by the way) and recexist. You haven't told us what line is …
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    Replied To a Post in AutoNumber

    What is the current definition of the field? And if the numbers are off because you deleted the field from your program then how is it auto number?
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    Replied To a Post in What are you eating/drinking right now?

    >Eating ginger? Trying to become a gingerbread man? That's a staple in our house. Especially in tea.
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    Replied To a Post in What are you eating/drinking right now?

    Home made French Canadian pea soup.
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    Replied To a Post in What movie have you seen lately?

    I've read and enjoyed a lot of SK. I think I've read The Stand three times. I enjoyed Needful Things, especially the movie (I loved Max Von Sydow). I stopped …
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    Replied To a Post in Get Count in text box from Access

    Sample ADO using MS SQL and copying data to a listview. Change the connection string for access. Dim con As New ADODB.Connection Dim rec As New ADODB.Recordset con.Open("Driver={SQL Server};Server=.\SQLEXPRESS;Database=PUBS;Trusted_Connection=yes;") rec.Open("SELECT …
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    Replied To a Post in VB6 Lan Connection

    A share path is usually specified as \\MACHINE\SHARE\PATH\FILE where SHARE is defined on the sharing machine and is never specified as an actual device like C:. If an administrative share …
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    Replied To a Post in combining multiple table into one table

    I presume **no** is **classNo**. This doesn't appear in either of the two tables so you would have to generate it in the query as in INSERT INTO classroom SELECT …
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    Replied To a Post in how to find corrupt file in vb.net and repair.

    It's too vague a question.
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    Replied To a Post in factorial using recursion

    How about int factorial (int n) { return n == 0 ? 1 : n * factorial(n-1); }
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    Replied To a Post in combining multiple table into one table

    What is the layout of the new table? There is always a way to combine tables. The trick is to combine them in a way that makes sense. If you …
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    Replied To a Post in Alan Turing, father of computer science, finally gets royal pardon

    If you get the chance, a very detailed an interesting book by Jack Copeland is "Colossus: The Secrets Of Bletchley Park's Code-Breaking Computers"
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    Replied To a Post in Is the TAB going to replace the laptop ?

    @diafol - here's a handy tip. If you are losot in a foreign city and you don't speak the language and they don't speak English, it helps the locals to …
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    Try changing **list** to **myList**.
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    Replied To a Post in Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    Let's say you have some globally defined objects as follows: Private myDict As New Dictionary(Of String, String) Private myDefs As New List(Of String) Private myWrds As New List(Of String) myDict …
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    Replied To a Post in INSERT INTO syntax error

    Just an afterthought, **password** is a reserved word in some databases. Try link.Execute "INSERT INTO Accounts(Username, [Password], Fname, Lname, Age, Cnumber, Eadd, Add) VALUES ('" & logintxt.Text & "', '" …
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    Replied To a Post in INSERT INTO syntax error

    Change it to dim qry as string qry = "INSERT INTO Accounts(Username, Password, Fname, Lname, Age, Cnumber, Eadd, Add) VALUES ('" & logintxt.Text & "', '" & passwordtxt.Text & "', …
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    Replied To a Post in Is the TAB going to replace the laptop ?

    It would be fast enough if you lived in Chatanooga. They have incredibly fast (publicly owned) internet there.
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    >Speaking of lasers, how do you see the beam of a laser The last time he saw the green spot on his shirt. And, yes, Laser Floyd was awesome.
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    Replied To a Post in Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    I have several problems with that. 1. The idea here is not to provide a complete solution because doing so does not help the OP learn the concepts. 2. By …
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    Replied To a Post in Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    Dictionaries are key-value pairs which are not indexed numerically (unless the key is also a number). What you can do is create a list of definitions at the same time …
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    Revoked Solved Status for Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    I am making a quiz as part of my assignment for my computer science class and the aim is to make a flash quiz where keywords and their definitions are …
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    Marked Solved Status for Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    I am making a quiz as part of my assignment for my computer science class and the aim is to make a flash quiz where keywords and their definitions are …
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    Replied To a Post in Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    So you display a word, the correct definition, and two other unique definitions from the list. The user selects a radiobutton and the code checks to see if the selected …
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    Replied To a Post in Puzzled trying to get this to work...

    Have you considered a loop? That will make the code independent of the number of words and definitions. 'using MIN ensures you don't get an error if one array is …

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