Re: [NF] language translators

Bill Arnold wrote: > Alan, > >> Look at Rosetta Stone Software - http://www.rosettastone.com/ > > The doc looks impressive. Wonder why it's not a mainstream heavy-hitter > (or is it and I'm just not aware?). I'm thinking that such a capability > would/should be ubiquitous. Go to any shopping mal

Re: [NF] Your desktop, was What kind...

Ed Leafe wrote: > One thing I just learned is that you can now activate menus on the > Mac with just a keystroke. Ctrl-F2 does it, and it's configurable. I > don't know what version they introduced that on, but it was news to me. Sweet! (Works in Tiger). Paul _

Re: [NF] What kind of Apple BS are they forcing now?

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:06 PM, Paul M¢Nett wrote: > >> How is Leopard running on your MacBook? > > Actually, I now use a MacBook Pro, courtesy of Rackspace. The family > has the MacBook back in Rochester. > > So far it's OK, but hardl

Re: [NF] who easy is it to break into the power grid?

Jerry Wolper wrote: >>From the article: > > "Power stations running special SCADA control software have the > perception that they are more secure than other networked systems. > However, they are just as vulnerable because they are connected to > the Internet and run on computers that also run

Re: Design Question

Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Has anyone built an application using this technique? > > I agree with Paul, but if you are running into size issues, one step > short of going to a server-based DB (or as a stop-gap until you do) > is to split t

Re: [NF] Your desktop, was What kind...

Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > Cool -- Done. Thanks. Much cleaner now. Feels better. I know that > there are 1,000's of Mac things I "have yet to discover" -- even > though I've had this machine for a long time. My nephew, 3 years old, discovered a keypress combo that inversed the video color

Re: Design Question

Jeff Johnson wrote: > I have some very large tables that are processed over a network. I > would like to split them into monthly tables - one table per month. > When I print reports I want to combine the months covering the data > range selected by the user. > > Has anyone built an application

Re: [NF] What kind of Apple BS are they forcing now?

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:32 PM, Paul M¢Nett wrote: > >> On Mac, by default, downloads go to the desktop. This is a great idea >> IMO because the downloads to to a place normal people can find easily. > > > I always created a directory called &qu

Re: [NF] Your desktop, was What kind...

Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: >> I limit myself to one column-full on the left including My >> Computer, My Documents and the bin. > > Gee, this is starting to sound like a Whil "Just wondering" discussion. > > I keep the minimum possible: > > Wind

Re: [NF] What kind of Apple BS are they forcing now?

Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:14 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: >> I always thought that having a desktop full of icons was a measure of >> status in the Windows world. Most Windows systems I see are full of >> 'em. I wonder how many people know that they can delete them? > As deve

Re: [NF] What kind of Apple BS are they forcing now?

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 9, 2008, at 1:28 PM, Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote: > >> A related gripe: I *** hate ** it when updaters add icons to the >> desktop. M$ does it. Apple does it. I hate it. How damned >> presumptuous! Did I say that I HATE it? > > > I always thought that having a de

Re: [NF] PayPal

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > > Dear Paul: > > > Paypal said that the cardholders did not live in Israel. > > > They suspected the transactions. I assume they called PayPal and tried to get the matter resolved? If PayPal is just flat-out refusing to work with them, for whatever reason,

Re: [NF] PayPal

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > Dear Paul: > > They are selling intangible services to tourists. Can you try to make that more tangible? What services are they selling? > They live in Israel. Ok > Our son-in-law is a developer of applications. Cool. So he writes some sort of application for

Re: [NF] PayPal

Michael Madigan wrote: > The paypal service could loosely be interpreted as > technology as many of us take paypal as a means of > payment for services. So my pen is technology too then, right? Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] PayPal

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > > Our children in Israel set up an intangible service for tourist. > > > The tourists paid with PayPal. > > > PayPal won't release the monies. > > > What do you suggest -- tips and resources? I don't understand the message. Are your children living or vacat

[OT] Re: Uh oh - Global Cooling is here

OT abuse reported, and subject changed. I don't know why I'm bothering to reply, as I don't read OT, but anyway: John Harvey wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7329799.stm > > Nice little story about how the data shows the world has been cooling since > 1998, and from the BBC and

Re: VFP Foxcharts Alpha release

Sytze de Boer wrote: > How can we motivate Cezar to work on it this weekend ? Spelling his name correctly wouldn't hurt. ;) Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: [NF] 0 Carbon delivery service

Nicholas Geti wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Paul M¢Nett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 5:03 PM > Subject: Re: [NF] 0 Carbon delivery service > > >> Paul Hill wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:4

Re: SQL Passthrough and ODBC

Jeff Johnson wrote: > Thanks Ted & Steve: I use connectionstrings.com but I needed to know if > sqlstringconnect, etc. uses ODBC. Connectionstrings.com clearly shows > that my connections use ODBC and I have informed my customer. SQLSTRINGCONNECT *does use* an ODBC driver, but *doesn't need to

Re: [NF] 0 Carbon delivery service

Paul Hill wrote: > On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Michael Madigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zero pollution? What about the CO2 he's expelling >> with every exhale? > > He's exhaling the carbon he ate for breakfast! So essentiually carbon > neutral. > The problem is when carbon laid down 1

Re: [NF] Global Warming and Dust

Stephen Russell wrote: > I made mention of this phenomenon a couple of years ago that we no longer > pick up dirt anymore. Instead you see men or women with blowers that push > the dirt in to the air. ...burning fossil fuels while doing so. Paul ___

Re: [NF] Gmail spam filter getting over-aggressive

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Apr 2, 2008, at 2:36 PM, Paul M¢Nett wrote: > >> I had an email bounce because it had a single-word subject. Sheesh. > > I got a file containing lots of regex expressions for the Postfix > header_checks file that contained things like: &g

Re: [NF] Anyone have a LISP?

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Wow...I may be confused, but I thought LISP was even more dead than > Foxpro! I realize you have your tongue in your cheek, but FoxPro will be long gone when Lisp is still alive and kicking in one form or another. The reason is simple: FoxPro is a

Re: [NF] Gmail spam filter getting over-aggressive

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Garrett Fitzgerald wrote: >> I haven't been checking my spam folder lately, because the filtering has >> always been good -- or so I thought. I just pulled a ton of messages from >> wp-users out, at least one Profox mail, and a Google Alert involving V

Re: [NF] Gmail problems?

Gil Hale wrote: >> like xls, exe, and I'm seeing zip stripped out more and more, as well. > > Same here, re: these certain attachments being stripped (usually .exe, .com, These filters tend to be very stupid, too. They look at the extension, not the content. Sometimes I share my dns zone files w

Re: [NF] Just one of those days...

Ed Leafe wrote: > http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7837/failederrorgv1.jpg > > Next to lambs lying down with lions... ;-) That is classic! Would have been better if they added comments like they do in their source code like "we suck" or "we are such morons". ;) Paul ___

Re: [NF] PDF to DOC

Stephen Russell wrote: > What is the quality that you get from the PDFtoPS? I have that on my to do > list in that I have to find a great reverse from PDF back to PS for some odd > ball reason(s) to be named in the future. > > How about a test grade, would you give that an A, B, or only a C ? I

Re: Slow call to Menu

Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: > Hi > > I have the following scenario, VFP9.2, Win Server 2003, VFP database. > > In my program, EXE, I call... > Do (this.cMainMenu) && \xxx\Menus\Main.mpr > Do (this.cAppMenu) && \yyy\Menus\AppMenu.mpr > In my working environment it's as fast as it ca

Re: [NF] PDF to DOC

Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > What tools do you suggest for: > >Text only > >Text and images This may or may not help. On Linux, there are some command-line tools such as: pdftotext pdftops pdftohtml pdfimages They do the job, with quality about what you'd expect from a tool that

Re: [NF] What kind of Apple BS are they forcing now?

Stephen Russell wrote: > Why do I get frigin alerts for iTunes and Safarri? I got QuickTime a while > back to view some content and they just want to NAG me about all their other > "wonderful" products. > > Cut that shit out. I'm tired of it. Here, here. I'm sick of it too. Paul

Re: Report Print Preview

Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: > Bingo. What a s&*& thing. We've all been bitten by foxuser.dbf I think. The insidious thing about the report preview toolbar is that there's no way for the end user to get it back. foxuser makes working in the IDE nicer, but it should be disabled in your distribute

Re: [NF] SearchMe new beta is coming out nd you have to sign up for it.

Stephen Russell wrote: > > > > > I like the way the separate the crud in a search. I have been worki

Re: Email from VFP

Sytze de Boer wrote: > Hi Folk > I have several applications that I configured for sending emails > automatically > (e.g. copies of invoices, or Backups) > > I use BLAT > There's one issue I can't my head around. > It works fine at most places and not at some > It seems the problem relates to the

Re: [NF] Unix webhosting - directory password protection

Graham Brown (CompSYS) wrote: > Hi all > > I have a few websites hosted on nix servers which have private folders so in > the online control panel they are set to require password. > When someone attempts to go to this folder in a browser they get a standard > windows login dialog. > > Does anyon

Re: VFP SPT Canvassing Opinion

Hi Dave, When I converted a couple VFP apps to MySQL, I went the SPT route which worked great. I chose the route of: 1) insert blank record 2) commit 3) get last_insert_id from backend 4) repopulate the spt cursor Today, I would generate my pk id's on the front end using GUIDs. While it is eas

Re: [NF] Really weird diffence between Internet Explorer and Firefox

Michael Madigan wrote: > Does the command in Firefox not work? Ah, it looks like this is a 'feature' of IE. http://webdesign.about.com/cs/htmltags/a/aacommentsie_2.htm Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leaf

Re: [NF] Really weird diffence between Internet Explorer and Firefox

Michael Madigan wrote: > Does the command in Firefox not work? What's the tag? I'd never heard of it. Comments in HTML are done using , like: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_comment.asp Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > David Crooks wrote: >> Yepper. I think it is not knowing how to use the debugger and for the >> most part they came from a Java world. Still I would have thought that >> even the older versions of .NET the debugger was a pretty strong tool >> even com

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Paul M¢Nett wrote: >> MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: >>> Would you say that you're the norm or the exception? >>> >> Please rephrase the question. It somehow sounds kind of loaded. >> >

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Paul M¢Nett wrote: >> I'll use elements of things you find in an IDE separately, such as a >> debugger, an editor, and a visual layout designer. But I launch those >> things from the command line as needed. >> >&

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Paul M¢Nett wrote: >> >> I see the appeal of a rich IDE, but now that I'm good at vim and the >> command line, I can't see ever wanting to use an IDE again. >> >> > > > ...for ANYTHING? I

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

Paul Hill wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Paul M¢Nett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Carl! >> >>> This question was raised a couple of months ago - I believe it was Paul >> > McNett who suggested Zip Genuis - totally free - can work from comman

Re: [NF] Freeware to unzip zip file

Hi Carl! > This question was raised a couple of months ago - I believe it was Paul > McNett who suggested Zip Genuis - totally free - can work from command line > - supposed to handle a bunch of compression formats. Nope, wasn't me... I use the command line for archiving/unarchiving. This is tar,

Re: VFP9 SP1 and Vista

Kent Belan wrote: > I have been testing on my Laptop with Vista Windows Aero and transparancy > turned off. > I leave the VFP9 SP1 EXE running on minimized and not too long the windows > command bar > starts to become corrupted. The time disappears, the icon shortcuts > disappear and the running ap

Re: [NF] PyCon Chicago has begun

Tracy Pearson wrote: > You starting rumors? I'm not in Chicago currently. I think he misspoke and meant "Randy Pearson". If memory serves, Lauren and Randy would frequently play off of each other in the wwwc threads (forum for West Wind Web Connection). Paul __

Re: [NF] PyCon Chicago has begun

Ed Leafe wrote: > What's the most amazing thing is that in an age where technical > conference attendance has been waning across the board, PyCOn is > exploding! Two years ago there were a little over 300 attendees; last > year that swelled to around 600. This year we're right around 1,

Re: Will a VFP9 program run on a Mac

Kent Belan wrote: > I have a VFP9 program that someone wants to run on a Mac. > Is there some program on a Mac that will run Windows programs? > I don't know anything about Mac's ... There are a couple choices, but given your experience level and the need to get it running quickly, your best opti

Re: Universal Thread Magazine resumed

Hi Rick, > Heck, I hang out here in the center of the anti-Microsoft Fox Universe > because I learn something I just spent 10 minutes searching google trying to find evidence that ProFox is actually middle-of-the-road in being anti-Microsoft, but I got saddled down with skimming/reading parts o

Re: [NF] IronPython Studio

Alan Bourke wrote: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:39:36 -0700, "Paul M¢Nett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> But beware: your GUI code will require .NET/Mono > > Well, if it's Mono you won't be tied to a platform. But the WinForms > implementation is a

Re: [NF] IronPython Studio

Alan Bourke wrote: > http://www.codeplex.com/IronPythonStudio > > This is a free Python IDE based upon the VS 2008 shell. It's the same > idea as Craig Boyd's recent Visual Foxpro efforts in the same area, > except this lets you use Python to create GUI applications using Windows > Forms, just

Re: [NF] PowerPoint -- no advance

Ted Roche wrote: > Try IrfanView. Free. Makes slideshows. Lets you embed music. Makes an > executable so that people don't need viewers. My Dad figured out how > to use it with no coaching from me. http://www.irfanview.com/ I'd totally forgotten about IrfanView. I remember using it way back in '9

Re: [NF] M$ expanding the target for revenue?

Should George Bush and Dick Cheney be impeached? Of course it was a joke. Allen wrote: > Oh boy. Oh was that a joke? > Allen > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul M¢Nett > > Are you joking? This is

Re: [NF] M$ expanding the target for revenue?

Pete Theisen wrote: > I want them to limit the car's speed in neighborhoods and parking lots. Even > if the driver wants to hit the kids and pedestrians he/she can't. Are you joking? This is anti-American government regulation you know. It is my car, and I have the god-given right to drive it ho

Re: [NF] M$ expanding the target for revenue?

Stephen Russell wrote: > And you thought that you hated M$ before. Just think of what a traffic > light will look like with the BSOD. OMG. I'm already annoyed at the new ATM my bank put in, a Diebold machine that has no many mis-features it is laughable, and my average transaction time has prob

Re: Menu editing pet peeve

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:42 AM, David Crooks wrote: > >> I have always thought it was because FoxPro could _not_ tell if you >> made >> any changes to the memo fields. So, they just wrote it to prompt to >> save >> just in case something was done menu builder. > > > I do

Re: Menu editing pet peeve

Richard Kaye wrote: > The simple act of issuing modi menu seems to write to one of the mn? > files. If you look at the timestamps, you'll see that. Why does it do > that? Good question... Come on, that's a feature! I think it is really cool perusing my source control diffs to see all that info

Re: [nf] Can't seem to get .pdf registered

John Weller wrote: > Normally the setup would register any file types as part of the > installation. Obviously in this case that hasn't worked. Look at the > registered file type for the PDF extension and see if that gives a clue. That's just it: there is no registered file type. I had to manual

[nf] Can't seem to get .pdf registered

Someone that knows Windows better than I do, please help. What am I doing wrong: 1) Control Panel/Add Remove Software/Adobe Reader/remove 2) reboot 3) Run Adobe reader setup (812_en_us) 4) reboot 5) click on a pdf file in explorer and it tells me that there isn't an application associated with t

Re: [nf] Dabo and Crystal Reports?

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Mar 11, 2008, at 7:39 AM, Man-wai Chang wrote: > >> I think you should spend sometime with it. Find a complicated Foxpro >> report that required it. CR has something called Sub-Report. That's >> something that Foxpro's report writer couldn't do (not sure about what >> ReportLi

Re: FoxRockX Introduction

MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: > Paul M¢Nett wrote: >> I'm the same way. I try to be green, but I want to hold something less >> than a pound in weight, and less than 9x11 in size to read. The >> technology is coming to allow that, but I'd still need

Re: FoxRockX Introduction

Vince Teachout wrote: > I won't pay money for e-subscriptions. If it doesn't come on paper, I > don't subscribe. Why? Because after spending all day in front of the > computer, the last thing I want to do is spend another hour or so > staring at the screen to read a magazine. I prefer to tak

Re: [NF] Investing in the recession

Stephen Russell wrote: > Anyone use any software to get ahead of this impending recession? But George Bush said that we aren't heading into recession. > I am going on instinct for now and would like to get a better feeling on my > pure guesses. > > Those would be energy, companies that supply t

Re: [NF] Search Engine Ranking Software

Graham Brown (CompSYS) wrote: > Could anyone recommend any software which shows a sites ranking on the major > search engines. > I've come across a product called SEO Suite 8 but it is s complicated to > use I've given up with it. What search engine, besides Google, do you consider "major"? P

Re: [NF] Notebooks

Helio W. wrote: > I need to buy six notebooks, they need to be somewhat rugged, because they > could/will be used in the field. We've been using Dell Latitudes and I'm > inclined to continue to use them. But I'd like to hear any recommendations. > I hear Thinkpads would be a good alternative. HPs a

Re: [ADMIN] Test

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Mar 2, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh wrote: > >>> Re-wrote the script that archives messages. >> Feel another Feb 29 coming on? > > > Yep! > > Actually, that was one of the first Python scripts I had ever > written. It was before I knew much abo

Re: [NF] Network Viewer

nmap has an option to try to hack through firewalls. It probably takes forever though. Paul John Harvey wrote: > If they have a firewall up, you won't. > > Jh > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Nicholas Geti > Sent: Saturday, Marc

Re: [NF] Network Viewer

Jeff Johnson wrote: > Awesome tool Thank you very much! > > It's freeware for personal and business. I recommend anyone with a > network with a bunch of devices on it, check this out. In the Linux cli world, the defacto net scanner is still nmap, I believe. You target it at a network, say

Re: [NF] Network Viewer

Jeff Johnson wrote: > On my network I have three wireless computers, three wireless streaming > devices, a hardwired server and two hardwired computers. I have > assigned fixed IP address to everything. I use the router to restrict > one user from accessing the internet during the day. > > Th

Re: hiding sensitive material from repair technician

Bill Arnold wrote: > The Internet has ebay, google, craigslist and some other smash hits. > > Seems like there's room for one more. Maybe call it "feedback". > > Concept is simple: every service provider (professional, business, > agency, etc.) gets space for a listing where customers can feedba

Re: hiding sensitive material from repair technician

This is one reason why I learned how to administer my own system, from the hardware upgrades to installing the os from scratch, everything. If I ever have to let someone else's paws on my system, I'll certainly remove the hard drive first if I'm not right there witnessing what they are doing.

Re: [NF] What's your preferred software for FTP transfers (via GUI)?

Paul Newton wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Paul McNett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> No, I love the Linux world because of the actual practical tools >>> available that make me feel like God. Windows and Mac hamper my style. >>> >>> ---