Re: The disappearance of Micro$oft Forms 2.0 ActiveX controls?

2014-08-30 Thread Man-wai Chang
I am just worrying that sooner or later, those old ActiveX controls would be dropped in favor of the latest and greatest dotNet Runtime. On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Michael Oke, II oke...@gmail.com wrote: Are you saying that this has happened or you think it might? You have the

Re: The disappearance of Micro$oft Forms 2.0 ActiveX controls?

2014-08-30 Thread Man-wai Chang
VirusTotal is definitely a better online virus scanner than this 411 https://www.virustotal.com/ On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 11:24 AM, mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On 2014-08-29 14:29, Paul McNett wrote: http://www.411-spyware.com/file-vfp6-exe LMAO! -- .~.

[NF] Scheduling irregular meetings in Outlook 2007/2010

2014-08-30 Thread Malcolm Greene
I'm not a big Outlook user so when a customer told me that they couldn't schedule a meeting that occurred the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Thursday of every month via a single meeting invite I was skeptical. After scratching my head and googling it looks like Outlook's native scheduling capabilities are

[NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Malcolm Greene
Looking for comments and recommendations regarding the usefulness and performance of Chromebooks or Chromeboxes? Pros, cons, tips, techniques, gotchas ... vendors or specific product models to consider or avoid? What to upgrade (memory, SSD's?), etc. How easy is printing? Performance? Ease of

VFP 6.0, MS Forms 2.0 textbox and Unicode

2014-08-30 Thread Man-wai Chang
I created a simple form with a Forms 2.0 textbox called text1. I pasted in some Unicode characters into text1. I then tried to save text1.text into a file. The saved file contained ? only! How could I make VFP 6 to save text1.text as it is? Is this a problem related to locale that could only be

RE: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
What I think is going to make the chromebook really take off is that even out here in the boonies, the school here just issued a chromebook to everybody from 6th to 12th grades and made it a requirement that it be used. If this is happening nationwide, well it was a smart marketing move, and I'm

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Paul McNett
On 8/30/14, 7:08 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote: Looking for comments and recommendations regarding the usefulness and performance of Chromebooks or Chromeboxes? Chromebooks are great little devices if: 1) You are happy living almost completely in the Google ecosystem. -or- 2) You are comfortable

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Stephen Russell
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Virgil Bierschwale vbier...@gmail.com wrote: What I think is going to make the chromebook really take off is that even out here in the boonies, the school here just issued a chromebook to everybody from 6th to 12th grades and made it a requirement that it be

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
We love ours! We got an HP referb on Woot for about $200. Free life time T-Mobile (slows down after 250 mb but still provides data when no wi-fi). Beautiful picture. Super fast because of SSD. I use Remote Desktop to work on my development machine and also access my server when out

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: I can't think of a single drawback. Well, it doesn't run FoxPro. OTOH, it doesn't run Windows malware, either :) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
Ted: I sit in my comfy chair and use Remote Desktop. So technically it runs everything Windows. ;^) On 8/30/2014 11:16 AM, Ted Roche wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: I can't think of a single drawback. Well, it doesn't run FoxPro. OTOH, it

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Ted: I sit in my comfy chair and use Remote Desktop. So technically it runs everything Windows. As do I with several Linux and Android boxes around here. But the malware stays on the other end ;) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche

Re: [NF] A New Chapter

2014-08-30 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
Just back from vacation dumping the elder daughter off at college, so just saw this Great, Ed. You deserve any kind of bump you want! Ken On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 4:44 PM, Jerry Wolper jwol...@swanzoco.com wrote: No, I'm not getting fired. ;-) I have accepted an offer to work for IBM.

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread AndyHC
I finally gave in and bought a tablet ( http://tinyurl.com/qbfldvl ) - £90, 'free' keyboard, 32Gb, WiFi, high definition hdmi output - and it just works out of the box. I'd have liked 3G built in but there was nothing with that at under double the price; another £10 for a 3G dongle solved the

Re: [NF] Personal experiences with Chromebooks or Chromeboxes?

2014-08-30 Thread AndyHC
On 30/08/2014 20:00, Ted Roche wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com wrote: Ted: I sit in my comfy chair and use Remote Desktop. So technically it runs everything Windows. As do I with several Linux and Android boxes around here. But the malware stays on the