Re: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra

2003-10-07 Thread Kurt at DBC
Robert martin wrote: The fact that they are publishing the problem means it must be major. Our experiance with Jetstream is that they wont admit a problem but mysteriously 30mins later it fixes itself :). I know Jetstream isnt xtra but there is a rather close association. Hmm, I think that this

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Corey Murtagh
Paul Mckenzie wrote: Windows initially sat on top of DOS... The way I see it - .NET will eventually, somehow, become the platform itself (maybe 64-bit). At the moment .NET is primarily a Java challenger for the Windows platform... and others, once the various non-MS CIL/CLR implementations out

RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread David Brennan
Deja-vu... We seem to be in a time warp. Glitch in the Matrix? David. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of delphiuser Sent: Monday, 6 October 2003 3:06 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: octane If you're

[DUG]: jpeg - crop/resize

2003-10-07 Thread Rohit Gupta
I want to be able to resize a camera captured jpeg automatically (ie no user intervention and then to crop it with minimum user input. Any recommendations ? Regards Rohit == CFL - Computer Fanatics Ltd. 21 Barry's Point

Re: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra

2003-10-07 Thread Corey Murtagh
Robert martin wrote: I wonder if it is related to any traffic travelling over their servers though. I just checked the xtra site they say. snip The fact that they are publishing the problem means it must be major. Our experiance with Jetstream is that they wont admit a problem but mysteriously

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Max Nilson
Phil Scadden asked: Is there now a proposal that .NET replaces win32 eventually?? Short answer: YES! My take on this situation is as follows: 1. Microsoft has already been bitten once having to support multiple architectures (see Alpha and MIPS), and to avoid this problem in the future (see

RE: Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Conor.Boyd
Not sure how long this will take to get through to you all obviously... ;-) FYI, an update about Octane: http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,29952,00.html Cheers, Conor --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List

RE: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra

2003-10-07 Thread Like Magic
i have yet to receive my posting but I have your reply ?? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert martin Sent: Tuesday, 7 October 2003 1:13 p.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra I think it is

Re: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
Windows initially sat on top of DOS... Initially. ?? Still does :-) The way I see it - .NET will eventually, somehow, become the platform itself (maybe 64-bit). As a bytecode interpreter? So I am going to write my services/databases etc for a virtual machine? Something other than assembler

Fw: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Tracey Maule
Morning all despite the fact that this topic is a bit stale, i thought i would forward my colleague's comments.. (he is a linux freak) Oh good, yeah I thought it sounded a bit nuts for them to just drop it. :-) (Mind you companies do stupid things all the time, just look at MS). I don't like

[DUG]: Hidden files on FTp Server

2003-10-07 Thread Sandeep Chandra
There is a command LIST -la which displays hidden files, but I want to know how do I hide files on ftp server. Regards Sandeep --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Corey Murtagh
Phil Scadden wrote: Windows initially sat on top of DOS... Initially. ?? Still does :-) Win9x and WinMe do, yes. And they're both virtually retired by Microsoft. The WinNT line hasn't had anything much to do with DOS, except for the WoW core which allows DOS programs to run in a window. The

RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Vowles
-Original Message- Personally, I have no interest in .NET as yet. If I have to use it I will, but until then... C++ Builder suits me just fine : You have read the Open Letter to C++ Builder users haven't you? C++BuilderX - the new C++Builder follows quite a different path...

[DUG]: IXMLDocument

2003-10-07 Thread James F Sugrue
Has anyone had any experience using this to create an XML document from scratch ? Any examples I could have a look at ? Cheers --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Richard Vowles
I don't like think I like his remark about Linux on the desktop though. The latest KDE or Gnome are much nicer to use than Windows XP with its Fisher Price baby toy look and feel. But, er this is configurable. Fisher Price is good for a lot of people as that is exactly the level of

RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Leigh Wanstead
The KDE and Gnome environments are also an attempt to cover up an extremely bad windowing system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome, badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly

Re: [DUG]: IXMLDocument

2003-10-07 Thread Todd Martin
Hi James Its pretty straightforward really. Import the MSXML type library into your project and do something like the following function GetRootNode(AText : String) : IXMLDOMNode; var Document : IXMLDOMDocument; begin Document := CoDOMDocument.Create; Document.LoadXML(AText); Result

[DUG]: Thought My D7 install was crapping out---BUT !!

2003-10-07 Thread Jeremy Coulter
Title: Message Hi All. Noticed my D7 install was doing some WEIRED stuff. Like I would be on a form, then go to a DataModual, and some controls dissappeared of the Pallette and some tabs were missing. Thought, "bugger ! must be something iffy with my install". I would then restart D7, and

Re: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Neven MacEwan
Richard X-windows amazes me as well, It is so bandwidth hungry With the rise of thin computing I wonder why there isn't an open source project to do a 'terminal server' with linux (There are commercial ones), but the bugbear is XWindows (and don't mention VNC it isn't a lot better), Thin Client

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Tracey Maule
oh hahaha good onya, finally i receive my own post from monday - Original Message - From: Tracey Maule To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 10:55 AM Subject: [DUG]: octane I have been reading the borland open letter to the delphi community, and

Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-07 Thread Dennis Chuah
A batch in SQL server is basically one or more queries executed in series by one database connection. - Original Message - From: Robert martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:49 AM Subject: Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE

Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-07 Thread Robert martin
Thanks Dennis Any idea how big a gap between the SQL is required for it to count as a new batch? So I can have 100 users each doing and Query every now and then without any performance hit? Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com - Original

Re: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Tracey Maule
Something must be up with the server today again, i havent even received my question and half of the answers. lucky the original text is left in the message. Is it going to be possible to convert a CGI app to .NET? My boss also doesnt think it necessary to upgrade to 7 for development (also not

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Eggleton
Richard Vowles wrote on Monday, 6 October 2003 11:40 a.m.: Win32 is dead, time to bury it. And I think this message is undead ... :) Cheers, Paul --- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Paul Mckenzie
Looks like I wasn't the only one to receive this message 2 day late !!! Regards Paul McKenzie Analyst Programmer SMSS Ltd. - Original Message - From: Paul Eggleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list delphi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:57 PM

Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-07 Thread Dennis Chuah
Rob, You as a programmer decide what is a batch. Every time you execute a query against SQL server, it is one batch - within reason, size does not matter - it can be one simple statement, one complex statement or multiple statements. The only limitations are stored procedure and function

Re: [DUG]: Moving to MSDE

2003-10-07 Thread Dennis Chuah
You do not have to develop in SQL server, you can use MSDE. Install the SQL server client tools that come with Small Business Server - the client installation is separate from the server install. - Original Message - From: Robert martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Multiple recipients of list

RE: RE: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
Short answer: YES! My take on this situation is as follows: 1. Microsoft has already been bitten once having to support multiple architectures (see Alpha and MIPS), and to avoid this problem in the future (see x86-64 and IA-64) they hace created .NET as a platform neutral environment.

RE: Fw: [DUG]: octane

2003-10-07 Thread Phil Scadden
system - aka X-Windows - which is probably the most appalling windowing product in existence short of one I'd write myself. It is slow, cumbersome, badly supported with device drivers, excruciatingly difficult to set up if you are not bulk-standard (depending on whose distribution what bulk

Re: [DUG]: Fw: MSDE tool

2003-10-07 Thread Robert martin
Great thanks Dennis. As you can see I am not an SQL Server expert (infect have never used it! Starting Friday). The 100 users was just an example. Rob Martin Software Engineer phone 03 377 0495 fax 03 377 0496 web www.chreos.com - Original Message - From: Dennis Chuah [EMAIL

RE: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra

2003-10-07 Thread Alan
Perhaps the mail server is using .Net ;-) -Original Message- From: Aaron Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 3:39 p.m. To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: RE: [DUG]: Slow email / xtra Strange things are happening... The last few days

[DUG]: listview shortcut keys

2003-10-07 Thread Ross Levis
Hi This is more of a Windows user thing really. I have a listview where items can be inserted above the selected item. If the user wants to append an item, they need to click below the last item so no item is selected. This works fine, however, I have a number of blind users who only use

RE: [DUG]: listview shortcut keys

2003-10-07 Thread Myles Penlington
ESC? -Original Message-From: Ross Levis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, 8 October 2003 17:14To: Multiple recipients of list delphiSubject: [DUG]: listview shortcut keys Hi This is more of a Windows user thing really. I have a listview where items can be

Re: [DUG]: listview shortcut keys

2003-10-07 Thread Ross Levis
Title: Message Hi Stephen Unfortunately I use the Checkboxes option on the listview for another purpose and Ctrl + Space just toggles the checkbox, same asSpace by itself. Perhaps I will use ESC to deselect all as Myles suggested. Thanks. Ross