Re: When will I learn?

2009-04-15 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:04 -0500, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: My point was that Python is a growing language, and there are both employment and consulting opportunities out there. And classy merchandise! http://savvy.purseblog.com/price/400-599/kotur-dabo-python-clutch-2.html --

Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Paaa, badabadabadabadaammm!!! And now! The MicroShit add of the day, folks! I have Vista and find no trouble taking it between different clients and working with their networks. Are you forcing it to act like Win2000 ? ___ Post Messages

[OT] ARF!

2009-04-15 Thread Adam Buckland
It was the first day of a school and a new Indian student named Chandrasekhar Subramanian entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, Let's begin by reviewing some American History. Who said 'Give me Liberty or give me Death'? The saw a sea of blank faces, except for Chandrasekhar, who had his

Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: Wasn't it always listed as dBase3 or dBase4 file type? They never even took possession of their own name. I wonder if you could take it back to Access instead of dbf? I got a question about MicroShit business practices. Do you get payed by the hour or on a per mail

Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Gil Hale RR wrote: very core of the OS, as opposed to the Windows bolt-on, add apps, based security solution afterthought. I still do not trust security on my Windows machines, despite all the protections I have in place, as I know something can still sneak into my machinery if I am careless

RE: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread John Weller
Come on guys - this is getting offensive and definitely not techie! Go OT if you want a flame war. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 I got a question about MicroShit business practices. Do you get payed by the hour or on a per mail basis?

Re: When will I learn?

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote: On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: BTW, there were an awful lot of companies hiring at PyCon last month... I am just not sure that any company would have me after so many years as a generalist. I look at job listings and see a specific

RE: When will I learn?

2009-04-15 Thread Dave Crozier
Ricardo, Console yourself that when the whizkids have wreaked havoc, done their worst and moved on to pastures new then us old times will be there to sort out the crap they have left and as you said ...make it work. Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com

Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Sytze de Boer wrote: There's one thing I don't understand in all this. You are a programmer and wrote a module that worked for your client. They changed the environment (upgraded Office) So you get another job and opportunity to charge again. Simple. What's the complaint Many would think

Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Vince Teachout wrote: Gil Hale RR wrote: Same here re: use of .csv file format. Clean, simple, no bloat as with larger XML files. CSV works great, except for memo fields. One of my clients is in Risk Management, which requires a lot of narrative (memo). How do you get around that, if you

Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Russell
2009/4/15 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Gil Hale RR wrote: very core of the OS, as opposed to the Windows bolt-on, add apps, based security solution afterthought.  I still do not trust security on my Windows machines, despite all the protections I have in place, as I know something can

Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread vzer7pph
Apr 15, 2009 09:15:07 AM, profox@leafe.com wrote: Alan Bourke wrote: All software companies do this from time to time. On one hand they have people complaining about apps becoming more bloated, so what do you do? Take out what you consider to be little-used functionality. Of course this one

Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:26 AM, vzer7...@verizon.net wrote: Apr 15, 2009 09:15:07 AM, profox@leafe.com wrote: Alan Bourke wrote: All software companies do this from time to time. On one hand they have people complaining about apps becoming more bloated, so what do you do? Take out what

Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread vzer7pph
It would seem so, but why don't they put it back in? Can it really be that hard?? All my recommendations push people to OpenOffice. It supports DBFs wonderfully. And, once the folks get their hands on OO, they are likely to drop MS Office eventually. Just recently I've

[NF] SQL Server performance monitoring

2009-04-15 Thread Matt Jarvis
For those of you that to SQL Server DBA stuff, what sort of performance monitoring tools do you use? Since I'm new at this I'm just using the built in PerfMon tools, saving off timed monitored queries to a spreadsheet, and tweaking the xls for averages, max, min etc. I'm still on SQL Server 2K

Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Wed, April 15, 2009 10:25 am, Stephen Russell wrote: So why upgrade to each new version put out? You get a better OS to protect you. Unfortunate that important point is lost on this group. Oh well. You paint with too wide of a brush. That's not accurate at all. It might be lost of

Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Wed, April 15, 2009 10:32 am, Stephen Russell wrote: I put OO on my son's notebook and his gf's as well. They just have to do papers for school so it is fine for them. -- I had put OO on my home computer years ago for my daughter and (now ex-)wife for the same purpose. Both bitched (for

Re: Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread vzer7pph
Apr 15, 2009 11:52:02 AM, profox@leafe.com wrote:On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, wrote: I imagine you were trying to convert an existing MS Office macro. As far as I know, of the 10's of thousands of macros programmed/recorded in OO that I've heard of, seen, used, etc, there are no errors at

Re: Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, vzer7...@verizon.net wrote: Apr 15, 2009 11:52:02 AM, profox@leafe.com wrote:On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, wrote: I Charlie - It is all in the past dude. You are worse that a woman at having to be right and get the last word. I thought that I

Re: Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Madigan
What kind of open source blackberry are you using, I'm going blind reading your post. LOL * --- On Wed, 4/15/09, vzer7...@verizon.net vzer7...@verizon.net wrote: From: vzer7...@verizon.net vzer7...@verizon.net Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: [NF]

RE: Re: Re: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Gil Hale RR
I'm going blind reading your post. LOL I think that have been intentional. My eMails sent from my Blackberry seem to do fine. I will test it out in a few moments by sending an eMail to ProFox... Gil -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-

[NF] Blackberry generated email sample

2009-04-15 Thread Gil Hale
If you can read this, you are reading this. Or at least you already read it. This email was sent via a Blackberry Bold phone (ATT service). Gil Sent via BlackBerry by ATT ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: [NF] Blackberry generated email sample

2009-04-15 Thread Gil Hale RR
Looks okay to me... Now you did not really think I was going to write a mini-novel on the BB do you? I may be crazy, but I ain't that stupid... Gil -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech- boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Gil Hale Sent: Wednesday,

RE: [NF] Blackberry generated email sample

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Madigan
Charlie may have been using a linux-powered telegraph or something. * J --- On Wed, 4/15/09, Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com wrote: From: Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com Subject: RE: [NF] Blackberry generated email sample To:

SETFLDSTATE (VFP9SP2)

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Has anyone ever found an instance where using SETFLDSTATE doesn't seem to work? I've got a local view and am setting a column's value after getting the resultset using a function in my dataobj to derive value. (On a side note, I had emailed with Rick S. and am going to try his suggestion for

Re: [Fwd: Urgent Visual FoxPro Developer position to be filled ASAP in New Orleans, LA]

2009-04-15 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Apparently, at least since Jan 2008! http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~JobPostings On Tue, April 14, 2009 1:11 pm, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: fyi... I think this Baton Rouge opening has been there for quite a while iirc...at least 2 years? *NO THIRD PARTIES*

Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try open office

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
John Weller wrote: Come on guys - this is getting offensive and definitely not techie! Go OT if you want a flame war. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 You're right. Sorry. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?

2009-04-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: 2009/4/15 Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com: Gil Hale RR wrote: very core of the OS, as opposed to the Windows bolt-on, add apps, based security solution afterthought. I still do not trust security on my Windows machines, despite all the protections I have in

RE: SETFLDSTATE (VFP9SP2)

2009-04-15 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Yeah, it didn't work for me either. I use local views, but they r not saved, I thought that was the problem. E. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

[OT] Brains

2009-04-15 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLbOuHX8rMA E. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive:

[OT] Global dimming

2009-04-15 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming Guess they don't have as good a lobby as the GW gang, but they were here first. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ ___ Post Messages to: