Re: Chilkat Version 95 released yesterday

On Wed, 9 Aug 2023 at 14:14, Eric Selje wrote: > > I was in Chicago for that massive Microsoft worldwide Windows 95 rollout. > Man, they don't announce Windows releases like that anymore! I got a free newspaper! https://www.marketingweek.com/microsoft-funds-times-give-away/ By Marketing Week

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 07:59, Alan Bourke wrote: > > It will churn out something that looks vaguely passable, but it is all smoke > and mirrors. There is no 'I' involved. It's a fancy search engine. This one is interesting. In the UK we have a number / letter quiz TV show called Countdown. It's

Re: Rude Words

On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 at 11:41, Man-wai Chang wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:07 AM Paul Hill wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > Something odd happened today at work. Not really Fox related. > > ... > > In the cache folder a file called passwor

Rude Words

Hi All, Something odd happened today at work. Not really Fox related. Our app (C#, WinForms) has a feature where on some screens you can embed a web browser in a tab to display a user definable webpage. The trouble is, the control is based on IE6 (?). We're in the process of updating this to

Re: New Job & The Silence is Killing Me...

On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 at 03:34, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > And - for those that follow my Meanderings thru this thing we call life > - I was last working Tech support at Northrop-Grumman in Redondo Beach, > CA - and was there for like 1 year and 2 months. Well - I know moved > onto a New Gig - which

Re: [NF] USB wireless

Same here. We have 10-12 people on the VPN and at times it is crawling. I suspect someone is doing something bandwidth heavy. Could be Windows Updates. 100Mbps up and down. My VPN server is asking to be restarted for updates which is a bit worrying... On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 16:00, Richard Kaye

Re: [NF] PhotoPea, a browser based Photoshop clone.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 20:27, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > Hey Paul - I didn't know you work w/3DP's! Or - did you mention that > here once before? You know how it is - old foggies like me - we > sometimes have memory bank leakages... Probably. Owned an Ender 3 for about one year. Upgrades: MKS Gen

Re: [NF] PhotoPea, a browser based Photoshop clone.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2020 at 11:19, Alan Bourke wrote: > > https://www.photopea.com/ > > Useful if you can't or don't want to download a locally installed graphics > editor. > > Seems to be WebGL based. Amazing how fully-featured browser applications can > be now. Nice. I use tinkercad for

Re: Nostalgia -- updating an app written 15+ years ago

On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 02:56, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > Eric - I could not agree more! There are times - I just jump right in to > VFP again - and, it feels Exactly that way! > > I recently did a mini project, using FoxPro - to do GCode manipulation > for 3D Printing. And, yeah, it was fun - and I

Re: The Y2K Bug Returns: Revenge of the Kludge

On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 at 16:11, Ted Roche wrote: > > If you > > SET CENTURY ON > SET CENTURY TO 19 ROLLOVER 20 > > this is reminder it might be a good time to review the implications of that > :) Found some old C# code today that used 2020-01-01 instead of MaxDate. I don't know what dummass wrote

Re: [NF] TeamViewer alternatives

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 at 10:34, Alan Bourke wrote: > > The thing about all the VNC and similar solutions is that they require > firewall ports to be opened, and potentially router faff, and they also > require a server component to be pre-installed on the user's systems > somewhere. Actually

Re: XSharp - latest version sample console application using VFP syntax.

On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 at 15:45, Alan Bourke wrote: > For my own use case I would see a lot of value in quick conversions of VFP > function libraries that don't necessarily interact with data, of which I have > a lot. It would be interesting to see how a C# decompiler would cope with the XSharp

Re: VFP Application Support

Do you also drive a bus Mike :-) On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:27, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > I did a ERP of sorts for one of my clients who is a pallet company > (remmey.com). I've done various accounting in apps over the years too. > No aerospace. > > You can email me directly if

Re: [NF] Inadvertent Movement of Documents Folder

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 18:45, Ken Dibble wrote: > >On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 15:20, Ken Dibble wrote: > > > The user's device is a Windows 7 Pro laptop. He moved the folder to a > > > share on a Windows 2012 server. The only other unusual thing about > > > this machine is that it's lost trust with

Re: [NF] Inadvertent Movement of Documents Folder

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 at 15:20, Ken Dibble wrote: > The user's device is a Windows 7 Pro laptop. He moved the folder to a > share on a Windows 2012 server. The only other unusual thing about > this machine is that it's lost trust with the domain a couple of > times in the last few days. But his

Re: FoxPro Job

On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 14:17, Ted Roche wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 7:39 PM Kurt Wendt wrote: > > > I bet there are going to be a ton of people replying to you and back to > > this guy. I suspect even by this very moment somebody already beat me to it > > The two biggest complaints I heard

Re: UCLA & FoxPro...

Insanely cool 3DP work. Building > experimental specialized 3DP tech. - as well as doing Materials science > tech for new special materials. I think I may have a good shot at this job! > > -K- > > > On 3/4/2019 1:32 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 20:06,

Re: UCLA & FoxPro...

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 20:06, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > So - am thrilled to hear you are now Joining the Fold of the 3DP world! > What 3DP are you using??? I've been thinking about buying a 3D printers for years but could not justify the money. Then the Ender 3 arrived at $200. -- Paul

Re: UCLA & FoxPro...

On Mon, 4 Mar 2019 at 16:31, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > True. > > Although, right now - starting tomorrow - I will be doing Two Part time > jobs. Anything 3D printer related? I joined the club late last year. -- Paul ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF] Broken Windows

On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 at 08:09, Alan Bourke wrote: > But it's one of a few ridiculous issues in 1803 and 1809, my favourite is the > file association mechanism being broken in some cases, for example I like to > have .TXT and .CSV open with Notepad++ (what lunatic would use Excel for CSV >

Re: Reallocating drive space

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 18:17, wrote: > > See screenshot showing my C: drive near full and plenty of space on my > D: drive allocation: https://www.screencast.com/t/eaW92AgbXXF. It's > the same 512 GB SSD drive. What's the easiest way to reallocate space, > to take XX GB from D: and apply to C:

[OT] pfSense hardware recommendations?

Hi All, I've got a budget for a pfSense firewall to replace our aging OpenWRT box (which works surprisingly well for a consumer unit, but it's getting old and low on RAM). Does anyone have any recommendations? Rack mount is available but I'm not too bothered. Our dev team is about 15 people. I

Re: Numbering Scheme

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 at 23:19, Mike wrote: > > Print the sequential number using a barcode font. If a customer has a > barcode scanner, they can "see" the number, but they'd have to be > looking pretty hard. Or they could just use their phone. -- Paul

Re: [NF] Best Practices for collaborative sharing of information

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018 at 18:00, Malcolm Greene wrote: > > Mike, > > Are you just focused on collaboration or are you looking to build a > sustainable knowledgebase? > > We looked at Chatter - its a cool tool - but went the route of a wiki because > our goal was not only to collaborate, but to

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update & Running EXE from Shared drive (Samba)

Hi Gang, Does anyone know if MS released a changelog for this Windows release? I'm seeing odd network issues that are unrelated to my previous problems. e.g. can't connect to SQL server, access denied errors when creating a listening socket. -- Paul

Re: [NF] A Question of CPU Upgrade...

On 28 May 2018 at 17:55, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > Understood. That's why I figured I would post the Q here - to see what > others had to say. Am also thinking about upping the memory - as I only have > 8MB in it now... Hope your bank balance is good. RAM is expensive these days. I paid £31 for

Re: [NF] A Question of CPU Upgrade...

On 28 May 2018 at 16:14, Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > I wouldn't touch the CPU, not worth the hassle with mounting and thermal > reconnect. > > If you want to upgrade, change your HD to a SSD. This is the most noticeable > change you can do. Agreed. I have a i7 3770 from

Re: Microsoft Catch 22 RDP Update

On 22 May 2018 at 17:17, Fred Taylor wrote: > Yeah, that one bit me too. I think we ALL should submit invoices for our > time wasted on this. It might open their eyes! But I won't hold my breath > that they'll be more considerate of the impact of their "updates". Plenty of

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update & Running EXE from Shared drive (Samba)

It's not about running EXEs, it's about network connections: > Windows 10 update 1803 does not open *network connections* on executables > files on SMBv1 share. Explains why my ADS was blocked. People using Samba with SMB2 disable will have this problem too. -- Paul

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update & ADS Server

This issue is caused because SMB2 is disabled! Thanks to Alan Bourke for pointing me in the right direction. -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update & Running EXE from Shared drive (Samba)

On 10 May 2018 at 08:53, Alan Bourke wrote: > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50172067/sqlconnection-error-if-exe-is-executed-from-network-path > > Looking at the above it seems to indicate that you can no longer run EXEs > from shared locations when the protocol is

Re: Windows 10 April 2018 Update & ADS Server

On 9 May 2018 at 20:00, Fred Taylor wrote: > We don't use Advantage, but we had a problem with a machine trying to use > remote desktop after the latest update for W10. Had to uninstall it. It > kept saying something about security corruption. The old 'Allow remote

Windows 10 April 2018 Update & ADS Server

Hi Guys, Just a heads up. I currently have 5 legacy sites running Advantage Database Server down after installing the latest Windows 10 update. Tried the usual tricks (firewall, anti-virus etc) but no joy. Not sure if there are any Fox folks using this, but it's commonly used with xBase++. --

Re: VFP9 - Save as XLSX

On 17 April 2018 at 18:04, Stephen Russell wrote: > I work for a company with 20 plants USA by summer the newest one will be > on-line, Another in CA and one UK. > > Our month end close for accounting use to take 300 excel documents 7 years > ago and now only 15. That is

RE: NF525 POS laws (France)

>Posted: 2017-06-22 04:44:44 > >Hi All, > >Has anyone implemented the French NF525 point of sale (anti-tax fraud) >laws that are mandatory from January 2018? > >I've been trying to read the specification but it's missing important >info in places. Just got home from Paris. After lots of

Re: FoxPro/VB for Sale...

VFP was dropped from Visual Studio years ago. The Community Edition is pretty nice, you can even use it to write commercial software. There is a limit of 5 users and company turnover IIRC. On 29 March 2018 at 14:41, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > That's interesting! I didn't even

Re: VPN on the fly

On 22 February 2018 at 17:45, Richard Kaye wrote: > Throwing this out to the wisdom of the crowd. For many, many years we have > been doing some data interchange in our VFP application between back office > DBs (VFP or SQL) and a centrally located SQL DB via ODBC. The

Re: Displaying Content on a TV

We have a Raspberry PI connected to a TV on the wall. The PI displays a webpage with server stats etc. Using CEC it even switches off the screen at 5pm and back on again at 9am Mon-Fri. Been meaning to do some work on this. It could be much better! On 21 February 2018 at 18:22, Ted Roche

Re: [NF] Anyone watch the liftoff yesterday?

On 7 February 2018 at 18:44, Stephen Russell wrote: > This morning someone posted a meme of the car getting a speeding ticket > from a laser speed trap. Don't ever buy a used Tesla from Elon. It's been to the moon and back! -- Paul

Re: [NF] Anyone watch the liftoff yesterday?

On 7 February 2018 at 14:33, Stephen Russell wrote: > I loved all the Bowie in the end. It made the mood feel "right" watching > it float in space. Absolutely amazing! For once it was at a good time for me in the UK, about 8pm. Watching the 2 boosters glide back down was

Re: Performance issues on virtual 2K12 server

On 23 January 2018 at 15:53, wrote: > Client moved from old virtual 2K3 server to newer 2K12 server. They use an > IT vendor to manage all of their IT setup. They connect via Terminal > Services if I understand correctly. Apparently this legacy VFP

Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information

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Re: [NF] Chat tool for businesses (but not Skype or Facebook Messenger)

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Re: [NF] Learn about Power BI webinar

mergency reload for a daytime > load. This is exactly what I was thinking. Thanks. On 13 December 2017 at 21:27, Ted Roche <tedro...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 3:40 PM, Paul Hill <paulroberth...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Thanks Stephen. Can I ask what i

Re: [NF] Learn about Power BI webinar

On 13 December 2017 at 20:10, Stephen Russell wrote: > All of our data comes from a DW and not from the live ERP system of > record. That system has 280 gigs of Dimension and Fact data that spans 10 > years now. > > It has taken 2 years since first cubes were presented to

Re: [NF] Learn about Power BI webinar

On 29 November 2017 at 14:32, Stephen Russell wrote: > Here is an invite to a webinar in early Dec. about Power BI. > > https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/4904496247223055363 > > Yes, this is a M$ tool. We use it at Ring and all users really like how > easy it is

Re: Kaspersky AV (was Re: BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP)

On 5 December 2017 at 21:31, wrote: > On 2017-12-05 15:28, Bill Anderson wrote: I know at my govt gig we are specifically staying away from KAV because >> >> of concerns over the head dude there somehow being tied to Putin and the >>

Re: Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status...

On 3 December 2017 at 18:09, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > So - on Fri I was laid off from my day job. The reasons kinda sucked, and > its kinda complicated. Suffice it to say I didn't do anything truly Bad - I > was just not doing the Right stuff according to some people. But,

Re: [NF] C# Apps Deployment

On 29 November 2017 at 16:45, Dave Crozier wrote: > People far and wide! > > In VFP we are all used to writing the app, generating an .exe and placing it > on a server for everyone to use in a network environment, no problem. I do exactly that in my main C# app. 1000+

Re: Dynamic DNS, was (preferably free) unattended remote access

I use http://freedns.afraid.org which I think works similar to DuckDNS. (I use my own domain) Add Let's Encrypt to the mix and I have a https web server running on a (dynamic, but it never changes) cable ISP address. On 21 September 2017 at 18:05, Ted Roche wrote: > I

Re: [OT] Spent the past 4 days in London...and loved it!!!!

Tunbridge Wells voted remain by quite a large margin. Remain: 35,676 votes Leave: 29,320 votes On 13 September 2017 at 11:03, Laurie Alvey wrote: > Well everybody's entitled to their opinion but most of the people I know > (in Tunbridge Wells) support it. We want our laws

Re: [OT] Spent the past 4 days in London...and loved it!!!!

On 11 September 2017 at 09:40, wrote: > First visit for my wife and me. Loved it! Went on several tours and > visited with some cousins of hers from Norwich. Would definitely come back > for another visit...we'd even more over here. We were

Re: [NF] Re: [FW] Programming language life expectancy

On 3 September 2017 at 09:19, Jerry Wolper wrote: >> Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet away > from a pond and >> he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many > jumps would it >> take to reach the water? Any guesses?

Re: "An IF | ELSE | ENDIF statement is missing"

On 13 July 2017 at 18:51, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Not to hijack this thread, but Python's indentation-as-syntax eliminates > problems like this. I know this doesn't solve the problem at hand, just > pointing out how another language handles this situation. It makes it worse!

Re: [NF] B4i

On 4 July 2017 at 16:08, Stephen Russell wrote: > I paid for Xamarian before it was partnered into M$. I was pretty good > back then for doing android apps. Then work went to pure apple and that > project died. It held local data and fetched all crud operations on data >

Re: [NF] Export video to DVD

On 25 June 2017 at 22:00, Alan Bourke wrote: > Handbrake I was going to suggest Handbrake too but I don't think it can be used to create DVDs, only rip from them. I guess you could use Handbrake to create a DVD compliant video but you would still need another app to

NF525 POS laws (France)

Hi All, Has anyone implemented the French NF525 point of sale (anti-tax fraud) laws that are mandatory from January 2018? I've been trying to read the specification but it's missing important info in places. -- Paul ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Recommendations for temporary file storage

On 24 May 2017 at 15:00, Ted Roche wrote: > So, you want: > > - secure file transfer > - little to no cost > - no client side software I never mentioned little or no cost. I said that £10/user/month seems a bit high. In fact I was put off by Dave's suggestion because it is

Re: Recommendations for temporary file storage

On 23 May 2017 at 12:15, AndyHC wrote: > scp/winscp over ssh/Putty SSH ? On 23 May 2017 at 13:27, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Paul, > > Check out rsync.net. FTP, SFTP, SCP, and rsync. Affordable, secure. > Great customer support. Highly recommended. >

Recommendations for temporary file storage

Hi All, After our FTP server was hacked I'm looking for a secure way for clients to send us large backups. They can be 100Mb-2Gb in size but they will be downloaded and deleted fairly quickly. No permanent storage is needed, on our old server files were deleted at midnight. Ideally we would

[NF] Hacked

Hi All, This weekend we had a hosted Windows 2008 R2 server go down. On investigating we found a process running 100% CPU. It was running a BitCoin pool miner! Found some other suspect stuff so this server is now offline. I suspect it might be related to the recent NSA hack release.

Re: X#

On 7 February 2017 at 10:22, Alan Bourke wrote: > https://www.xsharp.info/forum > > You may have heard of Vulcan.NET which is an xBase language in more of > the Clipper vein and which supports Visual Objects projects. > > Anyway the consensus among developers is that

Re: 3 days no posts....

On 27 January 2017 at 10:59, Man-wai Chang wrote: > Tomorrow, timezone HKT, will be the first day of Chinese/Lunar New Year. Happy new year for tomorrow Man-wai! What are your plans? -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: VFP tables likely victims for ransomware?

On 10 January 2017 at 15:03, wrote: > Aah, so because SQL Server (and the like) have a file lock on their files, > that's how they're better protected from this kind of ransomware crap? This is my experience also. I have seen encrypted DBF files but

Re: RIP Sytze de Boer (was: Re: Has anyone implemented List & Label?)

On 9 January 2017 at 18:22, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 15:39 2017-01-08, Jonnie de Boer wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone >> >> This is Sytze's son, I am writing because he passed away on Friday (sudden >> heart attack while mowing the lawns, very quick, the way he

Re: Has anyone implemented List & Label?

On 6 January 2017 at 20:15, Tracy Pearson wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm currently evaluating List & Label for a replacement of the old Crystal > Reports we have. > > I'm curious if anyone has implemented it, and the designer in to a VFP > project. Never tried Fox but we

Re: [NF] SQL Server for Linux

On 22 November 2016 at 21:04, Alan Bourke wrote: > Here is a good overview of MSSQL on Linux. Basically it's running in a > Windows container. A Windows 8 kernel running on its Drawbridge > container platform, which in turn is a native Linux daemon I guess. > >

Re: [NF] SQL Server for Linux

maybe there are other install options. This is something I am definitely going to keep an eye on! > Sorry for all the questions but overloaded in a migration job that is > ending in a week or so. > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 8:04 AM, Paul Hill <paulroberth...@gmail.com> wrote: > &

[NF] SQL Server for Linux

Hi All, Just tried this on a Ubuntu VM. Got it up and running with no problems. Our main C# app ran without changes. The database restore option failed (path/rights problem I think) but an import from our old version (DBFs) worked fine (this is quite a hefty process). Not sure what the

Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

On 17 November 2016 at 14:26, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Exactly HOW Old is that Amiga 4000? I'm bummed at times when I think about > how I sold my Amiga 1000 about 2 years - back when I was REALLY Desperate > financially... :-( I'm not sure really. They were released 24

Re: Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2

Broadcom network card by any chance? If so, you need to disable virtual machine queues in the network driver properties. Took me AGES to find this issue. On 17 Nov 2016 4:21 pm, "Ted Roche" wrote: > > A former client from way back when emailed me with a brief question on > >

Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

On 16 November 2016 at 21:01, wrote: > How long do you normally use a laptop hard drive before replacing it (before > disaster strikes it)? I don't think I've ever had a drive I personally own die. Still got a 9Gb SCSI drive running in my Amiga 4000

Re: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives

On 14 November 2016 at 19:46, wrote: > Greetings fellow Profoxers! > > I see some external SSD drives on this page: > http://www.newegg.com/External-SSDs/SubCategory/ID-2022?Tid=11694 > > My laptop is a maybe 4 years old and is running out of local

Re: [NF] Save Video from cable TV

On 18 October 2016 at 19:36, wrote: > FYI - a number of months ago I called in to local radio morning show - when > these guys were discussing 3D Printing. But, they had No Clue as to what they > were talking about - so that's why I called in with some input. Afterwards -

Re: Connection Strings for SQL SERVER

On 11 October 2016 at 16:36, wrote: > https://www.connectionstrings.com/sql-server/ > > Interesting that it's not updated past SQL Server 2012. I'm trying out an > instance of SQL Server 2014 Express (with tools). > > Wonder who updates this site?

Re: [NF] A Commodore 64 has helped run an auto shop for 25 years

On 3 October 2016 at 17:30, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Well - Michael did mark the Posting as [NF] - so its fine to post a Tech > story that's not related to VFP. > > But - re:VFP. At my job here - there are Two major applications still in use > that are both VFP based. I

Re: VFP7 SP1, InstallShield MSMs, etc.

On 27 September 2016 at 10:22, Alan Bourke wrote: >> I have no idea how to access UNC paths from Bash, only physical drives >> show up in /mnt. > > Same as in CMD.EXE or whatever, except with forward slashes. Doesn't work here: ls //server/share/ ls: cannot access

Re: VFP7 SP1, InstallShield MSMs, etc.

On 27 September 2016 at 08:40, Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, at 07:04 PM, Ted Roche wrote: >> (and using a Linux "find" instead of the stupid Windows Explorer >> Search! grr!) > > findstr /s /i /m /c:"string to search for" \\mypath\*.txt Or, if you have

Re: [NF] If you're in the market for a super-lightweight console text editor ...

On 14 September 2016 at 12:32, Alan Bourke wrote: > ... for all the major platforms. > > https://github.com/zyedidia/micro Looks quite nice. Shame it's written in GO... -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: iCloud

On 17 Aug 2016 12:11, "Man-wai Chang" wrote: > > ...unless you know how to: > > 1. encrypt/decrypt the data > 2. guarantee the connection is reliable > 3. deal with sudden network partitioning > > Personally, I don't trust these off-site data servers. I prefer > keeping my

Re: Windows 10 Anniversary Update Massively Broken

On 4 August 2016 at 17:12, Ken Dibble wrote: > Woody Leonhard, I guy I trust: > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/3104389/microsoft-windows/the-case-against-windows-10-anniversary-update-grows.html > > Even more reasons why we all should bend over and let Microsoft force >

Re: SSD Hard Drives

On 26 July 2016 at 11:09, Peter Cushing wrote: > On 26/07/2016 10:47, Chris Davis wrote: >> >> Is there any reason why a fox pro app using DBF's would be significantly >> slower on a machine using a SSD drive? >> >> Thanks >> > It should be quicker. I did some tests

Re: [NF] Password instructions from my local credit union

On 28 June 2016 at 17:26, John R. Sowden wrote: > They may be using a fixed length field limited to 10 characters. Probably running on a COBOL database! In all seriousness you should NOT be storing the password in any form, but instead a salted hash of the password.

Re: [NF] Which Programming Language Should I Learn?

On 21 June 2016 at 15:13, Kurt Wendt wrote: > Ha ha - Gotcha. Although - whereas - VFP was officially shot by a firing > squad publicly - VB has yet to be publicly Killed! :-) VB was killed about a year after Fox. VB.NET is nothing like VB. -- Paul

Re: [NF] Didn't expect his one

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Re: NF - Does anyone have experience with Wyse thin terminals?

On 2 June 2016 at 20:19, Paul Hill <paulroberth...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1 June 2016 at 20:06, Joe Yoder <j...@wheypower.com> wrote: >> I have 15 identical Wyse VX0 V90L XPEdevices that I purchased used on >> Ebay. I have been trying to get all the parts lined up so t

Re: [NF] What’s controlling U.S. nukes ? 8-inch flo p py disks

On 2 June 2016 at 20:27, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > At 11:36 2016-05-31, Kurt Wendt wrote: >> >> I heard years ago that actual floppy disks like these 8" jobbies being >> spoken about here - actually can get this mold condition - rendering them >> useless!

Re: [NF]Converting Thunderbird email to ThunderbirdPortable email?

On 2 June 2016 at 08:28, Ken McGinnis wrote: > Anyone know how to do this? I was able to convert Outlook Express, no > problem, works great. > > I researched converting to ThunderbirdPortable and all the examples I found > with Google don't work. There must be a way, export

Re: NF - Does anyone have experience with Wyse thin terminals?

On 1 June 2016 at 20:06, Joe Yoder wrote: > I have 15 identical Wyse VX0 V90L XPEdevices that I purchased used on > Ebay. I have been trying to get all the parts lined up so the terminals > can connect to an FTP server and download their configuration but I keep > going in

Re: [NF] What’s controlling U.S. nukes? 8-inch flop py disks

On 27 May 2016 at 19:38, Alan Bourke wrote: > > It's not the fact that it's an old system per se, it's an old system for > which spare parts and people with the relevant skills to maintain it are > rapidly disappearing. 10 years ago I was working for TicketMaster and the

Re: External Drive Encryption Software

On 19 May 2016 at 17:05, Dave Crozier wrote: > Truecrypt is very good and I have used it for years. There was a bit of a > fuss about the encryption algorithm being breakable but to all intents and > purposes it is fine unless you really really want to decrypt the data.

Re: IconEdit

On 12 May 2016 at 22:50, Michael Glassman wrote: > MS Paint (at least through Win7) and IrfanView both work fine, too. Not for ICO icons. MS Paint does not support multiple images in 1 ICO or the alpha channel. Ken: IcoFX is nice. I use 1.6.4 which was the last

Re: [NF] Virtual Box

On 11 May 2016 at 19:17, Mike Copeland <m...@ggisoft.com> wrote: > Paul Hill wrote: >> >> On 10 May 2016 at 15:04, <mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads >>> >>&

Re: [NF] Virtual Box

On 10 May 2016 at 15:04, wrote: > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > > I'm going to let my main dev machine do the free upgrade to Win10 soon. I > bought a Win7 Pro license yesterday to put on another older Dell laptop I've > got (where I

Re: [NF] Win10 Free Upgrade Expiration???

On 5 May 2016 at 00:45, Kurt@VRFX wrote: > So - what say you all? Go for it and Upgrade - or should I say F That and > just stick with what I have (Win 8.1 on my laptop & Win7 Pro on my Desktop)! Upgrade, if you don't like it there is an option to roll back. It will take some

Re: [NF] 'Tailing' log files.

On 19 April 2016 at 13:08, Alan Bourke wrote: > I log the hell out of everything to text files for debug and diagnostic > purposes. Linux has a useful command called 'tail' which when used with > the 'f' switch in a shell will continually display the bottom of a file, >

Re: [ADMIN]

On 13 April 2016 at 18:54, Edward Leafe wrote: > I'm planning on doing the 103 mile course, but getting back into that kind of > shape will take a lot of work! So it would be great motivation to have all of > you supporting me. Good luck Ed! Added my donation. -- Paul

Re: AVFP and Interesting link

On 10 April 2016 at 13:07, Ted Roche wrote: > SQLite, yes. Whil Hentzen wrote a book about using SQLite for data > import when data sources exceed 2 Gb, to pare down the data for final > import into DBFs. I edited that book, and found that SQLite was a > pretty nifty little

Re: [NF] M$ is getting serious of a new direction?

On 4 April 2016 at 16:15, Stephen Russell wrote: > This is an incredible steal of tallent. > > http://www.zdnet.com/article/head-of-oracle-linux-moves-to-microsoft/ It's going to be interesting to see how MS implements Linux space on Windows. Here's a nice demo:

Re: [NF] So Ubuntu userspace will be runnable on Windows 10 in the summer update.

On 31 March 2016 at 15:53, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: >> On 31 March 2016 at 14:37, Fernando D. Bozzo wrote: >> > It's technically incredible this goal, but I'll prefer to keep using my >> > Ubuntu with Linux. >> > >> > Don't want Windows spying on all I do.

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