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tommyrot - Aug 16, 2005 8:47:06 am PDT #4028 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

but I can't get behind it to figure out what is going on.

Do you have a database window?

Also, do you have a bar right under the title bar? Where the File, Edit, etc. would be? Right click on that and select "customize".

Also, you could create a new Access database and link to the tables in the one you're working with. Linking means you edit the data directly (it's not an import) so you'll have access to the data and the menu bars too.


DXMachina - Aug 16, 2005 8:56:10 am PDT #4029 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

As they're saying, it would really help if you had the menus and toolbars available. The ability to design a query would be even better. If you do get the toolbar back, the little binoculars is the icon for find.


Sophia Brooks - Aug 16, 2005 9:58:06 am PDT #4030 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Thanks guys!

I have 2 bosses. One uses access like this.

One creates JUST a table, types in the information, and does nothing else. She retypes if she needs mailing labels, etc. And she does a separate one for each class. So there are, like, 8 million 6 entry 1 table access databases. AND I have to retype the information that I type into the database for the classlist into excel for the accountant. Then the accountant retypes it into quickbooks!

My plan is to learn access and redo her so we can have one big database for all students for all classes, and so that we can actually get monetary reports instead of doing them by hand! She would be better off using just excel for now though.

The good thing is that it is becoming clear that the reason they brought me on (I am a new position) is to help fix these things, so basically I am going to spend the fall semester learning things, Christmas Break setting up some new processes and Spring impletmenting them, because the way they are set up now they cannot grow.


§ ita § - Aug 16, 2005 10:37:30 am PDT #4031 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Transfer video to your TiVo.

Hmm. Hmm.

I wonder how much of what I have conforms to their standards...


Jon B. - Aug 16, 2005 10:54:30 am PDT #4032 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Seems like, in many cases, it would be faster to burn a CD with the video file on it and pop it into the TV's DVD player (assuming you've got a player that'll play most anything, like the Phillips).


§ ita § - Aug 16, 2005 10:55:53 am PDT #4033 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it would be faster to burn a CD with the video file on it and pop it into the TV's DVD player

Well, for onesies. But if you, like me, have multiple eps of TV sitting on your HD and HD space on the TiVo and you can get some of the TiVoly benefits (being paused in multiple shows, for instance) it can appeal.


le nubian - Aug 16, 2005 11:09:30 am PDT #4034 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

ita, that's cool shit. Thanks for the info. I'm going to try that tonight for the Bill Mahrer special I downloaded.


Jon B. - Aug 16, 2005 11:19:26 am PDT #4035 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

you can get some of the TiVoly benefits (being paused in multiple shows, for instance) it can appeal.

True dat. Pausing, or jumping ahead in 15 minute intervals is a nice benefit.


Kristen - Aug 16, 2005 11:26:18 am PDT #4036 of 10003

With Trixie, I bought a special Monster cable so I can send the a/v signals to my DVR and record them. Once I figured out how to navigate the input menu (the owner's manual for this is notoriously unreadable), it was a breeze.

After reading that TiVo thing, I am very interested in whether or not I can connect my DVR to my wireless network.


Theodosia - Aug 16, 2005 11:33:52 am PDT #4037 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

This seems a good techie space to ask... is there anything I should know about Virgin Mobile (or Virgin Whatever) before I sign up for one of their cellphone plans?

FWIW, their phonetree was actually kind of amusing, and the live person who eventually answered my questions about switching service was helpful.