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The password grammar in my example wasn’t especially robust. Including upper case letters, digits, and punctuation would increase the number of possible passwords by several orders of magnitude. Sure, a battalion of PCs could be employed in a cracking attempt. But the need for this is hardly suggested by the words, “can crack passwords as easily as it can game.”

The headline strikes me as hype. By my rough calculation, to test all passwords made up precisely of eight lower case letters would still take more than 100 days of computing.

Hi brinton,
Do the funky characters appear when you print from Excel or some other Office 2016 application? If so, do they also appear when you print from a text editing application such as WordPad or Notepad?

Dave

Hi Bob,
When I bring up Amplify in Audacity, I usually mouse-select the decibel value and enter a different one, sometimes consisting only of a decimal part. What happens when you try this?

Dave

Hi Bob,
Could you clarify a few aspects of your process.

1. How are you generating the track for a given instrument? Are you physically playing it and recording this using Audacity or other software? Or are you using software to write out the music for the track, select the instrument, and generate the audio file for the track?

2. Why is each track being exported to a separate file, rather than being consolidated into a single Audacity file that still keeps the tracks separate?

3. In what way do you find volume control in Audacity complex? In the (older) version I have, it entails selecting a passage, clicking on “Effect” in the top menu, clicking on “Amplify” in the dropdown menu, setting the desired volume change in decibels, optionally playing a sample of the result-to-be, and applying the change.

Dave

Hi jepalmer,
1. Apply the property of logs, log (X/Y) = log X – log Y.
2. Cross-multiply to eliminate the denominators.
3. Add or subtract terms on each side of the equation so that the terms involving T are on the left side and the terms not involving T are on the right side.
4. Factor out T from the left side.
5. Divide both sides by the non-T term on the left side.

Dave

I would have thought that if a user runs Norton’s LiveUpdate(TM), this would address known exploits of the type described in satrow’s post, but it wouldn’t address such an exploit that was brand new. Is this accurate, or is Norton addressing this type of exploit as well as instances of that exploit?

Hi sueri,
If MembershipRenewDate will be used only as described in your original post, then RetiredGeek’s suggestion seems the most practical.

But, if you changed the database that way and then decided to create a report of all members and their membership renew dates, this would entail “translating” the dummy date of 2525 to “Life”.

In contrast, your present database structure explicitly recognizes the concept Life. This wouldn’t necessarily make our hypothetical report “easier” to construct, but it would make it more intuitive because your present database structure reflects the historical society’s “business rules” more accurately. This would probably also allow the database to meet unanticipated needs more gracefully.

Hope this helps,
Dave

Hi RockE,
The way that the terms “server” and “client” were being used made sense to me. What didn’t make sense to me was the article’s use of the term “upload,” which I’d thought would apply, for example, to a hypothetical cloud backup service in which files on one user’s computer were sent to another user’s computer and from there to the cloud server (an admittedly unrealistic scenario).

Dave

Did anyone else find confusing initially, the above-cited How-to Geek article’s interchangeable use of “download” (which I thought meant, from server to client) and “upload” (which I thought meant, from client to server)?

Hi Alan,
I’m glad you found an apparent workaround.

Dave

Hi Alan,
If the “send link” button on your iPad is implemented through a Chrome extension, you might view that extension to see whether it has an option to include you in the recipient list. Likewise for your iPhone.

Dave

Hi Alan,
Sorry that didn’t help.

From your initial post, I’m not sure whether you have tried using gmail to send an email message via a browser other than Chrome. What happens, for example, if from your desktop machine, you open Internet Explorer or Firefox, sign in to gmail, and send an email message?

Also, to “send a link” using gmail, what steps are you performing?

Dave

Hi Alan,
I haven’t used Chrome, but according to the thread https://productforums.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/gmail/bJS5yL53I3M#!topic/gmail/bJS5yL53I3M, the solution involves adding an entry to the “Never Send to Spam” filter (see last post in thread, dated 12/7/15).

Hope this helps,
Dave

Hi Ron,
Have you tried deleting the Dropbox folder by using the command prompt, as discussed here:

http://superuser.com/questions/288712/remove-dropbox-folder-from-computer

I’m not sure why what you’ve done wouldn’t suffice, but the command line worked for the originating poster in that thread.

Dave