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- How do I... Add items to an Access combo box on the fly?
- List controls in Microsoft Access, such as the combo box and list box, offer choices to the user. From their point of view, they don't have to enter anything -- they simply select an item. From the application developer's perspective, the database is protected from typos and other erroneous data....
- Tags: Box, Response, Solution, Microsoft Access, Item, Control, Property, Truth, Difference, List, Form, Table, NewData, acDataErrContinue, Limit, Yes, Iron, SQL Statement, Gold, Databases, Microsoft Office, Programming Languages, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Office Suites, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2008-02-07
- How to avoid being a phishing Webserver admin
- In October I discussed the way people tend to misinterpret phishing botnet statistics. The key point was that people saw that many of the phishing Websites were on Linux servers, and somehow leaped to the conclusion this meant Linux desktops were parts of the botnets sending out phishing emails....
- Tags: Web Server, Administrator, Password, Truth, Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Web Servers, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Internet, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
- Think you've wiped that hard drive? Think again
- For all the incidents of data loss resulting from human mistakes or untimely computer crashes, few computer users probably give much thought to the persistence of their data. The fact is that the normal deletion of files in your operating system of choice really only purges their...
- Tags: Technique, Hard Drive, Media, Data, Fact, Truth, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- Sanity check: Will startups or big companies have a bigger impact on tech in 2008?
- For the past four decades, the tech industry has had a romantic infatuation with startups. Much of that is due to the fact that many of today's biggest billion dollar tech giants began as fledgling startups in basements and garages. In the 1970s and 1980s, it was mostly startups involved...
- Tags: Start-up, Truth, Web 2.0, Internet, Channel Management, Groupware, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- Sanity check: The truth about Windows Vista adoption in 2007
- When Microsoft released its earnings report to Wall Street on October 25, it surprised investors and the technology industry by reporting its best rate of revenue growth (27%) for a quarter since 1999. Microsoft credited its revenue growth to strong demand for Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, and Halo 3....
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Windows Vista, Truth, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-11-04
- How to show filename extensions
- By default, Windows doesn't display filename extensions. They're there, you just can't see them. An extension is the three-character suffix at the end of a filename. The extension tells you the file's format. For example, the filename Employees could be anything. Displaying the extension gives you instant knowledge: Employees.doc is...
- Tags: Truth, File, Extension, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- How to avoid an embarrassing mistake in Outlook
- Have you ever sent an e-mail to the wrong person? If you’re lucky, it didn't matter. However, it could be an embarrassing and even critical error. For instance, let's suppose you have two clients named John. You sent John Smith your regular fee schedule. Later, while negotiating a new project...
- Tags: Method, Truth, AutoComplete, Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Susan Harkins
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- 10+ project management mistakes (and what you can learn from them)
- Most of the project management mistakes I've made over the years are due to a lack of concentration. The truth is, when things are running smoothly or when you're diverted by other priorities, it can be easy to take your eye off the ball. I often mistakenly thought that even...
- Tags: Team, Truth, Project Management, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Strategy, It Operations, It service Management, Management, TechRepublic
- Blog posts 2007-10-09
- The truth about viruses
- Once every couple months or so, I find myself explaining to someone that the flood of viruses everyone has come to expect is not an unavoidable side effect of an increasingly networked world. Usually this comes up in response to the all-too-common security through obscurity argument that Linux systems would...
- Tags: Software, Vulnerability, Antivirus Software, Truth, Virus, Chad Perrin
- Blog posts 2007-09-12
- Sanity check: 10 dirty little secrets you should know about working in IT
- If you are preparing for a career in IT or are new to IT, many of the "dirty little secrets" listed below may surprise you because we don't usually talk about them out loud. If you are an IT veteran, you've probably encountered most of these issues and have a...
- Tags: Job, Certification, Consultant, Information Technology, IT Professional, Truth, Technology, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2007-09-01
- Use Earned Value Management (EVM) to determine project status
- The truth is that you can never know with any degree of precision how far along you are in a project. But with EVM, you can get a close estimate. Let's say your sponsor asks you the typical question about how far along you are on your project....
- Tags: Earned Value Management, Actual Cost, Planned Value, Earned Value, Schedule Variance, Schedule Performance Index, Cost Performance Index, Tom Mochal, budgeted cost, Project Management Newsletter, Project, Work, Truth, Productivity
- Technical articles 2007-03-27
- The Truth!!! A Thursday morning yuk.
- http://tinyurl.com/3xcuapEnough said. :^0[b]Dawg[/b] ]:)Women in the USThree men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives duties.The first man had married a woman from Alabama! , and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning...
- Tags: Dad, sleepin'dawg
- Discussion threads 2007-02-01
- Its all our fault.
- Thousands of years of living together and we can have a moments peace. I think our time is up, and we should all just walk into the streets and give the next species a jumpstart and kill ourselves. We dont deserve to live, life is not sacred and never has...
- Tags: God, tryten
- Discussion threads 2007-01-11
- Geek Trivia: Elements of surprise
- What are the only two synthetic elements with atomic numbers lower than uranium? For an occupation ostensibly dedicated to clarifying the nature of the empirically observed universe, science (or, rather, scientists) often has a devil of a time speaking plainly. Take, for example, the phrase synthetic element,...
- Tags: Jay Garmon, synthetic element, Geek Trivia Newsletter, TechRepublic Inc., Earth, Scientist, Truth, Uranium, Bomb, Technetium, Promethium, Corporate Communications, Handhelds, Marketing, Hardware
- Technical articles 2006-09-12
- Internet advertising and Internet security: Can they coexist, or is a showdown inevitable?
- Like it or not, advertising is part of the Internet food chain and a huge source of revenue for Internet companies. But many conflicts between Internet advertising and Internet security already exist, and scams, malware, and click fraud continue to erode users' trust. When it comes to Internet advertising and...
- Tags: Jonathan Yarden, Internet, Internet advertising, Internet security, advertisement, advertiser, Internet Security Focus Newsletter, Truth
- Technical articles 2006-08-04
- Expected to see this by a "new" member
- Expected to see this by a "new" memberWhen mr/ms/mrs/ cobbler started with pulling troups out of Afghanistan, it showed a total disconnect from reality, as we still have soldiers there.The alternate reality gets wilder from that point on, hitting on almost every twisted lie you would find at moveon.org or...
- Tags: AMERICAN, AMERICAN PEOPLE, GWB, truth, lies, spying, war, egregious, peachcobbler, off-topic, GWB manufacturing
- Discussion threads 2006-05-15
- Truth is stranger than Star Trek
- Space.com: "A new study finds that the supermassive black holes at the hearts of some galaxies are the most fuel efficient engines in the universe." Trivia Geek reaction: "As I recall, the Romulans use forced quantum singularities AKA artificial black holes as...
- Tags: Truth, Star Trek, TechRepublic Pro, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2006-04-26
- Feds approve liberal election rules for Net
- Will the government eventually stifle robust Internet debate?The Federal Election Commission recently approved rules to regulate political ads on Web sites. Now that a formal regulatory framework is in place, proponents of online free speech worry that it will be tempting for the government to gradually stifle robust Internet debate.What...
- Tags: advertisement, airtime, Big Brother, Fiction, government, internet, it management, news, politics, regulations, Sonja Thompson, Truth
- Discussion threads 2006-03-28
- Surprise! Vista delayed until 2007 ... Here is my take
- On Friday, I posted that Windows Vista was unofficially set to ship in November. I was right. What I didn't realize was that businesses were the only ones that would be getting it in Q4. At 5:30 PM EST this afternoon (March 21), Microsoft Windows chief Jim Allchin dropped...
- Tags: Jim Allchin, Microsoft Windows Vista, Truth, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Hiner
- Blog posts 2006-03-21
- Waterfall 2006 - The Truth About Software Development
- Please see the attached link to an impressive new Software Development conference. Note that many of the papers are already available from this link as a preview. Please note the confoerence date and location for further insight.http://www.waterfall2006.com/Please take a look at the above link. I can assure...
- Tags: agile, humor, Please Note, programming, software development, software engineering/development, Truth, Waterfall 2006, Wayne M.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-13
