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After testing out Checkpoint’ VPN client on my Mac, I disconnected from the server, but left the client on. In other words, the icon was still visible in the menu bar. It seems this can
Continue readingI’ve found that Norton Ghost will not go into DOS mode to perform a disk backup unless a non-USB mouse is attached to the machine. Probably you could also get around this by fiddling with
Continue readingMaybe I was dreaming, but I was certain that the last time I looked, the only way to get a Checkpoint VPN client for the Mac was to buy one – for around $100.00. Many
Continue readingYou can use serverside variables to drive client-side javascripts. Server-side variables get processed and the results output by the time the page is rendered, so the value of the variable can be used in client-side functions.
In an ASP application I’m working with, I wanted a different tooltip to show up on each tab, depending on what the tab title was. There is a server-side variable called “tabs[i].title”. So I created a little client-side function to test the value of the title on each tab.
<script>
var tabName ;
function whichTab(tabTitle){
if (tabTitle == 'Summary'){
tabName = Summary;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Plan Details'){
tabName = PlanDetails;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Certifications'){
tabName = Certifications;
}
else if (tabTitle == 'Transcript'){
tabName = Transcript;
}
}
</script>
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Links to PDF’s can be made to target specific places in the document by appending a number/pound (#) sign to the end of the URL, followed by “page=[number]: Example: target page 10 http://server.com/title.pdf#page=10 Example: Target
Continue readingCoursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the
Continue readingA client sent me a powerpoint with revisions from last year’s version. Over the year, they must have found the “Animation Schemes” button because the presentation was filled with animated text. When I exported the
Continue readingWe’ve had just about every sort of database connection issue with our two Questionmark Perception servers, so in the interest of saving someone else the kind of struggles we’ve gone through, here are some things to look for.
A typical path to the tnsnames.ora file on a server is
E:\Oracle_HomenetworkAdmintnsnames.ora
There are a variety of things that could be incorrect in this file.