Look at OpenSSL. You can use the -a switch to base64 encode/decode the
binary encrypted blob. I'm using that right now for DES3 credit card data on
D3.
http://picksource.com/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=97mode=thread;
order=1thold=0
Glen aka PickCoder
http://picksource.com
Check out AVG. It's fairly inexpensive and it runs well on Win2K and up.
Norton hinders more than it helps. I remove all copies of the NAV stuff from
OEM PCs. I've never had anything but problems from it. Grisoft uses Inktomi
for their updates, so upgrades and updates are typically fast. Plus,
I'd prefer the entire file to be scanned every time. You never know if a
virus is slowly plugging its bits into a file. A diff check on a file will
not detect a known virus signature. The signature would be spread all over
the file. Look at the B1 virus. It destroys FAT partitions by taking its
The main advantage of not storing the decimal, is being able to easily
display a precision value any way you want. We do this (4-digit precision)
for sale price calculations(cost * markup). The only drawback is making sure
you keep all the values, for a specific record, in the same decimal
I think codingitis is the cause. Time to lay off the keyboard for a
while, man. You know, semi-colons start to disappear after 6 hours of
continuous coding. Any higher amount of time can cause strange things to
happen. I remember starting during mid-day and missing night-time once,
while
You can do that with rsync on *nix. Only the changed bits of files are
transferred. There are other remote sync tools, just do a google for it. I
wouldn't rely on the sync'd data, except as a 'last-resort backup', if the
local copy folds up completely. It's not a good idea to try and keep a
How interesting. Do you mean Dynamic Distrubtion Inc.?
Glen
http://picksource.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Debster
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 11:11 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [U2] Anyone heard of DDi
Just
You can configure major donut to drop out-of-office bounces.
You need to look into the majordomo.cf file for
$global_taboo_headers = 'END';
There should be a list, under that, of bad subjects to bounce mail for. Add
lines like this:
/^subject:\s.*\bout of the office\b/i
*bowing to the all-seeing moderator*
Just a reminder, a 'maxlength = bytes' string can be set in each list
config. Or, are you already getting too many bounces b/c of that? Man, how
do you find the time to moderate this list. I can't even keep up with CDP,
much less my own site. I wish my site
This gets better and better every day. *LOL*
Per HTTP 1.0-1.2 specifications, and are not exempt from content
encoding requirements. They are protected characters and must be treated as
such when sending content. Light bulb going off yet?
If you must use a or character as a
Awesome! I definitely want a development part. I also want to work my
projects into it, when they hit a stable release. If you want, I can devote
a section of PickSource to it.
Glen aka PickCoder
http://picksource.com
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You're right about url encoding and forms. However, binary transmissions
have nothing to with HTML or XML. Binary has to be transmitted via HTTP
under specific MIME headers, so the web server/application won't try to
parse it as text. My rule of thumb is, don't stick protected characters in
text
All it takes is for a bot to sign up for the list and begin harvesting.
Without any decent bot-stops in place, everyone on the list is on a
harvester buffet bar. If the only authorization required, is a 'reply' to
the authorization response, then most harvesters can join without anyone
realizing
You can change the default distribution header and remove the Sender:
line, since it is not required by the RFC for proper mail transfer. This
will eliminate possible harvesting. You can also mangle the $sender variable
to make it spam-proof. There's always a way..
Here's my typical marking convention. You can always make up your own,
though. Why not use the @vars?
] = field mark
/ = value mark
^ = sub-value mark
Glen
http://picksource.com
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Copy the ODBC shared library to /usr/local/lib and make it world readable?
I dunno, just throwing dirt into the wind..
Glen
http://picksource.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Hester
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:30 PM
To:
What I meant was, you can remove Sender: altogether and make From: be the
list e-mail address.
Glen
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Larry Hiscock
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 3:23 PM
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Subject: RE: [U2]
WSOCK Error 10054 is connection reset. Sounds like the service doesn't
exist, or it's refusing your connection. Why you'd need rexec, or any other
*nix process, on Windows is beyond my knowledge. Maybe you should recheck
your setup? Is there options for Unix versus Windows?
Glen
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sad plug
You know, that would probably be a good first application to build using
MVWWW. For those who don't know about it, it's a cross-platform/cross-flavor
HTTP integration toolkit that is being split from my original D3WWW project.
I don't want to create a seperate SourceForge project for it
Most of the Aerospace and government agencies we deal with regularly are
using web portals now for procurement and supply chain management. EDI/VAN
is disappearing, as more large companies put their funds together to get out
of their EDI sink holes. The costs of VANs, and operating an EDI
There are many ways to accomplish that. I've been crunching the methods for
years and finally picked a simple, but flexible
architecture. The main thing to consider is execution permissions. You don't
want just anyone being able to run anything on your UV
box from a web server or console.
Not continuous, but the directory is polled. The only other sensible way
around this is to use IPC or pipes, which is not
portable.
open the dir, select, and then readnext to see if there's a file item present.
If so, delete it and process the request based on
that ID. You're basically
Stewart,
Socket implementations don't work across flavors. I've written many socket
apps for D3, but even the small differences in the
socket designs between Win and *nix causes problems. Sockets are easy to
implement, but only if you want to maintain separate
code-sets for Win and *nix under
House
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen B
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:04 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] Universe to Web interface
Stewart,
Socket implementations don't work across flavors. I've
on a port ,
accept a connection on that socket and write to the socket.
here is the appropriate manual :
http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/25119080.pdf
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen B
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:31
://picksource.com
webmaster [at] mvdevcentral [dot] com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Simon Lewington
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 11:42 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Universe to Web interface
Glen B
It will as a 32-bit application. You can run a single Opteron on a dual-board
and you still get the benefit of 64-bit hardware. I
have Win2K Pro running on that setup right now serving huge files.
Glen
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Adrian Matthews
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 8:59 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] Has anyone played with/tested UniVerse 10+ under
Solaris 10
We've been through a very similar
Vance,
Thanks for the invite, but I don't repost other people's code. I finally have
MV Developer Central up and running. If anyone is
inclined to post snippets in the snippet library, or even start an open source
project, then feel free to register and post this
kind of stuff. The purpose of
George, your implementation isn't cludgy by default. It's only slow and cludgy
if the processes involved aren't tuned to function
with file spooling. The basic design of MVWWW utilizes file spooling much in
the same way. I get very good throughput using it. It
is not anywhere as efficient as
This is a typical socket address condition that can't be safely overridden by
hand. If you look at your net stats, the socket in
question is probably in a CLOSE_WAIT state. This is a subsystem status that
says the remote has shutdown and it's waiting for the
socket to close and cleanup. If the
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Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 6:13 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2][UV] Forcing a port to close
This is a typical socket address condition that can't be safely
overridden by hand. If you look at your net stats, the socket in
question
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setting option SO_REUSEADDR, has a number of uses, one being
I've finally gotten MV Developer Central back together, under Gforge
3.3.0. Stop by and check out the site. If you got my site e-mail the other
day about updating your profiles, then please do it again. I had to redo the
database right after sending that, after I messed up a table trying to
I've just been informed of a registration problem with the user accounts. I
don't even know where to start on that. I'll have to
contact the developers.
*pulling out hair and cursing GForge*
Glen
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OK. I fixed the new user registration problem.
Glen
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Glen B
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 9:30 AM
To: U2-Users
Subject: [U2] MV Developer Central
I've finally gotten MV Developer Central back
Don't make it so complicated!
First, read the user guide and see all the nice protocols and services that
Zebra has put into that overly expensive print server.
;) (Check out the D-Link DP-301P+ for ~$60 if all you need is a
web-maintainable Parallel-to-TCP/IP raw spooler)
Then, use the
You can perform socket connections from UV and read/write directly from/to a
TCP service. I agree that Lantronix makes nice
equipment. The 802.11b dual-port box would work fine if you had a wireless
access point to hook back into the LAN. The question
comes down to laying cable or not. I would
The gotcha there, is the fact that you *know* that 500 employees are using the
DBMS simultaneously via 2 seats. If you said, I
_know_ that no more than 10 employees are using the software at any given
moment and I have 10 licenses to justify that, then there
would be no problem. Whether or not
Keep in mind that I'm not a certified Linux engineer. :P
The only file I/O problem I know of, with 2.4 kernels, is the buffering issue.
All kernel block devices are buffered by the kernel,
unless they are bound by a raw device binding. This could be the culprit in the
driver's bottleneck
Functions are only useful when you are returning a single piece of data. Most
of the designs I've written take advantage of
multiple, bi-directional parameters. If you need to limit scope of the branch
to a single local variable, then a function is good
way to limit cross-contamination that
cd /etc
grep -r programname *
Glen
http://mvdevcentral.com
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kevin King
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 3:41 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] [UV] To Cron or Not To Cron?
I have a client
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Subject: Re: [U2] Uniobjects hack
The ability to bypass application security using UniObjects has really got
me
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tony Gravagno
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 6:11 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] Recommendations for reporting tools
Mark Ballinger mballinger-at-ballinger.cx |U2UG| wrote:
On
Same sentiments here. I hope that all is well.
-Glen
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F.
Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 3:07 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] OT: London
I know some of the
subroutines and for/next loops
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Glen B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Yay, another AVG fan. You can disable the outgoing tags for OK messages. :)
And a very ANTI AVG guy here ... having had it trash my mother's system.
I hate supporting Windows at the best of times
I'm just wondering who comes up with this stuff.
Those who use the language to it's most interpretable form. I have seen
general BASIC programming instructors focus on the use of
non-cryptic, non-abbreviated variables, instead of compact code. Afterall, the
pcode generated is the same for
A direct PCL to PS conversion is dirty and mangled. You may or may not get
exactly the same results between the two on their
respective hardware. Ghostscript is free and will do a good job, for a huge
range of conversions on *nix or Windows. I highly
recommend using it to get your initial
This totally depends on the chipset manufacturer. A $50 Adaptec SATA card
isn't going to burn a hole in the case. Our Opteron
file-server box is running a 320GB Barracuda RAID 5 on a 64-bit 3ware
controller. It smokes every Adaptec SCSI RAID I have on site
with ~500MB/sec read throughput and
Why bother with Accuterm? You can do what you want straight from the command
line using BASIC. I'm pretty sure that Accuterm has no
capability to perform socket connections using scripts. It has VBA(Visual Basic
for Applications) capabilities, which is nothing
like VB. You could write an XML
Interesting. If you have a registered ActiveX or DLL, then you can create an
instance of it using 2K and 2K2's VBA scripting. You
also will need documentation on the methods and elements that the object
contains. I've been using 97 for many years now, so I never
knew about that. I just
OK I've tried this and got a response, so it ~will work. The problem lies in
the DOM object. UPS isn't getting the document content
and is sending back a missing XML document error. BTW, I'm on W2K and I
didn't have to install the XML bundle. I have all the
latest SP's though as well as the
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gyle Iverson
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:43 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] UniVerse server socket issues
Hello, Tony.
Tony Gravagno opined...
Clients need to know the
http://www.mvtoolbox.com
It's more than just an editor.
Glen
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Caskey, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:10 PM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] Is there a Better Editor?
Hi all, this
JavaScript:
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/sdk/pdf/javascript/Acr
oJS.pdf
Command line printing tool(with source):
http://www.geocities.com/sea_sbs/files/pdfp.zip
DDE/COM interface docs for VBA scripting:
It's not as simple as you might think. There have been long heated
discussions about how to deal with vacation auto-responders on lists -
including Majordomo. In the end, there's 2 options:
1) A subject filter that drops all messages with out of the office and
away on vacation somewhere in the
There's a couple of bugs in this code that I just found. Ick! Shame on me!
I've pasted the fixed code in-line.
Glen
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Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 12:49 PM
To:
I use HTML formatting, html2ps, Ghostscript, and Postscript capable
printers to handle all of that stuff along with EPS logos and signatures. If
you are forced to use PCL (these days most PCL6 capable printers do
Postscript level 1) then you are better off writing the raw PCL so that you
aren't
Well, I was actually only tasked with making the ATS more real time for
our Asia sales office. Since they're entering orders during our night,
they always get the short end of the stick, ATS may or may not be right;
the batch updates are all timed/tuned for US timezone (and work pretty
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:42 AM
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Subject: RE: [U2] Fastest Bi-Directional data transfer btwn MV and
non-MV dbms
That would be an [ad] ... but there
You'll need a central key generator to manage high resolution sortable
sequential keys. You can use whatever connection medium is feasible and let
a single process/phantom generate the keys in numerical order. The problem
with using a key generator like this is that you could easily produce a
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 8:07 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] Guaranteed unique sequential keys
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Marco Manyevere [EMAIL
If you built it as a stand alone GUI app then you can wrap the main
section of the code in a subroutine/return block and use it like any other
subroutine call. I do that for search pop-up windows currently. Just make
sure that bail-outs are handled correctly.
GlenB
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Doesn't using PrintWizard imply the use of a Windows server somewhere? If
not, then can you provide a link to your Linux version?
I've looked your offering over several times and end up considering other
options simply because I already have too many disparate servers forced to
perform individual
Check out DDI System. We are running a legacy 9.1 version of green
screen software from them, but the current software they sell is nothing
like our ~12-year-old customized Linux-based solution. I believe their
current app is totally U2 objects or ODBC based and runs solely on
Windows now.
u2list0...@curt.com wrote:
Windows XP was not involved. This is running on Windows Server 2003.
I cured the problem. I wrote a .VBS Script that calls wget and renames
the resultant item name and I use a uvRunCommand on it and it works
perfectly.
At 6/25/2009 01:28 PM, you wrote:
Actually I
Tony G wrote:
I concur with Glen's assessment that some of these services can
be unstable. Not long after writing NebulaShip
(nospamNebula-RnD.com/products/ship.htm) I realized that even
though the product was stable that we might be getting emergency
calls when services were down. I stopped
Opera won't load it either, obviously, because it's not IE.
GlenB
Steve Romanow wrote:
It is also a no-go for linux.
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From: Kevin King precisonl...@gmail.com
Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 11:04 PM
To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2]
David Wolverton wrote:
Hey -- Is this your way of volunteering to help? Sweet! Drop Baker your
information so we can get you set up!
The project, being 100% volunteer, has been through LOTS of hands. If you'd
like to help, you can then criticize the heck out of it.
And if you don't want to
Kevin King wrote:
Having been on the board in a past life - for what little I did contribute -
I can say that the U2UG board and volunteers work hard and should be
commended for their efforts. That said, can we all please stay focused on
the results without getting personal about it?
Typically, the last four are unique amongst corporate cards under a
buyer who may buy for different departments or facilities with different
departmental buying cards. They all are issued by the same bank so
identifying a specific charge later is hard to do if you don't know the
auth code
Bob,
Let me also extend an offer to help with general development
off-hours, if you're willing to work with GPL libs for open development.
I'm sure Artifex will be happy to work out a commercial distribution
deal for their Ghostscript offerings. I've dealt with the GS devs on
many
I was not aware that you could pass file handles between phantoms and
process or other phantoms. That's a no-brainer for Linux fork(), but in
most of the MV socket services I've implemented I either:
1) use an inetd/Winetd tool to handle the socket-based muxing and all
you have to do is
On 2/7/2011 3:58 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote:
From: Charles_Shaffer
You will never be able to go completely away from
UniBASIC while keeping a U2 database. I don't think
that's possible.
We use Uniobjects on our web servers to access our
Unidata servers. Technically we could avoid UniBasic
with
On 2/7/2011 11:48 PM, Steve Romanow wrote:
How many companies sole source of income is from innovation and
investment from 2-3 decades and 6 owners ago?
___
I know of many but they each have their own varying level of
innovation due to varying
On 2/17/2011 10:14 PM, Kevin King wrote:
I wonder if the ftp on Win2003 is better than the ftp on Win7?
Sure, I realize that it's about impossible for Rocket to know every little
incompatibility with Windows versions but ftp? That's pretty crucial.
On 7/12/2011 4:06 PM, Dawn Wolthuis wrote:
[chop]
As to old SQL, there is a revolution going on out there and I'm
wondering if other MV people have seen this: Look at the data
storage for Android, Google App Engine, AmazonDB, etc. All of
these platforms and others are using name/value pairs
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