Gil,
I have, as a direct result of some of these shakedown tactics, begun to
record every call between myself and any tax authority (Fed or NY),
financial institution, insurance company, or vendor.
You may not be as legal as you think. While NYS does allow one party only
notification that a
Actually, I play it safe within reasonable bounds. If I am calling from a
single party notification state to a different state with single party
notification legislation, and I am aware of the recording being made, I am
not violating either state's law, nor federal law. If, however, I am
calling
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=4146tag=nl.e539
Secure is a mindset, and not an actual state, right?
Things change in the industry as well as new threats detected. How
fast the vendors ;- roll with those threats.
--
Stephen Russell
Sr. Production Systems Programmer
Web and Windows
I suppose that if I ran all the protections within Vista made available,
and hung my AntiVirus/AntiMalware/AntiAnti apps onto the machine, along with
both a hardware and software firewall that really tightened things down I
could perhaps still be able to read from, and maybe even still write to,
If you really want to make your computer secure, just unplug that black cable
that runs from the wall outlet to your power supply on your pc. I am fairly
certain that that would make it nearly impossible for your pc to become
infected with a virus!
Mike
Sent from my Verizon Wireless
Unless I have a head cold and sneeze on it, at which point it could cause an
infection with others...
Gil
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-
boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of m...@mikewohlrab.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 10:20 AM
To:
Warning! Warning!! Microsoft rant ahead!
All who rail about M$ bashing delete this message NOW!
You have been warned.
It happened again.
Last year, I got a nice little data conversion project which fits one
of my other specialties: publishing with InDesign. So I thunk: what
the heck,
Kenneth:
I have been burned with a similar stuff so you are not alone and I feel your
pain.
I did an automation to Word 2000 out of our scouting system written VFP 6.
Works great in Word 2000. Does not work well with Word 2007 on the new boxes
and I simply don't have the time or energy to fix
That sux. I have had to handle a few of these (we upgraded to Office 2007)
issues as well. I know I can't hold onto yesterday/yesteryear forever, so I
am learning to transition. Oh, by the way, that transition includes a lot
less M$ related craziness than in the past. For End User client
When we run into issues like this with the ever changing m$ garbage we try to
use open office. We find that it will do the conversion in most cases.
- Original Message -
From: Jack Skelley
To: profox@leafe.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 8:47 AM
Subject: RE: When will I learn?
fyi...
I think this Baton Rouge opening has been there for quite a while
iirc...at least 2 years?
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:08 PM, KAM.covad wrote:
When we run into issues like this with the ever changing m$ garbage
we try to use open office. We find that it will do the conversion
in most cases.
Thanks -- I wondered about trying that. Unfortunately, this client
wouldn't do anything
In the pre-Internet days I had a client who would unplug his modem between
PCAnywhere sessions.
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, m...@mikewohlrab.com m...@mikewohlrab.com wrote:
From: m...@mikewohlrab.com m...@mikewohlrab.com
Subject: Re: [NF] more secure or less threats?
To: profox@leafe.com
Date:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kenneth Kixmoeller
ken.kixmoel...@information-architecture.com wrote:
Warning! Warning!! Microsoft rant ahead!
All who rail about M$ bashing delete this message NOW!
You have been warned.
It happened again.
Last year, I got a nice little data
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh
foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote:
On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:08 PM, KAM.covad wrote:
When we run into issues like this with the ever changing m$ garbage
we try to use open office. We find that it will do the conversion
in most cases.
Stephen Russell wrote:
Why not ask those M$ guys why they didn't offer to help you with this:
I bet you could write a real quick reader of the xml to a dataset and
then write that dataset's table to a VFP dbf.
Maybe an hour to do it. Maybe a few hours if your doing conversion
along the
On Tue, April 14, 2009 2:36 pm, Stephen Russell wrote:
So you are upset that as a computer professional you were caught off
guard that a major application used worldwide changed 2 years ago in
particular working with your bread and butter and you just found out?
Sorry to hear about that. I
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
I suppose that if I ran all the protections within Vista made available,
and hung my AntiVirus/AntiMalware/AntiAnti apps onto the machine, along with
both a hardware and software firewall that really tightened things
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:41 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
On Tue, April 14, 2009 2:36 pm, Stephen Russell wrote:
So you are upset that as a computer professional you were caught off
guard that a major application used worldwide
I am not forcing Vista to do anything. It is the other way around.
Gil
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-
boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 2:45 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Subject: Re: [NF] more
It's also our fault for not explicitly telling the client not to upgrade.
I've had clients upgrade before and I ask them What made you think that it
would still work without checking with me first?
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Jack Skelley jskel...@mail.newjerseydevils.com wrote:
From: Jack Skelley
On Apr 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
wrote:
how big are the XML files anyway? in kb or megs I am asking.
Is there a change in layout from last years files to todays?
No, I think he's justifiably upset because there was no need to
take the
DBF export
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account
mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Stephen Russell wrote:
Why not ask those M$ guys why they didn't offer to help you with this:
I bet you could write a real quick reader of the xml to a dataset and
then
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
I am not forcing Vista to do anything. It is the other way around.
Is there an AD or is it all a peer network?
--
Stephen Russell
Sr. Production Systems Programmer
Web and Windows
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh
foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote:
I know it has been said many times, many ways, but __stephen, you
protest *WAY* too much whenever anybody says *anything* negative
about M$.
---
Just for grins here:
Very few of my clients have an AD. Most have one or more manufacturers that
are now mostly web based. Any internal Servers are typically File servers,
but with the Web Craze that has become so prevalent even that is beginning
to diminish. Only a few have tried to use Vista, as their
Some people whine too much about Microsoft. If you don't want Microsoft
problems, stop creating solutions using Microsoft products.
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [NF] Re: When will I learn? try
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
but with the Web Craze that has become so prevalent even that is beginning
to diminish.
--
You think that companies are retreating from the web?
Now that is a funny statement.
--
Stephen
Read a little less aggressively. even that refers to internal File
Servers being used at my client locations, where the manufacturers they deal
with are moving deeper into web based solutions.
Gil
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote:
Some people whine too much about Microsoft. If you don't want Microsoft
problems, stop creating solutions using Microsoft products.
Or understand the problems and leverage that as
I've re-written some programs to use csv files instead of proprietary files
because of these very issues. I've also gone to using Blat instead of outlook
automation.
--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com
Subject:
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Gil Hale RR mrgmh...@rochester.rr.com wrote:
Read a little less aggressively. even that refers to internal File
Servers being used at my client locations, where the manufacturers they deal
with are moving deeper into web based solutions.
On Apr 14, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Kenneth Kixmoeller wrote:
Now I know I can save it as a CSV and append it into existing
structures. Or maybe I can do something better with the XML bypassing
the automation. Whatever. I can still make it work. But the point is
that M$ changed the rules again.
But wait! Then he might hit the OpenOffice issue where it used to save
to PDB (Palm Doc) format, but then that got taken out in a later
version!
Dammit, you can't win in this game!
All software companies do this from time to time. On one hand they have
people complaining about apps becoming
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
Maybe someday you *will* learn!
There is a great old David Steinberg bit about when he was called at
the last minute to open a concert for Richie Havens. There wasn't an
announced opening act, much less a comedian, and the audience didn't
Wasn't it always listed as dBase3 or dBase4 file type? They never
even took possession of their own name.
Yes, becasue it created those format files which VFP happens to open.
I wonder if you could take it back to Access instead of dbf?
That's the recommended workaround, yep.
--
Nearly all of the auto dealerships I work with and visit are about 10 years
behind the curve for all but their desktop machines. There are a few
exceptions, but all-in-all what they have works for their needs. Dated or
not, the term File Server is exactly what I am seeing out there, as opposed
Same here re: use of .csv file format. Clean, simple, no bloat as with
larger XML files.
Gil
-Original Message-
From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-
boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan
Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 3:40 PM
To: profoxt...@leafe.com
Hi Everybody!
http://www.wowowow.com/politics/al-franken-norm-coleman-court-minnesota-senator-267321
Of course, Coleman vows to appeal in the fine Al Gore tradition. Works
for the Ds so the Rs can do it as well.
--
Regards,
Pete
http://pete-theisen.com/
http://elect-pete-theisen.com/
Gil Hale RR wrote:
Same here re: use of .csv file format. Clean, simple, no bloat as with
larger XML files.
CSV works great, except for memo fields. One of my clients is in Risk
Management, which requires a lot of narrative (memo). How do you get
around that, if you export to dbf? Access?
There's one thing I don't understand in all this.
You are a programmer and wrote a module that worked for your client.
They changed the environment (upgraded Office)
So you get another job and opportunity to charge again. Simple.
What's the complaint
--
Regards
Sytze de Boer
Kiss Systems
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:08 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
And if you had used Python...
Further -- after I finish this project (which I'm supposed to be
working on), I have a big Python book sitting right here, waiting for
me to open it and begin the enlightenment process.
OTOH, some part of me
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Sytze de Boer wrote:
So you get another job and opportunity to charge again. Simple.
What's the complaint?
It is a good point, but not always that simple.
My long-term customers have taken it that way just fine. In this
case, this is a small customer for which
On Apr 14, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote:
OTOH, some part of me (the *business* part) has this nagging feeling
that I could actually get much more (or *some*) new business by
drinking the cool aid once more and investing time and energies
in .NET, and going with the M$ flow,
Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote:
On the fourth hand, I think I need a beer.
I like the fourth hand. That's a good hand.
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
BTW, there were an awful lot of companies hiring at PyCon last
month...
I am just not sure that any company would have me after so many years
as a generalist. I look at job listings and see a specific
requirement: I say yes, I did that for
On Apr 14, 2009, at 4:37 PM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote:
I am just not sure that any company would have me after so many years
as a generalist. I look at job listings and see a specific
requirement: I say yes, I did that for about 5% of the time. Am I a
systems Architect? I think so, but
On Apr 14, 2009, at 5:04 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:
It was a real change of pace when I switched from consultant to
employee last year, so I understand.
Maybe it needs to be a separate, even off-list thread if it is too
personal, but I'd love to hear your experiences: the pluses and
Coleman actually has a legitimate case, however.
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--- On Tue, 4/14/09, Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net wrote:
From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net
The legitimate complaint is that it makes his software look less robust, which
isn't right. I personally don't like re-writing stuff that worked fine even if
I get paid to do it, there's something just wrong about it.
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