Date: 08/17/05 (Code WTF)    Keywords: templates, mysql, sql, microsoft

Hi. I'm trying to "beef up" one of the Access general templates for use, and I'm running into a problem.

I'm using the "Contacts Management" template, and have added a field "ReferredBy" to the Contacts table. I was wanting to add this as a search item on the "Report Date Range" form, so that I can have a report organized not only by date but grouped by ReferredBy.

I hope this makes sense, I am experienced with Access but not very experienced with Visual Basic. I've done a ton with MySQL, and thought this would be related. I guess I'm wrong... ;-)

I've been able to add the ReferredBy to the Report Date Range form. However, I get an error:

Run-time error '2465': Microsoft Access cannot find the field "|" referred to in your expression.

The VBA for the Report Date Range looks like this:

Private Sub Form_Open(Cancel As Integer)
Me.Caption = Me.OpenArgs
Me![Referred By] = [ReferredBy]
Me![Beginning Call Date] = Date - Weekday(Date, 2) + 1
Me![Ending Call Date] = Me![Beginning Call Date] + 6
End Sub

Everything works fine when I don't have the "Referredby" line in there, but it does nothing with that item... The way the code is now, it seems circular, but my brain can't figure out how to fix it.

Please help. I am so frustrated and just looking for a little help, even just where I need to go to get help.

Thank you!

x-post in sharonme

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/code_wtf/13145.html

Date: 08/17/05 (SQL Server)    Keywords: database, asp, sql, microsoft

Okay, so I really have no idea what I'm doing with this, so I'm sorry if this seems kinda dumb.

I'm trying to install the "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) Release A" on the computer here, and it seems to install fine.

I go to the command line and run the setup file with my chosen password. No problem (I hope).

My end goal is to try and get one of the ASP.NET starter kits to install and think there's a database system on this computer (So I don't have to use MS Access. Ew.), but whenever I go to install the program, I choose the database on the LocalHost, and it gets no connection.

So, I'm wondering, is there something else I have to do to start up the Desktop Engine and get it running?

I'm kind of flying blind here, and the read-me doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of sense.

So, thanks for any help you can give me!

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/sqlserver/31202.html

Date: 08/17/05 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: security, virus, microsoft

Worm strikes down Windows 2000 systems
Problems reported in three continents




WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A fast-moving computer worm Tuesday
attackedcomputer systems using Microsoft operating systems, shutting down
computers in the United States, Germany and Asia.

Among those hit were offices on Capitol Hill, which is in the midst of
August recess, and media organizations, including CNN, ABC and The New York
Times. The Caterpillar Co. in Peoria, Illinois, reportedly also had
problems.

A small number of computers in an administrative office at San
Francisco International Airport also crashed, but they were not essential to
the airport's operation, spokesman Mike McCarron said.

The FBI said the computer problems did not appear to be part of any
widespread attack.

While the worm affects primarily Windows 2000, it also can affect some
early versions of Microsoft XP, said Johannes Ullrich, director of the Sans
Institute, a network security firm based in Jacksonville, Florida.

Symptoms include the repeated shutdown and rebooting of a computer.

Microsoft has a downloadable patch on its security homepage,
Microsoft.com/security, a company spokesperson said. The spokesperson told
CNN that Microsoft would not estimate how many users have been affected and
described the problem as low-impact.

Lysa Myers, a virus researcher for the computer security firm McAfee,
Inc., said the worm exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft's plug-and-play
service. "How it's spreading is it's looking for machines that are unpatched
and running itself," she said.

What was causing the damage was unclear, although experts pointed to a
new worm called worm-rbot.cbq.

David Perry of Trend Micro, an Internet monitoring firm, said the
latest worm may have been derived from the Zotob worm, which was first
reported over the weekend.

Ullrich, of the Sans Institute, said Zotob "will connect to a control
server to ask for instructions. It scans network neighborhoods and tries to
infect them, as well."

Typically, the worm enters a system via a laptop connected to
unsecured networks, Ullrich said. "This laptop will infect your systems from
the inside."

Several versions of the worm have been released, some as late as
Tuesday, he said.

Around 5 p.m. problems began at CNN facilities in New York and Atlanta
before being cleared up about 90 minutes later.

The New York Times also was able to bring its systems back up, and
"newspaper production will not be affected," spokeswoman Kathy Park said.

The White House said it did not have reports of computer problems.

At any given time there are thousands of computer worms and viruses in
existence.

So far, the impact has not been as great as the 2003 Blaster virus
attack, said Jeff Havrila, a technical analyst with the U.S. Computer
Emergency Readiness Team, a coalition of public and private groups that
combats computer attacks.

He noted that improved firewalls and faster patches may have limited
the worm's spread.

He also said it is unclear how long the worm may take to run its
course, noting that many people are away on summer vacation and may be
affected only when they return.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/itprofessionals/17559.html

Date: 08/18/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: programming, database, microsoft

We have finished testing Oko. It now becomes shareware. You can download an
evaluation copy and/or purchase a registered copy on-line: www.ploko.net.

Oko is a development tool for building Windows applications. It uses an
object-oriented programming language similar to C++ and has a rich set of
visual tools that
make application creation a relatively easy and intuitive task. Its
integrated development environment allows you to create a wide range of
functional units that can benefit both from the power of the language and
the versatility of the GUI tools. An efficient code generator makes your
source code compact and clear and lets you skip many explicit
initializations. At the same time, code generation is configurable, so that
you can insert your own code at any level, as well as turn off the automatic
generation of any of the components.

Oko has a set of visual database tools that use ODBC to connect to data
sources. It can generate data forms and provides a set of flexible data
controls to facilitate the creation of database applications. For many
tasks, Oko can replace systems such as Microsoft Access generating database
applications with no programming involved. The advantage of Oko is that its
applications are very compact, fast, and, of course, stand-alone. It also
has a built-in report generator.

Oko produces either Win32 executables or dynamic link libraries (DLLs) from
which you can export functions to be deployed in any other program. It
creates stand-alone executables that need no other modules to run.

www.ploko.net

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/750706.html

Date: 08/20/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: microsoft

Is there anyway on Windows XP to color code folders? In Outlook, is there anyway to color code an email?

How do I make it so when I'm uploading/burning/whatever and watching a DVD in Windows Media Player, the DVD doesn't look like some pirate import skipping about? I mean, is there a way to say that Windows Media Player has like first reserve on RAM or something?

Does anyone know the correct plugin for Winamp that displays in MSN Messenger what song I'm listening

Yes, I'm Bill Gates little Microsoft gimp. I don't think their products are particularly the best. I just dont' have time/money/resources to waste getting a whole new set of programs to do what I'm doing. So if there's any help out there at all, I'd be grateful ;)

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/469795.html

Date: 08/20/05 (Microsoft Windows)    Keywords: microsoft

I hope someone can help me with this.

1. I have Windown XP Home Edition. A couple of months ago, I had to reinstall it completely for some reason, and after I did that, I no longer had the usual games that come with Windows (i.e. Solitaire, Pinball, etc.). I would really like to get them back, but I have no idea where to look for it. I don't want to reinstall Windows yet again and risk losing my stuff. I also lost "Sound Recorder" and all those Muktimedia programs. I downloaded Windows Media Player off of microsoft.com, but that's pretty much it.

2. I plugged in the microphone that came with my Dell computer. How would I install the device? I looked through and through the control panel, but I'm not sure where it is. Although, maybe I should check the Dell manual for this one. And I probably will be able to use it once I get Sound Recorder installed again...

Thanks very much in advance!

x-posted to winxp

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/ms_windows/42181.html

Date: 08/22/05 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, java, microsoft

I've been trying to use JavaScript's XMLHttpRequest object to send XML to a PHP form. As far as sending the XML goes, I've got that worked out:

try
  {
  var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
catch(e)
  {
  var req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }

someXML = "bar";

req.open("POST", "example.php", false);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml");
req.send(someXML);
response = req.responseXML;

req.open("POST", "example.php?foo=bar", false);
req.send('');

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/php/338326.html

Date: 08/22/05 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: software, security, microsoft

French information security company that sells early exploit warning services has released a zero-day exploit that attacks all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer.

 » Releasing zero-day exploits to sell a product George Ou ZDNet.com

As companies are still picking up the pieces from the Zotob worm and its malicious siblings, a French information security company that sells early exploit warning services has released a zero-day exploit that attacks all versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer.  The same company also released exploit code for the Windows PNP (Plug and Play) vulnerability less than 24 hours after Microsoft released a fix which led to the birth of the Zotob worm 5 days later.  Many companies running Windows 2000 were not prepared to patch their systems on such short notice and they were hit the hardest.  The release of this new exploit is even more alarming since it affects all instances of Internet Explorer and Microsoft has not had a chance to release a patch for this exploit.

Microsoft responded by issuing an emergency security advisory which offers some temporary workarounds to the issue.  Since the instructions are a little confusing for the average user, I wrote this explanation and some scripts to automate the Microsoft workaround and SANS wrote their own set of utilities for automating this temporary fix the same day.  I would highly recommend that everyone apply the temporary workaround since the exploit code is out in the wild.

Last month when Cisco sued Michael Lynn for simply talking about a Cisco vulnerability that was supposedly already patched by Cisco, I defended Lynn because Cisco had plenty of fair warning and Lynn wasn't releasing any actual exploit code.  This case is the exact opposite because a company is releasing the actual exploit code without giving the software maker any time to issue a fix and they're doing it in a way to benefit their own business which borders on a "protection" racket.  Since the company is located in France, legal challenges are a bit tricky.  It's mind boggling that this sort of thing is even allowed in a civilized world governed by the rule of law.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/itprofessionals/19168.html

Date: 08/22/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: software, yahoo, microsoft, google

Free software seems to move the search giant further into Microsoft and Yahoo territory.
Images: Google moves onto the desktop

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/New+Google+desktop+tool+offers+customization/2100-9588_22-5841246.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/24/05 (Security)    Keywords: microsoft

New pest that targets users of Microsoft's MSN Messenger changes the language of its attack message based on the compromised system.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/IM+worm+speaks+your+language/2100-1009_22-5842767.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/25/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: software, database, virus, spyware, microsoft

Hello, and bare with me. Computerwise I'm a semi-illiterate seeking an answer to a pre-researched, fairly thought-out question (as advised by the mods in userinfo). The problem is I'm getting conflicting answers depending on where I look, and if you computergeeks can't resolve it, I give up. Hopefully you all are not too disappointed that my question won't involve highly technical jargon or tons of acronyms...

By way of background: I'm a graduate student in the social science, and for the first time ever I have the opportunity of purchasing a new laptop. I will be storing important research on my computer, as well as doing a great deal of internet research. At some point I will need to install some sort of academic research software (a database that can cross reference scads of quotes, sources, etc.)

I'm leaning toward a basic mac because I'm hearing that the mac infrastructure is more stable than PCs, and that it is less prone to viruses and spyware. This is important, as viruses ate my last hard drive. On the downside, mac laptops seem to be a bit pricier than comparable PCs. I have never owned a mac before anyway, and have concers about learning a new interface. Additionally, I've been warned by many PC-using faculty and students that e-mailing Word docs (and other Microsoft program stuff) from Mac to PC can be sketchy and that a lot of software is only useable on PC. This can't be true in this day and age, can it?

If I don't go with a mac, I'll need a good reccommendation for a reliable PC. I've used Dell and Gateway, and had problems with both. I've heard fujitsu is good, but more expensive. I didn't feel I could take this inquiry to the Mac communities, because of their obvious bias. ;)

Any advice offered will be met with my profound gratitude. Thanks for the patience.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/756744.html

Date: 08/25/05 (Application Development)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft challenges Linus Torvald's Open Source Development Labs to split the cost on a research project to compare the dueling systems.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft+seeks+joint+Linux+study/2100-9593_22-5843118.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/25/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: microsoft

As much fun as it may be to tweak Microsoft, or dream of open source breaking the Microsoft monopoly, the fact remains that mobile monopolies are tighter, bigger (in terms of units) and under much less threat from open source programmers.

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=421&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/27/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: spyware, microsoft

What would be the best places to turn to for free spyware and adware removal instructions?

Our family computer's been infested with a good deal 20 instances of spyware, adware, and dialers that have somehow evaded detection or removal by Microsoft Anti-Spyware, Spy-bot Search and Destroy, and Lavasoft (but not SpyXposer). I'm not sure which sites to trust and which ones not to trust when it comes to free ways to remove the spyware/adware garbage.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computergeeks/760537.html

Date: 08/28/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: yahoo, microsoft

My error messages are enormous. When a program tells me that it has encountered a problem and asks me if I want to send an error report to Microsoft, the message takes up half the screen. The font is huge; I don't know what size it is, but it's huge. I don't know how to change the size of the font. How do you do this?

In addition, Yahoo Messenger is acting strangely. When I try to IM anyone, it shuts down and gives me...sigh...a huge error message. It won't tell me what's wrong or what to do.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/computer_help/475885.html

Date: 08/28/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: linux, microsoft

The report of a meeting between OSDL and Microsoft has raised a few eyebrows this week. To recap, Microsoft's Martin Taylor and OSDL's CEO Stuart Cohen met at Linux World Conference & Expo. Taylor proposed that Microsoft and OSDL do a joint research project for a study of Linux and Windows. [...]

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=425&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog

Date: 08/29/05 (Security)    Keywords: security, microsoft

Microsoft is talking up Secure Startup in Windows Vista, the sole piece of its original hardware-based security plan to make it into the OS.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Microsoft%27s+leaner+approach+to+Vista+security/2100-1009_22-5843808.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/30/05 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: asp, microsoft

http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/beta2rtmchanges/default.aspx

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/aspdotnet/42205.html

Date: 08/30/05 (Security)    Keywords: software, security, microsoft

Commentary--Counterpane CTO Bruce Schneier says Microsoft is stalling the adoption of a best-practices document on software security to make sure it doesn't apply to the next version of Windows.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/Is+Microsoft+skirting+the+issue%3F/2100-1009_22-5844520.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn

Date: 08/31/05 (Web Technology)    Keywords: microsoft

Microsoft on Tuesday plans to announce buyout of VoIP start-up, aiming to replicate Skype's service inside its IM client.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/MSN+buys+into+Net+calling+future/2100-9588_22-5844873.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn