March 12, 2008

Formatting Yes/No fields in Access reports

Date:October 2nd, 2007

Author: Mary Ann Richardson

Check boxes are fine for data entry, but you may not want to use them on a formal report. For example, suppose you have a Yes/No field in your Employee Records table called Insurance. If the employee signed up for your company’s life insurance plan, the box is checked; if the employee declined the insurance, the box is not checked. You want to create a report that lists employee name, ID, hire date, and whether the employee declined or accepted life insurance. Follow these steps:

  1. Create a query that displays Employee ID, Lastname, Firstname, Hire Date, and Insurance field from the Employee Records table.
  2. Right-click the Insurance field in the Query Design view and select Properties.
  3. Click in the Format property box and enter the following code:
;"Accepted";"Declined"

  1. Click the Lookup tab.
  2. Click in the Display Control property box and select Text Box.
  3. Close and save the query.

cheap viagra without prescription align=”justify”>When you create a report based on this query, either the word Accepted or Declined will replace the check box in the Insurance field.

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Eliminate blank pages in your Access report

Date: March 11th, 2008

Author: Mary Ann Richardson

When every other page of your 10-page Access report prints out blank, your first thought may be to change the report orientation from Portrait to Landscape. Rather than spend time redesigning your report layout, open the report in Design view and check the position of the report controls next to the right page margin. If any of the controls touch the right-margin border or even override it, Access automatically increases the right page margin to accommodate the controls. If this increases the margin past the eight-inch mark, Access cannot print the entire page on one piece of paper. (The blank page is actually a printout of the rest of the preceding page.) To eliminate the blank pages, follow these steps:

  1. Open the report in Design view.
  2. Click on the right border of any control that extends beyond the eight-inch right margin mark and drag it to the left so the control is within the margin.
  3. Repeat step 2 for each control extending beyond the margin.
  4. Go to File | Page Setup. (In Access 2007, click the Page Setup button in the Print Preview ribbon.)
  5. Click on the Column tab.
  6. Under Column size, click in Width text box and enter 8, then click OK.

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March 9, 2008

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows XP Download

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Publisher: Microsoft
Last updated: March 5, 2008
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IE8 takes the Web experience beyond the page and introduces a new way to seamlessly experience the power of the Web.

Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is a developer preview for web designers and developers to help prepare their websites for the launch of Internet Explorer 8. Some of the new features designed for developers include a developer toolbar and improved interoperability and compatibility.

Internet Explorer 8 is designed to work in standard mode out of this box. However, Microsoft provides a way for users to browse the web in a way similar to Internet Explorer 7 by using the emulate Internet Explorer 7 button on the chrome.

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Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience beyond the page. Internet Explorer 8 introduces a new way to seamlessly experience the best of the web whether you are a web developer writing to standards or a user discovering a new online service. Be one of the first developers to take advantage of improvements in Internet Explorer 8 for your websites and applications.

Over the last ten years, the intensity of web usage and people's reliance on the web has increased dramatically. The evolution of the web has introduced a new set of opportunities, immersive experiences, online services, and standards. cheap viagra overnight Daily life without the web is simply hard for many people to imagine.

With this intensity and reliance, web developers and designers face an evolving set of needs including:

* Interoperability and compatibility
* Built-in tools that help both first time and experienced developers and designers get pages built right
* Browser capabilities that enable innovative experiences

Internet Explorer 8 will take the web experience beyond the page and introduce a new way to seamlessly experience the best of the web, whether you are a web developer writing to standards or an end-user discovering a new online service.

Activities

Activities are contextual services that provide quick access to external services from any webpage. Activities typically involve one of two types of actions:

* "Look up" information related to data in the current webpage
* "Send" content from the current webpage to another application

WebSlices

Web sites can expose portions of their page as a WebSlice that users can subscribe to and bring that content with them on their links bar wherever they are on the web. Users receive update notifications when the content changes.

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March 8, 2008

EFF Takes on RIAA Lawsuit Strategy in Court Hearing

Phoenix File-Sharing Suit Based on Bogus "Making Available"

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Phoenix, AZ – On Wednesday, EFF urged a federal judge in Phoenix to block the recording industry's effort to sue two Arizona residents for simply having music files in a "shared" folder on their computer.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is seeking thousands of dollars in damages from the defendants in the case, Pamela cheap viagra online without prescription and Jeffery Howell, for alleged unauthorized distribution of copyrighted digital music.

However, instead of proving that the Howells actually distributed music files, the RIAA claims only that they had songs in the "shared" folder of peer-to-peer file-sharing software Kazaa — without any proof that anyone other than their own investigators actually downloaded the songs from them.

EFF's Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann argued at Wednesday's hearing that the RIAA cannot take this shortcut in its lawsuit campaign.

"This amounts to suing someone for attempted copyright infringement — something the Copyright Act simply does not allow," said EFF Senior Staff Attorney Fred von Lohmann.

"If the RIAA wants to keep bringing these suits and collecting big settlements, then they have to follow the law and prove their case. It's not enough to say the law could have been broken. The RIAA must prove it actually was broken."

For more about the case:

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/eff-files-brief-atlantic-v-howell-resisting-riaas-attempted-distribution-theory

For EFF's amicus brief:

http://www.eff.org/files/filenode/atlantic_v_howel/EFF_amicus_atlantic_howell.pdf

For this release:

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/03/03

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New Telecom Whistleblower Describes Open Surveillance Gateway

Trio of Commerce Chairmen Call for Further Investigation Based on Latest Spying Allegations

Washington D.C. – Three powerful House Commerce Committee Chairmen strongly urged their colleagues Thursday to defer acting on requests for retroactive immunity and to demand more information from the White House and the telecommunications companies in the wake of disclosures by another whistleblower that the government apparently has been granted an open gateway to customer information and calls by a major telecommunications company.

Babak Pasdar, a computer security consultant, has gone public about his discovery of a mysterious "Quantico Circuit" while working for an unnamed major wireless carrier. Pasdar believes that this circuit gives the U.S. government direct, unfettered access to customers' voice calls and data packets. These claims echo the disclosures from retired AT&T technician Mark Klein, who has described a "secret room" in an AT&T facility.

The White House is putting heavy pressure on lawmakers to grant the telecoms immunity from lawsuits over the spying as part of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) legislation pending in Congress. But in today's letter — written by John Dingell, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Ed Markey, Chairman of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet; and Bart Stupak, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations — the congressmen argue that lawmakers must not "vote in the dark" on the immunity issue when "profound privacy and security risks" are involved.

"When you put Mr. Pasdar's information together with that of AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein, there is troubling evidence of telecom misconduct in massive domestic surveillance of ordinary Americans," said Cindy Cohn, Legal Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

"Congress needs to have hearings and get some answers about whether American telecommunications companies are helping the government to illegally spy on millions of us.

Retroactive immunity for telecom companies now ought to be off the table in the ongoing FISA debate."

EFF represents the plaintiffs in Hepting v. AT&T, a class-action lawsuit brought by AT&T customers accusing the telecommunications cheap viagra 100mg company of violating their rights by illegally assisting the National Security Agency in widespread domestic surveillance. The Hepting case is just one of many suits aimed at holding telecoms responsible for knowingly violating federal privacy laws with warrantless wiretapping and the illegal transfer of vast amounts of personal data to the government.

For the full letter:

http://www.eff.org/files/newwhistleblower.pdf

For more on the telecoms' role in warrantless spying:

http://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying

For this complete release:

http://www.eff.org/press/archives/2008/03/06

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