Re: [NF] Chat tool for businesses (but not Skype or Facebook Messenger)

[David Smith]

+1 for Spark... I run 200  ish people on it here and it has been great.


David Smith

Systems Administrator
Doan Family of Dealerships
Office: 585.352.6600
dsm...@doandelivers.com

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From: ProfoxTech  on behalf of Mike 

Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 3:09:58 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Chat tool for businesses (but not Skype or Facebook Messenger)

Check out SPARK. It's open source, works well for me. Local server you
set up on your own Linux box. Windows clients are stable.

Mike


Client likes FB messenger but does not want to friend coworkers.
They do
not like Skype for some reason (need to research that more, but they
were
clear). What kinds of other tools do you recommend for instant messaging
within businesses?
tia,
--Mike


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Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

[David Smith]

Have you asked them to just turn off their data while they are trying to use 
your WiFi? It can't go through the LTE etc if it's turned off. 


From: ProfoxTech  on behalf of Kurt Wendt 

Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:55 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] WIFI Blues

I gotta say - Mike - if its people all doing personal usage - you shouldn't 
have to support that since its NOT Work related. Here at my job - security is a 
Huge issue - since the co. is centered around financial data. As such, we have 
NO Free WiFi access. Oh well...

I WILL keep an eye on this thread - since if it sheds any light on your issue - 
maybe it will help shed light on my own problem at my place.

Regards,
Kurt Wendt
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike 
Copeland
Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 5:56 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] WIFI Blues

Exactly. I've checked a few of the phones that won't route and they have a 
valid IP address, they have a valid gateway value, but no DNS.

The problem I am dealing with is a couple hundred employees who have come to 
expect free high-speed WIFI at work for their cell phones and tablets (personal 
stuff, not work related.) And I'm astounded at how rapidly people change 
phones!!! I looked at one guy's Android phone a couple weeks ago, and yesterday 
he shows up with an iPhone. A girl I helped connect her Android last Friday 
sent me an email today "warning"
me that she is getting a new iPhone by the end of the week and she's heard that 
people are having trouble getting WIFI on their iPhones.

What I've done on the Androids is remove the WIFI connection from the previous 
connection (the WAP hasn't changed, but I did change the password at the 
beginning of January) and then reconnect. So far I've only had one Android that 
didn't work on.

There's a similar 'fix' touted for the iPhone when you google the problem, but 
so far it hasn't worked once on nearly a dozen phones.

The problem is almost identical each time (the wording changes depending on 
whether it's Android, iPhone, and what flavor of Android.) It prompts for 
password, accepts password, indicates it is getting connection details (IP, 
etc.) and then it finally finishes without further indication there's a 
problem. But when you try to access the Internet, it routes through the phones 
data connection (LTE4 or 3 or whatever their carrier provides) and not WIFI.

I've looked at the DHCP server and it shows the devices by MAC address, with a 
valid associated IP and lease. Everything on the DHCP servers looks right.

I'm going to replace the routers and try having the router assign the DHCP 
values and see how that flies. Nothing else is working.

Thanks!

Mike

Ted Roche wrote:
> Yikes. That sounds like a "fun" problem. Sorry, bro.
>
> You say it seems to be a DNS problem. Why do you think that?
>
> There are info screens on iPhones and Androids that will show you IP
> address & DNS settings, though they are often difficult to find. My
> Android will happily set DNS1 & 2 to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 if you don't
> specify. Do you block devices that want to use their own DNS settings?
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Mike Copeland  wrote:
>> Anyone else having problems with WIFI WAPs starting to refuse
>> connections to iPhones?
>>
>> I manage several building networks that have WAP devices, and I've
>> started getting complaints in the last couple of months about "my
>> cellphone won't connect." It seems that the connection happens, but the data 
>> won't route.
>>  From what I can tell it's a DNS issue. (The WAP is on an isolated
>> network with a DHCP server that provides an IP, gateway, and DNS
>> settings when
>> connected.)
>>
>> I've Googled this and read for hours, and I have found some "fixs"
>> that didn't work when tried. Mostly it's iPhone 6's  but a couple of
>> Android phones, too. No idea what flavor of Android.
>>
>> It is happening with both Cisco WAPs (Aironets) and Netgear. And once
>> a device connects, it's happy happy to come and go, reconnecting as needed.
>>
>> Any WIFI gurus in the crowd?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mike Copeland
>>
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RE: [NF] Activating last year's downloads from Action Pack

[David Smith]

I have an unused key you can have from my old subscription. I'm not sure of
the legality of me giving it to you, but mine was never used and was from a
legit MS subscription. Shall I just post it here? I don't want to get anyone
in trouble..

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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Kaye
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 3:24 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Activating last year's downloads from Action Pack

I have on occasion retrieved old keys from my MSDN subscription although
it's been a while. There was some request mechanism where you could ask for
up to 3 keys at a time. Sadly I don't recall the details and of course this
was not an Action Pack (r) subscription. Have you tried contacting the fine
people at MS support?

--

rk
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From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted
Roche
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 3:10 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Activating last year's downloads from Action Pack

Looking for advice on dealing with Action Pack and older software.

I've been an Action Pack subscriber for a number of years, and have a
current sub. However, our clients aren't always the most prompt about
keeping up with the most recent version of MS tools, (can you say "Vista?")
so my machines typically lag a year or two or three behind the current
versions. Usually, this isn't a problem, but I needed to replace a
development workstation, and found I didn't have the activation keys for
Office 2007. Got Win7 and many VFPs working fine, but really need Office for
some automation processes. I'm thinking I tossed the paperwork during one of
my very rare cleaning sessions. Most of my older disks have the activation
keys written on them, just for this reason, but not that one.

Microsoft seems to think that everyone only runs the latest versions of
their software, so there are none of the older keys listed on their site.
It might be nice if that were true, from a support standpoint. But that
would require Microsoft actually ship software that works at the
version-dot-zero level, without a service pack, and that it is so perfectly
backwards-compatible that it runs all the solutions we've written years ago.

Update: Installed Office 2013 Pro downloaded from the MS Partner Network,
typed in my 20-character mixed number and letter key, and it is refusing to
activate the software, "Something went wrong. Please try again later." I
love when they treat me like an idiot.

Einstein allegedly said, "Insanity is trying the same thing over and over
and expecting different results." That seems to be a pretty good
description, today.

DRM seems to be a great way to annoy your customers and "partners"

--
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RE: [NF] And Yahoo continues to not do well

[david Smith]

IMHO, Yahoo has no one to blame except themselves. They shot themselves in
the foot by taking what used to be a clean, powerful suite of search tools
and turned it into a collection of user-hostile PC-infecting garbage. Each
time I manually have to remove their Yahoo-branded crapwear that's left over
from their uninstaller processes I am reminded how richly they deserve to go
down in flames. When you choose to abuse your customers you lose my good
faith. See ya later Yahoo, I hope you're an object lesson for Google. 

-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Michael J. Babcock, MCP
Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 4:26 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] And Yahoo continues to not do well

http://www.businessinsider.com/and-now-yahoo-has-put-itself-up-for-sale-2011
-9

"The board canned Bartz, the WSJ's sources say, after studying the company's
assets for two weeks and concluding that Bartz was doing a lousy job. If
this is really true, one wonders what on earth the board has been doing for
the past two years, while pretty much everyone else concluded the same
thing."

Talk about a fallen star...Yahoo isn't anything like it was.

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RE: I bet I'm the only person on the planet ..

[david Smith]

" I have yet to run into anything I can't do with VFP and third party tools"
... I can: Get meaningful support. Outside of this illustrious group and a
small collection of like-minded sites out there, there is virtually nothing
out there of any depth. This is not a slam against VFP. I really wish it was
different, but it has become a niche product that is slowly fading from
relevance because it is not supported. Again, this is not a slam. I respect
the community here and the product itself, but it's exceedingly difficult to
find user communities, and for me, that was enough to push me to a different
language where I could actually get help. 

-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Jerry Foote
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 10:16 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: I bet I'm the only person on the planet ..

I don't know about weird, but I do know about Customers.
I still maintain programs written over the years some going back to Foxpro
For Dos. If a program works in the first place the only reason to move to a
new program is to make it prettier.. When I read all the posts that Foxpro
Is dead the only thing that comes to my mind is Microsoft's need for greed.
I have yet to run into anything I can't do with VFP and third party tools.
Jerry

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From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf
Of Jean Laeremans
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 8:59 AM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: I bet I'm the only person on the planet ..

On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Alan Bourke  wrote:

> .. that started a new FoxPro for Windows 2.6a project this week.
> --
>  Alan Bourke
>  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
>
>
Always thought the Brits were rather weird. ...

A+
jml


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RE: [NF] Ripping YouTube

[david Smith]

Try this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/?src=api

It's a free addon for Firefox. Here's the user manual if you'd like to check
it out before diving in: http://www.downloadhelper.net/manual.php



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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 8:21 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Ripping YouTube

Please tell me how to Rip a Video from YouTube.

I want to Rip a few videos and then compile them -- probably using 
MovieMaker -- for one DVD.

I use XP SP3.

Thank you.
-- 

-- Charles --
Website: TinyURL.com/EnzerMD 

Teach -- by Example

Behave so as to Inspire Imitation

Modification of Sir Robert Baden-Powell quote 


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RE: [NF] Format laptop hard drive

[david Smith]

Two words: Shop Magnet. 

A few moments under one of the technicians monstrously powerful magnets and
the data is gone forever. 

-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Sytze de Boer
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 2:16 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Format laptop harddrive

Apart from providing a great laugh from participants in this discussion, it
reminds me how a government IT man replaced our then prime minister's pc.
(mid nineties)
He then formatted the hard drive, and it went to the usual government "for
sale/tender" store.

Oh dear



On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Jack Skelley
wrote:

> Kent:
> Back in the day when VHS/Beta was the video of choice they made a video
> grade bulk eraser. Not the type that you may have used for a cassette tape
> but the heavy duty video eraser.
> If you can remove the cover to the drive and expose the platters to the
> bulk eraser you will find it will erase everything.
> You may not need to remove the cover for this to work with a strong enough
> magnetic field.
> If the drive is SATA us can then hook it up to a USB to SATA adapter and
> check it.
> But a very strong magnetic field should do the trick.
> Regards,
>
> Jack Skelley
>
>
> 
> From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
> Behalf Of Kent Belan [kbe...@mchsi.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2011 1:22 PM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: [NF] Format laptop harddrive
>
> Hello,
>
> The hard drive in my laptop was failing so HP sent me another hard drive
> under warranty.
>
> They want me to send back the hard drive that was failing.
>
> What is the best way for format or erase the drive before I send it back ?
>
> Thanks,
> Kent
>
>
>
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RE: VFP and Webpages...

[david Smith]

You can use ODBC connections to use dbf tables in Silverlight, but I've
found it to be functional, but a little awkward in the earlier versions .In
SL 4 seems like they've made a better effort in providing a wider range of
db support than earlier versions. I've never tried scripting out a site like
you're describing, but I don't see why it couldn't be done. The whole SL
site can be expressed in XAML, which VFP has supported since ( I think )
2007. So you could probably just stream the Xaml up to templated site and
then use your dbf's from there. Cool idea :)





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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Kurt Wendt
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 8:59 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: VFP and Webpages...

This morning I was thinking about the SliverLight stuff. I'm wondering
if it would be worthwhile to look into it. I went to the main MS webpage
for it this morning - but, you know how that goes - its mostly a sales
pitch. It brags about how great the stuff is. I know it also mentions
its relation/integration with .Net! But, I guess - the bottom line is -
if I have Data in VFP - can I directly use it - via SilverLight - to
build a website?

I know some people here have used it. Figured I would shoot the question
past you all...

-K-

-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]
On Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:47 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: VFP and Webpages...

I quite like the express VS stuff. Easier to use and cheaper than the
big VS
Al

-Original Message- 
From: david Smith 
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 8:40 PM 
To: profoxt...@leafe.com 
Subject: RE: VFP and Webpages... 

I've got one ... try this: http://www.microsoft.com/web/umbraco . It's
the
Visual Web Developer Express paired with the  Umbraco CMS platform.
Modern
and powerful.

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RE: VFP and Webpages...

[david Smith]

I've got one ... try this: http://www.microsoft.com/web/umbraco . It's the
Visual Web Developer Express paired with the  Umbraco CMS platform. Modern
and powerful.



-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Kurt Wendt
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 2:26 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: VFP and Webpages...

Talking about Futzing Control...

Sorry to bring up this thread again. But, I'm still trying to explore some
options.

A Good number of years ago - I dabbled in DreamWeaver - and used it to build
a basic website (nothing to do with my current e-commerce sites). However, I
haven't used it for YEARS now, nor do I own it.

So - I was just thinking - is there an Open-Source type tool that would
allow me to build a website? Maybe something similar to DreamWeaver.
However, that being said - I am hoping the tool allows me to not only do the
layout and graphical design - but maybe also has some way to read some kind
of datafile(s) in order to define the content and allow for quickly building
the site. 

Maybe this doesn't really exist - in the way that I am hoping for - but, I
figured I would give it a shot. And - as I mentioned previously in this
message thread - I'm looking for something relatively simple to use and does
NOT have a Steep learning curve...

I was just doing some research online about it. I even saw some dev. Env.
called NetBeans - which seems to be able to generate CSS type stuff for
webpages. And, I'm on this webpage that lists a bunch of different open
source tools - for webpage design, graphics manipulation and such. However,
I'm hoping to hear of someone's experience here - and any good suggestions
that aren't already on this webpage. The webpage in question is:

http://sixrevisions.com/tools/30-useful-open-source-apps-for-web-designers/

Thanks in advance!
-K-

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 1:56 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: VFP and Webpages...

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Ed Leafe  wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
>
>>> But, I will as you suggested - generate each and every
>>> webpage.
>>
>> In a couple ways, this is the best way to go. You have a basically static
site, why
>> not serve up basically static files? You cut out a lot of per-hit
overhead that way.
>
>
>        Well, most frameworks handle that via caching; if the page has no
dynamic components, it's rendered once and then held in the cache;
subsequent hits re-serve the same rendering. Dynamic pages are rendered per
hit, as is necessary. This way you get the best of both, but with no
additional futzing around.
-

I am still looking for that futz control.  I want to avoid it's use
from now on!

;->

-- 
Stephen Russell

Sr. Production Systems Programmer
CIMSgts

901.246-0159 cell

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RE: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

[David Smith]

+ 1 for best answer :)

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of gil hale
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:12 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

Linux, Mac OS X, both effective fixes...


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Sender: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:12:41 
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Reply-To: profox@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

I picked up extortion malware at a well-known political blog.  I think I'm
safer surfing porno sites now.

I still haven't found the solution yet.  I've tried compufix and it didn't
fix it.  

AVG did not detect it.

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RE: Res: Res: [NF] Windows Shell Explorer Hangs

[David Smith]

Sort of. Yes you can turn off system restore ( you will lose any stored
points by doing so ) but ComboFix will try to create one. I honestly don't
know if it will with System Restore turned off, I've never tried it.
ComboFix will make corrective actions... that is, ripping out evil things
from your PC. It is a blunt-force tool, but an effective one in my
experience. 

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Behalf Of Frank Cazabon
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 7:44 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Res: Res: [NF] Windows Shell Explorer Hangs

  OK.  I think you are saying there is a way to set Windows so that it does
not make a system restore point, then run combofix and this won't make any
problematic corrections.  Is that right?

Anyhow the point is moot right now as I will be putting in a new hard drive
today and reinstalling everything (oh joy).

Frank.

Frank Cazabon
Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com

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On 11/08/2010 06:52 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote:
> Well, just have the windows restore point off, combofix won't make 
> problematic corrections,
>
> but u still get notified of them.
>
> E.
>
>
>
>
> 
> De: Frank Cazabon
> Para: profox@leafe.com
> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 11 de Agosto de 2010 18:32:50
> Assunto: Re: Res:  [NF] Windows Shell Explorer Hangs
>
>Ah, how does one do that? (run combofix specifying not to make deep
> corrections)
>
> Frank.
>
> Frank Cazabon
> Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com
>
> Referrals are important to us.
> If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please 
> contact me. We would appreciate the opportunity to work with them.
>
>
> On 11/08/2010 05:20 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote:
>> That perhaps if u run comboFix without the option to make deep 
>> corrections is better, than allowing it to alter automatically 
>> programs it deems r viruses.
>>
>> E.
>>
>>
>>
>> 
>> De: Frank Cazabon
>> Para: profox@leafe.com
>> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 11 de Agosto de 2010 15:38:52
>> Assunto: Re: Res: [NF] Windows Shell Explorer Hangs
>>
>> Hi Eurico,
>>
>> I don't understand what you are trying to tell me.
>>
>> Frank.
>>
>> Frank Cazabon
>> Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com
>>
>> Referrals are important to us.
>> If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please contact
me.
>> We
>> would appreciate the opportunity to work with them.
>>
>>
>> On 11/08/2010 02:29 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote:
>>> Hi Frank
>>>
>>> I run it, but chose NO to load windows restore point thing. It run 
>>> smooth and found nothing, witch was ok for that computer, XP SP3.
>>>
>>> E.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>> De: Frank Cazabon
>>> Para: profox@leafe.com
>>> Enviadas: Quarta-feira, 11 de Agosto de 2010 8:17:05
>>> Assunto: Re: [NF] Windows Shell Explorer Hangs
>>>
>>>  Thanks for clarifying Tracy, but none of these seem to be 
>>> picking up any problem, yet my problem still exists.  Actually I 
>>> have not run Combofix again, should I?
>>>
>>> Frank.
>>>
>>> Frank Cazabon
>>> Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com
>>>
>>> Referrals are important to us.
>>> If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please
contact me.
>>> We
>>> would appreciate the opportunity to work with them.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/08/2010 03:45 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote:
 Frank Cazabon wrote on 2010-08-10:
>   Hi Tracy,
>> Yes. They have decided to attack the advert farms since they have 
>> been less secure than the sites you log into. AdBlock is a nice plug
in.
>> Need to use a proxy type service for IE. http://www.privoxy.org/ 
>> is one such example.
>>
> I use adblock in FireFox, but have been using Opera more than 
> anything else.  I will see if there is something similar and I 
> don't use IE at all. .
>> As for your network systems and backups? Better safe than sorry 
>> is my thoughts.
>>
> What do you mean by that?  Do I dump my backups?  I hope not as 
> that will mean a lot of work lost.
>
> I have found some DVDs labelled Recovery DVD (1 to 3).  I hope 
> that will work.
>
> But, despite running combofix, I still have the symptoms.  Do I 
> need to keep running it until it finds nothing more and then use 
> the recovery dvds?
>
 Frank,

 I meant, use combofix/avg/avast/eset/malwarebytes (pick and choose 
 as you see fit) on all the systems.
 As for the backups. Use them with the knowledge your system may 
 have been compromised when those were created. They may be 
 perfectly clean. Restore them into a V

RE: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

[David Smith]

Combofix from bleepingcomputerdotCom will take care of it for you.

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Behalf Of Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2010 12:14 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Cc: profoxt...@leafe.com; Michael Madigan
Subject: Re: [NF] Picked up phony anti-virus extortion malware

  I use *http://www.malwarebytes.org/*  - the free version.  I update
manually daily.

-- *Charles* --
Website: TinyURL.com/EnzerMD 

"Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability"

William Osler, M.D.


On 8/11/2010 9:12 PM, Michael Madigan wrote:
> I picked up extortion malware at a well-known political blog.  I think I'm
safer surfing porno sites now.
>
> I still haven't found the solution yet.  I've tried compufix and it didn't
fix it.
>
> AVG did not detect it.
>
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RE: [NF] Is there a way to detect spy software?

[David Smith]

There's a program called 'Spycop' that should do the trick... custom made
for what you're describing. I've used older versions of the app and it has
done a nice job. 

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Behalf Of Paul Hill
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 7:00 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Is there a way to detect spy software?

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:33 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
 wrote:
> Paul Hill wrote:
>> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 7:19 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC
>>> Is there a way to determine if someone has installed this on a PC?
>>> Perhaps someone has installed it on my laptop to steal keystrokes.  I'm
>>> just wondering if there's a way to catch the thief or prove that
>>> something is capturing behind the scenes.
>>
>> How about a software firewall.  This will inform you of all outgoing
>> connections.
>> You whitelist apps that are OK.
>
> Good idea.  I had something awhile back but I can't recall the name of
> it.  I liked it initially, but later versions became very slow and
> seemingly problematic.
>
> What do you use?

I used to use Sygate firewall, but that seems to have been bought by
Symantec and incorprerated into their security suite.
I think others on this list use Sygate.

Recently I bought a Windows 7 laptop to replace my aging XP desktop
but I haven't looked into firewall software for this.

-- 
Paul

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RE: [NF] Couldn't upgrade to 10.04 last night

[David Smith]

I was able to grab it and load it up last night... got in into virtual
machine before I had to stop "playing around on the computer" and take out
the trash ;)

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Sent: Friday, April 30, 2010 6:43 AM
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Subject: [NF] Couldn't upgrade to 10.04 last night

Whole afternoon and part of the night trying to upgrade. No way. Must be
millions connected to those servers.
Will try again on the weekend.


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RE: [NF] Waste not

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http://web.archive.org/web/20070513090017/http://www.laptopsolutions.plc.uk/
solo_9300_assembly_disassembly.htm

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Subject: [NF] Waste not

Hi Everybody,

My Gateway Solo 9300 is having intermittent display blackouts.

I am guessing that the ribbon cable needs to be wiggled - perhaps even 
sprayed with contact cleaner, but I can't get to it. I am pretty sure I 
have taken out all the #1 Phillips screws that hold the case together. I 
have all the drives and the battery out as well as the memory slot door.

I found the little stick-on covers that hide the two screws near the top 
of the keyboard. I still can't get the cover to open. What am I overlooking?
-- 
Regards,

Pete
http://pete-theisen.com/
http://elect-pete-theisen.com/

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RE: [NF] Who owns a netbook, what do you have, and do you like it?

[David Smith]

http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download-netbook

check the compatibility list for your hardware first, but I've used this and
it's not bad at all :)

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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 12:05 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Who owns a netbook, what do you have, and do you like it?

I'm seriously considering a little *nix Netbook for the kitchen - just
something that will fire up really quickly to read emails and do
Facebook.
-- 
  Alan Bourke
  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm


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RE: Vista Internet Security 2010 virus

[David Smith]

... another quick approach to combating this virus... set up a Path Rule
that disallows the evil .exe from ever running. Go to control
panel>administrative tools> local security policy>software restriction
policies>additional rules>new Path rule. Hit the browse button and head for
the users ( or docs and settings )>user name>appdata>local folder, look for
a folder called 'werwerw' or similarly non-official looking, open it and
select the .exe file. Make sure the policy is set to 'disallow', hit apply,
okay, reboot. 

When it comes back up, your Pc will function normally, so at that point you
can use the app of your choice to remove the nastiness. I've used this
approach many times, and what's nice about it is that it's really quick and
easy, and doesn't require safe mode booting. You'll need to make sure your
folder options are checked for 'view hidden files' in order to see the
appdata folder. Hope it helps!

dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Pete Theisen
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:56 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Vista Internet Security 2010 virus

Michael Madigan wrote:
> Combofix was the ONLY program that removed a mass-mailing virus that had
infected my machine.  Now I use it FIRST.
> 
> Now I run it about once a week regardless whether I think I'm infected or
not.

Hi Michael,

Using only Linux, I never give it a thought.

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RE: Vista Internet Security 2010 virus

[David Smith]

" no hope otherwise" this is not true, there is hope. From LogMeIn you can
download autoruns ( I keep it on my ftp server in a zip file and then just
create an internet shortcut from the infected PC desktop to it) and remove
all traces of the malware from startup. Once you reboot and reconnect, you
can then run any number of apps ( my current favorite is the free
Malwarebytes product ) to eradicate the infection. I've done this at least
50 times across the thirty PC's I babysit for non technical friends and
charitable groups I serve. 

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Behalf Of Alan Bourke
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:12 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: Vista Internet Security 2010 virus



On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:15 -0600, "John Harvey"
 wrote:

> Malwarebytes and superantispyware may have to be renamed in order to run
> because the virus is looking for those names.

I had to LogMeIn to my brother's laptop in Boston last week, he'd
contracted a vicious little bastard of a malware infection that sounds
similar to this one. Continual fake anti-virus pop-ups, blocked from
running Task Manager, command prompts closed as soon as you started
them, all downloads blocked in IE, FF and Chrome ... really, really bad.
If I was in front of it with a Linux rescue CD I could have cleaned it
but no hope otherwise.

-- 
  Alan Bourke
  alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm


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RE: [NF] The iPad? For all you bleeding fanboys

[David Smith]

If it's like many Apple products, it will be much better by the third
release. I love the idea of reading magazines and newspapers in color, so
I'm interested but I'll wait for some revisions to come along. 

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Behalf Of Jean Laeremans
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 5:20 PM
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Subject: Re: [NF] The iPad? For all you bleeding fanboys

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Alan Bourke 
wrote:
> Tied to the App Store?
> No multi-tasking ?
> No support for Flash.
> No camera.
> Can't install, say, Linux on it?
>
> No sale. It's a big iPhone without the phone part  as far as I can see.
>
> --
>  Alan Bourke

Not interested

A+
jml

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RE: I can't believe this

[David Smith]

I've been on Win7 through all the testing and release, so it's a year +
experience w/ me. I like it a lot.

Improvements include:

Much better UAC controls
Significantly improved legacy driver and software support. Compatibility
mode actually works really well now. 
Really fast cold start -> useable desktop times.
Very stable.
Loads and runs well on old Pc's and laptops. The old Dell laptop w/ 512 ram
loaded right up and runs nicely.
I like the networking sharing features that ship with it, though they aren't
laid out as nicely as they could be.

Things that need improvement:

IE8 : It's okay until you add encounter the typical user with their 3-4
toolbars on it. IE8 doesn't handle 3rd party toolbars well. It also has
ridiculously restrictive security settings, and makes it next to impossible
to turn them off. Thank goodness for FF and Opera.

Ships with lots of unneeded things turned on by default. Not a huge
surprise, but it would be nice if they were off by default and the user
could choose what to turn on. 

Too many variations of the OS. Just my opinion, but I miss the days of a
uniform platform release with windows. 

Win7 holds the same 'this feels right' vibe for me that XP did back when it
launched. XP will hold on for a few more years, but Win7 is IMHO worthy of
the upgrade. 


-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:23 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: I can't believe this

That's the first comment Ive heard like that. VISTA was junk that looked
nice but was inferior in every other way. Win7 is vista look-alive but
performs like XP and with all the nice goodies and a pleasant interface.
This version of windows is actually as good as they claim.

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From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf
Of Paul Hill
Sent: Tuesday, 26 January 2010 6:25 PM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: I can't believe this

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Sytze de Boer  wrote:
> A client brought in a 2 year old vaio laptop
> >From cold boot to wordpad doc, 5 minutes
>
> Replaced the hard drive (80 gig ssd), installed Windows 7
>
> >From cold boot to wordpad doc, 23 secs.
> That included 9 secs for Bios start up
>
> Yeah ok, no other software installed yet (AV etc)
>
> I want one, NOW

You would probably find that XP would be just as fast with a fresh install.

I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now and to be honest I find
zero improvements over XP...

-- 
Paul

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RE: [NF] using inno setup 5.3.7. Error: 'Access denied'

[David Smith]

Crazy thought: Check the time and date on your PC. If the internal PC
battery is low the system will default to a date/time before the date of
your files. Just a guess..

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Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 1:37 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] using inno setup 5.3.7. Error: 'Access denied'

I have been using inno setup for more than one year with no problems. All of
a sudden, I am getting the error 'Access
denied'. I have not made any changes at all in my 'iss' files in many
months. There have been no changes in the
hardware. I don't see a log or other way to determine what is causing this?
Anyone have a starting point?


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From: "Sytze de Boer" 
To: 
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:08 PM
Subject: VFP9 - CtListbar


Is there anyone here who uses this control?
I bought the suite several years ago and now want to use the listbar control
I can't get it to work and display the background I want
But particularly, I can't seem to display the ITEMS I want
Age I guess
But I would really appreciate it if someone could guide me.
I guess a picture of your one with a screenshow of the Properties?

-- 
Regards
Sytze de Boer
Kiss Systems
Hamilton, NZ
Ph: 64-7-8391670, Mob:64 21 937611
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RE: VFP reference books in erader formats

[David Smith]

A good start! Thanks!

Dave

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Behalf Of Jeff Johnson
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:27 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: VFP reference books in erader formats

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/ offers books in electronic form.

Jeff

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David Smith wrote:
> I was curious if anyone knew of VFP reference materials that have been 
> published in epub format? I'm within a day or two of my new Sony 
> Ereader coming in and was looking forward to some shopping for coding 
> reference books to download. There is a smattering of this sort of 
> book in the sony ereader store, but the device can handle other 
> formats so If ePub is not there, I can do  pdf, word, txt and a couple 
> of other formats. Any decent repositories you may care to suggest? Thanks!
> 
>  
> 
> Dave


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VFP reference books in erader formats

[David Smith]

I was curious if anyone knew of VFP reference materials that have been
published in epub format? I'm within a day or two of my new Sony Ereader
coming in and was looking forward to some shopping for coding reference
books to download. There is a smattering of this sort of book in the sony
ereader store, but the device can handle other formats so If ePub is not
there, I can do  pdf, word, txt and a couple of other formats. Any decent
repositories you may care to suggest? Thanks!

 

Dave

 

David Smith

Systems Administrator

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RE: [NF]single board computer

[David Smith]

I see your point, but I use Fox-generated data in a variety of environments
and platforms, including Linux. Sorry if it was a bit of a stretch. 

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Pete Theisen
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 8:54 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF]single board computer

Allen wrote:

Hi Allen,

Well, [NF] and all . . .

You *can* get too sniffy . . .

> Did you post this to the right list, as in FoxPro running on windows list
?
> Al
> 
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> [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of David Smith
> Sent: 30 November 2009 17:10
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> Subject: RE: [NF]single board computer
> 
> I'm probably missing the point, but why not just get the complete 
> package with screen, QWERTY, wifi and more running Linux and ready for
Mono apps ?
--
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RE: [NF]single board computer

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I'm probably missing the point, but why not just get the complete package
with screen, QWERTY, wifi and more running Linux and ready for Mono apps ? 

ARMR CortexT-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
430-MHz TMS320C64x+T DSP Core
PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
Around 10+ Hours battery life

http://openpandora.org/


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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Pete Theisen
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:00 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF]single board computer

Jean Laeremans wrote:
> http://www.embeddware.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id
> =46:usb-powered-single-board-computer-with-laptop-performance&catid=42
> :beagleboard&Itemid=59

Hi Jean,

Interesting. However, it appears that it will be tethered to it's power
source. Unless I'm missing something, of course.
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Check out VFP on the Microsoft Store

[David Smith]

Nice to see it still has the juice to hit the front page of the developer
section ;)

 

http://store.microsoft.com/microsoft/Developer/category/6

 

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RE: [NF] Visual Studio Mono Plugin

[David Smith]

Thanks for sharing this... I've done some testing w/ Mono and was looking
forward to this release. 
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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Dave Crozier
Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 10:52 AM
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Subject: [NF] Visual Studio Mono Plugin

"Novell on Tuesday announced the release of Mono Tools for Visual Studio, a
Visual Studio 2008 add-in that enables Windows-based developers to create
.NET applications for Linux, Unix and Mac OS X. The solution promises to
greatly simplify cross-platform .NET development, by allowing Visual Studio
developers to use the same tooling, interface, libraries and resources for
cross-platform development that they use for traditional .NET coding."

http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2009/11/11/mono-tools-plug-in-for-v
isual-studio.aspx

or

http://tinyurl.com/ye9rhhv

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RE: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

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No argument from me on that one... I love the Apple hardware but not the
policies that govern it. I'm holding out hope that Android will get ported
to it eventually and I can have an unlocked, open source OS on that lovely
hardware. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:15 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

Depends on what you read in the reply I guess. For one thing leaving the
iPhoney open is stupid and more so if it says so in the manual. What I don't
like is apples attitude and monopolistic ways of saying you can't use
anything but apple software and threatening warranty as well. But I've never
been an apple fan for the same reason. And I hate my ipod its rubbish.
Al

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Sent: 10 November 2009 13:34
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Subject: RE: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

This really isn't accurate: " Apple's protection mechanisms". The worm does
go after jailbroken phones, 


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RE: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

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This really isn't accurate: " Apple's protection mechanisms". The worm does
go after jailbroken phones, but only the ones where the user ignored the
large, loud and obvious instructions to change the default password from
'alpine' to something else. So yes, there is some stupidity involved.
'Choice' is what you make of it. I've run XDA roms on my windows mobile
devices for years without incident as they give me superior control over the
device and open the door to really getting the most out of the hardware. I
really like the the IPhone is following along in the same path. This worm
just illustrates the old concept of RTFM when you're out there on the edge. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Allen
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:03 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

Yes stupidity for sure. Bit like having a windows or Linux server with no
password :) Al

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Behalf Of Ed Leafe
Sent: 10 November 2009 12:33
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Subject: Re: [NF] Worm attack bites at Apple iPhone

On Nov 10, 2009, at 3:40 AM, Allen wrote:

> Goes to prove if you want software choice, don't go to apple

Seems that "choice" is the culprit here (along with a healthy dose
of
stupidity):


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RE: Problem with Word 2K7 spell check on Vista machine

[David Smith]

There is another way... if you have the MS Office 2003 CD , pop it in, do a
custom install and check off 'office tools'. Be sure everything else is
unchecked! Once you install it, the spell checker returns. I ran into this
with my boss, who loves the MS MSN Explorer interface ( no, I don't get it
either ) and lost spell checking when we upgraded his office suite. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Nicholas Geti
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:32 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: Problem with Word 2K7 spell check on Vista machine

The original English spell checker has been removed in all versions of Word
after Office 2003. I ran into this with a client who has upgraded to Office
2007. The new spell checker was all French and wouldn't recognize any
English words. It kept popping up French recommendations. I found this was
by design and MS had no intention of fixing it.

You have to buy a 3rd party spell checker that works with Word.


- Original Message -
From: "MB Software Solutions General Account" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 4:24 PM
Subject: Problem with Word 2K7 spell check on Vista machine


> VFP9SP1
>
> Our classic app has used the following code for years for spell-checking,
> but it's not working for Word 2007 on Vista:
>
> *-
> local cObject, cX, cY
>
> cObject = this.Obj2Check
> if type('thisform.skipdeactivate') = "L"
> thisform.skipdeactivate = .T.
> endif
>
> This.oWord = NewObject("word.application")
>
> If !This.WordMissing
> With This.oWord
> .Documents.add
> cX = allt(This.Parent.&cObject..Value)
> *wait window cx
> .Selection.TypeText(cX)
>
> .Activedocument.CheckSpelling
> .Selection.WholeStory
>
> cY = allt(.Selection.Text)
> cY = iif(asc(right(cY,1)) = 13, left(cY, len(cY)-1), cY)
> if !empty(cX) and empty(cY)
> this.error(0,"Click",0)
> else
> if cX != cY
> This.Parent.&cObject..Value = .Selection.Text
> if type('Thisform.isediting') = "L"
> Thisform.isediting = .T.
> Thisform.SetEditbtn
> endif
> endif
> wait window nowait "Spell Check Complete"
> endif
> .ActiveDocument.Close(0)
> .Quit
> EndWith
> EndIf
>
> if type('thisform.skipdeactivate') = "L"
> thisform.skipdeactivate = .F.
> endif
>
> *-
>
> Ideas as to workaround/fix?  I'm juggling a bunch of things now so I just
> wanted to throw this out to the group to see what the experts say.  ;-)
>
> tia!
> --Mike
>
>
>
>
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RE: McAfee and Windows 7.0

[David Smith]

No problem w/ AVG free on Windows 7 professional for me... 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of John Weller
Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 12:55 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: McAfee and Windows 7.0

I will as soon as I have Windows 7 installed, I was just looking to save
myself some grief if there were any known problems.

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631  

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> From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com
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> Sent: 14 October 2009 17:48
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> 
> Download them and try.
> 



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RE: [NF] We're definitely maybe serious about data breach notification, yes, *definitely maybe*

[David Smith]

Prepare for more of this attitude, especially as things move more towards
cloud-based apps. While I personally feel that my personal data is something
I own and should control, that view is not shared by organizations that
store large amounts of client data. There is no apparent "ownership" on the
part of the client, and there is no option to not have your data exposed, so
this sort of situation is going to happen over and over and over again. Not
only in crime scenarios, but also profiling, marketing and whatever it is
the data holders feel is appropriate or profitable to do with the data. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Pete Theisen
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:21 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] We're definitely maybe serious about data breach notification,
yes, *definitely maybe*

Hi Everybody,

 From Health IT email:

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/Health-IT-Data-Breaches-No-Harm-No-F
oul-293398/

As an editor of SANS puts it:  "Ok... let me get this straight: I screw up
and let someone steal your data. Then *I* (an acknowledged screw-up) get to
decide if my screw-up poses any harm to you!?!? What could possibly go wrong
with that? Next up: rapists, murderers, and felons get to decide if they're
ready to be released from prison..."
--
Regards,

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RE: [NF] SysInternals release Disk2VHD

[David Smith]

This looks really great... thanks for the heads up!

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Alan Bourke
Sent: Friday, October 09, 2009 9:19 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] SysInternals release Disk2VHD

This is an awesome free tool. You can image your hard drive to a Virtual PC
.VHD disk image, even when you're using the disk. So you can make a copy of
your PC and run it in a VM.

And now that VirtualBox supports VHD (virtual hard disk) files  you can use
it with that, which I'd recommend since it's way better than Virtual PC. Or
convert it to the VDI format.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

--
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RE: [NF] What kind of idiot hosts a Windows 7 party?

[David Smith]

Try this... http://www.cabel.name/2009/09/windows-7-party.html

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Kurt Wendt
Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 9:04 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] What kind of idiot hosts a Windows 7 party?

Wish I could watch that Video - but, here at work - YouTube is blocked!

But - Michael - I TOTALLY agree with your Subject line!!!

:-)
-K-


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Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 2:07 AM
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Subject: [NF] What kind of idiot hosts a Windows 7 party? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ&feature=player_embedded#t=94


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RE: [NF] What kind of idiot hosts a Windows 7 party?

[David Smith]

Check out this version of it... it's hysterical :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyas7BrbUFY&feature=player_embedded

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Sent: Friday, September 25, 2009 2:07 AM
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Subject: [NF] What kind of idiot hosts a Windows 7 party?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ&feature=player_embedded#t=94


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RE: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

[David Smith]

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-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Paul Hill
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 5:10 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:55 PM, David Smith 
wrote:
> You can do a mobile site and redirect mobile visitors to it pretty 
> easily. A mobile website template is about $40 up on template Monster 
> that plays nice with Apple, Nokia, Symbian and WinMo devices. After 
> that, all you have to do is check the user agent string of the browser
coming in and you can "smell"
> if it's a mobile device and forward them to your mobile-friendly page 
> automatically. I did this  for my employer and it works well. The only 
> downside is I have to periodically go in and update the list. If you 
> go this route let me know and I'll shoot over my mobile browser string 
> list for you so you can save some time.

Hi Dave,

Any chance I can have a look at this string?  (or maybe post it here?)  We
have an webpage at work that needs to cater for mobile devices.
Currently we've tested it on Windows Mobile (3 or 4 devices) and the iPhone.
Both are OK after a few tweaks.

We still need to test Android

RE: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

[David Smith]

You can do a mobile site and redirect mobile visitors to it pretty easily. A
mobile website template is about $40 up on template Monster that plays nice
with Apple, Nokia, Symbian and WinMo devices. After that, all you have to do
is check the user agent string of the browser coming in and you can "smell"
if it's a mobile device and forward them to your mobile-friendly page
automatically. I did this  for my employer and it works well. The only
downside is I have to periodically go in and update the list. If you go this
route let me know and I'll shoot over my mobile browser string list for you
so you can save some time. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 3:58 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Pete Theisen 
wrote:
> Stephen Russell wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Alan Bourke 
wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:14 -0500, "Stephen Russell"
>>>  wrote:
>>>> It is a novell "app" with a pretty big price tag per developer.  :(
>>>>
>>>> 5 devs 3999. usd
>>>>
>>> Ow. And you also still have to run it on a Mac, which is more cost 
>>> if you don't have one.
>>> --
>> --
>>
>> I saw that on twitter as well the mac requirement.
>>
>> This just puts me back to making my own web site and having simple 
>> GUI designs for phone use and drop the whole iPhone App today.
>>
>>
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> That interests me. Is there a how-to out there for this? I am overdue 
> to re-do my website.
> --
--

I am confused here Pete.  iPhone apps and mono are not a web site.

I put in beginner books for Objective C and someone actually wrote a bare
bones dummies version.

<http://www.amazon.com/Objective-C-Dummies-Neal-Goldstein/dp/0470522755>

What made them pay someone to do it is what I wonder?

I would not recommending you redo your website this way Pete.


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RE: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

[David Smith]

... but is there a way to get your IPhone app out there w/o using the Apple
App store? Installation to non-jailbroken IPhones seems like the real hurdle
here. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 10:15 AM
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Subject: Re: [NF] iPhone dev tools for .NET now via mono

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Alan Bourke 
wrote:
> Link?
> --
--

<<http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/iphone-gets-net-app-development
-194>>

It is a novell "app" with a pretty big price tag per developer.  :(

5 devs 3999. usd

I guess that novell still has a bone to pick with M$ after all these years
;->
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RE: [NF] Is Web 2.0 slowing the Internet

[David Smith]

When I saw your post I was so relieved... I thought I was the only one who
noticed. As far as I'm concerned, "web 2.0" is another way of saying "pretty
looking crap that loads and runs slowly".  

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Nick Causton
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 7:19 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Is Web 2.0 slowing the Internet

Over the past six months or so I have had more and more customers
complaining that their ADSL lines are getting slow, I have also noticed how
many websites seem to have slowed down a lot recently.  I then decided to
start leaving Task manager open to see how much CPU Internet Explorer was
using up.

Wow, some websites seem to be running massive amounts of code in the
background causing my machine to sit at 100% CPU for a minute or two until
it is finished.  What is going on, is this all down to every Webmaster
getting on the Web 2.0 bandwagon.  If so is there any way of switching this
rubbish of or are we stuck with just avoiding any websites which seem to
cause this.

Has anyone else noticed this general slowdown recently?

Nick



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RE: [NF] Win7 RTM driver issues?

[David Smith]

Have you tried installing under compatibility mode? Unlike Vista, the one in
W7 works pretty well.

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
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Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 10:25 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Win7 RTM driver issues?

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Jim Harvey wrote:
> The owner of a local computer shop told me said that the Win 7 RC was 
> great, but the RTM was causing driver issues.  He said this was 
> similar to his experience with Vista, and he was concerned if the same 
> scenario was going to occur with Win 7.
>
> Has anyone heard this elsewhere?


Into only 2 weeeks straight of Win7 and find only earlier installers that
will not function because of the "new" version.  It was written with XP &
Vista and not aware of Win7, so installing it the OS says you cannot use
this at this time.

My video drivers are fine and that was the problem with Vista.  The install
also finds all of the other stuff like audio, web cams, wireless and all of
that came in no problem.

I do have an issue with my DVD burner in that the SW that came with my Vista
box will not burn a BOOTABLE iso image.  It use to no problem.


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RE: [NF] Win7 RTM driver issues?

[David Smith]

I've not experienced this... my only complaint thus far is MS has retired
some of the old ( 7+ year ) printer drivers I use from their list, so I've
had to go and get them. Otherwise it has been pretty good. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Harvey
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 9:50 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Win7 RTM driver issues?

The owner of a local computer shop told me said that the Win 7 RC was great,
but the RTM was causing driver issues.  He said this was similar to his
experience with Vista, and he was concerned if the same scenario was going
to occur with Win 7.

Has anyone heard this elsewhere?


James E Harvey
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
M.I.S./Corresponding Officer
Off: 717-637-8931
fax: 717-637-6766
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RE: [NF] Win7 annoyances, seem a little petty to me.

[David Smith]

" The reality of it is that most organizations idea of "training" is to have
the last person who did that job teach the next one...", usually with a 2
hour + powerpoint presentation :)

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Ken Kixmoeller/fh
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:59 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Win7 annoyances, seem a little petty to me.


On Aug 26, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Paul McNett wrote:

> Hmm, maybe users get confused because they can't tell the difference 
> between pdf files and word files because essential things that would 
> build knowledge are hidden from them. Like file extensions.

 Good point. But the subtle concept of "extensions" eludes most.  
They do get a different icon ("picture") for it, though, even if they can't
see the extension. One would think that the picture concept would open some
brain cells (but there is a big assumption in that statement ).

The reality of it is that most organizations idea of "training" is to have
the last person who did that job teach the next one. The result is that none
of them know much of anything at all.

Ken


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RE: [NF] Win7 annoyances, seem a little petty to me.

[David Smith]

I'm not sure why there's so much angst over a few simple clicks in the
default folder views for Windows 7. Everything you want ( details view,
extensions, and so on) are all right there. Unlike their introduction of the
Office Ribbon, they have not removed choice this time, they've just done
what they've been doing since what... windows 2000? Is this really a
surprise they'd carry it to win 7? I understand why MS keeps it simple for
the non-professional, I think it makes sense to warn the newbies that if
they blindly muck about in the windows folder, they are likely going to
break something important. Having broken it so badly I've had to reload the
OS at least a dozen times while learning what made it tick, I sure wish
Ubuntu would have waved a flag at me and say " Yo! Dummy! Be careful in
here!".

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:51 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Win7 annoyances, seem a little petty to me.

Hi Paul,

> totally frakking ridiculous when looking at files in Windows 
> *Explorer*

On my normal user account I've left things the way Microsoft set them up
after a brief period of testing other settings. It's much easier to work
with Windows when I don't see folders that I don't need for my daily work,
such as AppData, etc. What's important: Documents is available, Network is
available, and Windows finds most programs in the start menu, so no need to
browse extensively around, either. 

I found I mostly need to access these hidden files for administrative tasks.
For those I use a different file manager (FAR Manager), because Explorer
isn't suited well. I also have a different user account (Administrator) with
appropriate settings. I don't perform administrative tasks all the time,
though.

> or Terminal. 

The command prompt hasn't changed, files still show with extension and DIR
/AHD shows hidden files.


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RE: [NF] M$ Update: "Genuine Advantage"

[David Smith]

If you've already downloaded it, grab the Sysinternals Autoruns program, run
it, and under the winlogon area right click on it and delete it. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of MB Software Solutions, LLC
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 12:14 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] M$ Update: "Genuine Advantage"

Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote:
> Hey - -- --  -
> 
> I got the usual Tuesday M$ security updates notice on my "just for 
> testing" Vista machine. One update gave me pause. Anybody know what 
> the "Office Genuine Advantage Notifications" are? Sure doesn't sound 
> like security or something (as M$ marked it) "Important" to me.
> 
> Clues for the Clueless, anyone? Anyone?
> 
> Thanks -- - -- - Ken


After getting several "Genuine Advantage" updates after I had already given
an initial 1 or 2 OKs for that, I learned to never give them permission for
that ever again.  They burned that bridge of trust.

--
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RE: [NF] 25 Years of PowerPoint...

[David Smith]

Amen to that! I find powerpoint to typically be a shield for people who
don't know their product to hide behind, and almost nothing in the world
slows down a meeting like some well intentioned idiots decision that
everyone would benefit from a slideshow to reinforce what they are telling
me. There have been many, many reps that I have completely thrown off their
game by telling them they may not show me their PP presentation, but rather
sit with me and tell me about their services, let me ask questions, and so
on. PP is a crutch that a professional doesn't need.

Dave

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-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 11:25 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] 25 Years of PowerPoint...

The biggest waste of time on the face of the earth is a PowerPoint
presentation.  Totally worthless.


--- On Wed, 8/19/09, Ted Roche  wrote:

> From: Ted Roche 
> Subject: [NF] 25 Years of PowerPoint...
> To: profox@leafe.com
> Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009, 10:24 PM ... sounds like a Geneva 
> Convention violation to me, but it's a cute article on the BBS on the 
> quarter-century anniversary:
> 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8207849.stm
> 
> --
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
> http://www.tedroche.com
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RE: Design flaws

[David Smith]

Judging from what I saw last night, your apps have a pretty high snore
factor when it comes to the user interfaces :) < as our hero takes a shot
and dives behind some crates >

Dave

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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:07 AM
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Subject: RE: Design flaws



 
> 
> OK I know your are all like this.
> 
> <http://twittch.com/26/>
> 
> 

Actually some of my forms are relatively busy, but at least they are laid
out with some visual balance.  Shame we are using ASCII for our ProFox
emails, otherwise I would embed a ScreenShot of my flagship app so you could
see for yourself how "interesting" my apps can look ...  Count yourself
lucky, heh-heh...


Gil




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RE: [NF] New Phone recomendations

[David Smith]

Okay, I know I'm going to get slaughtered, but how about Windows Mobile? I
run WM 6.5 on a Samsung i910 ( a.k.a. Verizon Omnia ) and it's awesome.
Every hardware feature the IPhone has, the Omnia has, plus I can and do
write code for it right from the comfort of Visual Studio. Is WM as good as
the IPhone OS, heck no! It's still Windows. But it aint all bad either. I'd
humbly suggest it's worth at least looking at. 

Dave

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Behalf Of Paul Hill
Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:35 PM
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 3:40 PM, John wrote:
> Do what I did. Get the Iphone from AT&T with a 2 year contract (you're 
> going to have to have phone service anyway)it costs $200.00. If you go 
> that route, make sure to upgrade to the latest os. I love my iphone. 
> It has google maps w/ iphone gps built right in. I used it when I was 
> in San Diego, walking around, and never got lost. The Blackberry is 
> more for people who are email driven.

The iPhone is very swish but the main problem I have with it is that it's
*huge*.

Phones 10 years ago were smaller.

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RE: [NF] Silverlight

[David Smith]

Tis true! I am getting into it a bit ... It reminds me a lot of MS Frontpage
when it first hit the market. Loads of potential, but a few rough edges
around the outside. I'm in the "legos" stage now, where I learn a simple
technique, document the heck out of it, and then stick it in the library.
Once I get enough blocks, I start building with them. Silverlight 3 is
enticing for me as I can program once and use it for the desktop and for the
web. I'm using C# for code-behind now, and it's all XAML up front. 
They've done a nice job with Expression Blend, the GUI toolset. It has fair
depth and does a nice job reducing the amount of code you have to write for
simple apps and animations, especially if you add in some of the extras and
toolkits that are up on the Silverlight website. Most of these include
source code as well, so it has been a great learning experience thus far:
I've used the "legos" to build a simple media player, twitter tool, photo
carousels, and some basic animations. If you decide to check it out, please
let me know if I can help you out if you get stuck on something.  

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
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Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 2:09 PM
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Subject: RE: [NF] Silverlight

David Smith (who does contribute to ProFox) has been working with it, and
likes it (still learning, he says).

Gil

> -Original Message-
> From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech- 
> boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 1:53 PM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: RE: [NF] Silverlight
> 
> Anyone doing anything with Silverlight and C#?
> 
> John Harvey
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [NF] HTML GUI editing software

[David Smith]

Probably the easiest way would be for them to use MS Office Publisher to
build their site. It has many pretty canned themes and is similar enough for
most folks who've used Word to feel comfortable. Just have them save to HTML
and taa daa! A decent looking, simple website. 

Dave

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Behalf Of Kenneth Kixmoeller
Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 3:00 PM
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Subject: [NF] HTML GUI editing software

Hey, folks - - - -

I have a number of Web clients who are smart enough to do their own
maintenance and updating of their web sites, but for whom DreamWeaver or
other big-ticket GUI web design program would be overkill.

Anybody recommend a less expensive alternative, designed for smarter-
than-a-"user"-but-not-a-geek users?

Ken


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RE: [ADMIN] 10 years of ProFox

[David Smith]

I second that notion, and add my sincerest thanks for allow us
wet-behind-the-ears youngsters in as well :)

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 12:00 PM
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for the past decade of providing a forum
where we can exchange ideas, insights, questions, barbs at times, and
develop open lines of communication in an effort to develop solutions for
our employers and clients.  Indeed this has been a Top Shelf service, borne
upon the wings of professional passion.


Gil

 
 
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> -Original Message-
> From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech- 
> boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:00 AM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: [ADMIN] 10 years of ProFox
> 
>   Exactly 30 years and 2 days after the first moonwalk, ProFox was
> created:
> 
> http://leafe.com/archives/showMsg/1
> 
>   In that first decade there have been 324,157 messages posted, with
> 224,523 of them being on-topic. All, of course, are still available in 
> the searchable online archive.
> 
>   A lot has changed in these 10 years: personally, I went from 100% of

> my income and professional focus on Visual FoxPro to 0% - quite a 
> significant change! But although I may have moved on, I still feel a 
> strong connection to this great Fox community.
> 
>   Here's to the next decade!
> 
> 
> -- Ed Leafe
> 
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [NF] I like the simplicity of this site.

[David Smith]

Lol! LOVE IT! Just please don't tell my website clients about it... they
love flash!

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Subject: [NF] I like the simplicity of this site.

<http://www.doineedaflashintro.com/>


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RE: FF Download velocity

[David Smith]

This page did not render properly in IE 8... LOL! Coincidence?? :)

Dave

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Subject: FF Download velocity

<http://downloadstats.mozilla.com/>

I like that display.  Land being blue and the water of earth being gray.
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[NF] need advice regarding Honesty vs. Brutal honesty with clients

[David Smith]

Hi Foxers . I was hoping for some advice regarding exactly how honest is too
honest when it comes to working with clients. My situation: I did a website
and programmed some custom software for my leading client. Everything is
great, everyone is happy. Over the next few months I see a subtle uptick in
dissatisfaction as the tool they commissioned is being ignored by its
intended users, and an increasing amount of vague, non-specific gripes about
the site. Ignoring the fact the tools work perfectly and the site traffic
has more than doubled from their previous efforts, I find myself in a
somewhat frustrating position. What I'd really like to do is say " Hey
dummies, why not invest your time in looking for ways to leverage these
investments for you instead of grumbling in the corner over problems your
own policies created and you could easily change?". except maybe a little
nicer. Those who know me well understand I have a bad, bad habit of telling
the blunt version of the truth when I see it .  Obviously I want to keep my
highest revenue generating client, and want to keep them happy. At the same
time my tolerance for dealing with idiocy is wearing thin, and quite
frankly, I really don't want to just rip them off by doing projects that
don't address their real problems just to make more money.  Advice
gratefully welcomed and sincerely appreciated as I suspect over time I will
run into this again and again. 

 

Dave

 

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RE: [NF] the end of Symantec?

[David Smith]

I was part of the beta tester chat on this one and actively beta tested its
predecessor OneCare. There are some 'gotchas' to be aware of with the
application if you want to check it out. 
It takes over UAC settings on the PC. Yes, you can tweak them, but 'off' and
'minimal' are not options. The app communicates a lot with the MS
mothership, so your exposure is increased. You get automatically signed up
for MS updates / Office updates with the 'download and install
automatically' defaulted. Direct beta testers have noticed issues with
Explorer.exe hanging more frequently and some performance hits overall. As
much as I aggressively loath the consumer level Symantec products, I'd say
they can rest easy.  

Dave

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Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 8:01 PM
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Subject: Re: [NF] the end of Symantec?


Not the chicks you want to spend your life with.


*
Join the OBAMA RESISTANCE MOVEMENT!

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> From: Pete Theisen 
> Subject: Re: [NF] the end of Symantec?
> To: "ProFox Email List" 
> Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 7:23 PM gil hale wrote:
> > Free at what cost?  If it fails to work as well
> as Symantec's AV solutions, who pays (dollars or time)?  M$, or the 
> hapless victim who was foolish to think that somehow this time for 
> sure M$ actually got it right?  My money is not on M$ to provide a 
> thorough solution.
> > 
> > Gil
> 
> Hi Gil,
> 
> Chicks still dig a guy worth over a billion.
> 
> --
> Regards,
> 
> Pete
> http://pete-theisen.com/
> http://elect-pete-theisen.com/
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RE: [NF] 15 Classic PC Design Mistakes

[David Smith]

My very first 'real' computer was the TI-99/4A. I remember poking the
keyboard marveling at keyboard with what seemed like really tall keys. My
very first code was written on that machine... ah, sweet memories :)

Dave

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Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 6:56 AM
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Subject: [NF] 15 Classic PC Design Mistakes

http://technologizer.com/2009/06/14/fifteen-classic-pc-design-mistakes/

Ah, the Coleco Adam ...
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RE: [NF] Are you asked to create best practice documents for clients?

[David Smith]

I'm likely being really naïve here, but the whole 'best practices' thing
really turns me off. I can understand if a company doesn't have experienced
IT folks and needs something to help them get a complicated device like a
server up, running and protected than a BP doc could be really handy.
Usually though I see it used more as a weapon than a tool, often by
'outsiders' who don't appreciate the intricacies of what's going on 'inside'
in terms of budget constraints, oddball requirements, legacy software
requirements and so on. The BP's I've read assume a level of equipment and a
willingness to invest in IT infrastructure that is frighteningly out of
touch with reality. A BP doc often comes off like a sales pitch instead of
useful IT guidance. I'm not saying a BP is a bad thing; I guess I just
haven't seen enough of the good ones... Maybe it's just me :) 

Dave

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Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 6:15 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Are you asked to create best practice documents for clients?

And in that describe exactly what you do so you can get replaced?

I now have a Best Practice for each Sql Server I am overseeing.  Well
12 are started, tomorrow we go over DR, BU and possible Recovery from BU.

I have to explain how to set up mail by server type, define spindles in a
server setup and backup plans for the server.  Disaster recovery plans etc.
Current doc is just into seventh page for a single server.
 This is an easier server because it is only 2000 and not 2005.

Do you generally have these documents to do or do you not go this far into
it?  This is all per customer demand that document what they have and
identify what they don't.  They had an oh shit moment and brought me in
after the customer went rip shit.

Since then I have been documenting how to do it properly.

It is funny because there is a unique story with each of our clients and how
it is done "there."



;->

__Stephen


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RE: [NF] Looking for a web site for a end user

[David Smith]

I frequently set up small websites all three of these features are available
as built in options with the hosting plans, though sometimes you'll get
wacked a few extra bananas for them in the monthly fees. Check out Network
Solutions or GoDaddy to get a feel for costs and then do some comparison
shopping. 

Dave

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Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 3:47 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Looking for a web site for a end user


I have a potential client that wants to set up a website that will have


1.  A user forum

2.  a signup form to accept paypal money

3.  ability to add advertising and/or blogging.


This system is for a Multi-level marketing company that he is starting.  


Are there any turn-key systems for a novice to use?  I will set it up for
him, but he will do the blogging, set up the advertising, set up information
pages, FAQs, Marketing information, etc.

This may sound like a lot to ask, but does anyone actually setup a framework
like this for the end user who doesn't know anything about programming or
HTML?

Mike

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RE: [NF] Code review anyone?

[David Smith]

I wish they'd do this for the voting machines!

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Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 1:25 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Code review anyone?

What if you are ordered by the courts?

<http://www.dwi.com/new-jersey/state-v-chun>



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RE: [NF] Laptop Recommendations

[David Smith]

My vote right now is for Acer. My daughter's Acer survived overheating,
spilled soft drinks, cheetos dust, getting slammed around in the back of her
car, numerous drops ( including one really exciting down the stairs roll I
got to witness first hand) and all the other torture and neglect a high
school girl can inflict on hardware. The only thing I've had to replace is
the power adapter, which was covered under warranty and shipped to my home
in under three days. My girl has moved on to a college-level HP and my bride
now uses the Acer as her sofa-surfer. 

Dave

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Behalf Of Gilbert M. Hale
Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:55 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: RE: [NF] Laptop Recommendations

Well, I have never had an IBM laptop fail for me, so they must be best.  Oh,
wait a minute, I never owned an IBM laptop (or the Chinese company that the
bush (non)administration allowed to purchase the IBM laptop business).  So
maybe that is why I never had one that failed...

Seriously, my best laptops were Sony Vaio units, although I had one Compaq
Presario laptop that my daughter still uses to this day (and hates to think
she would have to replace it any time soon), and several HP laptops,
including my current ze2000 that runs 2Gb RAM and a 160Gb hard drive (both
upgrades I installed).  Runs great with XP Pro and Linux 8.10 Desktop 32 bit
OS.  Never a problem with any of them.

Gil

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> boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of John
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 8:47 AM
> To: profoxt...@leafe.com
> Subject: RE: [NF] Laptop Recommendations
> 
> Hmm, you've had 2 of those. I've had 5 Acers, so that means Acer is 
> the best!
> 
> John Harvey
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On 
> Behalf Of Stephen Weeks
> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 5:39 AM
> To: profox@leafe.com
> Subject: Re: [NF] Laptop Recommendations
> 
> 
> I've had my share of laptops HP, IBM etc. but the Toshiba Satellite 
> Pro is the king of laptops, I'm on my second one ,the first one was 
> totalled in a car crash, I was driving, not the laptop:)
> 
> Regards
> Steve
> --
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>   stephenwe...@fastmail.fm
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> 
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RE: [NF] Windows 7

[David Smith]

I took the plunge and did a clean install on my Gateway laptop. It found all
the hardware except one device ( vista couldn't find 6 of them ), it boots a
solid 15 seconds faster than Vista and shutsdown more quickly as well. It
looks like they ironed out the sleep-mode bug that plagues Vista as well. 

The UI is cleaner, though in typical MS fashion they attempt to force-feed
certain changes to you if anyone wants to learn how to turn quick launch
back on just let me know.  UAC is still there but can be tweaked so it is
far, far less irritating than in Vista. XP mode is IMHO more of a marketing
ploy than serious code, as the system compatibility tool is really effective
so far. No problem running dev tools like VS2008, VFP, Flash and so on ...
so far, it's stable, fast and fun to explore. I'd say it's worth a look.

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Grigore Dolghin
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 12:41 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Windows 7

I've installed the RC last evening, in a VMWare virtual machine. The laptop
has vista ultimate and 4 gb RAM. I gave 2 GBs to windows 7 and started the
setup. Well it has finished in about 15 minutes. The shutdown process
takes just 10 seconds. Startup takes about 20 seconds. It's blazingly fast
(yeah, I know it sounds biased but what the heck, in my oppinion Windows7 is
the best windows so far). Can't wait to have the RTM build and use it daily.
It's way faster than vista.

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RE: [NF] Joke (yes, it's computer-related!

[David Smith]

Love it! :)

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 2:50 PM
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Subject: [NF] Joke (yes, it's computer-related!

An SQL query walks into a bar. He approaches two tables and says, 'Mind if I
join you?'


-- Ed Leafe




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RE: [NF] XP system forgot how to handle an Internet Shortcut

[David Smith]

Just for giggles take a look at the assignment of the file type... open a
folder>click view>folder options>file types> scroll down to htm and html.
You never know, maybe it's set to something odd or was somehow deleted.

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Paul McNett
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 11:35 AM
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Subject: Re: [NF] XP system forgot how to handle an Internet Shortcut

Joe Yoder wrote:
> I have an XP box that reports: "Windows cannot open this file:" " File:
> www.google.com/" when I click on a desktop shortcut for Google.
> 
> It appears Windows has forgotten how to handle an internet shortcut.  
> It does handle other types of shortcuts without a problem.  Can 
> someone tell me how to run this down?

It is probably a recent update designed to protect your security with no
thought to you. Microsoft believes you are stupid and can't handle managing
your own shortcuts, much less your own computer.

Or, the OS is so poorly designed that it can't seem to prevent bogus
shortcuts from magically appearing on your desktop.

Either way, your operating system isn't working for you.

Of course, I'm kind of biased after using Ubuntu Linux for years.

Cheers!
Paul


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RE: [NF] Senate Bill could put restrictions on Internet Freedom

[David Smith]

My observation is that the government fears anything it can't control, and
at this point in the game they certainly can't control the internet. This
whole concept of enforcing some sort of 'cybersecurity' ( I'm giggling even
as I write that, what is this, 1990? ) smells like fear to me. 

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 1:00 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Senate Bill could put restrictions on Internet Freedom


Next they will want to change a huge yearly licensing fee for IT
professionals.   Another way for the government to make money.

--- On Wed, 4/22/09, MB Software Solutions General Account
 wrote:

> From: MB Software Solutions General Account 
> 
> Subject: Re: [NF] Senate Bill could put restrictions on Internet 
> Freedom
> To: "ProFox Email List" 
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 2009, 12:21 AM Michael Madigan wrote:
> > http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/21/proposed-heavy-restrictio
> > ns-internet-freedoms/
> >
> >
> > "The bill would allow the government to create a
> detailed set of
> standards for cybersecurity, as well as take over the process of 
> certifying IT technicians. But many in the technology sector say the 
> government is simply ill-equipped to get involved at the technical 
> level, said Franck Journoud, a policy analyst with the Business 
> Software Alliance."
> 
> 
> Business Software Alliance?  Aren't these the hired henchmen from 
> Microsoft who caused such a stink with licensing?
> 
> As for certifying IT technicians, see past archive for threads about 
> paper certs not being worth squat due to way they're taught (via
> braindump) and then of course there's vendor bias. However, there are 
> definitely folks out there masquerading as IT professionals who really 
> aren't as qualified as they should be.  Not sure if that's why you 
> have so many blown/busted projects, thoughbecause those are 
> usually from HUGE IT companies who certainly would only hire talented 
> staff (...right?).
> 
> --
> Mike Babcock, MCP
> MB Software Solutions, LLC
> President, Chief Software Architect
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> http://twitter.com/mbabcock16
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RE: [NF] Acer vs AVG

[David Smith]

Great tip! Thanks!

Dave

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From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 11:08 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Acer vs AVG


Thanks for the heads uo.


 


--- On Tue, 4/21/09, John Weller  wrote:

> From: John Weller 
> Subject: [NF] Acer vs AVG
> To: profox@leafe.com
> Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 5:42 AM I've just had a very 
> frustrating day!  My wife's new machine, an Acer, would boot up then 
> briefly show a blue screen with the error message 'Page Fault in 
> Non-Paged Area' followed by a re-boot then the same BSOD again.  I 
> tried various things then called Acer support in UK for help.  I was 
> very impressed with them.  The guy I spoke to did some ferreting 
> around and told me that the problem was a conflict between an Acer 
> supplied application, eLock, and AVG.  He recommended removing eLock 
> using Control Panel which I did and cured the problem.
> 
> I offer this nugget in the hopes it might prevent others having 
> similar frustrations!!  I think the conflict only occurs with some 
> updates of AVG.
> 
> 
> John Weller
> 01380 723235
> 07976 393631
> 
> 
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RE: [NF] linux for the damned

[David Smith]

Any website that opens with a 20 year old Iron Maiden quote can't be all bad
:)

Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 6:24 PM
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Subject: [NF] linux for the damned

http://ubuntusatanic.org/
 

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RE: [NF] Dual display control options

[David Smith]

I recently set this sort of thing up here at the autodealership I work for.
I ended up with a small PC connected to a 32 inch monitor. The PC is part of
my Log Me In computer group, so I can remotely view the output. This works
well. In this case the PC in question is reading an HTML page located on a
shared network drive. To prep I disabled the screensaver,  adjusted the
power savings settings so the drive, screen and lan card never turn off, and
I wrote a little script to force a reboot once a day and relaunch the page.
Works great.  

Dave

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Behalf Of Joe Yoder
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:58 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Dual display control options

I have a client who wants to use a 24 inch LCD screen as a public
announcement/display board.  The displayed information will probably be from
an unattended slide show or Power Point presentation.  The screen will be
located on the outside of the receptionist's office wall and could be driven
from and controlled  by the receptionist's computer.  It is possible to use
the dual screen support built in to XP to have the large screen display one
thing while the receptionist uses the smaller screen for normal office work.
The problems with this approach include the likelihood of the contents of
the two screens getting intertwined and the lack of a simple way for the
receptionist to see what is displaying on the large screen without leaving
her office to actually view it.  Another approach would be to setup a second
PC just to drive the large screen and use some kind of remote control
software to monitor and control it. 
 
Any advice or leads in dealing this situation would be welcome.  TIA - Joe
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RE: [NF] How to diagnose and defeat the dangerous Conficker worm

[David Smith]

What opens a 'wap2' extension? 

Dave

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Behalf Of m...@mikewohlrab.com
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:32 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] How to diagnose and defeat the dangerous Conficker worm


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To: pr...@leafe.com
ReplyTo: Mike Wohlrab
Subject: [Nf] How to diagnose and defeat the dangerous Conficker worm
Sent: Mar 27, 2009 11:27 AM

Link on how to remove conflikter. Software by enigma.

http://m.usatoday.com/Tech/218066/full/;jsessionid=784A3DEABFAA6635633F4826C
F6850B4.wap2
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RE: [NF] Do you do pro bono work?

[David Smith]

I believe in pro bono work, but with limits and at the cost of my
occasionally pressing an agenda on them. A few examples: I do maintenance on
the PC's at my mother's church, but do so while promoting the use of free or
open source tools and software ( linux, open office, and so on ). The idea
is that my time and expertise are free, but they need to foot the bill if
they want commercial products because "that's what they're used to at home".
Another example: I'm putting together a website for my brother who is an
attorney, but am forcing him to have his ideas in place, his content
reasonably fleshed out, and otherwise have his act together BEFORE I get 20
hours in on it and He changes his mind. It surprises me how often people
fall in love with the idea of something but don't want to take it seriously
enough to actually make an effort at preparedness. 

All that being said, the pro bono work has had some real benefits for me as
a testing ground for new techniques or approaches, as a way to get my name
out there, and as a way to gain experience working with people. The work has
led to a few smaller paying gigs as well. At this point pro bono work is
accepted primarily on two things: how much free time ( ha! ) do I have to
work on it and deliver a solid product, and are the people asking willing to
do their homework. 

Dave

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Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 10:11 AM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] Do you do pro bono work?

Here is blog on one guys thoughts on the matter.

<http://boagworld.com/personal/never_work_for_free/>


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RE: Stupid law of the year goes to congressman Peter King (R) New York

[David Smith]

I view this sort of legislation as pandering to the fear-crowd. I can
forgive the representative for not realizing things like a camera tone can
be turned off via hacks in about 2 seconds, but I have a hard time
understanding why someone in his office didn't mention to him that there are
more important things to be concerned with. 

Dave

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Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:26 PM
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Subject: RE: Stupid law of the year goes to congressman Peter King (R) New
York

The problem with such laws (and we are just as likely to follow suit) is
that the only people who will circumvent it are the people who would misuse
them anyhow. Its not really a breach of any basic principle to ban silent
cameras but it is however an exercise in futility and stupidity.

-Original Message-
From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf
Of Paul Hill
Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 8:50 AM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: Stupid law of the year goes to congressman Peter King (R) New
York

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Michael Madigan 
wrote:
> The Camera Phone Predator alert act.
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10150671-1.html

What's up Mike?  Worried you'll have to give up your voyeuristic activities
:-)

In parts of Asia (Japan?) this is already law.  I'm sure it's easy to
circumnavigate with a firmware fix or a pair of wire cutters...

--
Paul

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RE: [NF] DV Editing laptop recommendations

[David Smith]

My experience here at work is that for the transfer of video files and
subsequent writing to a DVD/ CD that laptop or PC specs don't matter much as
it's tied to the capabilities of the USB port ( or in your case, FireWire )
for incoming data, and for the speed of the drive for the writing. Encoding
video is a different animal. If you're encoding or transcoding video files
my suggestion is go for more RAM , minimum 2GB's, if you're going to be
using Pinnacle or the other higher end suites for editing and encoding. I
honestly don't know if any of the software out there has been written to
take advantage of dual core chips yet, but a higher end processor certainly
won't hurt. If you happen to need a really capable, free video format
converter for windows I would suggest the Prism converter,
http://www.nchsoftware.com/prism/


Dave

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-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Jim Harvey
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 2:48 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: [NF] DV Editing laptop recommendations

I'm thinking about replacing my old desktop pc with a new laptop, and I want
to be able to create/edit/burn dvd's from my DV camera.

The camera I have is a few years old (Sony) and has a "Firewire" connection.
Not sure what the newer cameras are using to transfer videos, I see some use
Flashdrives?

Any recommendations as to what laptops can handle this, if any...

James E Harvey
Hanover Shoe Farms, Inc.
M.I.S./Corresponding Officer
Off: 717-637-8931
fax: 717-637-6766
email: jhar...@hanoverpa.com


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[NF] Happy holidays from your friends at Norton antivirus

[David Smith]

As dictated in the fine print of my contract as the local friendly
neighborhood computer geek ,this time of year I get inundated with
everyone's new PC's and laptops they received for the holidays.  I take the
machines, clean out the bloatware , make them more user friendly and hand
them back to their excited owners. Along the way I inevitably run across a
preinstalled Norton product, which this year I decided I would try to take
the time to learn the interface, set it up properly and really give it a
chance; based primarily on Gil's love and unwavering faith in the product
line. Well, after almost an hour inside the interface, I surrender. it ( the
360 product) getting uninstalled and going right back into the Hate-bin, and
I'm picking up the "Norton's blows really, really hard" flag once again.
Here's why:

 

No access to fine tune settings whatsoever.

No control panel

No ability to set up and save custom scans

No ability to turn down the notifications

Pop up city from the task bar with nags  ( note to developers: silent
programs = good programs )

Unclean uninstall. this crap left half a dozen start up elements I had to
manually remove via autoruns.

Intrusive behavior in internet explorer, and the shell. 

Doesn't ask permission to do things; it just does them.

Spam. I registered under one of my hotmail accounts and despite every opt-in
being unchecked, I received *8* emails in less than 20 minutes from them.

The general vibe from the software that they know better than I do as to
what is "safe" for my PC.

 

Now, I'm sure all these things could be addressed somehow, but at this point
why bother? Is it really too much to ask to make these sort of adjustments
available ( and easily available ) to those of us who want them? Do they
really have to be hidden? The really sad part of all of this is that it's
very likely it's a great product that would do a fine job, but the
combination of everything above has not only earned it 'insta-delete'
status, but has cost Norton's around 40-50 new licenses as people tend to
buy what I recommend to them. It's a shame. Adios Norton 360, maybe next
year.

 

Dave

 

David Smith

Systems Administrator

Doan Family of Dealerships

(585) 352-6600 ext.1730

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RE: Season's Greetings

[David Smith]

Don't let him fool you Foxers! His partner is secretly shopping photos of
Gil in a big Santa suit to all the tabloids... :)

All the best to everyone here this holiday season!

Dave

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-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Gil Hale
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 1:05 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Season's Greetings

Yep, this is The Scrooge.  I do not do the Xmas thing (get the DVD on
"Unwrapping Christmas" for a brief history of this tainted holiday), but I
do like having a certain time of year to say howdy to folks.  So:

"Howdy Folks!  I hope y'all have a nice time with family and/or friends this
season.  Safe journey to wherever you may be heading.  Ed, I trust you will
have a nice time with your family at home."

There, I did it.  And I do not feel any worse for it ...


Gil



Gilbert M. Hale

g...@gilhale.com

585-359-8085 - Office (Rolls To Cellular)
585-202-4341 - Cellular/VoiceMail



President

Phoenix Information Management Services, LLC

Pittsford, NY



President
New Freedom Data Resources, Inc.

Pittsford, NY



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RE: [NF] This teacher needs a kick in the pants.

[David Smith]

AHHH! My eyes! 

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 8:43 AM
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Subject: RE: [NF] This teacher needs a kick in the pants.

And I've tracked down that very teacher:

www.replacement-software.co.uk/temp/TeacherAgainstLinux.png

Dave Crozier

-Original Message-
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Sent: 11 December 2008 13:35
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On Dec 11, 2008, at 7:05 AM, Paul Newton wrote:

> Open sauce ?  Formerly (NOT formally) Open source ?

My wife's puttanesca recipe is definitely not open sauce!


-- Ed Leafe





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RE: [NF] Verizon tech admits service rolling disconnects

[David Smith]

Gee, their slogan "It's the network" has taken on a new meaning for me now. 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gil Hale
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 1:14 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [NF] Verizon tech admits service rolling disconnects

Screw those peckerheads!  Move to a different service if you can.  That is
so very wrong.  I bet if you read the terms & conditions you will find they
disclosed their right to suspend service as they see fit.  But that does not
make it right.  You could file a "harrassment" suit in small claims, and see
if the media picks up on it.  Expect to lsoe the case, but they will lose
face, and their dirty, dark secret won't be dirty and dark any longer if it
is well played.

Gil

> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pete Theisen
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 4:46 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [NF] Verizon tech admits service rolling disconnects
>
>
> Hi Everybody!
>
> So today, after a month I *finally* got to speak to a verizon tech. He 
> checked my equipment and found that I had full speed service, and that 
> is my problem.
>
> Verizon doesn't have enough backbone access to service everyone they 
> have sold service to so they randomly disconnect the top and middle 
> tier users to save bandwidth. Saves them a bundle which shows up as 
> management salaries and perks. Works for the guys at the top.
>
> He said if I cut my service to low tier, about 767 or thereabouts, I 
> would not notice the speed difference and they don't disconnect the 
> little guys so on average I would have *more* access.
>
> Thoughts? Comments? So any of you use the low speed verizon?
> --
> Regards,
>
> Pete
> http://pete-theisen.com/
>
>
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RE: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

[David Smith]

http://v6.windowsupdate.microsoft.com 
https://v6.windowsupdate.microsoft.com
http://*.download.windowsupdate.com   
http://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com 
https://v5.windowsupdate.microsoft.com   
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com  
http://update.microsoft.com  

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-Original Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:53 AM
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Subject: RE: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

Dave,

What address do they use for these updates?

Francis

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I agree, having been bitten by this on numerous occasions. The only way I've
ever been able to successfully block Windows Update is to ban the address in
my firewall. One trend I've seen recently from Microsoft is that they are
"suggesting" you turn it on during installations of their add-ons like
Silverlight. I sat there and watched someone I work with instinctively just
click next, next , next during the install of SL and along the way they
turned automatic updates back on. As silverlight defaults to automatically
update itself all by itself ( though that can be configured to not self
update ) it strikes me as remarkably pathetic that MS would feel the need to
stick this 'gotcha' back into the installer. 

Dave

David Smith
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Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:49 AM
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Subject: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

I'm 100% sure that I had my Windows Update setting set to just notify me but
don't download until I explicitly say so.  I come to my laptop this morning
and find that it's been rebooted and then a friendly "Your computer was
updated!" message appears.  I go to check the setting and it was (re-?)set
to Automatic updates where Windows downloads and applies them at will.

I know I'm 100% sure because recently Windows wanted to download yet another
"Windows Genuine Advantage" update and I was saying "no freakin way...you've
already put that on and and updates in that are not welcome."

Grrrthis is what causes a person to really dislike a vendor---one who
doesn't respect the settings/wishes you've selected!!



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RE: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

[David Smith]

I agree, having been bitten by this on numerous occasions. The only way I've
ever been able to successfully block Windows Update is to ban the address in
my firewall. One trend I've seen recently from Microsoft is that they are
"suggesting" you turn it on during installations of their add-ons like
Silverlight. I sat there and watched someone I work with instinctively just
click next, next , next during the install of SL and along the way they
turned automatic updates back on. As silverlight defaults to automatically
update itself all by itself ( though that can be configured to not self
update ) it strikes me as remarkably pathetic that MS would feel the need to
stick this 'gotcha' back into the installer. 

Dave

David Smith
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(585) 352-6600 ext.1730
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

I'm 100% sure that I had my Windows Update setting set to just notify me but
don't download until I explicitly say so.  I come to my laptop this morning
and find that it's been rebooted and then a friendly "Your computer was
updated!" message appears.  I go to check the setting and it was (re-?)set
to Automatic updates where Windows downloads and applies them at will.

I know I'm 100% sure because recently Windows wanted to download yet another
"Windows Genuine Advantage" update and I was saying "no freakin way...you've
already put that on and and updates in that are not welcome."

Grrrthis is what causes a person to really dislike a vendor---one who
doesn't respect the settings/wishes you've selected!!



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RE: [NF] Happiness is contagious in social networks

[David Smith]

Tom Tom Club was great :)

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Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 2:26 PM
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Subject: Re: [NF] Happiness is contagious in social networks

"Happiness can't buy money"
- Tom Tom Club
http://tinyurl.com/5rez6h

-Kevin
CULLY Technologies, LLC


Michael Madigan wrote:
> Another maxum "Happiness leads to wealth, wealth doesn't lead to
happiness."  
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Malcolm Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Malcolm Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: [NF] Happiness is contagious in social networks
>> To: profox@leafe.com
>> Date: Monday, December 8, 2008, 9:03 AM Technology related in the 
>> sense that we (the members of this
>> forum) are connected by a long history of communication and mutual 
>> support.
>> Happiness is contagious in social networks 
>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/05/happiness.social.network/ind
>> ex.html?iref=mpstoryview
>> Malcolm
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RE: [NF] Does Silverlight run on Linux?

[David Smith]

http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight

It looks like an implementation of the SL 1.1, so it's a little behind the
times ( windows is at 2.0 ) but not too bad. I'm currently using Expression
Blend and visual Studio 2008 for the development environment for my
silverlight forays, but I don't see any reason it couldn't be done in mono
as well. 


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Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 2:10 PM
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Subject: [NF] Does Silverlight run on Linux?

I was wanting to learn more information on Silverlight, and in particular,
where a newbie might start learning about it.  I found this article
(http://www.pluralsight.com/main/ilt/course.aspx?id=AP19), but it says
Windows and Macintosh as the operating systems explicitly.  I'm pretty sure
it would run on Linux given how those folks try to make all efforts to run
Windows stuff, but wondered if anyone here could confirm/deny?  ;-)

tia!
--Michael



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RE: [NF] Amusement

[David Smith]

Love it!

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Subject: [NF] Amusement

 From "News of the Weird:"

"Facing a state budget crisis in July, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
fired about 10,000 temporary and part-time workers and ordered the 200,000
permanent employees to be paid only the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour until
the legislature passed a crisis-solving budget. However, a week later the
State Controller John Chiang pointed out that state payroll records could
not be changed to accommodate the cut because they were written in the
antiquated COBOL computer language, and virtually the only state employees
who knew the code were some of the part-timers Schwarzenegger had just
fired.  
[Sacramento Bee, 8-5-08]"


http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html
  or - http://tinyurl.com/jx2k

Ken


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RE: [NF] You just can't make this stuff up

[David Smith]

As opposed to rolling up on a Greyhound or in a Yugo? I don't get it. The
leaders of these companies and the others looking for some tax money to bail
themselves out of the fire have every right to travel as they always would,
as it is no less ridiculously wasteful and excessive for them to travel that
way now than it was before everything hit the fan. I understand that you
would think they would have the common sense to think about these things but
obviously it doesn't matter at all in any significant way to the people they
are trying to make inroads with or else they would have done otherwise. This
sort of reporting by ABC isn't "news" to anyone, and to expect some sort of
contrite behavior from these people is at best foolish and at worst guilty
of stirring up class-envy. I credit "working" America with significantly
more intelligence than this story does. 


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Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 11:40 AM
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Subject: [NF] You just can't make this stuff up

 From
ABC Newswire:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/WallStreet/story?id=6285739&page=1

The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday
in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto
industry is running out of cash and needs $25 billion in taxpayer money to
avoid bankruptcy.
Even as their companies fail, Ford and GM CEOs continue lavish lifestyles.
The CEOs of GM, Ford and Chrysler may have told Congress that they will
likely go out of business without a bailout yet that has not stopped them
from traveling in style, not even First Class is good enough.
All three CEOs - Rick Wagoner of GM, Alan Mulally of Ford, and Robert
Nardelli of Chrysler - exercised their perks Tuesday by flying in corporate
jets to DC. Wagoner flew in GM's $36 million luxury aircraft to tell members
of Congress that the company is burning through cash, asking for $10-12
billion for GM alone.

Unbelievable
Jim






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RE: [NF] Investment tips

[David Smith]

8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:
Knott NOW!

I think my wife is already a member :)

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Dave Crozier
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:47 AM
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Subject: [NF] Investment tips 

In view of the current economic climate I thought you guys would like some
investment info:

Investment tips for 2008

For all of you with any money left, be aware of the next expected mergers so
that you can get in on the ground floor and make some BIG bucks.

Watch for these consolidations in 2008:

1. Hale Business Systems, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Fuller Brush, and W. R. Grace
Co. Will merge and become: Hale, Mary, Fuller, Grace.

2. PolyGram Records, Warner Bros., and Zest Crackers join forces and become:
Poly, Warner Cracker.
< BR>3. 3M will merge with Goodyear and become:
MMMGood.

4. Zippo Manufacturing, Audi Motors, Dofasco, and Dakota Mining will merge
and become:
ZipAudiDoDa.


5. FedEx is expected to join its competitor, UPS, and become:
FedUP.

6. Fairchild Electronics and Honeywell Computers will become:
Fairwell Honeychild.

7. Grey Poupon and Docker Pants are expected to become:

PouponPants.

8. Knotts Berry Farm and the National Organization of Women will become:
Knott NOW!

And finally

9. Victoria 's Secret and Smith & Wesson will merge under the new name:
TittyTittyBangBang


OK, so it should really be [OT], but it’s a slow day today.

Dave Crozier
 
 
 
 





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RE: [NF] MS announce free AV/Malware solution.

[David Smith]

I'm not surprised Once Care got the boot. I was involved with the prerelease
testing and even back then there were many, many of us who tried to let them
know One Care was not ready for release. It was slow, intrusive and didn't
work well with other MS products like Media Center. It's nice to see them
considering releasing a free AV solution; we'll see how it stacks up against
AVG. Hopefully they will remember the concept of consumer choice and not
ship it preinstalled with Windows 7. It would also be nice if they managed
to not pollute it with advertising as they have with Messenger. We'll see. 

Thanks,
Dave

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Subject: [NF] MS announce free AV/Malware solution.

http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-announces-free-morro-antivi
rus-software-486774?src=rss

Looks like OneCare wasn't cutting it. Their current offerings are very
resource-hungry compared to some of the independent vendors like Sophos.
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RE: [NF] web presentation, do you like this or is it overload?

[David Smith]

Trippy! Fun stuff, but probably not for everyone :)

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Stephen Russell wrote:
> <http://now.sprint.com/widget/>
>
> I think that it looks cool, and wonder about tweaking the widgets 
> displayed to fit a customers needed dashboard.
>
>
>   
It overloaded my little brain.  That was the POP! you heard.


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RE: [NF] Humor: hopefully today will be better than yesterday

[David Smith]

Beth is the bomb, but it was John Taylor. John was at Chevy fixing a 3410e
with a blown power supply and came down immediately when I called him. Love
that guy.

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Subject: RE: [NF] Humor: hopefully today will be better than yesterday

Gawd!  I have had similar situations, and in one case a tech cut some wires
for a building that was being ripped apart for refurb.  He grounded a
speaker hot wire for a PA system, after I told the techs to not cut any PA
wires as we were keeping that system for the refurbed building.  Not only
did it destroy the PA amp, I was in the computer room where the PA tube amp
was located and heard the amp sizzle and saw it catch fire.  I unplugged the
amp, managed to get the fire out (good thing I was in there at the time),
and went into the showroom just as the tech was cutting a 2nd set of wires
for the PA speakers.  I told him what just happened.  He denied being
responsible.  I had him lower the power lift, then asked which wires he just
cut.  He pointed to the various wires, then announced it was 5:00 and he was
now off duty.  I raised the lift to each of the speakers where he had cut
and found a power lead wire laying bare against the same metal framing as
the PA ground.  These are externally powered speakers, with the power coming
from the PA amp.  The foreman was on site, so I fetched him, advised of what
happened, had him look at the cut wire that was grounded, then the amp where
the surrounding area was burnt.  "Must have failed by coincidence", came the
response.

I could have spit nails.  I priced out a new PA system, nobody had the old
1970 era system we had (which was a real work horse unit), so it meant a new
system for the entire building.  $15k was the price, with installation.  I
made certain to document what happened, sent copies to ownership, legal
counsel and the construction firm.  I also made certain to deduct the $15k
from their final payment.  There was some bitching and griping, claims that
I did not tell them when it happened, they could not have possibly done it,
etc.  Too bad, I knew they would burn another $15k in legal fees to try to
collect, so we were in a good spot.  Their final shot was they would never
do any more work for us again.  They were right about that!  Oooo, that
really hurt me...

As for the ADP field tech who noticed the cause of the problem at Dave
Smith's dealership, my guess is that must have been our own dear Beth
Baransky-Bulkley who saw the Frontier problem card.  She is one sharp cookie
(Dave and I are both based in Rochester, NY, and are good friends who know
the same techie folks in our area).  You were lucky to have had her there.
What I need to know is how it is you (Dave Smith) managed to break things so
well, because we just know it was not the folks from Frontier ...  I
wonder if they will ever admit it...

I am, in fact, in the midst of a fire-storm of sorts myself with a client in
Puerto Rico.  They wanted to create a CSI enhancement app, using my VFP
table data to populate their SQL Server.  I suggested a simple ODBC
connection so they could use my source data in live cursors, or even to
populate and update their native tables by accessing my tables via ODBC.
No, they wanted me to produce csv files with newly edited and appended
records, with updates every few minutes.  No problem, but some of their
fields contained nested double-quote characters (parts descriptions, such as
[PIPE,8",STAINLESS STEEL]).  To prevent problems I converted all nested
double-quotes to single-quotes, and all backslash characters to forward
slash, to prevent any potential SQL Server Escape issues.

Well they decided to code their own csv import routine instead of using the
slow SQL Server tools (I have had other clients do the same thing who use
SQL Server).  They ran into problems.  I ended up connecting to their
machinery remotely to look at their import routine and found a few logic
errors, and proved a standard SQL Server csv import routine worked
perfectly.  They corrected the problems 3 months ago.  Since then I have
changed nothing, but 3 weeks ago they began to have problems again.  I asked
for the record # for the place their import was failing, but they could tell
me only a record range.  I could find no nested double-quote characters (the
error stated there was a delimiter error) or other cause of problems.  I was
able to import the CSV data into VFP, Excel, PostgreSQL & Access error free.
I advise of such and suggested there may have been a change to their custom
import routine.  Nope, no changes were made...

Suddenly the other day I am told I have nested single-quote characters that
are causing 

[NF] Humor: hopefully today will be better than yesterday

[David Smith]

. it wasn't Monday, but it sure felt like one yesterday as our company
experienced a five hour long phone and internet outage right in the middle
of the day. My initial suspicion was our notoriously ham-handed Frontier
techs ( Frontier is a local ISP vendor that companies like Paetec lease T1's
from for resale to companies like ours ) who were installing a new smart
jack and fiber line for some new bandwidth we had purchased. Seeing as we
dropped offline about  five minutes after they arrived, it seemed like a
good bet they may have had a hand in it somehow. As I interrupted their ham
sandwich and coffee break in the server room to politely enquire what
happened, I was met with a not entirely unexpected round of denials and
indignant looks.  So, I dialed up Paetec to have them take a look and talk
with the Frontier guys directly. As the next hour and a half went by they
did loop back tests and assured me everything on their respective ends was
fine, so it must be my router. Hmmm. okay. So while they were doing their
diagnostics ( this is after they returned from their  45 minutes to have
lunch  ) I had called ADP ( the folks who administer out Cisco gear ) and
had them dial in to take a look. They saw nothing wrong on their end, but
sent a local tech out to take a look. We're now three + hours in and there
we were in the server room, which is about the size of a decent walk-in
closet. two Frontier techs, the ADP tech, Paetec on the phone, ADP on the
phone. I'm 6 feet tall and 280 pounds but was still the smallest guy in the
room. I think the temperature was at least 90 in there. Frontier, ADP and
Paetec engaged in a somewhat hilarious round of finger pointing and then the
ADP tech made noticed something important. The Frontier card was in the
wrong slot. Silence in the room for a solid 10 seconds as everyone stared at
the card as if there were unicorns jumping out of it. the Frontier guys
cursed, pulled out the card. nothing happened. Fast forward another 15
minutes of pointless finger pointing and posturing until I thought to ask if
the circuit was still in loop mode for testing.. More silence. Paetec takes
the circuit out of mode. internet and phone service is restored.

 

The punch line: Frontier is returning today to complete their work, as
their card failed to work once it was properly slotted. I'm looking forward
to hanging out with them the entire time they are on site. J

 

Thanks,

Dave

 

David Smith

Systems Administrator

Doan Family of Dealerships

(585) 352-6600 ext.1730

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RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

[David Smith]

I've had great luck with Sun VirtualBox under Linux. Runs XP and W2K
flawlessly. It's free too :)

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 9:16 AM
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Subject: RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

I have been using Parallels with several Mac OS X platforms, and have
decided to give VMWare a try.  I believe Ed migrated to VMWare Mac from
Parallels, not certain right now, but seems to me he did.  I tested VMWare
for Linux and had excellent results, First Time Go and no strange setup or
conf issues.  It just worked, no fuss, no muss.  VirtualBox from Sun works
well under Linux also, and is free, but I did have a few setup and config
issues to deal with.  Once done it was fine.  I have used M$ Virtual PC
under Windows, and for other M$ OS platforms it works well.  It used to work
with Linspire Linux as a guest OS until a Service Pack, and later a newer
release, took care of that little "destabilizing" problem for M$.  But for a
free solution where I need to test my apps under different flavors of
Windows it has worked out great.

But, to your point, I do not know if there is anything better than VMWare
unto itself.  I do know that whenever I have tested VMWare out I have been
pleased.  But in my world if I can get an adequate VM solution for free (M$
Virtual PC and Sun VirtualBox), I will use it.  But if I were to have to
plunk down a few bucks and bet on the best bang for the bucks, I would be
inclined to use VMWare.  For Mac Host OS I have found a few too many goofy
issues with Parallels, and seen a lot of End User rating where folks rave
about VMWare after having used Parallels first.

My 5 cents...

Gil

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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Nick Causton
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2008 8:38 AM
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> Subject: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am about to setup a machine with VMWare GSX for testing.  This 
> apparently allows booting into multiple operations systems 
> simultaneously, without having to rely on any particular one as the 
> host OS.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else has any experience of Machine 
> Virtualization software and whether there are any other better packages
out there.
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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RE: [NF] M$ to push out Vista replacement in mid 2009

[David Smith]

Do I think that the newer layout of everything from M$ is a sin?  

 

No, but maybe not offering the option for people to use the old-style menu
controls in Office is. I've hundreds and hundreds of hours experience on the
newer Office interface and would agree it is better, for the way I use the
software, at least in some areas. I'm not anti-vista; I actually like it
quite a bit and have used it as a beta tester and every day since at work.
Change doesn't bother me at all, abrupt lack of choice does. Throwing a bone
( in the form of an option to not use the ribbon )in recognition of the
millions of people who literally grew up using the same basic Office
interface their entire lives would have been a good move by MS. But, that's
just my opinion, I could be wrong ;)

 

 

 

 

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RE: [NF] M$ to push out Vista replacement in mid 2009

[David Smith]

Sometimes I think those sort of changes were done primarily as a response to
the rise of OpenOffice, to differentiate their product from Sun's. A new
look is a good way to help people feel better about tossing down new money
as well. The ribbon concept is good, but I think they dropped the ball by
not making it optional and they certainly didn't make it easy to program for
in Visual Studio. I also think they made an mistake defaulting to the new .x
formats ( docs, xlsx and so on) in Office. I get the xml concept and think
it's a brilliant idea, but they would have done better to not instantly
abandon a format with a decade+ of history and user comfort. 

Thanks,
Dave

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What I can't understand is that a lot of the changes to the interface in
Vista and Office 2007 seem to be change for the sake of it which makes it
much more difficult to use for experienced users.  I understood that the
Windows layouts, keystrokes, etc were the result of extensive research in
the M$ usability labs in the 90's - are they implying that their results
were totally wrong?

John Weller
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RE: [NF] M$ to push out Vista replacement in mid 2009

[David Smith]

I hope MS does more than just repackage Vista. A little time exploring and
addressing the real problems of Vista ( Windows Explorer hangs frequently,
windows Mail is chock full of unaddressed problems, the really poorly
executed 'network and sharing center'... god, that blows... the ineffective
Windows Defender, the high system hardware requirements, the downright
oppressive lack of opportunity to easily lower security settings in IE w/o
being nagged to death, the omnipresent windows media player that is next to
impossible to NOT have running every moment Vista is on, and so on) would be
time well spent. I just have this scary feeling that W7 is going to be more
about bundling of MS products and marketing and control of the user instead
of the user controlling the OS. Hopefully I'm wrong.

Thanks,
Dave

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<http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1654>

To get it loaded on machines for new students and for holiday sales, expect
to see Windows 7 out next summer.

--
Stephen Russell
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RE: [NF] Beware of new spyware

[David Smith]

Autoruns also reveals the sloppy uninstallations of many popular programs (
I'm looking at you, Symantec ) and let's you kill them off. With autoruns, I
tend follow these general concepts:

Be suspicious of blank entries in the Manufacturer column. Most legit
software doesn't try to hide who made it.
Tread lightly in the hardware area... I've yet to encounter malicious
software in there and it's easy to mess things up.
If it says 'microsoft corporation' it's likely safe. Doesn't mean it's not
crap ( windows defender), but it at least isn't overtly harming anything. 
And google whatever you're not sure about...

Thanks,
Dave

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Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 3:51 PM
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Probably, but it seems to rest itself - never mind I now have an answer. 

John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631 

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> Sent: 22 October 2008 20:22
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> 
> 
> Cant you just set it not to load at start-up ?
> Al 
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RE: [NF] Beware of new spyware

[David Smith]

Thanks for the heads-up on this... did you know most of these sort of things
come into the PC via video from the internet? It seems like video is the new
portal... For what it's worth, I can get a wounded PC back up and running in
about 15 minutes using this procedure:

Disconnect from internet, then boot into safe  mode.
Run autoruns ( google it, it's free and kicks butt), remove start up entries
for 'Winantivirus', 'windefender' and so on.
Open the system32 folder, sort by Date. You'll see the malware entries... I
usually change their extensions to .xxx
Open msconfig, uncheck startup items relating to the malware
Look at your IE Add-ons, disable any malware entries. 
Run CleanUp! ( also free, google it). This is important because it removes
the installer files that are hiding in the temp files on the PC
Reboot, then scan with Spybot or similar product, run A/V scan as soon as
you can.  

Thanks,
Dave

David Smith
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Subject: [NF] Beware of new spyware

This has already gotten one of my clients.  I needed to run a combination of
spybot search and destroy and adaware to fully get rid of it.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/107193




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RE: Q on how MS did something

[David Smith]

No, but good idea. I purposely disable automatic updates on the company PC's
via th e registry and block the address in the firewall.

Thanks,
Dave

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Q on how MS did something

Was automatic updates turned on?  Perhaps it delivered that way?  I have not
seen that popup either.




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> Subject: Re: Q on how MS did something
> To: "ProFox Email List" 
> Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2008, 1:31 PM David Smith wrote:
> > Hi people. okay so over the last week I noticed when
> some of the company
> > PC's I manage opened Internet Explorer, there was
> MS pitching a download of
> > IE 8. Not a huge surprise at first, but later I
> started to wonder about a
> > few things, most importantly, how in the heck did they
> do this? The PC's in
> > question had non-MS sponsored homepages ( most of them
> were google.com,
> > actually ) but somehow they managed to get their
> product pimped front and
> > center, over riding the set homepages on all these
> PC's. I looked at the
> > firewall logs and didn't see anything goofy. The
> PC's in question were a
> mix
> > of SP2 and SP3. The IE app was versions 6 and a handle
> of IE 7. The more I
> > thought about it, the more it bugged me that Uncle
> Steve and co. could so
> > blatantly intrude upon and otherwise crush all my
> local browser settings at
> > their whim. For what it's worth, my XP SP2
> installation under VirualBox in
> > Ubuntu did not do this, neither did my Crossover
> office IE 6 installation.
> > How did they do this?
> 
> 
> IE6 and IE7 must have some sort of "phone home"
> accessory that gets the
> marketing message from the mothership.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Q on how MS did something

[David Smith]

Hi people. okay so over the last week I noticed when some of the company
PC's I manage opened Internet Explorer, there was MS pitching a download of
IE 8. Not a huge surprise at first, but later I started to wonder about a
few things, most importantly, how in the heck did they do this? The PC's in
question had non-MS sponsored homepages ( most of them were google.com,
actually ) but somehow they managed to get their product pimped front and
center, over riding the set homepages on all these PC's. I looked at the
firewall logs and didn't see anything goofy. The PC's in question were a mix
of SP2 and SP3. The IE app was versions 6 and a handle of IE 7. The more I
thought about it, the more it bugged me that Uncle Steve and co. could so
blatantly intrude upon and otherwise crush all my local browser settings at
their whim. For what it's worth, my XP SP2 installation under VirualBox in
Ubuntu did not do this, neither did my Crossover office IE 6 installation.
How did they do this?

 

Thanks,

Dave

 

David Smith

Systems Administrator

Doan Family of Dealerships

(585) 352-6600 ext.1730

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

www.upstatedigitools.com

 



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RE: [NF] Looking for an SEO Company and a bid

[David Smith]

For organics, we've had great success with Exteres. They lean towards the
automotive market, but they might work for your clients' needs. 

Thanks,
Dave

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Kevin Cully
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 9:33 AM
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Subject: [NF] Looking for an SEO Company and a bid

I've got a client that is in a competitive market where I'm building them a
WWWC shopping cart.  Does anyone know of a good SEO company that are good
and reasonable?  He's wanting to receive several bids.

My client is in need for SEO services for his Google Adwords campaign as
well as being in need of help on the organic side of things as well.

Thanks,
-Kevin
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RE: VFP9-SP1-Error 43

[David Smith]

Have you checked the virtual memory size on the server? Right click on the
my computer icon > Properties> Advanced > performance > settings > advanced
. Maybe cranking that up will help... my W2K3 server runs at 6141 MB as the
total paging size. 

Thanks,
Dave

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Sytze de Boer
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:22 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VFP9-SP1-Error 43

I don't if this is coincidence, but we installed Server 2003 with a client 2
days ago Simple file server There are now 2 workstations that are frequently
reporting Error 43, There is not enough memory to complete the operation The
help file says I should "Free some memory currently in use and try this
operation again"

1  Why has this happened
2  How do you "Free some memory" on the fly?

I've had this message periodically at other times, especially if people were
(also) still running old Dos systems.
My quick answer was generally, "Reboot my friend". (It was a very good way
to "Free some memory")

However, on this occasion they've already done this several times and still
it keeps popping up

Help please

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Sytze de Boer
Kiss Systems
Ph: 64-7-8391670, Mob:021 937611,
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RE: [NF] Microsoft Commercials

[David Smith]

What He said! :) 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gil Hale
Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 6:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [NF] Microsoft Commercials

> They should probably suspend all advertising campaigns until this 
> crisis is over.
>

Which crisis?  Apple sales increasing at an increasing rate, Linux use
increasing at an increasing rate, hard-to-ignore-any-longer howling of PC
users in pain with Vista being jammed down our throats, the number of folks
buying more expensive PCs just to get the XP Pro downgrade with the Vista
upgrade option instead of raw Vista, (non)performance of the financial
industry and US economy as a whole, increasing rate of inflation (which is
being masked as an increasing amount of fuel and food items as a percentage
of purchases are removed from the total bundle of goods to "adjust for
market conditions"), civil rights being stripped away from US citizens under
the pretense of being necessary to save us from "the terrorists", "we don't
get it" response to M$ advertisements, success of Apple ads, success of
Linux despite no real ads, the persistently long & not-so-slow slide of the
US dollar's exchange rate against other currencies, or "name whatever other
crisis you want"?

On the bright side, I can still deploy compiled VFP apps without paying any
additional fees to M$ ...


Gil

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Paul McNett
> Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2008 11:59 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft Commercials
>
>
> Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > I just saw a new Microsoft commercial.  Everyone - including Bill 
> > Gates
> > - says "I'm a PC."  It will be interesting to see how they move
> to plan C.
>
> They should probably suspend all advertising campaigns until this 
> crisis is over.
>
> Paul
>
>
>
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RE: [NF] Is it really this quiet, or is the eMail service havingproblems?

[David Smith]

Wow. 

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-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Gil Hale
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:31 AM
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Subject: RE: [NF] Is it really this quiet, or is the eMail service
havingproblems?

For me the items that keep me from going Pure Linux on my primary
communication PC are:

QuickBooks
Quicken
pcAnywhere
Advanced Phone Recorder (yes, I record phone calls using my PC now, more
below)
VFP
Outlook
Blackberry data exchange with Blackberry

PROCEDURE RantRegardingPhoneRecordings

Over the past few years I have seen a significant increase in NY state's
various tax agencies (Unemployment, State Disability, Income Tax, Sales Tax,
Corporate and LLC filing, etc.) trying to narrow an $80 billion shortfall in
revenue and expenses by extorting fees in the form of fines, late fees,
interest, additional fees, etc., through an apparent campaign of
using/providing incorrect information, handing out intentionally incorrect
information, allegations of receiving filings late, and even interpreting my
statements in a misleading manner.  My mailing costs have gone up 10 fold
since I now use FedEx or USPS 2nd Day delivery just to get a tracking number
for filings, yet despite evidence of timely delivery I still get letters and
calls re: late filing fines, interest and other penalties.  But now I have
the proof of delivery needed to get out of these blatant efforts to drive
revenue up at the expense of business owners.

I also received some (again) bad info from the NYS Unemployment Tax agency,
which literally threatened me with an immediate tax warrant going out that
day if I did not FAX in some forms they claim they never received (before I
started to use trackable delivery).  As I went over the form values I sent
per my copies the gal said I did everything wrong and handed me over to
their compliance office to help me correct the info, to the tune of an
additional $640 in costs to myself for 1099 expenses they said I had to pay
Unemployment Taxes on (for an outside contractor).  I was told that if I did
not include the 1099 amounts for the outside contracter they would file a
tax warrant and I would be subjected to fines and prosecution for falsifying
a state document.

I sent in what they wanted.  Later my CPA chastised me for caving under that
pressure (he said he is getting calls like mine all the time now), then
clarified.  If an outside contractor sends an invoice (mine did) for
services they are responsible for their own UE taxes.  If I pay them with no
invoice then I am responsbile for the taxes as NY views them as being
"casual employees".  I had told the folks I paid off an invoice, but they
"skirted the issue" and pressured me unduly into paying what I did not owe,
and they will also get UE taxes from the contract worker.  But I had no
proof of the conversation.  When I did call back to protest the filing based
on the overtly misleading info I was told I could refile, but it would
trigger an automatic and immediate audit as a matter of department policy,
and that would have cost me more than the $640 I overpaid based on their
fallicous information.  I got stung, and my CPA tells me it is happening all
the time now with every NY State tax agency across the board.

I was made as hell, and decided to get a Voice Modem and some phone
recording software that was PC based.  I settled on Advanced Phone Recorder
for the software, and a Zoom external USB Voice Modem for the hardware.  I
have a list of all states where I can record with single party notification
(me being the one party aware of the recording ).  For states with
all-party motification requirements if the auto-attendant or person I speak
with says the call "may be recorded for quality assurance", I take that as
permissive "may be" recorded, as opposed to notifying me it "might be",
recorded - then continue to record the rest of the conversation.

I already put that to use with a NY State Disability Insurance issue, where
upon a followup call a supervisor I was dealing with told me, "Nobody here
would have ever said that.", when I told her I was being essentially shaken
down with incorrect information where I was told I owed a huge penalty, back
payments and threatened with legal action by NY State.  I asked for her
eMail and sent her the .wav file from the previous conversation I had with
one of there clerks.  Her manager called me back within 15 minutes, after
listening to the .wav file, and told me what I did was illegal (recording
the conversations) and she was going to have me charged with wiretapping
(ignorant bitch, wiretapping is different altogether).

I told her to check with her NY State legal counsel before she did anything
rash, and she would see NY is a single party notification state, a

RE: [NF] Freeing up disk space in a pinch

[David Smith]

Try running CleanUp!, the free utility that does wonders for clearing the
cobwebs from a Windows PC. 
http://www.stevengould.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29&Item
id=70



David Smith
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Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 7:26 AM
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I usually just empty my trash, compress my Outlook data files, clean up
temporary files, and get rid of temporary internet files past a certain
date. Then if I still need more room I reduce the recycle bin capacity. I
don't like messing with the page file if I can help it. I guess it is mainly
because I like to keep it contiguous, and if you reduce it and then expand
it again it fragments.

Kristyne McDaniel
http://www.kristynemcdaniel.com/blog
http://www.militarydraftissues.com/
http://www.mcstyles.com/
 
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RE: [NF] Is it really this quiet, or is the eMail service having problems?

[David Smith]

In my experience ( sys admin for a large auto dealer group in upstate NY
)linux doesn't work for two reasons. First, their websites tend to search
for IE and install ActiveX components. In theory, this could be overcome in
Linux via Wine or Crossover. The other reason is they write ( or hire third
parties to write ) technician tools that only run within windows. It's funny
though, the Chrysler diagnostic tools run Linux but the software is windows
only. ADP runs on Red Hat, but won't issue a Linux client. It's really
amazing. They really need to come out of the closet. 

I have successfully run Ubuntu, Linspire and Debian distributions on PC's
that are used primarily by salespeople and it has worked out nicely. Linux
has come far enough along so networking, printing, internet and office apps
are all pretty much bulletproof for simple environments. Outside of the FUD
factor, there's no real reason why 80% of a "normal" dealership couldn't run
Linux-based OS's and gain all the benefits of not using windows.

David Smith
Systems Administrator
Doan Family of Dealerships
(585) 352-6600 ext.1730
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Behalf Of Paul McNett
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 5:02 PM
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problems?

Gil Hale wrote:
> Did y'all catch the article in this (next) month's PC World, where one 
> writer says it may be a good time for folks (small businesses) to move 
> to Linux?  Very well done.  Unfortunately it would not work with auto 
> dealership operations.

What is special about auto dealers that Linux wouldn't work for them? 
What ties them to Windows? Why not break that tie?

Paul



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RE: [NF] Anyone running 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003/2008 or Ubuntu LTS 8?

[David Smith]

I'm using the 64 bit Ubuntu 8.04 and haven't had any problems after 6
months. You can force load 32 bit applications if you need to, but so far,
no need... Ubuntu has been great!

David Smith
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Behalf Of Malcolm Greene
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 4:08 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NF] Anyone running 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2003/2008 or
Ubuntu LTS 8?

Anyone running *64-bit* versions of Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server
2008 or Ubuntu 8.x LTS?
I'm curious if you've had any problems with device drivers or application
software or if you noticed any difference in performance (good or bad) for
certain types of applications.
Also curious how your environment is configured - CPU (AMD/Intel,
cores) and amount of RAM?
Appreciate any surprises, warnings, tips you want to share.
Thanks,
Malcolm


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