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Nowadays your best bet at getting a decent job is to get a degree. Not necessarily a Master's, just a degree. In my experience, employers are looking for qualifications and experience. How do you get experience? By getting a job. How do you get a job? By having experience... or you have a decent qualification and you lucked out on an employer that isn't concentrating so much on experience. How have people managed to get a decent job in IT by not having qualifications pouring out of their ears? They're either one lucky SOB or they got into IT a few years ago, either around 2000 where if you knew how to use a computer you were pretty much an expert or, very few years later when experience wasn't as essential. Now, companies want to provide minimal training and expect you to grasp a whole lot in a short space of time using past experience; your qualifications cover the gaps.

Active Directory allows you to delegate control over specific aspects (for example, the ability to create users in a specified Organisational Unit) and MS Exchange is controlled through AD. I haven't tried it before but it would stand to reason that you would be able to grant users the ability to create e-mail accounts without giving users the rights to create/delete user accounts.

Microsoft Exchange would probably be your best bet for providing a web interface to users, especially if you already have an exchange server set up. I don't know the exact method to do it but I can find out from my colleague, who set ours up. Additionally, anyone that has a Blackberry can pick up their mail through exchange and, if you have a wireless router, there are also many standard phones that can pick up Exchange e-mail via Wi-Fi.

Did you tell it to activate Windows as soon as you were online or did you do it manually? I told Windows to activate automatically then the next day I had to do it manually because it hadn't done it.

Moved to Buzzen. Travis, think about the way youu're phrasing something before sending out a message. Things like "Think you're up to it?" after suggesting someone tries to do something easier than what they are currently attempting can be taken negatively, very easily. If you disagree, keep it to PMs, please. I ask this as a fellow forum user, not as a GM. Johnson - to an extent, I do agree with Travis; try out simpler things than connections. I spent years on mIRC and I knew how to do many things but I didn't attempt a connection (out of choice, more than anything else). Other than things like games with an AI (which is just obscene) a connection is one of the hardest things to do with mIRC. Try out some of the lesser things, that you would like to use and want to put your name behind then, over time, build up your knowledge and experience and go for the bigger, more demanding things. It will also get you to be more confident with your programming and you'll be bashing out coding more smoothly.

Watching HD on a non-HD TV is a slight improvement. Watching HD on a TV that is HD is a significant improvement. For example, my brother-in-law hooked up his son's PS3 to his non-HD 42" plasma. My PS3 on my 22" HD-ready LCD TV is astounding in how much better quality it has; just by looking at the startup logo you can see a tremendous difference. In case you think it's the size - my PS3 used to be hooked up to my parents' 52" plasma and that had about the same degree of quality difference compared to his TV.

What do you mean - a non-HD channel through Sky HD to an HD-ready TV, an HD channel through Sky HD to a non-HD-ready TV or a non-HD channel through Sky HD to a non-HD-ready TV?

Wb... Nope, can't think of anything else.

The Windows 7 upgrade isn't entirely free; although they have to give you Windows 7 for free if you send them back the Win7 upgrade voucher, the companies are squeezing every possible penny out of you from the P&P, which they are allowed to charge for. HP, for example, are charging their customers £22 for "Shipping and handling" charges, even though the OS itself is free. It's better than the retail (or even the OEM) price of Windows 7 but they really are taking the P.

Digi - Simple, it entices people that are not experienced. They are both business promoting their products after all.

Haggis' example worked fine for me in Notepad; the characters show as little "L" shapes, just like the forum. Check your Notepad's font - mine's set to Lucida Console.

Can anyone paste an example for testing, rather than using screenshots?

Windows 7 did pretty well for me; I've currently got it installed on my secondary PC with no driver issues and, so far, no problems with software. The interface isn't really that much different from Windows Vista so there's not really much I can say about that, as I'm currently using Vista Ultimate x64. What I'm not really fond of, though, is with Windows Live (Aka: MSN) Messenger when you close the main window. Usually, when you close the main window of the program, it'll actually close and place an icon in the system tray. Not with Windows 7, though; when you click to close Messenger it'll seemingly minimise and you'll have the window sitting in your taskbar, exactly as if had been minimised. I'm hoping that there'll either be a new update to Messenger when 7 comes out because I personally find it to be one of the bigger features of WL Messenger. The ability to customise the UAC is nice. Although I don't have a problem with Vista's UAC system, it's good that I can say to people that did find it annoying "By the way, you can tell the UAC to stop pestering you for most things or you can turn it off completely". I've actually toned it down a notch as well because I found it a tad annoying that it prompted you every time you wanted to rename something in the Program Files folder or the All Users "Start" menu. Being the only user of my PC, I don't really need Windows to question my judgement on renaming shortcuts for "other users". I'm looking forward to seeing how well 7 performs in a corporate environment. Although the company I work for is not likely to be able to afford to upgrade all of the computers in the company any time soon, I'd imagine that, using Server 2008 with a patch or Server 2008 R2 (which we're going to try to push for) will be able to be used if they come pre-installed on newly-ordered PCs without any trouble with Active Directory. I've already tried out the applications that we currently use and all of them, including all of the bespoke applications worked fine, unlike Vista, which had a few problems. We're currently using Windows XP and, although migration to a new operating system is a way off, being able to us both XP and 7 flawlessly would be beneficial.

We can crank back the clock a lot further than that. Does the word Hainses' (SP?) ring any bells?

That wasn't a script, it was a bot. I can't remember the name of it but it was blue (by default) and most people used it before they found they could use mIRC to join MSN Chat rooms. I remember it was annoying trying to use it as a "war script" by mass-kicking everyone in a room then finding one or two people were using mIRC, which re-joined, auto-hosted itself and kicked you then changed the pass faster than you can do it semi-automatically through the bot. Used properly, it was the only way people knew how to change the room pass, the topic and auto-host people that you liked. IRC Dominator was better than this one IMO. Was it called Viper Bot? I think I still have that clip (though not sure where) and I got Blue - Too Close because of it.

Just add this line above that one: if (!%ssnum) { set %ssnum 0 } inc %ssnum Then that makes the new line: set %file c:\screenshots\desktop $+ %ssnum $+ .jpg Or, if you prefer to have more redundancy: if (!%ssnum) { set %ssnum $findfile(c:\screenshots\,*.jpg,0) } inc %ssnum Though this may slow down the code somewhat if the %ssnum variable doesn't exist.

I had a look over that script and you'd be able to upload the file taken using the dll by heavily stripping out the dialogs. When you've got that part stripped out, you should be able to cut out any parts you no longer need from that code, compress it and add it to the /ss alias.

When you post a... post, look at the bottom-right corner of the text entry box and you'll see a "BB Code Help" button. That tells you about most of them.

[b][u]This is wrong[/b][/u] No it's not Also note that if you want to use text in a URL (eg: TechGear) you can use: [url=www.tg007.net]TechGear[/url] You also missed: [center][center] for centralising text. [left][/left] to align left (default). [right][/right] to align right. [topic="100]Clickable[/topic] for linking to a topic. [post="100]Clickable too[/post] for linking to a post. [spoiler]spoiled again![/spoiler] for a spoiler tag. [acronym="TG]TechGear[/acronym] for an acronym tag. [youtube] [/youtube] to insert a Youtube video. [sub]text[/sub] to sub-script down here. [sup]text2[/sup] to superscript up here. [s][/s] for strikethrough wrong words. [indent][/indent] to indent text. [sql]SELECT t.tid FROM a_table t WHERE t.val="This Value"[/sql] for SQL coding. [html]<a href="test/page.html">A Test Page</a>[/html] for HTML coding. [snapback]100[/snapback] for a clickable arrow to a post number. [snippet]fileid[/snippet] for a snippet. To test: center Topic link Post link A-C-R-O-N-Y-M (Pretend there's a youtube video here) Indent SELECT t.tid FROM a_table t WHERE t.val="This Value" <a href="test/page.html">A Test Page</a> <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Snapback The snippet I don't have a file ID for... There's also attachment management: [attachment=461:asterisk.wav] asterisk.wav

Blimmin' Heck! I like the addition of Pipi Longstocking (I think that's who it's supposed to be) and the car wash - they're a nice touch.

Yes to Win7, no to Ultimate. However, I also said yes to Vista prior to its release date.

I do wonder about you sometimes, Johnson I said I find Windows 7 Ultimate pointless compared to the others. Didn't you notice the Windows 7 announcement I made in the Main News Section? My colleagues and I in the IT office at work pre-ordered Windows 7 Pro within minutes of each other, later told the IT manager when he arrived and the Dialler manager when he came to have a chat. Starter is an operating system. Home Basic adds Aero, desktop wallpapers, fast user switching, multiple monitors and Mobility Center. Home Premium adds a few more gubbings but Pro includes (amongst other things) XP Mode - a virtual machine package for Windows Virtual PC containing a pre-installed, licensed copy of Windows XP SP3 as its guest OS. Pre-installed integration components allow applications running within the virtualized environment to appear as if running directly on the host, sharing the native desktop and Start Menu of Windows 7 as well as participating in file type associations.

Fanfare - Europe only get the E editions because we're special The Ultimate edition for the most part is pointless; you get AppLocker (a set of Group Policy settings built on Software Restriction Policies, to restrict which applications can run on a corporate network, including the ability to restrict based on the application's version number or publisher), BitLocker Drive Encryption (pointless), BranchCache Distributed Cache (a branch-office cache system for files stored on central file servers), DirectAccess (VPN for IPv6), Subsystem for Unix-based Applications (woo!), Multilingual User Interface Pack (for those of you who forget to set the right language on install or you are multi-lingual) and Virtual Hard Disk Booting (why?!!).

Lunarpages has cPanel.

I'm with Lunar Pages and I've found it's pretty decent, both in service and in price.