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Some scanners reduce a page size by a quite a few percent. So not always a good idea to scan scale drawings when it can be a real issue.

I have always store tables in the FE. There are system tables that you do not want your users to change. Or they are tables that you need to control the system. You may have standard groups which if changed would affect operations. Maybe a standard VAT file? You wouldn't want changes to that...

My wife and myself haven't had a single injection of any claimed Covid protection. We are not anti-vaxxers and have been vaccinated for just about everything over the years. As were our children. We simply couldn't understand how a super-duper protection could be created in such a short time...

I never smoked Marlboro because they were in a paper packet. Once bought them but some snapped and others crushed, pointless. Mind you I couldn't associate with a cowboy. Didn't the actor die of cancer, or some smoking related disease? Then Tele Savalas came along in Kojac smoking those thin...

I'll second that KitaYama. I remember in the 70s going into meetings and hardly being able to see the other end of the room. On a 'plane there was bank of seats at the back which were for smokers. Smoking in cinemas common place. My father would puff at his pipe at home and in the car. In fact...

I'm not sure meeting at a church dance could claimed to be a reason for a long marriage. My wife and I met by pure chance at a bus stop and in two years time it will be our diamond anniversary.

I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with religion. Many people take a great deal of comfort from it and I have no problem with it, for that reason alone. My problem, being more than a little beyond agnostic. Is the logic of it all and it's apparent reliance on superstition and man made...

From my experience there is only one thing to do and that is to stop using anything with nicotine in. It is a drug and your mind will demand it for years. I stopped in 1983 and never smoked again. I was told and understood that it would be ten years before the desire to smoke was not there. I...

Maybe that is why some people are richer than others? They get the timing right. But at the end of the day most of life is down to the people you meet and the decisions you make. For want of a description some call it luck? Years ago a young guy in the town we lived in walked into a newsagents...

@Jon #8 "a) you don't know when to pull out" Maybe don't let greed and 'what-if' have too much influence? If you turn a profit fine, then move on. I think that the trouble with things that expand quickly you really don't know why but once they fail you know exactly why they failed. What if...

@Isaac : Get in early That applies to all pyramid schemes. Maybe create your own and then you're in at the start? Then you're the one of the few that does well out of it and not one the many hoping the people running it do well and will drop a few crumbs down to the hopeful. How much will you...

Oh!.... I just scanned down at mouse wheel speed but did think whilst passing through #8 & #10 I'd give them a go sometime. I'd stuck them in my library before posting mine.

Why not use the Tilde ~ to shorten directory/folder names to eight characters? A couple of examples using the DIR command which should be self explanatory. Unfortunately there is little on the internet about using the Tilde. So you may need to do a few tests to get what you want. EXAMPLE 1...

I do think that time will certainly improve their capability to advance to super intelligence. The software certainly can only improve. Only problem I see is that we become submissive to their results and simply accept without question. AI could probably replace all British politicians at this...

Over here we have seen a few news conferences on TV recently, with LA fires and now this saddening event. One thing I don't quite understand is why when the person apparently in charge, or in a leadership position is surrounded by 15 to 20 staff. All they appear to do is hover about without...

There is an element of plagiarism in most music but I think less so in copying riffs, melody, or words. It surely comes in style, or as some like to call it genres. From the 60s there was an explosion of different musicians, all copying what they heard on records from the USA. They heard it and...

I see in the press at weekend that McCartney and Elton John are kicking off about copyright. Their copyright in particular. Mainly because they think, correctly I guess, that AI will use their output to create new music. But I cannot see that they can stop this from happening. Just as they...

My suggestion is only use integer calculations that are stored in your tables. (by integer in Access I refer to Longs) Do the calcs, multiply by 100, store the integer. If you want to round then add a rounding before you change it to an integer. When you add up integers you can only ever get...

When looking around, maybe make sure there isn't a DuPont, or a 3M factory anywhere near?

I have an original CD of Visual FoxPro 9.0 Professional which has been sat on the shelf for years. It says it is an upgrade but as I recall it installed Ok back in the day.