Recent content by mbuell

Never say never, but very good -- one time effort. Before you go and make the master table, let's think. You want the data in one table so as not to have to make a lot of forms. Hmmm. I don't think you have to make a lot of forms, just because you have a lot of tables. Lots of options...

My motives are very similar. But Linux is no walk in the park, that's for sure. It is hard work to become familiar enough to make a clean secure install. Learning this has been a much steeper learning curve than ms-dos was 10 years ago. Very similar to learning Novell 3.11/3.12. Bad news, as...

Haven't tried this exactly, but one thing comes to mind: is the db you are opening still in A2k? If yes, u can't use it. A2k doesn't support it, unless I'm mistaken - which I might be. I would look at the version differences tho as originating the problem. It may be the library you have...

Elysium: see bottom of post for my swing at the curve. dmuroff: Ok, now we're cooking with gas. Answer a question - is your download static, or will the products be downloaded regularly with regular (in terms of time) changes? If relatively static, and we can create a new big product table...

Well, well. This seems to have gotten into a very complicated series of answers. I don't know if I can help or not, but here is my take: Choice 1: products table with <product type id> field, <product type> tables (many) Choice 2: products table with <product id>, intermediate <product id> to...

Ideas? Well, yes. 1. If the fields have the same names, but not the same data, change the names. All data should be unique. 2. If this seems like a daunting task, this does not change its importance. Investigate Speed Ferret, it is very reasonably priced, and is just the thing to help for...

In my experience, a firewall doesn't slow down online games. And, if half-life requires you to open a tunnel, it won't be slower, because it won't be filtered. I will say this tho - after I say "get a firewall! ;-)" - if you get a firewall, it will slow you down -- for the length of time it...

Thx for reply. My router IS running a DNS server for the LAN. I wouldn't think it should be open to the outside past my isp. I'll have to see if I can set a filter for this - only to my ISP. This would make sense, as my router does get my lan's url from my ISP's DNS server. My boxes are NOT...

Well, there ya go! Good deal. Mark <O> _|_

Kelly; Regarding slaving the drive -- It sounds to me like you may be having problems with jumper settings or some such. Take the drive to a pro shop and let them try to get your data. If you are too broke for that, keep playing with slaving the drive. You've got to get the jumpers set right on...

Chris: >DNS uses UDP 53. Better not block this one! Why not? Maybe you can help me understand something related. UDP 53 is one of two ports that GRC shows open from my home lan machines. All home lan machines report the same. LAN is on small wireless router. In this case, if it is my machine...

reply to darnell1: Routers are ~ $40 to $100. $40-60 is fine for home LAN. Shoot, wireless are still in that range. Dlink, SMC, Linksys, Netgear, I've used all for something and all have been fine for me. Yes, when computers are on LAN, and router is linked to broadband receiver/modem, all...

>it WILL scratch up your MBR!!!! I'm sorry, is that a joke? I don't get it. Is there a disadvantage to logical partitions? Thanks; Mark Mark <O> _|_

I stand on the side that says Linux is hard to learn. So I say stick with the gui until you can learn more. I have a running copy now, of Debian "Sarge", but that was after unsuccesfully attempting Turbolinux, Debian "Woody", and Suse 9.1 personal. I have read my butt off, googled till the...

I'm interested in answer too. Replying to keep the thread alive. You may want to watch for a parallel thread I'm starting on how to manage Linux startup. Best; Mark Mark <O> _|_