27 Oct 09 IE8 keeps forgetting cookies

Lately I have noticed that IE8 keeps forgetting cookies whenever I restart the windows. After doing some research around the issue, I think the following simple tricks should fix the problem.

First, open the Internet Options by [Tools]->[Internet Options]

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Tags: cookies, IE8, vista, windows

20 Aug 09 Excel: How to search for multiple strings in a cell

I learned about this technique yesterday.

The problem is as follows: There is a cell that we wanted to find out if it contains at least one of the multiple strings (words or numbers) that we specified.

One real life application is like this. You are given a long list of item descriptions, and you wanted to find out if it contains some specific items such as “pressure cooker”, or “microwave”, etc.

How to do that? Hope you can find out by just looking at the attached picture.

Enjoy!!

Tags: Excel, formula, multiple strings, search

18 Aug 09 VB.Net: MDI, Splitter and Splitcontainer

windowsapplication1First of all, I have not had good experience with Splitcontainer in MDI. I was unable to load a child form in the splitconainer panel. I have googled it, but found it very awkward. Some one even reported that the menu would get messed up even if you somewhat cheated the splitcontainer to make it take the child form.

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Tags: MDI, visual basic.net