Re: [OT] A**hole Gore and his junk science whore

2008-11-22 Thread Paul Hill
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:13 AM, Geoff Flight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NASA was the one that reported no change for 10 years followed by a drop in 2007. Not true. -- Paul ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: convert xy to lat lon

2008-11-22 Thread John Weller
Not a trivial task You may find this of use http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/UsefulData/UTMFormulas.htm You need to know quite a bit about the particular grid you are using. HTH John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

[NF] Wazzz up guys make a come back

2008-11-22 Thread Stephen Russell
http://tinyurl.com/5ah47g -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

[OT] From a tweet friend, Turducken wrapped every layer in Bacon

2008-11-22 Thread Stephen Russell
If you dare to look at this beast... http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-turducken-wrapped-in-bacon/ -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Alan Lukachko
Michael, Stop spreading the lies about Canada having socialized medicine!! We pay for all health services. It's just that the government collects our money and pays the doctors. In the U.S. for profit companies charge for health services and limit the doctors you can visit. Your depressed

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Alan Lukachko
Stop the lies about Canada's health care not working. It does, but just like in every country it needs improvement. Get your facts straight. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:32 AM To:

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Alan Lukachko
Geoff, There is no “FREE govt care”. All Canadians pay for it through taxes and fees that the government collects. Some of us pay more than others. We pay whether we use the health services system or not. See my previous post to Michael about CAMH about getting faster appointments.

Re: [NF] Wazzz up guys make a come back

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: http://tinyurl.com/5ah47g Hilariously great, but [OT]. ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Alan Lukachko
Agreed. Stop the lawyers from doing lawsuits where they get a large portion of the final settlement. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Geoff Flight Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 3:57 AM To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [OT] 25

Re: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Pete Theisen wrote: What nobody realizes is that the doctor only gets a hundred or so. The rest, to the extent that it is actually paid by the insurance companies - the patient is sent to collection for his part - goes to corporate fat cats who screw everything up, get fired and then are given

Re: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Jean Laeremans wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:18 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC Wow...I'll say! Do you think nationalized healthcare would prevent this kind of bill? Would have cost him a few euro's in Belgium and no there are no waiting lists... ...and waffles for breakfast the next

Re: VFPCompression.fll

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Kevin Cully wrote: Oooh. Another thing to test for, is that Unzipping of a file won't overwrite the file if it already exits. Thus, the DirClear() method. Lottsa testing is recommended. {g} So Kevin said it was production-ready, right? LOL!

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Alan Lukachko
El Toro Poo Poo!! You sound extremely ignorant of what really happens in Canada. One of the tenants of health care in Canada is that you don't have to suffer with pain when being operated on. My first wife, while dying of cancer, had access to best pain medicine available anywhere and we didn't

RE: convert xy to lat lon

2008-11-22 Thread John
Yeah, I've been reading that. I'm wondering if there isn't a web service I can use to do this. Otherwise, I may just use ESRI to do it on a periodic basis. John Harvey -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Weller Sent: Saturday, November

RE: VFPCompression.fll

2008-11-22 Thread Rick Borup
Oooh. Another thing to test for, is that Unzipping of a file won't overwrite the file if it already exits. Thus, the DirClear() method. Lottsa testing is recommended. {g} I've been experimenting with Craig's library for a little while and my testing shows that UnzipTo() *does* overwrite

Re: VFPCompression.fll

2008-11-22 Thread Kevin Cully
Yes, and it was driving me crazy because I thought it was my program's fault. I've got a client with a West-Wind shopping cart on a hosted VPS W2K3. No VFP so I couldn't debug on the server. (I do have Ed's VRunFox though. Thanks Ed!) I'm zipping up the DBFs and sending them up to the server.

RE: VFPCompression.fll

2008-11-22 Thread Rick Borup
I'm zipping up the DBFs and sending them up to the server. The file is getting there with the updated date and time. The program then attempts to unzip the file and completes with the return code of .T. but any existing file isn't overwritten. Unfortunately, Craig's documentation does not

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Madigan
Alan, If Canadian health care is so good, why are Canadians coming across the border for health care? * Barack Obama is not My President http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike --- On Sat, 11/22/08, Alan Lukachko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread Geoff Flight
Hi all, I have need to read some Access tables in a small VFP app. I originally used a DSN and all worked fine until I tried to install it at the client and they needed IT permission to set up a DSN on the workstation. Their service model is based on Dilbert's 'Mordac - Preventer of Information

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Geoff Flight
It is generally recognized by the rest of the world that the American health system is expensive almost beyond belief. Even our former Prime Minister who was one of Bush's best mates and an admirer of all things American said their health system was crap and we didn’t want anything like it here.

Re: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Geoff Flight wrote: good dilbert story snipped I would like to read the access tables using the SQLSTRINGCONNECT function, however getting a connection string to work has eluded me. Being a relative newbie to doing such things I wonder if some of you kind folk can point me in the direction of

Re: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Geoff Flight wrote: Hi all, I have need to read some Access tables in a small VFP app. I originally used a DSN and all worked fine until I tried to install it at the client and they needed IT permission to set up a DSN on the workstation. Their service model is based on Dilbert's 'Mordac -

RE: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread Geoff Flight
Many thanks! I wil have a try out with that and thanks a heap for the URL. That is def going into my favourites! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Sunday, 23 November 2008 8:45 AM To: ProFox Email

RE: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Madigan
Any national health care here would have to include tort reform. * Barack Obama is not My President http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike --- On Sat, 11/22/08, Geoff Flight [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Geoff Flight [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread John C. Gunvaldson
I wonder if some of you kind folk can point me in the direction of a solution that does not include a DSN and help me construct a elegant, working connection string. This is one that has been passed around on this newsgroup before - that I bookmarked... /*== LOCAL lcConnectString as

Re: [OT] 25 billion won't do it?

2008-11-22 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Lukachko wrote: Stop the lies about Canada's health care not working. It does, but just like in every country it needs improvement. Hi Alan! Lies? Strong language! We ARE getting conflicting stories from Canadians about their home system every winter when they visit us in Florida. They

Re: [OT] Wazzz up guys make a come back

2008-11-22 Thread Stephen Russell
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, MB Software Solutions General Account [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Russell wrote: http://tinyurl.com/5ah47g Hilariously great, but [OT]. Not enough coffee when sent. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com

Re: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread Paul McNett
Geoff Flight wrote: I would like to read the access tables using the SQLSTRINGCONNECT function, however getting a connection string to work has eluded me. Being a relative newbie to doing such things I wonder if some of you kind folk can point me in the direction of a solution that does not

Environment vars in Vista not returning expected values

2008-11-22 Thread Whil Hentzen
I need to write data to various folders under both XP and Vista. (Duh.) We know that data can't go in Program Files\My Stupdendous App\Data any longer; common wisdom says C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\My StupidAppData is the place we oughta be. I was under the

Re: Environment vars in Vista not returning expected values

2008-11-22 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Whil Hentzen wrote: I need to write data to various folders under both XP and Vista. (Duh.) We know that data can't go in Program Files\My Stupdendous App\Data any longer; common wisdom says C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\My StupidAppData is the place we oughta be.

Re: Environment vars in Vista not returning expected values

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Madigan
And it will probably work with future versions of windows too. I've always hated the program files folder, particularly because it is two words and you have to fudge old dos programs. * --- On Sat, 11/22/08, MB Software Solutions General

RE: Reading Access in VFP

2008-11-22 Thread Geoff Flight
Thanks for that. Their systems have zero write capacity to the windows drive (C:) making virtually any changes impossible. I 'think' I tried a filed DSN - I cant remember. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul McNett Sent: Sunday, 23

[OT] Busting US workers

2008-11-22 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hQHkoGEo6A7y8VEeQ6R_01j1i0aA How many alphabet organizations are there, anyway? Each one wishing to suck a little more out of the US economy. Already NOTHING is made in the US, now they want to outsource the services as well? We

[OT] Elected officials scored an average of 33 on this, how well do you do?

2008-11-22 Thread Michael Madigan
http://www.americancivicliteracy.org/resources/quiz.aspx * Barack Obama is not My President http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: Environment vars in Vista not returning expected values

2008-11-22 Thread Rick Schummer
Check out Doug's blog. He has code that you can run that will make the data folder under your app be available for writing data without affecting the other security. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net www.rickschummer.com -Original Message- From:

[OT] Jobless recovery

2008-11-22 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1121/p01s03-usec.html the last two recoveries we had were jobless recoveries. The rich people recover, the poor don't? Looks like it. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ ___ Post Messages to:

[OT] US Attorney General Mukasey (almost) finishes on a strong note

2008-11-22 Thread Pete Theisen
Hi Everybody! His speech is quite good. Unfortunately he was unable to finish it. The text, however, is here: The video is missing the last couple of minutes. http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/pubid.1189/pub_detail.asp -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/