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I did a straight in-place upgrade from 9.10 to 10.04.

I am using a Toshiba Satellite 120Gb HDD with 2Gb RAM and I haven’t seen any real issues yet.

The only issue I have seen so far is part of the “menu” bar at the top developing a bit of a snow effect. I shrug this off to the fact that I was in the processing of pooching my 9.10 installation and I was talking a lot of screenshots for an instruction manual when this situation occurred. So it could be just some stupid glitch somewhere which was potentially caused by myself.

I am fairly happy with 10.04 so far.

In fact, 10.04 surprised me the first time I logged in. It informed me that my battery may be part of the batch(es) of batteries which Sony recalled about 2 years ago.

Thanks guys! I’ll follow up on the advice during next week…..

I was guessing something like that.

Thanks very much! Used the Profile Wizard and that works like a dream – added bonus in that is saves on internet traffic as well….

How do you tell it to save it to local media or network drive instead of on the Micro$oft servers? I can’t find that option…..

Thanks very much!

Well that is actually something to ask Micro$oft.

Somehow the MS Developer who did that section must of had a double overload of coffee or something when (s)he did that section as it somehow stores the US date and US time as different sizes as compared to UK date and UK time.

Done ask me how or why – its just like that. Its only something which we just descovered in the last couple of weeks…..

Something that I have discovered lately while running QA tests on our Access application under Windows 2000 and Windows XP is that you do not need to actually change any data yourself for the database to grow. All you have to do is browse through the forms, click a few buttons, view some reports, etc – doing nothing that will actually change data and you will notice that the mdb will grow.

What happens, is that each time you access an object, eg. open or close a form, click a button, run a query, open or close a form, etc; the time and date of that action is recorded in the database. The size of the time and date stamp may also vary depending on the Windows Regional Settings.

We have the test results to prove it and it has caused pure and unadultarated torture for us in setting up a standard baseline system with which we can compare further tests and it took about 3 months to find this stupid information out, so I know exactly how frustrated you feel.

I had a very strong suspicion that this was the case – thanks very much for the confirmation and the link!

Thanks very much….. I’ve put the code in and the real test will come in when I do a major test run in the next day or two….

Well, suprise, suprise, suprise!!

It IS just the thing!

Thank you so very much!

James

Why not write your own encryption/decryption routine? Its not too difficult and will keep away 98% of the prying eyes…..

My thoughts of how it would work:

You have a special spreadsheet which autoruns a form. The form would contain 2 buttons and 2 text boxes – One button for “Encryption” and one button for “Decryption” and the text boxes for the input and output spreadsheet(s).

The spreadsheet would of course be password protected and all the neccessary security frills so that the oridnary user can’t get to see your encryption/decryption routines without knowing the correct password.

On the sender’s side, the user fills in the input and output text boxes and clicks on “Encryption”. The spreadsheet then fetches the data from the input spreadsheet, encrypts the information and then writes the encrypted information out to the new spreadsheet.

On the receiver’s side, the user filles in the input and output text boxes and clicks on “Decryption”. The spreadsheet then fetches the data from the input spreadsheet, dencrypts the information and then writes the dencrypted information out to the new spreadsheet.

Any thoughts or ideas or comments on this suggestion?

Thanks very much!

James

At first glance over the code – very impressive! Expecially for the amount of code there is..

It take myself and the 2 other guys in the department I’m in some time to figure this all out and sketch out your design.

Just wondering, do you have your design for this layed out in a document or on paper somewhere.
And would I be allowed to implement your design in the program that I am writing? (I am working for a non-profit organisation at the moment).

Thanks – will have a look at it and see how it goes….

Thanks – I’ll see what happens…

Does this actually give something visible for the user to see or not?

James