AdminMisc and hard drive recognition

2008-12-02 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Win32_ActiveRoute to Win32_AllocatedResource, Win32_AdminMisc should be right between them, shouldn't it? Or am I looking up the wrong tree? TIA, Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 224-542-5150 The chief cause of problems is solutions. - Eric Sevareid___

Re: My first 2 Scripting Games commentaries are online now

2008-02-21 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
No wizard's-hat neither! Not even a magick wand. Jan, your image is ruined... P-) Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 Put three grains of sand in a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. -- Sir James

Re: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun

2008-02-18 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Perhaps Perl++? Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 Put three grains of sand in a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars. -- Sir James Jeans___ Perl-Win32-Users

Re: How to handle a find failure when examining an excel file

2007-11-28 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
ignment in an eval block and then test $@ for failure? HTH Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice. -- Bill Cosby___ Per

Re: problem with printing messages to the screen

2007-05-21 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
e-wrap on your screen--and that's what's causing the 'Done' text to appear on the next line. Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 Reality is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it. -- Philip K. Dick

Re: how to round a floating-point value to an integer value

2007-03-20 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
on-dp value? I have one of each available, but I won't post them here A caveat, though: they're text values in Word doc files--converting them to numbers is your problem! (Good luck wit dat, Cholly!) Or, to impress your friends, you could use 355/113, good to six dp (http://www.

Re: how to round a floating-point value to an integer value

2007-03-19 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
e next step, then the next, and so on. While that may not be an issue with simple addition/subtraction, multiplication (or worse, exponentiation), could turn a little rounding into a huge error at the end. Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "I am but mad north-no

[OLE] InstallPKCS7 (Certificate Installation method) [OLE]

2007-03-09 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Gurus, I'm looking at having to install a certificate without user interaction. Is there a way to do this? I have a script that uses InstallPKCS7, but that puts up a message window that requires a click on an OK button. That's a no-go solution. TIA, Deane Rothenmaier Programm

InstallPKCS7 version change? location change?

2007-03-09 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
here some other method that does this? We need to install a certificate on thousands of workstations, and need to not require users to stand around waiting to click on an OK button to install the certificate. Thanks, Deane Rothenmaier Programmer/Analyst Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "On

InstallPKCS7 (Certificate Installation method)

2007-03-08 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Gurus, I'm looking at having to install a certificate without user interaction. Is there a way to do this? I have a script that uses InstallPKCS7, but that puts up a message window that requires a click on an OK button. That's a no-go solution. TIA, Deane Rothenmaier Programm

Re: OT -> "Deane screed"

2006-10-26 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Okay, I take back what I said about us not all being 14-year-olds Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.  It is disastrous to confuse them." -- Madeleine L'Engle___

Re: Parsing of HEX bytes using Perl

2006-10-26 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
g as ur (you are) in your emailing, one would be amazed to find that you have anything that "wurx." IMHO, it's bad enough that smileys and acronyms, such as IMHO, have weaseled their way into this forum; don't make things worse by using IM-lish. Don't make me come throug

RE: what?!? [OT]

2006-10-19 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
My favorite quote anent this somewhat off-topic topic is from a 1949 Popular Mechanics magazine: "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." Hee, hee, giggle, chortle, chuckle From the one-time owner of a TI-99, Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreens Cor

Re: what?!? [OT]

2006-10-19 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
>Every minute of your life will >be permanently recorded for prosperity on 100 ZB (zetta-byte) >or 10 YB (yotta-byte) memory cells Er, $Bill, did you mean "recorded for posterity", by any chance? Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "Truth

Re: what?!? [OT]

2006-10-18 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
>In 2038 I'll be 86. I don't take it for granted that I'll be seeing anything >at all :-) So? If I should live so long, I'll be 90, gumming my oatmeal in the nursing home and hoping for another Packers' winning season. Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreen

RE: what?!? [OT]

2006-10-18 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Just in (last name  =~  /^Case$/ ?), What makes you think there'll still be 32-bit machines around in 2038. I'd expect to see them only in museums by then--being used as paperweights, door-stops, etc. Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "Truth is ete

Re: Opening files

2006-09-18 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Either format's acceptable... open FH, '<', "$file"; --or-- open( FH, "< $FILE" ); HTH Deane Rothenmaier Systems Architect Walgreens Corp. 847-914-5150 "Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable.  It is disastrous to confuse them." -- Madel

Re: comparing floating point numbers

2004-11-19 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Just the same, ought to do it $x = 50.50; $y = 36.45; if ($x > $y) { print "$x is greater than $y\n" } else         { print "$x is less than or equal to $y\n" } prints out "50.5 is greater than 36.45" on my machine... HTH, Deane "Krishna, Hari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PR

Certificates in Registry? In a Black Hole? Where?

2004-11-10 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Hi, List. I'm trying to find a way of reading Internet "Certificates" from within a Perl program, instead of using the Certificates button (Internet Explorer/Tools/Internet Options/Content/Certificates). I'm unable to find much in the registry. From the Perl Monastery I've gotten suggestions to

Array Hash Reference Confusion

2004-04-06 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
Hi, readers. I'm having another senior moment, apparently, as the following shows: my %DW_AutoSearch = ( "0x" => [ "Off", "On",  "Off", "Off" ],                       "0x0004" => [ "Off", "Off", "On",  "Off" ],                       "0x0005" => [ "Off", "Off", "Off", "On"  ],    

GetValue() in Win32::TieRegistry gets nothing?

2004-03-26 Thread Deane . Rothenmaier
I'm trying to read the Windows XP Registry using the Win32::TieRegistry module, and have had some success, except for what I really need, the ability to use GetValue(). I need this to uncover not just the value of a registry item, but its type (REG_SZ, etc.).  Here's what I've got so far, can some