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@OP Yea I was 19 almost 20 when I started mine so it is not impossible. My Boss actually wanted someone a bit older what with it being a secondary school with a 6th form.... A 16 year old person may struggle in that environment. Yea they can be tough little jobs to find. I still really sell the apprenticeship to people as I freaking loved mine and it has set me right up as most employers prefer experience over certificates to be honest. I am now 21 and in a nice stable IT job with a nice salary so it can defiantly work out for people! Anyway I wish you the best of luck whichever way you go. Make sure you keep us updated!

This seems like you have been fed a line here! I know it is rude to ask a lady how old she is but.... how old are you? I have a friend who did her degree then got a catering apprenticeship so I see no reason why the same can't be done with IT. Though the volunteer advice is good advice. When I was doing my apprenticeship I got a Saturday job in a little computer repair shop as the counter guy which added to my experiences so little things like that are good to look out for as well.

Hi, I did EXACTLY what you did. I went to uni for a year realised it was not my thing and decided I wanted a career in IT. After 6 months washing dishes and serving chips I got an apprenticeship, this is by far the best way to do it imo! If you wanna talk to me about my experiences or ask me any questions drop me a PM. Cheers.

Hi guys, Could someone make me a reg file to turn my windows keys into control keys and a reverse script please <3 I know there is software out there to do it the reason I am asking for a reg file is because I will need to do this on different machines and installing software to change key binds is forbidden. rules be rules man.

Seems daft to me. PC gamers will have an advantage over the console guy on pretty much every game except maybe RPGs. It will cause problems on games like Halo, I know there is lots of e-penis talk about this but a mouse is just more accurate than a control pad which will put the xbox guys at a huge disadvantage... I can only see this causing problems for what is essential no benefit.

StarCraft II Slyce's profile <3

Gonna give this a shot as soon as the user lets me jump on for an hour or so. Will update you, thanks.

Error I get from paint....

Error reads: "Failed to save to the specific location. Make sure the file is not write-protected and there is enough space on the drive to save the image. Copy to Aborted" Sorry the image I posted was rubbish

Right so a user is trying to open a TIF with Microsoft Image and Fax viewer (or w/e it is called) and save it as a jpeg. When ever she tries to save as a jpeg she gets this error Both of these things are huge lies. She has full permissions for the folders in question (I even tried with her docs just to make sure). Space is not an issue. If anyone has any clues I am all ears. Thanks in advance.

Just gonna put my comments in here... Mine is an exceptional case but I thought I would drop it in. When I was a 6th form student (3 years ago) I had all the IT techies added on steam and we became really good friends. They are who inspired me to become a techie myself. Now I am 21 and they are in their 20's too we go out drinking together go for curry nights and even have mini LANs. I know that my experience does not speak for everyone... but I do think it can sometimes be a positive experience. Having said all of this I then went on to be a techie in a school and I would never dream of adding students on steam just because you open yourself up to so much rubbish.

Hi guys, We are having some problems with our windows 7 machines here just dropping connection for a second. We see the little yellow triangle and then the connection is restored. We have tried changing every lead and port between the machine and our server. I know that users give us these vague problems with no real detail and we hate them for it. I am doing the same here because we literally have no ideas as to what it could be. We are using NOD32 security if anyone knows of any odd conflicts that can cause. Thanks for any advice you can give, Matt

Hello there, I play SC2 alot.... Looking for some other skilled players to hang out with and chat about the game etc. My ladder thingy : Starcraft 2 Rankings I am putting together a small UK based team too if people are interested. Probably not the best forum to advertise but Teamliquid results in lots of "muppets" contacting me... Which hurts my soul. Anyway drop a reply. Slyce.605 I want friends :'(

That sounds so simple now you have said it.... I am a massive noob at websites. Thanks I will try changing the CSS file

Hi guys, I run a small website for our SC2 team (yes massive nerd) It runs on word press because I assumed that would make it super easy to manage... I have a couple of pages I wanted to add tables to for formatting reasons. Now I am not a HTML wiz but I know what the valign="middle" tag should do. Apparently wordpress is not interested. I am getting rather frustrated and I just wondered if anyone knew anything about using tables in wordpress and would be willing to give me a hand. Page in question is here: Roster « TREX I just want to align the images with the text....

You mean just copy and paste spam the code? Sorry.... * embarrassed face*

Ok I posted up the whole project on media fire.... Please remember I am kinda learning as I go. This might be a bit of a mess.... But it all seems to work ok for us with this slight hicup. I am desperate to get it done before Easter weekend DatabaseSECOND.zip Thank you for any time you put into looking over this for me.

Well HT that is a very defeatist attitude! haha I have got every other feature we need working including filters to search and all sorts of other fancy things... Just this one last bit and I have made my first programme! I don't really want to admit defeat here. I hate asking for help but sometimes you have to know your limits. I could upload the project files somewhere if that would help.

So many questions so little knowledge! I am clueless.... I will just explain exactly what I am trying to do. So we have a database here with our equipment in. Made in Access so it is a .dbm file or w/e I have made a GUI that uses that file as a data source to display the equipment in like a form would in access. The issue we are having is that if one person has the program open when another person has there is no warning at all. Until someone wants to save.... As you can imagine this is a pain if for example I have added some things and so has a colleague because we will not be able to save the file. So what I wanted to do was pop in a quick form that opens first and only lets you move onto the database form if no one else has it open. In the hope that this will avoid the problem. Am I making myself clear? Thank you all for your input. Please answer me assuming no prior VB knowledge or programming knowledge. I am a techie "having a go" eeeek!!

Well when I say I am new to this I mean very new. I have done everything so far by just reading up on what I want to do. I have so far managed to make a whole GUI for our equipment database complete with a search.... Only problem with this being that if more than one of you has the gui open it won't let you save any changes. So I basically want to add a quick splash screen that only lets you into the GUI if it is not in use, this should eliminate the issue. But my VB + programming knowledge is next to nothing. I am a technician not a programmer

Hello, I am working on a small project and I have hit a birck wall.... All my google powers are not helping me. I am an armature at visual basic and just can't see what I have done wrong! So I just want to the script to know if a certain file is already in use. Here is what I have... It ALWAYS returns the "not open" msgbox Public Class Form1 Private _fileOpen As Boolean Private Property FileOpen(ByVal p1 As String) As Boolean Get Return _fileOpen End Get Set(ByVal value As Boolean) _fileOpen = value End Set End Property Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click If FileOpen("H:\Administration\Information Technology\Test.docx") = True Then MsgBox("open") Else MsgBox("not open") End If End Sub End Class I have just attached it to a button with msgbox things to get it working... It will be doing something a bit more extravagant once I have the basics down. If you need any more information please ask. Thank you in advance. Sorry if I am being really dumb!

Ok so we have some machines on site that are not on the domain for various reasons... The problem I am having is everytime the machines are restarted they lose the autentication to use the printer. I am open to ideas to resolve this... I was looking at scripts but all the ones I have found only work with .exe files. I hope this is enough information, reallly dont know what else to say. Any help would be great I am getting a right ear bashing over this.

We have a pen drive with a switch on but as I said earlier they are too small for what we require. I have looked at that link before but I can't seem to find a format utility to do the job... The ones they have as examples seem to come with specific pendrives. Does anyone know of a generic one?

We have one of these but the damn thing is only like 1.4mb when you make it emulate a floppy which is no use for making a "one disk builds all" type disk Thank you for your response though.

Hello, I have searched the forum but I can't seem to find this. I there is a post already I apologise. Basically I have some Kingston usb pens and I want to make them into CC3 Build Disks to replace the floppy drives we are currently using. I can't seem to find a way to make them emulate a floppy drive. They need to stay big enough to contain all drivers for our various machines. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.