RE: [NF] Where to find license keys for Empower program

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Gil wrote:

 After left licking the product keys like you see a button...

omG, the whole M$ DRM thing has gone DNA!!!

I wonder what the Windows Genuine Advantage prompt is when someone else
tries to lick *my* product keys...




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RE: Program to scrape text from web page

2007-02-21 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Michael J. Babcock wrote:

 I want to launch whatismyip.com and scrape the ip value from that.

Mike, 

With the West-Wind Internet Protocols, you could use the wwHTTP class:

oHTTP = CREATEOBJECT(wwHTTP)

lcHTML = oHTTP.HTTPGet(http://www.whatismyip.com;)

IF !EMPTY(lcHTML)
lcIP = STREXTRACT(lcHTML,[h1Your IP Is ],[/h1])
ELSE
lcIP = Unknown
ENDIF


Kevin



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RE: [NF] Damn M$ automatic update---didn't respect my wishes!

2007-02-17 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Michael,

There are four settings for Automatic Updates:

Automatic: Updates are downloaded automatically, and installed at the
specified time (default is 3AM)

Download: Updates are downloaded, but not installed until you say OK

Notify: You are notified that updates are available, but you must download
and install them.

Turn Off: No automatic updates. You must use Windows Update to check for
updates.

Microsoft Update (the update to Windows Update, which I guess we could call
Windows Update Update) requires Automatic Updates be turned ON.

If Automatic Updates are on, and your computer is running at the time of day
for installs to occur, the installs will occur.

I don't know of any setting that allows you to *ignore* reboots, except for
the manual update method, which allows you to Restart Now or Restart Later.

Kevin


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Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:59 AM
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Subject: [NF] Damn M$ automatic update---didn't respect my wishes!

Last night, I left my VFP development window open, and a few other 
windows, iirc.  I know earlier that day I had the yellow shield icon 
telling me that there were 10 critical updates to apply, but I kept 
putting it off, not applying them.  This morning, I see that my laptop 
has rebooted.  That's not the first time that this has happened. 

Why did it disregard my wishes and decide that it was going to go ahead 
and apply the updates anyway and reboot, basically screwing with the 
environment I was in?

Not cool, M$.  I should be the only one to say reboot now.

-- 
Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
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RE: [NF] Vista, all it's CRAPPED up to be

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
For what it's worth, you *can* make FireFox the default browser in Vista.

Back in the day, I bought my first Pentium computer (60 Mhz, with 32MB of
RAM and a 10GB hard drive --- I thought I'd never need to buy a new computer
again). It had Windows 95 preinstalled on it. After using it for two days, I
formatted the hard drive and installed Windows 3.1. Because it was better?
No. I went back to 3.11 because Windows 95 was too different for me. I knew
3.11, inside and out. Windows 95 slowed me down, so I went back to the OS I
knew better. It was also a bit sluggish. Windows 3.11 was blazingly fast on
the new Pentium.

Eventually I did make the move to Windows 95, and once I got used to it I
thought it was the best thing since sliced bread --- until Windows 98 came
out. Windows ME? Thank God I missed that train wreck. Windows 2000 was a bit
too different for me, but eventually I got used to it as well.

Windows XP was the most God-awful thing I'd ever seen the first time I tried
it, but it too has grown on me.

I installed Vista Business as my primary OS two weeks ago today. The Aero is
pretty. The best description I've seen is it's less 'cartoonish' than
Windows XP. I've got a decent machine, but it feels sluggish. I tried
unzipping a 10MB file, and the progress meter said it would take 29 minutes.
I canceled the extraction after 10 minutes. Copying files is remarkably slow
as well.

Vista, to me, is different. But it's not the radically different experience
that Win95 and WinXP were for me. But it is s-l-o-w. Dog-ass slow for a new
operating system on a relatively new laptop. It was definitely *not* ready
for prime time, and I do feel that early adopters are simply beta testing
the OS.

So, tonight I'll be redoing the whole thing, back to WinXP Pro as my primary
OS and running Vista in VPC2007. I do have a need to test apps on Vista,
because sooner or later one of my clients is going to upgrade/buy a new
computer, and I'd prefer to 'fix' my Vista-related issues now instead of
having the client report the issues to me.

I like the 'WOW' factor with some of the graphical changes, but they wear
thin rather quickly. Ultimately, my decision to stick with XP is simple: I
am more productive with XP/2000/98 than I can be with Vista. Maybe after a
service pack or two I'll be ready to try it again.

And don't even get me started on the whole DRM thing... :)





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RE: [NF] Vista, all it's CRAPPED up to be

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
 my first Pentium computer (60 Mhz, with 32MB of RAM and a 10GB hard drive

Actually, I think it was an 850MB hard drive. 

A HUGE increase over the computer it replaced (which had a 10MB hard drive).


Ten megabytes --- I thought I'd *never* run out of disk space on that
thing... :)



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RE: Any Conferences to attend this year?

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Tracy Pearson wrote:

 My boss just saw DevCon is announced, without much word on speakers.
 Anybody have whispers of another?


The speakers I know of for DevCon are Doug Hennig, Rick Schummer, Tamor
Granor, and (*gulp*) me.

I'm assuming there will be a Southwest Fox 2007, and *hoping* for a
FoxForward 2007. 

Kevin



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RE: Wierd Label behaviour

2007-01-25 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Garry Bettle wrote:

 I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.

Faster Pussycat fan, Garry?




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RE: ARG Command Bars and Common Control Libraries

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
The Common Controls library is great. The progress bar alone is worth it
(*much* better than the MS Status Bar ActiveX control).

If you plan to use the OutlookUI, iirc it requires the CommonControls
library.

Kevin

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Subject: Re: ARG Command Bars and Common Control Libraries

Thanks for everyone's commenting on this library. I will likely
purchase, but I'll wait as long as I can so I can get the best out of
my trial period plus the 30-day subscription period(I can't justify
$100 more for a year's worth of upgrades-- $20-30 probably, but not
$100).

Anyone try ARG's common controls library? He's basically implemented
the common controls without use of ActiveX, which is a benefit for
distribution purposes, plus it looks like his interfaces are better
than the ActiveX counterparts... At only $35, I'm thinking of buying
that too.

Lastly, he's recently released an OutlookUI add-on for the CommandBars
library. There's not much on the site other than a short announcement
and the sample download. It looks expensive(only the $200 1 year
option), but it implements the Outlook bar that many other command bar
libraries implement(such as BCG Control Bars, which I use in VC++). I
haven't decided if I want this sort of interface in my new application
yet, but I may. I already ship one application(non-VFP) with this sort
of design, and I think it might be a little too subtle(at least the
way I implemented it in
Overseer(http://www.overseer-network-monitor.com/images/screenshots/overseer
.png))...


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RE: Foxpro = bad word (was Re: [NF] feed your inner geek)

2007-01-24 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Michael Babcock wrote:

Developers who don't deserve to be called developers wrote shitty code and
the stakeholders simply blamed it on the Fox.

Lord knows I've written my share of shi**y code. Probably today. ;)

Kevin





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RE: [NF] CSS Help needed

2006-12-19 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Kevin,

Check the header entry in the CSS. It is set to 110px, though the image is
only 61px.

HTH,
Kevin

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Subject: [NF] CSS Help needed

I'm in over my head by a bit.

I'm having trouble with the header on a web site I'm doing for a client. 
  I am developing a WordPress site, I removed the text name from the 
header template, and I added their logo as a PNG.

Once I did that, the navigation menu (div id=nav) which contains the 
Home / About / Contact Us unordered list was pushed down too far and I 
can't figure out what is causing that in the CSS or how to fix it.  I 
want that content up next to the logo.

Here's the web site: http://www.ireadyhomes.com/?page_id=4
Here's the CSS file:
http://www.ireadyhomes.com/wp-content/themes/sapphire-10/style.css

I'm hoping that someone can hit me over the head with the solution.  Thanks.

-- 
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CULLY Technologies, LLC

Sponsor of Fox Forward 2006!
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RE: [NF] microsoft_antipiracy_will_drive_people_to_linux

2006-12-15 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Stephen Russell wrote:

 We all agree the M$'s good intentions of software working together got the
 worst of worst started  with a bang.  

Agreed.

 It seems like those days are behind us.

Better think again on that one, dude. Spyware, adware, malware, spambots,
and anything else I didn't list is worse now than it has ever been -- for
Windows users.

 It prayed (sic) on the stupidity of people getting passwords for porn 
 sights (sic) back in 98 or 99? 

The bad guys still prey on the ignorance (and greed) of people. Then again,
how can viewing an ad on a MySpace page which triggers a drive-by download
and turns your computer into a spambot be considered stupidity on the part
of the user?

Internet Explorer just makes it too freaking E-A-S-Y for the bad guys.

 Since then people have wised up as so have vendors.

Respectfully disagree on this one. When people call me because my computer
is running slowly, 75% of them don't have updated anti-virus software and
almost all of them have zero anti-spyware software.

And as far as the vendors go, they are always at least one step behind the
bad guys, and IMHO they always will be. When you consider that most of them
make you pay, repeatedly, for annual subscriptions for updated definitions
you suddenly realize they aren't really in the business of protecting
people, they are just in business. Which is fine, if that's what you want
to do, but there are plenty of free protection programs as well.
 
 As hackers look to Linux for targets will they be as easy to find?  Heck 
 no. Neither in the Win camp.  Because we have all learned from past 
 mistakes.

Gotta disagree on this one, too. Hackers are good -- VERY GOOD -- at finding
the holes. Some of us have learned from our mistakes, but *most* of the
folks out there sending email and surfing the web have NO CLUE just how
dangerous life online can be.

Just my .02

Kevin




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RE: [NF]: Microsoft's Security Problems Multiply

2006-11-28 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Charlie Coleman wrote:

 This probably won't be an issue for us until after 2010.

Then, Michael Babcock wrote:

 Why 2010?

THAT'S the year we make CONTACT...

With aliens...

Who switched to Linux before open source was the best thing since sliced
bread...

It's also the year Web 3.0 will *explode*...

Kevin



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RE: [NF] MSDN Subscription vs ?

2006-11-25 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Hi John,

Are you thinking about the Empower ISV program? For $375, you get an MSDN
Subscription.

https://empower-isv.one.microsoft.com/isv/programguide/Default.aspx

HTH,
Kevin

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Since I'm now retired and don't have access to the MSDN Enterprise stuff I
used to use, I've got to find my own. I was trying to remember the offering
from MS that is a subset of MSDN, but something goes when you get older, I
just can't remember what it is?

I know some of y'all know what it is, so free it up!G

Bill, er no, Jane, no no that's not it, John - yeah that's it. John (gotta
write that down)



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RE: [OT] The Morning After

2006-11-08 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Hal Kaplan wrote:

 The silence is deafening.
 
 And most welcome.

Agreed. 

I'm glad to see the political ads/hatchet jobs go away for awhile. Alas,
they will return far too soon...

I'm Kevin Ragsdale, and I approved this message.



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RE: Congrats Doug Hennig!

2006-11-07 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
On Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:15 PM, Michael J. Babcock wrote:

 That makes Doug the 2nd ever to get this award, right?  I recall that 
 now M$-bashing guy from Wisconsin gdrvf but I don't know if there 
 were others?

I think Rick Strahl got one, too.

Kevin




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RE: [ADMIN] Another Test of ProFoxTech

2006-11-06 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Got it...

Kevin

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UPDATE @4:30pm EST: trying again. Found another problem and fixed
it, 
but I need to make sure that this is working OK. Can at least one 
profoxtech subscriber respond to let me know that this made it through? 
Before you reply, please check that someone hasn't already replied, so 
that the list doesn't get flooded with I got it! replies.

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RE: [OT] Anybody agree with this assessment?

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
 So, do you think he is right?

I don't believe there is a culture war going on. 

I believe O'Reilly is trying to sell books.

I also agree with Ed. 

Ed *should* have his own TV show.

On FoxNews. ;)

Ok, maybe not on FoxNews. But, he should have his own TV show. He made more
sense in his reply than anyone else I've heard.



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RE: [OT] Anybody agree with this assessment?

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Michael Madigan wrote:

 You don't believe there's a culture war going on?

No I don't. I believe it's a catchy phrase for selling books and generating
ratings.

I *do* believe that extremists on both the liberal and conservative sides
are having a potentially devastating effect on our country. But that's not a
culture war, Michael. It's just political correctness, rearing its ugly
head. 

Some people do find the word Christmas offensive. And I respect the right
of anyone to voice their opinion about it. Of course, I'm also happy to tell
them they can move to another country where they will never have to hear the
word Christmas again, if they so desire.

And I'd be willing to lay my down my life for their right to say it. Isn't
*that* the guiding principle our country was founded on? It really doesn't
matter whether the person is right or wrong, does it?

The country is split right down the middle, no question about it, and the
various media organizations are doing nothing but feeding the frenzy and
adding fuel to the fire -- all the while they accomplish nothing but a
continuation of the gross separation between the social, racial, economic,
and religious classes that exist.

For the record, it was nice to see a few facts in your post this time,
instead of generalizations. 

It would be nice though, if you'd add a link to your facts...

Kevin



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RE: [OT] Anybody agree with this assessment?

2006-10-25 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
On Wednesday, October 25, 2006, Michael Madigan wrote:

 Actually the country isn't split right down the middle.  
 Something like 85% of Americans believe in God. Of those
 an overwhelming number are Christians.

Though I didn't say it, my split down the middle comment was more about
left vs. right, liberal vs. conservative, more government vs. less
government. I'll concede your numbers do seem to be in line with what I've
read and believe.
 
 I just think the majority of voters vote like they
 always voted.  This isn't same Democratic party it
 once was.

Well, this isn't the same Republican party either, though IMHO neither party
is worth a damn.

Kevin



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RE: [OT] Anybody agree with this assessment?

2006-10-24 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
 ... who believe America is a deeply flawed nation that needs 
 a fundamental overhaul.
 
 
 Also, do you know who said/wrote that?

Bill No Spin O'Reilly said it, in an interview with NewsMax:

Here's a sample of what O'Reilly has to say:

The far-left smear machine is already cranked up over 'Culture Warrior.'
You basically have to begin with the definition of the culture war. And it's
between traditionalists who believe the country is noble - America is a
noble nation, we can make mistakes, but basically at the heart of our system
is a nobility that makes the world a better place - and secular
progressives, who believe America is a deeply flawed nation that needs a
fundamental overhaul.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/10/23/215203.shtml?s=lh

Kevin



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RE: [NF] Blogging

2006-10-23 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Hi Patrick,

NICE job on the Southwest Fox posts! I laughed my head off at points...

I think Blogger allows you to host your own blog, but if you have IIS you
*could* post the pictures somewhere on your server. Then, in Windows Live
Writer, select Insert - Picture from Web from the menu, and enter the URL
to your pic.

Hope this helps, and keep up the great posts! 

(I had no idea about using the MS Preview Control, BTW...)

Kevin

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I started a blog last week.  I wanted to start posting about Southwest Fox
sooner than later and did very little research in picking a service.  I
signed up with Blogger (http://bibro.blogspot.com/) using Windows Live
writer to post to it. Initialy it was working great until I wanted to add
pics, it would not let me do so with the Windows Live writer.  I can use the
blogger site to do it but I like the desktop app for writing posts.  I have
IIS hosting available if I want to host my own and I am open to other
services.  What do people suggest?
 



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RE: [NF] Sys Admin questions

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
I used to work for a company that charged their clients $125/hour for any
type of support (including bugs, but that's another post).

One client in particular had a huge problem with viruses, Trojans, worms,
etc. But, they were always happy to have me come out and spend 4 hours
'cleaning' up for them (and invoicing $500).

I complained to my boss once that it seemed excessive to charge so much for
(what I believed to be) so little, but my boss said, Kevin, they're not
paying for the work you do, they are paying for the KNOWLEDGE you have.

Funny, though, out of the $125/hour the company was getting, I got $28/hour,
though *I* was the only one in the company with the KNOWLEDGE... :)

Which is exactly why I do all of this on my own time, terms and conditions
today. I do find myself recommending new PC's and specifically, training,
more and more often these days.



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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [NF] Sys Admin questions

Thanks for the response Ted.

I did this for a friend so I didnt charge anything and yes it took a lot 
longer because I wanted to save the data.

After going down a lot of dead ends, I basically:
1. Took a used drive and copied the data to it.
2. Formatted the existing drive.
3. Reloaded windows and installed avg free and ewido free, updated windows 
and copied data back which was mainly music and pictures.

Probably only 2 - 3 hours actual time, but a lot of time wasted going down 
dead ends which is why I decided to see how everybody else did it..
In case I run into it again for a paying customer.

Thanks,

Virgil Bierschwale
Armstrong and Skipper Real Estate
(830) 329-6774 Cell
(830) 864-4726 Home
(830) 864-4799 Fax
http://www.bierschwale.com
http://www.virgilslist.com 



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RE: [NF] Sys Admin questions

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Michael J. Babcock wrote:

 Just remember that built into that rate is a lot of other factors too, 
 including the shop overhead, health insurance costs, workman's 
 compensation costs, other insurance costs, electricity, garbage, etc. 
 etc. etc.  !!

Excellent point, Michael. 

The old guy that started the company had written a home-grown accounting
system in Clipper. Became a millionaire.

I'm still looking for my million-dollar idea... :)

Kevin 


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RE: [OT] Credit report

2006-10-10 Thread Kevin Ragsdale
Michael,

Take a look at the following article. I also recommend you do a search on
freecreditreport.com on the MSNBC site. I remember reading a
not-too-flattering article about them recently.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9120681/

Hope this helps,
Kevin

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Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 12:46 PM
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Subject: [OT] Credit report

I'd like to see what my credit report looks like.  I've heard of
freecreditreport.com but wondered if others have found a different way
to get this information?

Thanks,
--Michael

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