RE: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/001101cdc3d8$4fba63e0$ef2f2ba0$@johnweller.co.uk ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
...and then there's the deep-freeze approach, and don't forget the swimin-wit-da-fishes method. Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:56 AM That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a604c8.4010...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
Thanks Dave. You've confirmed that I'm on the right track...I think I'm going to drop my reference to the object in the object reference. (Hmm, that's redundantly redundant!) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 1:26 AM Mike, this is what I use to scrape pages. Assumes Windows 7 and IE 9 Dave * Start Program * #define CR CHR(13) clear oIE = createobject( internetexplorer.application ) oIE.Visible = .t. oIE.Silent = .F. * oIE.Width = Sysmetric(1) * oIE.Height = Sysmetric(2) * oIE.Left=0 * oIE.Top=0 oIE.Navigate( http://www.microsoft.com; ) WaitForIE() *!* for I=1 to 2 *!* doevents *!* endfor loDoc = oIE.Document get the Document object *!* oRange = loDoc.body.createTextRange() *!* if oRange.FindText(Business, 100) *!* oRange.Select() *!* endif loForm = loDoc.forms(0) get the first form object for i = 0 to loForm.Length-1 ? i, loForm.Item(i).Name, loForm.Item(i).Value endfor * Show the names of the forms: x = Forms+Chr(13) ; +=+Chr(13) For lnForm = 0 to oIE.Document.forms.length - 1 x = x + TRANSFORM(lnForm) + : + TRANSFORM(oIE.Document.forms(lnForm).name) EndFor x = x + CR * Look at all of the objects. * all(0) represents everything, * 1-N are contained objects some of which are containers themselves, * so the same thing may apear in different .all(x)'s x = x + All Objects:+Chr(13)++Chr(13) For lnObj = 0 to oIE.Document.all.length - 1 loObj = oIE.Document.all( lnObj ) x = x + TRANSFORM(lnObj) + : + TRANSFORM(Substr(loObj.innerhtml, 1, 20)) x = x + TRANSFORM(loObj.TagName) + : + TRANSFORM(loObj.innertext) X=X+Chr(13) endfor STRTOFILE(loform.InnerHTML, WebResult.txt) MODIFY FILE WebResult.txt NOWAIT return PROCEDURE WaitForIE DO WHILE oIE.Busy() OR oIE.ReadyState 4 DOEVENTS ENDDO endproc * * End Program ** [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a60555.1090...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Adobe update forcing Chrome installation?
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012, at 07:33 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: . The same problems arise with Java updates. I wouldn't put Java updates under the same heading as sneakily installing Chrome or some phoney baloney AV - you can turn Java updates off very easily, and it's a good idea to leave them on as they often contain very important security fixes. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1353057963.20091.140661154384525.50672...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
Dave Crozier wrote: ... and show get (no s on the end) redisplays one object as opposed to the whole screen Dave You also need the name of the variable after the show get E.g. SHOW GET m.pn_vrn Here's the full help text (From fox 2.6 windows) SHOW GET Command See Also Redisplays the @ ... GET object that represents the specified memory variable. Syntax SHOW GET var [, expN1 [PROMPT expC]] [ENABLE | DISABLE] [LEVEL expN2] [COLOR SCHEME expN3 | COLOR color pair list] Remarks Picture prompts are supported in FoxPro for Windows and FoxPro for Macintosh. SHOW GET redisplays a single control (a check box, field, invisible button, push or radio button, list, popup, spinner or text-editing region). When the value in an @ ... GET field changes (the cursor moves to a new record, for example), SHOW GET updates the value displayed in the @ ... GET field. When a control is redisplayed, it can be enabled or disabled. SHOW GET can also be used to redisplay an individual button within a set of invisible, radio or push buttons. You can also change the prompts of check boxes and buttons with SHOW GET. SHOW GET is typically used in a routine executed in a control-level VALID or WHEN clause or a READ-level ACTIVATE or DEACTIVATE clause. SHOW GET vs. SHOW GETS and SHOW OBJECT Individual controls are redisplayed with SHOW GET or SHOW OBJECT. All controls created with @ ... GET are redisplayed with SHOW GETS. SHOW GETS executes the READ LEVEL SHOW routine. SHOW GET and SHOW OBJECT don't. SHOW OBJECT is similar to SHOW GET except that SHOW OBJECT references controls by their object number, and SHOW GET references controls by var, the memory variable, array element or field specified when the control is created. For more information on control numbering, see OBJNUM( ) or _CUROBJ. Clauses var var is the memory variable, array element or field specified when the control was created. In the following example, three radio buttons with the prompts Apples, Oranges and Lemons are created. In this example, var is a memory variable named FRUIT that initializes the radio buttons (since FRUIT equals 2, the second button is initially selected). The button number is stored to FRUIT when you choose a button. CLEAR STORE 2 TO fruit @ 4,2 GET fruit PICTURE '@*R Apples;Oranges;Lemons' READ CYCLE expN1 expN1 is the number of the button you want to redisplay within a set of invisible, radio, or push buttons. A button's number is determined by the order in which the button prompts are created. In the example above, Apples is created first and is button number one. The second button created is Oranges; it is button number two. The last button, Lemons, is button three. The following program creates the same buttons as in the previous example. However, when one of the radio buttons is chosen, the NOORANGE VALID routine is executed. The routine disables the Oranges button with SHOW GET and DISABLE. CLEAR STORE 2 TO fruit @ 4,2 GET fruit PICTURE '@*R Apples;Oranges;Lemons' VALID noorange( ) READ CYCLE FUNCTION noorange SHOW GET fruit,2 DISABLE Disables the second button _CUROBJ = 1 RETURN .T. PROMPT expC You can replace the prompt for an individual push button, radio button or check box with another prompt by including PROMPT expC. expC replaces the original button or check box prompt. You can also change the button or check box attributes (which determine whether the control is enabled or disabled, what hot keys are assigned, and whether it is the default or Esc choice) by specifying the appropriate special characters with expC. SHOW GET is typically placed in a VALID routine for the check box, push button or radio button. In the following example, a check box is created. When the check box is chosen, the VALID clause routine Newprompt is executed. The routine changes the check box prompt and the hot key. CLEAR STORE 1 TO check @ 4,2 GET check FUNCTION '*C \Checked' SIZE 1,13 VALID NEWPROMPT( ) READ CYCLE FUNCTION newprompt IF check = 0 SHOW GET check,1 PROMPT '\Unchecked' ELSE SHOW GET check,1 PROMPT '\Checked' ENDIF RETURN .T. In FoxPro for Windows and FoxPro for Macintosh, you can use PROMPT to specify picture files that are displayed on a picture check box, push button or radio button when it is enabled, selected and disabled. The PROMPT clause is ignored if picture files are specified in the PROMPT clause in FoxPro for MS-DOS. In FoxPro for Windows, the picture file can be a bitmap file with a .BMP extension. In FoxPro for Macintosh, you can use a picture file of PICT type or a .BMP bitmap file. Include a set of up to three picture files separated by commas in expC. The first picture file is displayed on the picture check box, push button or radio button when it is enabled. The second picture file is displayed when the picture check box, push button or radio button is selected. The third picture file is
Re: [NF] RealBasic (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012, at 08:50 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: If I heard right (on LinkedIn iirc), Servoy might be a good choice given your POV on how they charge. No personal experience. They have a free edition which is exactly the same as the paid one, except it only allows a few concurrent connections. The recent project I did was completed and installed and tested before I paid for any licences. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1353061993.31842.140661154402673.1aa2a...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: VFP searching a web form
Mike, The one thing to be careful of doing it my way is that the method uses the full IE DOM (Document Object Model) which isn't fully available in earlier versions of Internet Explorer. I think it was only IE8 and onwards when M$ exposed the FULL DOM model but I can't check here as we only use IE9. Dave -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike Copeland Sent: 16 November 2012 09:20 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form Thanks Dave. You've confirmed that I'm on the right track...I think I'm going to drop my reference to the object in the object reference. (Hmm, that's redundantly redundant!) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 1:26 AM Mike, this is what I use to scrape pages. Assumes Windows 7 and IE 9 Dave * Start Program * #define CR CHR(13) clear oIE = createobject( internetexplorer.application ) oIE.Visible = .t. oIE.Silent = .F. * oIE.Width = Sysmetric(1) * oIE.Height = Sysmetric(2) * oIE.Left=0 * oIE.Top=0 oIE.Navigate( http://www.microsoft.com; ) WaitForIE() *!* for I=1 to 2 *!* doevents *!* endfor loDoc = oIE.Document get the Document object *!* oRange = loDoc.body.createTextRange() *!* if oRange.FindText(Business, 100) *!* oRange.Select() *!* endif loForm = loDoc.forms(0) get the first form object for i = 0 to loForm.Length-1 ? i, loForm.Item(i).Name, loForm.Item(i).Value endfor * Show the names of the forms: x = Forms+Chr(13) ; +=+Chr(13) For lnForm = 0 to oIE.Document.forms.length - 1 x = x + TRANSFORM(lnForm) + : + TRANSFORM(oIE.Document.forms(lnForm).name) EndFor x = x + CR * Look at all of the objects. * all(0) represents everything, * 1-N are contained objects some of which are containers themselves, * so the same thing may apear in different .all(x)'s x = x + All Objects:+Chr(13)++Chr(13) For lnObj = 0 to oIE.Document.all.length - 1 loObj = oIE.Document.all( lnObj ) x = x + TRANSFORM(lnObj) + : + TRANSFORM(Substr(loObj.innerhtml, 1, 20)) x = x + TRANSFORM(loObj.TagName) + : + TRANSFORM(loObj.innertext) X=X+Chr(13) endfor STRTOFILE(loform.InnerHTML, WebResult.txt) MODIFY FILE WebResult.txt NOWAIT return PROCEDURE WaitForIE DO WHILE oIE.Busy() OR oIE.ReadyState 4 DOEVENTS ENDDO endproc * * End Program ** [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/bd031ecabf2b60499200aab3dbb4a999012b2c5...@ex-a-fpl.fpl.LOCAL ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Hotmail, Junk Mail Email Pull...
You better be sure that a message was actually sent. Do you need us to send your Hotmail account a test message? :) On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net wrote: When it took so long to receive the message - I had already been looking in the Junk folder -but, it never appeared there... I did one, and it claims to have sent me a msg to my Hotmail - but, I don't see it - not even in Junk. Was figuring I just needed to try Pulling the e-mail - like forcing it to Receive/Retrieve msgs. But, unlike Outlook Thunderbird - I can't seem to find this Pull function. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 (Linux kernel 2.6.39.3) /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with you! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAGv=mjd1xxxcew754vg4sl6k2jpnyeqe+p-fzs1edra5do7...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? -- Frank. Frank Cazabon ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6441f.70...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Perhaps the cheapest might be to build a station that uses a webcam to photograph the document. A platform with a tempered piece of glass would help press down the passports or cards for the best results. -Kevin On 11/16/2012 08:48 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a64f63.9060...@cullytechnologies.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Thanks for the idea. Price is not terribly important, but space (very limited) and quality of the scan are. The web cam solution might be right size wise but I'm not sure of the quality. How do you see the platform and glass working? Frank. Frank Cazabon On 16/11/2012 10:36 AM, Kevin Cully wrote: Perhaps the cheapest might be to build a station that uses a webcam to photograph the document. A platform with a tempered piece of glass would help press down the passports or cards for the best results. -Kevin On 11/16/2012 08:48 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6532b@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 4:08 AM, Peter Cushing pcush...@whisperingsmith.com wrote: The last button, Lemons, is button three. The following program creates the same buttons as in ... ...routine is executed. The routine disables the Oranges button with SHOW GET and DISABLE. CLEAR STORE 2 TO fruit @ 4,2 GET fruit PICTURE '@*R Apples;Oranges;Lemons' VALID noorange( ) READ CYCLE FUNCTION noorange SHOW GET fruit,2 DISABLE Disables the second button _CUROBJ = 1 Holy moley, this feels like cuneiform! Wow, that was a long time ago Ken --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CAFyV=lmeni3sgz8so+fiszwgfnsxxyfz_lkpexw5+xrqa5n...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:48 PM, Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk wrote: ... and show get (no s on the end) redisplays one object as opposed to the whole screen Dave Ouch ouch ouch that's painful to think about and/or remember. One time I was doing a really intensive screen with oodles of @SAY/GET action going on and users being users had to redesign and tweek it over and over and over - it seemed endless... one time I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could see was @SAY/GET text swirling around in my head Painful... -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/capt54rasjwhgjg_nvcm4esdxkjtmdntcqvrrryxonuxojde...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Hi Frank, I have had a request in the past to support Passport Scanner plusktek optic slim 550 No idea if it is any good. We never did any work on this. Regards, Paul On 16 November 2012 13:48, Frank Cazabon frank.caza...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? -- Frank. Frank Cazabon -- Paul --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/CADwx0+LOvTpziNAkK6NCXu2xXzOZBhsd=pdk7kumnnjbnd-...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
On 11/13/2012 11:16 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: What about the data. Is it DBF's and/or DBC's like VFP? OR is it strictly that you tie into a server data source like MySql? Again - just curious - and trying to figure out what's involved... RealSoftware just uploaded a video on accessing MySQL data from a RealBasic application. This should give you a good idea on what it's like working with the IDE and working with data. Make sure you full screen it so you can get a good look at the code. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJpd6FwBcY --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a65fd4.9080...@cullytechnologies.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
On 11/13/2012 11:16 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: What about the data. Is it DBF's and/or DBC's like VFP? I think the days of tools having their own proprietary databases are well behind us, thankfully. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1353081724.29346.140661154513349.28d1f...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP Chief Software Architect MB Software Solutions, LLC http://www.mbsoftwaresolutions.com p: 717-350-2759 f: 815-642-9707 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a66392.2010...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
On Nov 16, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: I think the days of tools having their own proprietary databases are well behind us, thankfully. +1 -- Ed Leafe ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/ec36edce-ce5a-47a0-ab6a-888f9dad0...@rackspace.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Adobe update forcing Chrome installation?
Ok thanks - AndyD On 16/11/2012 07:24, Mike Copeland wrote: Never had any problem...uninstalls clean. Done it many times. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] Adobe update forcing Chrome installation? From: AndyHC a...@hawthorncottage.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 12:49 AM So that's how the sex mad b*stard's software got on my computer! The trouble is there are so many upgrades for Acrobat and Java in particular that it is very easy to just hit install. Anyone know if there are any problems un-installing McAfee Security Scan Plus ? AndyD# On 15/11/2012 22:22, Alan Bourke wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012, at 10:03 PM, M Jarvis wrote: We've heard a couple reports from users ... who weren't paying attention on the Acrobat Reader download page, and didn't un-tick the 'Yes, Install Google Chrome' option. It's the same as the McAfee Security Scan Plus option which sometimes appears instead, and which is also ticked by default in an underhand manner. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6657c.7030...@hawthorncottage.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
It's nice that RealBasic works with SQLite fairly seamlessly. It makes it easy to create an in-memory database much like we have cursors in VFP. Full SQL capability of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE is sweet. (Dabo has had this capability for a long time as well.) If by 'proprietary' you mean tied to a particular database, then I wholeheartedly agree. People want freedom with their database choice and their ability to extend it. Side note: Why do so many people choose Quickbooks with it's proprietary database and ridiculous licensing fees? On 11/16/2012 11:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: I think the days of tools having their own proprietary databases are well behind us, thankfully. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a665e4.9080...@cullytechnologies.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
Michael: Off lease...does that mean it has a zillion hours on it and it works for the time being? And has been refurbished? Warranty? I didn't see any mentioned on the site but I am sure there must be some... Probably worth a shot for the money but I believe that 3GB RAM is too low for Win7 64x box. Just my 2 cents Jack Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 jskel...@newjerseydevils.com From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Michael J. Babcock, MCP [mbabc...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:02 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP Chief Software Architect MB Software Solutions, LLC http://www.mbsoftwaresolutions.com p: 717-350-2759 f: 815-642-9707 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7d9e7f72b813014c8fd022cf04f820ed58584...@ex08.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
Or step deeper into the ms software onion and try xmlhttprequest - you'll find far to much on the archives AndyD 8-)# On 16/11/2012 10:51, Dave Crozier wrote: Mike, The one thing to be careful of doing it my way is that the method uses the full IE DOM (Document Object Model) which isn't fully available in earlier versions of Internet Explorer. I think it was only IE8 and onwards when M$ exposed the FULL DOM model but I can't check here as we only use IE9. Dave snip ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a66830.5000...@hawthorncottage.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
I wrote for fun the classic Battleship game in FPW 2.6. The grids consisted of 100 buttons for each side. One for the player and one for the computer. So 200 grid buttons was on pile of code to wade through with show get and the object. The only saving grace in all of this was the variables defined for the grid buttons were subscripted so all I need to do was pass the row/column address to the function to determine a hit or miss and if a hit show the bitmap to the ship (aircraft carrier, battleship, etc.) and then show the get. Plus it also played a WAV file to hear a splash for a miss or an explosion for a hit. Then there where the other controls on the screen like: resign, load ships, etc. I wish I could show you a screen shot of this 'masterpiece' but it does not run in Win7 Pro 64x...and my XP boxes have been put away... In my 'spare time' I should write all of this for VFP9... Jack Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 jskel...@newjerseydevils.com From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) [foxh...@information-architecture.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:56 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM, M Jarvis brewda...@gmail.com wrote: ... one time I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could see was @SAY/GET text swirling around in my head Been there. Sometimes in the intense period of a project this happens to me. I call the episodes brain storms -- language constructs, variable names, function names storm through my head unstoppably. Half dreaming, half awake, all bizarre. Ken --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7d9e7f72b813014c8fd022cf04f820ed58584...@ex08.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
Off lease usually means refurbed. 3gb should be okay for running XP64 and that isn't a half bad box for the price. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 8:13 AM, Jack Skelley jskel...@newjerseydevils.com wrote: Michael: Off lease...does that mean it has a zillion hours on it and it works for the time being? And has been refurbished? Warranty? I didn't see any mentioned on the site but I am sure there must be some... Probably worth a shot for the money but I believe that 3GB RAM is too low for Win7 64x box. Just my 2 cents Jack Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 jskel...@newjerseydevils.com From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Michael J. Babcock, MCP [mbabc...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 11:02 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts? http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP Chief Software Architect MB Software Solutions, LLC http://www.mbsoftwaresolutions.com p: 717-350-2759 f: 815-642-9707 The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/2f27d245-5d5d-43d1-94a7-f75909a64...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
On Fri, November 16, 2012 11:32 am, Michael Oke, II wrote: Off lease usually means refurbed. 3gb should be okay for running XP64 and that isn't a half bad box for the price. Add the 2yr warranty for abour $80 extra. I'm considering it! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/b79fe7fec375d53c83524441634eeac1.squir...@webmail.dssco.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
I kind of gagged on that first part...the HP Compaq part. Other than that... Mike Original Message Subject: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts? From: Michael J. Babcock, MCP mbabc...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 10:02 AM http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a67552.8080...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
I've had pretty good results with the deep freeze procedure. Drive rarely lives long but long enough to grab the necessary data. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: ...and then there's the deep-freeze approach, and don't forget the swimin-wit-da-fishes method. Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:56 AM That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0b590750-841a-450e-9a23-9db231c88...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike ... and as a last ditch effort, you could slaughter a goat and lay it on a flat rock pointing North during the next rise of a full moon Okay okay, so that one didn't work, but by then I was fed up and drunk enough to not give a crap anymore... g Happy Friday... -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/capt54raqgtwg-zcqfaf7mfv2jawqu0tc6ngzqawv6etvlah...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
On 11/16/2012 12:18 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: I kind of gagged on that first part...the HP Compaq part. Other than that... Yeah, I've NEVER been a fan of HP or Compaq or both, but recent reviews are saying they're pretty good (now). -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a67970.1090...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
I may be wrong, but my understanding is that the IE exposed by the Fox toolkit is, essentially, whatever IE is installed on your system at the time. In other words, if you have upgraded IE to 8, or 9 or still at 6, then when you instantiate IE from VFP, you get an instance of that version of IE. Yes? No? Anyone know definitively? Bueler? Bueler? Bueler? Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 4:51 AM Mike, The one thing to be careful of doing it my way is that the method uses the full IE DOM (Document Object Model) which isn't fully available in earlier versions of Internet Explorer. I think it was only IE8 and onwards when M$ exposed the FULL DOM model but I can't check here as we only use IE9. Dave -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike Copeland Sent: 16 November 2012 09:20 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form Thanks Dave. You've confirmed that I'm on the right track...I think I'm going to drop my reference to the object in the object reference. (Hmm, that's redundantly redundant!) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 1:26 AM Mike, this is what I use to scrape pages. Assumes Windows 7 and IE 9 Dave * Start Program * #define CR CHR(13) clear oIE = createobject( internetexplorer.application ) oIE.Visible = .t. oIE.Silent = .F. * oIE.Width = Sysmetric(1) * oIE.Height = Sysmetric(2) * oIE.Left=0 * oIE.Top=0 oIE.Navigate( http://www.microsoft.com; ) WaitForIE() *!* for I=1 to 2 *!* doevents *!* endfor loDoc = oIE.Document get the Document object *!* oRange = loDoc.body.createTextRange() *!* if oRange.FindText(Business, 100) *!* oRange.Select() *!* endif loForm = loDoc.forms(0) get the first form object for i = 0 to loForm.Length-1 ? i, loForm.Item(i).Name, loForm.Item(i).Value endfor * Show the names of the forms: x = Forms+Chr(13) ; +=+Chr(13) For lnForm = 0 to oIE.Document.forms.length - 1 x = x + TRANSFORM(lnForm) + : + TRANSFORM(oIE.Document.forms(lnForm).name) EndFor x = x + CR * Look at all of the objects. * all(0) represents everything, * 1-N are contained objects some of which are containers themselves, * so the same thing may apear in different .all(x)'s x = x + All Objects:+Chr(13)++Chr(13) For lnObj = 0 to oIE.Document.all.length - 1 loObj = oIE.Document.all( lnObj ) x = x + TRANSFORM(lnObj) + : + TRANSFORM(Substr(loObj.innerhtml, 1, 20)) x = x + TRANSFORM(loObj.TagName) + : + TRANSFORM(loObj.innertext) X=X+Chr(13) endfor STRTOFILE(loform.InnerHTML, WebResult.txt) MODIFY FILE WebResult.txt NOWAIT return PROCEDURE WaitForIE DO WHILE oIE.Busy() OR oIE.ReadyState 4 DOEVENTS ENDDO endproc * * End Program ** [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a67eb3.7040...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface) From: Kevin Cully kcu...@cullytechnologies.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 10:12 AM It's nice that RealBasic works with SQLite fairly seamlessly. It makes it easy to create an in-memory database much like we have cursors in VFP. Full SQL capability of SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE is sweet. (Dabo has had this capability for a long time as well.) If by 'proprietary' you mean tied to a particular database, then I wholeheartedly agree. People want freedom with their database choice and their ability to extend it. Side note: Why do so many people choose Quickbooks with it's proprietary database and ridiculous licensing fees? On 11/16/2012 11:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: I think the days of tools having their own proprietary databases are well behind us, thankfully. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6808b.7000...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
Actually, it's not the product that gives me the heebie jeebies...it's remembering calling the HP tech support when smoke came out of (several) printer(s) under warranty. The last time I spent a few hours conversing with them, the guy told me he was in Mexico. Oh, and then there was that Compaq desktop system I bought back in the early 90's. My son used to live a couple of miles from where Compaq started, just outside Houston. The parents of several of his high-school friends worked at Compaq. I always thought they were spiffykeeno, until I had hardware problems out of warranty and discovered that if it ain't proprietary, it don't go in there. I've never had much respect for hardware companies that bent over backwards to make sure you had to buy replacement parts (out of warranty) from them. Dunno if they still do...wouldn't surprise me. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts? From: MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 11:35 AM On 11/16/2012 12:18 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: I kind of gagged on that first part...the HP Compaq part. Other than that... Yeah, I've NEVER been a fan of HP or Compaq or both, but recent reviews are saying they're pretty good (now). ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6824a.5070...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
So, instead of trying to search in the content, copy the content to a memvar and then search that? Not a bad idea... It may cause a bit of a performance hit as the HTML file being searched is around 5MB, but I'll give that a try. Thanks! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: AndyHC a...@hawthorncottage.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 10:22 AM Or step deeper into the ms software onion and try xmlhttprequest - you'll find far to much on the archives AndyD 8-)# On 16/11/2012 10:51, Dave Crozier wrote: Mike, The one thing to be careful of doing it my way is that the method uses the full IE DOM (Document Object Model) which isn't fully available in earlier versions of Internet Explorer. I think it was only IE8 and onwards when M$ exposed the FULL DOM model but I can't check here as we only use IE9. Dave snip [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a682ac.1080...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: So, instead of trying to search in the content, copy the content to a memvar and then search that? Not a bad idea... It may cause a bit of a performance hit as the HTML file being searched is around 5MB, but I'll give that a try. Actually I'm kinda surprised you weren't doing it that way all along... Suck the HTML into a memvar, check for the existence of your search term in the string, if it's in there, THEN do your processing. No sense ratcheting through it if what you're looking for ain't even there... I used to work at a place that was all proud of this search utility they wrote that would go through line by line of their SCX's, PJT's, etc etc etc looking for a string... took something like 20 minutes... I got bored one day and rewrote it so it just sucked each file in its' entirety into a memvar, checked it, then went through line by line if it was found... mine ran in about 15 seconds when there weren't any hits, vs 20 otherwise... -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/capt54rbjve7gdlnjpxlszmeiea2huk3xg_qbwry1cazeddw...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
HeyI'mslow. I kind of like that IE bookmark thing, find first occurrence, show it, search again takes you to the next occurrence, and search again... Also the highlighting of the found text string. It's one thing to find the info, I have to show it to the end user...in context. The end users love the way it works...except when it barfs due to the random body object not found. (Reminds me of a previous marriage...) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: M Jarvis brewda...@gmail.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 12:25 PM On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: So, instead of trying to search in the content, copy the content to a memvar and then search that? Not a bad idea... It may cause a bit of a performance hit as the HTML file being searched is around 5MB, but I'll give that a try. Actually I'm kinda surprised you weren't doing it that way all along... Suck the HTML into a memvar, check for the existence of your search term in the string, if it's in there, THEN do your processing. No sense ratcheting through it if what you're looking for ain't even there... I used to work at a place that was all proud of this search utility they wrote that would go through line by line of their SCX's, PJT's, etc etc etc looking for a string... took something like 20 minutes... I got bored one day and rewrote it so it just sucked each file in its' entirety into a memvar, checked it, then went through line by line if it was found... mine ran in about 15 seconds when there weren't any hits, vs 20 otherwise... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a689ab.2070...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[OT] Hostess union shoots self in foot.
Hi Everybody, http://nation.foxnews.com/hostess/2012/11/16/end-hostess-we-know-it Failing to persuade striking employees to return to work, Hostess Brands disclosed plans on Friday to liquidate its assets and lay off most of its 18,500 workers, bringing the 82-year-old maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies to the end of its line. Founded in 1930, Hostess owns a slew of well-known brands, including Drakes, Dolly Madison, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s and Wonder. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a68cbe.7040...@verizon.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
On 11/16/2012 1:13 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Actually, it's not the product that gives me the heebie jeebies...it's remembering calling the HP tech support when smoke came out of (several) printer(s) under warranty. The last time I spent a few hours conversing with them, the guy told me he was in Mexico. Oh, and then there was that Compaq desktop system I bought back in the early 90's. My son used to live a couple of miles from where Compaq started, just outside Houston. The parents of several of his high-school friends worked at Compaq. I always thought they were spiffykeeno, until I had hardware problems out of warranty and discovered that if it ain't proprietary, it don't go in there. I've never had much respect for hardware companies that bent over backwards to make sure you had to buy replacement parts (out of warranty) from them. Dunno if they still do...wouldn't surprise me. I guess I would trace my hatred of them back to the 90s, and although I think Carly Fiorina should rot in hell, it's not fair to hold her bs comments against HP/Compaq. After all, Walter Hewlett hated her too and wanted her fired (which eventually she was). My dad had a HP desktop back in the 90s iirc and it wasn't so great. But...the reviews I've been reading lately make me think that perhaps the quality has improved. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69256.5010...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: VFP searching a web form
Thanks Tracy. I think both removing my object reference, and testing the BODY for being an object may be of help. Thanks for the input and validation that I'm on the right track. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: VFP searching a web form From: Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/15/2012 1:23 PM Mike Copeland wrote on 2012-11-15: I've got a nagging problem that I've beat my head against for years...maybe the collective brain of ProFox will provide the a clue to a solution. I have a form that contains an instance of the IE OLE Control (_webbrowser4 from the _webview.vcx library). Nothing odd, just a simple form and a Shell.Explorer.2 OleClass on it, named web. Mike, You have this: DO WHILE (Thisform.web.OBJECT.Busy OR Thisform.web.OBJECT.ReadyState 4) AND (SECONDS() - lnSeconds) 30 DOEVENTS ENDDO This is how I prevented it: DO WHILE THISFORM.oIE.Busy OR TYPE(THISFORM.oIE.Document.Body) O DOEVENTS =INKEY(.1) ENDDO Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69323.8020...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
The price also looked pretty good to me. There was a recent article in the NY Times Bus. Sec. all about HP - and you should check it out! -K- On 11/16/2012 12:35 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 12:18 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: I kind of gagged on that first part...the HP Compaq part. Other than that... Yeah, I've NEVER been a fan of HP or Compaq or both, but recent reviews are saying they're pretty good (now). ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a696be.4020...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
I think it HAS! A 3D CG buddy of mine has a Massive Brick of a laptop - an HP - and he swears by it! -K- On 11/16/2012 2:21 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 1:13 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Actually, it's not the product that gives me the heebie jeebies...it's remembering calling the HP tech support when smoke came out of (several) printer(s) under warranty. The last time I spent a few hours conversing with them, the guy told me he was in Mexico. Oh, and then there was that Compaq desktop system I bought back in the early 90's. My son used to live a couple of miles from where Compaq started, just outside Houston. The parents of several of his high-school friends worked at Compaq. I always thought they were spiffykeeno, until I had hardware problems out of warranty and discovered that if it ain't proprietary, it don't go in there. I've never had much respect for hardware companies that bent over backwards to make sure you had to buy replacement parts (out of warranty) from them. Dunno if they still do...wouldn't surprise me. I guess I would trace my hatred of them back to the 90s, and although I think Carly Fiorina should rot in hell, it's not fair to hold her bs comments against HP/Compaq. After all, Walter Hewlett hated her too and wanted her fired (which eventually she was). My dad had a HP desktop back in the 90s iirc and it wasn't so great. But...the reviews I've been reading lately make me think that perhaps the quality has improved. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6972f.90...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
In my 'spare time' I should write all of this for VFP9... Jack In my spare time I 'd rather read a good action novel:-) That certainly clears my mind from all that code I churn day after day, week after week Have a good weekend Rafael Copquin El 16/11/2012 01:25 p.m., Jack Skelley escribió: I wrote for fun the classic Battleship game in FPW 2.6. The grids consisted of 100 buttons for each side. One for the player and one for the computer. So 200 grid buttons was on pile of code to wade through with show get and the object. The only saving grace in all of this was the variables defined for the grid buttons were subscripted so all I need to do was pass the row/column address to the function to determine a hit or miss and if a hit show the bitmap to the ship (aircraft carrier, battleship, etc.) and then show the get. Plus it also played a WAV file to hear a splash for a miss or an explosion for a hit. Then there where the other controls on the screen like: resign, load ships, etc. I wish I could show you a screen shot of this 'masterpiece' but it does not run in Win7 Pro 64x...and my XP boxes have been put away... In my 'spare time' I should write all of this for VFP9... Jack Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 jskel...@newjerseydevils.com From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) [foxh...@information-architecture.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:56 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM, M Jarvis brewda...@gmail.com wrote: ... one time I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could see was @SAY/GET text swirling around in my head Been there. Sometimes in the intense period of a project this happens to me. I call the episodes brain storms -- language constructs, variable names, function names storm through my head unstoppably. Half dreaming, half awake, all bizarre. Ken --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a697ae.2050...@fibertel.com.ar ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
[NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface))
On 11/16/2012 1:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6998c.8090...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface))
You nailed the nose on the hammer! windoze over...pretty much anything. Mike Original Message Subject: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)) From: MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 1:52 PM On 11/16/2012 1:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69d3f.5030...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface))
Wow - now a SECOND Change to an Email Thread name! Isn't that Thread HiJackin? Dang... Mike - to answer your Q. I heard that actually Beta was better than VHS - but, VHS won. Although, I know - its not SW - so maybe this is bad example! How about ME as a programmer at my Last job - as this Other guy named Mai. He was Incompetent - as my Boss claimed he was - and the Tech Support guys HATED to work with him - because he was Incompetent - but, alas, when it came time to make Cutbacks - I get laid off (not fired) - and he gets to Keep his Stinky Job - even though he Stinks at it! /Rant-Mode-Off ...OK - at least that was a little bit closer to the SW topic. Right? :-) -K- On 11/16/2012 2:52 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 1:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69dd9.4030...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
Minus the gaming computer that my son is working on and the apple products, everything in my house and office is HP and we get on well with them. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net wrote: I think it HAS! A 3D CG buddy of mine has a Massive Brick of a laptop - an HP - and he swears by it! -K- On 11/16/2012 2:21 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 1:13 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Actually, it's not the product that gives me the heebie jeebies...it's remembering calling the HP tech support when smoke came out of (several) printer(s) under warranty. The last time I spent a few hours conversing with them, the guy told me he was in Mexico. Oh, and then there was that Compaq desktop system I bought back in the early 90's. My son used to live a couple of miles from where Compaq started, just outside Houston. The parents of several of his high-school friends worked at Compaq. I always thought they were spiffykeeno, until I had hardware problems out of warranty and discovered that if it ain't proprietary, it don't go in there. I've never had much respect for hardware companies that bent over backwards to make sure you had to buy replacement parts (out of warranty) from them. Dunno if they still do...wouldn't surprise me. I guess I would trace my hatred of them back to the 90s, and although I think Carly Fiorina should rot in hell, it's not fair to hold her bs comments against HP/Compaq. After all, Walter Hewlett hated her too and wanted her fired (which eventually she was). My dad had a HP desktop back in the 90s iirc and it wasn't so great. But...the reviews I've been reading lately make me think that perhaps the quality has improved. [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/f660621a-e262-489f-8cf4-17e7703ad...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)
Hey Kevin - thanks for this - mucho appreciated! Am going to look at in a couple of moments... -K- On 11/16/2012 10:46 AM, Kevin Cully wrote: On 11/13/2012 11:16 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: What about the data. Is it DBF's and/or DBC's like VFP? OR is it strictly that you tie into a server data source like MySql? Again - just curious - and trying to figure out what's involved... RealSoftware just uploaded a video on accessing MySQL data from a RealBasic application. This should give you a good idea on what it's like working with the IDE and working with data. Make sure you full screen it so you can get a good look at the code. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiJpd6FwBcY --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69e35.2040...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: BETA vs VHS (was Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)))
Beta was technically superior. Vastly so. Then that digital stuff came along and analog tape recording went bye bye. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)) From: Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:11 PM Wow - now a SECOND Change to an Email Thread name! Isn't that Thread HiJackin? Dang... Mike - to answer your Q. I heard that actually Beta was better than VHS - but, VHS won. Although, I know - its not SW - so maybe this is bad example! How about ME as a programmer at my Last job - as this Other guy named Mai. He was Incompetent - as my Boss claimed he was - and the Tech Support guys HATED to work with him - because he was Incompetent - but, alas, when it came time to make Cutbacks - I get laid off (not fired) - and he gets to Keep his Stinky Job - even though he Stinks at it! /Rant-Mode-Off ...OK - at least that was a little bit closer to the SW topic. Right? :-) -K- On 11/16/2012 2:52 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 1:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a69f40.7050...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [PHISHING] - Re: [OT] Republican senators set up showdown over possible Rice nomination - Message is a scam email phishing
If you have good information and a mind, you can rule circumstances more effectively --- Nicholas Geti - Original Message - From: lelandj lela...@mail.smvfp.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:30 PM Subject: Re: [PHISHING] - Re: [OT] Republican senators set up showdown over possible Rice nomination - Message is a scam email phishing On 11/15/2012 06:25 PM, Nicholas Geti wrote: It hardly matters what name you give to the attacking group. They were organized thugs and our government should have set up a strong defensive position when it is well known how dangerous that place is. If you would kindly tell me where the next terrorist attack will occur, I'd be happy to pass that along, so the Obama Administration can fortify the position. LOL Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. -- Herodotus Regards, LelandJ Nicholas Geti - Original Message - From: lelandj lela...@mail.smvfp.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [PHISHING] - Re: [OT] Republican senators set up showdown over possible Rice nomination - Message is a scam email phishing On 11/15/2012 03:29 PM, Adam Buckland wrote: It's like Switzerland... everyone has a weapon... they've just been through a civil war everyones got an AK47... my business partner in Istanbul has an AK47 under his bed... they are everywhere .. everywhere... but saying that it does look like if it was a spontaneous protest there was a serious level of planning parallel to it to attack the Embassy. Yes, I agree the attack appears to have been planned, but to what end, and who directed the attack? Al Quada does not seem to be behind it. Regards, LelandJ [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/D9397146016C41EC8F11AAAF03878E53@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: BETA vs VHS (was Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)))
Tell me about it - the Oxides drop off is TERRIBLE - so, VHS Tapes from 5 t 10 years ago, and those even farther back - are almost Un-viewable! Time to convert them ALL to DVD - before the content degrades to completely unusable. -K- On 11/16/2012 3:17 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Beta was technically superior. Vastly so. Then that digital stuff came along and analog tape recording went bye bye. Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)) From: Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:11 PM Wow - now a SECOND Change to an Email Thread name! Isn't that Thread HiJackin? Dang... Mike - to answer your Q. I heard that actually Beta was better than VHS - but, VHS won. Although, I know - its not SW - so maybe this is bad example! How about ME as a programmer at my Last job - as this Other guy named Mai. He was Incompetent - as my Boss claimed he was - and the Tech Support guys HATED to work with him - because he was Incompetent - but, alas, when it came time to make Cutbacks - I get laid off (not fired) - and he gets to Keep his Stinky Job - even though he Stinks at it! /Rant-Mode-Off ...OK - at least that was a little bit closer to the SW topic. Right? :-) -K- On 11/16/2012 2:52 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 1:06 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Quickbooks = momentum Say what you want about Intuit's products, the marketing was innovative and genius at the time. They practically gave away Quicken...it worked well enough...they were constantly updating (which equated to presence and top of mind market share)...and they developed a nationwide network of local peeps that will hold your hand if you get the jitters and they enlisted accounting firms in the effort to earn credibility. Quicken/Quickbooks was also groundbreaking in not forcing you to post and close accounting periodsI still remember seeing accountants eyes bulge out when they discovered that you actually could go back to a prior, closed accounting period and *gasp!* CHANGE something!!! Oh...mygodit was the end of the world in Bean land. Intuit's technology sucks, but Quickbooks is also a great example of a product completely defining and controlling a software segment. THAT takes skill! Especially the controlling part for any period of time. I don't care for Quickbooks/Quicken either, but I respect what Intuit has accomplished. Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6a374.3050...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
In my spare time I would rather have a fly rod in my hand chasing Atlantic Salmon! But that doesn't happen but a few times a year now. But when it does the furthest thing from my mind is computer stuff... This weekend is the largest get together of fly tyers in the world and it happens in New Jersey! This year I have been invited as a tyer of salmon flies. This is the equivalent of making the all-star team in professional baseball. So this is exciting for me to get this invitation. Checkout http://internationalflytyingsymposium.com/celebritiesandtiers.html and you should see my name. Have a great weekend as well. Jack From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Rafael Copquin [rcopq...@fibertel.com.ar] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 2:44 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set In my 'spare time' I should write all of this for VFP9... Jack In my spare time I 'd rather read a good action novel:-) That certainly clears my mind from all that code I churn day after day, week after week Have a good weekend Rafael Copquin El 16/11/2012 01:25 p.m., Jack Skelley escribió: I wrote for fun the classic Battleship game in FPW 2.6. The grids consisted of 100 buttons for each side. One for the player and one for the computer. So 200 grid buttons was on pile of code to wade through with show get and the object. The only saving grace in all of this was the variables defined for the grid buttons were subscripted so all I need to do was pass the row/column address to the function to determine a hit or miss and if a hit show the bitmap to the ship (aircraft carrier, battleship, etc.) and then show the get. Plus it also played a WAV file to hear a splash for a miss or an explosion for a hit. Then there where the other controls on the screen like: resign, load ships, etc. I wish I could show you a screen shot of this 'masterpiece' but it does not run in Win7 Pro 64x...and my XP boxes have been put away... In my 'spare time' I should write all of this for VFP9... Jack Jack Skelley Senior Director, Programming/Computer Operations New Jersey Devils (973)757-6164 jskel...@newjerseydevils.com From: ProfoxTech [profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] on behalf of Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) [foxh...@information-architecture.com] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 10:56 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 9:07 AM, M Jarvis brewda...@gmail.com wrote: ... one time I woke up in the middle of the night and all I could see was @SAY/GET text swirling around in my head Been there. Sometimes in the intense period of a project this happens to me. I call the episodes brain storms -- language constructs, variable names, function names storm through my head unstoppably. Half dreaming, half awake, all bizarre. Ken --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/7d9e7f72b813014c8fd022cf04f820ed58584...@ex08.drdad.thenewarkarena.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
I agree w/U Matt - as I have been beating my head in with this HD problem - and my Dead PC... TGIF Right Back @ Ur Arse! :-) On 11/16/2012 12:35 PM, M Jarvis wrote: On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike ... and as a last ditch effort, you could slaughter a goat and lay it on a flat rock pointing North during the next rise of a full moon Okay okay, so that one didn't work, but by then I was fed up and drunk enough to not give a crap anymore... g Happy Friday... ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6a77d.4080...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
Ah - it looks like U R actually SERIOUS about this strange approach! So - if you don't mind my asking - what exactly is the deep freeze procedure??? ...if it doesn't work - next - I'm going to build a Pyramid on my Bot and see if Pyramid-Power can solve the problem! Hell - MUST less messy than that Goat Slaughter approach!:-) -K- On 11/16/2012 12:30 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote: I've had pretty good results with the deep freeze procedure. Drive rarely lives long but long enough to grab the necessary data. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: ...and then there's the deep-freeze approach, and don't forget the swimin-wit-da-fishes method. Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:56 AM That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6a812.7050...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
Put it in a freezer, several hours, take it out, hook it up, power on. Butkeep everything DRY (when you take it out, it may try to frost up in the room air humidity) and work fast because if it is going to help, as the device warms up inside, whatever was causing it to fail will likely recur. Also, be aware that the more stuff you try, the more you likely guarantee that the drive is toast. So, if it really has something of high value, save the extreme solutions for last. Way last. Before you do anything else, at least take it to a local Best Buy and have a Geek-idiot connect it to a drive analyzer or something to test it. In other words, make sure you're really actually working with a rock before you chunk it into the river (metaphorically speaking.) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:54 PM Ah - it looks like U R actually SERIOUS about this strange approach! So - if you don't mind my asking - what exactly is the deep freeze procedure??? ...if it doesn't work - next - I'm going to build a Pyramid on my Bot and see if Pyramid-Power can solve the problem! Hell - MUST less messy than that Goat Slaughter approach!:-) -K- On 11/16/2012 12:30 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote: I've had pretty good results with the deep freeze procedure. Drive rarely lives long but long enough to grab the necessary data. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: ...and then there's the deep-freeze approach, and don't forget the swimin-wit-da-fishes method. Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:56 AM That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6aa3c.3030...@ggisoft.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: BETA vs VHS (was Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)))
On 11/16/2012 3:35 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: Tell me about it - the Oxides drop off is TERRIBLE - so, VHS Tapes from 5 t 10 years ago, and those even farther back - are almost Un-viewable! Time to convert them ALL to DVD - before the content degrades to completely unusable. Reminds me of the commentary on the Star Wars remakes for episodes 4-6...the originals were fading fast apparently! -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC President, Chief Software Architect http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com http://twitter.com/mbabcock16 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6ae06.5040...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [OT] Hostess union shoots self in foot.
Now 18,000 overpaid workers are unemployed and will get hired at 1/2 their current pay and benefits by someone else. Buh bye From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2012 1:58 PM Subject: [OT] Hostess union shoots self in foot. Hi Everybody, http://nation.foxnews.com/hostess/2012/11/16/end-hostess-we-know-it Failing to persuade striking employees to return to work, Hostess Brands disclosed plans on Friday to liquidate its assets and lay off most of its 18,500 workers, bringing the 82-year-old maker of Wonder Bread and Twinkies to the end of its line. Founded in 1930, Hostess owns a slew of well-known brands, including Drakes, Dolly Madison, Twinkies, Ding Dongs, Ho Ho’s and Wonder. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a68cbe.7040...@verizon.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1353101021.72043.yahoomail...@web122301.mail.ne1.yahoo.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
RE: [NF] Watching a webinar on SPA
Did that a few years ago with asp and vfp.dll Not new Guys is this turning up as text? I’m on win 8 and its mail system and don't have a clue if its ok. Al Sent from Windows Mail From: Stephen Russell Sent: 14 November 2012 12:07 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Watching a webinar on SPA Single Page Application. http://www.vconferenceonline.com/event/home.aspx?id=805 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/0lehou-1swfpp3hoe-00q...@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: BETA vs VHS (was Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface)))
Ah - man - Mike - Ur so Bad! This is like the 3rd renaming of this thread. Yeah - a little while ago - before the new Tron movie came out - I tried to have my son watch the Original - which I had on VHS. Holy cow - it looked SO BAD! -K- On 11/16/2012 4:20 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: On 11/16/2012 3:35 PM, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: Tell me about it - the Oxides drop off is TERRIBLE - so, VHS Tapes from 5 t 10 years ago, and those even farther back - are almost Un-viewable! Time to convert them ALL to DVD - before the content degrades to completely unusable. Reminds me of the commentary on the Star Wars remakes for episodes 4-6...the originals were fading fast apparently! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6c0b4.1080...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC...
HEy Mike - thanks for all this advice. I figured if I DID put it in the freezer - I would 1st put it in a Zip Lock baggie. Agreed about last resorts - and I think that I may just go ahead and bring it to the psuedo techies @ Best Buy - as there is one right near me! -K- On 11/16/2012 4:03 PM, Mike Copeland wrote: Put it in a freezer, several hours, take it out, hook it up, power on. Butkeep everything DRY (when you take it out, it may try to frost up in the room air humidity) and work fast because if it is going to help, as the device warms up inside, whatever was causing it to fail will likely recur. Also, be aware that the more stuff you try, the more you likely guarantee that the drive is toast. So, if it really has something of high value, save the extreme solutions for last. Way last. Before you do anything else, at least take it to a local Best Buy and have a Geek-idiot connect it to a drive analyzer or something to test it. In other words, make sure you're really actually working with a rock before you chunk it into the river (metaphorically speaking.) Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: Kurt @ VR-FX v...@optonline.net To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:54 PM Ah - it looks like U R actually SERIOUS about this strange approach! So - if you don't mind my asking - what exactly is the deep freeze procedure??? ...if it doesn't work - next - I'm going to build a Pyramid on my Bot and see if Pyramid-Power can solve the problem! Hell - MUST less messy than that Goat Slaughter approach!:-) -K- On 11/16/2012 12:30 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote: I've had pretty good results with the deep freeze procedure. Drive rarely lives long but long enough to grab the necessary data. Michael Oke, II 661-349-6221 Contents of this and all messages are intended for their designated recipient. On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Mike Copeland m...@ggisoft.com wrote: ...and then there's the deep-freeze approach, and don't forget the swimin-wit-da-fishes method. Of course, we are into some pretty extreme solutions here that produce rare results! But when it works, it's sweet! Mike Original Message Subject: Re: [NF] SATA Drive a Dead PC... From: John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk To: profoxt...@leafe.com Date: 11/16/2012 2:56 AM That is (was?) a well-known technique referred to as 'percussion adjustment' :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 My father would sometimes give non-responsive radios a fair wack by lifting and then giving it a not so gentle slam against the table. The darn thing would then work after plugging it in. As a small child I thought it was magic... Maybe you wan'a try that!!! :) LOL [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6c130.1050...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Thanks Paul, so far I am only seeing it available in the UK Ireland. Will keep searching to find someone in the US selling it. Frank. Frank Cazabon On 16/11/2012 11:08 AM, Paul Hill wrote: Hi Frank, I have had a request in the past to support Passport Scanner plusktek optic slim 550 No idea if it is any good. We never did any work on this. Regards, Paul On 16 November 2012 13:48, Frank Cazabon frank.caza...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? -- Frank. Frank Cazabon ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6cdea.1090...@gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Adobe update forcing Chrome installation?
Thanks - I saw the McAffee thing when I went to the page, not the Chrome... fun/tricky that they change it up on us... Depends on which browser you're installing from. Can't remember which is which right now but on IE you always get one and on Firefox you always get the other. And, by the way, you have to install from both if you want it to work on both. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5.2.1.1.1.20121116203845.01fae...@pop-server.stny.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Adobe update forcing Chrome installation?
I wouldn't put Java updates under the same heading as sneakily installing Chrome or some phoney baloney AV - you can turn Java updates off very easily, and it's a good idea to leave them on as they often contain very important security fixes. Yeah, and every time you update it, Firefox will disable it..again. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5.2.1.1.1.20121116204057.01fa8...@pop-server.stny.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 Look at the website more closely. You'll see separate machines listed as refurbished or off lease. At least for Tiger Direct, off lease does NOT mean refurbished. It just means used, and there's no indication of how heavily used. Also, it's been my experience that for any given configuration of HW components, any Compaq computer will run between 25% and 33% slower than other brands with the same specs. Don't know why it is, but it's true. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5.2.1.1.1.20121116210347.0201e...@pop-server.stny.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Frank, Check out Business Card Scanners as an option. You might find something suitable pops up. GaryT On 17/11/12 00:48, Frank Cazabon wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6f1ad.7030...@taig.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface))
Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? Er... betamax vs VHS cell phones vs. POTS desktops vs. tablets *chuckles evilly* Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/5.2.1.1.1.20121116211524.01fff...@pop-server.stny.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Small scanner for copying Passports IDs
Found one! Talk to this company. Seems to have a good range of small stuff. Open to 8.00pm Friday in California. http://www.scanshell-store.com/software-idscan-passport-scanner.htm GT On 17/11/12 13:08, I wrote: Frank, Check out Business Card Scanners as an option. You might find something suitable pops up. GaryT On 17/11/12 00:48, Frank Cazabon wrote: Hi, I need to find a small footprint scanner that can handle scanning ID cards and Passports (nothing bigger than that) and saving this as an image file which I can automate from a VFP application. The environment is mainly Windows XP workstations, but a couple are Windows 7. Any recommendations? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6f510.5020...@taig.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
Damn - in that case - I would suggest - if buying used - do so locally so you can SEE B 4 U Buy! -K- On 11/16/2012 9:06 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3906461CatId=2628 HP Compaq dc7900 Desktop PC - Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 3GB DDR2, 500GB HDD, DVD-ROM, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Mouse Keyboard (Off-Lease) USD $259.99 Look at the website more closely. You'll see separate machines listed as refurbished or off lease. At least for Tiger Direct, off lease does NOT mean refurbished. It just means used, and there's no indication of how heavily used. Also, it's been my experience that for any given configuration of HW components, any Compaq computer will run between 25% and 33% slower than other brands with the same specs. Don't know why it is, but it's true. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6f6ed.2040...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] Quickbooks (was Re: [NF] RealBasic and MySQL (was Re: VFP Metro Interface))
Oh man - U made me chuckle on THAT One! -K- On 11/16/2012 9:16 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: Peachtree Accounting Software was supposed to be very good and appease the accountants moreso (probably because of that part about closed periods). This is another example of how marketing and its big-$ spend can really take an arguably inferior product and make it #1. History is littered with easy examples of such. Excel over Lotus 1-2-3 comes to mind first. VB6/Access over VFP is another. More? Er... betamax vs VHS cell phones vs. POTS desktops vs. tablets *chuckles evilly* Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a6f715.80...@optonline.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: [NF] This desktop looks like a good deal...your thoughts?
In the UK you can get a pretty good ex-corporate HP /*server*/ for around $30 -$40 - trouble is it costs nearly that much a month in electricity to run the things! AndyD 8-)# On 16/11/2012 19:40, Kurt @ VR-FX wrote: The price also looked pretty good to me. There was a recent article in the NY Times Bus. Sec. all about HP - and you should check it out! -K- snip --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a7200e.4070...@hawthorncottage.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
Re: FoxDOS 2.6 Screen Set
Congratulations, Jack! Now I know somebody famous! Dan On 11/16/12 12:40, Jack Skelley wrote: This weekend is the largest get together of fly tyers in the world and it happens in New Jersey! This year I have been invited as a tyer of salmon flies. This is the equivalent of making the all-star team in professional baseball. So this is exciting for me to get this invitation. Checkout http://internationalflytyingsymposium.com/celebritiesandtiers.html and you should see my name. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/50a72d39.4080...@san.rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
