tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-261863852024-09-16T12:29:46.767-05:00a diversification of interests...(but mostly computer stuff)Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06057827365305120474noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26186385.post-21277813718046677252015-10-22T11:32:00.003-05:002015-10-22T11:32:34.908-05:00

It's only been 3 years.  Perhaps I should create an update! How about how to set your own image for your Windows 7 log on screen?  Yes.  I'm still working with Windows 7, so have no idea if this works on 8 or 10.  Sorry for any inconvenience. Basically, this is for non-domain systems and/or systems where the group policy doesn't interfere.  Insert the following into a

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Updating can be kind of tricky and time consuming if there are a lot of rows being affected.  The task is especially cumbersome, or seems so, when updating a particular column from one table with data in a column from another table. The simple SQL query to accomplish this is: update t1 set t1.c1=t2.c1, t1.c2=t2.c2 from table1 t1 inner join table2 t2 on t1.col=t2.col In this script

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DBCC commands are some of the most misunderstood, yet essential to anyone maintaining a MSSQL database. I work with MSSQL databases daily and found http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teamcenteronsql/ to be indispensable when trying to determine to use DBCC INDEXDEFRAG or DBCC DBREINDEX. There are some main points to this MSDN blog... DBREINDEX works to resolve "extent" or physical fragmentation DBREINDEX

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When you find yourself unable to log into your Microsoft SQL database - first check that the service is running. If the service is not running, then you might have a corrupt MASTER system database. So then you ask... How do I fix that? In MSSQL 2000, the task is a bit different because there is a utility in the binn folder that is not present in MSSQL 2005 or greater. To fix/rebuild the

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I am not sure why it is so difficult to find the format for using AOL and OpenID or any OpenID for that matter. Not even Wikipedia has this information.To sign in to a site supporting OpenID with AOL screename credentials, simply use the following format:openid.aol.com/usernameIt really is just that simple. Too bad most sites talking about OpenID talk about how to setup your own OpenID - mostly

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There are at least two commands one can run to check the integrity of a MSSQL database. They are:DBCC CHECKCONSTRAINTSandDBCC CHECKDBThe latter actually runs the following inclusively, so unless you want to be extremely granular about your process, you only need run DBCC CHECKDB:Runs DBCC CHECKALLOC on the database.Runs DBCC CHECKTABLE on every table and view in the database.Runs DBCC

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It is fairly obvious there are a great many web hosts to choose from out there. Some better than others. Some with more or less options than the other, but most don't offer unlimited domains for $6.95 a month! Some might, but they typically sacrifice another feature that may be important to you. Before this month ends, I want to recommend HostMonster.com for your hosting needs. Give them a

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Here is a tip from the Gmail help site about editing your Firebug settings to work better with their Gmail application and other Ajax intensive sites:Firebug can make Gmail slowFor the best Gmail performance, we suggest disabling Firebug for www.google.com.Windows or Linux UsersTo disable Firebug: 1. Click the green or red icon in the bottom right corner of the browser window to open Firebug.

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I signed up with Sedo.com's free domain parking service the other day. Of course, the hope is that they will advertise my parked sites enough to spark some buying interest. There are so many site out there these days, I'm not sure they will ever move off the "shelf".Here is what I'm

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I'm not going to spend a lot of time explaining how this works up front, however, if any of you reading this would like more information, please let me know. The first set of code belongs to your main page. I'm using .php extensions, so, everything except for the javascript code ends that way. You'll find some of the code is not relevant to the database itself, such as the W3C xhtml and CSS

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The main purpose is to share what I learn about varying elements of web development and possibly some programming or maybe script programming. Writing about what I learn helps me to think through the intricacies more deeply and fully grasp that which I recently read.During the last several years, I've been studying a Computer Information Management curriculum that recently brought me to Visual

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I pondered changing the title of this blog today to eliminate the word "partial", however, I find it fitting after some thought. Normally, one would see "Your perception is my reality" or some mix thereof. I disagree with this, in that, as I'm suggesting this: What you perceive is another individuals' reality or is it? What you see may only be part of the truth, all of it, or none of it.

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Designers struggle frequently with proper nesting and centering of div elements. I've found, from reading many sources, the best way to take control of your elements is to surround them completely with a div container. Div containers can be centered and manipulated just about anyway you see fit. Once the "container" is established, one can have seemingly perfect control of design - whether

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Centering your web page can be an issue. I looked around the web to find a myriad of information about how to use auto margins and, frankly, hacks that will only work in one browser and maybe another. As an avid MySpace user, I used MySpace as a resource to find how to change my blog look and found a blog there that gave me invaluable insight on how to center a web page. It's really fairly simple

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Here's how it all begins. Once you have chosen a DTD (document type definition), you will add several things called tags to your page to layout the page for you to begin inserting html or xhtml code giving your page a distinct look.Let's build from the last post. I am going to use notepad for this demonstration, but remember, any text editor that doesn't insert any special formatting codes will

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When you're creating a web page, one of the easiest ways to create a lean and clean set of xhtml code is to begin with your "doctype". The doctype declares to the reading browser (the browser you are using to view your pages) what to expect and how to interpret it. So, if you don't tell the browser anything at all, it reads everything in what is called "quirks" mode, which may or may not display

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For years I envied web pages and especially personal ones. I wanted to create my own, but was always too busy to even fathom where to begin. Up until the last six to nine months, I knew little if anything about creating a web page. Now, I have a simple web page I created with the help of Macromedia Studio 8, a lot of reading, tutorials, and more reading. I haven't finished all the books I

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Maybe I'll actually do a little something with this new blog. For some reason "blogger.com" has managed to evade my spurious web surfing. It looks cool and a blogring over at Xanga brought me here. I signed up for an HTML, XHTML, & CSS blog on Xanga and one of the users, who hasn't posted anything since 2004, commented Xanga didn't give enough flexibility to allow full use of XHTML. I've

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