RE: Roll label printers, any issues with one in your past?

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Dettman
Along with the others, I've always used Zebra Printers and have never had a problem. Ditto on the Seagull Scientific drivers. Those folks have been around for quite some time now and have the driver stuff nailed. As far as label choice, I would talk to a Zebra rep since label longevity is

RE: How to avoid two instances

2009-07-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Eurico, Sorry for the delay in getting back to this. I tracked this down finally. The code appeared in the Jan 2005 issue of FoxTalk 2.0; The Kit Box:Run Once, Once and Only Once by Andy Kramek and Marica Akins. However the article only has bits and pieces of the code. The full VFP code was

RE: How to avoid two instances

2009-07-15 Thread Jim Dettman
Yes, that's it. Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions,LLC Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 9:08 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: How to avoid two instances Jim Dettman wrote: I

RE: MSDN Product Keys

2009-07-15 Thread Jim Dettman
Gene, Finding anything in it is about like trying to trick a leprechaun into giving up his gold. Boy if that's not the truth; I found three different versions of that EULA and of course, Microsoft does make changes to them on occasion. Jim. -Original Message- From:

RE: How to avoid two instances

2009-07-14 Thread Jim Dettman
I have some code which sets a memory semaphore to get the job done instead of using the window caption. It's from an old Fox talk article, which I ported to VBA. I can dig that out if you want it. Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com

RE: Generating GUIDs for primary keys in your app (VFP9SP2)

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Dettman
The very definition of GUID is that they are guaranteed to be unique. Actually, that's not correct. There is no absolute guarantee that you won't get a duplicate. But with the range on 128 bits (2^128), the chance is so small that you'll get one that for all intents and purposes you can

RE: Generating GUIDs for primary keys in your app (VFP9SP2)

2009-06-24 Thread Jim Dettman
16 bytes; 128 bits / 8 Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions,LLC Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:22 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Generating GUIDs for primary keys in your app

RE: Access database

2009-05-27 Thread Jim Dettman
All versions of Access/JET back to 1.x understand ODBC and back to JET 3.0 can be read with OLEDB. Connection strings can be found here: www.connectionstrings.com Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Sytze

RE: [Fwd: Urgent Visual FoxPro Developer position to be filled ASAP in New Orleans, LA]

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Dettman
Their not going to get far if they still are insisting on on-site work for $45/hr. Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 6:18 PM To:

RE: [NF] Yearly support fees vs. hourly fees

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Dettman
Gil, I have, as a direct result of some of these shakedown tactics, begun to record every call between myself and any tax authority (Fed or NY), financial institution, insurance company, or vendor. You may not be as legal as you think. While NYS does allow one party only notification that a

RE: Purpose of the list.

2009-03-09 Thread Jim Dettman
Bill, Yes, you need to know when something is broke to fix it. I still remember when I first came to this list after just starting to learn VFP and laminated the fact that the query designer could not even be counted on to do anything more complex then a simple two table join without

RE: Purpose of the list.

2009-03-09 Thread Jim Dettman
of the list. Jim, Just to add a bit of humourwhen you Laminated the fact, did you frame it as well? BG Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman Sent: 09 March 2009 14:08 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Purpose

RE: [NF] M$ wants their layoff $$ back

2009-02-24 Thread Jim Dettman
Hey, go ahead and knock it all you want, but like it or not: A. It continues to make money for a lot of people like myself including Microsoft. B. It's not a dead product like VFP. Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]

RE: [NF] Low priced MSDN Subscription

2009-01-09 Thread Jim Dettman
Gil, I haven't gone back and looked at the EULA, but if I remember correctly, all the MSDN subscriptions were cease and deist from use and uninstall at the end of the subscription period. Jim. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]

RE: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Pete, It is only on about %5 of the time during the daytime. So call them when it's down. Sounds like that should be fairly easy to do given the length of the outage. Your lucky it's down that much. If it only dropped a couple times a day for a short interval, it could be a royal pain to

RE: [NF] FTP server connected to a client that is behind a stainlesssteel domain/firewall/agressive IT staff

2008-10-27 Thread Jim Dettman
Try doing the download using a FTP URL through the browser. Out side of that, I don't know what to suggest. Passive FTP would work better then Active (because the client initiates the data channel port), but if your saying that only 80,81, and 443 are open for inbound/outbound, then

RE: [NF] Verizon favoring FIOS over DSL?

2008-10-21 Thread Jim Dettman
Pete, Don't think their favoring it by any means as they still consider DSL a valuable tool. DSL is still their only product in many areas until FIOS becomes available. But consider that when FIOS goes in, Internet usage goes up. It may be that their connection from the local office is

RE: [NF] Memory failure question

2008-10-13 Thread Jim Dettman
Rather then the sticks themselves, I would hazard a guess that it's the motherboard. Seems very odd that both sticks would fail and one only partially. Much more likely that it is the memory controller on the motherboard that has failed. Only way you'd be able to figure that out is to put

RE: [NF] is there a file limit when copying in windows explorer on XP?

2008-08-15 Thread Jim Dettman
I certainly have copied more then that at a time, so I doubt that's the problem. My guess, since you mentioned that your using a laptop is that your doing this over a wireless connection. I have found that transferring files that are either very large or many in number always ends up in an

RE: [NF] Need Computer Brand Recommendations

2008-08-15 Thread Jim Dettman
I'm surprised more businesses just don't use laptops as desktop replacements. Problem is, if it breaks, you chuck it. If you need some expansion, generally you chuck it. Not very cost effective for companies that like to hang onto hardware for some time. Jim. -Original Message-

RE: [NF] Dialup Internet Backup

2008-08-13 Thread Jim Dettman
Jeff, Not sure why you didn't stick with Earthlink; they have a BYO service for $9.95 a month, which includes 10 hours for a month of dialup service. I keep it just for that reason. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson

RE: [NF] -- BSOD at the Olympics

2008-08-12 Thread Jim Dettman
Ed, No, it's actually visible from several angles on different feeds. Don't know if you seen it already or not but the footprints in the sky at the opening ceremony were digitally faked. How would that be possible with all the different feeds? They are all feed by Beijing Olympic

RE: [NF] Feedback on Brother laser printers?

2008-04-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Malcolm, I've owned two Brother Multi-Function monochrome laser units and both gave absolutely no problems up through the 5+ year range. This is about when I decide it's time for a new unit, usually because a new drum will be required in the near futureg. Actually I'm at that point again now

RE: [NF] Where could this water come from?

2008-04-15 Thread Jim Dettman
Stephen, The Arctic and Antarctic are a LOT bigger then you think. The Antarctic is roughly 4.5 million square miles with an average ice depth of almost 8000'. That is a heck of a lot of ice. When you start talking about ice sheets the size of some small states splitting off

RE: NF System calls monitor?

2008-03-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Check out processmon here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/0e18b180-9b7a-4c49-8120-c47c 5a693683.aspx Processmon monitors all file and registry access. Great for watching what a program does when it's installing or executing. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

RE: [NF] Technology to turn trash to oil?

2008-02-28 Thread Jim Dettman
Am familiar with it. Discover magazine has done several articles on this company over the past few years. Their technique is a solid one and over comes a lot of the problems with similar ones used in the past. The problem in the past is that they always had to put more energy into the

RE: [NF] 40 hr battery life for laptops?

2008-01-15 Thread Jim Dettman
This is similar in concept to the batteries that power the new Telsa roadster. They found a way to bind the Lithum Ions to a polymer in such a way that it greatly increased the charge holding capacity of the lithum. Read it in either Popular Science or Discover (sorry, don't remember

RE: [NF] For / Against Norton

2007-12-27 Thread Jim Dettman
. Jim Dettman Online Computer Services of WNY, Inc. (315) 699-3443 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Wohlrab Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 4:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NF] For / Against Norton I figured I would start a new

RE: Arnold v. Microsoft notes

2007-11-30 Thread Jim Dettman
Rushmore has been in JET since version 2.0. However it is not a full implementation of what's in Fox due to differences in the way records are handled. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christof Wollenhaupt Sent: Friday, November

RE: [NF] Annotating screenshots with simple tool (other than MS Paint)

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Dettman
Mike, I use a product called Full Shot: http://www.inbit.com/ Has been around for years. Probably more then you need though. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael J. Babcock, MCP Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:06 AM To:

RE: [NF] Verizon pulling a comcast

2007-09-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Pete, I think it's more likely that they are just working on their network. I am on FIOS (20/5) and have noticed in recent months that there have been periods where I start getting a lot of network errors. This generally lasts 2-3 days and then clears up. Happened just this past week as a

RE: [NF] When Will MS Kill Access? -- Die Access Die!]

2007-08-09 Thread Jim Dettman
Michael, The author is mixing apples and oranges and misses the main point; Access makes an excellent front end tool for SQL Server and a variety of other RDBMS. Also, until 2007, you had a native interface to SQL Server built-in (most developers I know have virtually ignored 2007). Even

RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal?

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Dettman
Stephen, What are you smoking? Shipping types are more then just a simple lookup. That was exactly my point. They include rates as well as discounts, and date ranges for their use. What part of that are you confusing with a simple TEXT description that I have been speaking of? You're

RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal?

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Dettman
and still apply relational theory to the process. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen the Cook Sent: Monday, July 23, 2007 8:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal? Jim Dettman

RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal?

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Dettman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal? Will answer in line. Original Message Subject: RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal? From: Jim Dettman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, July 24, 2007 7:52 am To: profox@leafe.com

RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal?

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Dettman
Exactly! Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 2:59 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal? On Jul 24, 2007, at 1:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

RE: [NF] Consulting saga continued or Why Be Normal?

2007-07-23 Thread Jim Dettman
I just went down this road not too long ago. All I can say is; it's nice to be in controlg. Strictly speaking, a single table for lookup values is not normalized. What your doing with the procedures below is to move part of the normalization into your code rather then having it in the

RE: [NF] The Top 10 Dead or Dying Computer Skills

2007-06-26 Thread Jim Dettman
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 7:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] The Top 10 Dead or Dying Computer Skills On 6/25/07, Jim Dettman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just had a chance to read through this thread. Believe it or not, I

RE: [NF] The Top 10 Dead or Dying Computer Skills

2007-06-25 Thread Jim Dettman
Ted, Just had a chance to read through this thread. Believe it or not, I still have one client running their entire business on a KFAM based package. Jim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007

RE: [NF] Cities struggle with wireless Internet

2007-05-22 Thread Jim Dettman
Alan, No one really knows that we haven't. Cancer in all forms is on the rise as are other things such as Autism. Interesting study done not to long ago in the state of Texas. They mapped the number of cases of Autism across the state and then compared that to the most heavily industrialized

RE: [NF] Problematic DHCP

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Dettman
James, A 169. address is the auto configure address that Windows uses when it cannot get a address from a DHCP server. Two things: 1. Make sure you have enough free addresses in your DHCP pool. 2. Make sure any static address is excluded from the pool (ie. was a printer or other piece of

RE: [NF] Home Wireless router suggestions

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Dettman
FYI, watch out too if you have a 2.4GHZ wireless phone in the house; it will cause interference and potentially problems. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lou Syracuse Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RTF control for VFP

2007-04-11 Thread Jim Dettman
Hi All, I'm looking for recommendations on a RTF control for use with VFP 9. I've gotten a gig with a case management project and I'm going to need a RTF control that can do the following: 1. Different fonts and sizes. 2. Different font colors. 3. Ability to bold and italicize. 4. Ability

RE: [NF] CompUSA closing a ton of stores

2007-03-31 Thread Jim Dettman
Guess I've been lucky to with the Dells. Have been recommending them to clients for the past ten years or so. No real problems and for me, Dell service has always been first rate. Really appreciate to (I even wrote a letter to Dell) that they have not out sourced their server support

RE: Polling App

2006-12-19 Thread Jim Dettman
John, I've used option #1 as a more simplistic approach to this type of thing. To avoid the problem you mentioned, I use an OS semaphore to indicate that the program is running. It sets the semaphore, pauses, then checks that it has the only semaphore set. If so, it continues. If not,

RE: Polling App

2006-12-19 Thread Jim Dettman
he already did...or more precisely 24/365.25 Actually, he didn't, or at least not precisely. The year is not quite 365.25, which is why every 100 years, if a year is divisible by 4, it is not a leap year, except when it is divisible by 400, which still makes it a leap year. Jim.

RE: [NF] About Dabo

2006-10-05 Thread Jim Dettman
Why do you think that Web based systems took off? Was it ease of install, none? Or was it ease of updates, update the web site once and it's visible everywhere? The carrot dangled in front of everyone that said anyone could run your app from any pc and a internet connection with no install.

RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Jim Dettman
Stephen, So I may be missing the point, but what is it exactly that your complaining about? The fact that most MVP's don't know what their talking about, that you don't know Access, or that the database is not properly designed? Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

2006-09-29 Thread Jim Dettman
Andy, What's the error? My guess is that you have a broken reference in VBA. Jim. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Davies Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 7:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Access and the Null Blues

RE: [NF] BT voip and cat5 doh!

2006-07-06 Thread Jim Dettman
Andy, I avoided loading the BT software on the cd but now I can't access the 10V (it has a web based config) - my own router is on subnet 192.168.1.x and apparently the 10V sets itelf up on subnet 192.168.192.x Any suggestions most welcome! Plug a laptop into the 10V. Reboot the laptop. You

RE: [NF] Is MySpace at fault?

2006-06-21 Thread Jim Dettman
Is it the vendors responsibility to VALIDATE the age of the user? I don't believe so. If they ask and are lied to, I think it stops right there. Should I be able to sue my auto maker because my kids grabbed my keys and was able to drive a car under age and without a license? I mean my