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It is possible to replace Access with Python. I looked at using Tkinter for GUI programming but decided against that and Python in the end. I'm always on the lookout for an Access replacement but not found one yet. Although that is still a work in progress. Problem is that Access is just so...

I did think that issues with copyright would prevent me but thought it was worth asking. As a software writer ( albeit retired) I am opposed to any form of piracy. I bought the book 14 years ago, which included a CD containing the official PDFs. However, the book has long been out of print for...

You don't pay it if you do not watch live TV. So if you want the news today, legally you should pay. If you watch it on feedback the following, then free. Same with TV programs. Watching them on playback is Ok but of course you cannot record programs on playback. We will record programs to shoot...

Here we have to pay an annual tax of about £180 to a government Quango, the BBC in order to legally watch live TV. This gives about 100 free FreeView channels. That cost I think that is more than enough for the rubbish they put out. If there is noting to watch, then we'll switch it off. About...

I have a copy of the book Access2010 Inside Out, by Conrad & Viescas, printed by Microsoft 2010. © Conrad & Viescas. Maybe not in the same class as Getz & Litwin but they make a good fist of it. As anyone who has a copy will know, the printed book itself is just 1,440 pages, including the index...

In Britain, we import criminals who have escaped their own country for all sorts of crimes including r**e and murder to avoid prosecution. The supposed charity, the RNLI even get up every morning and sail over to France to see if they need help to cross the Channel. Then the liberal lefties give...

Regarding insurance get in first on this type of event. Some years ago we lived in a coastal town and one night the sea cam over and flooded parts of the town. (not where we were, I'll add) . With high slightly off WSW winds and high spring tides, areas of the town would flood. Those unusual...

We were in Greece some years back and a hillside caught light near a town. They used two huge transporter type planes that flew over the sea and scooped up huge amounts of water, then turned and dumped it onto the fire. That went on most of the day.

We don't have any great density of population near any large forests, or wooded areas. Fires here are more likely on moors, over high ground where there tend to be few trees. But they do not as far as I can recall, threaten major towns. We are probably more likely to have flooding and that will...

We hope that none of the members of Access World are affected by the LA fires and are safe during this terrible event. I cannot imagine how millions of people can be so quickly devastated by this. It could never happen in England. We have just seen the latest footage today and it is simply...

Maybe we are at cross purposes here Pat? I attach brief samples of code that maybe explains what I was saying. I had to do a screen shot, as using <CODE> didn't keep the alignments that I wanted to show.

Up to now I am glad that Musk has mouthed off about the Pakistani ra** gangs in Britain. Without his comments this Labour government would have continued ignoring it. Just as the last Tory government did for fourteen years and the Labour government of Bliar and Broon for another thirteen years...

The way I read it was that you agreed with the Python comments and maybe some others but then said that you suspected that the whole thing was inaccurate. Which I thought was a contradiction. You obviously disagree. So there we are, agreeing to disagree.:) I posted the opinions of Eric as I...

I take your point but do not agree with the above generalisation. But do you not contradict yourself from the Python reference? I am not a fan of case sensitive and always irritated with it when I slip in and out of Linux. Why should a filename, or folder be case sensitive? But I do like the...

A column today in the Telegraph, PDF attached. In a similar vein, although no stats to support this but I wonder just how much of the surge in dementia, Alzheimer's etc is caused by alcohol and drugs. If someone has medication for depression to help them forget, they can hardly be surprised if...

When I employed people, I used to think that maybe around 10% of them were really good. Ten percent were bad but often necessary hands and the first to go in a downturn. The rest were also-rans varying from good to mediocre.

Maybe the older you are the less you should eat that stuff? Not the other way around. But why do we need to be mandated? Why must draconian rules be enforced against the population. We all know that drugs will cause serious damage and it is illegal to use them but stupid people still buy them...

Can this be summarised simply by barter? It used to work all over the place, certainly in England in years gone by.

I agree, an excuse by the control freaks to expand their ivory towers and increase their power. Just a pity that a solution is never a priority.

I was looking for a solution for a separator line in a Combo but the Search wasn't working. So in the meantime I cobbled together a cheap and nasty solution of sorts and add it here in case it may be of interest. 1. Me!Combo109.RowSource = "' ';'Census';'Gazetteer';'Notes'" << normal Combo...