[OT] These are the scum that voted to burn flags

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Madigan
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RE: [NF] How to disable Windows Genuine Advantage from phoning themothership.

2006-06-28 Thread Andy Davies
It's there now! Oh no it's not! It is now. ... and throws a stream of js errors! Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the

RE: [NF] How to disable Windows Genuine Advantage from phoningthemothership.

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Crozier
Don't know as I haven't tried it Dave Crozier A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match - Bill Bryson -Original

Re: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Eyvind Axelsen
-Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Ed Leafe As Bruce Eckel stated, strong testing, not strong typing. The two are not mutually exclusive, and why have only one when you can have both? The compiler does not lead to a false feeling of

RE: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Dominic Burford
The two are not mutually exclusive, and why have only one when you can have both? No they are not, and the article did not state that either. It was making the point that strongly typed languages can lead to more inflexible implementations compared to a weaker typed language. It was also

RE: [OT] ooops

2006-06-28 Thread Kristyne McDaniel
Madigan, http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_177194808.html It was pretty stupid for Limbaugh to think that he could carry prescriptions around with someone else's name on them after his track record with prescription drugs. Other than stupidity, though, it doesn't seem like much else of

RE: [NF] -- Windows Genuine program revised following uproar

2006-06-28 Thread Tristan Leask
Ahhh haaa! This explains why its takes ages for my laptop to login every morning! Remember I while back with the Dabo false virus flag (my laptop is not connected to the internet), well every now and again I do connect up to the Windows Update site, and guess what, the WGA has been installed. I

ActiveX errors.

2006-06-28 Thread Alan Bourke
Does anyone have a list of error numbers that pertain to ActiveX controls in VFP, maybe specifically ones that could be thrown when attempting to AddObject an ActiveX control? Say if the control is not present on the machine? This is VFP6 so I can't wrap the AddObject in TRY ... ENDTRY. Also the

Re: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Eyvind Axelsen
-Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Dominic Burford And there is likely to be more time available for testing due to the quicker development times that weakly types languages are capable of. I would say that this is highly dependant on the

RE: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Dominic Burford
I must say that for large projects involving multiple developers and changing requirements, strong, static typing speeds things up, simply because refactoring is so much easier to do. I'm curious to find out how. I would have thought a strongly typed language would have been *more*

Re: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Eyvind Axelsen
-Opprinnelig melding- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne av Dominic Burford Sendt: 28. juni 2006 14:04 Til: ProFox Email List Emne: RE: Strong parameter checking I'm curious to find out how. I would have thought a strongly typed language would have been *more*

App Data generation

2006-06-28 Thread Tristan Leask
Hi All, Just pondering about something. How do you guys sort the data out for a new application installation? Do you generate it from within your program using the data layer to build up whatever files are required therefore the same generation code can be used for DBF/MySQL/MSSQL/yada...? Just

Re: App Data generation

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Cushing
Tristan Leask wrote: Hi All, Just pondering about something. How do you guys sort the data out for a new application installation? Do you generate it from within your program using the data layer to build up whatever files are required therefore the same generation code can be used for

RE: VFP7: DSN programatically

2006-06-28 Thread David Crooks
On Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:09 PM Chet Gardiner wrote: Control Panel Administrative Tools Data Sources System DSN Tab... I guess you missed the part about 'programmatically'! David L. Crooks ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

RE: App Data generation

2006-06-28 Thread Tristan Leask
Hmm sounds good but I am not using the Stonefield kit. Currently in the systems running at the moment we have a chkfiles program that keeps the data structures correct. But this is just suited to dbfs. At the moment I am tinkering with my own n-Tier design (building from scratch to learn). I

RE: ActiveX errors.

2006-06-28 Thread Tracy Pearson
-Original Message- From: Alan Bourke Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 7:10 AM Subject: ActiveX errors. Does anyone have a list of error numbers that pertain to ActiveX controls in VFP, maybe specifically ones that could be thrown when attempting to AddObject an ActiveX control? Say if the

RE: ActiveX errors.

2006-06-28 Thread Alan Bourke
That woudl work great assuming the custom class error event grabs any error before the form error method does. Which I presume it will. Thanks Tracy! -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - A fast, anti-spam email service.

Re: App Data generation

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Cushing
Tristan Leask wrote: Hmm sounds good but I am not using the Stonefield kit. Currently in the systems running at the moment we have a chkfiles program that keeps the data structures correct. But this is just suited to dbfs. At the moment I am tinkering with my own n-Tier design (building from

RE: Strong parameter checking

2006-06-28 Thread Stephen the Cook
Dominic Burford wrote: I must say that for large projects involving multiple developers and changing requirements, strong, static typing speeds things up, simply because refactoring is so much easier to do. I'm curious to find out how. I would have thought a strongly typed language

RE: [OT] These are the scum that voted to burn flags

2006-06-28 Thread Stephen the Cook
Michael Madigan wrote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm ?congress=109session=2vote=00189#position First freedom of speech/action next it will be your GUNS. What's a constitution for anyway when we have to fix it all the time lately. Stephen

Re: [OT] These are the scum that voted to burn flags

2006-06-28 Thread Leland Jackson
Protect the flag, but desecrate our constitutional liberty; I don't thnk so! #--- Protect the flag; desecrate liberty Thank you, Dianne Feinstein. Composition teachers all over the country are indebted to the Democratic senator from California for an

Re: [NF] -- Windows Genuine program revised following uproar

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/28/06, Profox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday my PC alerted me to an update, which was WGA and I killed it. Oh, no, this time I'm sure they've got it right g,dr! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post

Re: [NF] AD Printer madness

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Kaye
Depending on the size of your AD and the number of DCs you have, it can take a little time to replicate. Tristan Leask wrote: PMSL! Damn thing just decided to start working now! Shesh! I must remember to bill MS for wasting my time g Tristan Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either

Re: App Data generation

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/28/06, Tristan Leask [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just pondering about something. How do you guys sort the data out for a new application installation? Do you generate it from within your program using the data layer to build up whatever files are required therefore the same generation code

Re: [NF] Gartner mailing I received

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/27/06, Jason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the magazine ads that read: Microsoft SQL Servers provide us with a 99.98% uptime* then you read the 2pt font footnote and it says Results not typical Jason Ha! What a perfect response that counter-ad would make! I love it! -- Ted Roche

Forcing Combo Box opening Upwards

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Crozier
Does anyone know a way of forcing a combobox to open in the upwards direction as opposed to the default downwards direction? VFP seems to decide itself whether the list is too large to open in the default downwards direction depending on the amount of window space available below the combobox

Re: VFP7: DSN programatically

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Kaye
I've got something I can send you. Let me look it over so I can explain it... g David Crooks wrote: On Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:09 PM Chet Gardiner wrote: I guess you missed the part about 'programmatically'! -- Richard Kaye Artfact/RFC Systems Voice: 617.219.1038 For the fastest

Re: [NF] WebProNews: Executive Summary of AJAX

2006-06-28 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 28, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Andy Davies wrote: execCommand-SaveAs is still against the spirit of the js sandbox It is Java that is supposed to come with a 'sandbox' that wouldn't allow such actions; JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com --

Re: ActiveX errors.

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/28/06, Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That woudl work great assuming the custom class error event grabs any error before the form error method does. Which I presume it will. Thanks Tracy! And that TRY... CATCH works in VFP6. Wasn't it a later add-on? ActiveX errors are 1426

Re: Forcing Combo Box opening Upwards

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Does anyone know a way of forcing a combobox to open in the upwards direction as opposed to the default downwards direction? VFP seems to decide itself whether the list is too large to open in the default downwards direction depending on the amount of window space

RE: [NF] WebProNews: Executive Summary of AJAX

2006-06-28 Thread Andy Davies
well I have got a cut down example to sort of work ... in IE Firefox shows an 'uncaught exception' in the js console, and writes nothing. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted

Re: [NF] WebProNews: Executive Summary of AJAX

2006-06-28 Thread Andy Davies
JavaScript has nothing to do with Java. -- Ed Leafe I know. js is also supposed to run in a restricted state or 'sandbox' - with no access to the local file system. Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email

Re: Forcing Combo Box opening Upwards

2006-06-28 Thread Peter Cushing
Dave Crozier wrote: Peter, 95% of the time VFP gets it correct but just occasionally it displays the dropdown combo OFF the screen and it is a real pain to move the window upwards so you can select an entry! This might sound a bit silly but you could move the control upwards a bit just

Re: Docking Toolbar in Top-Level Form

2006-06-28 Thread Profox
From: Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem: I'm trying to make a top level form in which a toolbar is dockable. I just sold a VFP 9.0 to a newbie and was going to email him some VFP sites to look at. One was www.foxite.com and on the main page is a link to an article by Mike Feltman called:

[NF] WinFS is dead?, Part 2

2006-06-28 Thread Rodney Dixon
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/26/648075.aspx Rodney Dixon McKee Foods Corportion P.O. Box 750 Collegedale TN 37315 Phone: (423)238-7111 x22629 == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information

[NF] WinFS is dead?, Part 2

2006-06-28 Thread Rodney Dixon
http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/26/648075.aspx Rodney Dixon McKee Foods Corportion P.O. Box 750 Collegedale TN 37315 Phone: (423)238-7111 x22629 == CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information

Re: VFP7: DSN programatically

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Kaye
What I did is based on a class written by Mark McCasland, which also has a dependency on something written by Rick Strahl for reading/writing the registry. At the time, I needed to create a DSN for my app to use and had been doing it manually at each user's desktop. I was able to take Mark's

RE: Docking Toolbar in Top-Level Form

2006-06-28 Thread Jim Winter
I just sold a VFP 9.0 to a newbie and was going to email him some VFP sites to look at. One was www.foxite.com and on the main page is a link to an article by Mike Feltman called: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Docking in VFP. The article link points to LAFox.org, (LA user

Re: Docking Toolbar in Top-Level Form

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Kaye
And for a quick tip on docking from Mike, check his blog entry of June 16 http://f1technologies.blogspot.com/ Profox wrote: From: Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Problem: I'm trying to make a top level form in which a toolbar is dockable. I just sold a VFP 9.0 to a newbie and was going to

RE: How To Know If an Internet Connection is Active

2006-06-28 Thread Tracy Pearson
oIE = createobject( 'internetexplorer.application') oIE.Navigate2( http://www.yahoo.com; ) oIE.Document.Body.InnerHTML should have something other than the 404 error If you are shipping MSXML 3 for XMLtoCursor you'll have this available oHTTP = createobj(MSXML2.XMLHttp.3.0)

Re: [NF] Need Microsoft Echange Server guru

2006-06-28 Thread Richard Kaye
Vince, I've been managing a small Exchange 2003 installation since last fall. I wouldn't put myself in the guru class though. Maybe you can post the specifics of the issue for comments from the peanut gallery? Vince Teachout wrote: I just received the following email from one of my oldest

Re: How To Know If an Internet Connection is Active

2006-06-28 Thread Ken McGinnis
Here is some code I use: (I made some changes for obvious reasons and I have not checked this code) lcURL = http://www.yahoo.com; Local ; lodoc, ; lcText, ; loie, ; llResult llResult = .T. Try loie = Createobject(internetexplorer.Application) Catch To oException llResult =

RE: [NF] WinFS is dead?, Part 2

2006-06-28 Thread Hal Kaplan
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Wednesday, June 28, 2006 13:28 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] WinFS is dead?, Part 2 On 6/28/06, Rodney Dixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://blogs.msdn.com/winfs/archive/2006/06/26/648075.aspx Question #1:

Re: Docking Toolbar in Top-Level Form

2006-06-28 Thread Profox
I just sold a VFP 9.0 to a newbie and was going to email him some VFP sites to look at. One was www.foxite.com and on the main page is a link to an article by Mike Feltman called: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Docking in VFP. The article link points to LAFox.org, (LA user group), but

Re: How To Know If an Internet Connection is Active

2006-06-28 Thread Jaime Vasquez
G Gambill wrote: How can I determine if an Internet Connection is active for PostCast Server. I thought about oIE = createobject( 'internetexplorer.application') oIE.Navigate2( http://www.yahoo.com; http://www.yahoo.com/) but can't figure out how to programatically test if that was

Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Matthew Jarvis
I was recently asked to write a guest editorial for the VFUG Newsletter, which I did. I lamented the fact that I was 99% out of VFP now and living in a Linux world, described the tools I use now, whined a lot, etc.. I had a section where I said I couldn't move our database front end

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jun 28, 2006, at 2:11 PM, Matthew Jarvis wrote: Not that I really give a rats ass, but is there something wrong with my statement - especially since it's just my own opinion? There is no danger of Microsoft pulling the plug on VFP as a product; they did that nearly a decade ago. The

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Leland Jackson
VFP's future has not looked good for quite some time. I don't think Microsoft will discontinue it, but Microsoft seem to have cut VFP off from the vine; hence, with each new release by Microsoft's new Windows desktop and Server OS, VFP will become more and more obsolete. Here is the pattern:

RE: [OT] ooops

2006-06-28 Thread Bob Calco
Well, he sure wasn't going to the Dominican Republic packed with viagra to recruit students for his Center for Advanced Conservative Studies, that much I think we can infer. Interns, maybe... /sigh - Bob ! -Original Message- ! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Profox
I was recently asked to write a guest editorial for the VFUG Newsletter, which I did. I lamented the fact that I was 99% out of VFP now and living in a Linux world, described the tools I use now, whined a lot, etc.. I had a section where I said I couldn't move our database front end

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Profox
VFP's future has not looked good for quite some time. I don't think Microsoft will discontinue it, but Microsoft seem to have cut VFP off from the vine; hence, with each new release by Microsoft's new Windows desktop and Server OS, VFP will become more and more obsolete. Here is the pattern:

[OT] Bonfire of the Vanities

2006-06-28 Thread Bob Calco
http://tinyurl.com/txgz - - - ROLL CALL's Mary Ann Akers: Although Clinton, a close adviser of Reid's, was ultimately invited to attend the news conference, she was not told about the event until just hours before it began Tuesday. While the noon event was hastily arranged - planning for it

Re: [OT] Bonfire of the Vanities

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Madigan
I love it when they canabalize each other. --- Bob Calco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://tinyurl.com/txgz - - - ROLL CALL's Mary Ann Akers: Although Clinton, a close adviser of Reid's, was ultimately invited to attend the news conference, she was not told about the event until just

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Ted Roche
On 6/28/06, Profox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just installed 32bit Linux on a 64bit server because the Linux application they needed the server for would not work with 64bit Linux and according to the application developers they don't know when or if they ever will port their application to

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Madigan
I think both sides have a fair point. I surely don't think you were out of line at all. 1. VFP is the best development environment I've ever used and is very efficient for developing software 2. You always run the risk that some know-it-all will make you look bad for using it or some

Re: Comments on my VFUG Editorial

2006-06-28 Thread Profox
I just installed 32bit Linux on a 64bit server because the Linux application they needed the server for would not work with 64bit Linux and according to the application developers they don't know when or if they ever will port their application to 64bit. Out of curiosity, which one? I know a

Re: [OT] These are the scum that voted to burn flags

2006-06-28 Thread petetheisen
Stephen the Cook wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm ?congress=109session=2vote=00189#position First freedom of speech/action next it will be your GUNS. What's a constitution for anyway when we have to fix it all the

RE: [NF] XP Hibernation Freezes

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Madigan
Download system mechanic's free 30-day trial software and run the complete suite of cleanups. http://www.iolo.com I've seen this before. It sounds like your hibernation file (I forget what that's called) may be a little messed up, or your disk needs defragging or cleanup. this software will