A whole list of trappable errors in Visual Basic or VBA here


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I do like the huge first letter in each blog entry on this page, I like it for no good reason. It really messes up the last line with the permalink and "edit" hyper link. I need to force it down. When the blog entry is too short the last link line gets indented a little bit.

Also, I'd like to enlarge this edit box, and add an index of HTML ASCII codes for things like double quotes, and < symbols, and things like that. Or at least a link to a page showing all that.
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An open source spell checker I just started using, with command line tools!

Main page: aspell.net

Windows page: aspell.net/win32/

Script for doing this here.



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fremont
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You can evaluate Windows Server 2008 for up to 240 days. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/948472 That's 3 rearms. 60 days x 4 periods.

From a forum: (Not tested) To reset the rearm counter (more than 3 times) go to: hkey_local_machine\software\microsoft\windows nt\currentversion\sl and edit: "skiprearm"=dword:00000000 and put any positive number. it will alow you to do slmgr.vbs -rearm one time. then repeat the procedure. but i think it won't reset the minute counter " it should give about more 7 times to rearm.
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HTML Codes

Another HTML thing I learned today was the old <STRIKE> tag has been deprecated and replaced with the CSS text-decoration: line-through attribute.

This is an example
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The character here U+00A0 or Keystroke: Alt+0160 looks exactly like a space. I encountered it in an address string "1234 Any St, Apt 321". The A0 character was stuck between the comma and the A. I was working on a parsing function that wasn't detecting the apartment number. I inserted a CleanString() function that replaced any No-Break Spaces with normal American spaces. ("Amerrrican" that's a joke in case you're confused.) It also replaced tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds withs spaces. I'd like to figure out how to grab double, triple, and beyond, spaces and turn them into single spaces. Or possibly some special white space code or character.

But why did a No-Break Space show up in my address string? Because it was pasted off of a web page. What would be ideal is a ConvertToLimtedRomanChar or ConvertToAddressCharacters() function which could ensure that all characters fit this A-Za-z0-9#.-,

Also, as a side note, I forgot how to do HTML character codes. The code above for example I had to type in as: &#xA0;
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To have Explorer start with My Computer, so no branches are initially expanded, use the following command line options:

explorer.exe /select, c:\ 

explorer.exe /select, \ 

Actually it works with just the comma too, not sure why...

explorer.exe /select, 

Commands: Commands in XP

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager

•CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)

•SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands •SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu) •ALT+double click: Displays properties •SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

•SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control •Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection •Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection •Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection. •RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child •LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

•CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs