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tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 9:05:36 am PDT #4817 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.

I have been seriously worried about compatibility issues.

The software vendor or Microsoft (if it's a popular program) should be able to tell you if there are any issues.


le nubian - Oct 07, 2005 9:07:48 am PDT #4818 of 10003
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

most of what I was worried about aren't popular programs. I guess I'll find out.


Sean K - Oct 07, 2005 9:15:00 am PDT #4819 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

I don't understand why every time I restart my work computer, IE returns to an *old* list of visited sites under the address bar. And so I can't get rid of those misspelled sites that autocomplete so helpfully keeps bringing up.

bon, I think if you go under Tools - Internet Options, and on the General tab, clear out all cookies, temporary files, and completely clear out the history, it should solve that problem.

Of course, at that point, Explorer won't remember any previously visited sites, and you'll have to reenter all your passwords and stuff at any sites you visit, but autocomplete will have been returned to a blank slate, at least.


bon bon - Oct 07, 2005 9:17:49 am PDT #4820 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I clear out the history every time, doesn't work.


Jessica - Oct 07, 2005 9:20:48 am PDT #4821 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If it were my office, my guess would be your network profile isn't being properly updated, and you'd probably need an IT administrator to sort it out.


bon bon - Oct 07, 2005 9:26:19 am PDT #4822 of 10003
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

If it were my office, my guess would be your network profile isn't being properly updated, and you'd probably need an IT administrator to sort it out.

You're probably right. Le sigh.


NoiseDesign - Oct 07, 2005 9:28:42 am PDT #4823 of 10003
Our wings are not tired

I got mine. I'm waiting for everyone else to get theirs.

I've got mine. Scola and I have even chatted with ours.

Without a separate microphone (which we don't have), it's useless for video conferencing because you both just end up smiling at each other saying "What? I can't hear you..."

I've found the built in mic in my iSight to be quite good.


tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:02:00 am PDT #4824 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.

What the heck is ASCII character 11 (vertical tab) typically used for?


Tom Scola - Oct 07, 2005 10:06:11 am PDT #4825 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Like most of the control characters, it had a purpose when ASCII was used for mechanical teletype machines, but it's pretty much useless now.


tommyrot - Oct 07, 2005 10:12:43 am PDT #4826 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.

Like most of the control characters, it had a purpose when ASCII was used for mechanical teletype machines, but it's pretty much useless now.

That's what I would have guessed.... except our client somehow got a lot of them in the memofields of a database we're working on.

Which brings me to my next question. I need an XSL file to be applied to data being exported to XML (in Access) that will get rid of stupid characters like that (Excel errors on ASCI 11). I'm sure I can RTFM and figure it out, but if anyone knows off the top of their heads how to do this....

eta: needs to work with any arbitrary XML document, as the XML depends on what fields the user selects and which query is used (out of a dozen).