RE: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire s finallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
Adam, Thanks for raising my kids. Mike Adam Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With one at 2 year and the other at 8 months, unlikely to be able to grab the concept that the underneath of the DVD needs to be clean. Also allows them to be shown in any room without having to track

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire sfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Jean Laeremans
On 3/20/07, Adam Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to comprehend the mindset of someone who can't you involve themselves in a discussion without taking it down to a personal level. And i fail to comprehend how you can be in the least surprised. A+ jml

RE: SQL Server row and col maxima

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Davies
Stephen the Cook (talking about 'disconnected edit' in DTS) said Edit the string value ... Excel 8.0;HDR=YES;IMEX=1 that's interesting 'cos my cursoradapter solution uses: loConnDataSource.ConnectionString = [Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=C:\VISUAL FOXPRO PROJECTS\MYPROJ] + ;

RE: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire sfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
Oh I see, now you're going to play the victim. --- Adam Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to comprehend the mindset of someone who can't you involve themselves in a discussion without taking it down to a personal level. It really must be some major insecurity that if you aren't

RE: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire sfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
I was merely replying to this line. Have kids too one day if you can find someone... Obviously if you can fine someone to dump your seed in, I should have no trouble at all. LMAO --- Adam Buckland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I fail to comprehend the mindset of someone who can't you involve

Re: Off-topic: What's this I hear about VFP going away?

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Kiser, Brian (EPPC DOL OAIS) wrote: I just read VFP is kaput. I read that in 1994 or whenever it was that MS bought it. There won't be any new versions past the Sedna release. It's supported until 2015. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [WW Spam: medium] RE: [OT] The Home Networkingstuffovercopperwiresfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Pete Theisen
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 1:31 am, Adam Buckland wrote: Have just checked Pete, it's still in XP so Michael can have his editor of choice... Now where's that copy of vi gone to... Hi Adam! Whenever I use vi I think of edlin. On Monday 19 March 2007 3:33 pm, Michael Madigan wrote: I wish

[NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
From the obituary: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in

[NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
Wired: Macs Save Money http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,73005-0.html?tw=rss.technology ( -or- http://tinyurl.com/36u8d8 ) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - There's been a distinct sea change in the way people think about Apple in the last few weeks.

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Ed Leafe wrote: Wired: Macs Save Money *Macs are good for business* Not convinced about that, outside of basic office tasks like Word Processing. There's nothing like the wealth of accounting and payroll software that there is for the PC. ___

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 8:24 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: Not convinced about that, outside of basic office tasks like Word Processing. There's nothing like the wealth of accounting and payroll software that there is for the PC. Two responses to that: BootCamp and Parallels Desktop.

Caption Property

2007-03-20 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Thanks Richard and Peter If u assign a name to a page, say \Adresses, and u have focus in a text box anywhere on another page, if u type alt+A, the focus changes to a control on that page. In my case the focus changes to the caption of the parent page, although it shows the page u want to go, u

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Ed Leafe wrote: Two responses to that: BootCamp and Parallels Desktop. VFP runs great on my MacBook. So does Microsoft SQL Server. Absolutely, fantastic pieces of software. But if you were going to buy an XP licence for 5 people in your office to run your accounts application

[NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
Here is a tool presented by Microsoft to help their partners sell to Linux users: http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ Good for a laugh at the simple-mindedness, if nothing else. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com ___

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: Absolutely, fantastic pieces of software. But if you were going to buy an XP licence for 5 people in your office to run your accounts application under Parallels, wouldn't you just save money and get a cheap Dell running XP and not use Macs at

RE: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Jeff Fisher
I don't know, I think they have it pretty much nailed. To me, that would describe Linux users. jeff fisher, MCP www.turbofish.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 8:08 AM To: ProFox Mailing List

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:41 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: I wouldn't have thought the cost of a Mac + OSX + Parallels + XP Licence would be more than cheap Dell box + XP Licence + AV software. Typo, I meant less than. Also, Mac + OS X == Mac You don't buy the OS separately; it comes

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Ted Roche
On 3/20/07, Ed Leafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What makes you think that it's not legit? The lack of Microsoft trademarks in the first appearance of their products; the failure to note that Linux is a registered trademark. MS is usually pretty thorough about these things. The pricing

Re: does the record already exist in buffer

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew Stirling
Thanks Eurico That pointed me in the right direction. Andrew Stirling 01250 874580 http://www.calcpay.co.uk HMRC Accredited UK payroll program Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: Check Getnextmodified() function. HTH, E. ___ Post Messages to:

RE: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Jeff Fisher
Anything but Microsoft - along the lines of the Linux Aficionado. Even though you aren't strictly Linux with your Macs, you would bend towards anything that didn't have Microsoft stamped on it. jeff fisher, MCP www.turbofish.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Tristan Leask
Fan boys and People who buy things purely on looks and not functionality. G Tristan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Posted At: 20 March 2007 13:54 Posted To: Profox Archive Conversation: [NF] Up is Down! Subject: Re: [NF] Up is

Re: [NF] Up is Down!

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Ed Leafe wrote: Forgot to include: this is exactly what people said about the iPod when it came out. There were other MP3 players that did more and cost less - why would anyone want an iPod? Obviously because the iPod looks great and has that intuitive input mechanism, and

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Davies
What makes you think that it's not legit? -- Ed Leafe Ed's right - it's too complicated and too slow not to be legit g Andrew Davies  MBCS CITP   - AndyD    8-)# ** This email and any files transmitted with it are

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Andy Davies
The passing of an era. To be truthful I have always thought that the contribution of Fortran was overstated, certainly as regards commercial computing (input/output? - Do you mean the teletype?; Permanent storage? - why would you need that - the program types out the anwer at the end!)

Re: Microsoft Does Open-Source and FoxPro a Real Favor

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
Is this guy terribly confused, or is this new news as of today? The only thing I heard being 'shared sourced' was code built on top of VFP, and not the core VFP itself. Yes, the writer is terribly confused. The source code for what MS refers to as the core bits -- the EXE -- will NOT be

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
What makes you think that it's not legit? The lack of Microsoft trademarks in the first appearance of their products; the failure to note that Linux is a registered trademark. MS is usually pretty thorough about these things. The pricing comments are lame. The videos are missing. If

RE: Microsoft Does Open-Source and FoxPro a Real Favor

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Crozier
Derek, Bill (William) Sanders has posted a reply to the effect that the writer is talking a load of b*llocks! Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Derek Kalweit Sent: 20 March 2007 14:27 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: Microsoft

[OT] The newest Apple product: the iRack!

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KWYYIY4jQ -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Andy Davies wrote: To be truthful I have always thought that the contribution of Fortran was overstated, certainly as regards commercial computing (input/ output? - Do you mean the teletype?; Permanent storage? - why would you need that - the program

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Jeff Fisher wrote: Anything but Microsoft - along the lines of the Linux Aficionado. Even though you aren't strictly Linux with your Macs, you would bend towards anything that didn't have Microsoft stamped on it. Hmmm... guess I stopped using Fox when

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
It's not a regular expression but ... MyString = Monday - 01/03/07 ? GETWORDNUM(MyString, 3) Or simply, if it's guaranteed to be of that format, simply RIGHT(MyString, 8). No need to over-complicate it, unless it already is more complicated... ;-) -- Derek

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 20, 2007, at 10:21 AM, Andy Davies wrote: The fact that it was the first non-Assembler-level language was pretty significant, IMO. And it was fun. And I got an A+ in the course. ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Thanks all for those answers. I probably wasn't clear in my question... I *have* to use a regular expression. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: Given a string of form: Monday - 01/03/07 Is there any regexp that would extract the date part only? .*(\d{2}/d{2}/d{2,4}) -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com ___ Post

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
Thanks all for those answers. I probably wasn't clear in my question... I *have* to use a regular expression. Something like this? Monday - (\d\d/\d\d/\d\d) Parenthesis used for submatch extraction... -- Derek ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Great, thx all. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise,

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ray Heilman
As a fourth year computer science major, I took Fortran, taught by an SA that was also in our program, for a foreign language credit. I now wish that I had taken a language that I could speak to a greater number of people. 8-) RayTheOtherRay --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---

Re: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Richard Kaye
I see you got several answers. FYI there's a really great shareware tool out there called RegexBuddy. Highly recommended. http://www.regexbuddy.com Lots of good docs on the site as well. Alan Bourke wrote: Given a string of form: Monday - 01/03/07 Is there any regexp that would extract

RE: Any Regular Expression gurus out there?

2007-03-20 Thread Dave Crozier
Alan, (\d{1,2}/\d{1,2}/\d{2,4}) Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 20 March 2007 15:41 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Any Regular Expression gurus out there? Given a string of form: Monday - 01/03/07 Is

RE: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Jeff Fisher
Oh come on Ed, I've been reading the 'Hate everything Microsoft' stuff from you for years. For you, it's more like open source vs. Microsoft. One of the biggest reasons you started Dabo is because you wanted to get away from a Microsoft product and into 'open source'. Let's take a look at the

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 12:41 PM, Jeff Fisher wrote: Oh come on Ed, I've been reading the 'Hate everything Microsoft' stuff from you for years. For you, it's more like open source vs. Microsoft. One of the biggest reasons you started Dabo is because you wanted to get away from a Microsoft

RE: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Jeff Fisher
Tell me what I got wrong. I've been on this list for years although I don't often post. In fact, I have saved pretty much every post with the exception of NF and OT posts which I read and then discard. You aren't exactly a stranger. You post your thoughts, ideas, code, even religious topics. And

Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Nick Causton
Can anyone update me with the latest on multithreading VFP? I seem to recall that Christof had a view on it and some example code somewhere. Also I have recently found Calvin Hsia's blog entry with example code but unfortunately that does not work for me; it GPFs with 0x00197890. I have also

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Jack Skelley
Vince: I don't know about fun... Back in the day when I took Fortran IV (1972 @ NC State) on an IBM 360 we punched cards and handed them to a student operator. Days later (I mean days - 1 on a fast return time and more likely 2 or 3 g) you got your printout back only to find that the operator

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Pete Theisen
On Tuesday 20 March 2007 8:07 am, Ed Leafe wrote: Here is a tool presented by Microsoft to help their partners sell to Linux users: http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ Good for a laugh at the simple-mindedness, if nothing else. Hi Ed! I'll take your word that it is amusing. It won't

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Hill
Hi Jeff, On 3/20/07, Jeff Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Let's take a look at the rest of your application choices here: SourceSafe is the industry leader for such a product. SourceSafe isn't a great example to demonstrate closed-source superiority. It's buggy - crashes at least a couple of

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul Hill wrote: I have and it's painful. I'll be doing that soon. Can't wait. Can, actually. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Paul Hill
On 3/20/07, Nick Causton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone update me with the latest on multithreading VFP? IMHO it's a hack in VFP at best (similar hacks were available in VB6). Maybe you could explain what you're trying to achieve. Sometimes a non-multithreaded approach works equally well.

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 1:00 PM, Jeff Fisher wrote: Tell me what I got wrong. OK, here goes: Oh come on Ed, I've been reading the 'Hate everything Microsoft' stuff from you for years. For you, it's more like open source vs. Microsoft. Gee, I was always accused of being a Mac

[NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,259842,00.html ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech **

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread David Crooks
On Tuesday, March 20, 2007 2:15 PM Michael Madigan wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,259842,00.html The moral of the story is to not only have backups but make sure the backups are readable. David L. Crooks ___ Post

[NF] Interesting Article on Python

2007-03-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2100629,00.asp Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/signed multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html application/x-pkcs7-signature

Caption Property

2007-03-20 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Hi I found the solution using \ and alt+letter, in the page activate method I set the focus to an object inside the page. TFTH, E. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date: 3/20/2007 8:07 AM

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Jack Skelley wrote: Vince: I don't know about fun... Back in the day when I took Fortran IV (1972 @ NC State) on an IBM 360 we punched cards and handed them to a student operator. Ah, that's probably what made the difference. When I started college, my semester was the first semester

[NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Hei Back 76 I was using an interpreted language called FINITE, which had an interpreter to translate it to FORTRAN, U of I in Urbana-Champaign. E. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.15/728 - Release Date:

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 3:29 PM, Vince Teachout wrote: Ah, that's probably what made the difference. When I started college, my semester was the first semester they used terminals instead of punch cards. I bet Punch Cards would take the joy out of anything, not just Fortran. :-)

Re: [NF] Interesting Article on Python

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 2:30 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2100629,00.asp FWIW, ITA was heavily recruiting Python developers at the last PyCon. -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com ___ Post

RE: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Nick
No real alternative here, definitely needs multithreading to do this task properly. The task at hand is a Multithreaded HTTP Webserver written entirely in Fox. The idea being that each Virtual Directory would have it's own executable (maybe multiple) to marshall the traffic for it's own requests

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Jeff Fisher wrote: There are actually very few open source products that even come close to what is out there. For example, over the weekend, I loaded up ubuntu on a spare PC. I typically use this PC to as a print server, messing around box, and to play music while I work. On the windows side,

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Ed Leafe wrote: I wrote both Fortran and Cobol using punched cards. I wrote Basic on a teletype (paper) display with punched paper tape as my storage. COBOL using punched cards?! OMG, it was wordy enough on screen. Do you still have nightmares where you're in Hell, punching

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
From the article: When a tour guide inquired, Mr. Backus mentioned that he was a graduate student in math; he was whisked upstairs and asked a series of questions Mr. Backus described as math “brain teasers.” It was an informal oral exam, with no recorded score. He was hired on the spot. As

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
I had one job in '77 -- working with a Cobol Program on cards -- all 4 boxes of it. We were getting about 8-11 hour turnaround on compile/test runs. That is, put the box in and wait 8 to 11 hours for the output. One typo on a punched card would really get one in a tizzy. I hated Cobol. It

Re: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,259842,00.html The moral of the story is to not only have backups but make sure the backups are readable. All to common a scenario, I'm afraid. I worked at a place where this happened(we lost irreplaceable data, however), and afterwards I

[OT] Penn and Teller on Gun Control

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
For all you fools who think gun control is a good idea. http://www.washingtonceasefire.com/content/view/47/45/ Saint Patrick's Day Gear! http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/2269253 Thoroughbred Horse Racing Group http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/mikes_horse_racing/

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
No real alternative here, definitely needs multithreading to do this task properly. Although it's possible to use callbacks through FLLs and such I believe to achieve multi-threading in the same process of VFP, I believe it's very error prone and likely to cause GPF's due to VFP's internal

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread Alan Lukachko
Why didn't they send the reformatted drive(s) and tapes to a data recovery service like ActionFront Data Recovery Labs - www.actionfront.com ? ActionFront is one of the best data recovery services in the world. I'm sure that they could have recovered some if not all of the data. -Original

RE: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread John Weller
This is starting to get like the Monty Python sketch :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 Ah, that's probably what made the difference. When I started college, my semester was the first semester they used terminals instead of punch cards. I bet Punch Cards would take the joy

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread John Weller
A colleague once mentioned the garage he visited in a professional capacity. He asked about backup to be told that they did a tape backup every day. The young lady involved then mentioned that she kept getting an error message that she didn't understand so she ignored it. The message? 'Tape not

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread Lou Syracuse
I worked for a company (in a heavily regulated industry) that had a 'disaster recovery' plan professionaly drawn up when they had a Wang mini-computer in the mid 80's. After we went to a PC network (early 90's) I went to work updating the plan. I wanted to purchase a second backup drive and

RE: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread John Weller
The Four Yorkshiremen I think where each tries to outdo the others on what a hard life they had as children. John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 On 3/20/07, John Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is starting to get like the Monty Python sketch :-) Which one? I was thinking more

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:24 PM, John Weller wrote: The Four Yorkshiremen I think where each tries to outdo the others on what a hard life they had as children. Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a

RE: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Nick
Derek, Thanks for your thoughts. Although it's possible to use callbacks through FLLs and such I believe to achieve multi-threading in the same process of VFP, I believe it's very error prone and likely to cause GPF's due to VFP's internal memory manager. The only way I accept as a valid VFP

RE: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread John Weller
I am not entirely convinced that that is a recommendation :-) John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 One of the advantages of working in Python is that you are surrounded by people who appreciate this stuff. In fact, the central repository for code is called the Cheese Shop.

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:33 PM, John Weller wrote: I am not entirely convinced that that is a recommendation :-) I fart in your general direction! -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Ted Roche
On 3/20/07, John Weller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Four Yorkshiremen I think where each tries to outdo the others on what a hard life they had as children. Ah, yes, something along the lines of We had to live in a cardboard box under the bridge. Well, at least you had a box. Yes, it's exactly

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Derek Kalweit
The memory requirement is mainly because the VFP COM wrapper is bloated which is why, especially as I don't need any of the COM functionality, it would be good to do this without the COM overhead. I think much of it is also general VFP runtime overhead. Why write it entirely in VFP? Some

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Kevin Cully
Have you looked at West-Wind Web Connection? It sounds like it fits your need perfectly. As much as VFP really could and it has been battle tested for years. * It has scripting support built in. * In COM mode, it self monitors the COM objects and would kill any that have hung up. * It runs

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Jerry Wolper
To be truthful I have always thought that the contribution of Fortran was overstated, certainly as regards commercial computing (input/output? - Do you mean the teletype?; Permanent storage? - why would you need that - the program types out the anwer at the end!) The fact that it

RE: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Jerry Wolper
This is starting to get like the Monty Python sketch :-) Which one? I was thinking more DIlbert... You had zeroes? We had to use Ohs... The Four Yorkshiremen I think where each tries to outdo the others on what a hard life they had as children. For the record, that was originally from the

Re: [NF] Dabo Issue (was RE: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Dibble
At 10:16 PM 3/19/07, you wrote: Okay, well I have found someone else who has had this issue, so Ken Dibble, if you are on this list I am pinging you... http://leafe.com/archives/showFullThd/341872 I'd be interested, too. I got that error with the prior Runtime Engine, but

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Vince Teachout
Jack Skelley wrote: and 1/6 and a regular 1/16 scale. A prized possession for sure! Kool! Having a terminal meant you could easily play Star Trek! Every play that in Fortran? It could be done with cards but not much fun waiting for the turn-around! Regards, It was actually on there,

Re: [NF] Dabo Issue (was RE: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Dibble
I've got 0.7.1.0 on Win 2000. It won't run anything at all, at least, not via its file picker. It displays the file picker, I pick a .py file (like the main.py in the recipes demo, for instance), and both the file picker and console windows disappear and nothing else happens. Traceback is:

Re: [NF] Dabo Issue (was RE: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-20 Thread Ed Leafe
On Mar 20, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: I've got 0.7.1.0 on Win 2000. It won't run anything at all, at least, not via its file picker. It displays the file picker, I pick a .py file (like the main.py in the recipes demo, for instance), and both the file picker and console

Re: [NF] Dabo Issue (was RE: [NF] I guess it's time for another programming language...)

2007-03-20 Thread Ken Dibble
If you want to stay current, you can check out the subversion repositories, replacing that dabo, demo and ide folders. Yup, that's what I do. If you want folks to test the runtime engine, it would be helpful to make it possible to get updates for it the same way. The exe is

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire sfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alan Lukachko wrote: No way Michael Madigan is a Canadian, heh!! He lives in Massachusetts the last I heard. From what I heard from Massachusetts only come cows and f...ots. And he doesn't look like a cow (less brains, less guts). ___ Post

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire s finallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Michael Madigan wrote: Nope, I'm from the Soprano State, New Jersey. Well, from NJ it's only sheep and f...ots. And . well you are a bit sheepish (specially about going to Iraq) but no, you are no sheep. So. ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wiresfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Alan Lukachko wrote: I apologize. I was misinformed about your domicile. At one point I thought you lived in Boston. Again my mistake. I even thought he was a man! LOL ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Python

2007-03-20 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Ted Roche wrote: On 3/17/07, Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I finally got around to peek at Python. Been looking at a couple of screenshots, Boa, Dabo, Zope. And will start reading Pilgrim's Dive into Python (unless somebody recommends some other book). Dive Into Python is a

Re: [NF] Linux Personas

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
All I get at this link is: This material is being updated and will be made available to Microsoft partners shortly. Ya' snooze, ya' lose, eh? :-) Ed Leafe wrote: Here is a tool presented by Microsoft to help their partners sell to Linux users: http://www.linuxpersonas.com/

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
Actually, isn't that from the 1948 show? Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:24 PM, John Weller wrote: The Four Yorkshiremen I think where each tries to outdo the others on what a hard life they had as children. Oh, we used to dream of livin' in a corridor! Would ha'

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
Don't tell me, Monty Python and the Holy Grail... Ed Leafe wrote: On Mar 20, 2007, at 4:33 PM, John Weller wrote: I am not entirely convinced that that is a recommendation :-) I fart in your general direction! -- Ed Leafe -- http://leafe.com -- http://dabodev.com

Re: [NF] Fortran's creator dies

2007-03-20 Thread Chet Gardiner
I wrote an accounting system including a user-defined report writer in Fortran on a Data General mini-computer in the late '70s You could do ANYTHING with Fortran!!! As for Algol, it was killed by the first 500 pound gorilla - IBM. Algol was the machine language for the Borroughs 5500/6500

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread aj
Was looking around for the same, thing found this http://vfpconversion.com/Article.aspx?quickid=060034 Hope it helps. If you create anything interesting please let me know. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread Sales Info
Nick, The task at hand is a Multithreaded HTTP Webserver written entirely in Fox. The idea being that each Virtual Directory would have it's own executable (maybe multiple) to marshall the traffic for it's own requests to the Winsock layer. That way if the owner of one particular Virtual

Re: Multithreading - what is the latest

2007-03-20 Thread cchvfp
Hi Nick, That text from Fernando Bozzo is in Spanish, not portuguese. That's not very difficult for brazilians to understand, but that's a different language anyway. Based on Calvin's blog post, Claude Fox created a new class, that once was a part of VFP-Y, and now is a separate project at

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire sfinallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
That joke might work if I lived in Taxachussets. You can spell out Faggot, it's not going to hurt anyone. --- Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Lukachko wrote: No way Michael Madigan is a Canadian, heh!! He lives in Massachusetts the last I heard. From what I heard from

Re: [OT] The Home Networking stuff over copper wire s finallygettingfast

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
Yew are. --- Ricardo Aráoz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Nope, I'm from the Soprano State, New Jersey. Well, from NJ it's only sheep and f...ots. And . well you are a bit sheepish (specially about going to Iraq) but no, you are no sheep. So.

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread Michael Madigan
We lost a proposal for doing a second office for a company after working for the first office for several years. they wanted to go with a big company. 2 weeks after manually entering all their inventory into the system their hard disk crashed. No backups. good thing they went with a big

RE: [NF] Backups Backups Backups

2007-03-20 Thread john harvey
I HATE,HATE,HATE tape backups. I'd much rather copy data across the internet to a remote site, or even copy to a local external hard drive and let the client or a designee take it home every night. We had a jukebox tape backup system at the SCSO that supposedly performed a backup each night and