Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
Thanks From: "kamcgin...@gmail.com" To: ProFox Email List Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 7:46 PM Subject: Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer We buy (and recommend to our clients) clearance systems from Directron. We have been using them for ye

Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread kamcginnis
We buy (and recommend to our clients) clearance systems from Directron. We have been using them for years. excellent support and products and prices. They are somewhere in Texas I think: http://www.directron.com/clearance.html The often have XP systems. and they may be able to install more memor

Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Lew Schwartz
This is frightening. Why couldn't they build this ui on top of W7? The Linux model is so superior it's dizzying: os is one entity, ui another. My company is spending hundreds of thousands on the W7 roll-out & compatibility issues. ___ Post Messages to: P

[NF] article from a guy who jumped ship from M$

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Russell
I had the pleasure of meeting Joe at devLink 3 or 4 years ago. Powerful guy who commanded a lot of respect from the developer community. At the time I didn't know who he was but i found that we were going to similar Open Space meetings. He gave the closing talk and from then on I wanted to read h

RE: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Alan Lukachko
Win 7 Professional 32/64 bit means that you can install either the 32 bit or 64 bit version of the software. Obviously you need a 64 bit computer to install the 64 bit version. -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Michael

Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
I'm looking at a Acer Veriton which is listed as having Win 7 Professional 32/64 bit.  What does 32/64 mean?   From: Dan Covill To: ProFox Email List Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer On 09/16/11 13:23, Michael Madigan wrote: >

Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
Seems that there are few systems running Win 7 32-bit.   Does anyone have a brand and model that they like?   The client would prefer a slim-line design. From: Dan Covill To: ProFox Email List Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:49 PM Subject: Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

Re: [NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Dan Covill
On 09/16/11 13:23, Michael Madigan wrote: > So we've made the decision to go with either an XP system or a Win 7 32-bit > system. Looks like new 32 bit systems are getting scarce. Does anyone have > a recommendation? A no-brainer, IMO. Assuming it is proved that FP-DOS runs on it, it's Win

[NF] looking for recommended 32-bit computer

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
So we've made the decision to go with either an XP system or a Win 7 32-bit system.  Looks like new 32 bit systems are getting scarce.   Does anyone have a recommendation? --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Thierry Nivelet
right, you decide Le 16/09/11 11:05, Allen a écrit : > > Can this also mean on your own server and not giving up data to the likes of > google? > > Al > > -Original Message- > > Though often confused, 'cloud computing' and 'cloud storage' are > somewhat different. > > A synonym for 'cloud

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread PabloSr
* -Original Message- * From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On * Behalf Of geoff * Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 5:35 AM * To: 'ProFox Email List' * Subject: RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8 * * Im with you. I don't get why I would want to put my data

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread lelandj
On 09/16/2011 07:35 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Sep 16, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Allen wrote: > >> Can this also mean on your own server and not giving up data to the likes of >> google? > Of course - that's one of the main goals of OpenStack: a free and open > cloud solution that anyone can deploy on

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread lelandj
#--- Excerpt: Where Windows 8 is an operating system built for the tablet, Windows Server 8 is an operating system built for the cloud. Not the Windows Azure public cloud; rather, it's built for "private clouds": on-premises, virtualized deployments with tens or

RE: XFRX support

2011-09-16 Thread Richard Kaye
Thanks, James. I've gotten to almost the same place as you now. I've added the previewer to a container class that I use for reports and it works really well. I did subclass the xfrxlib so I could tweak a few things like the list of available export formats. If I come up with a solution for set

Re: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Russell
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:03 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > On 9/14/2011 10:52 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: >> This is the first push into this area and it may not be perfect but it >> will continue.  Everything evolves. > > > That's kind of what some folks are complaining about, Steve...th

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > > On Friday, September 16, 2011 7:05 PM, "geoff" > wrote: >> Im with you. I don't get why I would want to put my data on someone >> else's >> server and subject to the speed and availability of my internet access. > > Cost. It might make goo

RE: XFRX support

2011-09-16 Thread James E Harvey
XFRX support resolution. Martin got back to me on my two issues. 1. I added the icon bitmaps into my project rebuilt the exe and now the icons appear as expected. 2. Currently there is no way to substitute a randomly generated filename for the output when a user chooses to export the r

RE: [NF] PDF management system

2011-09-16 Thread Dave Crozier
Joe, I also use the fineprint products and if you use Fineprint as the main "Pprinter gatherer" and also have the Fineprint-PDFWriter then specified as one of your printers then the stage 1 "Fineprint" allows you to shrink the pages to as many as 8 pages per A4 sheet as well as adding watermarks

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Alan Bourke
On Friday, September 16, 2011 7:05 PM, "geoff" wrote: > Im with you. I don't get why I would want to put my data on someone > else's > server and subject to the speed and availability of my internet access. Cost. It might make good business sense for an outfit with 10 or 15 employees or similar

Re: [NF] PDF management system

2011-09-16 Thread Joe Yoder
Thanks Michael, that product seems like a worthwhile investment for uses beyond my current project. Perhaps their approach will allow TurboCAD to print without stopping for approval on each page. Joe On Friday, September 16, 2011 3:09 AM, Michael Madigan wrote: > >Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:09:3

RE: PDF printing from Foxpro

2011-09-16 Thread Carl Lindner
I do not believe Ghostscript impacts the reqistry. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Johnson Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 8:20 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: PDF printing from Foxpro Does Ghostscript require ins

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Ed Leafe
On Sep 16, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Allen wrote: > Can this also mean on your own server and not giving up data to the likes of > google? Of course - that's one of the main goals of OpenStack: a free and open cloud solution that anyone can deploy on their own hardware. Fear of lock-in is proba

Re: PDF printing from Foxpro

2011-09-16 Thread Jeff Johnson
Does Ghostscript require installation as in updating the registry? Or installation as it needs to be on the system where VFP can find it? Jeff --- Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com (623) 582-0323 www.san-dc.com On 09/15/2011 05:28 PM, Carl Lindner wrote: > Both Postscript and Ghost

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hill
Client/server is hardly new technology! On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:35 AM, geoff wrote: > Im with you. I don't get why I would want to put my data on someone else's > server and subject to the speed and availability of my internet access. Like > so many new technologies I think it is totally overs

RE: [NF] problems on a laptop

2011-09-16 Thread Allen
Sorry I missed that out. I think its windows XP Al -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 16 September 2011 11:27 To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: [NF] problems on a laptop Ops system XP, Vista, Win

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread geoff
Im with you. I don't get why I would want to put my data on someone else's server and subject to the speed and availability of my internet access. Like so many new technologies I think it is totally oversold. It has its place - but not for many if not most businesses - once they get over the hype.

RE: [NF] problems on a laptop

2011-09-16 Thread Dave Crozier
Ops system XP, Vista, Win 7 If its Vista or Win7 then I guess its permissions. Try running the app with administrative privileges. Dave -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Allen Sent: 16 September 2011 10:23 To: profox@leafe.

[NF] problems on a laptop

2011-09-16 Thread Allen
Hi guys. A client has a laptop that works fine on the network, using data on a server or local. But take it off the network and it won't load, no errors nothing. There are two VFP9SP1 apps one is fine and the other behaves like above. I do have some ActiveX controls including Teechart7, the RichTex

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Allen
Can this also mean on your own server and not giving up data to the likes of google? Al -Original Message- Though often confused, 'cloud computing' and 'cloud storage' are somewhat different. A synonym for 'cloud computing' could be, IMO, 'web application'. You decide where and by wh

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Though often confused, 'cloud computing' and 'cloud storage' are somewhat different. A synonym for 'cloud computing' could be, IMO, 'web application'. You decide where and by whom your web application is hosted. Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxi

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread geoff
Yeah - 'no resizable/moveable windows' is a bit of an error. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: Friday, 16 September 2011 5:33 PM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8 On Thursday, S

Re: [NF] MySQL seems to be locking up...

2011-09-16 Thread Mike Copeland
Thanks Mike. I'm going to go on site Friday and see if anything looks hinky. I was reading about MySQL's Internal Locking and I am starting to wonder if this may be related... http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17952_01/refman-5.1-en/internal-locking.html If I do find the cause, I'll update ev

RE: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Allen
Am I missing something with cloud computing? I see it as a way for google, microsoft and the like to get your data and for governments to watch what you're up to. This is just putting all your confidential documents on a server, someone else's server? Al -Original Message- The real action

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Jean Laeremans
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > > On Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:32 PM, kamcgin...@gmail.com wrote: > > Still, it is funny and maybe not 100% accurate, just 99.9% accurate > > > > > > 10% accurate, at most ;) > -- > Alan, Didn't you get it by now... Linux good, wi

Re: [NF] Windows 1 vs. Windows 8

2011-09-16 Thread Alan Bourke
On Thursday, September 15, 2011 6:32 PM, kamcgin...@gmail.com wrote: > Still, it is funny and maybe not 100% accurate, just 99.9% accurate > > 10% accurate, at most ;) -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to:

Re: [NF] MySQL seems to be locking up...

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
Sounds like it may be a hardware problem and not software.  I'd check the switches and the network cards.   Are any of your switches cascaded? Foxpro requires opportunistic locking to be turned off, does MySQL?  From: Mike Copeland To: profox@leafe.com Sent: T

Re: [NF] PDF management system

2011-09-16 Thread Michael Madigan
pdffactory pro allows you to generate one large file and save it as one file and will continue to add pages until you close the program. Take a look at it's capabilities, this may be all you need.  http://fineprint.com/pdfp/ From: Joe Yoder To: profox@leafe