RE: C00000005 exception

2007-01-17 Thread Sietse Wijnker
And giving your comment on 'over the network', possibly the networkadapter, network cables or caching on the 'file server'? Sietse -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: woensdag 17 januari 2007 1:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Most popular Foxpro framework

2007-01-17 Thread Man-wai CHANG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~FrameworkFeatureChart But with the topic of frameworks: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/buildfox.htm A great book by the best publisher of VFP stuff in the world On more of a personal note, I use Codemine and one of the regular

[NF] Help adopt a family

2007-01-17 Thread Stephen Russell
http://darkgate.net/comic/images/joyoftech/1169019484.gif Stephen Russell DBA / .Net Developer Memphis TN 38115 901.246-0159 Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. http://spaces.msn.com/members/srussell/

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 11:22 PM 1/16/2007 -0800, Chet Gardiner wrote: Very, Very old news. We knew this many, many years ago... That's one of the reasons the DOJ (under GHWB and Clinton) hauled their asses into court only to have gwb let them off the hook... ... Well, in some ways it is new news to all the MS

Re: [NF] IE7 and MS Virtual Earth Mapping conflict with FireFox

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Dave Crozier wrote: Michael, My software demo can do just with from/to addresses and with a little tweaking coupd fill the bill. I have taken it on a step here at work to allow GPS Tracking of deliveries to customers via a service offered by our carriers. We can scrape their tracker webpage

RE: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Allen
I think as far as vfp9 is concerned it must be the lack of msxml4 on the computer. Which I would have expected to be installed by vfp9. so its not very good for vfp9 and vista so far. Not sure what to make of vfp5a. So I cannot recommend Vista for FoxPro dev. It runs ok with exe's though. Allen

Re: Determining the type of active index

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Dave Crozier wrote: John, Check out Sys(14). However, always remember though that there is no such thing as a Numeric index as all the data you index on is converted to a character expression before it is indexed. Hence you can seek on a character key even though you created the index as a

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread john harvey
Ok, now I remember. Obviously, WE would have written the better app! John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen the Cook Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 8:48 PM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty,

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote: The saddest thing is computer professionals will still continue to use and promote MS. I'll bet this will have little impact on most of the MS-heads out there. Imagine if there were the equivalent to the Hippocratic Oath for

RE: [NF] The end of desktop software development?

2007-01-17 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 06:12 AM 1/10/2007 -0600, Stephen the Cook wrote: ... what the on earth is desktop software development? Software that is designed to run on the local pc. WinForm vs Web in .net speak. ... Or smart vs. dumb for in PHB-speak. ;-) -Charlie

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Ed Leafe wrote: The attitude of most computer professionals is more akin to that of lawyers: milk the client for whatever you can simply because you can. Sad, but true. And that's what taints our professional and gives us the black eye. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software

[OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/TheComingCrackdownOnCEOs.aspx It's about time. -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Don't say that.. You may wind up a CEO one of these days and if you're responsible for making your share holders a lot of money, then you're entitled to reap the rewards.. Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com

[NF] New concept to winForm controls and other .NET 3 items.

2007-01-17 Thread srussell
Even though there are plenty of resources available for the new Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 I found this introduction pretty simple and upto the point. Here is a gist of the different pillars of .NET Fx 3.0, http://windev.wordpress.com/2007/01/16/net-framework-30-pillars-explained/

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: Don't say that.. You may wind up a CEO one of these days Yeah, that'll happen. and if you're responsible for making your share holders a lot of money, then you're entitled to reap the rewards.. Of course, the money

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Spoken like a true pessimist. Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Wednesday, January 17,

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Helio W.
You're a naive guy, Virgil. On 1/17/07, Virgil Bierschwale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spoken like a true pessimist. Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME

RE: [NF] IE7 and MS Virtual Earth Mapping conflict with FireFox

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Crozier
Michael, I'll email you off list with a small demo. Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions Sent: 17 January 2007 14:03 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] IE7 and MS Virtual Earth Mapping conflict with

RE: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
= On Jan 16, 2007, at 11:31 AM, MB Software Solutions wrote: =  =  Whenever someone with deep pockets decides to do so. = Until then, the =  Golden Rule applies. =  =  But when they (M$) are the deepest pockets for miles = around, that time =  will never seem to come? =  =  Hence the

VFP in Asian (Hong Kong) environments

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Kaye
My company is investigating the possibility of selling/expanding our vertical market app into Hong Kong. While our app runs in 4 languages now, this would be our first experience working with Chinese (or any Asian) clients for that matter. I'm interested in any feedback both for development

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Nope, just hungry... I've worked directly with some of the CEO's making the big bucks and I know a few individuals that own their own private companies.. They're no different then you or I, except that they don't understand the words It Can't be done Virgil Bierschwale

Re: [NF] IE7 and MS Virtual Earth Mapping conflict with FireFox

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Dave Crozier wrote: Michael, I'll email you off list with a small demo. Sounds great, Dave...thanks! -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com Work smarter, not harder, with MBSS custom software solutions!

Re: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Hal Kaplan wrote: M$ has to start by alleging a breach of contract. So the question then becomes what provision is so onerous that a licensee has no choice but to violate it? No, that's not the case at all. Copyright gives you certain rights to

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
It seems to me that the shareholders should have a say in it. Why should a CEO who's done horribly get a huge salary? http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/P125120.asp I think all CEO salaries should be based on a base salary + a bonus, but with a reasonable cap. A totally broke company giving

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
I would agree on that... No performee, no payee... Kind of like I told an agency once, No payee, no workee Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Allen
For information. VFP9 required msxml4 to run the task screen. The parser is on Microsoft's web site and it does resolve my issue (so far) with VFP9 on Vista. Still no clues on VFP5a which I still need at the moment. I get an error Error initializing Application object. I don’t know what object as

[NF] Windows Media Player 10 -- hog?

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
WMP 10 seems to be much more of a resource hog than the previous versions. I've used Yahoo Music Jukebox and am thinking about just using it instead of WMP 10. What do the rest of you folks use (that isn't a hog like WMP 10 seems to be)? -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
=  = Ed Leafe wrote: = The attitude of most computer professionals is more = akin to that of =  lawyers: milk the client for whatever you can simply = because you can. =  =  = Sad, but true. And that's what taints our professional and = gives us the = black eye. =  = -- =  = Michael

RE: [NF] Windows Media Player 10 -- hog?

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Crozier
Michael, The latest Winamp is not resource hungry and plays just about everything Audio/Video that I throw at it. So much so, that I've upgraded from the free version to the paid version. Give the free version a try - no adware either unlike the Real range of products I tried the Nero offering

RE: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Schummer
Allen, VFP7 moans about MSXML4 and the task manager does not work. Assuming you meant VFP 9, did you apply the SP2 CTP patch? I am not sure this fixes your problem or not, and if it does not I would report this to the VFP team via the Connect Web site

RE: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Everyplace I've worked, the money went to the clueless. LOL I've always said that if I had employees that I would pay them based on a fixed percentage of what they generated in business. If I bill you at $100.00/hr, I pay you $50.00 / hr. However, I've seen that the most successful companies

Re: [OT] Justice = The Midas Rule (was Re: [NF] Invalid Terms)

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Take a look at OJ Simpson and Robert Blake. Both guilty as sin with good lawyers. Phil Spector looks like he'll get off with murder too. I wonder if you can convict a celebrity anymore. --- MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ed Leafe wrote: snipped since justice has very

mySQL Community or Enterprise

2007-01-17 Thread Lew Schwartz
Just getting started with using mySQL w/VFP, and I already have a decision to make. There are two versions now, Community and Enterprise. What's the difference? Which should I choose? -Lew ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Hal Kaplan wrote: I know Ed does not like lawyers but I do not know why. It really is a shame how 95% of the profession makes things bad for the other 5%. Personally, I think lawyer is a pejorative term and I insist that my wife refer to herself as an attorney at law. Every operating

Re: mySQL Community or Enterprise

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Lew Schwartz wrote: Just getting started with using mySQL w/VFP, and I already have a decision to make. There are two versions now, Community and Enterprise. What's the difference? Which should I choose? -Lew This might answer your question: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html

RE: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
=  = On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Hal Kaplan wrote: =  =  M$ has to start by alleging a breach of contract. So the question =  then becomes what provision is so onerous that a licensee has no =  choice but to violate it? =  =  No, that's not the case at all. Copyright gives you = certain

Re: VFP in Asian (Hong Kong) environments

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Hill
On 1/17/07, Richard Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My company is investigating the possibility of selling/expanding our vertical market app into Hong Kong. While our app runs in 4 languages now, this would be our first experience working with Chinese (or any Asian) clients for that matter. I'm

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Peter Cushing
Hal Kaplan wrote: I know Ed does not like lawyers but I do not know why. It really is a shame how 95% of the profession makes things bad for the other 5%. Excellent! IMHO, the real problem with computer professionals is that they are NOT. Unlike other professionals, computer pros do

RE: [OT] Justice = The Midas Rule (was Re: [NF] Invalid Terms)

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
=  = Take a look at OJ Simpson and Robert Blake. Both guilty as = sin with good lawyers. Phil Spector looks like he'll get = off with murder too. I wonder if you can convict a = celebrity anymore. =  Lil Kim (spelling?) served her year-and-a-day in jail on a perjury conviction (felony)

RE: [OT] Justice = The Midas Rule (was Re: [NF] Invalid Terms)

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were guilty. --- Hal Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: =  = Take a look at OJ Simpson and Robert Blake. Both guilty as = sin with good lawyers. Phil Spector looks like he'll get = off with murder too. I wonder if you can convict a = celebrity anymore. = 

Re: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Bob Lee
What is 2Bb ? 2 Biggems Bytes ? Bob Lee - Original Message - From: Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:26 AM Subject: RE: FoxPro on Vista Al, VFP9 Works No Problems (so far) on mine. I fired it up on Saturday. I'm still not

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
= That's because plumbing changes very little, so a standard = set of skills and exams can be developed and honed over = time. With computing everything changes too quickly for = these things to take shape. By the time you have become an = NT guru it is out of date. Your MCSD etc. does not

Re: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote: Poppycock, Ed! M$ makes a product. You want to use it and you buy it SUBJECT TO THE TERMS of the license agreement. You don't like the agreement? Don't buy the product or negotiate a different agreement. Sorry, but copyright

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 12:16 PM, MB Software Solutions wrote: I too wish they would require some sort of testing of qualifications. The only way that that would work is if the testing/certification body was impartial. Try to find one of those these days. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread David Crooks
On Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:03 PM Ed Leafe wrote: The only way that that would work is if the testing/certification body was impartial. Try to find one of those these days. Flash back to when there was a committee to standardize the XBase language and each company that produced like

Re: VFP in Asian (Hong Kong) environments

2007-01-17 Thread William Sanders / EFG
Heya Richard - email me offlist with a contact phone number or skype ID, I'll fill you full of stuff from my experience and my partners experience. Regards [Bill] -- William Sanders / efGroup {rmv the DOT BOB to reply} VFP Webhosting? You BET! - http://efgroup.net/vfpwebhosting Failing dotNet

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Helio W.
That was the point to begin with. On 1/17/07, Virgil Bierschwale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would agree on that... No performee, no payee... Kind of like I told an agency once, No payee, no workee Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Pete Theisen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 9:44 am, MB Software Solutions wrote: Hi Michael! Well, if they actually carry through with it. I don't think they ever will, somehow. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/CompanyFocus/TheComingCrackd ownOnCEOs.aspx It's about time. -- Regards,

select from table

2007-01-17 Thread Sytze de Boer
Hi folk I have a table where amongst other fields, I have empcode C(10), gross N(10,2), cycle N(5) empcode is the employee code, gross is total pay, cycle is the pay number I want to: select empcode, sum(gross) from mytable order by empcode group by empcode into table newtable BUT I ONLY WANT THE

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Pete Theisen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 12:03 pm, Michael Madigan wrote: However, I've seen that the most successful companies are the ones that treat their employees like crap. Hi Michael! What? THAT good? I think it used to be that companies made their money off of customers. Now they clearly make

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
David Crooks wrote: On Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:03 PM Ed Leafe wrote: The only way that that would work is if the testing/certification body was impartial. Try to find one of those these days. Flash back to when there was a committee to standardize the XBase language and each

FoxPro Screen and .EXE - VFP 7.0

2007-01-17 Thread Hines, Catherine
I'm creating an executable from a program that runs against Oracle and produces an Excel output file. It does nothing else; there is no form. I've created a project, added my program to the project, and created an executable from the project. Which works fine, but it opens a MS Visual FoxPro

RE: select from table

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy Pearson
WAG Select empcode, (select sum(gross) from table1 sumtable where sumtable.empcode = table1.empcode top 52 order by cycle desc) as grosssum from table1 group by empcode Tracy -Original Message- From: Sytze de Boer Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:39 PM Hi folk I have a table

RE: FoxPro Screen and .EXE - VFP 7.0

2007-01-17 Thread Tracy Pearson
with a Config.fpw file. It's a text files you can put the following in it _Screen = off resource = off See: http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~OneFormVfpApp~VFP Tracy -Original Message- From: Hines, Catherine Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 2:23 PM I'm creating an executable

Re: select from table

2007-01-17 Thread Richard Kaye
My WAG would be you need to group on empcode cycles in order to have the TOP clause give you what you want. Tracy Pearson wrote: WAG Select empcode, (select sum(gross) from table1 sumtable where sumtable.empcode = table1.empcode top 52 order by cycle desc) as grosssum from table1 group by

RE: [NF] Windows Media Player 10 -- hog?

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Bourke
Try Windows Media Player 11 maybe? WinAmp always crashed on me so I ditched it. Have a look at the freeware VLC player too. If it's just playback you're after there are any number of alternatives to WMP. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service

Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
OK, so I have a client database and on that database I have a collector ID. I have a tag in the compound index that is created by index on collector tag collector unique. This gives me a list of unique collectors using the system, each one assigned to one or more clients. I have a collector

Re: AFUG Meeting Notice : YAG Talks Sedna

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Update to the location. We're renting a conference room at the Georgia Tech Hotel. DIRECTIONS:http://www.gatechhotel.com/AboutUs/mapDirections.cfm We'll be meeting beforehand at Moe's for some food and drink. -Kevin Kevin Cully wrote: http://afug.com Thursday, January 18th, 2007 AFUG

Re: AFUG Meeting Notice : YAG Talks Sedna

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Kevin Cully wrote: AFUG is pleased to announce that Y. Alan Griver, will be our special guest speaker at our January meeting. YAG will be discussing what is the latest news about Sedna and all sorts of additional technological subjects. BTW, tell

[NF] 51 holes to plug? Is that all

2007-01-17 Thread srussell
And you thought it was a rag on M$ now didn't you ;- http://tinyurl.com/2mll95 Oracle has released its first critical patch update for 2007, with fixes for a total of 51 security vulnerabilities in a wide range of enterprise products. The Redwood City, Calif., database server giant's patch

RE: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Schummer
Unique indexes are bad and the behavior you are observing is how they are designed. Direct from HackFox: A so-called unique index contains a key only for the first record that has a particular key value. That is, once a key value occurs, no other records with that key value get added to the

RE: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
= On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:25 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote: =  =  Fine, Ed. Copyright law does not work that way but I am = not referring =  to copyright law. I am referring to licensing. You can = copyright =  your relationship with a person by marriage, =  =  No, you can't. =  =  but your

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
  = And the second problem is that all of the folks in the biz = would want to be grandfathered in. Who in their right mind = would submit to having to gain credentials (that they may or = may not be qualified to earn) to do what they've been doing = for the last 10 or 20 years? =  = So, just

RE: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Thanks. What do you mean by candidate? --- Rick Schummer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unique indexes are bad and the behavior you are observing is how they are designed. Direct from HackFox: A so-called unique index contains a key only for the first record that has a particular key value.

Re: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Michael Madigan wrote: Thanks. What do you mean by candidate? Same as a Primary index, meaning that the values in that field (combination) are all unique, i.e., without duplicates, but that it is not the primary index (because something else is generally). -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB

[OT] Virgin birth again.....

2007-01-17 Thread srussell
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/01/17/pregnant.chimp.ap/index.html or http://tinyurl.com/2xtqup A female chimpanzee at a sanctuary has given birth, despite the fact that the facility's entire male chimp population has had vasectomies. ___

Re: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Hal Kaplan wrote: snipped The bottom line? She loves to go to Dunkin Donuts for joe and I like 7-11. How well does she know Joe ?? gdr(He meant 'coffee' for you non-US folks who might not know what he really meant. g) -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Hal Kaplan wrote: snipped A thorough understanding of algorithmic principles, database, some math, regression, ETHICS, etc. is what should qualify someone to be a computer professional. Perhaps that's why most of these charge 'em as much as you can bozos and other non-ethical folks

Re: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
MB Software Solutions wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Thanks. What do you mean by candidate? Same as a Primary index, meaning that the values in that field (combination) are all unique, i.e., without duplicates, but that it is not the primary index (because something else is

RE: [NF] 51 holes to plug? Is that all

2007-01-17 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Not until software is built like a building.. Blue prints for every item Virgil Bierschwale http://www.virgilslist.com http://www.tccutlery.com http://www.bierschwale.com http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/17/07, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only way that that would work is if the testing/certification body was impartial. Try to find one of those these days. How about A+ or LPI or ICCP? There are a lot of attempts.I believe one will eventually succeed. Then there'll be a

Re: Most popular Foxpro framework

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/10/07, Man-wai CHANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a chart for that? No, but Budweiser is the most popular beer. Why would popularity matter? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote: OK Ed. A couple of posts back you wrote IONAL. I thought that meant I am not a lawyer. I guess I was wrong about that particular meaning and that it was not an acronym after all. Oh. Cute. No, IANAL does indeed mean that I

Re: [NF] Windows Media Player 10 -- hog?

2007-01-17 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D.
You might want to try: Nokia_3660_Multimediaplayer_en Download choices: http://tinyurl.com/2c4qqa At 11:51 AM 1/17/2007, you wrote: WMP 10 seems to be much more of a resource hog than the previous versions. I've used Yahoo Music Jukebox and am thinking about just using it

RE: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Malcolm Greene
Allen, I use the windows cryptology service and the crypt class. The crypt class is very brittle and tempermental. I can't think of any scenario where I would use this class. Currently I use Microsoft enhanced cryptographic provider v1.0. Anyone know what to use in Vista? Check out Craig's

RE: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Schummer
It is a type of index for VFP data, which enforces uniqueness and does not accept nulls (just like a primary key, but you can only have one primary key per table). Check out the topic Visual FoxPro Index Types in the VFP Help file. It clearly explains all the different index types (including a

Re: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread MB Software Solutions
Malcolm Greene wrote: Allen, I use the windows cryptology service and the crypt class. The crypt class is very brittle and tempermental. I can't think of any scenario where I would use this class. Currently I use Microsoft enhanced cryptographic provider v1.0. Anyone know

Re: FoxPro on Vista

2007-01-17 Thread Malcolm Greene
Hi Michael, What does Craig's tool offer that I can't achieve with the simple encrypt utility in cipher50.fll? Cipher50 is simple encryption that's easy to break. Craig's encryption FLL supports major industry encryption standards (AES, Blowfish, RC4) in stream and block formats with support

Re: [OT] Justice = The Midas Rule (was Re: [NF] Invalid Terms)

2007-01-17 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Hal Kaplan wrote: = = Take a look at OJ Simpson and Robert Blake. Both guilty as = sin with good lawyers. Phil Spector looks like he'll get = off with murder too. I wonder if you can convict a = celebrity anymore. = Lil Kim (spelling?) served her year-and-a-day in jail on a

Re: [OT] Justice = The Midas Rule (was Re: [NF] Invalid Terms)

2007-01-17 Thread Helio W.
putting everyone and everything down The mark of a loser. On 1/17/07, Hal Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't be a sore loser and a whiner, Mike ... work to make the system better instead of putting everyone and everything down. You will have a lot more credibility. --- StripMime Report

Re: Easy way to count total lines of code in complete project?

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/16/07, MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to determine the total number of lines of code in an app/project? http://www.tedroche.com/Present/2000/ProjScan.zip Pretty self-documenting, the associated paper can be found at:

Re: select from table

2007-01-17 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Sytze de Boer wrote: Hi folk I have a table where amongst other fields, I have empcode C(10), gross N(10,2), cycle N(5) empcode is the employee code, gross is total pay, cycle is the pay number I want to: select empcode, sum(gross) from mytable order by empcode group by empcode into table

Re: Determining the type of active index

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/17/07, Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, always remember though that there is no such thing as a Numeric index as all the data you index on is converted to a character expression before it is indexed. Hence you can seek on a character key even though you created the index as

Re: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Chet Gardiner
Gee, I hope everything came out all right in the end. (Bad Chet)... :-) Ed Leafe wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote: OK Ed. A couple of posts back you wrote IONAL. I thought that meant I am not a lawyer. I guess I was wrong about that particular meaning and

Re: Easy way to count total lines of code in complete project?

2007-01-17 Thread Chet Gardiner
Very cool. Ted Roche wrote: On 1/16/07, MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there an easy way to determine the total number of lines of code in an app/project? http://www.tedroche.com/Present/2000/ProjScan.zip Pretty self-documenting, the associated paper can be found

Re: Determining the type of active index

2007-01-17 Thread Malcolm Greene
Ted, I know that was true back in the FoxBase days, but aren't integer indexes smaller than other types because they are packing integers rather than converting them to strings? There's also the new(?) binary indexes in VFP 9 that are even smaller/faster in some scenarios. Malcolm

RE: [NF] Invalid Terms

2007-01-17 Thread Hal Kaplan
=  = On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Hal Kaplan wrote: =  =  OK Ed. A couple of posts back you wrote IONAL. I thought that =  meant I am not a lawyer. I guess I was wrong about that = particular =  meaning and that it was not an acronym after all. =  =  Oh. Cute. =  =  No, IANAL does

Re: Easy way to count total lines of code in complete project?

2007-01-17 Thread Ted Roche
On 1/17/07, Chet Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Very cool. Well, thank you. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Eugene Vital
Michael Madigan wrote: OK, so I have a client database and on that database I have a collector ID. I have a tag in the compound index that is created by index on collector tag collector unique. This gives me a list of unique collectors using the system, each one assigned to one or more

Re: Determining the type of active index

2007-01-17 Thread Eugene Vital
Ted Roche wrote: On 1/17/07, Dave Crozier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, always remember though that there is no such thing as a Numeric index as all the data you index on is converted to a character expression before it is indexed. Hence you can seek on a character key even though you

RE: [NF] The end of desktop software development?

2007-01-17 Thread Stephen the Cook
Charlie Coleman wrote: At 06:12 AM 1/10/2007 -0600, Stephen the Cook wrote: ... what the on earth is desktop software development? Software that is designed to run on the local pc. WinForm vs Web in .net speak. ... Or smart vs. dumb for in PHB-speak. ;-) Probably more

Re: Index on collector tag collector unique

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Yep, you're right, I should have a collector database. This was a band-aid added quick and dirty. Turned out to be too dirty. --- Eugene Vital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: OK, so I have a client database and on that database I have a collector ID. I have a tag in

[OT] Climate Expert Calls for Decertifying Global Warming Skeptics

2007-01-17 Thread Michael Madigan
The liberals just love freedom of speech http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.BlogsContentRecord_id=32abc0b0-802a-23ad-440a-88824bb8e528 Saddam - Hung for the Holidays http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike ___ Post Messages

Re: [OT] Cracking down on CEO salaries

2007-01-17 Thread Pete Theisen
On Wednesday 17 January 2007 2:46 pm, Michael Madigan wrote: Hi Michael! As you know I am getting up in years. I have had the experience of businesses and people doing right by me for a while and then slipping me the pickle once they had my trust. The last twenty years, I haven't trusted

RE: [NF] Microsoft Caught out - Naughty, Naughty!

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Crozier
Hal wrote: ...A thorough understanding of algorithmic principles, database, some math, regression, ETHICS, etc. is what should qualify someone to be a computer professional TOTALLY WRONG Hal I'm afraid. The thing that qualifies someone to be a computer professional in its true sense (where

RE: Determining the type of active index

2007-01-17 Thread Dave Crozier
Ted, I agree but my point was that however you generate the index it is always going to physically be a fixed length string packed/encrypted or otherwise. The fact that it is a particular data type is irrelevant as the mapping in VFP is always down to a fixed length character based field (however