RE: [NF] Freeing up disk space in a pinch

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:36:44 +0100, "Dave Crozier" > In addition to that download CCleaner from www.CCleaner.com (Free) and But don't run it if you have Visual Studio installed, as every time I have it has required a re-install. -- Alan Bourke

Re: Code folding editor for PRGs

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
The only that I know of with both code folding and support for VFP syntax is UltraEdit, which is shareware AFAIK. You could probably add syntax support to PSPad (open source) pretty easily if you had a list of VFP keywords. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Code folding editor for PRGs

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
27;s experiments with VFP in Visual Studio 2008 see the light of day ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://le

RE: [NF] Freeing up disk space in a pinch

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:07:59 +0100, "Dave Crozier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Alan, > Never had a problem here and I run VS2K5 and 8. > Good to know, IIRC it was refusing to create projects from templates for me ... might try again with latest version. -- Alan

Re: FPW 2.6 apps compatible with Vista?

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
No difference from XP in my experience. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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/pr

Re: FPW 2.6 apps compatible with Vista?

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
Mike, I would put it to you that putting *anything* in the root of C: on any version of Windows is frowned upon! :) -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/list

Re: FPW 2.6 apps compatible with Vista?

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
Any 64-bit flavour of Windows will not run *any* 16-bit app. The 16 bit virtual machine is gone. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: FPW 2.6 apps compatible with Vista?

2008-09-18 Thread Alan Bourke
8-bit Windows 2012 won't run 'em? Since 64-bit has been around for years and has yet to make any serious impact on server or desktop, and since even 32-bit is fine for most applications unless you need to address absolute scads of memory, I wouldn't fret about 128-bit any time

RE: VFP9

2008-09-23 Thread Alan Bourke
, and thus require major regression testing and cost every time you change something? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of thi

Re: [NF] CCleaner removed my remote desktop history file

2008-09-23 Thread Alan Bourke
ll messed up in the head. But I would take claims of speeding up your PC by cleaning the registry with a large pinch of salt, and that goes for any product. I don't think there's any evidence for that. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: VFP9

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Bourke
ust one) programmers. So I guess the > scales are even. They should fix the bloody bugs! Anyone know how roughly many devs and testers are on the VFP team in MS these days? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leaf

RE: VFP9

2008-09-24 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:12:33 +0200, "Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > None ? Give that man a cigar! -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman

Re: [NF] I just found out I was using a C# program!

2008-09-26 Thread Alan Bourke
If MS would *really* get behind this and Moonlight, it could be huge for them. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list:

Re: [NF] I just found out I was using a C# program!

2008-09-26 Thread Alan Bourke
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:21:56 -0500, "Stephen Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How do you qualify "Huge for them"? Well, kudos-wise as much as anything. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Grand Baby!

2008-09-30 Thread Alan Bourke
Cute. Babies = good. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 Searchable

Re: VFP9 SP1 taking more than 3 minutes to load a project?

2008-10-02 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:09:59 +1300, "Sytze de Boer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I had exactly the same some months ago > I changed the AV program and it solved the issue. Full stop > Was it not possible just to exclude your VFP source folders from scanning? -- Alan

Re: [NF] VB.Net Questions

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Bourke
upwards, as data sources. I would investigate an application framework though. Take a look at IdeaBlade, who have a free 'lite' one, or Mere Mortals. You will find that the Visual Studio IDE makes it very easy to work with SQL Server data in a drag-and-dr

RE: [NF] VB.Net Questions

2008-10-06 Thread Alan Bourke
front end - but once again the learning curve > is > massive. > I would probably start with WPF as opposed to WinForms though. As the latter is being steadily deprecated. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

Re: [NF] About stored procedures

2008-10-08 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:31:06 -0300, "Ricardo Araoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What do you think about this? I think that they are one of those things with evangelists on both sides, so you should basically use whatever approach suits your style of development. -- A

Sedna DDEXProvider fighting me.

2008-10-08 Thread Alan Bourke
08 I get: "An unexpected error occurred in the .NET Framework Provider for Visual FoxPro. Please contact the provider vendor to resolve this problem." Neither REGDDEX /u or starting VS with /skippkgs fixes the problem. Anyone out there working with this ? -- Alan

Re: Sedna DDEXProvider fighting me.

2008-10-08 Thread Alan Bourke
For the record, installing the VS 2008 SDK fixes the problem. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http

RE: Sedna DDEXProvider fighting me.

2008-10-09 Thread Alan Bourke
py). Doug Hennig fought this for months. I know Doug has worked with > Microsoft to get this Will do, thanks. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [NF] sure you don't agree with these computing rules

2008-10-14 Thread Alan Bourke
Alan Rule #1: Ignore patronising lists by Al3x. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman

RE: [NF] outlook and spam

2008-10-14 Thread Alan Bourke
What version of Outlook are you on Allen? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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

Re: Q on how MS did something

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Bourke
I don't think this is anything new - older versions used to do this too. It's common in software from lots of vendors to check for updates. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mainten

Re: [Fwd: [NF] Why Most Fortune 500 Don't Rely on .NET]

2008-10-15 Thread Alan Bourke
that are completely different! But we're going to anyway!" -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.c

Re: [NF] Verizon favoring FIOS over DSL?

2008-10-21 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:10:28 -0400, "Pete Theisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Slow during certain "peak" times. Contention probably. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com S

Re: [NF] Verizon favoring FIOS over DSL?

2008-10-21 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:02:43 -0400, "Pete Theisen" > > By that you mean everyone wanting to google "Sarah Palin" at the same > time? And torrenting those vids ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post

Re: [NF] M$ to push out Vista replacement in mid 2009

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Bourke
ws 7 Server, then alarm bells would be ringing. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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/

Re: Fun with VFP timers

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Bourke
Could be a candidate for a little socket listener on one PC and a sender on the other ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version

Re: View Resolution Conflict

2008-10-24 Thread Alan Bourke
James If you have control of the database schema maybe some form of 'soft-locking' approach would work, i.e. add a lock field and write into it on the backend, and clear it when finished. Then nothing else can work with that record until the lock field is cleared. -- Alan Bourk

Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Bourke
ave. > > The other thing we noticed was expected. It runs slower than a Win2000 P3 > computer with 256 mb memory > Doing what exactly? If that is really the case, and I doubt it, there is something fundamentally wrong in the areas of har

RE: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Bourke
and up. Now we all know that you can double that in reality, but XP is a pig on 256MB also. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free vers

Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Bourke
versions too! http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_bench_2008&num=1 -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:38:06 +, "Alan Bourke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Yikes! That's getting slower with new versions too! But of course you could recompile it for your exact h/w if you wanted/were able ... unlike Windows. -- Alan B

Re: Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7

2008-10-30 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:13:57 -0700, "Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Alan Bourke wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:52:36 -0700, "Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Michael Madigan wrote: > >>> How about a new

RE: [NF] No digital TV signal?

2008-10-31 Thread Alan Bourke
> your receiver/TV at which time it become digital again to be processed by > decompression algorithm in the receiver and then guess what it goes back > to > analog if you have a TV with a picture tube. > My head hurts now. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VFP9-strange behaviour

2008-11-02 Thread Alan Bourke
Make sure all the TS users are creating temporary files in seperate locations. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: [NF] Web Development Template Recommendations Wanted

2008-11-02 Thread Alan Bourke
If you want to go down the Microsoft/ASP route, then DotNetNuke is worth investigating. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of

Re: [NF] OS dependency (was : Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7)

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Bourke
o support them. Same with IE6 and Firefox 1 IMO. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listi

Re: [NF] OS dependency (was : Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7)

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Bourke
ly NOT flexible apps so don t use them in browsers. But most of the websites out there have databases behind them ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/

Re: [NF] LINQ - RIP?

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Bourke
trying to cover all the bases. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] OS dependency (was : Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7)

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 13:14:23 -0500 (EST), "MB Software Solutions General Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Look at QuickBooks (the desktop app version) for > example. It can be done if properly managed/written. Look at Steam. http://store.steampowered.com/stats/ -- A

Re: [NF] OS dependency (was : Microsoft reveals features of Windows 7)

2008-11-05 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:59:16 -0300, "Ricardo Araoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Alan Bourke wrote: > > On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:15:08 +1030, "geoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> I understand how you feel. What is there about a web

Re: [NF] LINQ - RIP?

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Bourke
#x27;re all centered round SQL Server, Oracle and so on. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/

Re: [NF] LINQ - RIP?

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 05:37:54 -0600, "Stephen Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Have you thought of making the mapper yourself? I thought about doing one for nHibernate (or was it Wilson OR?) but who's got the time :) -- Ala

RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

2008-11-10 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:07:18 -, "NickC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Does that sound possible / sensible? > Absolutely I would imagine there is any number of people doing just this. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [NF] VMWare of other Virtualization software

2008-11-10 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:02:49 -, "NickC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 1). Linux - but still question, which version has the smallest footprint http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post

[NF] Windows 7 task manager showing CPU requirements

2008-11-11 Thread Alan Bourke
http://bink.nu/photos/news_article_images/images/43194/original.aspx -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http

Re: OLEDB VFP in Visual Studio

2008-11-11 Thread Alan Bourke
bles, views and SPs if it's a DBC. If you're crashing doing that then there's something wrong at an OS level I would imagine. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://l

Re: OLEDB VFP in Visual Studio

2008-11-11 Thread Alan Bourke
bles, views and SPs if it's a DBC. If you're crashing doing that then there's something wrong at an OS level I would imagine. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://l

Re: OLEDB VFP in Visual Studio

2008-11-11 Thread Alan Bourke
I do this all the time with VS2008 - make sure you are using the VFP9 SP2 version of the OLEDB drivers. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT

Re: OLEDB VFP in Visual Studio

2008-11-12 Thread Alan Bourke
I'd reinstall .NET 3.5 SP1 and make sure you're building against that version in your project properties. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listi

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
Check your internal router config and make sure it's set to a 'nailed up' type of connection. Also maybe the router logs might show something. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Ma

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
't it have a HTTP web configuration page? Or even a Telnet interface? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http

Re: [NF] Firefox 3.0.3 memory leaks?

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
There do seem to be leak issues, maybe with plugins. I leave my main PC on all the time and was getting loads of illegal memory accesses and extreme slowness. Wasn't helped by the fact that somehow my Windows page file was set to a fixed size of er, zero! (Somehow, I didn't do it ...)

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:22:52 -0500 (EST), "MB Software Solutions General Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > No, I don't prefix the methods I don't think it's common practice to indicate the return type in the method name. Not even in strongly-typed lan

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
which you can do via the aforementioned web or Telnet interfaces. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mai

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:41:28 -0600, "Ed Leafe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I think you mean "statically typed". Oops, mea culpa. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com S

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
u have a Windows CD around why not create a Windows VM in VirtualBox and use that to configure it ? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free vers

[NF] MS announce free AV/Malware solution.

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Bourke
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/microsoft-announces-free-morro-antivirus-software-486774?src=rss Looks like OneCare wasn't cutting it. Their current offerings are very resource-hungry compared to some of the independent vendors like Sophos. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROT

Re: [NF] You just can't make this stuff up

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Bourke
Unbelievable yep. Also [OT] ;) -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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] Lean or Agile which do you prefer?

2008-11-20 Thread Alan Bourke
Either. Anything but 'waterfall'. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailma

Re: [NF] Lean or Agile which do you prefer?

2008-11-20 Thread Alan Bourke
like monitoring software, and performance metrics will help. Thankfully my employer AM is fairly enlightened - they don't really care as long as it gets done ! -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscript

Re: [NF] Lean or Agile which do you prefer?

2008-11-20 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:23:52 -0500 (EST), "MB Software Solutions General Account" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I lived in Bumblef*ck, PA in the middle of nowhere. Drove through there once, on my way to Asshat. -- Alan Bourke

Textbox in grid ignoring Hours property.

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
cing the global SET HOURS setting when the modal form is initialised and resetting when it is destroyed, which is kludgy. Anyone ever come across this ? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

RE: Textbox in grid ignoring Hours property.

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
Hi Tracy The textbox is the only control, and the textbox is the only VFP control that Hours applies to. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

Re: [NF] Has anyone seen this

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
their subset of the WinForms controls. I found it was easier to just work with XAML/Silverlight directly in terms of binding and so on. If you were an AJAX person you might see it differently. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages

Re: [NF] Has anyone seen this

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
GOA WinForms is a similar technology if you're interested. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leaf

RE: Textbox in grid ignoring Hours property.

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:12:12 -0500, "Tracy Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My testing shows this makes it work > > Grid.Column.Sparse = .F. > Thanks Tracy. That makes sense! Not. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Textbox in grid ignoring Hours property.

2008-11-25 Thread Alan Bourke
I dunno if it fixed it, I'll check tomorrow. It doesn't make sense why Sparse would affect the display of 24 or 12 hour format. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http:/

[NF] Free Windows drive imaging software.

2008-11-26 Thread Alan Bourke
Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp Seems very fast and looks and works very like Acronis TrueImage actually. You can also mount it's image files as a drive in Windows which is very handy. Is faster and has a niver interface than DriveImage XML. -- Alan Bourke [

Re: [NF] The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes

2008-11-26 Thread Alan Bourke
Windows in VMs for testing when needed. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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/pro

RE: [NF] The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes

2008-11-27 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:26:27 -0600, "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I downloaded ruby just yesterday. Looks like php Go onto a Rails dev forum and say that. Double dare ya. ;) -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post

Re: VFP9 - CSV files

2008-11-27 Thread Alan Bourke
I alwasy use SET TEXTMERGE and roll my own, rather than COPY TO ... TYPE CSV -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: Carriage Returnn on a Text File

2008-11-28 Thread Alan Bourke
set textmerge on noshow set texmerge to myfile.txt select mytable scan \<>| endscan set textmerge off set textmerge to -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://lea

Re: [NF] The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes

2008-11-28 Thread Alan Bourke
general purpose frameworks. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 Searchabl

Re: [NF] I blame you! (was : The MS Experience, was:Thunderbird woes)

2008-12-01 Thread Alan Bourke
Are you running it in a Virtual PC machine? Because VPC doesn't support 24-bit colour so you have to edit xorg.conf before it boots, IIRC ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: File Access Denied Question

2008-12-02 Thread Alan Bourke
DBF files using Unlocker and it will tell you what has handles on them. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://le

DBC copier

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Bourke
Anyone know of a robust, free DBC copier app/routine/class that will take care of SPs, triggers etc, backlinks, the whole nine yards ? TIA ... -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http

RE: DBC copier

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Bourke
take the table data as well. But thx anyway! -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinf

[NF] How to mount an ISO CD image in XP for free.

2008-12-04 Thread Alan Bourke
http://myutilities.blogspot.com/2005/10/mount-iso-files-under-windows-xp.html Without installing anything. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

Re: [NF] SharePoint question, very general

2008-12-08 Thread Alan Bourke
DotNetNuke? Or do you mean on Linux when you say non-MS ? Drupal? Rails ? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: [NF] XP Pro license

2008-12-08 Thread Alan Bourke
s an OEM licence, difficult if not impossible I would think. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/

Re: VFP: Convert DBF to MDB

2008-12-09 Thread Alan Bourke
Jack Do you mean an individual DBF or a whole database in VFP? If it's just a DBF then Access has import wizards that can bring it in. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Verizon tech admits service rolling disconnects

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:45:31 -0500, "Pete Theisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Thoughts? Comments? Highly illegal under Terms Of Service ? -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Su

RE: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Bourke
http://www.kevinscrate.com/blog/2007/08/17/stop-a-forced-reboot-after-a-windows-update/ Which doesn't answer the original question as to why it does it when you told it not to, but will stop the reboot at least. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROT

Re: Windows Security update affecting VFP?

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Bourke
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/ms08-070.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=5B1F28A9-DA8D-463A-8AE4-DFC8FCC6C41A&displaylang=en Remote Code Execution flaw apparently. Nice. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [NF] Windows Update setting reset to Automatic

2008-12-10 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:30:45 -0800, "Paul McNett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > 2) Turn automatic updates off I think the issue is that the Windows Update components update themselves even if Windows Update is off. -- Alan Bourke

RE: [NF] CNN: Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

2011-07-30 Thread Alan Bourke
IE9 is not bad IMO, the 64-bit version is very nippy. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http

Re: [NF] Uncle Sam's first CIO

2011-08-03 Thread Alan Bourke
I find it alarming that a person in that position could be 5 years younger than me. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: [NF] Does MS Powershell expose more info than WMI?

2011-08-03 Thread Alan Bourke
nd, so can't see it as a replacement for CMD.EXE -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.co

RE: [NF] CNN: Are Internet Explorer users dumb?

2011-08-03 Thread Alan Bourke
Rest easy IE users - the survey was a hoax! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/08/03/internet_explorer_iq_study_hoax/ -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http

RE: A STRANGE File Does Not Exist Problem...

2011-08-03 Thread Alan Bourke
ght be the FileNotFoundCacheLifetime setting, worth a try. That link has a little installer you can run on Win 7 clients to disable those settings. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http:/

Re: HELP!!! VFP and RDP

2011-08-04 Thread Alan Bourke
Have you installed the printer drivers for the users local printer on the server? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free

Re: [NF] W7 strikes again!

2011-08-06 Thread Alan Bourke
if you are condemning an entire OS on the basis of this then you're a hard guy to please. Anyway, my Windows 7 has a language option button on the top left of the logon screen - was that there for you? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm _

Re: [NF] W7 strikes again!

2011-08-09 Thread Alan Bourke
ion before any of this. Yes, passwords tend to be in asterisks, this isn't confined to Windows! -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: [NF] W7 strikes again!

2011-08-09 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:42 -0500, "Ed Leafe" wrote: > On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:40 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > The hallmark of a good design is that it makes user errors much less > likely. > > Yeah, but you still can't cover the everything a person who isn

Re: [NF] W7 strikes again!

2011-08-09 Thread Alan Bourke
On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:58 -0500, "Ed Leafe" wrote: > On Aug 9, 2011, at 8:27 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > And when they make mistakes, they should be readily recoverable. > That's why I asked if there wasn't a drop-down to change the language on the logon screen at

Re: [NF] W7 strikes again!

2011-08-10 Thread Alan Bourke
isn't a way to guarantee it. I'd be interested to hear what Mac OS X does in this respect. I can't remember off the top of my head how Ubuntu does it. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@

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