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Linksys USB Monitor Issue

After having done many Linksys wireless network set-ups, I'm experiencing an issue for the first time using 2 Linksys Wireless G USB Adapters w/Speedbooster. One machine is a fresh build with XP ProSP2 and the other is a year old box just updated w/SP2. Router is a brand new Linksys...

Tags: Countrynet, DHCP, Linksys, monitor, router, software, sydell@...

Q&A 2005-04-23

Phishers target Yahoo Messenger

Yahoo confirmed Thursday that its service, Yahoo Messenger, was being targeted by a scam. Attackers are sending members a message--seemingly from someone on their friends list--that contains a link to a fake Web site. This fake site looks like an official Yahoo site and asks the user to log in...

Tags: hacker, security, Sonja Thompson, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2005-03-25

Achieving job success in the first 30 days

How a new tech leader approaches the first month on the job can often make or break the success of his or her tenure. We talked to several CIOs who offered valuable advice to help you take the IT helm with confidence.By Patricia KutzaTalk with any CIO about their first...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Guest Contributor, first month, job, information technology

Technical articles 2002-04-29

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Convert numbers to fractions using SQL Server

NiceA long time ago, I wrote functions to do long arithmetic on VERY large numbers just to see if I could. When I casually mentioned it to a friend in another dept., he was ecstatic. He had been searching for programs to do that for months (I don't remember...

Tags: server, VARCHAR,@denominator, Microsoft SQL Server

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

Is the petty behavior

this new thread?? It's MONDAY morning, give it a rest. Do you know HOW many times more than one joke thread has been started on a Friday? Give it up. Grow up. You know, you did have options. You could have reposted your joke...

Tags: System Admin

Discussion threads 2006-07-31

Include Null values in calculated queries in Access

About the NZ functionNZ is one of those VBA function that can be used when building expressions in the query grid.Although NZ stands for Null to Zero it can return another value too. Add a second parameter to NZ and specify the value returned if Null. Can be a number...

Tags: Microsoft Access, daniel@..., Nz Function

Discussion threads 2007-11-24

802.11n - The consequences of abandoning the 5 GHz frontier

When 802.11b first started getting popular in late 2000, no one imagined that it would still be the most dominant standard 6 years later and continue to dictate the design of the latest wireless LAN products because it is the lowest common denominator. As with any technology that is...

Tags: Hardware, IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11g, IEEE 802.11n, Infrastructure, Mobile/Wireless, Networking, News

Blog posts 2007-01-24

Microsoft Word or Excel 2000

I am aa administrator of a document server where all the users store MS Word, Excel , Powerpoint and other files in this server for sharing purpose.The problem begins when some of the users try and open some of the files either saved by the same user or different users....

Tags: kiamkhai@..., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PC, server, software

Q&A 2004-12-24

Scripting error

We have a company portal that uses Lotus Domino Web Access. We have users that access our portal from the internet via a web page that uses an SSL VPN client. A handful of users are experiencing a scripting error when attempting to access their email. They get the standard...

Tags: BRNeyes, portal, programming

Q&A 2005-02-10

A diverse development environment can enhance productivity and quality

Most software developers have a strong opinion about their preferred source code editor. Whether they go for a full-blown IDE like Eclipse, Visual Age, or JBuilder; the kitchen sink style of emacs; or the minimalist approach of vi, Notepad, and bbedit, they know what they like and they generally dislike...

Tags: Development tools, Ryan Brase, developer, development environment, Visual Age, tool

Technical articles 2003-08-12

Snazzy ways to explain Access relational databases

Check out this Forum question from TechRepublic reader, Donna, and see whether you can come up with good examples for explaining the relationship between tables in Access to beginning database students.You’re teaching Access for what seems like the hundredth time. All of a sudden, in the middle of explaining the...

Tags: Databases, Microsoft Office, RDBMS, Beverly, Elisa Suiter, database, database student, Microsoft Access

Technical articles 1999-11-02

Prepare for the new Web formats: Be XML savvy

Separating the data and the formatting is one advantage of XML and SGL technologies over traditional HTML site design. Tim Landgrave explains how these technologies can help your company handle new Web formats—such as PDAs.Most CIOs have been around long enough to remember the sense of wonder in using a...

Tags: Channel management, e Advantage, XML, Web, HTML, XSL

Technical articles 2000-02-09

Inside C#: In-depth reference or basic language tutorial?

Web Editor Lamont Adams takes a look at Inside C# and discovers that while it offers a good introduction to the language, it's not quite the architecture reference that it promises to be.The back cover of Inside C# proclaims it as “a detailed look at the internal architecture of the...

Tags: .NET, Programming languages, Web Editor Lamont Adams, Lamont Adams, C#, Tom Archer, Microsoft Intermediate Language

Technical articles 2001-06-18

Convert numbers to fractions using SQL Server

I recently worked on an interesting problem that involved converting a decimal number to a fraction value in SQL Server. At first glance, it seemed reasonably simple, but after digging into the actual code a bit, I realized it was rather challenging. Here's how you can write...

Tags: Fraction, Microsoft SQL Server, Server, VARCHAR, Tim, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Tim Chapman

Blog posts 2008-04-30

Simplify 2.0 (Mobile)

Simplify is a simple learning tool. In Simplify you must reduce fractions. For each correct fraction reduced you score 1 point. You can set the size of the denominator using the dropdown in the upper right corner. When changing the size of the denominator your score is reset. ...

Tags: Fraction, Mobile, Schau.Com, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-08-20

Geek Trivia: The quibble of the week for Nov. 11, 2008

IQ TestWhy should we allow people to vote if they aren't smart enough?RE: Geek Trivia: The quibble of the week for Nov. 11, 2008Remove the electoral colleges, and vote directly.See, it's easy, just takes some common sense ;-)but at what levelwould you consider smart?Just because:- The Constitution and the laws...

Tags: electoral college, Geek Trivia

Discussion threads 2008-11-11

An easier way to enter fractions in Excel

One more reasonQA here used to demand different significant figures in different places in a spreadsheet. One particular place was in a dilution factor where we were supposed to place 2 sig figs. That is fine if your dilution factor is 1/2 or 1/4 but numbers like 1/3...

Tags: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

What's the deal with Symantec anymore?

As I've mentioned before, to keep my IT skills fresh I maintain a small consulting business on the side of my regular day-job here at TechRepublic.An increasingly worrisome trend I've noticed lately is just how many problems I'vehad to fix as a result of problems arising from Symantec software. Whether...

Tags: Software, Symantec Corp., Norton Co., Security, Viruses And Worms, John Sheesley

Blog posts 2006-08-03

The sorry state of web development

UPDATE (2/28/2006): I've posted a follow up to this article that presents positive ideas on how to change this situation.Last night I read a great article (http://www.veen.com/jeff/archives/000622.html) from about 16 months ago about how lousy most open source CMS Content Management Systems packages were. While focused upon open source,...

Tags: content management system, XML, AJAX, JavaScript, Web, Web development

Blog posts 2006-02-26

Podcast Only? No Thanks!

[5/2/2006] Edited to clarify for those who may have missed the original discussion. I am not against podcasts. I am against information being distributed as a podcast but not available in any other format. There is nothing inherently wrong with podcasts as long as that information is available in a...

Tags: Podcasts, podcast

Blog posts 2006-04-25