Huge thanks

I'm not sure if this is entirely appropriate for this board, but I just wanted to say thanks to everyone (Tom especially) for quickly and patiently answering my questions (not to mention the countless hours spent trolling other poster's topics here). Just finished my first large-scale project with the FC interface, and it met with rousing success.
Much appreciated.

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Huge Thank You

I am so ecstatic right now... I am trying to get my fico up so I can get a Mortgage in a year and have been reading through these forums left and right. First off thank you to all of you who have gave advice to help establish and build credit. Without you all I would be lost. I opened my first cl in Feb 2015 (300 secured cap one) and have done outstanding with it. My love added me 2 weeks ago to his Maurices store card (500) as an AU (which does report and backdated!) Which boosted my score 8 pts, I got a VS (500) via preapproval (shopping cart trick) and planned on gardening for a bit but had a prequal and read how Chase prequals were pretty dead on. I applied and was instantly approved for 2200 cl with Chase Freedom. Now I am happy and can garden and have all of you to thank for your advice. My scores are low 600s but I am still on my way up. I want to tell everyone who is giving up hope establishing or rebuilding that it can be done. ☺

Nice!!! Stay focused as you are on the right track!!! CONGRATS!!!

HAPPY XMAS AND A HUGE THANK YOU....

I just want to say THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to these forums over the last year.
As the occasional avid reader, I never cease to be amazed at the contribution of you folks to helping us to achieve our goals.
As someone from across the water in PAL territory, I am for one REALLY grateful for your input, that on many occasions has helped me - even with my more dumb questions.
I know that sometimes we are requested to LITFM (look in the f**** manual) and sometimes that is justified, however sometimes that is not always that easy. And that is when you guys step in to the breach, and all you get in return is some lousy points (and the occasional grief from some of our less grateful questioners)
Well if I could buy you all a big fat Xmas present - I would!!
My growth this year as a film maker and editor has been considerably enhanced by your help (and I have the luxury of an ex BBC editor who comes in to train me 2 days every month)
So that's it. No question, no dumb request, just a big thanks to you ALL (even the ones who have only contributed once or twice).
I salute you.
Happy Christmas and may all your dreams come true in 2007.
Stephen
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, Final Cut Studio, AE 7 pro, 2 x Sony Z1E
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, Final Cut Studio, AE 7 pro, 2 x Sony Z1E
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, Final Cut Studio, AE 7 pro, 2 x Sony Z1E

And so polite as well!!
You will have to come over for a cup of tea and scones with cream and jam on top. Very English!
Either that or a full English breakfast - bacon, eggs (sunny side up), sausages, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, baked beans, and not forgetting the toast!
Not that I am asking you to stay over Michelle........
G5 Quad Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5GB RAM Quadro FX 4500 graphics card, Final Cut Studio, AE 7 pro, 2 x Sony Z1E

Huge thanks - Mac problems with Type A new firmwar...

Since I got the upgraded Type A firmware on my HomeHub 3 its messing my wifi on my macbook pro. Every other device is fine, the macbook works fine on other connections.
The connections stalls for 30sec or so, disconnects all games, apps etc.
Then comes back on.
Spent 45mins onto India tech support, the girl had no idea what firmware was and kept blaming my macbook. Ive worked for o2 broadband support, i know what the problem is the HomeHub. Problems started 23rd Nov when i got upgrade.
I email and a lovely lady has a Type B on the way next day, took 2 emails.
Seems to get things sorted, you need to escalate.

Hi BuckleZ
I am sorry you are having problems. Could you drop us in an email please and we'll have a closer look.
Use the 'contact us' form in my forum profile under the 'about me' section. You can find it by clicking on my username.
Thx
Craig
BTCare Community Mod
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THANK YOU - b-noir, dmitry, &c. Got it working so far...

First off an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to everyone who's been suggesting fixes for the problems with iTunes 5..... not least Dmitry Byk and others too numerous to mention - but especially b-noir !
b My system :
Windows PC with XP Home Edition, Service pack 2, and all up to date via windows update. Also... Norton Internet Security (including Antivirus) 2005, and Webroot's Spy Sweeper aswell...all sitting behind a firewall router.
b My Symptoms :
Happily clicked on the option to upgrade to iTunes5 after experiencing no trouble at all to date....
When I tried to install iTunes, at the end of the install process, the whole system locked solid....no Ctrl Alt Del, nothing ! Had to push the reset switch. Once re-set, the PC re-booted but had disabled my Active Desktop. Everything worked OK in this state, except when I tried to launch iTunes from the desktop when the computer would lock solid with the 'hourglass' next to the cursor - and only a punch of the re-set switch would re-boot it (...and on one occasion I tried leaving it for a couple of hours to see if it managed to 'unlock' itself before resorting to this !) No blue screens of doom, and no error messages - just a total 'lock-up' !
NB !!! I also suspect that I had not shut down my Norton 2005 while installing iTunes.
b OK...the fix so far..with HUGE THANKS to those mentioned above.
First I made a backup of my 'My iTunes' folder to ensure a copy of my files (should have done that ages ago !
Then removing iTunes was a problem - since it did not appear in Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs list !
Cue a load of dredging around the threads....
First I followed the advice on the Apple Support page: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
I followed every step to clean the machine BUT did NOT try and install iTunes after every step. I just kept cleaning out the old stuff. I did the download of the windows cleanup utility....which found an iTunes entry even though it did not appear in control panel's add/remove programs.
I now followed Dmitry Byk's steps 1 and 2 here : Dmitry Byk, "Success! All fixes together in one thread...step-by-step...", 12:19am Sep 11, 2005 CDT
BUT at this stage did NOT start installing Quicktime, Bonjour and iTunes.
I did download the standalone programs from his links in step 3 & 4 and saved them to a folder ready for use later. Latest iTunes was downloaded from the main Apple link.
Then I followed someone else's advice on clearing out hidden iTunes/Quicktime folders hidden in Application Data folders, and also the Quicktime/iTunes folders in Program Files.... The step-by-step for this was found on a thread but the name and location I have lost and can't find again. IF ANYONE RECOGNISES THIS BIT PLEASE POST A LINK. The posting took you step by step through revealing the hidden folders and working through the various locations where iTunes & Quicktime leave remnants of folders. I can't remember the name of the person who put it up... although maybe b-noir pointed someone to it on another thread which I followed ?!
Once I'd finished all the delting... i switched off my pC, left it a while and then came back to start installing.....
### ii Before Installing I disconnected from the internet, and then disabled Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus by right clicking on the system tray (bottom right of the screen) icon and disbling protection until the next re-start.
i I also totally shut down my Spy Sweeper software, and then for good measure closed all the other programs with icons in the system tray at the bottom right of the screen.###
Next I installed the freshly downloaded Quicktime and just accepted the file associations at the end of the set-up procedure.
Next I re-booted the computer, and then went through all my 'shut downs' in the paragraph marked ### above.
Next step was to install Bonjour just like Dmitry Byk tells you in his posting (see link above).
Re-boot the computer, and do all the ##

hang on.... here's the rest !.......
...Re-boot the computer and do all the ### paragraph shut-downs again.
Next I installed iTunes from the setup program freshly downloaded from Apple. I unchecked the 'search for music' options and allowed the 'organise my music' option, and once the install had finished the computer seemed to be working fine.
Next I opened up Norton Internet Security and went to Status & Settings, Personal Firewall, Configure, and under the Programs tab ensure that the entried for iTunes and Bonjour were set to Permit All in the Internet Access column.
Now I closed everything and re-booted....
Once I'd done this I made sure that Norton Internet Security & A/Virus protections were running, reconnected to the internet and double clicked on my shiny new iTunes icon on the desktop......
AND IT WORKED OK with full access to the Music Store and all my music listed correctly.
That's the story so far.... My next steps are to do all my ### para shut-downs and install the latest iPod Updater Software as downloaded from Apple (did I mention that I cleared out all of those entries in Control Panel (Add/Remove programs) before starting the installs aswell ?!)
Once that's done I'll plug in my iPod and try a synch to check all's well...... I was lucky that the total 'lock-up' I was experiencing meant I couldn't even try to synch my iPod and so still had the use of it's music trouble free while I dredged around trying to fix iTunes.
I'll let you know if this works OK.....
Now some of the technically minded of you will be able to point out that some of the above steps might not be necessary, but hey - it worked for me and so i thought it was worth sharing in case someone else out there has the same crashing.
b A HUGE THANK YOU goes out to b-noir and Dmitry Byk in particular. Nothing I've written above is my own clever computer insiight - but a collection of the work done by the good people who post replies with assistance.
b Moreover - people like b-noir deserve a shiny new Mac System from Apple as a thank you for their tireless efforts to help people out. They are doing some serious corporate-reputation-recovery in their own time and deserve more of a reward than just our simple texted 'thank you's.....
b ii THANKS to all of you who have suggested fixes - it's greatly appreciated by simpletons like me !!!
Cheers, Taffmaster

HP DV7-4073 Hinge & Case failure. (THANK YOU SUPPORT TEAM)

I am hoping this posts will help others as there are many other posts like it that have been closed due to one reason or another. The stated cases of these HP Laptops having hinge issues after so much time and use is a growing concern and people know the HP name but find out after their purchase that the level of service is not what they expected. Personally, i purchased an HP DV7-4073nr back in October 2010 for school to get my degree. Around a year later, the case was cracking and splitting, and then the dreaded hinge issue came up. Fast forward 4 years later to today and thats where the happy ending finally happens.
I sent an IM to an HP support rep (JeffHelp) thinking that i would never hear from anyone again about my problem. Not only did i get a voicemail (never answer 800 numbers) with a case number AND a case manager name, but i also got a case management callback number. after about 30 minutes on the phone I was told my unit (verifying serial number and model number) was way out of warranty as well as end of life/end of service. Luckily, i was talkign to someone who cared enough about living a dispoable lifestyle and helped me not only find the correct part, but was able to apply a very generous discount to the overall cost.
Searching online for parts yeilded a very expensive cost for like new or grade A/B parts so i didnt think that spending over 100.00 dollars Americn for a single base piece was worth that. to my surprise, without even asking or questioning me it was added to my order. I am not going to go into great detail about that transaction but it was a complete jaw dropper and shock to me, and in a very good way.The bottom line to this post is that, yes, the products do obviously have some defects, and yes HP may have chosen to omit those facts after it was obvious and provide desirable compensation or repair for their products.
One fact remains that even with parts; computer, car, or otherwise, if you want OEM, you are going to pay the OEM price or risk your money on ebay looking for the best replacement. Take a few minutes and research your exact problem, your part number(s), and what effects the damage may have had on the overall condition of your laptop. Once you have it all figured out, CONTACT HP. Create a thread, send an IM, shoot them an email. Do something. They seem to be caring more about their reputation lately as i have seen many support reps and and mods on this forum replying to customers and members, replies from those people saying how amazing they were treated, the really good options they were offered and how they had some of their faith restored in HP's customer service over the years.
I would like to give a HUGE thank you-shout out to JeffHelp and Terri in the support division for all of your help, the unbelieveable customer service level you both went to and the understanding/concern for follow up that was offered. i am actually looking forward to my parts hoping they fix the problem and being in the support industry, i DEFINITELY think that credit is deserved where credit is due, especially in this case.
The last thing i would like to say is that support is all about hearing the negative and bad results on a daily basis over and over until you want to jsut walk away shaking your head. I think in the light of all these performance issues their equipment is having, its high time we recognize the team members who go above and beyond to do what it takes to make an HP customer a happy customer! So here is my shout out to Jeff and Terri.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
You have restored my faith in HP Customer Support Division and I have a completely new outlook on your teams for their effort to make things right with me. Keep up the amazing work, we may be far and few inbetween, but those of us who egt that level of support, appreciate every bit of it.

I am hoping this posts will help others as there are many other posts like it that have been closed due to one reason or another. The stated cases of these HP Laptops having hinge issues after so much time and use is a growing concern and people know the HP name but find out after their purchase that the level of service is not what they expected. Personally, i purchased an HP DV7-4073nr back in October 2010 for school to get my degree. Around a year later, the case was cracking and splitting, and then the dreaded hinge issue came up. Fast forward 4 years later to today and thats where the happy ending finally happens.
I sent an IM to an HP support rep (JeffHelp) thinking that i would never hear from anyone again about my problem. Not only did i get a voicemail (never answer 800 numbers) with a case number AND a case manager name, but i also got a case management callback number. after about 30 minutes on the phone I was told my unit (verifying serial number and model number) was way out of warranty as well as end of life/end of service. Luckily, i was talkign to someone who cared enough about living a dispoable lifestyle and helped me not only find the correct part, but was able to apply a very generous discount to the overall cost.
Searching online for parts yeilded a very expensive cost for like new or grade A/B parts so i didnt think that spending over 100.00 dollars Americn for a single base piece was worth that. to my surprise, without even asking or questioning me it was added to my order. I am not going to go into great detail about that transaction but it was a complete jaw dropper and shock to me, and in a very good way.The bottom line to this post is that, yes, the products do obviously have some defects, and yes HP may have chosen to omit those facts after it was obvious and provide desirable compensation or repair for their products.
One fact remains that even with parts; computer, car, or otherwise, if you want OEM, you are going to pay the OEM price or risk your money on ebay looking for the best replacement. Take a few minutes and research your exact problem, your part number(s), and what effects the damage may have had on the overall condition of your laptop. Once you have it all figured out, CONTACT HP. Create a thread, send an IM, shoot them an email. Do something. They seem to be caring more about their reputation lately as i have seen many support reps and and mods on this forum replying to customers and members, replies from those people saying how amazing they were treated, the really good options they were offered and how they had some of their faith restored in HP's customer service over the years.
I would like to give a HUGE thank you-shout out to JeffHelp and Terri in the support division for all of your help, the unbelieveable customer service level you both went to and the understanding/concern for follow up that was offered. i am actually looking forward to my parts hoping they fix the problem and being in the support industry, i DEFINITELY think that credit is deserved where credit is due, especially in this case.
The last thing i would like to say is that support is all about hearing the negative and bad results on a daily basis over and over until you want to jsut walk away shaking your head. I think in the light of all these performance issues their equipment is having, its high time we recognize the team members who go above and beyond to do what it takes to make an HP customer a happy customer! So here is my shout out to Jeff and Terri.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
You have restored my faith in HP Customer Support Division and I have a completely new outlook on your teams for their effort to make things right with me. Keep up the amazing work, we may be far and few inbetween, but those of us who egt that level of support, appreciate every bit of it.

JDeveloper IDE Tool - Thank you Oracle/Sun and Java community

I am sure it has been done many times over within the JDeveloper community discussion but I felt compelled
to stop, think and acknowledge the efforts here.
To Oracle, Sun and others that have contributed to this software and resources a huge THANK YOU!
I started in this business as a COBOL programmer on the mainframe where the only option for you to learn
was to use a school or company mainframe to code. if you didn't have either your only
option was reviewing code in textbooks.
These tools are amazing for how much power they give those of us interested in furthering our skills but
limited in financial resources. The effort is staggering to me. Just lookng at the release notes and bug
fixes for the versions of this tool I am absolutely floored.
Your efforts are greatly appreciated. I hope that the open source concept continues. I applaud and urge
you to continue your efforts. You are all doing a wonderful thing really. In a time where the trend is to
charge charge charge for anything we do on our Droids and Iphones it is good to see a humane effort
flourish.
Brian Quinn
IT Application Developer
Edited by: 814126 on Nov 21, 2010 8:40 AM

Always bear in mind that there is no such thing in life, called a free lunch.
I quote:
"Even if something appears to be free, there is always a cost to the person or to society as a whole even though that cost may be hidden or distributed.
For example, as Heinlein has one of his characters point out, a bar offering a free lunch will likely charge more for its drinks."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
NA
http://nickaiva.blogspot.com

A HEART FELT THANK YOU TO EVERYONE!

A HUGE THANK YOU!! to one and all here on this forum for all the help you have been and I am certain will continue to be to and for me. You honestly have no idea how grateful I am for your kindness, patience with me.
You made my giant leap of faith and hope in getting my first MacBook REALLY PAY OFF in a huge way.
I am astounded at how nice everyone is here, how helpful, congenial, civil. Having been around on internet message boards for 13+ years now, I can tell you this is NOT THE NORM. Not once has anyone cursed me here, told me I was ignorant / stupid, made remarks about my family, insulted me, etc. This is such a nice, refreshing change and I am so glad I found these Apple forums.

The next best thing is to whisper loud. LOL !
While I tried the totally white font color, it was hardest to detect.
And I was looking for an 'outline' font so as to be a ghost writer.
{This means any lighter & you'd have to drag the mouse through it to see any letters.}
Anyway, we who occasionally think up things to say in reply to serious issues
thank you for your interest, enthusiasm in heartfelt appreciation of your Mac,
and the greatness that Apple has helped others expose about themselves.
My dad still uses his Macs, daily. He's about 30 years older than you or me.
In some rather accomplished fields of interest, education, art, science.
Glad you found cause to be joyful.
Almost like adopting a cute puppy!
Good luck & happy computing!

Printing with R1800 and Mac - now getting beautiful prints - thank you everyone

I want to give a huge "thank you" to all the people on this forum who have discussed how to set up color-managed printing on Epson printers. As a complete novice, I naively bought an R1800 printer and thought that I would just whip out my prints at home. Alas, after messing with this off and on for almost a year, and after burning through 2 complete sets of cartridges and untold quantities of Epson Ultra Premium Luster paper, I was roundly cursing color management, profiles, monitor calibration, Epson, Lightroom, and photography in general. But the information from Jason Hicking in post 17 of one of the many threads on printing problems ( http://www.adobeforums.com/webx?128@@.3c05eae6 ) fixed my problem and I am now getting gorgeous 13x19" prints that look like what I see on the screen. Jason Hicking deserves an extra round of kudos for the investigation he did on this.
I am just a hobbyist and got my very first SLR camera only 18 months ago. I could never have gotten to this point without everything I have learned from this forum. Many, many people contributed pieces of information that helped me put the puzzle together.
Now, anyone have any ideas on how to get more wall space for putting up framed photos? :)
--Kimberly Smith

Claude
Glad to hear you've now got a working solution as I know you've put a lot of effort in yourself to resolve the issue with your 3800. Keep us up to date with any changes will you?
DYP
Thanks for the thanks! I'm glad that I was able to nudge you in the right direction, sometimes we probably know the answer but just need someone to show us a different route to it. I'll come back to you shortly with regards to platform and driver versions if you don't mind as it will help in the research I'm doing as I mentioned in my initial reply to Kimberly.
John
I'll also keep you in the loop with the discussion between DYP and myself on the driver issues if you like, and I'll also try to explain the theory between using Epson profiles and custom-built profiles for those who'd like to usderstand the issue deeper.
I appreciate fully that it's not just Adobe but until someone can fully explain the complete workflow interactions between different versions of Lightroom, Colorsync and the Epson drivers then we'll have to keep coming back to the 'apparent' culprit which appears to be Lightroom's new print pipeline. I say 'apparent' as the tests I've done so far show that my workaround isn't needed for InDesign, Illustrator or Photoshop running on the same platform and drivers as Lightroom. If anyone can get 'those who really know' at Adobe to openly describe the above then please do so as this will help with my other avenues of enquiry at Apple and Epson.
As Doyle said for those who custom profile their machines, myself included, the current situation is that we've got a workaround but not a solution. I consider this to be an ongoing quest until it turns into a reliable, user-friendly solution.
Cheers for now, anyone with any thoughts please feel free to chime in.
Jason

Thanks Alex Harui

I wanted to give a thank you to the Adobe forum members. But most importantly, I wanted to give a huge thanks to Alex Harui, again. Alex has given me more than my fair share of support. Without his help I would have had many more sleepless nights to get my project out. If interested, here is what was built, as reviewed by PCmag (Network Map part that is). http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2357031,00.asp
Alex, I am sure you probably do not get as many thank you's as you should. So here is mine! Hopefully, you will be at Flex 360 San Jose again.
Maybe everyone can reply, with a thank you, if Alex has helped you.
THANK YOU ALEX!
Jason
www.flairjax.com

Jason, thank you for showing your appreciation. It is always fun to see what cool and interesting things folks build with a little assistance from us. That's why I and many others try to help folks on the forums.
I also do it to avoid the electroshock from Matt if I don't answer enough posts in a timely fash-AUUGGGHHH!
Alex Harui
Flex SDK Developer
Adobe Systems Inc.
Blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/aharui

How Badly Did I Screw Up?? THANK YOU!!!

For months now I have been unable to set my video card's (Sapphire ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128) AGP to 8x. I have flashed (successfully) my BIOS with the latest version. I've downloaded the latest ATI catalyst drivers as well as the latest nVidia drivers. ATI drivers would load, but only the nVidia audio drivers would load, the GART drivers would not.
I had read on another forum (il2sturmovik) of a guy with a similar problem and he was instructed to unistall all his ATI drivers and nVidia and nForce drivers.
Today, I uninstalled all the drivers (rebooting after each uninstall and not allowing Xp to install the drivers on start-up), and ran Driver Clean. So far so good.
Then, realizing I did not uninstall the nForce drivers I ran Driver Clean and got rid of the chipset drivers.
And therein was my mistake.
Now, I am unable to boot into Xp. I get a message saying I've had a hardware change and would I like to start in safe mode, debug mode, etc. No matter what I select, I'm stuck in a loop always getting the same screen on startup. The computer was left on to start in debug mode, so I have no idea what is going to happen when I get home.
I can't even restart Xp in"my last successful configuration". Of course, recovery points I had set prior to all this can't be accessed.
So, what's the bottom line??? Can anything be saved here?? Or, have I essentially toasted my mobo??
Any and all help will be very appreciated.

A HUGE Thank You!! to Bogs & Frenchy!
Did a repair and also hunted down a missing .dll and the nvatabus.sys files.
My rig is back up and running and now I just have to figure out how to get those *$%#@! GART drivers to install
Thanks again!

Urgent help needed, thanks.

I am currently in London, but live in the Namib Desert in Namibia. I've been told by the techy in Apple shop London that Apple Remote Desktop 3 will do all of the following and have purchased it, I leave back for the desert and will not have the opportunity to change the product after the 24th Dec. Would someone please be kind enough to confirm that I have done the right thing. Thanks a million.
I need a system whereupon all docs and files on my powerbook, iMac and Minimac will sync so that at say 12.00am. everyday they all have the same info on them. I run airport at home and all the machines are constantly on, I also have 24/7 internet (a huge brag in Namibia). Futhermore I travel around a fair bit and need to access files on my iMac (at home) from my laptop (in the UK for example).
A huge thank you in advance for taking the time to help a mac novice so to speak. Although I'd rather be a mac novice than a windows expert.

Apple Remote Desktop is not a synchronization solution. You can use it to copy files between the administrator workstation and the client (and vice-versa), but you will have to know what needs to be copied and do it yourself; it won't do determine what needs to be copied for you. If synchronization of files between your two systems is all you wish to do, ARD is probably not the best solution for you and I would advise you return it.
Probably a better solution is to just set up file sharing on your iMac, set up your Airport to allow outside access to the iMac (look for information on port forwarding in the Airport forums if you need assistance), and use a utility such as Synk to handle the copying.

Do I have MSI KT3 Ultra ARU v1 or v2??

Hey all
Trying to figure out what motherboard I have EXACTLY so I know what CPU I can buy for it (upgrading).
Its the same BIOS in both and I cant find any info one MSI's websites on how to find out which one I got.
So HOW do I find this out people?
Thanks for any replies!
Irizience

Well I got the cpu and it works just fine so far! The computer has been running for about 45 minutes and the cpu is at 50 degrees Celsius! :D
I gotta say a HUGE THANKS to all you guys that gave me advise in this matter! THANK YOU!
Now, as the greedy bastard I am ( ), would it in you're guys opinion be possible to overclock this thing? I read Bartons overclock quite well and as the cpu isnt very hot I thought I might try and overclock it... Although I have no experience in it... Any suggestions?
Thanks again fellas!
Irizience

How do I handle NULL returns from prepared statement?

Thanks in advance to all those who respond. As a beginner with Java/JSP/JDBC, I need all the help I can get!
Here's the problem...
I'm using a prepared statement in JSP to query a MySQL database.
If there is a value to return, everything works properly.
If the query returns a NULL (empty set) value, I get the following error:
javax.servlet.ServletException: Before start of result set
Here's the code (no negative comments please...I know I'm violating some conventions! I'll restructure it later. Right now I just need help with handling the NULL case):
<%
Driver DriverAppt = (Driver)Class.forName(MM_test_DRIVER).newInstance();
Connection ConnAppt = DriverManager.getConnection(MM_test_STRING,MM_test_USERNAME,MM_test_PASSWORD);PreparedStatement StatementAppt = ConnAppt.prepareStatement("SELECT lastname FROM appts_pid1 WHERE user_id = " + Recordset1__MMColParam + " AND year = " + yy + " AND month = '" + months[mm] + "' AND date = " + dates[dd] + " AND appttime = '16:15:00'");
ResultSet Appt = StatementAppt.executeQuery();
boolean Appt_isEmpty = !Appt.first();
boolean Appt_hasData = !Appt_isEmpty;
Object Appt_data;
int Appt_numRows = 0;
%>
Thanks for the help!!!

I think I have a better handle on what's occurring here. To cut to the heart of the problem, I'm going to give a very simple example that illustrates what type of error handling I need.
HERE'S THE EXAMPLE:
Let's say that I have a database of users. There are only two columns in the database: user_id and lastname. There are only 2 users, user_id "1" has lastname "Jones" and user_id "2" has lastname "Smith".
I built a very simple web interface that let's a user enter a number to see if there's a lastname associated with that record. The user has no way of knowing if the user_id exists or not, so they may or may not enter a valid number.
If the user enters a valid user_id (in this case "1" or "2"), then the correct lastname is displayed. If the user enters an invalid user_id (in this case, anything other than "1" or "2") then I get the same "Before start of result set" error that I'm getting in my real application.
So, the question is: WHERE IN THIS CODE WOULD I HANDLE THE RETURN OF AN EMPTY SET?
The goal here is to have the sentence say "The user's lastname is .", basically returning null. If there has to be a value, then have the last sentence say "The user's lastname is unknown."
If you can solve this simple example, you'll have also solved the problem with my main application!!!! :-)
Here's the example code:
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" language="java" import="java.sql.*" errorPage="" %>
<%@ include file="Connections/example.jsp" %>
<%
String Recordset1__MMColParam = "1";
if (request.getParameter("user_id") !=null) {Recordset1__MMColParam = (String)request.getParameter("user_id");}
%>
<%
Driver DriverRecordset1 = (Driver)Class.forName(MM_example_DRIVER).newInstance();
Connection ConnRecordset1 = DriverManager.getConnection(MM_example_STRING,MM_example_USERNAME,MM_example_PASSWORD);
PreparedStatement StatementRecordset1 = ConnRecordset1.prepareStatement("SELECT * FROM test_table WHERE user_id = " + Recordset1__MMColParam + "");
ResultSet Recordset1 = StatementRecordset1.executeQuery();
boolean Recordset1_isEmpty = !Recordset1.next();
boolean Recordset1_hasData = !Recordset1_isEmpty;
Object Recordset1_data;
int Recordset1_numRows = 0;
%>
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>
<body>
<form action="test.jsp" method="get" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" name="form1" target="_self">
<p> Submit a user id and a lastname will be displayed.</p>
<p>
<input type="text" name="user_id">
<input type="submit" name="" value="Submit">
</p>
</form>
<p>The User's lastname is <%=(((Recordset1_data = Recordset1.getObject("lastname"))==null || Recordset1.wasNull())?"":Recordset1_data)%>.</p>
</body>
</html>
<%
Recordset1.close();
StatementRecordset1.close();
ConnRecordset1.close();
%>
A huge "THANK YOU!!!!" to all those who've helped me here!!!

Power Pivot TechNet Guru News: October Winners Announced

All the votes are in!
And below are the results for the TechNet Guru Awards, October 2014 !!!!
For a full list of winners,
see the full blog post, as runners up had to be removed from this post to fit the forum max length restrictions.
BizTalk Technical Guru - October 2014
Agustín Mántaras
Visual Basic script to deal with BizTalk Suspended Messages
Mandi Ohlinger: "A quick and easy way to handle suspended messages. I'm a fan!"
Ed Price: "Great article! Thanks for including an MSDN Gallery link, a See Also section that links to the Wiki portal, and some great example snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice script, in my opinion it will be best to write this in PowerShell script. Well written, well formatted (some minor improvements can be made)"
Johns-305 [boatseller]
BizTalk: EDI Features Not Just For HIPAA
Mandi Ohlinger: "A great walkthrough including the screen shots. Nice addition to the Wiki. "
Ed Price: "Good use of images and color in the code snippets!"
Sandro Pereira: "Nice start be this article should be explained better. Article format can be improved."
Steef-Jan Wiggers
Securing BizTalk endpoints leveraging Sentinet API Management Part 3
Sandro Pereira: "Another excellent article in this series on Sentinet API Management. Well written, well formatted with nice pictures, great article and I love the topic."
Ed Price: "Fantastic depth on this article!"
Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - October 2014
Wim Beck
Event Driven Scheduling of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) using a Windows Service
Ed Price: "Fantastic job on formatting, the code, and all the explanations! The TOC and References are a nice touch!"
PG: "Nice innovative solution, that is a nice add-on to existing solutions. "
Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Creating and Querying Microsoft Azure DocumentDB
JH: "DocumentDB is one of my favorite new services on Azure. It's cool to see that someone seems to be excited as I am. Hope that this article is just the beginning of a whole series about Azure DocumentDB."
Ed Price: "Great use of images and code snippets. Good conclusion! Great topic!"
Chilbeto
Publishing Multiple Azure Environments
TN: "Great "
JH: "This topic is normally forgotten when talking about Cloud development. I had a hard time to find an appropriate mechanism myself. This article provides one of the better ways how you can deploy multiple environments to Azure."
Ed Price: "Great overview article. Good diagram at the top! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Good job on the conclusion!"
saramgsilva
Microsoft's Windows AppStudio: Add Support For Push Notification
Ed Price: "Great introduction and incredibly thorough. Great job!"
JH: "A new article about AppStudio focusing on push notifications. Push notifications in my opinion, when done right, makes an app alive. Would love to see a complete example with all features mentioned in the related articles published
on GitHub."
Microsoft Visio Technical Guru - October 2014
Mr X
Unattended installation of Visio 2013
Ed Price: "Great job, Mr X! Good use of images!"
AH: "It gives good instructions with the help of the pictures but its still missing detailed information if some user needs it. Need to provide a wiki/msdn references that are available something like http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc179097.aspx.
Overall decent article"
Miscellaneous Technical Guru - October 2014
Brian Nadjiwon
How to Create and Use Classes in PowerShell
Richard Mueller: "Very interesting concepts. It would help to name the objects something like "Jim" rather than "Person", for example. There should be a See Also section, and more links to references."
Ed Price: "Great topic and explanations of the classes!"
Andy ONeill
Visual Studio: Snippetty Tip
Richard Mueller: "Great idea with some good advise."
Ed Price: "Great explanations of the code snippets! Fun topic! As is mentioned in the comments and in the article, many people don't know this is possible!"
saramgsilva
How to create a Virtual Machine for run Windows 10 Technical Preview
Ed Price: "Fantastic topic! Good use of images!"
Richard Mueller: "Good images and a good step by step explanation. Needs links to references and other Wiki articles (See Also). We should try not to use first person."
SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - October 2014
Geetanjali Arora
SharePoint Online : An Introduction to Office Delve
TN: "Great wrap-up about Delve"
Ed Price: "Amazing depth and a great overview to a new topic! Great job on the images and details!"
GO: "woohooo; a DELVE article. Great work."
Margriet Bruggeman: "A new topic explained well, I was actually looking for this info!"
Jinchun Chen: "Great."
Steven Andrews
Building a list specific search with JavaScript
TN: "Great tip for mid-dev"
Ed Price: "Great job on the descriptions, formatting, images, and See Also section! Check out the great comment from Dan at the bottom of the article!"
GO: "Nice work Steven. It's definitely a great article.!"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Great! easy to use solution for a request that is made often"
Jinchun Chen: "Nice work"
Dan Christian
No-code solution to lookup previous item in a list
Ed Price: "Effective images and helpful video and See Also help round out this great article!"
GO: "Thanks Dan and as USUAL an usefull article."
Jinchun Chen: "Nice. If InfoPath Form is accepted, we can use InfoPath Form to achive the goal as well."
Margriet Bruggeman: "I can tell that effort is taken to explain the idea well"
Small Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: Rotation Centers for Shapes of Triangle and Line
RZ: "Excellent article. This is a must read if you want to make an object move. You need to understand the coordinates and the rotation center."
Ed Price: "Great use of images!"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic Known Issue: 26992 -
GraphicsWindow.GetPixel(X, Y) Doesn’t Work Properly If X Or Y Has after the Decimal Point in Remote
Ed Price: "Good recommended workaround!"
RZ: "Yeah, another bug in Small Basic that might get you and need to be fixed :)"
Nonki Takahashi
Small Basic: International Resources
Ed Price: "Oh, yeah. This one is so amazing! Thank you for making this and organizing the resources so well!"
SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - October 2014
Shanky
In depth Look at What can Cause Index to be Still Fragmented After Rebuild
AM: "Well covered."
Ed Price: "Good job on the explanations, Conclusion, and See Also section!"
Ronen Ariely
Representing list of values using a single value
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of sections! Good formatting on the sections and code snippets! Great interactions in the comments!"
AM: " Interesting options and walk through."
Visakh16
Generate Scripts for Stored Procedures Without Dynamic SQL in SSMS
AM: "Nice tip for better use of SSMS."
Ed Price: "Great breakdown of the problem and solution. As Saeid wrote in the comments, "Clear article which shows handy solution!" Good job!"
System Center Technical Guru - October 2014
Alan do Nascimento Carlos
ALM and IT Operations - Management 360 with System Center Operations Manager
in 06 Steps
Ed Price: "Lots of images. Great job breaking up the steps! Could benefit from a TOC and References. Great article!"
GO: "Thanks for the only article. great btw. :-)"
Transact-SQL Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Behavioral Difference of IIf Function in T-SQL Compared To SSRS
Richard Mueller: "Nicely done with code examples. The "See Also" section should only link to Wiki articles."
GO: "Wonderfull article thank you!"
Jinchun Chen: "Interesting comparison "
Ed Price: "Good topic. Very clean and clear. Great article!"
JS: "Good writeup, though I would bring the comparison with the table to the top and reference the samples from there."
Ronen Ariely
INSTEAD OF Triggers
Ed Price: "Good depth here. Great explanations of the code! Great job interacting in the comments and improving the article!"
JS: "Use object qualifiers (schema name to make sure that the right objects will be picked, e.g. dbo.) Outline ab bot more the things what not to do in production! Be aware that although people read this, they tend to use it anyway. If
triggers are enabled, they are executed once for each batch They are executed each statement not batch, miswording here."
Richard Mueller: "Good article. The "See Also" should only include Wiki articles. Some of the "Resources" could be moved to "See Also". Grammar needs work."
GO: "Thanks"
Praveen Rayan D'sa
Find the Database where user defined object located and where it is being referred.
GO: "This article deserves absolutely a medal THANKS!"
Jinchun Chen: ""
Richard Mueller: "Good topic. Grammar needs work. "Caution" states undocumented stored procedure is safe for production, but later states it is not."
Ed Price: "Great article. We should include the technology in the title. Good descriptions, and great References!"
JS: "Although the outlined solution is interesting and shows the public the usage of the "new" system views finding the right dependencies, it is not recommended to describe the usage of undocumented features such as sp_msforeachdb
as there are alternatives, especially in this scenario. You could generate a query using the sys.databases view and let it print out the database name along with the use statement. In addition to this and as the statement has to be run with a high privileged
account as schema information is secured as well, it should be made safe to SQL injection. In many case in the statements there is just a concatentation of values used. You can easily inject code in here, Also make sure that names / object identifiers are
quoted with [] in order to allow also special characters like spaces in the names"
Visual Basic Technical Guru - October 2014
.paul.
Image balloonTips
Richard Mueller: "Lots of code. Great idea. The "See Also" section should only include links to Wiki articles."
Ed Price: "Great solution. Good explanations!"
.paul.
Image Arrow Pointers
Richard Mueller: "Interesting idea. Need more links. Don't use first person."
Ed Price: "Creative solution! It would be good to break up the code more, to explain it. Great article!"
Paul Ishak
Visual Basic Graphics Frame Class (Easily Converted to C#)
Ed Price: "Good solution! Could benefit from more explanations of what the code is doing."
Richard Mueller: "Don't use first person. Could use more description, explanation, and links."
Visual C# Technical Guru - October 2014
Chervine
Using XML Serialization with C# and SQL Server
Ed Price: "It goes on for quite a while! Great job breaking out all the code snippets and explaining them well! Could benefit from a References or See Also section. Great TOC!"
Søren Granfeldt: "In these days of generic data, this serves as a good example of storing unstructured data"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Through discussion of the topic"
DB: "Interesting"
Magnus (MM8)
C#: Generic Type Parameters And Dynamic Types
Søren Granfeldt: "Nice example of diving into generic code and extensibility"
DB: "Good walkthrough of generics and reflection"
Ed Price: "Important topic! Great descriptions."
Margriet Bruggeman: "Good, I like the way the article covers various sides of the problem"
saramgsilva
File exporter for IEnumerable of T
Ed Price: "Another great article from Sara! Great job on the TOC and code snippets!"
Søren Granfeldt: "Great idea; could use a little more generic approach on the formatting of values"
Margriet Bruggeman: "Nice example of applying generics"
Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - October 2014
Durval Ramos
Summit: Principles of International TNWiki Summit
Richard Mueller: "A great writeup and introduction to this fantastic idea. Well done."
Ed Price: "Great depth and planning for this event!"
GO: "This is one of the best Portals that I've ever seen! Thanks"
Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - October 2014
saramgsilva
How to Integrate Cortana in the Menu App
JH: "I got three words for you: I love Cortana! This article shows nicely how to integrate Cortana into your own app. Would love to see more."
Ed Price: "That's what I'm talking about! Way to go for a "What's Next" topic and nail it! I expect this article to gain a lot of interest. Fantastic article!"
Carmelo La Monica
The class GeocodeQuery in Windows Phone 8.
JH: "Lots of code examples about a feature some apps should be use more. Geocoding becomes more and more important, so this article fits perfectly into this."
Ed Price: "This is an important class with a lot of possibilities. Great execution on this article! Could benefit from a References or Additional Resources section. Good job wrapping it up with the conclusion."
saramgsilva
Export To CSV for Windows Store apps
JH: "Most people laugh when they hear about CSV export of data. A database would be a better place for the data of an app. In my opinion this is not always true (because CSV is small and can be used in different ways),
so most apps should have the capability to export data into the CSV file format. This article shows how this can be done."
Ed Price: "Another very important article. I love the Source link to the MSDN Gallery. Great job!"
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - October 2014
Andy ONeill
WPF: Entity Framework MVVM Walk Through 1
Ed Price: "Very well formatted, clear sections, and lots of depth and clear explanations! The TOC, code snippets, Summary, and Further Reading links all help round out this great article!"
KJ: "awesome"
saramgsilva
How to binding a ResourceDictionary to a Lisbox in apps based in XAML
Ed Price: "Incredibly clear and fantastic topic! The TOC and Source link to the Gallery item help provide more value!"
GO: "She did it again. Great article."
Shweta Lodha
PopUps with Interactivity [Prism 5.0]
KJ: "handy"
Ed Price: "Good clarity and use of code snippets and images. Could benefit from a TOC and References/See Also. Great job!"
GO: "Layout could be better, but still valualble article."
Windows Server Technical Guru - October 2014
Richard Mueller
Active Directory: Generalized-Time Attributes
Mark Parris: "Very detailed article providing very good information."
GO: "Top 1 AD article Thanks Richard."
JM: "This is an excellent article, thanks for your contribution."
Philippe Levesque: "Good article ! I really liked the note about the whenChanged"
Darshana Jayathilake
Some useful features with Windows Group policies
JM: "This is an excellent article, but I recommend making the title more accurate by renaming it something like "How to configure Applocker using Group Policy" "
GO: "I like the article; so great written"
Mark Parris: "A good insight on some GPO settings and their capability."
Philippe Levesque: "Good visual howto !"
Mr X
How to manage Windows Taskbar Items pinning using Group Policy
Philippe Levesque: "Good subject well explained, already seen users that ask for that in the forum as it's new."
JM: "This is a good article that would be much more useful if you specify the Windows versions to which the article applies."
GO: "Merci, Mr X"
Mark Parris: "Very useful, especially if you need to utilise this capability post deployment."
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A huge thank you to EVERYONE who contributed an article to October's competition.
Hopefully we will see you ALL again in
November 2014's listings?
If you haven't contributed an article for this month, and you think you can create a more useful, clever and better presented wiki article than the winners above, here's
your chance! :D
Best regards,
Pete Laker
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SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - October 2014
Visakh16
Random SSRS Musings 1 : Rowset Concatenation Using Native SSRS Expressions
MR: "Interesting example of LookupSet function usage"
RB: "merging columns on a single line with an interesting solution"
Jinchun Chen: "Good workaround we are generally using."
Ed Price: "Great descriptions and use of images!"
Jan D'Hondt
Dates in Excel files rendered from reports are displayed as plain numbers
Ed Price: "Great job laying out the sections. The images help convey a lot!"
MR: "Very short tip that could be useful because of different behavior on iPad and Windows"
RB: "interesting work-around."
Anushka Weerakkodyge
Integrating Power View with SharePoint Server 2010/2013 - Multidimensional Mode
RB: "nice walkthrough"
Ed Price: "Great depth in the procedure steps! It's similar to another article (see comment), but it's still a good addition. Good use of images!"
MR: "This article explains how to install Power View on SharePoint but do not explain that Reporting Services is the tool required for Power View to work - the initial setup is required only whether SSRS has not been installed before.
Otherwise, it has to be upgraded and then the shortcut can work."
Also worth a mention were the other entries this month:
Make a dynamic selection from SharePoint list data with the SSIS 2012 OData Source by
Jan D'Hondt
RB: "No pics showing, nice post though"
Ed Price: "Pretty good details. It's missing the images though. Good topic!"
Error occurred while the attribute of the dimension from the database
was being processed–snowflake dimension by
Jan D'Hondt
Ed Price: "This is a pretty good writeup. It could be improved with images and references. Good article!"
MR: "Clarify this behavior is only for Multidimensional models. Moreover, you can handle that by changing configuration settings in Multidimensional project"
RB: "More of a data problem than a workaround for SSAS"
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