Archive for the 'based automated' Category

Sunday, October 11th, 2009

What is a good simple, preferable open source, reporting tool?

I’m looking for a simple (*easy* to install and use) reporting tool to generate some simple reports. I need the ability to automate report generation and reports will need simple graphics (pie chart, bar graph) and ability to include logo graphics. Open source or free wold be best, but cheap would be ok [...]

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Home based business for free???

I really dont have the money to put out the money to start a profitable home based business. But I have been working construction and I am breaking down my body WAY to fast!!! I have two small children and they are going to be starting school pretty soon. I am tired [...]

Friday, October 9th, 2009

Why spreadsheets are not good for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance?

My company has been meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) requirements through manual spreadsheet-based processes. We want to automate these processes. What kind of technology is out there now to help with SOX compliance?
It is difficult to provide non-repudiation within spreadsheets in a scalable context. To replace spreadsheets look towards governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management platforms. Vendors [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Why are questions being removed?

This question is being directed to the administrators of Yahoo Answers but I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this. It looks to me like a lot of pretty harmless adult oriented questions are being removed because they are offensive. I’m not sure if this is from human screening or if [...]

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Why are questions being removed?

This question is being directed to the administrators of Yahoo Answers but I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on this. It looks to me like a lot of pretty harmless adult oriented questions are being removed because they are offensive. I’m not sure if this is from human screening or if [...]

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Where do these automated link/article pages come from?!?

I found out that a domain name I wanted to register (based on my personal name) was taken, so I visited the site. Turned out it was nothing but a bunch of links related to my last name (which is also the name of a province in Spain, apparently). This ticked me off. I thought [...]

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Where do these automated link/article pages come from?!?

I found out that a domain name I wanted to register (based on my personal name) was taken, so I visited the site. Turned out it was nothing but a bunch of links related to my last name (which is also the name of a province in Spain, apparently). This ticked me off. I thought [...]

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

What does the caller hear when calling a cell phone that’s been destroyed?

I’m not quite willing to damage one to find out. I’m writing a story in which someone calls a cell phone which was in an explosion, and I don’t know if she’ll hear a ring, be shunted to voicemail, hear nothing at all, or receive some automated message about the phone not being in service.
I’d [...]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Army Automated Logistical Specialist 92A?

considering picking this job for the US Army…what could I expect to do while at my home base and deployed? If in Iraq will I see much or any combat?
Ok a few inside things you should know about your job. You can work at any of the following places: Motor Pool as the [...]

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

What VB would I use to automate the import of text files into Excel based on user names found on a worksheet?

We are migrating users from Novell server to Microsoft and we must preserve their drive mappings.
I have a spreadsheet which lists between say 1 and 75 user names. I have drive mapping files associated with most user names that indicates which drive mappings the user has set up on their machine. I would [...]