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Labeling wirings

I think it is ridiculous, no, retarded, to think of preferring cable tagging to allocating a server area/room. I actually did a search, there are plenty of such products, of which I would admit I have seen used before. Tagging … Continue reading →

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Subtitle Downloader - even Chinese

Some firefox plugin(Youtube Caption Downloader) seems to have failed. I am not sure if it's because of Chinese characters. I use Google2Srt instead. Unzipped, ran the bat file. Pasted youtube link into the field, Read, and I got the Srt … Continue reading →

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Scratch Programming: Best Programming Language for Kids

Great pedagogy for programming and even mathematics. Developed by MIT, Scratch is the current favorite programming tool of mine for teaching programming to much younger children. It used to be Logo. Which I think is still a good teaching tool. … Continue reading →

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New MS Access Expressions (VBA)

Tech on the Net is a good resource. Dsum is a useful function: In Microsoft Access, the DSum function returns the sum of a set of numeric values in a specified set of records (or domain). DSum ( expression, domain, [criteria] … Continue reading →

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Display Driver ATIKMDAG Stopped Responding and Has Recovered

Thus far the best solution for this "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered", atikmdag in particular (flash video playing slowly, error message box shows up when flash video runs in full screen for a while) is to disable Hardware … Continue reading →

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Exporting MS Access data into MS Word

Finally, there is an easy way(filling MS Word fields with Access data) in Access using VBA scripting: Private Sub cmdPrint_Click() 'Print customer slip for current customer. Dim appWord As Word.Application Dim doc As Word.Document 'Avoid error 429, when Word isn't … Continue reading →

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Free wifi from Downtown Manhattan

Chelsea has already started. Bloomberg is certainly working hard. The WiFi network runs from 15th to 19th Street and from Eighth to Tenth Avenue, including about a two-block stretch of the High Line. It also extends into several of the … Continue reading →

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Motion Controlled Device for Computers

Virtual 3D motion Controller coming soon for $70. Still an unnecessary purchase for me.

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Quickbooks Pro 2013 Unrecoverable Error 19758 63847

This is due to bad Internet Explorer. Usually version 6. Upgrade to version 8 at all cost.

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Accessing HDDRecovery

In many case, there's no chance of booting into an option that will allow recovery mode. One main cause is the main hard drive is formatted, corrupted, etc. However, the HDD Recovery partition is still present. How then should one … Continue reading →

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