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I know about the magnifier feature. I know about pinch/zoom which works almost nowhere except the web browser and maps. What I want to know if I can change the default font sizes anywhere.

I am visually impaired. I can see well enough to comfortably read a 10 or 12 point typed font. I don't like using text to speech either. I would really like to be able to change the default system font sizes.

Does anyone out there own the Surface? Is this possible?

I am looking at CNN Financials and Apple's stock is listed at $393.13 per share. I am looking at their latest full EPS number of $15.15. By my math, that is a PE of almost $26. Am I missing something in the calculation?

Doesn't that make Apple look kinda expensive?

I am new to Linq, and I am having trouble grasping the syntax with respect to multi-table joins. I have three tables... workItem, workItemTemplate, and skill. A workItem has a particular kyworkItemTemplate which is used as a foreign key to the workItemTemplate table. A workItemTemplate has a kyWorkItemType which joins it to a skills table. Each row in the skills table indicates a workItemType that a user can perform.

The SQL that does what I want looks like this...

select s.*

from workitem w

inner join workitemtemplate t

on w.kyworkitemtemplate = t.kyworkitemtemplate

inner join skill s

on t.kyworkitemtype = s.kyworkitemtype

where s.kyUser = 'e158177'

and w.kyworkitem = 138

OR

select s.*

from workitem w, workitemtemplate t, skill s

where w.kyworkitemtemplate = t.kyworkitemtemplate

and t.kyworkitemtype = s.kyworkitemtype

and s.kyUser = 'e158177'

and w.kyworkitem = 138;

If either of these retorns a row, I know that employee e158177 has the skills to work the particular workItem #138. Can anyone help me out with the Linq syntax?

I have a Dictionary<string, string> with roughly 400 entries that is populated by a pretty expensive database call. I need to extract about 50 or so KeyValuePair objects whose keys all start with a particular string: "TX_VALUE_"

Currently, I am looping over all 400 values using a foreach loop and an If - StartsWith test on each key. If I find one, I add it to a second Dictionary to be returned.

Can I use a Linq query for this? Is this the best way to be extracting these keys?

I am comparing prices for the Box Set. I see the Apple Store has it for $169.00. I can get it on Amazon for $137.49. Both offer free shipping. Is there any advantage to paying an additional $32 and buying from Apple?

I havve a MacBook running 10.4.2 Tiger. I want to upgrade to 10.6 Snow Leopard. Do I have to upgrade to 10.5 Leopard first? If so, would it be best to just upgrade to Leopard and forget about Snow Leopard. My intent is to try my hand at writing IPhone apps with XCode.

This is a long question, so be prepared...

I am working with an ASP.NET 2.0 web application. I have a form with a textbox, a cancel button, and a continue button. I want the continue button to be the default, and I want th textbox to have the focus when the form loads. I set the form DefaultButton and DefaultFocus attributes to btnContinue and txtTextBox repsectively.

When the form loads, the cursor is in the textbox, but the cancel button has the emphasized border. When I hit the enter key, the continue button fires like I expect. The problem is that the cancel button LOOKS like it is the default.

I trued using JavaScript to set the focus to the continue button. This is okay, but then, when the user clicks in the textbox, the cancel button again has the emphasized border. Again, the enter key press will fire the continue button as expected.

Am I crazy, or is this harder than it should be? Any help would be greatly appreciated.