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Looking for some good books
by Steve Matzura 23 Oct '13

23 Oct '13

Can anyone please recommend some good and hopefully current books on C and variants, Visual Basic and variants, and .NET programming in general? I've been outa the biz for so long, I feel my skills creek with rust, and having proper books on these topics would probably be an excellent idea. I have a couple programming projects in mind for myself, but would prefer not to have to rely on age-old knowledge without a handy can of literary educational oil to loosen the rusty knowledge bits. LOL.

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Stand-Alone Vs. Hosted Solutions
by Berwick, Jeff 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Hi all, Just wanted to pole you guys to find out your thoughts on whether a stand-alone application for service management, or a hosted solution is preferred. Is one better than the other, or is it a personal preference type situation? Thx, Jeff

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Stand-Alone Vs. Hosted Solutions
by Berwick, Jeff 21 Oct '13

21 Oct '13

Hi all, Just wanted to pole you guys to find out your thoughts on whether a stand-alone application for service management, or a hosted solution is preferred. Is one better than the other, or is it a personal preference type situation? Thx, Jeff

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Windows rescue
by John G. Heim 17 Oct '13

17 Oct '13

Anybody recall the magic key sequence needed to rescue a Windows 7 computer from a Win7 installation CD? I believe it involves booting from the CD, opening a command window, and then typing a rescue command. Googl ing tells me that you can open a command window when booted from an installer CD by pressing F10. Lots of people say you can then type "bootrec /fixboot" but that doesn't seem to work. I've done this before and that doesn't ring a bell. I think there is a command to run the rescue program on the CD but I can't recall what it is. -- --- John G. Heim, 608-263-4189, jheim(a)math.wisc.edu

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google drive
by David Mehler 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hello, Does anyone use google drive? The reason I'm asking is I've got to get some files off a guy who has them on his google drive and I'm not able to get them. Advice appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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google drive
by David Mehler 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Hello, Does anyone use google drive? The reason I'm asking is I've got to get some files off a guy who has them on his google drive and I'm not able to get them. Advice appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Phone OCR for computer monitors
by David Mehler 30 Sep '13

30 Sep '13

Hello, I'm looking for a phone based solution, preferably free or low cost, that'll do OCR on a computer screen? My issue would be to use it to obtain information on boot up errors, selecting items in a boot list, for example newer boards the f12 options? Thanks. Dave.

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Phone OCR for computer monitors
by David Mehler 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hello, I'm looking for a phone based solution, preferably free or low cost, that'll do OCR on a computer screen? My issue would be to use it to obtain information on boot up errors, selecting items in a boot list, for example newer boards the f12 options? Thanks. Dave.

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Windows 7 Ultimate question
by Christian 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi all, Don't know if this is the right list, but maybe someone on here is able to help. I am currently running Windows 7 Professional wich works fine, except that I need to use the speech recognition feature. However, since Windows 7 Pro is in Swedish I am not able to change language to English wich the speech recognition is using. This is really frustrating. So my question is, has anyone seen a good price on Ultimate or knows if one can order an Ultimate product key from somewhere? I can get around this if I use Windows 8 wich I purchased earlier on a discount, but i don't like the interface. Any help is really apreciated many thanks! Christian

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Most accessible VM solution
by Christian 28 Sep '13

28 Sep '13

Hi all, I have been searching for an accessible virtual machine solution. Do you use Vmware or VirtualBox? Wich is the most accessible one? Many thanks Christian

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