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Hi, I have a set of laptops, some of which have an ATI video chipset. They are Dell model e1505. I am trying to script the installation of the video drivers and have run into a hitch: the INF->right click->Install doesn't seem to work for this driver: it just fails silently. The driver...

I have been working on a custom CMS/shopping cart to fulfill some specific customer needs and find myself constantly clicking "Resend" when asked by my browser if it is okay to resubmit. I know that can be avoided by posting via GET, but I have noticed that not many websites (eg. Paypal) use...

TWB - Thanks for the reply. In researching this topic further I've been re-reading some old database books and thinking about the theory of a relational database design (no...really). For a full third (I think) normal form each table should represent one (and only one) idea and all necessary...

I'd agree with ingresman-don't store stuff in $_POST. Its a special variable created for a special purpose. Using it like that is going to burn you in the future. The accepted way of doing this is: while ( ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC) !== false) { Which enforces...

I am in the process of reviewing the designs of some third party (ie. some open source) databases that handle CMS and Webstore information in an attempt to choose one to fork into a standardized code base for the company I work with. One thing that I have seen is a varied approach to...

This may or may not be any help at all, but its a demonstration of where I am failing: http://robertcarpenter.net/bench/nested-floats.html I am working with a CSS 3 column layout: Some *bare bones* psuedo html/css <div id=left style=float:left width:100>...</div> <div id=right...

Hello...I have a real puzzler (at least for me) for you windows experts. I recently built an XP Pro system for a client and also purchased a Drobo for data storage. The system works well with one exception: the Drobo mounts as an internal drive, not a USB Mass storage device. So now, we...

Glen9999- Okay, I see how that can work for simple programs (eg. your sort testing program), but lets put this example in: If I write the software for a blog and I know that later I am going to want to be able to add hooks for plugins to be added later, but I don't know where I'll need to add...

About subselects: honestly...I thought that engines like PHP didn't support them. Plus, if I remember correctly, my database professor in college had a philosophy something like "Sub-selects are evil. Use them only when there is no other solution. Even then, try not to use them." But that...

There is no pressing need to do this...just laziness really. Is there a way to rearrange the left-to-right order that mysql thinks of my tables? I have some databases that were setup with a bunch of boolean values and the real data fields afterwords. When I SELECT * FROM table I have to scroll...

r937 - thanks! I was hoping to not have to go the sub-select route. Is there a way around that? Until I tried yours, I wasn't sure that PHP allowed subselects. Otherwise, it seems to work just fine. I am curious about your sql syntax though...is that a standard way of laying out SQL...

I posted something similar in the Puzzles for Programmers forum about three weeks ago...I got one reply directing me to post it here before the post was deleted. Ouch. I don't think that this is the right forum but I am just doing what I was told. I am looking to learn about modulized code...

I am going to try and explain this without dumping my whole database into this little box and hoping you all read it ;-). The design should be normal enough. If needed, I can post the definitions. I am setting up a multi-user CMS: a table for content, a table for users, and a table for...

Dan- When you develop new modules, how do you (or your server guys) approach building a non-JS version as well? Are the two solutions disjoint, or parallel, or are they overlapping? In my view many of the non-JS solutions do the exact same thing as the JS solutions but without all the...

I guess this is a survey question. When developing AJAX scripts how much attention should be given to parallel development of a non-AJAX version of the interface? The, for most people, quintessential example of well implemented AJAX, gmail, has full backwards compatibility: Basic HTML view...