RE: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Adam Buckland
+1 Just did that on a Sony Vaio VPCF11S1E -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 14 July 2010 15:20 To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook Lou, Invest in the M$ Action Pack

Re: [NF] SSD, Was: Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Jarvis, Matthew mat...@mckweb.com wrote: Mechanical failure isn't the problem The structure of the bits as they are stored in the SS memory card will degrade over time. You wouldn't think they would, but they do Like any USB key or

RE: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Malcolm Greene
Tracy, I have the same limited budget issues as you do (I'm working at startup). 1. I purchase from BestBuy so I can see and feel what I'm going to purchase. I'm always glad for the hands-on experience because what I go in to purchase based on research is almost never what I end up purchasing.

Re: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 14/07/2010 02:54 p.m., john harvey wrote: Yeah, that scotch tape would NEVER be noticed by the TSA! Lol What is a TSA? John -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:35

[OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
The resale value of this car will drop like a lead balloon. How can you resell a Chevy Volt after 4 years when the buyer knows he's going to have to buy a $10,000 battery in 4 years? http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100714/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gm_volt_warranty_7

Re: Some way to override built-in (compiled) report with test report

2010-07-15 Thread PabloG
Vincent: do you try with SYS(2450)? (Application Search Path Order) HTH Pablo On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:32:08 -0400, Vincent Teachout tea...@taconic.net wrote: I thought there was an easy way to do this, but I'm not finding it. I need to replace the report that's compiled into my program with

[NF] Disconnected mapped drive, How?

2010-07-15 Thread Tracy Pearson
How does one access a mapped drive, yet NET USE reports it as disconnected? I'm unable to reproduce the problem in house, maybe someone else has an idea how it happens. The data is stored on this mapped drive and our VFP application works without a problem. The problem is with an Inno setup

Re: Some way to override built-in (compiled) report with test report

2010-07-15 Thread Vincent Teachout
PabloG wrote: Vincent: do you try with SYS(2450)? (Application Search Path Order) That wouldn't help in this particular case, as I'd have to recompile the program (which was what I was trying to avoid), but it's a terrific idea if I ever decide to want to have the ability to override

RE: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Tracy Pearson
Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 14/07/2010 02:54 p.m., john harvey wrote: Yeah, that scotch tape would NEVER be noticed by the TSA! Lol What is a TSA? Ricardo, Transportation Security Administration - http://www.tsa.gov/ The airport security for air traveling in the US. Tracy

Re: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Lou Syracuse l...@iconmediadirect.com wrote: I am looking into getting a new system with Windows 7, as I am going to be doing some work with the technologies available in that other development system from Microsoft and will need the latest version of IIS which

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote: The resale value of this car will drop like a lead balloon.  How can you resell a Chevy Volt after 4 years when the buyer knows he's going to have to buy a $10,000 battery in 4 years?

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
I guess it will be sold like a rebuilt starter or water pump --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years. To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Date: Thursday,

Re: [NF] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 15/07/2010 12:44 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 14/07/2010 02:54 p.m., john harvey wrote: Yeah, that scotch tape would NEVER be noticed by the TSA! Lol What is a TSA? Ricardo, Transportation Security Administration -

Re: [OT] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Tracy Pearson
On 7/15/2010 12:31 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: On 15/07/2010 12:44 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 14/07/2010 02:54 p.m., john harvey wrote: Yeah, that scotch tape would NEVER be noticed by the TSA! Lol What is a TSA?

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess it will be sold like a rebuilt starter or water pump --- Pretty sure these companies will do the replacement as well because they are S heavy. They have the lifts to pull out and

Re: [OT] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 15/07/2010 01:38 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: On 7/15/2010 12:31 PM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: On 15/07/2010 12:44 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 14/07/2010 02:54 p.m., john harvey wrote: Yeah, that scotch tape would NEVER be

A prg that cannot be beautified

2010-07-15 Thread Grigore Dolghin
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RE: [OT] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Tracy Pearson
Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 15/07/2010 01:38 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: They are people, just like us, prone to make oversights. They enforce rules put in place in an attempt to protect the public, much like a compiler attempts to protect us from our own code. Oh! Good to know!

Re: [OT] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Helio Wakasugui
I wonder if Ricardo Aráoz is always in obnoxious mode, even in person. :-) HW On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.comwrote: Ricardo Aráoz wrote on 2010-07-15: On 15/07/2010 01:38 p.m., Tracy Pearson wrote: They are people, just like us, prone to make

Re: [OT] - Buying a Developers notebook

2010-07-15 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
On 15/07/2010 02:45 p.m., Helio Wakasugui wrote: I wonder if Ricardo Aráoz is always in obnoxious mode, even in person. :-) I'm a natural. No modes, just obnoxious. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Disconnected mapped drive, How?

2010-07-15 Thread Allen
I have odd problems from a winxp box that has mapped drives too. says they cannot be connected yet when i look there they are. Al -- From: Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.com How does one access a mapped drive, yet NET USE reports it as

Re: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Frank Cazabon
Just a WAG: Maybe the file is actually being written to the harddisk during the freeze? Frank. Frank Cazabon Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com Referrals are important to us. If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please contact me. We would

RE: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Tracy Pearson
Peter Hart wrote on 2010-07-15: Hi I hope someone can help me. I do some work for a charitable organisation. To keep their subscription low, they sell the names of members to reputable organisations to send advertising material. (Junk Mail). The member can opt out when joining

RE: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Hart
Hi Tracy Yes The line before. The CDX is 123 megabyte. Cheers Peter In answer to Franks comment the data is being saved on an SBS 2003 Server mapped drive. So is it something to do with delayed write, I vaguely remember someone mentioning this before. -Original Message- From:

RE: Some way to override built-in (compiled) report with test report

2010-07-15 Thread Cathy Pountney
In addition to some of the suggestions others have said .. I've created a report factory in our application. It works similar to a class factory. There's a DBF that has the name of a report (the key) and the name of a substitute report to run. Whenever I run a report in the app, I call a method

Re: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Peter Hart ph...@peterhartcomputers.co.uk wrote: Hi Tracy Yes The line before. The CDX is 123 megabyte. I still think that this is the file in question. and the master table is 1.133 Gigabyte. If you have the table in a cursor it is

Re: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Ted Roche
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Peter Hart ph...@peterhartcomputers.co.uk wrote: Hi Tracy Yes The line before. The CDX is 123 megabyte. I'd suggest you drop all indexes before loading in the data, then SET TALK ON, and recreate all the indexes. You don't want Fox adding entries to indexes

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
You would hope that GM makes it as easy as removing a regular battery, two terminals and a handle for the lift to pull it out. It would be also nice if everyone standardized on the same battery so that would be interchangeable. finally, hopefully the recharging would be relatively quick.

Re: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Allen
i would have gone with don't encourage spam. maybe the program knows Al -- From: Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com I'd suggest you drop all indexes before loading in the data, then SET TALK ON, and recreate all the indexes. You don't want Fox adding

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote: You would hope that GM makes it as easy as removing a regular battery, two terminals and a handle for the lift to pull it out. It would be also nice if everyone standardized on the same battery so that would be

RE: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread Peter Hart
Thanks to you and Stephen for those comments. Tomorrow I am going to move the data to the desktop machine and try it. It won't be running on a server at the clients anyway. Once I have times for that, I will do as you suggest about dropping the indexes then recreate them after the import. But

RE: Visual Foxpro freezes after processing a large table.

2010-07-15 Thread john harvey
Won't you need the indexes? You drop them before the import for speed. Otherwise, each index has to be updated. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Peter Hart Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:44 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject:

RE: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread john harvey
Put helium in the tires for better mileage, and buoyancy! John -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:42 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote: You would hope that GM makes it as easy as removing a regular battery, two terminals and a handle for the lift to pull it out. It would be also nice if everyone standardized on the same battery so that would be

[NF] How do I read event log from crashed computer

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
I have a disk from a crashed computer that I am backing up onto a good computer. Is it possible to read the event logs from that crashed disk? Where are they located and what can I read them with? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Disconnected mapped drive, How?

2010-07-15 Thread Richard Quilhot
I always issued the /Delete command and then remapped the drive. Rick Q quilh...@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Allen pro...@gatwicksoftware.com wrote: I have odd problems from a winxp box that has mapped drives too. says they cannot be connected yet when i look there they are.

[NF] Carbonite

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
Here are some shortcomings that I'm learning about carbonite. 1. It ignores many file types by default including .spx, .frx, .prg, etc. 2. You can manually tell Carbonite to back it up, however, when you add a new report or new program, it doesn't automatically get put into the backup. I

Re: [NF] Carbonite

2010-07-15 Thread Malcolm Greene
Michael, I need a system that will back up everything by default every time. Some of your are backing up using ftp, will that be my solution? Check out the service and tools available from rsync.net (a Ted Roche recommendation). High quality hosting with great support. Rsync provides a

Multiple detail bands

2010-07-15 Thread Sytze de Boer
I there anyone here who is willing to share with me the FRX/FRT files, and appropriate dbf's to show me how to design a report with 2 detail bands -- Regards Sytze de Boer Kiss Systems Hamilton, NZ Ph: 64-7-8391670, Mob:64 21 937611 URL: www.kiss.co.nz --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME

Large Data Tables

2010-07-15 Thread Kent Belan
Hello, I have a client that has been going along great for the last 10 years. He is now ready to explode. We are pushing the 2 gig limit now on the client table and he wants to add tons more. What do you recommend to solve the table size limit problem ? I know the answer is probably SQL server

Re: Large Data Tables

2010-07-15 Thread charli...@verizon.net
It sounds like one of your tables is getting too big. You could look at splitting the table on some field - like year if it has a year field. You would need to check your code and maybe write a method to determine which table to access when queried or updated. I have a VFP database that is

Re: Large Data Tables

2010-07-15 Thread Paul McNett
On 7/15/10 6:40 PM, Kent Belan wrote: I have a client that has been going along great for the last 10 years. He is now ready to explode. We are pushing the 2 gig limit now on the client table and he wants to add tons more. Well, that's good news. Work is good, right? What do you recommend

Re: [NF] Carbonite

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
Thanks Malcolm. Well it looks like Carbonite support was incorrect. If you right click on a file of type .prg and select properties, then the carbonite tab, there is a check box that says backup all files of this type from now on. That seems to be the magic bullet. --- On Thu, 7/15/10,

Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years.

2010-07-15 Thread Michael Madigan
There are now rollable solar panels that would be perfect for a car. --- On Thu, 7/15/10, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [OT] Chevy Volt battery to be guaranteed for 8 years. To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Date: