> Throw enough money at 'em and they lose their original ideals, eh Steve?
>
We all have a price. I like to think my price is so high that I can hold
true to my own values. I have had a few offers to "buy my company", but
nobody has ever been able to really get my attention to the point where I
I learned more about computers the first 6 months in a
job then 4 years in college. I think many professors
are years behind industry.
--- Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very cool tip re: knowing who has been selling my
> email address to 3rd
> parties. Thanks Mike!
>
> Just an aside f
> I think many professors
> are years behind industry.
"Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." heh-heh
Actually, as a general observation that old adage may have some validity. I
would like to think many instructors in our industry are amongst the
brighter and more experienced folks. A
Wow! What a nicely written application. I like the slickery feature of
SyncBack far more, and the retention of previous log files. But Mr. Cobian
has done a very nice job with this app. Very nice indeed, especially
considering his license fee (donations requested). The VSS support for v-9
is a
> I just wanted to let everyone know about a feature in Google Mail where it
> allows you to create a change to your email address on the fly and still
> have the email sent to your base email address.
Okay, I read the info at the link Mike sent, and tried it out. Very useful
info! Upon receipt
I was under the impression that was about to change and I did wonder how
that would be possible. Or for that matter how it could be brought out.
Allen
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You do know
I sorry but Im not. It has happened to me already. Competitors telling
possible userts that its written in a dead language.
Yes they work, will work for ages but it’s another matter someone using the
facts against you.
I don’t tell anyone unless they ask. But they know.
Allen
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Clever. Get all your mates to do the work and get rich of them. Stinks
But if its open source, cant anyone take it as their own ?
Allen
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The guys and gals who made it created a company and sol
On Apr 18, 2008, at 7:37 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
>>
>> He keeps getting
>> gigs, so it looks pretty good to me.
>
> But he's a data ho. "Will code for food." Works for some,...
Exactly my point.
>> Bill has decided to keep his horse
>> hitched to the good ole' VFP. Good for him! Bad for his
>>
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> Oops
>
> http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news4.18.08d.html
Hi Michael!
Leland has boosted them so much they are using his $8 Spell Checker.
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On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Gil Hale wrote:
> "Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach." heh-heh
*I* teach! Not that I am being defensive! Two things I'll say
about it:
1. Even when you understand a concept, having to formulate an
explanation of it in a way that lay people and newbie
Gil Hale wrote:
>> Throw enough money at 'em and they lose their original ideals, eh Steve?
>>
>>
>
> We all have a price. I like to think my price is so high that I can hold
> true to my own values. I have had a few offers to "buy my company", but
> nobody has ever been able to really get m
On Apr 19, 2008, at 6:58 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
>
> I can't offer you any higher than $2 million, Gilsorry.
>
Watta Cheapskate!
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Michael Madigan wrote:
> I learned more about computers the first 6 months in a
> job then 4 years in college. I think many professors
> are years behind industry.
>
I would agree with you on this one...but I've been out of school for
years so the thought isn't current.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Very cool tip re: knowing who has been selling my email address to 3rd
> parties. Thanks Mike!
>
Not to pick on you or Mike, but this is pretty much an original
feature of the email system, encoded in the RFCs (If I needed a
> 1. Even when you understand a concept, having to formulate an
> explanation of it in a way that lay people and newbies can understand
> it, too, deepens your understanding of that concept or practice
> profoundly.
>
I am in total agreement with both of your points. I have often told others
that
Hello All
This is what I want to do:
I want to open an excel worksheet in a vfp form the user will fill up data
then I want to import back the information
My problem is that I need to have a specific worksheet open.
I know how to add a worksheet to the form I know how to import the excel
data but
> I can't offer you any higher than $2 million, Gilsorry.
>
I accept that as a valid tender offer, and since I am in New York, NY law
clearly states you are now bound to that offer, although at a nominally
lesser price were you to find anything during your due diligence that would
indicate
> Ted "old dog, still learning new tricks" Roche
Now Ted, you do know you need to rewrite that phrase like the experts with
underscores instead of spaces. Otherwise these 32 bit Operating System just
won't know how to deal with the string:
old_dog,_still_learning_new_tricks
heh-heh...
Gil
>
On Apr 19, 2008, at 7:30 AM, Gil Hale wrote:
> Clearly
> that is not the same as teaching a room full of students over the
> course of
> several months a subject in depth.
My teaching averages about one day per week. These are working folks
from local organizations of all types. The "students
> Not to pick on you or Mike, but this is pretty much an original
> feature of the email system, encoded in the RFCs (If I needed a
> citation, I'd start at 822, replaced by 2822). "Those who fail to
> understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it." It was only with the
> introduction of a lot of not-v
If you believe it:
http://tinyurl.com/6krlyl
and
http://tinyurl.com/6qdffl
Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
sure I believe it.
Ken
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If you know how to open 'a' worksheet, you should know you can open a
specific excel document, which is your template.
oexcel=CREATEOBJECT('excel.application')
lcfile=GETFILE('xls')
oexcel.Workbooks.Open(lcfile)
oexcel.Visible=.t.
JH
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> My teaching averages about one day per week.
My CPA wants me to start to give a series of one-day seminars on computer
utilization for small business owners (their clients). His firm wants to
wait until May to get this rolling, and the overview course is to be based
on my one paper, "Bullet-Pro
Looks like a mini-me kinda car.
I'll have to say I am very well pleased with my VW Beetle Diesel TDI.
I had the oil changed recently and went to synthetic.
My next tank gave me 41 mpg in (town driving). That's up from the 38 I was
getting, so I assume the 46 highway I got on the trip to Florid
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:35 AM, Gil Hale wrote:
> My CPA wants me to start to give a series of one-day seminars on
> computer
> utilization for small business owners (their clients). His firm
> wants to
> wait until May to get this rolling
Gee, the CPA wants to wait until after tax time?
I fo
Hi
Thanks Rick, I didn't know that.
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Thanks for your answer but I Want to open the worksheet in a vfp form.
The code you gave me will open an excel workbook outside vfp.
Paul
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> Not surprisingly, given that they come from you, those topics are
> well thought out.
Why, thank you, Ken. I have given this a lot of thought. During the nearly
3 years Michael Wohlrab was interning with me I had encouraged him to offer
a simple seminar as a way of making some money. He will
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Ok, use the MS Excel worksheet ole control then.
JH
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Thanks for your answe
On Apr 19, 2008, at 3:23 AM, Allen wrote:
> I was under the impression that was about to change and I did wonder
> how
> that would be possible. Or for that matter how it could be brought
> out.
New features that are being added are reported to be closed source.
Nothing that has be
On Apr 18, 2008, at 10:43 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
> Throw enough money at 'em and they lose their original ideals, eh
> Steve?
You forget the difference: everything that has ever been released as
open source remains exactly the same. There is no way that Sun
On Apr 19, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote:
> Hm... If true, how is it that they can spend money this way? Not
> sure I believe it.
If they had a history of creating high-quality videos, I *might*
believe that this was a spoof. But really: is it so different than
their
On Apr 19, 2008, at 2:19 AM, Gil Hale wrote:
> If nothing else I feel that Lynda will not be alone when folks are
> at my funeral
Oh, there will be a *lot* of people there, with party hats and
noisemakers, and lots of Steve's special "Dr Pepper" to go around.
;-)
-- Ed Leafe
John Harvey wrote:
> Sure, I'll just keep on keepin on. FYI - Next year, we're going to annex
> Iraq and call it Middle East Texas! Oil for 30 cents a barrel.
>
Never doubted that was your govt's original plan. But you people never
put people in your equations, thought you'd learned in Nam but i
On Apr 19, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> I'm more inclined to believe that
> this admission is an effort to save face.
Yeah --- no matter how big a company you are -- I've yet to meet a
corporate manager who would spend -- what do you think this thing
cost? -- minimally $50,000?
This is exactly what I want to do but how to display the "template
worksheet" in the ole control ?
Paul
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Paul McNett wrote:
> Bill Arnold wrote:
>> There are providences of that super fast, binary switching machine
>> called a computer, not the language. My point of all this is that we
>> didn't need a thousand different tools/languages in the first place,
>> that we could have done everything we want
heh-heh, I plan to skip the party.
Gil
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> Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 11:11 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [NF] Amazing Gmail Feature that could make your life easier
>
>
> On Apr 19
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 2:59 AM, Gil Hale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Very cool tip re: knowing who has been selling my email address to 3rd
> > parties. Thanks Mike!
> >
>
> Not to pick on you or Mike, but this is pretty
Feck... my friend is her private lawyer... I'll get the inside track and
post
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Joke strip:
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[excessive quoting
Below is a link to some NVIDIA SLI gamer computers. You can select
various computers and look at the detail specs to see what components
are being used, (eg motherboards, CPUs, Video Cards, memory, etc).
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_buyprebuilt_us2.html
This system look interesting:
Ricardo Araoz wrote:
> Paul McNett wrote:
>> I see the open source movement as the ultimate expression of democracy.
>>
>
> Democracy??? Have you ever seen the acronym BDFL (Benevolent Dictator
> For Life)? Ask Ed or any of the other Python guys. Open source can be a
> democracy (rarely), a meri
Here is a build that I am thinking about.
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For the case you ca
Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Allen wrote:
>
>> As for open source, look whats happened to MySQL. Not a good sign.
>
> You do know that it's still open source, right? That you can download
> the source code, read it, make changes, add stuff, whatever? That you
> can the
Bill Arnold wrote:
>> No you don't understand. The rot is in and our opponents will
>> already be in with the knifes. It may be ok for all those
>> that play with programming but for those with products and
>> competitors its all tits up. The "did you know they use a
>> dead language" has alrea
> I just wanted to let everyone know about a feature in Google Mail where ...
Yawn ...
Fastmail.fm has supported '+' style addressing for years. In addition,
Fastmail supports subdomain style email addresses which offers the
flexibility of '+' style addressing without all the hassles.
http://www.
Paul McNett wrote:
> Ricardo Araoz wrote:
>> Paul McNett wrote:
>>> I see the open source movement as the ultimate expression of democracy.
>>>
>> Democracy??? Have you ever seen the acronym BDFL (Benevolent Dictator
>> For Life)? Ask Ed or any of the other Python guys. Open source can be a
>> de
Ricardo,
> ... but BECAUSE I LOVE the bloody language. After tasting Python I just
> couldn't be thrilled at doing something with VFP. And I think that if you
> tried it, the same might happen to you.
Very well put. +1 from me.
Malcolm
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Jim,
For what it's worth, I think a user group announcement about Visual FoxPro or
from a VFP user group
should not have a [NF] notation.
Rick
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>> Do any of you have experience with any of the Brother laser printers or
have an alternative recommendation in the same price/feature set window?<<
Sorry for the late reply, but I have a HL-5170DN here. The printer performs
well. I bought it
because it meet the two most important criteria I had
Ricardo Araoz wrote:
> Paul McNett wrote:
>> Ricardo Araoz wrote:
>>> Paul McNett wrote:
I see the open source movement as the ultimate expression of democracy.
>>> Democracy??? Have you ever seen the acronym BDFL (Benevolent Dictator
>>> For Life)? Ask Ed or any of the other Python guys
> I sorry but Im not. It has happened to me already.
> Competitors telling possible userts that its written in a
> dead language. Yes they work, will work for ages but it's
> another matter someone using the facts against you. I don't
> tell anyone unless they ask. But they know. Allen
Don't
> He knew that he had waited too long, though. Maintaining the old app
> while building a new one was difficult and expensive. He could
> already see the writing on the wall that he would have to move to
> newer technologies to grow the business again. His solution? He sold
> the business
...well, that's how he would be pegged by Fox News if he was around
today. Imagine if they had used their practice of taking sound bites
out of context and playing them over and over, and used that with this
gem:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+14:26
-- Ed Leafe
> Bill,
>
> Unless you're going to file a lawsuit against them and have
> the zillions of dollars it'd take to fight them (and then no obvious
chance of
> winning anyway), then yes, you have to sit back and take
> it--unless you move to a different product. Nobody says you have to
stick with
>> There is no way that Sun or any other company can reverse that. You still
>> have exactly the same
rights to the source code as you had before. If your business relied on it, you
could still take the
source and modify it to your needs.<<
Such a simple pointed statement, while completely true,
>> Yeah --- no matter how big a company you are -- I've yet to meet a
corporate manager who would spend -- what do you think this thing
cost? -- minimally $50,000? -- just to make a spoof?<<
I am not saying this was an intended spoof or not, but I can say I have seen
Microsoft spend money
to
On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
> Have you seen the video on Bill Gates' last day at Microsoft?
>
> How about the video on "We Share Your Pain" video?
>
> Money is not a restriction.
Yes, I've seen them and I was thinking about those when I replied. (I
offered to my customers
> OTOH I'm into Python, not because VFP is dead (at
> my working place I am only authorized to program VFP) but BECAUSE I
LOVE
> the bloody language. After tasting Python I just couldn't be thrilled
at doing
> something with VFP. And I think that if you tried it, the same might
> happen to you
On Apr 19, 2008, at 1:18 PM, Rick Schummer wrote:
>> There is no way that Sun or any other company can reverse that. You
>> still have exactly the same rights to the source code as you had
>> before. If your business relied on it, you could still take the
>> source and modify it to your need
But then, what do I know about money?
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Bill
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On Apr 19, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Bill Arnold wrote:
> ...until 2015, at least 7 years... and I
> truly believe more and better options will emerge during this time.
Of course they will. I'm just saying that for my business, I can't
wait that long. Fox *is* dead in the marketplace for new custom
> > ...until 2015, at least 7 years... and I
> > truly believe more and better options will emerge during this time.
>
> Of course they will. I'm just saying that for my business, I can't
> wait that long. Fox *is* dead in the marketplace for new custom
> software. My marketplace has spoken.
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Rick Schummer
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> The only negative of this machine is the power up from sleep cycle. It seems
> to draw a lot of power,
> often tripping up the three UPSes in on the same circuit in the office when
> it awakens. It does seem
UPS & prin
I don't think he has the printers on the UPS, just on
the same circuit. When the laser printer goes off,
the UPS senses a brown-out condition and fire.
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> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Rick Schummer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The only nega
> UPS & printers ? Isn't that a big no no. ?
>
Yes, for lasers or photocopiers using a UPS is not recommended. I do use a
surge suppressor for those kinds of units, but a heavy duty one that will
not pop an internal circuit breaker when the current demand spikes.
For ink jet and impact printers
If only it was that simple. If you can be around at the point they drive the
knife in. But its not that easy. Believe me I m as unhappy with the
situation and anyone as Im a VFP fan. Im a happy VFP bunny. But I need to
compete.
Allen
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Allen,
I've (finally) changed this topic to VFP marketing. I was a little
surprised there wasn't much interest in the original thread. Maybe
because I had the word 'product' in there, or that everyone is happy
with enough paying customers and work, and this just isn't important. Be
it as it may, m
If you feel the need to compete, learn more stuff. Put as many arrows in the
quiver as you possibly can. Life is school.
JH
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On Apr 19, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Bill Arnold wrote:
> Mulling over what I can say, it strikes me to first ask "how can we
> help"? Please don't say it's hopeless, because I'll never believe
> that.
Ah, the beauty of faith over reason!
-- Ed Leafe
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> > If you're not wedded to this software, I'd suggest Cobian Backup.
>Wow! What a nicely written application.
>
>Ken, thanks for the Heads Up!
You're welcome. It saved my bacon when my ancient tape drive died.
Ken
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> > Mulling over what I can say, it strikes me to first ask "how can we
> > help"? Please don't say it's hopeless, because I'll never believe
> > that.
>
> Ah, the beauty of faith over reason!
I know this is a very weak barometer of interest in programming
languages, but bear with me for
On Saturday 19 April 2008 12:34, Ed Leafe wrote:
> ...well, that's how he would be pegged by Fox News if he was around
> today. Imagine if they had used their practice of taking sound bites
> out of context and playing them over and over, and used that with this
> gem:
>
> http://www.biblegat
On Friday 18 April 2008 23:48, Michael Madigan wrote:
> Oops
>
> http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news4.18.08d.html
Hi Michael!
Curious seating layout?
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Thanks Mike.
EVGA GeForce 9800 GX2
Interesting video card. However, the specs say "Microsoft Windows Vista
-or- Windows XP" as minimum requirements.
I need something that c
Sorry!!! This should have been [NF].
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm aware of recent threads concerning machine recommendations. I'm looking
>for something a bit different, though, so this should be a sufficiently
>fresh topic. Anyway, since everything changes every 5 minutes in this biz,
>no such thread can re
Well, it is a gaming video card, so it is designed for gamers, who are
running the "best" (left to interpretation) operating systems, which is xp /
vista. you may be able to get it to work with linux or older versions of
windows. I would start by searching the gamers forums or the forums for
video
That's just one possibility. Here's a more standard arrangement:
http://www.autobloggreen.com/gallery/volkswagen-up-concept/390807/
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>> UPS & printers ? Isn't that a big no no. ?<<
Correct. I have the printer plugged in to a surge protector, and have several
UPS throughout the
office in the same circuit. Yet, when this printer wakes up it will even dim
the lights in the
family room (different circuits). The tech support peopl
It's normal for any laser.
--- Rick Schummer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >> UPS & printers ? Isn't that a big no no. ?<<
>
> Correct. I have the printer plugged in to a surge
> protector, and have several UPS throughout the
> office in the same circuit. Yet, when this printer
> wakes up it wil
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