I have just come across this article written by Ed which made me
laugh...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6869
Most the bit about Chet throwing his toys out the pram made me chuckle!
Tristan
Tristan Leask wrote:
I have just come across this article written by Ed which made me
laugh...
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6869
Most the bit about Chet throwing his toys out the pram made me chuckle!
Feeling nausea after reading the comments of that articleyes, those
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 14:45:01 -0500, Kevin Cully
My question is what new tool should I add to my toolbox that will keep
CULLY Technologies rolling along for years to come?
C#
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Alan Bourke
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http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and
My take on the question for what its worth is that there is no one
tool you need to learn, but rather a skill set.
Specifically, learn meta programming, i.e., code generation. Both
Java and the CLR have rich support for two features that make meta
programming relatively easy: reflection
Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
We impose a tariff on all items that we import to make it equivalent to what
it costs here.
We're allready doing it, just not yet on labor, and it’s at a point where it
has to happen or in another 50 years, the economist's will be proven wrong
and we'll all be
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Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
We impose a tariff on all items that we import to make it equivalent
to what it costs here.
We're allready doing it, just not yet
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Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
Excellent idea...
United we stand,
Divided we fall
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Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
We impose a tariff on all items that we import to make it equivalent
to what it costs here.
We're allready doing
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Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
Yep, and if we all stand together, we could get that point across.
Remember the old saying, United we
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What in the hell are you smoking tonight ??
How would suggesting that we stand together and tell our politicians to go
fly a kite, be taxes ?
You don't know me very well apparently...
If I were in charge, the only people getting welfare would be those
, November 25, 2006 7:33 PM
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I just love these Fox on... Linux? Alternatives...
Don't we all?
PabloSr
Value, above all, persons, not things.
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Next thing you'll be associating with terrorists, or affiliating to the
communist party!
There's a difference?No, JUST KIDDING! SHEEP g
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I have tried to run our compiled programs under Wine, but it always
crashed out when reading/writing to the registry. Funny That. The
program starts up ok, but then crashes.
All I installed was wine whilst running in Ubuntu.
Tristan
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I have tried to run our compiled programs under Wine, but it always
crashed out when reading/writing to the registry. Funny That. The
program starts up ok, but then crashes.
All I installed was wine whilst running
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm taking a couple steps back and looking at the big picture again. I'm
gonna put Fox on a Fedora Core box and am weighing the alternatives...
1. Crossover Office
2. Wine
3. VM (server? pro? freebie?)
4. ? s
Who out there is running VFP on a Linux
On 11/24/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Who out there is running VFP on a Linux box on a day-to-day basis, how
are you doing it, and what are your if I had to do it all over again, I
would experiences?
Good morning. Hope you and yours had a happy Thanksgiving.
I'm not
Hey Whil.
I haven't had a lot of success in this area.
I'm hoping to scrape together enough money to purchase a new laptop with
2G of RAM and give VM a try. I think this is most likely the best
solution.
I know that Ed VNCs to another Windows machine and does his development
this way. It
On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
I know that Ed VNCs to another Windows machine and does his
development
this way. It wouldn't help when you're on the road, visiting a
client.
On the road I use a Windows VM. At home, I use Remote Desktop
Connection to connect
I would be interested in hearing about this also.
The last time I saw fox on xenix was SCO Foxplus.
Not even sure if its still around ?
Virgil Bierschwale
http://www.tccutlery.com
http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com
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We can't publicly admit that we've got VFP running on Linux across the
globe successfully, Whil, for fear of The Man. g
Tsk, tsk, we don't need your kind around here. Ballmer spreads enough
FUD for a thousand people. :)
Seriously, this isn't actually true. You can run VFP on Linux
I'm not running a lot of Fox these days, but I still need a Windows
box around for a couple of apps I haven't moved over yet: xCase,
My sole Fox box is starting to make sounds like it's going to die, so I
thought I'd better get a backup moved over 'just in case'. I also need
to run QB, but
Kevin Cully wrote:
Hey Whil.
I haven't had a lot of success in this area.
I'm hoping to scrape together enough money to purchase a new laptop with
2G of RAM and give VM a try. I think this is most likely the best
solution.
I know that Ed VNCs to another Windows machine and does
I don't think there is really critical mass. Of course, I'm not doing a
good job of reporting either. VFP just kinda disappears without an
error message or anything I can find in a log. Basically, I've been
reporting that it don werk! Perhaps I need to look deeper and see if
I can find
of the challenges of Wine, I'm using VMWare Server to run a full image
of WinXPProSP2. Advantages: fully compatible with WXP, contained in
What Linux host are you running? I'm gonna put it on a FC6 box; although
I note there are a variety of things to consider wrt the Anaconda
installer not
major OS platforms so I think I would better spend my time learning
Python/Dabo and REALbasic. If only I didn't have to sleep. g
Yes, we have a saying around here. (Actually, we have a lot of sayings
around here) The one that is applicable here is
So many pedestrians, so little time.
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
I've got seven years out of this notebook; I'd say I got my money's
worth if it died tomorrow. IBM sure does make 'em solid.
(I dropped a TP off the counter at JFK, sans case, and all it did was
scratch the corner.)
My GM has a new Lenovo that he really
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
Are they doing anything about the issues you report, or isn't there
critical mass? I know Jeremy wanted me to scrape up a few grand to pay
for them to look at what it would take to add VFP into their list of
approved apps.
How about someone setting up a
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
We can't publicly admit that we've got VFP running on Linux across the
globe successfully, Whil, for fear of The Man. g
Tsk, tsk, we don't need your kind around here. Ballmer spreads enough
FUD for a thousand people. :)
I was referring
How about someone setting up a PayPal account or something similar
whereby we can make a donation towards this? Silly idea or valid?
Hey, that sounds like a great idea.
I bet there are 10,000,000 VFP developers in the world, if you count
Russia and India and China and Viet Nam. We just
MB Software Solutions wrote:
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
We can't publicly admit that we've got VFP running on Linux across the
globe successfully, Whil, for fear of The Man. g
Tsk, tsk, we don't need your kind around here. Ballmer spreads enough
FUD for a thousand
On 11/24/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not too worried about not being OS. That's kinda in the middle of my
list. Most interested to get rid of: Vendors who treat customers like
criminals. Hmmm, who could that be?
Novell?
*rimshot*
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Ted Roche
Ted Roche Associates,
I would think that just running a VM does most of what VFP developers
are wanting. Free, it's here today, no magic elixir needed.
I'm going to keep testing VFP9 on Crossover Office/WINE but I'm not
going to hold my breath. On the other hand, VFP will continue to run on
Windows (currently 90%
On 11/24/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What Linux host are you running?
I had been running this on an Ubuntu box for a while, but a kernel
update caused some problems. I'm looking at switching it over to
another Ubuntu box.
Lots of good info available, though.
Yes, folks
Whil Hentzen (Pro*) wrote:
Hey, that sounds like a great idea.
I bet there are 10,000,000 VFP developers in the world, if you count
Russia and India and China and Viet Nam. We just need 1% of them to
contribute, oh, $5 each. Heck, just $2 each. I know _I_ would chip in $2.
In fact, what
On 11/24/06, Kevin Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...VFP will continue to run on
Windows (currently 90% of desktops) until I retire, I'm sure, in 25 to
30 years from now even if it is in emulation.
My question is what new tool should I add to my toolbox that will keep
CULLY Technologies
Kevin Cully wrote:
All this is a stop gap measure IMO however. Bottom line: VFP won't ever
run natively on Macs or Linux. I want my apps to run natively on the 3
major OS platforms so I think I would better spend my time learning
Python/Dabo and REALbasic. If only I didn't have to sleep.
...
Virgil Bierschwale
http://www.tccutlery.com
http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com
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(Pro*)
Sent: Friday, November 24, 2006 1:24 PM
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How about someone setting up a PayPal account or something similar
whereby we can make a donation towards this? Silly idea or valid?
Hey, that sounds like a great idea.
I bet
Virgil Bierschwale wrote:
Excellent idea...
United we stand,
Divided we fall..
That’s the reason I'm trying to get my offshore project going...
I'm not against offshoring, but if the average programmer here makes 65K,
then I want to add a tariff so that we are paying them 65K so that we're
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