Re: [OT] 36 Cheap American Beers, Ranked

2013-07-03 Thread kamcginnis
Hi Ken, I am in my 4th year living in Las Vegas. There is a local microbrewery here called sin city beers. They have a bar in the Venetian hotel and Planet Hollywood. I am at one of them almost daily. The girls and beer are very good. If you are in Las Vegas, let me know and I'll buy you a

Re: Help save Southwest Fox

2013-06-26 Thread kamcginnis
Our company was on the SF Peninsula for 30+ years. We always have our user meetings in Las Vegas because of the cost to users. Las Vegas was about 1/10 the cost of Burlingame, CA when you consider the hotel and meeting room and travel cost. No place is cheaper to get to than Las Vegas, from

Re: [NF] Why should use Maria instead of MySQL ? What about converting from Fox DBF?

2013-03-26 Thread kamcginnis
I know a lot of people here already use MySQL, postgres, etc. We are interested in upgrading the VFP9 database so that files can exceed 2gb and still have great performance like we have now. We have not done the upgrade mainly because of the support. We have thousands of users installed. When

Re: [NF] Why should use Maria instead of MySQL ? What about converting from Fox DBF?

2013-03-26 Thread kamcginnis
Ted, Thank you. You have just sumarized the issue. I cannot imagine our support staff 'walking' all those people in the medical offices through all that stuff and then maintaining all the issues that will surely happen with all the unstable Windows OS crap. If it cannot be done on XP, 20xx

Re: [NF] Fast scanner

2013-01-31 Thread kamcginnis
We have 2 brother multifunction MFC 8460N I am sure this is outdated now, but they work great. We have no plans to change. We use the software that came with it. OmniPage. I think we did upgrade the software in the past 3 or 4 years. I recommend the Brother brand - low cost and reliable. We use

Re: [NF] Fast scanner

2013-01-31 Thread kamcginnis
Also Amazon and Costco. - Original Message - From: James Harvey jhar...@hanoverpa.com To: 'ProFox Email List' profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:07 AM Subject: RE: [NF] Fast scanner Thanks for the feedback, I believe our local Staples store sells Brother equipment,

Re: [NF] Fast scanner

2013-01-31 Thread kamcginnis
We have a XP machines that we connect to several printers and scanners including a bank check scanner. They work great. When they break someday, we will replace them with XP machines. We are stopping with XP. Vista and all that other Microcrap OS is garbage. That company is living on Bill

Re: [NF] Fox on other OS, (was Fast scanner)

2013-01-31 Thread kamcginnis
Too bad Dr Dave is not still in charge of Fox. The guy was a genius. He would have it running on everything so we would not be stuck with the M$ crap. - Original Message - From: David Almada davidalm...@sbcglobal.net To: 'ProFox Email List' profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, January 31,

Re: [NF] VFP applications moved to Chromebook?

2013-01-17 Thread kamcginnis
We have a VFP9 SP2 application for healthcare billing and ePrescriptions and a connection to many different EHR programs. We are having more clients using terminal services because it is faster than a local network and also because many clients have satellite locations. This is pretty easy to

Re: [NF] Domain renewal

2012-08-29 Thread kamcginnis
We have many domains registered with domainsite.com. They recently raised their prices to about $12. I really like their web site, but I am also interested in other's recommendations. I see no reason why it would cost that much. Everything is fully automated and there is no support necessary if

Re: Deleting DBF files on Terminal Services

2012-08-20 Thread kamcginnis
We have many clients using TS with no problems for many years. Our company does everything with TS now. All of our company information is on several VPS with the only access being by TS. All the databases are VFP SP2 using dbc/dbf. I am very interested in what you find. - Original Message

Re: EDI, Hex VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread kamcginnis
If this is for a ANSI 837 transaction set, for example: sending claims to Medicare: Element separator: 124 '|' Sub-element separator: 094 '^' Segment terminator 126 '~' Those are all ASCII, visible, printable codes so you should not have to use the hex value. - Original Message -

Re: EDI, Hex VFP - Oh My...

2012-08-16 Thread kamcginnis
All Ansi formats that begin with ISA have the first record 106 characters in length. The separators are defined by the receiver so you (the submitter) must use those values or the receiver may refuse or be unable to read your transmissions. In that first record, you can look at positions 104,

Re: Any one put an app in a cloud?

2012-07-31 Thread kamcginnis
We have clients using our VFP9 SP2 app in the cloud with RDP access. In fact, our company uses a modified version of our software for some of our bookkeeping and tracking clients. It works very well. My only regret is that we did not do it long ago. I am pretty sure we do not have any

Re: [NF] web server specs

2012-07-24 Thread kamcginnis
If it is just a file server, I recommend webfaction (recommended to me by someone on this list). They recently offered an upgrade to 100gb for the same low price. Depending on how many people have to access it, you might check out a VPS. Some like infinitelyvirtual will 'rent' terminal server

[NF] SyncBack (was Backup)

2012-07-11 Thread kamcginnis
I downloaded the free version to take a look. The files I want to backup are on the ftp server. Explain: I want to copy files from an ftp server to a local drive. Syncback will backup to a ftp server, but I don't see any way to do the opposite. On their web site there is no way to contact them

Re: [NF] System Recommendation

2012-06-22 Thread kamcginnis
Today I got an ad from Fry's for a 90gb ssd for $65. - Original Message - From: Dave Crozier da...@flexipol.co.uk To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 7:25 AM Subject: RE: [NF] System Recommendation Format on an SSD... ;-) Dave -Original Message-

Re: [NF] Recommend software to close ports

2012-06-11 Thread kamcginnis
That is correct. With a hosted VPS you have no access to the hardware. In fact, in my case I am not sure where the hardware is located. - Original Message - From: Paul Hill paulroberth...@gmail.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 9:00 AM Subject: Re:

[NF] Recommend forum software?

2012-06-02 Thread kamcginnis
We are interested in putting a forum on our web site. This would only be an online system, not an email system like profox. Anyone have any recommendations? We would like our users to be able to register, we would verify their registration, then they could use the forum to discuss things with

Re: [NF] Re: Chrome becomes the #1 worldwide browser.

2012-05-21 Thread kamcginnis
pretty funny. that was a good one Microsoft products provider a great experience. For example in XP when you want to Add/Remove programs you go to control panel and select Add/Remove programs. That is a terrible experience. What is a great experience is trying to do that in Crapsta or whatever

Windows 8 beta and VFP9 SP2

2012-04-11 Thread kamcginnis
Just a comment about compatibility with Windows 8? Our application is written in VFP9 SP2.We are using Inno Setup for our installer. Everything works fine with no changes. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] What's average bandwidth?

2012-04-02 Thread kamcginnis
Clear has been here in Las Vegas a long time. I have checked into it several times. The problem for me is that they do not offer a static IP. It would be great to be able to avoid dealing with CenturyLink. - Original Message - From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com To: ProFox Email

Re: [NF] What's average bandwidth?

2012-04-02 Thread kamcginnis
Our software is certified by Surescripts to allow doctors to transmit prescriptions. They have a very secure encryption requirement and also they require all communication to go through a fixed (static) IP address with SSL certificate. If they did not require that, I would use Webfaction for our

Re: [NF] What's average bandwidth?

2012-04-02 Thread kamcginnis
I did not know that. Our servers are now written in classic asp. I am researching converting them to php (webfaction has v5.4). I would like to get this done sometime before the end of the summer. I need to be able to develop and test on windows apache and copy the working code to webfaction. I

Re: OT: USB 3.0 hubs: limited to 4 ports?

2012-03-23 Thread kamcginnis
I was shocked to learn about something in Win7 that did not work correctly. Let's see, it has been out for how long? I am looking forward to Win8. I can't wait to see where they moved everything and renamed everything so no one will be able to find anything and we will get a million support

[OT] those little robot helicopters you see in mall shops playing james bond

2012-03-05 Thread kamcginnis
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/03/swarm-of-robot-helicopters-performs-james-bond-tune.html?cmpid=NLC|NSNS|2012-0503-GLOBAL|robothelicoptersutm_medium=NLCutm_source=NSNSutm_content=robothelicopters ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [OT] an interesting picture

2012-02-01 Thread kamcginnis
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=371674459516227set=p.371674459516227type=1theater sry, I could not help passing this on. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: [NF] -- Home Color Printer

2012-01-03 Thread kamcginnis
Thirded. We have had them for years. no problem. - Original Message - From: Paul McNett p...@ulmcnett.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [NF] -- Home Color Printer On 1/3/12 10:55 AM, Michael Madigan wrote: The Brother all-in-ones are

Re: Strange table access troubles

2011-12-22 Thread kamcginnis
We have had trouble now and then like that. I have no idea why it works sometimes and not others, however, we have always been able to get it to work by mapping the location to a letter. - Original Message - From: Tracy Pearson tr...@powerchurch.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday,

Re: Problems Using VFP Beautify...

2011-12-10 Thread kamcginnis
If you have a mixture of tabs and spaces you can get some strange indentations. For Keywords: Mixed case, Symbols: match first occurance Type of indentation change to spaces and change the number to 3 click all the 'text to indent', 'extra indent beneath' Don't highlight any text and this will

Re: [NF] WinZip ripoff warning

2011-12-07 Thread kamcginnis
I recently purchased the latest winzip update as I usually do. The last time I used it I got the usual popup about a free update. I always get this as it usually has some bug fixes, etc. Because of a previous bad experience with Symantec, I quickly glanced through the licence agreement. Corel

Re: NF SSD experiences

2011-12-07 Thread kamcginnis
I have a Sony X series laptop with 128 gb drive. I bought it in August 2010 and it works perfectly. I have a 2 year warantee that covers everything they say. I should add that this is the best laptop I have owned. It weighs nothing and is thin as paper. It has Win 7, vga, 2 usb and ethernet,

Re: [OT] What, Fed to print Euros?

2011-11-30 Thread kamcginnis
We need to change to plastic money like Austrailia has and Canada is making now. It last much longer and is actually worth more than it costs to produce. - Original Message - From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Wednesday, November 30,

Re: [OT] What, Fed to print Euros?

2011-11-30 Thread kamcginnis
Not credit cards The money is made out of plastic instead of paper. http://www.questacon.edu.au/indepth/clever/plastic_banknotes.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/story/2010/03/06/ott-plastic-money.html - Original Message - From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net To: ProFox

Re: [OT] What, Fed to print Euros?

2011-11-30 Thread kamcginnis
You mean like this: http://www.ebay.com/itm/ONE-EACH-100-50-TRILLION-ZIMBABWE-DOLLARS-CURRENCY-BILLS-2007-P-91-90-/290638952735?pt=Paper_Moneyhash=item43ab6e791f#ht_1497wt_858 - Original Message - From: Publius Maximus publius.b.maxi...@gmail.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com

[OT] Absurdity

2011-11-14 Thread kamcginnis
You must have earphones or speakers so you can hear http://ted.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=07487d1456302a286cf9c4cccid=1ebed96ae5e=920317e345 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

VFP9 SP2 I need a report writer recommendation for a non-programmer

2011-10-13 Thread kamcginnis
This user would not want to spend a lot of money. They only need some simple reports and probably would not access more than 3 tables in the report. Any suggestions? ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] For those interested in Big Data

2011-09-22 Thread kamcginnis
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. I noticed in the link you sent that Facebook has 50TB and ebay has 2PB. A long time ago there were some messages in this newsgroup about storing images in a field in the data table. The consensus (I think) was that you should not do that. You

Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread kamcginnis
We buy (and recommend to our clients) clearance systems from Directron. We have been using them for years. excellent support and products and prices. They are somewhere in Texas I think: http://www.directron.com/clearance.html The often have XP systems. and they may be able to install more

Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread kamcginnis
In my experience, using windows is asking for trouble. - Original Message - From: Ken Dibble krdib...@stny.rr.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8 With Win2000, when you select to

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-15 Thread kamcginnis
Still, it is funny and maybe not 100% accurate, just 99.9% accurate - Original Message - From: Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8 On Thursday, September 15, 2011 4:14 PM,

Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-09-14 Thread kamcginnis
Don't forget sharing. When you share, you have not shared anything. Try it. Nothing is shared. You need to do more undocumented steps to share. With Win2000, when you select to share, it is shared. Sharing has not worked correctly since. I sit down at a Vista or Windows 7 machine and I

Re: [OT]: How many legs

2011-09-13 Thread kamcginnis
Mike, admit it. You really want to know how many pussies were on the bus.You devil you.I guess we all knew that Mike would be the one to be brave enough to ask the question we all wanted to ask. - Original Message - From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com To: ProFox Email List

Re: VFP9 SP2 Installshield Errors

2011-09-07 Thread kamcginnis
Now is the time to change to Innosetup. We use it for everything from win2000 to Win7 (32 and 64 bit), same exe. no problems. (except when the local hardware guy installs in some M$ recommended location). We recommend installing directly to a folder on the C: drive of the server and share that

Re: VFP9SP2 - Error 2066: Index file z:\data\costs.cdx tag Njobidiscorrupted. Please rebuild it.

2011-09-06 Thread kamcginnis
I found that zap usually fails with VFP9 SP2. I use delete all and pack and have no problems at all. (pack requires exclusive use, same as zap) - Original Message - From: MB Software Solutions,LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent:

Re: [NF] Free/Cheap web hosting recommendations

2011-09-03 Thread kamcginnis
We also use webfaction because of a recommendation from someone on this list. They are not the cheapest, but they are fast, reliable and always available. It is easy to get around on their web site. They do not have the Godaddy clutter (who designed that thing?). It is Linux based. The setup

Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com

2011-08-26 Thread kamcginnis
I think we need to separate the ads from the search. I agree with everyone (I think) that the search should be almost 'generic' - simply the best match for the search request, maybe sorted by the most recent or something like that, but certainly not by who pays the most to google. I have no

[NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com

2011-08-25 Thread kamcginnis
Has anyone tried http://duckduckgo.com as a replacement for google? I search a lot of healthcare issues and it seems to be much better for that. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com

2011-08-25 Thread kamcginnis
I see many posts about google tailoring results based on those that result in the highest income for google. Many of the hits that I get with http://duckduckgo.com won't even come up on google no matter how much I change the search. For example, I read a lot of things on cms.gov,

[NF] Stanford university is offering free computer science courses online

2011-08-22 Thread kamcginnis
http://db-class.com/ http://infolab.stanford.edu/~widom/cs145/index.html http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?course=IntroToDatabases http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/DocumentPage.php?course=IntroToDatabasesdoc=/docs/course-materials.html

Re: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-11 Thread kamcginnis
Maybe related, we had a client who had the automatic windows update enabled and a recent XP update broke the terminal services client so they could not connect. They had to re-install the rdp client and everything started working again. Typical untested M$ garbage. - Original Message -

Re: [NF] NSLookup and Ping ??

2011-07-13 Thread kamcginnis
Remember that ping can be blocked We have several static IP's that will not return your ping because we have the routers programmed to reject it. We also have most ports going to 192.168.xyz.254 so they will not respond. There is a tool on www.grc.com that is good for checking to see how 'open'

Fw: Intro to Servoy for Visual FoxPro ISVs - with Ken Levy

2011-07-07 Thread kamcginnis
I got the email below from Ken Levy. Anyone know anything about Servoy? -Original Message- From: Ken Levy [mailto:fox...@servoy.us] Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:51 PM Subject: Intro to Servoy for Visual FoxPro ISVs - with Ken Levy Hi, My understanding is that you may still have one

Re: [OT] new campaign poster

2011-06-30 Thread kamcginnis
My favorite is 'less' and 'fewer'. Fewer is for things you can count fewer people, fewer houses and less is for things you cannot count less sugar, less sand When you are watching TV, it is interesting how many people don't even know the word 'fewer'. They use 'less' for everything. -

Re: [OT] new campaign poster

2011-06-30 Thread kamcginnis
less love, fewer lovers - Original Message - From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2011 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [OT] new campaign poster Michael Oke, II wrote: Just proving his point Pete. Bags and truck loads can be

Re: INSERT INTO MyCursor FROM ARRAY MyArray

2011-06-23 Thread kamcginnis
I think of it like inserting from a 'NAME' object. One record, many fields. INSERT FROM NAME loxyz - Original Message - From: Fred Taylor fbtay...@gmail.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 11:07 AM Subject: Re: INSERT INTO MyCursor FROM ARRAY MyArray

Re: [NF] Questions on migrating VFP app

2011-06-22 Thread kamcginnis
That sounds exciting. I have not worked in assembler in many years. Is it possible to move code to different hardware with a different instruction set and, of course, a different assembler? The last time I worked in assembler was on an Intel 8080. I think it only took 3 months to write a tape

Re: [NF] Android Synching with Outlook 2003

2011-06-18 Thread kamcginnis
We outsourced our exchange server to apptix. They charge $8.95/month for 1 mail box. They provide a droid app for $2.95/month. We have employees on both coasts. Everone accesses all incoming emails, faxes and phone calls through the same exchange screen. They let you have a copy of outlook 2007

Re: [OT] Interesting overview of how BitCoin works.

2011-06-16 Thread kamcginnis
You know why divorce is so expensive? Because it is worth it. - Original Message - From: MB Software Solutions,LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 4:52 PM Subject: Re: [NF] Interesting overview of how

Re: Web Development

2011-06-14 Thread kamcginnis
We have 2 web sites that are 100% asp (classic, not dot asp) that access (read write) dbf files and is very high performance. It processes thousands of hits every day for years. No problem at all. It does not have everything we would like, but we have been able to find work arounds. For

Re: Web Development

2011-06-14 Thread kamcginnis
I know. If we had time to re-write programs that are working well, we would/might. No matter how we do things, I am sure there is either a better way and/or there soon will be a better way (at least according to someone else who is not doing the work). - Original Message - From: Rick

Re: [OT] Mr. Dillon buys the farm

2011-06-04 Thread kamcginnis
In the 1970's I was an ER doc at Santa Monica Hospital in Santa Monica CA. I worked 12 hour shifts, 5 days on, 5 days off. Arness came in one evening. We all treated him like any other patient. We had a lot of 'Hollywood' type people in that ED so it was not that unusual. I did not act like he

Re: VFP9 - error help

2011-05-09 Thread kamcginnis
Check to see is lcRec is zero If you are using the M$ coding, make sure that lcRec is not a character instead of a number (lnRec??) If type(lcRec) = N and lcRec 0 go lcRec or whatever ELSE need to do val() if character, etc. ENDIF - Original Message - From: Sytze de Boer

Re: AVG 2011 Alert!

2011-05-03 Thread kamcginnis
We changed from AVG to Avast. Avast is ok, but the newest version has 'Sandbox' which works like that M$ crappy UAC. We turned that off and are now happy with Avast. M$ and these anti-virus developers don't know the difference between security and methods to annoy customers. There is nothing

Re: Fox-In-Cloud - VFP gets to run on the Cloud

2011-04-28 Thread kamcginnis
That is the main issue when you work only in VFP like we do. Like a lot of other people on this list, we are looking for the best way to get into Python. It would be great to have the entire application written in a language that could be on one computer or on a network or 'in the cloud'. Also

Re: [NF] Convert IP address to website address

2011-04-15 Thread kamcginnis
It placed my position within 1 mile. - Original Message - From: Fred Taylor fbtay...@gmail.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 8:39 AM Subject: Re: [NF] Convert IP address to website address Not sure how useful that may be for a physical location.

Re: [OT] Obama turns Libya into a swamp

2011-04-14 Thread kamcginnis
Remember that McCain was not born in the US - Original Message - From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [OT] Obama turns Libya into a swamp After these 4 years Obama will be the last foreign

Re: VFP9 Help has died

2011-03-30 Thread kamcginnis
I have a desktop icon to get to the vfp help: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\dv_foxhelpSP2.chm - Original Message - From: Bill Arnold billjarn...@h2officesolutions.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 1:46 AM Subject: RE: VFP9 Help has died Mike,

Re: [NF] THE NEXT APPLICATION LANGUAGE AND WHERE TO START

2011-03-17 Thread kamcginnis
I would add: Google uses Python internally. I believe the person who originally designed Python is (or was) a Google employee. Python works on Windows, Linux and Mac. We are planning to convert from VFP to Python between now and 2015. - Original Message - From: Malcolm Greene

Re: [NF] Upgrading Computers

2011-03-10 Thread kamcginnis
Which is the most stupid idea: 1. UAC 2. The registry 3. Add yours Don't you long for the days when everything was in a configuration file AND THE REGISTRY DIDN'T EXIST?!?! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

vfp9 sp2 ipad etc

2011-03-07 Thread kamcginnis
We have clients who want to use our software (vfp9 sp2) on an ipad. Specifically, our software is certified for e-prescriptions. A doctor could write a prescription while visiting a patient in the hospital for example. My first question is about entering alpha and using drop downlists. I

Re: vfp9 sp2 ipad etc connections through the Internet

2011-03-07 Thread kamcginnis
I don't have any experience with the ipad other than playing with one at the Apple store. What I had in mind was something like RDP where the doctor connects to our VFP application running at the office using terminal services. We have clients who now do this with various laptops including

Re: Windows 7 + VFP9 speed problem

2011-03-03 Thread kamcginnis
I don't have experience with MySQL so I probably would point to that as a likely problem. Like most developers we have many clients converting to Win7 with no problems at all unlike the nightmare we had with Crapsta. We have noticed one thing that may be of interest: We have a client with a new

Re: Windows 7 + VFP9 speed problem

2011-03-03 Thread kamcginnis
Has anyone mentioned defragging the hard drive? I have seen that make a big difference. (maybe not 80 times though) - Original Message - From: Sytze de Boer sytze.k...@gmail.com To: profox profox@leafe.com Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 1:45 PM Subject: Re: Windows 7 + VFP9 speed

Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

2011-02-17 Thread kamcginnis
One conversion on cnbc said that Watson had 16 TB memory. I guess IBM gets a quantity discount. I wonder what operating system is able to have that as main memory or was it set up as a 'memory disk' like we had in the old dos days. - Original Message - From: Michael Madigan

Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

2011-02-17 Thread kamcginnis
16 exabytes (considerably more than 16 TB) http://www.brighthub.com/computing/windows-platform/articles/51002.aspx The theoretical memory limit of a 64-bit operating system is 2^64 (i.e. 2 raised to the 64th power) which equals 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 bytes (16 exabytes). To make things

Re: [NF] Jeopardy and Watson

2011-02-15 Thread kamcginnis
Anyone watching Watson (from IBM) play Jeopardy? Deep Blue (an IBM research project) beat the world's chess champion. Supposedly Jeopardy is an impossible game unless American English is your first language and you are extremely well educated. There is one more game at 7pm PST on Wednesday.

Re: [OT] Tablet

2011-02-10 Thread kamcginnis
I agree with Charlie, if the xoom is priced right, I will get one. I watch CNBC all day and saw a tablet with a cell phone docked on it. The cell phone gave access to the internet. You can copy information from the tablet to the cell phone, etc. Unfortunately I did not get the name so I could

Re: How old is your oldest, viable DVD?

2011-02-08 Thread kamcginnis
I have burned a lot of 40 year dvds that I bought at Costco. I have not yet had a chance to test whether they really do work after 40 years, but I have that on my to-do list - Original Message - From: G Gambill gwgamb...@gmail.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011

Re: How old is your oldest, viable DVD?

2011-02-08 Thread kamcginnis
http://www.amazon.com/MAM-Gold-Archive-74min-storage/dp/B00065DG0U since I bought at Costco, I can return them if they don't last as long as I think they should last. - Original Message - From: Anthony J. Gundrum agund...@comcast.net To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Tuesday, February 08,

Re: Fw: VFP9 SP2 printer api call question

2011-02-07 Thread kamcginnis
I am using os() and I did cause Vista and Win7 to use the moxie data solution. I only get the CANCEL result. Do you have a real printer defined on your laptop? did you add anything at all to the code? - Original Message - From: Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm To:

Re: [NF] Credit card processing

2011-02-05 Thread kamcginnis
Thanks, No, this is not in fox although I may try to connect it to a vfp database in the future. I think I have it working for now. I appreciate your offer. I keep looking for a way to convince myself to do something like this in python, but I did not find much sample code on the web. I need

Re: VFP9 SP2 printer api call question

2011-02-05 Thread kamcginnis
code to select the printer: lcprinter = Getprinter() - Original Message - From: Dan Covill dcov...@san.rr.com To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 7:46 PM Subject: Re: VFP9 SP2 printer api call question On 2/4/2011 4:02 PM, kamcgin...@gmail.com

Fw: VFP9 SP2 printer api call question

2011-02-05 Thread kamcginnis
The code that creates the Windows form with the printer button in Win2k, xp and 2003 is: Sys(1037) but in Vista and Win7 there is no printer button?? why is that? supposedly it prevents a bug? I found one solution here:

[OT] Credit card processing

2011-02-04 Thread kamcginnis
We have used authorize.net - Nova/elevon for many years We now have started using Intuit payment solutions (linked to quickbooks) with a better rate. Everything works fine - we can scan checks so we do not need to go to the bank to make deposits. We can process credit cards inside quickbooks.

[NF] Credit card processing

2011-02-04 Thread kamcginnis
We have used authorize.net - Nova/elevon for many years We now have started using Intuit payment solutions (linked to quickbooks) with a better rate. Everything works fine - we can scan checks so we do not need to go to the bank to make deposits. We can process credit cards inside quickbooks.

VFP9 SP2 printer api call question

2011-02-04 Thread kamcginnis
I hope I can explain this so it makes sense. I have a wrapper for Windows printer API calls 1 will select a printer. 2 will allow you to change settings like the paper cartridge. On Win2k, xp and 2003, this screen also has a button to change the printer that is missing on Vista and Win7. Why

Re: FTP

2011-01-26 Thread kamcginnis
WinSCP is great for updating a Linux server (many web hosts) from your Windows computer. You can use private/public keys so you can script it and not use any username/passwords in your batch files. - Original Message - From: Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent:

Re: Engagement Problems

2010-12-19 Thread kamcginnis
One lawyer once told me that an oral agreement is worth less than the paper it is written on. I suppose you can put too much in writing, but it is good to have enough so that the client's lawyer will look at it and (you hope) explain your client's responsibilities to your client. The agreement

Re: [NF] 5 Computer Wireless Network No Internet Recommendations

2010-12-10 Thread kamcginnis
We have a Belkin 600 HD. It has 2 USB ports so you can attach a printer and a hard drive that people on your network can share. We got it at Fry's for $99. The Belkin 600 is cheaper and has 1 USB. Both of these have a guest 'hot spot' feature (like at Starbucks and MacDonalds) so you can share

Re: New Win7 64 bit machine can it run FPD2.5 or 2.6?

2010-12-01 Thread kamcginnis
One of our tech support guys got it to work with some kind of add on package, however, we decided we could not support it so we are advising our fpd26 clients to upgrade to our windows version. We have not had an update to fpd26 since 1994. It is time to move on. - Original Message -

Re: [NF] Vista and IIS

2010-11-30 Thread kamcginnis
We use apache2 on Win2000 and it works great with asp and html. No need to worry about constant faulty upgrades like crapsta. We like Apache2triad for a complete installation. Try it. - Original Message - From: Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) foxh...@information-architecture.com To: ProFox

Re: [NF] Apache on Windows, was Vista and IIS

2010-11-30 Thread kamcginnis
It is true that Apache2Triad is no longer being updated. We see that as an advantage. It is not broken so no need to fix it. Apache2Triad is a 'system' - a group of individual software programs assembled into a single place. If you want, you can update the Apache2 web server, Python, etc. What

Re: vfp9 sp2 graphics, Plot and display growth charts

2010-11-12 Thread kamcginnis
Here is a sample growth chart: http://www.rajeun.net/growtaller.html I need to display a chart like that. The depending on the patient age and height, put a mark somewhere on the chart. Age is on the horizontal axis and height is on the vertical axis. - Original Message - From: Dan

Re: [NF] General opinions of flat-screen HDTVs?

2010-11-12 Thread kamcginnis
I live in Las Vegas. Sony has a very elaborate installation at the MGM Grand Studio Walk. They have a 3D setup that you can watch and signup for a free home theater, etc. etc. They are supposedly showing their best 3D movies. It certainly is 3D, but it is not anything like going to the movies.

Re: [NF] Adobe FDF merge to PDF

2010-11-05 Thread kamcginnis
Not sure if this helps: We have an old verion of the Adobe Acrobat Pro (6.0). If you have a locked pdf, you can: File | Create PDF | from File or from Multiple file, Scanner, Web page. then you can put textboxes or whatever to create a form from your new pdf. - Original Message -

Re: [NF] Corrupted archive file in Outlook 2003

2010-11-01 Thread kamcginnis
We went through this recently. The only thing that saved us was a backup of a local copy. If you don't have that, now is the time to do it. - Original Message - From: Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:41 PM Subject: [NF]

Re: [NF] Recommendations for client-use remote access

2010-10-19 Thread kamcginnis
We use this: UltraVNC SC (Single Click) Nothing to install on the client computer. We distribute the client part with our regular updates. The client is completely secure, when they stop the program, nothing is installed and there is no possible access by anyone. Bill's explanation below says

Re: [NF] Privacy issues on eCommerce site

2010-10-18 Thread kamcginnis
My opinion, as long as there is no patient health information or other covered by the HIPAA law, almost anything is ok as long as you notify them in advance and make sure they agree to the disclosure. The disclosure should not be buried somewhere deep in the fine print like unethical companies

Re: Vfp9 to csv

2010-10-12 Thread kamcginnis
Elegant solution. I hope it is not copyrighted because I plan to use it. - Original Message - From: Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm To: profox@leafe.com Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:49 PM Subject: Re: Vfp9 to csv Get your data in a cursor then: set textmerge on noshow set

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