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- Geek Trivia: (Doctor) Who's who in Hollywood
- Dalek ImagesBeing such a young'un in the science world, my only exposure to the good Dr. was from seeing my older brother watching episodes when I was too young to understand them...so in my curiosity, I had to find out what these daleks look like.
- Tags: GSteve, Christopher Eccleston, Doctor, dAVROs
- Discussion threads 2006-11-22
- Photos: Dinosaur Sightings 3
- hmm...so, do I put my coins in first, or the detergent? :)
- Tags: GSteve, hardware, photograph, rp-04
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- Is Jesus the next killer app?
- article rootMessage was edited by: adminTIC...the truth must not be interesting enough these days. Let's jazz it up with some pretty lights and sound effects so we can wow the attention-span deprived masses.I'd continue this rant, but something sparkly just grabbed my attention...I see your point...I agree that the...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Lakewood, church, MTV
- Discussion threads 2006-04-28
- Geek Trivia: The (cartoon) show must go on
- God bless 'em...God bless Scooby Doo & the Simpsons...two points of relief for rational humans across the western hemisphere (at least?)...The Simpsons: what a great way for us Christians and other religious fanatics to look at our crazy rituals, and see just how silly they look! Yeah, so my...
- Tags: Ref, Christians, SIMPSONS
- Discussion threads 2005-12-14
- Wi-fi usage ethics (all opinions welcome)
- Wi-fi usage ethics all opinions welcomeSo, I was reading the "Great Users" thread, that went way off on an ethics tangent, and I want to talk about this from a different perspective. I pretty much know nothing about wifi service (I’m still paying 15/month for my doggone slow dialup),...
- Tags: borrowing, ethics, GSteve, Internet Service Provider, morals, services, stealing, wi-fi
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran text
- Trojan swaps porn sites for Koran textarticle rootPurityThis sounds great - maybe companies and families should start intentionally 'installing' this on their computers. I don't know much about the Koran - I wonder if it has words as powerful and convicting as the Bible, like when the Lord Jesus...
- Tags: Bible, computers, filter, GSteve, internet, intolerance, Koran, Koran ARE, porn, religion, security, stop sinning, trojan horse, web
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- Create an AutoLookup query in Microsoft Access
- Another helpful application of this conceptI use this same technique to keep track of our fiscal calendar in Access. I have one table that just has one field, which I call "current week" which I populate with the current fiscal week number (1-52, depending on when your fiscal calendar...
- Tags: access, calendar, date, fiscal, fiscal calendar, GSteve, hardware, Invoice Details, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Corp., subform
- Discussion threads 2005-08-31
- Geek Trivia: Creative differences
- Septuagint QuibbleOkay, so I have proven myself naive and quick to be offended in previous Geek Trivia posts, but I do have a quibble simply regarding dates. I believe the Septuagint translation (which was only a translation of what we call the "Old Testament" was put together in the...
- Tags: Septuagint Quibble
- Discussion threads 2005-08-31
- Access: time format question
- I have a text box on a form where I would like to use a time format that shows hours greater than "23:59" (i.e. hours worked in a week = 40:00). Unfortunately, when I use hh:mm format, I get "15:00") is there an easy work around for this? In...
- Tags: GSteve, Microsoft Access, software
- Q&A 2005-07-13
- Firefox vs. Widows Media Player?
- Is there any known conflicts that would cause windows media player (v10.0) to stop working after installing Firefox (v1.0.4)? Maybe there is a mozilla media player I should start using? When I double-click on my WMP icon, I simply get the "exclamation" sound, and nothing else happens.I am working...
- Tags: GSteve, Mozilla Firefox, software, WMP
- Q&A 2005-07-08
- Add a Close Form command button to your Access form
- A little extra...I think I got this tip from another TechRepuplic post recently:Adding ESC key functionality to a buttonAfter creating a button, go back into the form design and click on the "Other" tab. Change the value in the "Cancel" field to "Yes". Save the form and return...
- Tags: access, Access Form, Close-Form, ESC, GSteve, hardware, Microsoft Access
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- Geek Trivia: Go fry a kite
- Very cute"...provided him with key details of the event..."*groan*Favorite Ben Franklin qoute"Beer is proof that God loves us." That my friends is my favorite Ben Franklin qoute.The turkey debacleAs great as Franklin was, he still wanted the turkey for our national bird. I'm so glad he was overruled by...
- Tags: Ben Franklin, career, Franklin, GSteve, lightning
- Discussion threads 2005-06-15
- Geek Trivia: First shots fired
- Geek Trivia: First shots firedarticle rootNeeds to be mentioned...With all this talk of early games and technology, I really think it would be a shame not to mention TRON. Yeah, I know it wasn't exactly first person; it wasn't actually a video game; and I'm actually too young to...
- Tags: Battlezone, career, Castle Wolfenstein, FPS, game, GSteve, Heil
- Discussion threads 2005-05-25
- Don't want to re-invent the wheel
- My co-worker and I both use Access XP to gather/distribute mounds of data for our company. We are both 'home-grown' Access developers, with minimal experience working with VBA for Access. I recently approached my boss about sending the two of us to a VBA for Access training course,...
- Tags: career, GSteve, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic
- Discussion threads 2005-03-21
- Doesn't Prompt to Save?
- I have started using some VBA modules in my Access databases, and I notice that any time after I have used a VBA command in a database, it stops prompting me to save objects before I close them (it does save the object, but sometimes I don't want it to)....
- Tags: Scripting languages, Databases, Save, Event
- Q&A 2005-03-11
- Report Distribution
- I have a report I have created in Access XP to show budgeted and actual revenue/expenses, broken down by VP, Administrator, and Department Head.The report currently shows all departments, and I can use the sendobject macro to email (via MS Outlook/Exchange)this entire report in snapshot format to specified users.What I...
- Tags: e-mail, GSteve, programming
- Q&A 2005-02-21
- Only able to install using safe mode?
- I am running Windows XP SP1 (Home Edition - factory installed) on a Dell Dimention 4550 I bought a couple years ago. All that we use the computer for is email, some internet/web use we have filtered internet using Proxy Watch and a bunch of games for our kids. Until...
- Tags: GSteve, safe mode, windows installer
- Q&A 2005-02-16
Additional Resources
- No Vista Beta 2 this year
- No Vista Beta 2 this yeararticle rootGuess the Vista Beta 2 and Longhorn Server release datesAccording to Microsoft, testers won't get hands on the second beta of Vista until early 2006. While no specific date was mentioned, Microsoft did say it still plans to release the final version in the...
- Tags: beta, longhorn server, microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Longhorn, Microsoft Windows Server Longhorn, Microsoft Windows Vista, programming, server, Sonja Thompson, vista, Vista Beta, Vista Beta 2
- Discussion threads 2005-11-30
- Geek Trivia: The map in the moon
- Which ancient drawings are the oldest known maps of the moon? These days, Leonardo da Vinci gets a great deal of historically inaccurate publicity for his fictional involvement in a secret quasi-religious, art-encoding, multi-millennial conspiracy. However, before Dan Brown rewrote the history of the original Renaissance...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, Leonardo Da Vinci, moon, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Vinci, Knowth, Strategy, Management
- Technical articles 2007-03-20
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