Recent content by DickyP

I have somewhere a copy of an article that was written at the time of Al Gore's 'inconvenient truth' which showed that not necessarily he was wrong but the data he had used to prove it was methodologically totally flawed. Described as: "Taking the temperature in the fridge in July and in the...

My only experience of this as a large change with lots redundant feature/data etc was that we stopped an drew a functional diagram of the existing system showing each screen from the main menu onwards and the passage/calls etc. Each of the square boxes that represented screen was annotated with...

Generally here on AW users either just use native Access as their data store, or those producing more commercial apps, SQLServer. I would be intrigued to know what other back ends our contributors may currently use? I have in the past used Oracle, MySQL and SQLLite, albeit not these days when...

As far as I am concerned with all political opinions on this site - in the gutter. Carry on deleting Uncle Gizmo!

The collective name I know for cats is a clouder. However, since most of these collective nouns are made up for effect and are seldom very old anything will do. :)

Correct, but also a euphemism for testicles: In the sense you mean it usually said as 'a load of bollocks'.

I have only one comment here which explains everything - and it's just one word. POLITICIANS

Sorry but MVFs are dreadful on so many levels - the single worst Access innovation ever! :devilish:

Of course we adapt, (hence my usage above) but it is annoying that the other 90+ % of us have to because of American language imperialism.

Absolutely agree as with the other stricture about setting the format everywhere used(forms, reports controls etc) but there are still anomalies caused by MS's default - for instance assigning a date to a string to be used in an SQL statement. Being a Brit I always assign dates to strings as...

It never helps that Microsoft uses Date format (MDY) that is only used by about 3% of the world's population. 😏

Neville Shute the author of books including On thBeach an A Town Called Alice had the title of 'Chief Computer' in the 1920s whilst working on the R-100 airship. Everything done by hand or using a slide rule.

Hadn't seen this since I left school (in 1967).

The problem is that they are representations of the exactly same Word document as best as I could do them for the forum - I'm not interested in better was of doing it - I've already done that. The weird bit is that what comes out of the printer has the captions differently numbered to the...

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts about a weird problem I cam across preparing a picture round for pub quiz. Attached are; 1) a screen shot of the picture round as it shows on the PC screen: 10 picture with captions in text boxes underneath them. The picture are numbered 1 - 10 with the...