Archive for April, 2006

Create your own user-defined services Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

The sites below say that you can use these Windows utilities to turn any application/executable into a Windows Service.

  1. This site provides detailed instructions with pictures.
  2. This is the Microsoft advice on doing the same thing.

GoldMine – How to Prevent Editing of a User Defined Field

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

This is the approach I used:

  1. Go to your fields tab.
  2. Right click the field you want to lock.
  3. Select properties
  4. Use a Dbase expression to display the field instead of just typing in the field name. (see image below)

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How to Type the ñ (enye or N with tilde)

Wednesday, April 5th, 2006

On Windows:
Just hold down ALT and type 0241 on your numeric keypad and you will get a nice ñ printed for you.

Again, that’s:
ALT + 0241 = ñ

And capital Ñ is:
Alt + 0209 = Ñ

Found this info on this page here with all the characters you could want.

On Ubuntu (Linux):
Go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard and change the Compose key to something you don’t use like your right windows key.
Here is a screenshot of doing the setup.

Then you can type:
Compose key n ~ to get ñ
Compose key e ‘ to get é
etc…


Thanks to everyone on this forum post for the help!

[tags]ñ, Ñ, tilde, accents, keyboard shortcuts, ubuntu, compose, enye[/tags]

How to Tell if a Binary Number is Divisible by Three

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Answer:
If the number of even bits minus the number of odd bits is a multiple of 3 (e.g. -3,0,3,6, etc) then the number is divisible by three.
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