Recent content by Cotswold

I thought the joke on EV drivers was that they cannot be towed, or pushed out of the way when they breakdown.

The NetZero fanatics and green anarchists never mention the internet, or their phones when it comes to pollution and global warming. The cost and power required for a windfarm in concrete, steel, manufacture, erection and maintenance is so high that it will take around 20 years to break even...

Where there is cash there is a theft. Systems for waste management and others dealing with the building trade with cash payments are an example. I know of companies who delete all cash transactions after invoicing with thousands of tickets removed. The tax authorities never check up mainly...

Each year the James Bonds at GCHQ* will publish Christmas puzzles. This is the one for 2025. Solutions on Wed 17th. No prizes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04vgn6xlzno * in case you guys in the US are wondering: GCHQ = Government Communications Headquarters is an intelligence and...

The code I included was from a working model written maybe 20+ years ago but it is the code to be inserted into a query. I've never used SELECT/END in a query. But just <128 isn't good enough as I exclude []{}~ // and everything <32. It worked and was quick to filter corrupted records from...

I use my own password system with encrypted data, in which I record the name I've given, the DOB if required and the email address I have used for that company. All security questions are there with no two of them repeated. I use a paid-for email supplier, so no adverts and it includes secure...

REPLY#2 --------- A bit more to it than I remembered. You will need to check that one or more fields don't have an ACSII value of more than 128 using Queries. You can often choose just one field if it is an indexed or relational field that must exist. Maybe check that also check for the content...

Have you looked for and found your corruption toy view the table on-screen?

From my experience corrupted records are often referred to as containing 'hieroglyphics' by users. But the content is usually higher ASCII characters. As opposed to any possible keyboard entered characters ASCII values. Usually more than one field is affected, sometimes whole records with the...

Flaky networks, or WiFi, or users switching off with numerous copies open are never helpful. Even switching off the PC with one copy open I always advised against. Beware your client's hardware support company with some smart Alec who decides that any additional users can all run the same FE...

Those people who have to show off and look for praise by publishing their family tree(s) online are advised to remove them. Simply storing family tree information in Ancestry, Find My Past etc is not a good idea at all. Even if the tree information isn't shared don't save private trees because...

Quite the opposite actually. Speaking for myself, I'm a paid up member of the pull yourself together and get on with it brigade. However, moving swiftly on and posting to revert this back to the thread's header title:.............. People who say bath bombs are relaxing should try walking home...

Not sure about that. Cats don't seem stressed when they tear a bird to pieces, then amble off totally unconcerned, leaving the ground carpeted in feathers. The lion that mauled a teenager to death in Brazil this week didn't look stressed. Every animal is stressed at one time or another. Stress...

The people who can talk cat and claim to understand them, believe the cats mistake the courgette for a snake. Maybe even if they've never seen a snake. After seeing this I'd need to test this if I ever go to a house with cats. Couldn't help myself🤣