Glenn9999

More files I have of the category of USB drivers. YMMV, and I don't know the exact functions of some of these or whether they would work (much of my testing on these drivers were limited for lack of documentation). Please enlighten me on any particular application for these - I'm sure I'll get my original questions out on these files when I reference them and whether they are worth keeping for whatever reason. IOMEGA-USB - some random USB drivers put out by Iomega. Also a 1394 firewire driver in this package. Cypress-USB - the Cypress DOS USB drivers. Motto-Hairu - the access drivers for USB (DI1000DD). Includes RAMFD.SYS, I guess related to USB floppy drives? Ninja-USB - I don't know where I got these drivers, but one of them has the string "NinjaUSB ASPI CD-ROM Driver (ATAPI) Ver 3.09 Copyright©2000 Workbit Corporation.", so I'm guessing these are USB drivers as well. PanasonicUSB - varying versions of the Panasonic USB drivers. Also has a USB CD driver in there. SBP1394 - I guess this is a IEEE1394 Firewire driver that came with the Sound Blaster Pro? OHCIUHCI- I don't know where I got these either, but I did figure out they were USB 1.1 drivers. Download the Cypress Drivers here Download OHCIUHCI here. Another set of drivers soon, if people want me to keep posting.

I said in response to someone on this thread that I would start posting a few random drivers or apps for DOS, but it would be a good opportunity for anyone to share (or even give experiences on them). The main thing, I guess would be to figure out what would be worth sharing. I'll start by posting what I put in the other thread, and will be adding more in the coming days, along with descriptions. Of course, if there's any objections to what is being posted for warez or other reasons (newer more complete versions perhaps?), I can always pull the files from my posts. Or if there is a need for any documentation on how to load any of these, by all means ask. AOATAPI - the AOpen CD-ROM driver, supports UDMA CTMOUSE - an alternative mouse driver. SHARE - the Datalight file sharing driver. SHCDX33A - a MSCDEX replacement ver 33a. SHCDX33C - ver 33c of a MSCDEX replacement. UIDEXMGR - UIDE and XMGR. UMBPCI - a UMB memory provider. XMSDSK - I found the full package, see below:

What about on-board sound? I have an Audigy 2 card, but I notice that the on-board sound is about as good quality-wise. Of course, the Audigy is much nicer in a lot of ways outside of the sound that it delivers, but the question I would have is whether or not most sound cards today would exceed what is on the board for sound for most applications. Maybe that's the discussion point for this thread - when does on-board become "not enough"?

If power's a concern, it'd probably be better to get S3 standby (I know Windows XP/Vista supports it, but probably Linux too by now) set up on most computers on a timer so they will go there when not in use. For what I read, power usage on those go to about 5W. Or simply turn it off when you don't use it. I see so many instances where computers are left on and are unused for long periods of time (overnight or weekends!). And really this doesn't matter how old the hardware is, if it's on and you're not using it, it's burning electricity and is not green, etc. Probably worst is the offices I know of that will leave 100's of computers on overnight. The infrequently used server? There's always Wake-On-LAN. If one is really that concerned about power usage of a computer, it pays more to watch your usage patterns than it does upgrading.

There are people using Delphi, but you need to work to find them, as was said. I use it, but purely from a hobbyist standpoint (I learned on Pascal, and Delphi was the easiest transition that fitted my budget and my tolerance level). As for your problem, I'm not well-versed in the database end of what you're doing with Delphi. But if I understand your problem right (and I'm not sure), you're pulling TDateTime from your database and you would rather have it show in a TEdit style structure instead of the DBDateTimePicker? As was stated, there are several functions in SysUtils that should make that transition for you easily.

I've tried Pidgin, Miranda and Trillian and have had problems with the latter two to the point that they were unusable in most circumstances. Pidgin's been fine for most part, but for the last two .1 versions (from 2.3) it crashes repeatedly on me. So, are there any good alternatives outside of those three? Or am I in for general IM suckitude (via these three programs or for running three or four separate IM clients)? Edit: Name change corrected.

You're probably removing Java files that you think are IE files. M$ offers it no more (like I said, dead buried, gone, etc), but if you want to double-check what you're doing you can always search for MSJAVX86.EXE and attempt installing it and see if that changes anything. But remember, too, since it's dead buried gone for almost 4 years now, you introduce a TON of security nightmares and problems by having it.

the Sun JRE would have been the relevant thing to install in the case since it would be a JVM. My guess from here, since you say it didn't work with the Sun JRE, is that the image editor is looking for the Microsoft JVM, which has been left for dead long ago (but not long enough ago that it wouldn't have been in Windows XP - can't remember if it was added back in in SP2 after the SP1A thing or not). If you started from a vanilla XP disk (SP0) or SP1 then you might have removed it. Otherwise, it might not be in there in the first place. In any event, if you determine this image editor requires MSJVM, I'd look for a new image editor.

I like basically any of the photo sharing sites. Caedes for one. Problem is you got to surf through a lot to get to the pictures (they ban page downloader spiders), but there's some absolutely stunning ones that I find on any of them. You occasionally find some interesting CG drawings and ray-tracings on sites like that too. Then I find NASA images always are interesting. Pick either stuff taken off the shuttle or the ISS, or stuff from Hubble and it's hard to go wrong. (I run very few images now in my image changer program, only because I run widescreen images with my widescreen monitor, and good ones of those are very hard to find. But I have found a ton of full screen images - that reminds me I need to book mark this and look for a few more images )

You'd have to make a go at writing a EXE which functions as a wrapper for the plug-in. RUNDLL32 only supports specific DLLs which have been written according to a Microsoft Spec. Truthfully I'm rather surprised that you got as far as you did with a third-party DLL and RUNDLL32. It could be how the author wrote it or something else. But you'd have to write the EXE to call it. Or just stick to using the program it came with.

I got some command-related problems I'm trying to figure out. I'm calling a number of things within a program I wrote, but I'm trying to figure out some errors I'm getting back...here they are: Command: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "del" "D:\BACKUP\Delphi Done\MediaPlayer Demo2\mpdemo.exe" The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Command: c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe /c "C:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi 3\bin\dcc32.exe" "D:\BACKUP\Delphi Done\MediaPlayer Demo2\mp.pas" 'C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. I'm throwing the quotes around everything because of the possibility of spaces in the path/filename. The second one especially confuses me since I put that one into a command-prompt manually and had it work. Any ideas on why these are not working and how to correct them?

It might be useful for most here to identify the language in question... Besides, you'll probably get more help if you start by posting the syntax you don't understand rather than dumping the complete source on someone and asking them to explain every single line of it.

Actually, someone already put out a fix. I don't know how good it is, but it can be a start if it doesn't already work.

Maybe the first question to be answering is what you are looking to do that you want to learn to program? Programming languages are a lot like tools (one lesson most don't get in the programming world, but I digress). Some tools do certain jobs better than others. What is it that interests you that you are wanting to learn to program in the first place? Perhaps the decision of what to get into will be better found by answering that question and finding the right tool to do that particular job?

How does June 10 play into all of this (when they start pushing it through automatic updates)? Does that push to WSUS as well, or for those that don't want to deploy before then they have to run the blocker tool?

There is no X64 version. You want to look at Windows Server 2003 service packs (most current is 2).

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8...%20Pack%203.pdf

Since we're posting links now, I might as well post this information about the file: CRC32: C411A9DA MD5: BB25707C919DD835A9D9706B5725AF58 SHA1: C81472F7EEEA2ECA421E116CD4C03E2300EBFDE4 Filename: windowsxp-kb936929-sp3-x86-enu_c81472f7eeea2eca421e116cd4c03e2300ebfde4.exe Piece of trivia I just noticed. All the gobbledy-gook in the file name that was posted is the SHA-1 of the file. So I guess that's Microsoft's favored validation scheme.

I think I have an idea and I have it in this file (BatchPatcher 1.02b1 - basically 1.01 plus this change). Please let me know if it helps. (I have a newer version with a few features ready to go soon, but need to figure out a problem with SP3. Hopefully this one can be solved along with it for a full 1.02 release.)

A service pack is a collection of all/most of the updates for a particular product that have been released to that point, along with any other fixes/updates that may have been created in the development process of that service pack (I know of a couple specific ones). The service pack generally (XP SP2 was very much out of the ordinary) will not include any of those things you listed. No IE7, no WMP11, no DX updates, etc.

The file you would get from that link is a self-extracting archive which works on Windows 2K or above. However, 7-Zip will extract it on any platform it works on (yes the file works on Windows 9X). Inside the file you should find QCHAIN.EXE and EULA.TXT. Copy the QCHAIN.EXE file to the same folder as BATPATCHER.EXE and then it should work. And yes I know it'd be a lot easier to just distribute the file with the app, but from all appearances it looks like it would be against EULA and would run into the same problems as those are who are distributing the service packs/patches outside of Microsoft's servers (like Autopatcher did).

That was what I was thinking. Substring is like left, depending on the DB you are on. WHERE SUBSTR(city, 1, 1) BETWEEN 'A' and 'C' was what I was talking about.

WHERE city LIKE '[A-C]%' OK I apologize, my eye didn't catch this. As far as I know SQL, this is not standard - for the way I read this, you are looking for cities that start with "[A-C]", which isn't really what you are wanting. You can do three like conditions, or what I would be tempted to try (test on only one of the statements, btw, that would have revealed this problem as well) is to use SubString and between if the Substring is acceptable in a WHERE clause.

It goes in the same folder as batpatcher.exe. It might help to know what kind of error it is, specifically (the message, whatever).

It depends on whether you use .NET apps or not on whether you need them or not. You could not install them and be fine likely. But my thought on it is that if you run into a .NET app, you can be ready to run it. To get all the versions, you want .NET 1.1 (and all the updates) and .NET 3.5 (which includes >= .NET 2.0).