Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond wrote: Should I or shouldn't I? Please advise. Here's what you do. Fill out the form as completely as you can, providing the email address and contact data for the FBI, Scotland Yard, or any other government police agency. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperact

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Aug 13, 2011, at 8:22 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > you can see your own posts in 'ALL MAIL' and move the ones that matter to > the inbox. > Also once part of a thread, it will show up. That would be fine if I were using gmail via the browser, but I have my Mac Mail client set to fetch mail

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
stephen- Saturday, August 13, 2011, 5:22:35 PM, you wrote: > you can see your own posts in 'ALL MAIL' and move the ones that matter to > the inbox. > Also once part of a thread, it will show up. True, but that's cheating, kind of. They're only in the All Mail folder because you sent them, not be

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread stephen barncard
you can see your own posts in 'ALL MAIL' and move the ones that matter to the inbox. Also once part of a thread, it will show up. On 13 August 2011 16:33, Mark Wieder wrote: > Peter- > > Saturday, August 13, 2011, 2:03:05 PM, you wrote: > > > I sent this message a couple days ago, apparently it

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Saturday, August 13, 2011, 2:03:05 PM, you wrote: > I sent this message a couple days ago, apparently it never went > through. (Parenthetically, even though I've set my preferences on > the use-Livecode mailing list webpage to "Receive your own posts to > the list" = "yes", I never see any

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Well said +100% true + 99% of the mails we get from the real PayPal company are advertisements in the form of promotions. If any doubt, just login in your account to see if you have messages and don't never respond to unwanted doubtful mails ;-) Le 13 août 2011 à 15:52, Mark Schonewille a écrit

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
In addition to Richard's notes, PayPal does never send you emails without naming you by your compete registration name. If the mail don't contains it, it's scram. Those scams are very current and we just have to trash them (and never follow the provided phishing links...). Le 13 août 2011 à 17:

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Aug 13, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > Taking another kick at the cat here. I’d like to use something like > > get url (http://[time server address]) > > to grab the current date and time from an official time server. This would > be used in a LiveCode standalone distribute

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi malte, Malte Brill wrote: > > http://www.soundcloud.com for example. This is a place full of creativity. > > :-) > > Mine is here: http://soundcloud.com/info-694-1 > > Though I do everything with licensed Software only... And I for sure am > not one of the most talented people there. > I

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Gregory- Saturday, August 13, 2011, 10:33:29 AM, you wrote: > Taking another kick at the cat here. I’d like to use something like > get url (http://[time server address]) How's this? http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/anim -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, August 13, 2011, 11:00:54 AM, you wrote: > To RR, of course. They routinely disappear themselves for whole weekends > at a time, so obviously they know how it's done. The only glitch is that > "the vis" in this case might only refer to "me", which would make > disappearing a th

Re: Difference between destroyStack and destroyWindow

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Interesting. So it would be possible to write an idle-time garbage collection routine to delete from memory the stacks that show up in the mainstacks but not in the openstacks... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/11 12:45 PM, Phil Davis wrote: On 8/13/11 10:39 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/13/11 8:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) Oh man, could I have used that. Someone should

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Marty Knapp
Maybe you could set the "behavior" with a "parentScript" . . . ! Marty K On 8/13/11 8:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) Oh man, could I have used that. Someone should put in a

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 01:06:43 PM Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hi Warren, > > Thanks for the tip. I had read that FTP service could be re-enable from the > command line. That will certainly solve the problem, but if Apple has a good > reason for dropping it, it would be nice to be able to do

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Phil- Saturday, August 13, 2011, 10:45:35 AM, you wrote: > On 8/13/11 10:39 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> On 8/13/11 8:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: >> >>> And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, >>> he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) >> >> Oh man, cou

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/11 2:35 AM, Shao Sean wrote: does anyone know what changes I'd need to make in order to upload to a server on a Lion installation? nothing.. only the FTP server GUI has been removed from Lion Server, but the actual daemon is still installed on the machine.. Perfect, thanks. -- Jacquel

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/11 3:21 AM, Scott Morrow wrote: Jacque, In what way do you mean it won't work on Lion? Do you mean if Lion is the server? AirLaunch works if Lion is the client. -Scott Morrow Right, I mean "client" so it's good to know that AirLaunch on Lion works. That's what I wanted to know. Air

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Phil Davis
On 8/13/11 10:39 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/13/11 8:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) Oh man, could I have used that. Someone should put in a feature request. Uhhh... to

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/11 8:37 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Probably about now is when Mrs Gay will chime in with an apposite remark I've been warned to keep it clean. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Warren Samples wrote: On Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:17:25 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: IIRC Apple no longer makes Xserve anyway, so who needs an OS X FTP server? At issue is which protocol is being used when one enables file sharing in the System Preferences on a standard OS X Desktop install.

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/11 8:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) Oh man, could I have used that. Someone should put in a feature request. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperacti

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:17:25 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > IIRC Apple no longer makes Xserve anyway, so who needs an OS X FTP server? > > -- > Richard Gaskin At issue is which protocol is being used when one enables file sharing in the System Preferences on a standard OS X Desktop instal

Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-13 Thread Gregory Lypny
Taking another kick at the cat here. I’d like to use something like get url (http://[time server address]) to grab the current date and time from an official time server. This would be used in a LiveCode standalone distributed to collaborators and grad students who would use it to exp

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Having just spend some time implementing FTP uploading in my AirLaunch stack, it sounds like it won't work on Lion. If I understand this correctly, the only change in Lion is that it no longer provides a GUI for an FTP *server*. Uploading to any other server should sti

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread Pete
The analogy that immediately comes to mind is programming languages and particularly those like our beloved LC since it is deliberately designed to look kinda familiar due to to it's English language syntax. This harks back to the other discussion that has been going on regarding creative users.

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Gregory Lypny
That would be great, Andre. Gregory On Sat, Aug 13, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > I have a barely working SFTP external for mac will release an alpha > soon. > > :-) > > PS: On the end of my vacations, that is why I am silent... __

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Warren, Thanks for the tip. I had read that FTP service could be re-enable from the command line. That will certainly solve the problem, but if Apple has a good reason for dropping it, it would be nice to be able to do SFTP with LiveCode in order to keep up with the game. Regards, Gregor

Re: Difference between destroyStack and destroyWindow

2011-08-13 Thread Ken Ray
> > This property controls whether or not the window owned by a stack is freed > when the stack is closed. To provide best performance, stack windows are > normally unmapped rather than destroyed. This property may be useful for > those X servers with inadequate memory. This property is also

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Dear Liovecode users, I need a spot of advice re the following e-mail I just recieved: "Dear PayPal member, Your account has been temporarily limited. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which

Re: Unicode woes

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, It doesn't work because the first char actually gets the first byte and thus you only get the first half of the first character. This might work, depending on the textFont setting and maybe writing direction: on mouseUp set the unicodetext of fld "xxx" to char 1 to 2 of th

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richmond, Obviously, this is a scam. "Which has javascript enabled [...] please allow ActiveX for scripts" really should make you hear alarm bells. You don't need to respond to e-mails that come from PayPal ever. If you do business with PayPal and log in once a day, you will find all the notifi

Unicode woes

2011-08-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Anybody know why this doesn't work: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld "" to the first char of the unicodeText of fld "" end mouseUp ??? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

[OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

2011-08-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Dear Liovecode users, I need a spot of advice re the following e-mail I just recieved: "Dear PayPal member, Your account has been temporarily limited. Please download the form and follow the instructions on your screen. NOTE: The form needs to be opened in a modern browser which has javascript

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/13/2011 03:11 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Jerry J wrote: Stephen is right. The tools for the technical aspects of music production are now available to everybody. The skills to use them creatively are not so easy to come by. Unfortunately, if you follo

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
You know when you've been coding too long when you start looking for the Ctrl and 'X' keys behind the toilet . . . :) And wondering when you shout "set the vis to false" to your teenage son, he doesn't just disappear for a bit . . . :) ___ use-live

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Aug 13, 2011, at 12:51 AM, Jerry J wrote: > Stephen is right. The tools for the technical aspects of music production are > now available to everybody. The skills to use them creatively are not so easy > to come by. > > Unfortunately, if you follow the money in the music business, you mostl

Re: [OT] You know when you've been coding too long when . . .

2011-08-13 Thread Andre Garzia
I press CMD+0 and CMD+9 to switch tools :-( On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:57 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > When you find yourself in the middle > of a completely boring and repetitive > editing task inside any other software > ... and you wish, with all your heart, > to be able to use LiveCode script

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Andre Garzia
I have a barely working SFTP external for mac will release an alpha soon. :-) PS: On the end of my vacations, that is why I am silent... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Scott Morrow
Jacque, In what way do you mean it won't work on Lion? Do you mean if Lion is the server? AirLaunch works if Lion is the client. -Scott Morrow On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/12/11 1:17 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > >> You can still use FTP: >> >> "While FTP is still

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Shao Sean
does anyone know what changes I'd need to make in order to upload to a server on a Lion installation? nothing.. only the FTP server GUI has been removed from Lion Server, but the actual daemon is still installed on the machine.. ___ use-livecode ma

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-13 Thread Malte Brill
> And... where could we hear the results? http://www.soundcloud.com for example. This is a place full of creativity. :-) Mine is here: http://soundcloud.com/info-694-1 Though I do everything with licensed Software only... And I for sure am not one of the most talented people there. Cheers, M