I have a MSWord puzzler. Why would a document refuse to print? I have a letter that I've printed many times before. One day, I selected the print command, pressed OK and...nothing. I can print other things, just this document, when commanded to print, will not print. I saved it to the document storage system...nothing. Tried other printers...nothing. It just doesn't tell the printer to print, the printer icon doesn't come up or anything. I've tried looking at all the various settings to see if there's something I accidentally checked that says "don't print"-- haven't found it. I've been able to c/p the doc and print that, but has anyone else seen this problem?

About the only thing I can think of is that in the Print dialog box, instead of an active printer, it's being told to print to a file, and dumping copies of itself on the hard drive somewhere. But this:

I saved it to the document storage system...nothing. Tried other printers...nothing.

....makes it sound like you've tried all that.

Other than that, I've got nothing. Sorry, bon.

That sounded like a very good answer, actually. As far as I know, the only way to print to file is checking a box on the print dialog, and that box isn't checked when it fails to print. If there's another setting, though, that might be it.

The only place I know for sure to do that is the check box in the print dialog. If there's someplace else to do it, maybe somebody else will know.

Oh, what OS are you using?

XP, this is my work computer.

In situations where c&p works, I breathe a sigh and pretend it never happened. Word is weird, but I've never had that particular problem.

Hokay. I solved my PostgreSQL "what's the row_id of the last insert?" question two ways--first by issuing a "SELECT currval()" query right afterwards, but have now replaced that with the PostgreSQL extension to INSERT that means you can say:

INSERT INTO table (row_id, row_field1) VALUES (DEFAULT, "This is how we roll") RETURNING row_id

and the insert query returns a row I can grab stuff from. Neat, and I've yet to consider the full ramifications.

Because I can never get enough, I'm now missing a MySQL extension, REPLACE. The difference between

INSERT INTO table (primary_key, rowvalue) VALUES (17, "For Nilly);

REPLACE INTO table (primary_key, rowvalue) VALUES (17, "For Nilly);

is that the latter will overwrite a preceding row with the same unique key. Saves me writing a sequence of commands.

Anyone know a 'standard' PostgreSQL way to do that?

XP, this is my work computer.

Hmmm. Okay. I was wondering if your office was still on NT 4.0 or something (as many offices still are).

Under NT 4.0, you could set printer settings for the document, but also globally from the control panel (and one other place, I think). This made for much craziness when you thought your printer settings were correct, but you'd forgotten to change them in the two other places you could change them.

But that is not your problem.

Oh, never mind. I've decided to just always delete the row in question before peforming an insert, and to send the two commands in one transaction. Should be safe.

I'm posting from my MacMini in the living room. I've just discovered that t cntrl - t mouse scrollwheel magnifies the entire screen centered at wherever my mouse is. Wacky!

I keep forgetting to post about my Harmony remote. I love it, but I have a few quibbles:

• The default softkeys for my devices were not at all intuitive to me. I needed to redo them all. One example -- The TiVo "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" were on different screens. That makes no sense.
• The emulation of the Mac FrontRow remote should default to have the arrow and OK keys do the same things as the five buttons on the original Mac remote. I had to manually program that.
• The "device" menu should allow for some cross control of the TV. If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls. I needed to manually program those keys for each device by pointing the other remotes at the back of the Harmony.

These really are quibbles. Since there was a way to fix all of my problems, I was (and remain!) ultimately satisfied. Another toaster for Sean!

If I select the device menu and then choose the DVD player, or even the TiVo, I lose my volume and mute controls

I only end up in the device menu if something went weird. In fact, I kinda go there to lose the other controls. I just want it to pretend to be a solo one.

I've had mine a while, and tweaked the TiVo and DVD menu to look how I needed, but I only recently went in and clicked on every link in the setup website. As a result, my remote control has wallpaper! Stupid wallpaper, mind you, since it was the only thing lying around, but how cool (uh, and un-needed) is that?