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Our KEPCO BHK-500-80MG power supply will not force a 5.0mA current. It will output 4.9mA or 5.1mA, which spells out the workaround, but instead of 5.0mA a current of 1.024mA is

Visual Studio installation actions allow specifying command line parameters. 

Recently, I tried using this to get a handle on the target directory where the applicaiton is installed. Unfortunately, the installer fails parsing the [TARGETDIR] property. The installer aborts reporting a failure to find a file or assembly in C:WindowsSystem32FileISRMyPoductName. The installation log sheds no

Yet another item for practicing The Art of Work Around(r).

This time, I was tackling an installation package that has been giving my client a hard time. While debugging the installer Visual Studio began crushing following the message: "Visual Studio Explorer [or Settings] and Designer Package failed to load properly...."  The message indicated that I could choose to skip loading the package and

NI VIsa Interface Clear has a minor bug causing it to time out if no resources exist on the bus.  Here is a method aimed at a work around as part of a class that inherits the NationalInstruments.VisaNS.GpibInterface.

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Finally I got the site ported to Joomla.  I now feel empowered to dwelve into some writing.  On my aggenda is addressing issues relating to working around the limitations of existing programs.   In the pipeline are the following topics:

• Adding, checking in, and archiving Visual Source Safe 2005 projects using batch files;
• Failing to work around the limitations of Authenticode for signing large

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