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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.
Transfer video to your TiVo.
Hmm. Hmm.
I wonder how much of what I have conforms to their standards...
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).
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.
ita, that's cool shit. Thanks for the info. I'm going to try that tonight for the Bill Mahrer special I downloaded.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks! I will try the Graphic Converter tonight--I do have it, but I am not sure it will do what I want it to. If not, Elements sounds good.
Make sure you get the latest GC, they are always improving. (But then so is Photoshop, I guess.)
New worm. [link]
Microsoft it only affects Windows 2000, and there's a patch to address the exploit it uses.
Apparently it hit the CNN computers in NYC, so they seem to have gone into panic mode with their coverage.
