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 Maintenance: http:/

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > 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. Hi Alan! That has been a sore spot. The configuration software runs on windows and I don't have windows. Years ago I set it up wi

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen Russell
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:57 PM, Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, it isn't just unreliable as in slow, it out and out stops. Sits > there with the "internet" light out on the modem for 15 or 20 minutes. > At some point the timeout screen comes up and if you click on that > "retry" i

RE: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Dettman
Pete, <> So call them when it's down. Sounds like that should be fairly easy to do given the length of the outage. Your lucky it's down that much. If it only dropped a couple times a day for a short interval, it could be a royal pain to trouble shoot. Personally I can sympathize with both

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:12:31 -0500, "Pete Theisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > That has been a sore spot. The configuration software runs on windows > and I don't have windows. Years ago I set it up with an XP notebook that > I don't have any more. Doesn't it have a HTTP web configuration page

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 ...) -- Alan Bo

When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Matt Slay
OK folks... I've been to tons of user group meetings on lots of topics, and they all go the same way... meet, greet, announcements, and then finally the real meat of the meeting starts which is the "laptop-into-projector" part with a speaker presentation. Now locally (Birmingham, Alabama) our face

[NF] Parameterized Excel query - how to do it?

2008-11-17 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
I have a Pivot Table worksheet in Excel 2007 that's running off a SQL command. The dates in this statement are hardcoded at the moment: I'd like to link them into a couple of cells in the sheet, but Excel is being more unhelpful than usual. There's a greyed-out Parameters button at the bottom of t

Re: [NF] Parameterized Excel query - how to do it?

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Garrett Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a Pivot Table worksheet in Excel 2007 that's running off a SQL > command. The dates in this statement are hardcoded at the moment: I'd > like to link them into a couple of cells in the sheet, but Excel is > bein

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 23:11, Matt Slay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I follow the common practice of using type prefixes when naming custom > Properties in classes and forms like this: > > lAddMode > cName > > Now then, is it also common to use those same prefixes when naming custom > Methods that

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Sun, November 16, 2008 11:11 pm, Matt Slay wrote: > I follow the common practice of using type prefixes when naming custom > Properties in classes and forms like this: > > > lAddMode cName oTextBox nSomeValue etc. > > Now then, is it also common to use those same prefixes when naming custom > M

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 languages. -- Alan Bourke [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Jim Dettman wrote: > So call them when it's down. Hi Jim! You can't call them, they have a callback system. When you call you get this infuriating computer voice conversation software that hasn't a clue. They jerk your chain for twenty minutes or so with this and then you finally get a real

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:12:31 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> That has been a sore spot. The configuration software runs on windows >> and I don't have windows. Years ago I set it up with an XP notebook that >> I don't have any more. > > Doesn't it hav

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:17:01 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > I imagine it does. But the tech they assigned to my case was too > ignorant to know it. He said something about updating the modem's > configuration software I would imagine he means a firmware update, which you can do via the aforementioned

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:17:01 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > >> I imagine it does. But the tech they assigned to my case was too >> ignorant to know it. He said something about updating the modem's >> configuration software > > I would imagine he means a firmware update, which you

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:12:31 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> That has been a sore spot. The configuration software runs on windows >> and I don't have windows. Years ago I set it up with an XP notebook that >> I don't have any more. > > Doesn't it hav

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Ed Leafe
On Nov 17, 2008, at 11:41 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > In strong typed languages the compiler does this for you. Customer is > the type for this method. I think you mean "statically typed". C# and Java are statically- typed; Python is dynamically-typed. "Strong" typing simply means tha

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Alan Bourke wrote: > 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 languages. And

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 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

RE: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Matt Slay
Customer is the type of object returned from the GetCustomer() method. The JIT compiler will make sure it all maps out, our you'll get an error even as you type (in VS anyway). > > > public Customer GetCustomer(Guid CustID) > { >Customer cust = DAL.Filldata(CustID, "Customer") >return c

[NF] Fwd: LEGOs and Play-Doh: Sticking to the correct idiom for your environment

2008-11-17 Thread Ed Leafe
Forward from an internal Rackspace list. I thought the content was spot-on. It compares/contrasts Java and Ruby, but the exact same comparison could be made between C# and Python, or Java and Python, or... Begin forwarded message: From: Mark Morga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: November 17, 200

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 Subscription Maintenance: http://leaf

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Hey Matt, We're working on it as we speak here at the Atlanta Foxpro Users Group. My personal hope is to attract paying members to the club. This helps us fly in talent and to keep the club going. Would you be willing to pay $30 per year to get spotty coverage? I say "spotty" because we're at

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Alan Bourke
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:13 -0500, "Pete Theisen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > How would you find it? Generally you either download a file from the website and then point the router at it via the web/telnet interface. A lot of them also just have an 'Update Firmware' button. If you start Fire

RE: One Email in Two Days

2008-11-17 Thread Jim Felton
Hi all, I'm getting to this a little late, but a service at www.no-ip.com could be used to solve the IP change problem. It is a little app that runs on the server to keep the NO-IP DNS tables up to date and redirect the request to the IP your server is reporting. Jim -Original Message- F

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Matt Slay
Kevin - I will pay $30 per year, easy. If for no other reason the to just support the cause. I don't get the editing time... Just mic the speaker and go. You get what you get. No problem here. I understand. Just grateful to get something. I don't expect anyone to spend time cleaning that up, esp

Re: Naming convention for custom Methods?

2008-11-17 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:10 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Alan Bourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:22:52 -0500 (EST), "MB Software Solutions General >>> Account" <[EMAIL

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Thanks Matt. That's one. Would any of the rest of you be willing to join AFUG at the price of $30 to get some "premium" Fox content. "No" is a valid answer. I'm just trying to gage interest and to match our own effort level. Thanks, -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Matt Slay wrote: > Kevin - I

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kristyne McDaniel
Kevin, > Would you be willing to pay $30 per year to get spotty > coverage? I say "spotty" because we're at the whim of > the restaurant's internet connection to broadcast live. > Restaurants aren't that good at keeping their Internet up. Have you thought about using somebody's broadband interne

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Haven't thought of it. Mostly because I know of only one person that has it and that's Dave Bernard. He's a office of AFUG but he's so busy he only attends about 1/2 the time. I don't have one as I work out of my house 99% of the time. This stuff is a real head scratcher to get it all put toget

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Oops. "He's an officer of AFUG but ..." -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Kevin Cully wrote: > Haven't thought of it. Mostly because I know of only one person that > has it and that's Dave Bernard. He's a office of AFUG but he's so busy > he only attends about 1/2 the time. > > I don't hav

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:13 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> How would you find it? > > Generally you either download a file from the website and then point the > router at it via the web/telnet interface. A lot of them also just have > an 'Update Firm

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kristyne McDaniel
Kevin, > I don't have one as I work out of my house 99% of the time. Just for an FYI... I was on a StarBand satellite connection for the last 7.5 years and dropped it in favor of the broadband modem once I figured out how to get it to replace what I had. That leaves me the flexibility to have t

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Kevin Cully wrote: > Hey Matt, > > We're working on it as we speak here at the Atlanta Foxpro Users Group. > My personal hope is to attract paying members to the club. This helps > us fly in talent and to keep the club going. Would you be willing to > pay $30 per year to get spotty coverage? I

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Alan Bourke wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:13 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> How would you find it? > > Generally you either download a file from the website and then point the > router at it via the web/telnet interface. A lot of them also just have > an 'Update Firm

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Fred Taylor
More likely 192.168.1.1 for the IP address. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Pete Theisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Alan Bourke wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:40:13 -0500, "Pete Theisen" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > >> How would you find it? > > > > Generally you either download a fil

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Google on "default passord" for your router after you reset the box. I do have to say that if it is working part of the time, I can't believe it's the box. --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Fred Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Fred Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [NF] Unacceptable ve

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
We normally have about 10-11 meetings a year. I've had trouble recording the audio for the meetings on my laptop for the last couple of meetings. Last meeting, I broadcast the audio on Skype and that went over pretty well. My version of Skype only allows for 4 simultaneous connections however.

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
For $60 per month, that's a good deal. -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Kristyne McDaniel wrote: > Kevin, > >> I don't have one as I work out of my house 99% of the time. > > Just for an FYI... I was on a StarBand satellite connection for the last 7.5 > years and dropped it in favor of the bro

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
I don't think it will handle upstreaming video. * --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Kristyne McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kristyne McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ? > To:

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Michael Madigan wrote: > I do have to say that if it is working part of the time, I can't believe it's > the box. Hi Michael! I bet they are pulling some . The only thing I can think of is if the new firmware lets them use less bandwidth per user. What I think is really happening is that

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kristyne McDaniel
> I don't think it will handle upstreaming video. It works well with GoToMeeting. I've tried it myself. A webcam hooked into that seems like it would work fine. We have to get a bit smart about the resolution of the stuff we transmit. If that is kept in bounds the rest comes easy. Kristyne McDan

[OT] USA is not to be blamed here.

2008-11-17 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
I've been reading in the news lately about the recession being declared in Germany, UK, and Japan (am I missing any others?). They don't spell it but they imply it is because of USA's latest economic blunder. But AFAIK to declare recession you need two trimesters of negative growth, so the USA situ

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Why not charge by the meeting with paypal? If that meeting sucks, then refund the paypal amount. --- On Mon, 11/17/08, MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: MB Software Solutions General Account <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: When will User Group m

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
An AFUG meeting that sucks?!?! Doesn't happen! ;) We do take Paypal for membership now. http://afug.com/member.asp -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Michael Madigan wrote: > Why not charge by the meeting with paypal? If that meeting sucks, then > refund the paypal amount. __

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Joe Yoder
Pete, Do you know anyone else in your area using the same Verizon service who is willing to compare notes? If they are having problems you should be able to find out if they happen at the same time. If the other installation always works you know the problem is downstream of the point where

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
Hey Kevin! Drew Speedie used to used something called unlimited conferencing. (At least I think he did and I think that's where I got wind of it) And I have been using it very effectively. It is a pay as you go, so those that want to attend can pay. You can have a bunch of people sharing t

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
My network cam will do 10 simultaneous viewers with sound. There are services that retransmit video over unlimited users from a webcam. --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Kevin Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Kevin Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: When will User Group meetings go virtua

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
Thanks Jeff. I'll pass that on. Pay as you go, may actually be a wise decision if the quality is better. -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Jeff Johnson wrote: > Hey Kevin! Drew Speedie used to used something called unlimited > conferencing. (At least I think he did and I think that's where I g

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Kevin Cully
The most important thing to transmit is the desktop of the presenter, and that presenters voice. We're testing out various technologies to see what the installation and load requirements are going to be and how they will perform over a slower broadband connection. Lots of things are possible with

RE: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Rick Schummer
Hi Matt, I have been playing around with this for the last couple of meetings at DAFUG with moderate success by recording the audio portion. But it is hard to not see what is going on. Our latest thought is taking the idea we implemented at SWFox and UStream the meetings. Might start this in Oc

Re: [OT] USA is not to be blamed here.

2008-11-17 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
Yes, We live in a global economy today with everything inter-related and everybody competing globally. The approach for a solution to the current economic crisis has been coordinated internationally, but with each individual country applying cures based on its own special problems, (eg capita

Re: [NF] Unacceptable verizon dsl service

2008-11-17 Thread Pete Theisen
Joe Yoder wrote: > Do you know anyone else in your area using the same Verizon service > Finally, when I have had intermittent problems with my cable modem > installation, I have had the provider swap out their device to see if it > has been causing the problem. Perhaps Verizon would do that

[OT] Obama crash continues

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
Nov 4th - 9625 Nov 18th - 8273 Percentage drop - 14% Good Job Obama! * Barack Obama is not My President http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Mai

Re: When will User Group meetings go virtual (live on the web) ?

2008-11-17 Thread Matt Slay
Kevin - More ideas on AFUG Virtual/Video membership drive: 1. Offer a discounted membership to paid-up members of other partner user groups. So maybe $15 to them. 2. At your next meeting, get a commitment from each current AFUG member to directly contact a Foxpro associate that they have (p

[OT] MTV

2008-11-17 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
Just read some more comments from others (obviously older than kid or 20-something age) that said "Remember when MTV was good--when it used to play music videos?" I've seen that same sentiment echoed MANY times, and I must agree. The sh*t they have on their is basically just soft porn many tim

Re: [OT] MTV

2008-11-17 Thread Michael Madigan
It may be that they actually make more money now than before. On a side note, MTV decided that rap and hip was a good idea and gave us "artists" who were formally gang-bangers, pimps, prostitutes and drug pushers. A really great way to elevate the culture. *