VFP Runtime SP2

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Crozier
Does anyone know if the VFP9 SP2 runtime installation files on prolib.de contain all the up to date hot fixes and give the latest builds for the runtime environment? If not, is there anywhere else that has a runtime installer that is up to date. I just don't want to re-invent the wheel. Dave C

Re: Test

2010-02-24 Thread gil hale
Ok, ignored Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T -Original Message- From: "Dave Crozier" Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:05:17 To: Subject: Test Just testing my new domain mailserver as I haven't had any emails from profox today so please ignore! Dave C __

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Allen
Im not too good and understanding the licences with these. I though MySQL was free as long as what you produced was free else you had to get the paid version. Is this the same with Firebird and PostgreSQL? Allen -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun.

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Grigore Dolghin
Firebird and PostgreSQL are completely free. On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Allen wrote: > Im not too good and understanding the licences with these. I though MySQL > was free as long as what you produced was free else you had to get the paid > version. Is this the same with Firebird and Postgr

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Allen
Thanks Grigore Im interested mainly from a .net point of view as it was mentioned by Steve that there was a .net connection. I find MSSQL such a pain as the permissions side means it works sometimes and not another. Well express anyway. I did find a dbf class but that was so badly explained it was

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:29 AM, Allen wrote: > Thanks Grigore > Im interested mainly from a .net point of view as it was mentioned by Steve > that there was a .net connection. I find MSSQL such a pain as the > permissions side means it works sometimes and not another. Well express > anyway. I did

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Crozier
Al, I forgot to add, Firebird is OK with VFP no problem and ever so easy to administer...i.e. virtually admin free. In my experience it also works better then M$SQL on lower spec machines . Dave C -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Beha

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Dave Crozier
Al, Interested to see that you have had problems with MSSQL. If you dispense with windows authorisation then in my experience it has been rock solid (2005 and 2008 full and free versions). Just how were you having problems? Dave C -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:05 AM, Allen wrote: > Im not too good and understanding the licences with these. I though MySQL > was free as long as what you produced was free else you had to get the paid > version. Is this the same with Firebird and PostgreSQL? Be careful about what is meant by '

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Paul McNett
On 2/24/10 5:30 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: > However, if you want to release something that uses these database > programs that is proprietary, or somehow restricts the ability of those who > use it to copy, alter and distribute your code, then the products differ. > PostgreSQL and Firebird don't

RE: [NF] Why won't people use a TEST Server

2010-02-24 Thread Kurt Wendt
Funny one Jean! You sure got me on that one! As it was - Stephen told me it was the AutoCorrect that switched the spelling of the word - as he did in fact mean COBOL... :-) -K- -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Jean La

[OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Leafe
This is an excellent article on the sort of simplistic thinking and rationalizing that all too often results in the sort of mindless drivel of opinion in the press and, of course, on this list. http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_fallacy_of_gray/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > Best to avoid gray areas completely, since there are other even better > choices than > MySQL (PostgreSQL, Firebird, even SQLite for local single-user use). -- PostgreSQL has .Net connectors that just plug into your developm

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:48 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: >        This is an excellent article on the sort of simplistic thinking and > rationalizing that all too often results in the sort of mindless drivel of > opinion in the press and, of course, on this list. > > http://lesswrong.com/lw/mm/the_falla

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
I tried reading it but gave up. It is the most addled, mismash of words I have ever read. I could not find the point any where. - Original Message - From: "Ed Leafe" To: "ProFox Mailing List" Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 9:48 AM Subject: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray > This is an ex

RE: [NF] Anchors in PDF Files

2010-02-24 Thread Enzer, Charles (enzerch)
Thanks for catching this. Yes, I used CutePDF to"print" and PDF file. But the anchors that worked in the DOC file did not work in the PDF file: http://homepages.uc.edu/~enzerch/CV.pdf -- Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACAP -- Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinna

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Nicholas Geti wrote: > I tried reading it but gave up. It is the most addled, mismash of words I > have ever read. I could not find the point any where. Why am I not surprised? ;-) 'Right' and 'Wrong' are not absolutes. Two people can be wrong, bu

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
There are a ton of drivers, both commercial and free, for connecting to a PostgreSQL database. I have some experience with perl, so I like the perl DBI, (eg DBD::PG), driver. http://www.postgresql.org/download/products/2 Regards, LelandJ On 02/24/2010 09:19 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > On

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
There are people in mental institutions who cannot make choose between either side of the same coin. Congress is another institutions that cannot come to a conclusion. One has to go through life and make decisions all the time and not waste energy being conflicted about every choice. The ultimat

RE: [NF] Anchors in PDF Files

2010-02-24 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
The reason those links are not working is because cutepdf has no way to know that they are links.. In your word document, there must be a display option that shows the link too, although I'm not a word expert so I don't know where it is.. If you will look at the document, the ones that showed an

RE: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
And we wonder why we're in the condition globally that we're in. Two wrongs are purely and simply wrong and do not make a right, or even a shade of gray of a right, unless of course you are trying to justify to yourself that it is ok to do whatever you were doing that you knew was wrong. -Or

Re: [NF] Anchors in PDF Files

2010-02-24 Thread Ted Roche
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Enzer, Charles (enzerch) wrote: > > But the anchors that worked in the DOC file did not work in the PDF file: > To translate the anchors from what MS Word thinks of an anchor to what a PDF thinks of an anchor requires a fairly intimate link between the two docume

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Leafe
On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > Two wrongs are purely and simply wrong and do not make a right, or even a > shade of gray of a right, unless of course you are trying to justify to > yourself that it is ok to do whatever you were doing that you knew was > wrong. O

[NF] PostgreSQL fulltext searches; Python and PostgreSQL

2010-02-24 Thread Malcolm Greene
Anyone have any experience using PostgreSQL's fulltext search capabilities? In particular, how easy is it to control the min word length for what qualifies as a searchable word? In MySQL you can control this setting via the my.ini file entry "ft_min_len = 3". Does PostgreSQL have a similar capab

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Alan Bourke
On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:29 +0100, "Allen" wrote: > I find MSSQL such a pain as the > permissions side means it works sometimes and not another. Windows Authentication can be a pain - I tend to use the good old a-fashioned way. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm __

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Nicholas Geti wrote: > There are people in mental institutions who cannot make choose between > either side of the same coin. You are right. Yet the topic is not about making choices but about "correct/incorrect" or "right/wrong" (not in the moral sense). What he is saying is that the right/wrong-

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > And we wonder why we're in the condition globally that we're in. > > Two wrongs are purely and simply wrong and do not make a right, or even a > shade of gray of a right, unless of course you are trying to justify to > yourself that it is ok to do whatever you were doing

Re: [NF] PostgreSQL fulltext searches; Python and PostgreSQL

2010-02-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
On 02/24/2010 10:41 AM, Malcolm Greene wrote: > Anyone have any experience using PostgreSQL's fulltext search > capabilities? > > In particular, how easy is it to control the min word length for > what qualifies as a searchable word? > > In MySQL you can control this setting via the my.ini file ent

RE: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
As usual you leave out the portion about what is best for the community, or the state, or even the country Just because you believe something is gray or a lesser wrong, doesn't mean that the rest of the community will agree with you and it is the community, state or even countries welfare that nee

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Stephen Russell wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Leland F. Jackson, CPA > wrote: > - > Does anyone take advantage of the features of the database, or is it > just for storage? > > Would any of you use an array as a storage type? > > CREATE TABLE sal_emp ( > name

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > As usual you leave out the portion about what is best for the community, or > the state, or even the country > > Just because you believe something is gray or a lesser wrong, doesn't mean > that the rest of the community will agree with you and it is the community, > sta

Re: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Stephen Russell
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: > > > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:29 +0100, "Allen" > wrote: >>  I find MSSQL such a pain as the >> permissions side means it works sometimes and not another. > > Windows Authentication can be a pain - I tend to use the good old > a-fashioned way. -

Re: [NF] PostgreSQL fulltext searches; Python and PostgreSQL

2010-02-24 Thread Leland F. Jackson, CPA
As of version 8.3 of PostgreSQL: #--- TSearch2, our cutting-edge full text search tool, has been fully integrated into the core code, and also has a cleaner API. This will both make TSearch2 easier to use and to extend with new languages, dictionaries and weighting systems. #-

Re: [NF] PostgreSQL fulltext searches; Python and PostgreSQL

2010-02-24 Thread Malcolm Greene
> As of version 8.3 of PostgreSQL: > > TSearch2, our cutting-edge full text search tool, has been fully > integrated into the core code, and also has a cleaner API. This will > both make TSearch2 easier to use and to extend with new languages, > dictionaries and weighting systems. Thanks Lelan

RE: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Never said that at all. -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ricardo Aráoz Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:37 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > As usual you leave ou

[OT] Democrats used to hate reconciliation.

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Madigan
Democrats used to hate reconciliation. These people have no shame. http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-dems-in-2005-51-vote-nuclear-option-is-arrogant-power-grab-against-the-founders-intent/ ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Anchors in PDF Files

2010-02-24 Thread Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP
Dear Ted: Worked like a charm. Thank you. -- Charles -- Website: http://TinyURL.com/EnzerMD Ted Roche wrote: On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Enzer, Charles (enzerch) wrote: But the anchors that worked in the DOC file did not work in the PDF file:

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
I got all that originally. But in order to say something is wrong you have to know what is correct. Therefore since no one can say that it is either wrong or correct, then the discussion is all hot air. You height example doesn't demonstrate anything. All measurements of the physical world are

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
I got that part. But the point is that you are assuming one knows which one is correct or not. If something is not known, then every comment afterwards is bogus. It is all an argument in thin air. - Original Message - From: "Ed Leafe" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Wednesday, February

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
Ha. Ha. - Original Message - From: "Ricardo Aráoz" To: "ProFox Email List" Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 12:03 PM Subject: Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray > Virgil Bierschwale wrote: >> And we wonder why we're in the condition globally that we're in. >> >> Two wrongs are purely and

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Madigan
Coming from the Spewer in Chief. > >     Wow, I guess I overestimated the > willingness of people on this list to think instead of > reflexively spew. > > > > -- Ed Leafe > > ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: htt

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Madigan
I treasure your posts. --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Ricardo Aráoz wrote: > From: Ricardo Aráoz > Subject: Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray > To: "ProFox Email List" > Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 12:03 PM > Virgil Bierschwale wrote: > > And we wonder why we're in the condition globally that > we'r

[NF] FORMAT CODE M

2010-02-24 Thread gerald foote
Does anybody remember how the "M" in the format of a textbox is used? I know I have used the M and been able to step thru a number of options with the spacebar or go directly to one by type the first letter. I'm drawing a blank right now Thanks Jerry --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME

[OT] Senate passes jobs bill

2010-02-24 Thread Nicholas Geti
This version of the bill pays employers $5000 to hire an unemployed persion. What a joke. This was already tried in, I think, 1970. Employers at that time let go higher-paid people. Then when the year ran out, let go those new hirees also. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- mult

RE: [NF] anyone heard of "Firebird" DB server?

2010-02-24 Thread Allen
Thanks Ed that's what I thought and why I kept clear of mysql Al -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Be careful about what is meant by 'free'. The cost for all is zero, as long as you are not releasing anything for others to use th

RE: [NF] PyCon 2010 - largest PyCon ever!

2010-02-24 Thread Kurt Wendt
Ed - I agree with you - that small conferences can be so much more personable. I used to go to this small conference in Philly many years ago - called SCAN (Small Computers in the Arts Network) - and covered many related topics - like computer graphics, computer music, sculptures created on the com

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
Nicholas Geti wrote: > I got all that originally. But in order to say something is wrong you have > to know what is correct. Therefore since no one can say that it is either > wrong or correct, then the discussion is all hot air. > > You height example doesn't demonstrate anything. All measuremen

RE: [OT] Senate passes jobs bill

2010-02-24 Thread Virgil Bierschwale
Not only that, but as an employer, if you do not have the sales revenue to cover payroll, why would you even consider hiring somebody that would deplete your cash? -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Nicholas Geti Sent: Wednesda

Re: [NF] FORMAT CODE M

2010-02-24 Thread Fred Taylor
TextBox.Format="M" TextBox.InputMask="One,Two,Three,Four" Fred On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:20 PM, gerald foote wrote: > Does anybody remember how the "M" in the format of a textbox is used? > > I know I have used the M and been able to step thru a number of options > with > the spacebar or go di

RE: [OT] Senate passes jobs bill

2010-02-24 Thread Michael Madigan
These clowns don't get it. None of us in small business has ever had their business made better by the government, unless you directly work or subcontract to the government. The idiots in the White House have never run a single business, nor met a single payroll, nor laid off a single worker.

RE: [NF] FORMAT CODE M

2010-02-24 Thread jerryF
TextBox.InputMask=One,Two,Three,Four Double quotes not teeded Thanks Jerry -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fred Taylor Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2010 4:37 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] FORMAT CODE M TextBox

Re: [NF] FORMAT CODE M

2010-02-24 Thread Fred Taylor
Not in the property sheet, but you do need them if you set those properties in code. Fred On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 5:09 PM, jerryF wrote: > TextBox.InputMask=One,Two,Three,Four > Double quotes not teeded > > Thanks Jerry > > -Original Message- > From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:pr

RE: Conflicker.B Infection Alert

2010-02-24 Thread Adam Buckland
I'm sorry Ed the junk is still coming through, though through thorough pattern matching I've determined that it's usually got the key words Madigan or Publicus attached to it... Surely that should be enough info for a filter? -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:

Re: [OT] The Fallacy of Gray

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Theisen
Ed Leafe wrote: > On Feb 24, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Nicholas Geti wrote: > >> I tried reading it but gave up. It is the most addled, mismash of words I >> have ever read. I could not find the point any where. > > > Why am I not surprised? ;-) > > 'Right' and 'Wrong' are not absolutes.

[OT] Patterns? Can't be, it's" just weather"!

2010-02-24 Thread Pete Theisen
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