Hi guys
I was an active participant in all incarnations of the Fox mailing
lists, from when they began right through to 1999 when I took on the
task of publishing a 64-page monthly computer magazine. Then followed
chaos.
All email messages from those various lists are now Zipped and spread
far
You might be able to get a copy here:
http://www.foxpert.com/runtime.htm
Rick Q
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM, GaryT t...@melbpc.org.au wrote:
Hi guys
I was an active participant in all incarnations of the Fox mailing
lists, from when they began right through to
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Michael Madigan mmadi10...@yahoo.com wrote:
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Where were you when the Patriot Act was born.
Back then weren't you saying If your not doing
Not sure when it appeared, maybe around ver 10, it is now at 14.1.
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I had a recruiter contact me today looking for 2 people to do a three month
FoxPro to C#/.net conversion in Providence Rhode Island.
If interested, please email me off list for details.
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Stephen,
He is very invested with SQL Server and stored procedures. All
processing in done in the data tier. As we grow he is going to have
to make some tough choices. If a current process takes 2-4 min to run
for only 3 clients there is no problem. We may now have to do this
for 200 new
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeDLLConcordance~VFP
Also a useful reference point. And Paul McNett was on the bleeding edge for
running VFP under WINE back in the day so you might want to search for his
comments on the subject.
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On Sep 22, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote:
He is very invested with SQL Server and stored procedures. All
processing in done in the data tier. As we grow he is going to have
to make some tough choices. If a current process takes 2-4 min to run
for only 3 clients there is no
I'm not completely humorless, Pete. It's just my -personal- opinion that you
have a tendency to go over the boundaries of good taste, for lack of a better
phrase, as well as a tendency to insert OT content into almost every thread you
participate in. And when I saw this particular message, I
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Malcolm Greene pro...@bdurham.com wrote:
Stephen,
He is very invested with SQL Server and stored procedures. All
processing in done in the data tier. As we grow he is going to have
to make some tough choices. If a current process takes 2-4 min to run
for
On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
Thanks for the early morning chuckle in that you see progress yet it
will never happen. :)
He won't allow skype because he doesn't trust extra bits being pulled
from his network. I had to remove a lot of useful apps from FF
because it
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote:
On Sep 22, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Stephen Russell wrote:
Thanks for the early morning chuckle in that you see progress yet it
will never happen. :)
He won't allow skype because he doesn't trust extra bits being pulled
from his
That's the deefrance!
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Ed Leafe
Richard Kaye wrote:
I'm not completely humorless, Pete.
Hi Richard,
Understood - good to know THAT!
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On 9/22/2011 8:31 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeDLLConcordance~VFP
Also a useful reference point. And Paul McNett was on the bleeding edge for
running VFP under WINE back in the day so you might want to search for his
comments on the subject.
As I
On 9/22/2011 9:02 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:
I'm not completely humorless, Pete. It's just my -personal- opinion that you
have a tendency to go over the boundaries of good taste, for lack of a better
phrase, as well as a tendency to insert OT content into almost every thread
you participate
On 9/22/11 8:06 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
On 9/22/2011 8:31 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeDLLConcordance~VFP
Also a useful reference point. And Paul McNett was on the bleeding edge for
running VFP under WINE back in the day so you might want
On 9/22/2011 11:10 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
On 9/22/11 8:06 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
As I recall, Paul actually did get it working for the most part.
VFP7 was the best version to work with in WINE, back in the day...
That was the last version before the EULA changed (or was it
On 09/22/2011 06:02 AM, Richard Kaye wrote:
I'm not completely humorless, Pete. It's just my -personal- opinion that you
have a tendency to go over the boundaries of good taste, for lack of a better
phrase, as well as a tendency to insert OT content into almost every thread
you participate
On 9/22/2011 11:28 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
From what I can see, it doesn't really save them any money when you
figure in travel housing - in addition to a whole bunch of other
problems they would not otherwise have.
It looks good on paper.
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Having been witness to this phenomena a few times over the years, I can
honestly say that the success rate is probably in the 10% range of actually
accomplishing the goal of saving ANY money. In more than a few of the
cases, it was the demise of the company. (both small and large, but I will
not
Fred Taylor wrote:
Having been witness to this phenomena a few times over the years, I can
honestly say that the success rate is probably in the 10% range of actually
accomplishing the goal of saving ANY money. In more than a few of the
cases, it was the demise of the company. (both small and
firing US people first)
Oops - HIRING, not FIRING...
MJ
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On 09/22/2011 08:56 AM, Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
From what I can see, it doesn't really save them any money when you
figure in travel housing - in addition to a whole bunch of other
problems they would not otherwise have.
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if there's a
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net wrote:
Fred Taylor wrote:
Having been witness to this phenomena a few times over the years, I can
honestly say that the success rate is probably in the 10% range of actually
accomplishing the goal of saving ANY money. In
Cassandra 1.0, the cloud, and the future of big data
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/09/21/cassandra-1-0-the-cloud-and-the-future-of-big-data/?cm_mmc=blog-_-cassandra-_-cloud-_-9212011
( -or- http://j.mp/qPyuOL )
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote:
I think we all have at least one person who needs to see this video:
http://laughingsquid.com/stop-forwarding-that-crap-to-me-by-weird-al-yankovic/
( -or- http://j.mp/neKRGQ )
Does this still happen to you folks, at least
On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:
PS: H -- the Laughing Squid looks a lot like the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Blasphemy
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Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
firing US people first)
Oops - HIRING, not FIRING...
Hi Matthew,
Aha! The truths spoken in errors . . .
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Ed Leafe wrote:
On Sep 22, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) wrote:
PS: H -- the Laughing Squid looks a lot like the Flying Spaghetti
Monster.
Blasphemy
-- Ed Leafe
Hi Ed,
At last! A god you can relate to . . .
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Matthew: The two companies that prompted my comments are small
companies and the only consideration was talent per dollar. I get
calls
all the time from companies in India wanted to help with my
development
needs.
Ya know, this convo got me to thinking...
Just about every place I've worked
He sounds a bit like a boss I had who wanted the specs written using Excel
because he didn't understand tables in Word.
John Weller
01380 723235
07976 393631
At meetings I bring up scaling and we see that in two different ways.
He sees a beefier SQL box and I see pulling hard coded rules
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jarvis, Matthew mat...@mckweb.com wrote:
firing US people first)
Oops - HIRING, not FIRING...
No, I think you were right the first time.
Fred
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Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
Matthew: The two companies that prompted my comments are small
companies and the only consideration was talent per dollar. I get
calls
all the time from companies in India wanted to help with my
development
needs.
Ya know, this convo got me to thinking...
Just
Richard Quilhot wrote:
You might be able to get a copy here:
http://www.foxpert.com/runtime.htm
Rick Q
quilh...@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM, GaryT t...@melbpc.org.au wrote:
[snip]
Can someone please tell me the name of the runtime file, so that I can
begin the search
Richard Kaye wrote:
http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPRuntimeDLLConcordance~VFP
Also a useful reference point. And Paul McNett was on the bleeding edge for
running VFP under WINE back in the day so you might want to search for his
comments on the subject.
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-Original
Be sure to specify what color the database will be in case he wants to change
it.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/
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Behalf Of John Weller
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011
If you search the Fox wiki site for runtime, you'll find info for earlier
versions. (Don't know how I managed to miss the version in the subject...)
If you plan on running in Vista/W7, I'd recommend going right to 9 assuming you
can find a copy. IIRC, a full license runs in the 5-600 vicinity
I have mixed feelings about this. I like to forward stuff, i do filter it.
And if i am not sending things to family or friends i forget them, so to
send stuff it is for me a kind of Hi, i am still here.
And if they send me crap i just delete w no hard feelings.
E.
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Eurico Chagas Filho wrote:
I have mixed feelings about this. I like to forward stuff, i do filter it.
And if i am not sending things to family or friends i forget them, so to
send stuff it is for me a kind of Hi, i am still here.
And if they send me crap i just delete w no hard feelings.
Hi
On 09/22/11 09:03, Ed Leafe wrote:
Cassandra 1.0, the cloud, and the future of big data
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/blog/2011/09/21/cassandra-1-0-the-cloud-and-the-future-of-big-data/?cm_mmc=blog-_-cassandra-_-cloud-_-9212011
( -or- http://j.mp/qPyuOL )
-- Ed Leafe
Wow! That's the most
On 9/22/11 9:35 AM, GaryT wrote:
Yes, I know Paul is around, I see his name flash past regularly. Long
time since we last talked though - perhaps I had better jump on the
phone. I have heaps of catching up to do.
Gary, great to see you around here again!
Paul
On Sep 22, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
Wow! That's the most new terms I had to look up since the MS press
release for Win 8.
It took me several days of working with Cassandra until I could wrap my
head around it. I have been working with data in relational sets for so long
And Pete strikes again.
Michael Oke, II
661-349-6221
oke...@gmail.com
On Sep 22, 2011 9:31 AM, Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net wrote:
Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
Matthew: The two companies that prompted my comments are small
companies and the only consideration was talent per dollar. I get
Paul McNett wrote:
On 9/22/11 9:35 AM, GaryT wrote:
Yes, I know Paul is around, I see his name flash past regularly. Long
time since we last talked though - perhaps I had better jump on the
phone. I have heaps of catching up to do.
Gary, great to see you around here again!
Paul
Don't be an ass. This is a private company not homeland security.
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From: Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Onstar tracking continues after terminating
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
On 9/22/11 11:01 AM, kamcgin...@gmail.com wrote:
NoSQL seems to be a way to search in the folder where you store the large
files?
I would be interested to know how they do that. I don't see any specifics in
those links.
I think most people just store the image data, video data, whatever, as
Michael Oke, II wrote:
And Pete strikes again.
I've heard Eugene is something of a miniture melting pot of a place
having very liberal views on things, so maybe that's part of how these
folks gravitated here - an openness to diversity at least in the sense
of foreign nationality...
That's
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, John Weller j...@johnweller.co.uk wrote:
He sounds a bit like a boss I had who wanted the specs written using Excel
because he didn't understand tables in Word.
-
LOL
We don't write specs for anything. We don't have the time to waste
because there
I'm facing the need to upgrade my personal development workstation, and
am wondering if there is any advantage to a quad-core processor over a
dual-core for single-user, workstation, development in VFP9, type of
work? Stuff like email, web browsing, VFP application development,
listening to
The latest release of OpenStack, code named Diablo, got a nice review
on the readwriteweb site:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/09/openstack-diablo-is-a-quantum.php
( -or- http://j.mp/oQYzWt )
I'm indirectly mentioned in the article. It says: Nova is adding a
distributed
no. VFP cant use more than one core. Only advantage is other things can
Al
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I'm facing the need to upgrade my personal development workstation, and
am wondering if there is any advantage to a quad-core processor over a
dual-core for single-user, workstation,
FWIW, I've switched a few clients over to Rackspace for cloud-based
backup (after trying Amazon's S3 or A3 or whatever 3 it is).
The Jungle Backup software won't get any awards from me for design, but
the Rackspace experience has been a huge positive.
Kudos Ed!
Mike Copeland
On Sep 22, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Mike Copeland wrote:
FWIW, I've switched a few clients over to Rackspace for cloud-based
backup (after trying Amazon's S3 or A3 or whatever 3 it is).
The Jungle Backup software won't get any awards from me for design, but
the Rackspace experience has been a
They want indentured servants, they don't want White guys who can give their
two weeks and go somewhere else.
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On 9/22/2011 3:49 PM, Allen wrote:
no. VFP cant use more than one core. Only advantage is other things can
Al
I'm thinking he's looking at the general picture for his computing
needs, not that he expected VFP to take advantage of that. ??
I did see on VFPx that there's a project called
Did TB move the junk mail button? I find myself accidentally hitting
the junk mail button instead of the delete button when reading through
my profox emails. I'm using TB 6.0.2.
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On 9/22/2011 11:47 AM, Fred Taylor wrote:
Having been witness to this phenomena a few times over the years, I can
honestly say that the success rate is probably in the 10% range of actually
accomplishing the goal of saving ANY money. In more than a few of the
cases, it was the demise of the
On 9/22/2011 11:56 AM, Jarvis, Matthew wrote:
Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but I wonder if there's a political
GRASSY KNOLL, BABY!!! g
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On 9/22/2011 12:01 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
I get calls all the time from companies in India wanted to help with my
development needs.
I used to get them. I gave them your number and told them to call you
instead. :)
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On 9/22/2011 12:24 PM, Fred Taylor wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jarvis, Matthewmat...@mckweb.com wrote:
firing US people first)
Oops - HIRING, not FIRING...
No, I think you were right the first time.
Regrettably yes. I feel so sorry for those bastards who train their
On 9/22/2011 1:36 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote:
And Pete strikes again.
Thankfully Thunderbird has filters.
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On 9/22/2011 12:36 PM, Lou Syracuse wrote:
Be sure to specify what color the database will be in case he wants to change
it.
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1995-11-17/
Always a classic!
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On 9/22/2011 3:37 PM, Stephen Russell wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 11:26 AM, John Wellerj...@johnweller.co.uk wrote:
He sounds a bit like a boss I had who wanted the specs written using Excel
because he didn't understand tables in Word.
-
LOL
We don't write specs for
Right...VFP is only a piece of the puzzle for my personal workstation.
I'm also trying to learn Python and I do a fair amount of PHP (Not PCP!)
and web development.
I know VFP is single-thread...oh boy, do I ever. I get a lot of
complaints about I had to shut down your app because it said Not
On 9/22/2011 12:41 PM, Richard Kaye wrote:
If you search the Fox wiki site for runtime, you'll find info for earlier
versions. (Don't know how I managed to miss the version in the subject...)
If you plan on running in Vista/W7, I'd recommend going right to 9 assuming
you can find a copy.
TBird buttons on the menu are totally customizableright click on
menu area to access customization of what, where, etc.
My grip with TBird is that sending a message now takes about 5x as
long...you click Send and wait...wait...waitwait...there it goes.
What the heck are they doing now
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote:
On 9/22/2011 12:24 PM, Fred Taylor wrote:
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Jarvis, Matthewmat...@mckweb.com wrote:
firing US people first)
Oops - HIRING, not FIRING...
No, I think you were right the first time.
Regrettably yes. I feel so sorry for
Never hire women or minorities for you company, because they are all prone to
sue.
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From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Cc:
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 4:35 PM
Subject: [OT] She must have felt like a guy working
Michael Madigan wrote:
Never hire women or minorities for you company, because they are all prone to
sue.
Hi Michael,
The guy handed it to her, though. Posted the schedule of which day she
was to wear what. Miniskirt Monday, Tubetop Tuesday . . .
Hi James,
I haven't spent much time looking at the default file location yet but there
are several ways you can approach setting the name itself.
Probably the simplest way to do it is add your own code to the export options
form class. You'll see this line in the init:
this.text2.Value =
El 22/09/11 17:36, MB Software Solutions, LLC escribió:
On 9/22/2011 1:36 PM, Michael Oke, II wrote:
And Pete strikes again.
Thankfully Thunderbird has filters.
which don't work when people cite the twit.
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On 09/22/11 09:35, GaryT wrote:
Thanks Richard,
That site contains information on VFP7, 8 and 9. Mine is VFP5a.
But, that raised another big question. Is it worth upgrading?
I was using VFP6 at work in 1998-9 and I don't recall any major
differences or improvements. If there were any they
I saw that and it looks ok but you would have to tell a particular method to
use a core. Might need to sort out a class to do that. Don't know if there
is a way to find out how busy a core is and use another one.
Al
-Original Message-
I did see on VFPx that there's a project called
I've heard Eugene is something of a miniture melting pot of a
place having very liberal views on things, so maybe that's part of how
these folks gravitated here - an openness to diversity at least in the
sense of foreign nationality...
Isn't that also where the University is? Maybe some
On 9/22/11 3:33 PM, Dan Covill wrote:
There was one BIG difference in VFP6. It pretty much worked, which was
not true of 5.
VFP5 was known affectionately by me as VFPc5 ;)
Although IIRC the c005 fatal errors didn't mostly go away until VFP7.
Paul
Isn't that also where the University is? Maybe some people came to
school, wanted to stick around and were able to.
-Jerry
If by the University you mean University of
Oregon-May-They-Burn-In-Hell Ducks then yes...
The OTHER University is Oregon State (GO BEAVERS !!), 40 miles north in
The checkbox will not stay in the same position on the form after I save the
form and reopen.
It is a bug. If you change the checkbox's AutoSize to false the problem goes
away.
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White Light Computing, Inc.
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www.rickschummer.com
Oh boy, I deserve that.
Pete, give me her address, if she ain't fat it is ok.
Cheers, E.
From: Pete Theisen petethei...@verizon.net
To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Stop forwarding that crap
Eurico Chagas Filho wrote:
Oh boy, I deserve that.
Pete, give me her address, if she ain't fat it is ok.
Cheers, E.
Hi Eurico,
I sent your address to her. She isn't fat, but she is married. But you
will never meet her anyway because she doesn't travel. Sharon Reed.
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