Re: [NF] Graphic editing/ creation software

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Hill
On 6/24/07, Mike Wohlrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I am looking for some guidance as to if anyone knows of some good free graphic editing and creation software. On my website I have some images that link to other pages, but they have become blurred so I need to clean them up and

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Graham Dobson wrote: I believe these fanatical jihadists are completely warped. I would imagine that they might see you similarly. America and the west are not the cause of their hatred. Warped clerics and teachers from their repressive, backward

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:38 PM, Graham Dobson wrote: No, actually I was in complete favour of the removal of Sadam. Then ergo, you must have understood that only through his ruthless tactics was he able to keep the factions that have been warring for thousands of years at bay. Or

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 23, 2007, at 9:35 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: Again, a faulty analogy. Terrorism is not nearly as structured as a colony of ants. There is no single leadership figure, or mother head, in the terrorist organizational structure, than when eliminated would destroy the entire

Re: Visual Steel - Visual Foxpro - Software That Flexes!!

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Hill
On 6/23/07, William Sanders / EFG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hiya MB - 'ahem' - indeed. I not find your software listed in 'about.com' 'ahem ahem ahem' .. I've never heard of about.com... -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:55 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: He's no God, and I don't consider Allah to be a god like the true Christian God. They're just religious fanatical nutbags. Same as the whackos here who kill abortion doctors. I don't follow that logic. There

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 23, 2007, at 11:39 PM, Graham Dobson wrote: Because that's what is lacking in the current equation. Iraq has to be composed of the real representation of all the three main groups, Kurd, Sunni and Shiite. But it will take a strong Sunni political movement to end the

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Hill
Speaking of Office automation, try this: Make sure your regional settings are non-US (British or whatever). Create an Excel sheet with some dates in it. Create a mailmerge document in Word linked to the Excel sheet. (this is what we automate in our app BTW, works well for mailshots etc) Look at

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 24, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Helio W. wrote: Israel past struggles come to mind... didn't Menachem Begin kill british people by exploding bombs? Yes; he was well-known for using terrorism to advance the cause he believed in. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Helio W.
Israel past struggles come to mind... didn't Menachem Begin kill british people by exploding bombs? On 6/24/07, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terrorism is also in the eye of the beholder. The terrorists in Nicaragua in the 1980s were politically sympathetic to the US, so Ronald

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Do you feel like the Maliki government and army are shielding, or protecting, insurgents who are entering Iraq from Iran and Syria, because they are all Shiite Muslims who share a common Religion/Cause? I would agree Sunni Muslim leadership in Iraq would do more to identify and eliminate

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 24, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: 1) You could partition the country under treaties between the Shiite, Sunni, and Kurd factions, but many powerful Iraqis oppose this idea. Also, this would weaken the country against possible outside enemies like Iran. You know a

RE: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread john harvey
Duh, that's because it's the REAL date, not some namby pamby English thingy!G JH -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:31 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Automation with Word 2007 Speaking of

Re: [NF] Security Software

2007-06-24 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/23/07, Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like the ability to encrypt / decrypt a folder on the hard drive regardless of what type of files are in it. For example, I have a folder with QuickBooks in it. I would like to encrypt that folder when I am not using it and decrypt

Re: [NF] Graphic editing/ creation software

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Pete Theisen wrote: I should do some more, but I have had some health issues and my housekeeping is out of hand. When (if) I ever catch up with it . . . ...and don't forget that you participate in the [OT] too much. Cut that out and you'd be amazed at all the free time you have! gdr!

Re: [NF] Mandriva says NO to M$, even before they ever offer

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Ted Roche wrote: P.S. The covenant is supposed to be good for five years. I wonder what kind of terms you get for a renewal? Let's hope it's better than the Software Assurance scam they ran, where folks never received core updates due to development taking way longer than expected. I'll

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
john harvey wrote: Duh, that's because it's the REAL date, not some namby pamby English thingy!G JH Yeah, get with it already you non-Americans! G -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS

RE: [NF] Security Software

2007-06-24 Thread mrgmhale
Ted is correct using mere Zip compression with a password. That is why I stepped up to WinZip Pro, and use its Zip with encryption - which goes beyond just a password protected Zip file approach. They have a few add-on so one can use a Command Line Interface, and a fee based add-on that creates

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ed Leafe wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:55 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: He's no God, and I don't consider Allah to be a god like the true Christian God. They're just religious fanatical nutbags. Same as the whackos here who kill abortion doctors. I

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ed Leafe wrote: On Jun 23, 2007, at 7:55 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: He's no God, and I don't consider Allah to be a god like the true Christian God. They're just religious fanatical nutbags. Same as the whackos here who kill abortion doctors. I

Re: Visual Steel - Visual Foxpro - Software That Flexes!!

2007-06-24 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Heya Paul - You're in London, and a developer (ya, me's a dev too) - so I wouldn't expect you to have heard of it. Here's the blurb - http://www.aboutmediakit.com/about/ Basically its a 'consumer-oriented' portal, with 'guides' that are useful for searching. If you produce a software package

RE: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Graham Dobson
On June 6 2007, the US army and the Turkish came very close to conflict. The Turks have moved a massive military presence to the Kurdish border and have said that they will not accept an independent Kurdish state. Ditto Iran which is also home to a Kurdish population at least as large as its Shia

To list inclusions or exclusions in the database...that is the question!

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
I've got the following tables: Customers and Products. I want to create an intersection table called Customer_Products to house the specific products that each customer gets. In this example, the customers are grocery stores, and the products are bakery items. Not all Customers (stores)

[NF] Database design question (MySQL...but could easily be for MSSQL, PostgreSQL, or others)

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
2 questions from my recent MySQL database design: 1. When you have fixed width fields (e.g., an intersection table that has merely all integer/numeric fields), would you be better off setting the row format to be FIXED or leave as DYNAMIC (which is the default)? 2. If you

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 24, 2007, at 3:09 PM, Graham Dobson wrote: I think you confuse guerilla warfare with terrorism. No, terrorism is attacks against non-military targets designed to inflict a fear in the general populace in an effort to attract sympathizers and change the prevailing sentiment.

RE: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Graham Dobson
I think you confuse guerilla warfare with terrorism. Global terrorists blew up the world trade center, the London underground, the Madrid train system, the Bali night clubs, US embassy's in Kenya and Tanzania, the USS Cole, holiday resorts in Egypt and Turkey and are a threat to crash a plane

Re: [NF] Database design question (MySQL...but could easily be for MSSQL, PostgreSQL, or others)

2007-06-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 24, 2007, at 2:43 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote: 1. When you have fixed width fields (e.g., an intersection table that has merely all integer/numeric fields), would you be better off setting the row format to be FIXED or leave as DYNAMIC (which is the

Re: To list inclusions or exclusions in the database...that is the question!

2007-06-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Assuming you have a transaction table of purchases of products from vendors, and a transaction table of sale of products to customers (eg stores), why not include in the purchase transaction table a field to hold the vendor's primary key and the products primary key. Likewise in the

Re: To list inclusions or exclusions in the database...that is the question!

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Good question! I left this out the original question: I want to display the products that are purchasable for that vendor. Hence, ahead of time I'd like to know what his possibilities are. Your answer below is exactly how I'd do it if I was always listing the products for sale to each

Re: To list inclusions or exclusions in the database...that is the question!

2007-06-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
MB Software Solutions wrote: Good question! I left this out the original question: I want to display the products that are purchasable for that vendor. Hence, ahead of time I'd like to know what his possibilities are. Your answer below is exactly how I'd do it if I was always listing

Re: [NF] Security Software

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Bourke
kam wrote: Take a look at TrueCrypt (free: http://www.truecrypt.org/). Truecrypt is the boss, especially for use with sensitive data removable drives. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Graphic editing/ creation software

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Bourke
The GIMP is great, and the price is right. However it is a very complex and powerful piece of software, and since it's true home is the Linux world, you may find the interface confusing if you're used to Windows apps. I'd take a look at Paint.Net: http://www.getpaint.net/index2.html It's open

Re: [NF] Security Software

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Bourke
MB Software Solutions wrote: Bill Arnold wrote: Might be one less dependency, if you're already using WinZIP and no other need to bring in encryption. Maybe zip files can serve a double-purpose as backups? I might interject here that it's super easy to use the free 7-zip

Re: [NF] Security Software

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Alan Bourke wrote: The problem with this (well with WinZip anyway) is that if the zip file is damaged then the entire contents may be irretrievable. Same issue with 7zip, I believe too. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Newton
MB Software Solutions wrote: john harvey wrote: Duh, that's because it's the REAL date, not some namby pamby English thingy!G JH Yeah, get with it already you non-Americans! G Why don't y'all (Amerricans) understand that a date format that goes from least-to-most (or

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread Pete Theisen
On Sunday 24 June 2007 06:17, Ed Leafe wrote: snip the colonists who revolted against the British used terrorism as a tactic Hi Ed! Really! The only terror victims I can think of in the American Revolution are a few cases of tea that got an unscheduled brewing in Boston Harbor. Terror,

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/24/07, Paul Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why don't y'all (Amerricans) understand that a date format that goes from least-to-most (or vice versa) significance just makes a whole lot more sense than MDY where the least significant part is in the middle !! We do! Thats why we have ANSI

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Paul Newton wrote: Why don't y'all (Amerricans) understand that a date format that goes from least-to-most (or vice versa) significance just makes a whole lot more sense than MDY where the least significant part is in the middle !! For goodness sake, why don't you start insisting on times

Fwd: Andy Kramek : SW Fox, An Endangered Species I fear!

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Courtesy of Carl/VFUG: Original Message Subject:Andy Kramek : SW Fox, An Endangered Species I fear! From: Carl [EMAIL PROTECTED] From the VFUG.Org List Server: Andy Kramek : SW Fox, An Endangered Species I fear!:

Re: Automation with Word 2007

2007-06-24 Thread Paul Newton
MB Software Solutions wrote: Paul Newton wrote: Why don't y'all (Amerricans) understand that a date format that goes from least-to-most (or vice versa) significance just makes a whole lot more sense than MDY where the least significant part is in the middle !! For goodness sake, why

Bidding for jobs based upon the number of tables involved

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Did any of you ever come up with a bid where the number tables in the database helped you form the idea of how many screens it'd take to support such a database? I've scoped out the database entities and their attributes for a job MBSS is bidding on and am now working to derive a price.

RE: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread john harvey
What's the big deal with virgins anyway? Once you've had them, they are no longer virgins and who would want that!G Not only that, most men can't deal with the one ex virgin they live with, much less seventy some odd - nagging, overly expensive, anti-sexual so-and-sos.(VBG) That brings another

Re: [OT] Tokyo Rose

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
john harvey wrote: What's the big deal with virgins anyway? Once you've had them, they are no longer virgins and who would want that!G Not only that, most men can't deal with the one ex virgin they live with, much less seventy some odd - nagging, overly expensive, anti-sexual so-and-sos.(VBG)

Re: [NF] Graphic editing/ creation software

2007-06-24 Thread Pete Theisen
On Sunday 24 June 2007 12:25, MB Software Solutions wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: I should do some more, but I have had some health issues and my housekeeping is out of hand. When (if) I ever catch up with it . . . ...and don't forget that you participate in the [OT] too much. Cut that out

Re: [NF] Graphic editing/ creation software

2007-06-24 Thread MB Software Solutions
Pete Theisen wrote: On Sunday 24 June 2007 12:25, MB Software Solutions wrote: Pete Theisen wrote: I should do some more, but I have had some health issues and my housekeeping is out of hand. When (if) I ever catch up with it . . . ...and don't forget that you participate in

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