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    Anyone familiar with Cognos?

    I am just starting to get my feet wet right now. I may confuse terms, so apologies in advance. I have a precanned framework (I think that's what it's called) where my data comes from. I have a specific need to pull a report where metrics are reporting daily. I need to make it generic so here...
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    Resetting the TCP/IP stack in XP

    In the past I have used tools like TCP Optimizer and Dr. TCP to adjust MTU and window sizing, what I did notice is that using the "optimal" sliders it changes more registry values than what I am interested in. On my current test laptop I have XP where I have already used TCP optimizer and...
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    Boot Drive issues Win 7

    Not sure how this happened but it did. I have two drives 1) System and 2) media from my older install of XP. I noticed that all my media was missing, and tried to look for it on the drive when I came across this issue. It appears that Win 7 is installed on a partition on my media drive...
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    Looks like I am eating some crow...maybe

    I among others prognosticated that there wouldn't be an IPhone on the VZW network and that instead Apple will go with a 4g device. Looks like I may be wrong. I honestly don't know this publication, so maybe others could chime in about it. It seems without a major announce from either company it...
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    Need a direction for an app I want to write

    I know enough to get myself in trouble with programming. I've only taken Java and C++ in school so far, so I don't have too much knowledge other than the OOP ideas and simple programming basics. So the basic idea that I want to write an app for is this. I am given a plain text file (this...
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    Getting a few steps closer

    Text It's nice they are making quite a bit of progress. Hopefully they stick as true to their predicted launch date. Heck, I may have to move to one of the launch markets now. :P
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    Codex of Alchemical Engineering

    Link Pretty fun game. There are lots of solutions to the puzzles, and even if you beat the level, you can optimize to complete it in the shortest amount of time/least cycles. I played halfheartedly to level 9, then I had other fish to fry. Just remember, the manipulator arms can be...
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    Excel VBA help

    I have a UDF ConsecutiveSum that takes a range of cells as an argument. I am trying to write a macro that will use this within a loop and with a dynamic cell range size. The problem I am having (very possible it's syntax related) is passing the varible cell range to the function: I...
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    Recommendation for a notetaking Palm App

    I took a look over at freewearepalm.com and I only saw one older app and I was curious if someone had another recommendation. Basically I just want handwritten note functionality for my Centro for quickly jotting down classwork assignments on my phone. My keyboard skills are deficient due to...
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    Problem with intervideo windvd platinum

    Just like the title states. Whenever I launch the program, I get the program in the taskbar, but no playback or splashscreen, just my desktop. I have tried to put a DVD in the Drive hoping Autoplay would fix it, but it hasn't.
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    Can someone help me figure out what I even need to do?

    I have 10 Windows PC's that are set up for monitoring purposes of a CDMA2000 network. I could just purchase some 3rd party software, but I am wondering if there is an cost-free solution. I've googled, and everything leads to 3rd party software. One constraint is that I cannot install...
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    Excel VB Macro help

    Basically, I receive information about a CDMA system in an excel format. It contains a fairly determined breakdown of the information on usage over a given time frame, further broken down by sector and CDMA carrier. Being lazy, I got tired of manually creating the graphs, and filtering the...
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    I need some help with ksh command

    Basically I have ~25 gz files that I need to search for certain text. Say my first criteria is xx, and the second is yy I have gzegrep available, but I can't seem to find anything on the web that allows me to basically use an "and" for the expressions. What may be complicating matters is...
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    How do I calculate Home payoff amount

    I am loooking for "ballpark" figures here I had purchased my home ~4 years ago, and due to family issues/job change I am having to sell my home. I have logged into my mortgage service account, and I am able to see the principal remaining on the account. When I go to the payoff section, it...
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    Need some PERL help

    Could someone give me some suggestions to correct my PERL script? I'm new at programming in general, and I can't figure out where I am going wrong. In the beginning of the script I declare the following: ($sec,$min,$hr,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time); $year+=1900...
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    Some poeple have way too much time on their hands

    The people with too much time. Found this pretty interesting, did a search and couldn't find it here. I saw this link on another forum I frequent. I watched it at work w/o sound, and on the other forum some people found the sound annoying so be warned.