[AccessD] Object or class does not support the set of events

jwcolby jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Sat Oct 1 10:13:18 CDT 2011


 > My close friend Peter Simpson has a pretty cool hardware setup which I envy. I cannot describe 
the HW details but the essence is this. He has five or six boxes and one keyboard and monitor and 
mouse, and by flicking a switch, he suddenly moves from Box 1 to Box 2 etc. One box runs Win7, 
another wXP, another Ubuntu, another RedHat, and yet another Solaris.

It is called a kvm switch (Keyboard Video Mouse switch).  I have one of those but when I moved two 
of my three server machines to the basement the kvm switch went with it.

As for the "why no dedicated virtual machine", well it has to do with I run off of a laptop which is 
supposed to be portable.  VMs, at least on my server are... well... on my server.  While I 
experimented with running them on my laptop they tend to be large-ish and take up disk space.  Until 
this point, my laptop disks were not really big enough to support virtual machines.  Plus a laptop 
by its nature does not have the most powerful / speedy processor chips.

The new disk is 500 gigs, which I broke into 100g for the boot and 400 for the data.  I intend to 
reassess the reality of VMs nw that I have this much storage.

In the meantime, the billing program is broken.

I am going to try running it directly in Access 2010 and see if that works.  If so it will provide 
the imputus to make the switch and learn the (*&%^%$#$#! toolbar interface.  If it still does not 
work I will remove Office 2010 entirely.  It appears that it has to do with having both 2003 and 
2010 installed at the same time.  Maybe.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting


On 10/1/2011 10:35 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I have no solutions for you. But IIRC, you're the guy with RAM and SSHDs to
> die for, so why aren't you using all your spiffy hardware and software to
> create some VMs and do this in-situ, as it were? And further, why don't you
> have one box dedicated to "meat and potatoes", and everything else located
> elsewhere?
>
> My close friend Peter Simpson has a pretty cool hardware setup which I envy.
> I cannot describe the HW details but the essence is this. He has five or six
> boxes and one keyboard and monitor and mouse, and by flicking a switch, he
> suddenly moves from Box 1 to Box 2 etc. One box runs Win7, another wXP,
> another Ubuntu, another RedHat, and yet another Solaris.
>
> Someday soon I shall waterboard him for all the details on how to set this
> up, but at the moment it's a total mystery to me. I just watch him press
> some magic keystrokes and then suddenly he's in another box, and I don't
> mean VM, I mean another physical box.
>
> I feel that I can no longer keep up with the rapidly-changing technology. I
> think I'm too old for this career-path. China plans to overtake USA in
> space-launches. Good thing I'm learning Mandarin (and am actually getting
> pretty adept; well no, let's settle for "I have the basics", and Cantonese
> is a way tougher nut to crack, but I'm working on it).
>
> A.



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