AndyFair

I use Fireworks for all my initial website designs, but usually end up tweaking the HTML in Dreamweaver (Fireworks produces fixed-width websites, I prefer mine to be variable width - I hate websites that don't size themselves to the size of the window you're using!) The technique Fireworks uses for all it's menus is quite complicated, but once learnt becomes second nature. I haven't tried any of the other apps - isn't PhotoImpact a graphics program? Sounds a bit like Adboe making Photoshop do the web thing - trying to be too many things at once!! I haven't tried Xara, but I notice it does have a free trial on its website (and it has the advantage of only costing $20, compared to $200-$300 for Fireworks) Have you tried looking on Webmonkey? I'm sure they've got articles on how to do menus by hand...? Hope this helps Rgds AndyF

Quote: Hey these guys rock!!!! Wait, I am these guys! And the new Metallica is better but not up to par with what they were (are?) capable of... The bus just landed on the wrong guy! Either way, check it out up in tha link Ah, so the game's afoot - if you're the bass player, that means CyberGenX must be either the lead guitarist or the vocalist (unless of course, you're CyberGenX, masquerading as somebody else or your name is just a red herring! :x ) I've been listening more to Metallica (lots of driving this week!) - I think you're right, it's a move back towards their older albums, but not as good as them - it doesn't seem as "tight" as previous efforts, doesn't appear to have any "soul" (does that make sense, or am I just babbling?!) They went mainstream with the black album, maybe they're just producing albums to pay for all the legal bills for the cases against Napster et al...! Rgds AndyF

Well, since you're here on NTCompatible.com and not Landis&StaefaCompatible.com, we can safely assume that you're not the drummer! So my guess is that you're either the lead guitarist, the bass guitarist or the singer! Do I get my video now?! ;( So, I have to ask, if you're old-school metal, what do you think of the new Metallica album - I just got it, it's much closer to their older work, less "poppy" - it's excellent driving music!! Rgds AndyF

It's MC Escher's birthday - at least that's what Google says! The logo quite often changes to refelect some occasion, especially holidays. But yes, that is a particularly cool logo. AndyF

But surely the big giveaway is that the e-mail didn't actually come from Microsoft.com...?! AndyF

Although theoretically it doesn't matter how you wire a Cat5 cable - just as long as you have the same order at each end! Electrons couldn't care less what colour wire they're travelling down And, yes, before anyone wades in talking about standards, I know what the standards are, and I make all my cables to the standard when I make them for work ;( Rgds AndyF

But if you still want a 60fps webcam, the Philips PCVC750K (Philips Webcam Pro 3D) states that it can do 60fps at 640x480, and interpolated stills at 1280x960 Don't know if it's available in the US though, nor how much it costs (around £70 in the UK) Rgds AndyF

ECC memory is also slightly slower, because every read/write operation involves error checking as well as just the read/write. Rgds AndyF

Could be badly seated graphics card, memory, faulty processor or dead motherboard. Does the motherboard give any POST error beeps? Do the fans and hard drives spin up when you turn the power on? Can you hear it start to boot Windows (single POST beep, hard drives chugging etc.)? Try reseating everything and try again. Are you able to check with your old CPU? Just a couple of thoughts Rgds AndyF

FutureMark have released patches to 3DMark 03, and I'm sure I saw mention of problems with the nature test - I think the latest version is 330? Rgds AndyF

I agree, this is definitely the way forward - I think we'll start to see a move away from big, catch-all operating systems (which are now becoming too large to manage properly and securely, no matter how well you train your programmers) towards smaller, more specific OSs - which, because they're smaller, will be easier to manage, and easier to ensure that they're bug-free and secure. Rgds AndyF

It's also a non-standard OS, with a very specific kernel - so commonly known hacking techniques would probably not work. I imagine that the kind of people who tried to hack it were "script kiddies" - using generic, buffer-overflow type scenarios. Like it says in the article, "Proper" hackers (i.e. people that know what they're doing) are unlikely to try. Also, there is no such thing as an invulnerable OS, because you can never imagine all the types of attack an OS may come under... Rgds AndyF

Got a Philips webcam and adapter to use in my telescope...all I need now is a way of either getting a really long USB cable or some wireless doohicky to connect it up to my desktop from the back garden ;( Rgds AndyF

Quote: I am just going to export the query then run excell macros to manually create the sub levels and totals. You don't have to run Excel macros, you can do it all from Access using the method I talked about above - then it stays a one-step process (click a button in Access) rather than a 2-step process (click a button in Access, run a macro in Excel) The easiest way to do this is to record your macro in Excel, then copy the code and paste it into Access (surround it by a file open at the beginning, then a file save at the end), and prefix each line with a reference to Excel object. Hope this helps Rgds AndyF

Quote: On further inspection, it will not let me save as a CSV file Sorry, my bad - I thought you were exporting a query not a report. I have to say that I have never thought of exporting a report as a spreadsheet before. Like Alec said, do you have to export the design of the report? Because if not, it would be easier to export the query that sits behind the report. The only difficulty would be if you have any sublevels and subtotals in your report... Alec, I'm not sure whether a patch would help here (but I'm willing to be proved wrong!) - the Access development team always seem to be a couple of steps behind the rest of the Office development team. I don't know whether it's that MS don't consider Access as a mainstream application or what, but it always seems to be the case - the only thing that seems to change between versions is the file format!! Rgds AndyF

OK, just had a quickie read up (at work now, I have Access apps wot I wrote that use OLE automation all over the place)...anyway, the important line is: Code: Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.Application") Once this is done, you use standard Excel VBA commands and prefix them with xlObj - for example: Code: xlObj.Workbooks.Open FileName:="Filename.csv"xlObj.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs FileName:="Filename.xls", FileFormat:=xlNormal, Password:="", WriteResPassword:="", ReadOnlyRecommended:=False, CreateBackup:=False Hope this helps. Rgds Andy

Yes, it is possible to control other Office applications from within Access. Can't remember off the top of my head how to do it, but it can be done. So in theory, the flow of code should be something like: Export query as CSV Start Excel Import CSV Save as most recent Excel format Close Excel I'll take a look at work tomorrow and get back to you (don't have Access installed at home at the mo) Rgds AndyF

Since Access doesn't really format its Excel export files, have you thought of exporting text (CSV) instead? Just a thought? AndyF

An alternative (although maybe not the one you're looking for) is to move the harddrive onto the non-RAID IDE channel (one of the grey IDE connectors not the blue ones?), install WinXP normally without having to install the Promise drivers. Once XP is installed, install the Promise drivers from CD or Internet, then shut down and swap the harddrive back to the RAID controller. Hope this helps, AndyF

Good film, it really fleshes out Wolverine's character (we get to see where he came from). I'm in 2 minds as to whether the story was better or not, I'll probably have to see it again to make my mind up All I can say is, if you liked the first, go and see the second!! Rgds AndyF

Take a look in any astronomy mags, they're full of adverts for things like this. Alternatively, take a look at the website of either your scope or eyepiece manufacturer. They may have what you're looking for. Let us know how you get on - it's something I'd love to do, but don't have a laptop to drag outside with the scope... Rgds AndyF

OK, a StorageTek disk array will set you back something like thousands of dollars (if not tens of thousands for a terabyte range array), not to mention the fact that you'd need Fibre Channel (F-CAL) controllers as well (which will set you back somewhere between $500-$1000) ...something tells me that's a little out of your price range, that you're doing this for your home PC, right? I would go along with duhmez's suggestion, and just add in a couple more Promise ATA133 controllers. Just check that it's not going to interfere with any onboard controllers you may have (especially if they're HighPoint!) Just one question for Duhmez though: with more than one IDE controller, which one does the motherboard boot from - I know with one controller, you can boot from SCSI, and that will boot from the PCI card, but what if you have more than one controller card - which one boots first? Rgds AndyF

There are motherboards around at the moment with 4 IDE connectors and 2 SATA connectors...so it is possible to have 10 IDE devices installed into 1 PC. I don't know whether it's possible to use all of the IDE connectors and the SATA connectors all at once though. You'd better make sure you have a beefy enough PSU to provide all the juice, as well as plenty of cooling! I've only ever come across terabyte installations in data centres though, and these tend to be multi-thousand pound installations, running SANs over F-CAL backbones...big chunky cases with lots of fans!! Rgds AndyF

One surefire way is to print landscape, not portrait. I know it uses up a bit more paper, but at least you won't get the right hand margin cut off! When are MS going to sort this out? It's been bugging me since the early days of IE... ;( Rgds AndyF

Best thing to do is go to the Crucial website, and let it suggest the RAM type once you plug in the Dell model. Much easier! Rgds AndyF