Re: [OT] Apple in stock slide

2010-09-29 Thread Ted Roche
bout a multinational company's finances is not on-topic, and it's not NF tech. It's OFF-TOPIC. (full disclaimer: http://blog.tedroche.com/2006/12/28/disclaimers/) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___

Re: xcase question

2010-10-01 Thread Ted Roche
with DBFs in a long time. With MySQL, it uses ODBC. IIRC, it includes a VFP app you run. Poke around the xCase directories... You should also try their support email address, perhaps supp...@xcase.com? I've had my questions answered promptly over the years. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Assoc

Re: xcase question

2010-10-04 Thread Ted Roche
he early versions of xCase could create VFP data base directly whether > there was data in the model or not. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://lea

Re: Encryption

2010-10-05 Thread Ted Roche
pro/vfp-implementation-cipher-encryption It's slow to use on a lot of fields and not highly secure but suitable for a few fields and to deter the lazy. Also, do consider some of the points raised here: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~DataEncryption -- Ted Roche Ted Ro

Re: VFUG.org still alive

2010-10-06 Thread Ted Roche
ownforeveryoneorjustme.com/vfug.org) The vfug.org domain is still registered, so I'm guessing they're just having a bad day. Googling doesn't show anything like a "we're closing" announcement. Anyone else have more insight? -- Ted R

Re: VFUG.org still alive

2010-10-06 Thread Ted Roche
t...@redtile.com RedTile, Inc. 2400 Falkner Rd. Orlando, FL 32810 US +1.4072959148 -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailm

Re: Database documentation?

2010-10-07 Thread Ted Roche
ome with a big price, so they're likely out of your budget. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free versi

Re: [NF] This is funny Get punched by a robot.

2010-10-14 Thread Ted Roche
h incompatible version of IE are you using? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this lis

Re: The Mysterious VANISHING Print Preview ToolBar.

2010-10-14 Thread Ted Roche
the print preview toolbar where you want it. Quit the app. Start FoxPro, open up the kurt.dbf and study the records. Your answer is in there. Post follow-up questions if you have them. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _

Re: [NF] Looking for new router

2010-10-15 Thread Ted Roche
f2 on top of White Russian on a WRTLS54GS, a compact version with a USB port. It's got BusyBox for an ssh console, a package manager that lets you add things like SIP support, an ftp server, an OpenVPN tunnel endpoint, and more. > Just sayin'.

Re: [NF] I moved my wife's email account to be consumed by Gmail

2010-10-19 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > With apologies to Ted Roche (for gushing like a little school girl), I > strongly recommend paying a modest fee for a professionally managed > email service. No need to apologize. We all know you've become a One True Beli

[NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-19 Thread Ted Roche
w's it working? What restrictions are you running into? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version o

Re: [NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-19 Thread Ted Roche
LAN Manager protocols, you can search out their file servers and printer and access the local resources you need in-house. Ideally, I'm looking for a secure tunnel, then a screen-scraping program from there. Is anyone using Remote Desktop or whatever they call RDP in this ver

Re: [NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-19 Thread Ted Roche
g for suggestions for what a "user" would use to get remote access to his/her desktop. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mail

Re: [NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-19 Thread Ted Roche
behind a couple of routers and firewalls, he can set up LogMeIn on his machine, then install it at home, and access his machine, through the LAN, the routers and the InterTubes? Is there anything that needs to be set up on the routers? Sounds like Magic to me. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Asso

Re: [NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-20 Thread Ted Roche
ique used to try to figure out what the actual location (IP Address) of each end is, and the broker sends back what it sees to the client and server for them to attempt a direct end-to-end, encrypted connection. "Any magic sufficiently advanced appears to be technology" Clarke's Law, m

Re: Problem with sct

2010-10-20 Thread Ted Roche
Take a look at the antivirus software you're using. Some believe that SCT is some form of VBScript scrap file or something and may be preventing you from writing to it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post

Re: A possible business opportunity for me, how do I proceed?

2010-10-21 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Michael Savage wrote: > My first task is of course to find out if it has been done. And how might you go about that? www.lmgtfy.com/?q=water+dispensing+kiosk Hard to believe that people are willing to give up their plastic for water. Many of the kiosks look lik

Re: [NF] article comparison of OS databases Postgre and MySQL

2010-10-22 Thread Ted Roche
iew the article content in glorious Flash-free single-scrolling-page format. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: Messagebox & Font Sizing...

2010-10-29 Thread Ted Roche
ot; > This is on Windows 7. > > The Declaration is OK "Declare Integer GetSysColor In user32 Integer" > It fails at the "This.BackColor  = GetSysColor( COLOR_BTNFACE)" line and > all other GetSysColor( ) calls Try replacing the user32 with win32a

Re: Webcam pictures in VFP

2010-11-03 Thread Ted Roche
te "hi-res" because this was half FPD, half FPW and hi-res was probably XGA. We used LEADTools. They're still manufactured and have ActiveX as well as Dot Net and C/C++ interfaces. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: [NF] Adobe FDF merge to PDF

2010-11-05 Thread Ted Roche
access to pdftk. I've been working with pdftk, the PDF Toolkit, on Linux. I don't know what the equivalent tools might be in WinWorld these days. But pdftk will let you dump the structure and data elements. If it's not finding them, I'd be inclined to suspect your experimental method

[NF] Experience/recommendations for a GUI SQLite tool

2010-11-09 Thread Ted Roche
s on the SQLite site (http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/wiki?p=ManagementTools) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-f

Re: [NF] Experience/recommendations for a GUI SQLite tool

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Roche
ng. It's not FoxPro, but it can be invoked from the Nautilus file manager and looks like it has a lot of pretty nice features. Mostly I just wanted to browse and perhaps do a SELECT or two. It seems to be working out pretty well. Thanks! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche &

Re: VFP9: Data validator error?

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Roche
uration or antivirus software could cause this kind of an error. You could also try to PACK all of the files (Forms, Reports, tables in the EXE) as well, to remove any duplicated deleted records. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: [NF] Q&A Data Files

2010-11-10 Thread Ted Roche
rg/wiki/Q%26A_(software) Looks like your best bet might be the Sesame Database Manager: http://www.lantica.com/ I'd suggest you research their products and see if one can read the Q&A files and output a common format, like CSV. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates,

Re: [NF] Adobe FDF merge to PDF

2010-11-11 Thread Ted Roche
help if I can. You're welcome to email me off-list if you'd prefer. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pr

Re: A Peculiar CSV Import Issue

2010-11-11 Thread Ted Roche
;s Guide covers this pretty well, iirc, and I think Tamar wrote up a follow-up article on it. DELIMITED WITH and SEPARATED BY give you the power to read a lot of different formats, at low-level speed, and without bugs in code you have to write and debug. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associat

Re: [NF] Adobe FDF merge to PDF

2010-11-12 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > > I am in the middle of project where I'm using FDF-formatted data, out > of a MySQL database, to merge into a set of pre-defined PDF templates. For those of you following along at home, and others who might be curious, here

Re: [NF] General opinions of flat-screen HDTVs?

2010-11-12 Thread Ted Roche
media maven with lots of disposable income. Larger is better, but it needs to fit the space. Quality and reliability is really important; I'm a big fan of Consumer Reports. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ P

Re: [NF] Spiceworks software

2010-11-16 Thread Ted Roche
orts to all the other machines on the network is suicide. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version o

Re: [NF] GID Software

2010-11-18 Thread Ted Roche
the U.S., you'll need to dial 011 and 61 first. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: [NF] - HD Problem & MANY Files Lost...

2010-11-23 Thread Ted Roche
to you, there are further steps you can take, but I have the impression you're strapped for budget. You may want to just grab a copy and install it on a machine at home to experiment with, while you run Windows chkdsk on the company's disk and recover what you can. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche

Re: [NF] Apache on Windows, was Vista and IIS

2010-11-30 Thread Ted Roche
e a client who really wants to deploy Apache on Windows 2008, I'd welcome any updated recommendations. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.

Re: [NF] Apache on Windows, was Vista and IIS

2010-11-30 Thread Ted Roche
... because they got that way." Deploying Apache on Windows might be a way to migrate them slowly off an all-MSFT solution onto more of a LAMPish solution. I'm not sure that's the direction I'd recommend, but it's not my call. I'd be interested in other's experi

Re: [NF] contact management software

2010-12-02 Thread Ted Roche
ar  good grief!! If they have in-house IT support to help set it up, SugarCRM has a good reputation: http://www.sugarcrm.com/crm/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscrip

Re: Recommendations for free and commercial icon/image sets licensed for commercial use?

2010-12-08 Thread Ted Roche
You may want to research that assumption. GPL is a license whose scope is likely limited to code. Many of the images have licenses allowing reuse, such as the Silk icons (http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche &

Re: ODBC

2010-12-08 Thread Ted Roche
re working with; they are all different.) Google around a bit and you should find pointers to working with a 32-bit driver in a 64-bit OS. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscript

Re: VFP and Web acces

2010-12-09 Thread Ted Roche
or "easily," there's nothing I see in your app that I haven't done before. If by "easily" you also mean "cheaply" and "quickly," well, pick two out of the three :) A fixed spec will get you a fixed project estimate. A vague spec will get you

Re: week 53

2010-12-14 Thread Ted Roche
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Rafael Copquin wrote: > I'm baffled at the way VFP9 calculates weeks. > You might want to try setting the optional parameters: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa978670%28VS.71%29.aspx -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://w

Re: Any way to tell what version of VFP was used to write a program?

2010-12-23 Thread Ted Roche
The client's runtimes will only tell you what the last version was used to run the files. (We have a vertical niche app that's been in production for 20 years. Some of the PRGs still show signs of FoxBase/dBASE code.) PJX/SCX files have timestamps. I'll bet they have a version flag in there, too -

Re: DevCon Binders

2010-12-26 Thread Ted Roche
if you're looking for that one, or pretty much any other 1993 - 2004. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pr

Re: DevCon Binders

2010-12-29 Thread Ted Roche
s. Let me know if you're looking. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leaf

Re: Engagement Problems

2010-12-29 Thread Ted Roche
ell, you drop them and find a better one. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leaf

Re: Engagement Problems

2010-12-29 Thread Ted Roche
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Anthony J. Gundrum wrote: > "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." >        - Henry VI (Part 2), Act IV, Scene II That was back before they had investment bankers, and lobbyists. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LL

Re: [NF] happy happy

2010-12-29 Thread Ted Roche
way into various projects. Wishing all a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year, -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

Re: Is there any way to read the contents of an external webpage from inside fox?

2010-12-30 Thread Ted Roche
ing a web page into text, before converting it into XML. You can find the paper, slides and sample code at: http://www.tedroche.com/papers.html -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leaf

Re: Trivia question...

2010-12-30 Thread Ted Roche
mation is not to be disclosed. And, of course, the answer now is easy: zero. So, "it varied." is probably the most correct answer. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com S

Re: [NF] DimDim sold to salesforce.com

2011-01-07 Thread Ted Roche
ling list recommends: "Time to start learning about the Big Blue Button http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BigBlueButton -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: [NF] Convert variety of databases (including Access, FoxPro) to SQLite

2011-01-13 Thread Ted Roche
workstation. It makes it easy to right-size the client's database schema and data onto your laptop and take it with you to work on it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subsc

Re: [NF] Convert variety of databases (including Access, FoxPro) to SQLite

2011-01-13 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > It's also useful in embedded situations.  I think the Kindle uses it. Embedded in other applications as well as hardware. FireFox uses it to store bookmarks, history and other stuff. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associat

Re: [NF] Is there a Telerik for the Java/JavaScript web world?

2011-01-13 Thread Ted Roche
Roller - brilliant!) and add-ons. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leaf

Re: I hate cross browser CSS !

2011-01-19 Thread Ted Roche
eded for IE. There are several testers online. First, you want to make sure your html and css pass http://validator.w3.org. Then you can look at sites like http://www.mogotest.com (commercial) or http://browsershots.org (free, limited) to do your cross-browser testing. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche &am

Re: VFP and Webpages...

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Roche
m beginning to end, consider using a pre-built one, and add your stuff on the top. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: I hate cross browser CSS !

2011-01-20 Thread Ted Roche
w it all comes together. It's pretty cool. It's flexible and pretty easy to change a design. And it's cross-platform. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscripti

Re: I hate cross browser CSS !

2011-01-21 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 8:14 PM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Thanks for those recommendations! > > Malcolm Glad to. Ran across a graphic I've used in my HTML/CSS Design classes before: http://www.meetup.com/christchurchwebmeetup/photos/557904/11467496/ -- Ted Roche Ted Roche &am

Re: insert into ms sql 2005 table

2011-01-24 Thread Ted Roche
nge your UID and password. NOW. In the future, please don't share user ids and passwords. > > lc_selectcommand =      "SELECT * into hsf_broodmares FROM > c:\foxdat\hsf_broodmare" This is unusual syntax. Are you sure this is right? Does the GoDaddy MS SQL ser

Re: insert into ms sql 2005 table

2011-01-24 Thread Ted Roche
have a "Loss of Mind Accident" today. I'm just glad you've got the site back under control. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: htt

Re: FTP

2011-01-26 Thread Ted Roche
. For the folks who support that client in-house, the files just automatically appear each day on their shared public drive, or they give the network administrator grief ;) (*) http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter5.html#pscp -- Ted Roche Te

Re: FPW2.6 Question

2011-01-26 Thread Ted Roche
y neither live nor die. Here's a link. The FAQs have some funny questions... http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html#duration -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox

Re: [NF] Everything that is wrong about the MSFT mindset on development

2011-01-28 Thread Ted Roche
Object Access Protocol SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Ed, it's apparent that "Simple" does not mean what we think it does... ;) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: [NF] Oh good an update to iTunes Reboot in 3,2,1...

2011-01-28 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > >        Runs fine on OS X. I think Apple deliberately makes iTunes suck on > Windows in order to encourage all those iPhone/iPod users to dump Windows and > get a Mac! ;-) > I don't think they have to try so hard! :) --

Re: [NF] Another Alternative to Open Office

2011-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
d by my distro vendor, as I wouldn't want to have to debug installation and packaging problems in an office package! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: [NF] Router Suggestions

2011-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
to customize it to your needs. The downside is that you will have the responsibility of maintaining it, but that's the reality anyway. You can quite likely find a knowledgeable consultant at your friendly local LUG who can set this up fairly inexpensively. (Far less than the license cost of a Ci

Re: [NF] Another Alternative to Open Office

2011-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
perability with it, too. So, what is it you'd like to do with Visio? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: [NF] Router Suggestions

2011-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
ing well. I haven't tried the multiple IP routing, though. We just get by with a single static IP here and host most of our stuff elsewhere. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.c

Re: [NF] Router Suggestions

2011-01-31 Thread Ted Roche
support from one company, I don't think it has a place on the Internet. But I'm a bit biased ;) Paying a Windows license for an entire machine whose sole purpose is to route packets from one NIC to another NIC seems wasteful. -- Ted Roche Ted Roc

Re: [NF] Now they tell me! Windows System Information

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~ActiveXControlShowcase~SoftwareEng I'm pretty sure it was in the "Ask Advisor" column at one time, too. I used it as a button off the "Help | About" dialog in a couple of applications. Seems like what's old is new again. How quickly they for

Re: VFP and Source control

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
ir own environments. We all have opinions on the "best" remote access software or the "best" printer. I'd encourage you to do a little research at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control and see what best fits your needs. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC

Re: VFP and Source control

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
n control system can let you juggle this kind of stuff. You really want to see what distributed version control can do for you. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maint

Re: Record Pointer after Insert

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
adding the record initially, and the sub-class enhancing the > data stored, so the sub-class needs to issue a REPLACE. Why not an UPDATE? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

Re: VFP and Source control

2011-02-04 Thread Ted Roche
a 'man hg' to figure out what to do. So, I've got clients for Perforce (not free), git, mercurial (hg), bazaar (bzr), Subversion, cvs and rcs on this workstation. But I'll push git if I can. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _

Re: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > If you have Pascal skills why not do it in Delphi ? Or maybe FreePascal: http://www.freepascal.org/ (no personal experience; just Google'd it.) -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://w

Re: old dos program

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
girl. I'll bet this happens in communities world-wide and you can find code you can build on. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/list

Re: [NF] Looking for a graphic tool which can do this

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
e: > > Adobe Photoshop doesn't have it, Gimp doesn't have it, Paint.NET doesn't > have it. I am running out of ideas. Anyone can help me with a suggestion, > please? > FYI, GIMP has it. In Python, of course, the scripting language of choice :) http://registry.gi

Re: [NF] Looking for a graphic tool which can do this

2011-02-05 Thread Ted Roche
to know Python. GIMP is scriptable using Python in a couple different ways, apparently. I haven't looked at it extensively, just dropped in a couple of plug-ins where the instructions told me to :) Once it's in, GIMP finds all the plugins, adds them to the menus and works just like a buil

Re: old dos program

2011-02-07 Thread Ted Roche
solution whose license doesn't look very open to me: free to use, but don't touch the code. Too bad. The second's just a software download site with nothing useful. So, a search might take a while. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: VFP and Source control Thanks!

2011-02-07 Thread Ted Roche
when the number of programmers exceeds _zero_. I use it on a daily basis to save the world from myself. And it's worth every penny I didn't have to spend for it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Pos

Re: VFP and Source control Thanks!

2011-02-09 Thread Ted Roche
jects, I've found the ability to look back and figure out how something worked before I "fixed" it to be invaluable. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Ma

Re: ConnectTimeOut not respected by Microsoft SQL Server for initial connection?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
nfirm the setting "took" and try it with settings of 5 seconds or 10 seconds to see if you get different behavior. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Main

Re: ConnectTimeOut not respected by Microsoft SQL Server for initial connection?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > The VFP Help file says: What's the Hacker's Guide say? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: ConnectTimeOut not respected by Microsoft SQL Server for initial connection?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
to eliminate the possibility that VFP isn't transmitting this correctly to SQL Server. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: ConnectTimeOut not respected by Microsoft SQL Server for initial connection?

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
king it through a little more, it's ODBC you're telling to timeout and return control to VFP, so it's more something you're telling the ODBC manager than the SQL Server driver. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: Retrieve Data after pack & index

2011-02-14 Thread Ted Roche
le to recover the deleted rows?? Well, that's pretty unlikely. Sometimes Excel stores stuff in its spare spaces. I still wouldn't keep my secrets on it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: Pr

Re: Retrieve Data after pack & index

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
uccessful at retrieving a number of files. I now take advantage of encrypted home partitions, to avoid unintentional disclosure of client or personal data. While not perfect, it ups the ante a little bit and eliminates the simplest "scan and recover" techniques. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche

[NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
ot one that worked with all of the software, at that point. Googling for "WordPerfect has stopped responding" and Win7 and MyODBC and a few variations hasn't yielded any good suggestions. Any ideas? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 andWordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
ee the machines. I'm guessing it's a configuration issue, either running "Aero" on some of the machines (I think their graphics are likely underpowered onboard GeForce chips), or a bizarre combination of toolbars, add-ons and "enhancements" these folks

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
olve running all this stuff in an XP VM under Win7. The later sounds like a lot of work, but a last resort. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
ions to an external database. The last time I actually worked with WordPerfect, it was 4.1 on the Amiga, so yeah. But Reveal Codes is still Alt-F3! Thanks! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFo

Re: [NF] Long shot: problem with Win 7/64, ODBC32, MyODBC 3.51 and WordPerfect 15

2011-02-15 Thread Ted Roche
is good, as a little polishing could turn the driveway into a skating rink, and it's 100 miles north into the frozen White Mountains to get to this client. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF]Linux is it really worth the hype?

2011-02-16 Thread Ted Roche
he switching costs. Costs are always higher than estimated in migration projects, from what I've seen. The demo is whizzer, but the actuality is always tougher to pull off. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Mes

[NF] And in other FUD news,

2011-02-16 Thread Ted Roche
a pretty striking story. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mai

Re: [NF] And in other FUD news,

2011-02-17 Thread Ted Roche
the clear majority of the internet, by any measure, chooses it as their web server. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/

Re: [NF]Linux is it really worth the hype?

2011-02-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:53 AM, Allen wrote: > Does not leave us with much choice for phones though. Mr Hilter's iphonies I hereby invoke Goodwin's Law and declared the thread dead. Sheep. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http:/

Re: [NF]Linux is it really worth the hype?

2011-02-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: > Goodwin's? ;) > > Guess it's not done yet. > > Fred Oh, fine, can I buy back a vowel? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates

Re: [NF] And in other FUD news,

2011-02-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Paul McNett wrote: > Whenever I hear "this next great version is a major rewrite", I shudder. Yeah, there's a repeated pattern here. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com __

Re: [NF] Programming languages and their relationship styles

2011-02-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Paul McNett wrote: >> >> http://maradydd.livejournal.com/293666.html > > VFP isn't looking for new relationships right now. > Well, FoxPro was relational long before everyone was doing it. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associate

Re: Getting a complete file list from a removable disc into VFP

2011-02-18 Thread Ted Roche
already has hooks into the underlying OS functionality, so there's no need to build up your own API calls and handle the timing issues. Take a look at: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~RecursiveDirectoryProcessing -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___

Re: sql select top clause

2011-02-21 Thread Ted Roche
ince they're all numeric, add a column in SQL Server of type integer, >> copy the contents of itemcode into it, and use that instead. > -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.

Re: Variable name oddity?

2011-02-22 Thread Ted Roche
ways to refer to tables and cursors. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com

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