Re: I can't believe this

The point, in my opinion, is NOT the OS On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:55 PM, Paul Hill wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 5:53 AM, Sytze de Boer > wrote: > > A client brought in a 2 year old vaio laptop > > >From cold boot to wordpad doc, 5 minutes > > > > Replaced the hard drive (80 gig ssd), insta

RE: I can't believe this

That's the first comment Ive heard like that. VISTA was junk that looked nice but was inferior in every other way. Win7 is vista look-alive but performs like XP and with all the nice goodies and a pleasant interface. This version of windows is actually as good as they claim. -Original Message-

RE: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Gene...snap! I had the same problem here and it used to crash regularly. Since I updated to V3.7 last week I have had no problems and it is definitely snappier to load and they seem to have cured the memory leak/overuse problem. Dave Crozier -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.

RE: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Did you mean 3.6 or is there a beta version 3.7? --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Dave Crozier wrote: > From: Dave Crozier > Subject: RE: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU > To: "'ProFox Email List'" > Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 3:30 AM > Gene...snap! > I had the same problem here and it u

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to > Nazi Germany in May 1940? The point being ? A+ jml ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://lea

Re: Use a character from another codepage

At 2010-01-25 19:44, Graham Trott wrote: >I would just like to create a simple progress bar that does not use >any screen real estate. I have used a routine for many years that resembles FP:s internal progress bar showing progress during sql-selects. I have propably "stolen" it somewhere, can't

Re: I can't believe this

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:23 AM, Geoff wrote: > That's the first comment Ive heard like that. VISTA was junk that looked > nice but was inferior in every other way. Win7 is vista look-alive but > performs like XP and with all the nice goodies and a pleasant interface. > This version of windows is

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

Nicholas Geti wrote: > Hmm. Don't see how you thought that. Must be another of those lapses you so > readily display. > Well you see, I read this here in Argentina, where you'd be considered a bottom drawer foreigner. The list I think is physically located in Corea, where you are *also* consid

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to > Nazi Germany in May 1940? > So you are *actually* arguing that yanks are the "master race"? Does this mean you would have been in favour of Hitler if only he had been a yank? > # >

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA > wrote: > >> Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to >> Nazi Germany in May 1940? >> > > The point being ? > Showing off his inferiority complex by displaying his compensatory superiority

Re: Use a character from another codepage

Characters appear in fonts, not codepages. The relationship is somewhat more complicated than we assume. -Original Message- From: Paul Hill Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:50:53 To: Subject: Re: Use a character from another codepage On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Graham Trott wrote: > Wou

Re: [OT] Tough Crowd

LOL - Publius On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Publius Maximus wrote: > And: > > http://bit.ly/6CurYg > > - Publius > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 9:12 PM, Publius Maximus > wrote: >> In case you thought the photos were fake... >>

RE: I can't believe this

I've been on Win7 through all the testing and release, so it's a year + experience w/ me. I like it a lot. Improvements include: Much better UAC controls Significantly improved legacy driver and software support. Compatibility mode actually works really well now. Really fast cold start -> useabl

Re: I can't believe this

Paul McNett wrote: > > The User Account Control BS > seems to be better than in Vista (the 'you mean you are the OS and you don't > know if > I opened the file or if a virus did it?' persistent nag windows that users > just learn > to click through without reading anyway) Recall that someon

Re: I can't believe this

David Smith wrote: > > Too many variations of the OS. Just my opinion, but I miss the days of a > uniform platform release with windows. I wonder if they would actually be as (or more) profitable by just producing one flavor?? That way, they wouldn't have to expend as many different efforts.

Re: I can't believe this

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Paul Hill wrote: > I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now and to be honest I find > zero improvements over XP... - Outside of VFP taking up 90% of your time do you do anything else with your computer? Or do you do a variety of application

Re: I can't believe this

Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Paul Hill wrote: > >> I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now and to be honest I find >> zero improvements over XP... > - > > Outside of VFP taking up 90% of your time do you do anything else with > your computer?

Re: [OT] Tough Crowd

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Publius Maximus wrote: > LOL > > > Yet another nice find. Keep them coming... A+ jml ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance

Re: I can't believe this

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:09 AM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > Stephen Russell wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:55 AM, Paul Hill wrote: >> >>> I've been using Windows 7 for a few months now and to be honest I find >>> zero improvements over XP... >> - >> >> Outside of VFP

Re: Use a character from another codepage

Hi, I don't think you can do that in Windows, but try with cpconvert: Cpconvert(1252,437,Chr(255)) Greetings Graham Trott wrote: > Would like to use the block character from codepage 437 without changing > codepages chr(219)=? and chr(255)= blank space > > VFP9 uses codepage 1252. I am n

RE: I can't believe this

Hey Sytze - I totally hear ya! When I first read your post - I kinda skipped over the SSD - as I wasn't exactly sure what you meant. But, when I saw how fast you mentioned the Bootup became - I came back to that SSD thing to ponder it more. Yeah - I have been thinking about re-building one of my

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Dave Crozier wrote: > Gene...snap! > I had the same problem here and it used to crash regularly. Since I updated > to V3.7 last week I have had no problems and it is definitely snappier to > load and they seem to have cured the memory leak/overuse problem. > > Dave Crozier > Is there a way to u

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

On 01/26/2010 04:56 AM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > Jean Laeremans wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 3:52 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA >> wrote: >> >>> Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to >>> Nazi Germany in May 1940? >>> >> >> The point being ? >> > > Showing off his inferiority c

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

Whoops, that should read "and it always ends badly for those who think differently. On 01/26/2010 09:29 AM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > and it always ends badly for those differently ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

The regular update procedure keeps all those. Go to Help/Check for updates and install from that window. 2010/1/26 Ricardo Aráoz : > Dave Crozier wrote: >> Gene...snap! >> I had the same problem here and it used to crash regularly. Since I updated >> to V3.7 last week I have had no problems and it

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=irony A+ jml ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

On 01/26/2010 04:54 AM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to >> Nazi Germany in May 1940? >> > > So you are *actually* arguing that yanks are the "master race"? > Does this mean you would have been in favour of Hitler if o

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

OK. Regards, LelandJ On 01/26/2010 09:38 AM, Jean Laeremans wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA > wrote: > > http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=irony > > A+ > jml > [excessive quoting removed by server] ___ Pos

Re: I can't believe this

Stephen Russell wrote: > > If instead you did did hobby work with your pc, maybe video editing, > sound editing, model railroad track design you might find that > different apps work better or worse between OS versions. > > Now why don't you go get a cup of coffee. I would like to do that model

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: > On 01/26/2010 04:54 AM, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > >> Leland F. Jackson, CPA wrote: >> >>> Who liberated Belgium in late 1944, after Belgium fell to >>> Nazi Germany in May 1940? >>> >>> >> So you are *actually* arguing that yanks are the "master race"? >>

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Grigore Dolghin wrote: > The regular update procedure keeps all those. Go to Help/Check for > updates and install from that window. > I was under the impression this would update FF but not install a new version (for some, not very clear, definition of version) > 2010/1/26 Ricardo Aráoz : >

RE: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

The latest 3.6 update isn't immediately noticed in the "update" option so just download the new program and run it. You are then prompted as to whether you want to update and keep all favourites and addons or install afresh. Dave C -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Dave Crozier wrote: > The latest 3.6 update isn't immediately noticed in the "update" option so > just download the new program and run it. You are then prompted as to > whether you want to update and keep all favourites and addons or install > afresh. > > Thanks! ___

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Dave Crozier wrote: > The latest 3.6 update isn't immediately noticed in the "update" option so > just download the new program and run it. You are then prompted as to > whether you want to update and keep all favourites and addons or install > afresh. ---

Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

There's an update manager in FF --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > From: Ricardo Aráoz > Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU > To: "ProFox Email List" > Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2010, 11:56 AM > Grigore Dolghin wrote: > > The regular update procedure keeps all t

Re: [OT] Hitler Reaction to Scott Brown

you're drifting off on a tangent, as well as splitting hairs. The most common use of the term "American" is in reference to someone with national origins, (eg Nationality) in the United states. http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=American Regards, LelandJ On 01/26/2010 10:54 AM,

[OT] In the eye of the beholder

Hi Everybody, http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/saudi-goat-beauty-pageant/ -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo

OT: How often do I start my car?

Heya, I own a 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but I don't do that much driving - even after 13 years, I have less than 60,000 miles on it. Lately (as in, over the last couple of years), I've had some problems starting the car, mostly due to battery issues (as in, the battery has died on me). So I

multi touch

Is it possible to make use of multi touch screens with vfp9 ? Al --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: OT: How often do I start my car?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/12v-INTELLIGENT-BATTERY-CHARGER-BIKE-CAR-VAN-LEISURE_W0QQitemZ260530711850QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item3ca8d72d2a A+ jml ___ Post Messages

Re: OT: How often do I start my car?

You could get a solar trickle charger to keep the battery charged. I would then start & run the car 5-10 min once a month. On 1/26/10, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > Heya, > > I own a 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but I don't do that much driving - even > after 13 years, I have less than 60,000 miles o

Re: OT: How often do I start my car?

Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > Heya, > > I own a 1996 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, but I don't do that much driving - even > after 13 years, I have less than 60,000 miles on it. Lately (as in, over > the last couple of years), I've had some problems starting the car, mostly > due to battery issues (as in

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > So I'm wondering if anyone can give me an opinion on how often the car > should be started just to upkeep the battery. And, once started, how long > it should run for? I live in suburbia, so crime isn't that big of a > problem, but I tend

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:46 PM, Joel N. Fischoff wrote: > >> So I'm wondering if anyone can give me an opinion on how often the >> car should be started just to upkeep the battery. And, once >> started, how long it should run for? I live in suburbia, so crime >> isn't that big of

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:56 PM, Ed Leafe wrote:    The battery is the least of your worries. If a car sits without being run regularly, the oil drains to the bottom, and the various seals around the engine parts can dry out and crack; if that happens, the car will always leak oil terribly and its

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Jean Laeremans wrote: > That's what one gets with american rubbish... Funny, I didn't know Subaru was American! My son bought a Subaru Legacy that wasn't driven for two years by an old woman who eventually died. When he started driving it, it would smoke ba

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:13 PM, Jean Laeremans wrote: > >> That's what one gets with american rubbish... > > >        Funny, I didn't know Subaru was American! My son bought a Subaru > Legacy that wasn't driven for two years by an old woman who even

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Jan 26, 2010, at 3:37 PM, Jean Laeremans wrote: >>Funny, I didn't know Subaru was American! My son bought a Subaru >> Legacy that wasn't driven for two years by an old woman who eventually died. >> When he started driving it, it would smoke badly. We tried all sorts of oil >> additiv

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

You should take your car out for a spin at least once a week. Don't forget that you still have to change your oil even if you're not running it. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=off&ei=UlVfS_miMcTT8QbwwrWbDA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&ved=0CA4QBSgA&q=oil+change+infrequently+used+ca

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

What does the origin of the car mean? Do you think you can leave your Rolls Royce or Ferrari in your garage without oil changes and driving? --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Ed Leafe wrote: > From: Ed Leafe > Subject: Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car? > To: "ProFox Email List" > Date: Tuesday, Ja

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > What does the origin of the car mean?  Do you think you can leave your Rolls > Royce or Ferrari in your garage without oil changes and driving? --- Sure. You hire people to do it for you with those make of car

Re: multi touch

>From what I understand you would be using Windows 7 for a start, I can't see any way of doing it other than calling Windows Presentation Foundation forms from VFP and interfacing with those. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Po

[NF] anyone understand javac?

I am attempting to compile the java classes from one of my WCF services for a java workflow app I have to do. joy :( Anywho I have a jar file of all the classes in the WSDL2Java that I ran agains my service. I get 75 .java files and when I javac them I only get 73 output. more joy! I -classp

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

You should look up the maintenance records of those two brands. Simply awful and expensive. A Ferrari tune-up is $1000 and you have to make an appointment weeks in advance. - Original Message - From: "Michael Madigan" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:56 PM Su

Re: [OT] In the eye of the beholder

At least they cannot infect any women with syphilis. - Original Message - From: "Pete Theisen" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1:25 PM Subject: [OT] In the eye of the beholder > Hi Everybody, > > http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/saudi-goat-beauty-pageant

[OT] Model Train Stuff was Re: I can't believe this

Mike, Lots of exciting Model Railroad software. I am moving back into the hobby after a many year hiatus. - Original Message - From: "MB Software Solutions, LLC" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:29 AM Subject: Re: I can't believe this > Stephen Russell wrot

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

A client of mine got a brain abscess (true story) and started acting erratically. He spent a large chunk of his savings on a Ferrari. He actually would drive it in the snow. He started really behaving erratically and started wetting his pants in public and not finishing his sentences. We got

Re: [OT] In the eye of the beholder

Nicholas Geti wrote: > At least they cannot infect any women with syphilis. Hi Micholas, I am fairly sure they do that too. http://www.avert.org/stdstatisticsworldwide.htm >> http://marcovilla.instablogs.com/entry/saudi-goat-beauty-pageant/ -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://ele

Re: [OT]: How often do I start my car?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Nicholas Geti wrote: > You should look up the maintenance records of those two brands. Simply awful > and expensive. A Ferrari tune-up is $1000 and you have to make an > appointment weeks in advance. Does it matter. $1000 is cheap btw A+ jml ___

Re: [OT] Model Train Stuff was Re: I can't believe this

I have a bunch of stuff I'm putting on ebay. Old Lionel stuff from the 40s. I'll let you know when it goes up. --- On Tue, 1/26/10, Nicholas Geti wrote: > From: Nicholas Geti > Subject: [OT] Model Train Stuff was Re: I can't believe this > To: "ProFox Email List" > Date: Tuesday, January 26

RE: multi touch

Thanks Alan I have to say I cant either. Pity as I could think of uses for it. Maybe I will have to look at Delphi to see if that can do it. I think it will be sooner than later that vfp is left well behind. Al -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun..

Re: [NF] anyone understand javac?

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > I am attempting to compile the java classes from one of my WCF > services for a java workflow app I have to do.  joy :( > > Anywho  I have a jar file  of all the classes in the WSDL2Java that I > ran agains my service. > > I get 75 .java fi

RE: [NF] anyone understand javac?

Java sucks! John Harvey -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:24 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: [NF] anyone understand javac? I am attempting to compile the java classes from

Re: [OT] Model Train Stuff was Re: I can't believe this

I am into N-scale because it takes up less room and the available quality is excellent. - Original Message - From: "Michael Madigan" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:45 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Model Train Stuff was Re: I can't believe this I have a bunch of stu

RE: [NF] Firefox chewing up huge amounts of CPU

Mike, Yes there is an update manager, however the latest 3.6 update doesn't seem to be recognized, hence the need to manually install it. At least that is what I have found on all our machines. I did the update on the day it was released, so it may well have changed however. Dave C -Original