tech sectiontech sectionWhen you're using a hand-held Garmin eTrex personal GPS device to help you navigate while hiking, you can keep track of the places you go by adding waypoints. A waypoint is a saved location along the trail you're walking, which is useful for finding places of interest that you want to revisit or writing notes about a particular area. You can add a waypoint while you're walking with the Garmin eTrex, or call up recent places on a map to add waypoints after you’ve visited them.
Adding ZIP files to iTunes allows you to import multiple songs from your hard drive to your library at once. Add ZIP files to iTunes with help from an audio engineer, musician, video editor and Mac savvy tech in this free video clip.
Playing RAR files on iTunes will require you to make a few quick adjustments to the files themselves. Play RAR files on iTunes with help from an audio engineer, musician, video editor and Mac savvy tech in this free video clip.
Oracle databases are accessed using Open Database Connectivity, Java Database Connectivity, OLE-DB or .NET database drivers. An ODBC connection failure occurs when the database cannot be accessed or stops responding to queries. The Oracle instance on a user's computer cannot connect if a database that is down or if the Oracle listener is too busy to receive connection requests.
A bin file is basically a binary file that can't be opened with any kind of text editor, so it needs to be edited with a program called XVI. Learn about Hex editors with help from a software developer in this free video on tech support.
The open-source program 7-Zip allows you to open and extract a variety of compressed file formats. Some formats, such as the popular RAR format, span multiple parts of a much larger file. For the original file to be fully extracted, 7-Zip must open every part of the collection. Errors commonly appear when one of the parts is missing, misplaced or damaged. Before giving up on the file, there are a few fixes you should try.
An SQL database configuration that worked with one relational database software package won't necessarily work with another. By getting an "Unsupported Data Type" error on an integer column, you're finding this out the hard way. While you can't change what data types a particular SQL server supports, you can change your code to accommodate the data types supported by your database server software.
The use of the terminal server in the Windows operating system facilitates remote workstation capability, allowing many different computers to access the same system files from a central server. Security access problems can create a situation where remote users cannot run certain files from their computers. This is likely an indication that the terminal server firewall has restricted a user's access to a program.
Oracle's Java Runtime Environment can run online, and downloadable content can run on any browser or operating system that has the package installed. Java does not process executables and other binary files directly. Rather, Java processes compressed JAR files that contain binary data. You can acquire all the tools you need to pack your binary files into a JAR from Oracle's Technology Network website.
XML -- Extensible Markup Language -- is a programming language for documents containing structured information. Documents that use multiple fonts, or have different typefaces and formats for captions, subheads and text, use structured information. XML has no predefined semantics or tags, making it flexible for use in e-commerce, application interfaces and mathematics. XMLParse is one of XML's functions.
A DMG file is a type of Macintosh OS X disk image that can contain one or more file system volumes. If you have a copyrighted disk and want to save the data on your computer to avoid inserting the disk every time you need it, you must create a DMG file. Fortunately, Mac OS X's own Disk Utility tool is able to help you. Creating a DMG file to use on your own computer is legal, but distributing it is not.
The Sun Java DB database provides database programmers with an engine that they can use to store dynamic data. Java DB works with Java applications you create in projects such as Oracle workstation software. The Boolean data type is a bit value that returns "true" or "false." You use this data type when you just need to answer to a query that returns true or false.
HTC Evo 4G owners who have rooted their device have the ability to install custom read-only memory, and tailor their device to their specific needs. These ROMs are updated constantly, but updates may bring unwanted changes to your preferred ROM. If you want to install a previous build of your Evo 4G's ROM, do so through the same recovery menu from which you originally installed the ROM.
A MSI file is a Microsoft Installer file, similar to a package. When you double-click the file, Windows Installer extracts the files from the package, creates the necessary folders, copies the files in the folders and might also create shortcuts or registry entries, if necessary. An EXE file is an executable file. Some EXE files can be opened on a Mac computer, but only to extract their contents. If you want to convert a MSI file to an EXE file you can use on a Mac, you must make sure the EXE file is a package, similar to the original…
Apptrackr is a website used by people all over the world to share and download apps for their mobile devices. Although apps come in IPA format most of the time, some are packed inside RAR files. IPA files are easy to install on mobile devices, but RAR files must first be converted to IPA files. Fortunately, developers include everything you need to build an IPA file inside the RAR archive.
PowerShell represents a powerful scripting tool for the Windows operating system. This tool resembles the Linux "terminal" in that it allows users to enter command directly to a command line. However, PowerShell also gives programmers a way to interact with the Windows system through its .NET framework. This means PowerShell scripts can access .NET objects, as well as the data types inherent in other Windows programming languages, such as C#.
Structure imposes order on tabular data. Whether you use HTML and CSS, boxes and grid lines, or bullets and numbering, these structural devices show how your information interrelates, which parts of it hold more importance than others and the sequence in which to read or consider it. Most tabular information uses concise, abbreviated statements to present the gist of an idea, event or comparison. From an overview, which introduces a fuller consideration of a topic, to a summary, which is an end in itself, tabular information can make complex concepts easy to grasp.
If you don’t have much programming experience and want to start learning a programming language, then you may start with a typeless scripting language such as VBScript. A typeless language doesn’t require you to specify in advance the type of data you will be storing in your variables. In contrast, a strongly typed language such as C, C++ and C# require variables to be defined with a data type prior to being used.
Maple is a computer algebra software developed by Symbolic Computation Group in 1988, at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Today, Maple is widely used due to its flexibility and simple interface. Users can use traditional mathematical notations to interact with the software and receive extensive numeric computation support. The output of your calculations can be viewed on the screen but can also be written to a DAT, or data, file. In Maple, the "writedata" function creates a DAT file from the contents of a list, matrix or vector and the "readdata" function reads the data from the…
If you purchase the electronic version of a large data set to use on a Mac, you may download a single file with a "DMG" extension. The file contains a compressed copy of the entire contents of a DVD and may be password-protected for security purposes.If you want to look at that same information using a PC, you will have to convert the file to a format compatible with Microsoft Windows. Fortunately, there are several utilities, some of which are free, that will convert between a Mac OS X-compatible format and a PC-compatible format so you can view a DMG…
In the past, programmers displayed data to users through list boxes or text files, but now you can use a DataGridView control making data easier to read. A DataGridView control displays data in a tabular format similar to a grid. By default, the control creates all cells with text box data types for all the columns defined but you can change them programmatically. Having mixed cell data types can be useful in a program to give users more options to control their data.
When Web browsers make requests from servers, the server sends the data through an HTTP protocol connection. All the data of the Web page, as well as the metadata required for the HTTP protocol, must pass through the connection for the Web browser to manage the information. For large pages, or pages with embedded scripting languages, this can cause slowdown in page rendering. By packaging HTTP compression in Web pages, including those that use ColdFusion, the developer can lower the amount of data the page needs to send to the user.
ISO files are also known as disc images. These types of files can be used to burn a bootable DVD or CD for use with your computer. If you are preparing a program, you can compile your files to create an ISO file; however, the feature is not natively available in Windows, which means you'll need to use a third-party program. Windows 7 does, however, support the burning of ISO files to discs; it just cannot be used to create the ISO file itself.
Data audits involve an outside party poring through a data set to make sure that the numbers are accurate. These audits can uncover anything from fraud to hackers trying to break into secure computer system. For this reason, organizations should audit a wide range of data including financial records, scientific data sets, secure database access logs, and even the intelligence data for which a company is paying.
The BitTorrent peer-to-peer sharing protocol lets you share large data files over the Internet. Files are downloaded as Torrents through your chosen Web browser and are broken up into small segments called pieces. When downloading the Torrent file, you may experience an invalid error. An invalid error often occurs when your Web browser’s temporary cache is full. The temporary cache stores previously visited websites for future reference. If the cache is full, the Torrent cannot be fully downloaded.
A document attribute provides extra information that is not part of the main data. In the case of a word processor document, for example, its attributes might include the author and the software used to create it. The attributes stored with a document or file vary depending on the file type, the operating system, and the program used to create it. Attributes are sometimes referred to as "metadata" or "tags" depending on the software involved.
Adobe Flash is one of the most popular professional tools used to create expressive interactive content for anything from websites to games. The "SWF" file is the main format used by Adobe Flash and contains multimedia and vector graphics, as well as ActionScript code. Flash "EXE" files are created from Flash SWF files. If you accidentally delete the original SWF file and want to modify the Flash program on a Mac machine, you must extract the SWF file from the EXE file. In other words, you need a tool that can convert an EXE file to an SWF file on…
FRM is a type of file format used by a number of applications such as MySQL, Microsoft Visual Studio, Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Notepad. Any FRM files on your hard drive will be stored either in the NTFS or FAT32 file system. If you want to store FRM files in the ISO 9660 file system you must burn them onto a CD or DVD.
Batch files are Windows scripts that allow for the automation of programs and commands. These were intended for use by programmers and advanced Windows administrators to help manage systems more effectively. However, with a little understanding of how batch files work, including their syntax and commands, you can create a funny batch file to trick a friend into thinking he or she has caught a virus or that the computer is displaying unwanted behavior.
Oracle provides multiple software and hardware applications to companies who need database management, accounting or production software, human resources software or a business suite that includes a variety of business and management software. ARC stands for the archive process completed by the Oracle software. During the archiving process, the software creates a variety of archive logs that are identified by the ARC extension.
Cyclic Redundancy checks are used to confirm a file's integrity. You won't know if a RAR file is complete and error-free until you attempt to extract it, when the file is checked. The download is compared with the original CRC data which produces an error if the information does not match. Try downloading the file again and the error might disappear. Unfortunately, this solution only helps in cases of corrupt downloads. There are a few ways to fix RAR files when a redownload is not possible.
A vertical graph is a graph printed out vertically. You can make a vertical graph made up of asterisks. You need to calculate the maximum height of the graph in order to know the rows of the asterisks. For each column, you need to determine if the currently drawn row should be an asterisk or a space. This application employs the built-in output functions of C++ to print the graph. It doesn’t need graphic libraries.
VTS (Video Title Set) is the name given to files that end with the .bup, .ifo, and .vob file extensions. These files exist on video DVDs within a special folder titled “VIDEO_TS.” If you have the VIDEO_TS folder of a video DVD copied to your hard disk, you can use an application such as Free ISO Creator, ImgTool Classic or PowerISO to create an ISO file. You can then mount the ISO file onto a disc emulator and play it or use a disc-burning application to burn it.
Software Installation Script, or SIS, is an archive file type for the Symbian OS and is used to install applications on any device running the Symbian OS, most notably Nokia and Sony Ericsson mobile phones. The SIS file is a compressed file type that contains one or more files and may include a JAR file. A JAR file is a program or application written in the Java programming language. To extract and view a JAR file from a SIS file, you must have a program capable of reading the SIS file type. SISContents is a tool available for free and…
RAR files are archives of data. Utilities such as 7-Zip are able to convert data to and from archives such as RAR. “BIN” refers to either a binary file or a type of disk image file, both of which are unarchived. 7-Zip is able to convert RAR files into either type of BIN file, provided that the RAR file contains archived BIN data. Converting from a RAR file means decompressing archived data. If the archived data was not a BIN file before compression, there is no way to convert RAR directly to BIN.
Creating an executable file from the graphic user interface on MATLAB allows those without MATLAB software to view new and existing projects. After you create and package the .exe file, distribute fully functional MATLAB projects to individual users or place them on your network for all to view and use. Before you can create an .exe file, however, you must first install a third party compiler such as the MATLAB Compiler.
7Zip is a file compression/extraction program that is already capable of opening some RAR files that contain Cyclic Redundancy Check errors. When you right-click the file and click "Extract Here," 7Zip compares the CRC data of the extracted files against the original CRC data, and attempts to bypass them, as needed. This does not always work, and the only way to fix the error is to re-download the file or repair it.
When you create an ISO file of a movie or a collection of videos, you need a main menu to navigate chapters with the DVD player. If your ISO file is of a software program, you may have menus that allow you to choose whether you want to install or run from a CD. Regardless of what type of ISO file you create, a few software programs allow you to edit ISO files and make adjustments to the menus or delete the menus and create new ones.
Java archive files with the “.jar” file extension contain software written in the Java programming language. Some applications for IBM’s AIX operating system, such as the BEA WebLogic Server, are distributed with an installer in the form of a JAR file. You can install these JAR files by installing the Java runtime on your AIX system and running the JAR file. If the JAR file contains an installer, the installer will appear after you execute the JAR file. Most JAR files are not installers and can be run without installation.
Python includes numerical data and string data types, as well as flexible list types, such as the List, Tuple, and Dictionary. These types reside in memory when the interpret first loads without any module support. They also influence how Python is used by programmers to manipulate a large collection of data.
DVDscr files are often distributed over the Internet on Usenet newsgroups, file transfer protocol accounts or peer-to-peer clients. Rather than offer the entire DVDscr as a single file, it is typically broken apart into multiple compressed RAR files. Using this format offers a benefit when downloading, because each part may be downloaded separately.
Movie and game files often contain several gigabytes of data, and for computer users with a slow Internet connection, downloading these files takes a long time. In RAR packages, or archives, large files are reduced to one smaller file, called a RAR. RARs usually download quickly, but can also sometimes become incomplete or corrupt, preventing you from fully extracting the files within. WinRAR and several other programs offer a repair feature that may fix incomplete RAR files.
GMod, or Garry's Mod, is a physics game that can be played using the Source engine -- a 3-D game engine developed by Valve. GMod was designed by gamer Garry Newman, and his first game was released in 2004. GMod is a standalone game, but new ones can also be added using the Lua programming language. This scripting allows users to create their own game modes, weapons and modifications.
SQL Server Integration Services allows large, data-dependent entities such as corporations the ability to transfer data from a variety of disparate information systems and databases. It does this through a system of data and control flows that determine how data from a source is transformed and transferred to a destination. To accomplish this, SSIS has its own set of data types that it uses. The system transforms source data into native SSIS data, and then transforms those native data types into compatible types for the destination system.
Apache Ant strives to offer developers the tools to compile and manage Java projects spanning over multiple files. Ant offers a suite of functionality for programmers to manage how their Java projects will build and compile. This control includes the types of dependencies projects will have and the output given during project compilation. Ant uses XML files, specifically the build.xml file, to control how projects are assembled. Building a .jar file involves creating a simple build.xml file for a project that contains Java source code, and including compilation instructions in it.
Along with the ability to play all types of media files, the VLC Media Player can also convert files to multiple types, including converting a video file to the BIN file format for quick and easy burning. Along with the BIN file, the software also creates a "Cue" file that allows the BIN file to play in DVD players.
In Windows XP, EXE, or executable files, are necessary for performing tasks such as such as running installation wizards to install programs. However, they won't run if the computer is missing key system files and components. EXE files usually have a ".exe" file extension and Windows XP contains many of them. If you're unable to run EXE files, Microsoft provides tips and solutions to repair damaged system components.
A computer file with the EPF extension is a data file used by the Edgecam computer-aided manufacturing program. To open an EPF file on your computer, you’ll need the correct Edgecam software. You might also need to associate the EPF file type with the program in the Windows Control Panel.
Limitations are often placed on the number of words or characters that can be written in a forum post to help limit the size of the forum’s database file and make the conversation threads in the forum easier to read. vBulletin lets you set a maximum number of characters in a forum post or set post size to unlimited, but this cannot be modified for users in specific groups like the Super Moderators group. There is a free add-on available that modifies vBulletin to let the administrator change the character limit for individual user groups.
WinRAR's maximum file size and archive size limits are so large that it would be difficult to find a hard drive that could contain the archives, even after compression. Unless you're using a computer with the File Allocation Table file system, it's unlikely that you won't be able to compress or open an archive with WinRAR based on file size alone.
