Re: Unit tests (was Re: [NF] I will .....)

2020-07-24 Thread Charlie
software languages, businesses, so-called standards, best(worst) practices, individual agendas, personal 'skill level', office politics, muddled technologies, and outright lies in our industry, you do what you can to accomplish your goals. So by all means, use TDD if you enjoy it

Re: Task: Process thousands of records through a regular process -- multiple EXE runs to cut down processing time??

2020-08-03 Thread Charlie
will not be able to 'fix' it from your side. -Charlie On 8/2/2020 7:23 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: Right...we're using the API documentation from the vendor, doing it according to what they say.  It's not super quick but then again I don't think most peop

Re: My memo field(s) Are Bloated......

2020-10-05 Thread Charlie
you really need all 8 memo fields every time you pull data, this approach will probably hurt performance (8 joins - very fast, but not as fast as pulling from 1 table). -Charlie On 10/5/2020 11:08 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: I "think" the way to do this is to copy the data to a new table

Re: Record width

2020-11-03 Thread Charlie
ly because I have a different kind of laziness - once I design a system I NEVER want to go back and change code. If a software change is required for any other reason than a new requirement surfaced, it means I failed in my design. -Charlie On 11/2/2020 7:25 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC

Re: SCX form included in EXE is not found on DO FORM line

2020-12-09 Thread Charlie
run the exe from Total Commander (or any File manager like Windows Explorer) I little bit of a pain I know, but that helped me avoid all kinds of little issues and better emulate what would happen on target machines. -Charlie On 12/9/2020 12:08 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: Can we agre

Re: Converting RTF to HTML

2022-03-03 Thread Charlie
I missed the link in the earlier email I think. I'm interested. -Charlie On 3/3/2022 11:21 AM, Vince Teachout wrote: On 03/03/22 5:53 AM, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote: Any more interest anybody? Got it, thanks! ___ Post Messag

Re: Converting RTF to HTML

2022-03-03 Thread Charlie
Thx much! On 3/3/2022 4:58 PM, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote: This should be the one ... https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-K64g4NuEJmk0patx_U80DZte6j9uMHJ?usp -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech On Behalf Of Charlie Sent: 03 March 2022 21:55 To: profoxt...@leafe.com

Re: Index & Seek Question

2023-12-15 Thread Charlie
If the field is indexed you can use SET SOFTSEEK. I think you'd then have to do another check to ensure the value being pointed to is also less than the upper bound. HTH, -Charlie On 12/15/2023 5:08 PM, Paul H. Tarver wrote: Been quiet in here for a while, so I thought I'

Re: SQL Variable Substitution

2017-02-09 Thread Charlie
WSE 3) CHRTRAN out the "?" for the VFP BROWSE So the VFP thing would be something like "BROWSE FOR &(CHRTRAN(thewhere, "?", "")) note: I'm not sure you can do it all at once. You may have to do the CHRTRAN() into another variable

Re: New Excel BREAKS Prior Working Automation!

2017-03-14 Thread Charlie
that means you kinda need to be on a machine where it is failing. Good ol' MS "Where do you want your problem today?" -Charlie On 3/14/2017 3:40 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: RK - of course! That's what the original code essentially does! So - here is a cut down version of the origi

Re: Connecting to SQL via VFP w/Failover...

2015-07-24 Thread Charlie
On 7/24/2015 2:59 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote: Good lord, all that text Technically, a FAILOVER architecture does not require special processing on the "end point" (aka client). Anyway, did you use the ";Failover Partner=PartnerServerName" clause in your SQL connec

Re: [NF] Linux Ransomware now out

2015-11-19 Thread Charlie
r bottom dollar that companies like MS, and Apple are looking for any way to discredit/attack Linux. In fact, this thing smacks of Microsoft-ish "design": that is the software has a design flaw so big it's practically useless. :) -Charlie On 2015-11-10 09:34, Stephen Russell wrote: h

Re: Error 1569

2016-01-11 Thread Charlie
name]: File access denied"). I recommend opening the database (use the OPEN DATABASE command) before performing the USE statement. And, in fact, if you do you that do not need to path qualify the DBF (note: I always path qualify my OPEN DATABASE though ). -Charlie _

Re: security in programming

2016-03-07 Thread Charlie
ubfolders . But hey, go ahead and think you're secure just because you're using SQL Server or Oracle... or PostgreSQL... Nowadays technology folks aren't so much about truth as they are about money and lying enough to themselves to sleep at night. -Charlie

Re: A Blank Value for a Number?

2016-06-14 Thread Charlie
You could maybe do another query into MySQL, but if you've already pulled the data you need it'll be way faster to work with machine-local data. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.

Re: Checking for All-Different Characters

2016-07-17 Thread Charlie
a string coming out: cNewStr = str(year(ddateval), 4) + "-" + strtran(str(month(ddateval),2), " ", "0") + "-" + strtran(str(day(ddateval),2), " ", "0") (I put the "STRTRAN" in there to force the day result to a 2-character 0-fi

Re: Bad getwordnum

2016-08-05 Thread Charlie
Doesn't know VFP, doesn't want to do VFP, but he still spouts out stuff on this list to VFP questions... -Charlie On 8/4/2016 11:14 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: Pretty much. A little consulting on the side but never realy wanted to do VFP code. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:20 PM, wrote

Re: Embedded Excel...

2016-08-15 Thread Charlie
a extract while saving approach will work for that. Of course this assumes the SS isn't constantly changing, or that your app is not changing the data in the SS, etc; that would add a little more complexity, but still be quite feasible. HTH, -Charlie _

Re: 2 GB memo bloat in DBF used in WebConnection site (was RE: Friday Poll (while dl'ing MS Flash Patch))

2016-11-03 Thread Charlie
have to do some "table-create-swap" thing. The default is 64 bytes. And be advised, setting it to 1 thru 32 is not in bytes, it is in 512 byte chunks (SET BLOCKSIZE to 1 is 512, setting to 2 is 1024, ... up to 32). After 32, the number is interpreted as straight bytes. Of course, as alw

Re: 2 GB memo bloat in DBF used in WebConnection site (was RE: Friday Poll (while dl'ing MS Flash Patch))

2016-12-01 Thread Charlie
the table in shared mode means EVERY save to the memo will cause a NEW memo block to be appended to the .FPT file. I was going to write up some code folks could run to show this behavior, but didn't get to it. So the proof is left as a homework assignment. :) -Charlie _

Re: [NF] How cheap is it to get SQL Server Developer? VERY

2015-03-12 Thread Charlie
tly filling). Showed them good uses of relational integrity, triggers, stored procedures, blah blah blah. Incredible, just incredible, the level of stupidity in the computer industry today. But at least they know MS-SQL server! ROFLMAO. -Charlie ___

Re: TIme Stamp in Registry

2015-04-28 Thread Charlie
t dividing out the nanoseconds, get to seconds, and subtract the value from the known date/time. Usually the epoch values are midnight of January 1 of some year (e.g. Jan 1, 1801, 00:00:00am)... So if the subtraction gets you close to something like that you know you're on the right track.

Re: [NF] Interesting post about foreign keys in SQL

2015-05-28 Thread Charlie
n the database world today. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archi

Re: Outputting the contents of cursors in a Report Summary

2015-07-02 Thread Charlie
u can plop them into the report. I will often do a bunch of SCATTER MEMO oSomething before I do a REPORT FORM command and I'll have oSomething., etc where I need it . All the above said, using Report variables that are generated in the REPORT FORM itself works fine as well. Bu

Re: "File In Use" on USE "during" SQL SELECT Execution

2015-07-16 Thread Charlie
quot;USE MYTABLE IN 0" will throw an error if the table was opened under another alias. With the functions above, you could easily determine if the table is actually open or not. Also as others have mentioned, other applications can lock files (like AV). Plus, if you allow ODBC acce

Re: VFP6: Procedure File Blues

2014-04-21 Thread Charlie
FPT (or SCX or FRX) files and see if the string is in there. You'd at least know which Form/VCX/Report, etc has the potential to cause the problem. -Charlie On 4/21/2014 3:14 PM, Fred Taylor wrote: At the point that it fails, can you put up a messagebox or something that shows you the value

Re: [NF] Downloading speed

2008-09-18 Thread Charlie Coleman
ace tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled You probably will need admin rights to run this (of course you will, why would MS make anything easy) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/li

Re: [NF] Seinfeld/Gates ads pulled

2008-09-23 Thread Charlie Coleman
ld call them an actual "response" - more like a pathetic plea. But as to why the Apple ads weren't answered sooner well, it's difficult to argue with truths that are so obvious to so many. And that's also probably why the MS ads made little sense and w

Re: VFP9

2008-09-24 Thread Charlie Coleman
is is going on. I suppose no one likes to admit they have a "bug" in their code, but using the term "by design" is inaccurate at best and deceptive at worst. A better phrase would be "design limitation" or "code constraint". Then again, expecting anything

Re: [OT] Atheists LIED!!!!

2008-09-24 Thread Charlie Coleman
he fossil record, and/or in probability theory, it still may never adequately address the "first cause" aspect you mention. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT

Re: [OT] Atheists LIED!!!!

2008-09-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 06:19 PM 9/24/2008 -0400, Pete Theisen wrote: >Charlie Coleman wrote: > > At 04:45 PM 9/24/2008 -0400, Pete Theisen wrote: > > ... > >> Evolution is scientifically demonstrable, as I learned in Catholic > >> school and studied further in Catholic university. T

RE: [NF] Microsoft Commercials

2008-09-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
y?" At which point they fall silent. Then Linux gets some play. Of course commercials and software are completely different. However, to the PHB's out there, it's all jumbled together. So those commercials probably opened the eyes of some of these PHB's and they're

Re: [OT] what a hoot these old ladies are

2008-10-07 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 02:30 PM 10/7/2008 -0500, Stephen Russell wrote: ><http://margaretandhelen.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/bitch-there-i-said-it/> > >Reminds me of my Grandmother. Wow, I hope your grandmother isn't as senile as these ladies. They've apparently lost their last finger-h

Re: [NF] Hacker Indicted

2008-10-09 Thread Charlie Coleman
the hell they need to get off Windows as soon as feasible. :-) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/prof

Re: [Fwd: [NF] Why Most Fortune 500 Don't Rely on .NET]

2008-10-22 Thread Charlie Coleman
ystem to a new server? For .Net, it's a royal pain (at least according to the .Net-heads I've talked to at a client site - and I've seen problems at other client sites as well). But maybe it could be simplified by using Norton Ghost or something like that (hmmm

Re: [OT] A**hole Gore and his junk "science" whore

2008-11-20 Thread Charlie Coleman
a to sell your stocks in beach product manufacturers. ;-) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtec

RE: No table is open

2011-08-01 Thread Charlie Coleman
aths, etc. MS can really muck you up there with the later versions of Windows (aka path 'aliasing' or whatever to protect the c:\program files\ folder - tricking the application to think it's reading a file from one place but actually getting it from another - does anyone really in

RE: VFP9SP1 -- choking on ALINES ("not enough memory")

2011-08-09 Thread Charlie Coleman
quent >runs > > says "There is not enough memory to complete this operation." ... Shot in the dark. I think 65,000 array elements may still be a max. So if the file has more than 65,000 lines. -Charlie ___ Post Message

Re: VFP9SP1 -- choking on ALINES ("not enough memory")

2011-08-09 Thread Charlie Coleman
'm not exactly sure how VFP would handle the single-line code above. It'd have to buffer the FILETOSTR() somewhere - and not sure how/when that'd be released (maybe CLEAR MEMORY, but that's the whole kit-n-kaboodle). -Charlie ___ P

RE: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-11 Thread Charlie Coleman
I thought they got some bad press for that last time. I know it's silly to think you could prevent MS from updating your computer without your permission (unless you put your own blocks on your I-net connection ). But I thought they had backed off from doing that a bit since they got

Re: Comparing 2 tables and showing differences between them

2011-08-11 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 11:22 AM 8/11/2011 +0200, you wrote: > > > > Does anyone know if a tool exists to do this? Basically we want to compare > > table structures and data differences with the ability to move the correct > > data to the final production tables. > > Below is a quick thing I threw together to check ta

RE: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-11 Thread Charlie Coleman
e definitely not protected. You pretty much need a watchdog firewall, etc to keep MS from doing the auto-updates. And I'm not sure, but I think MS can even circumvent local PC firewalls at will (i.e. software firewalls. That may be an "enhanc

Re: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-15 Thread Charlie Coleman
on't forget, this is all within their "legal" right according to their license statement. Of course, you could write your own app to monitor all files on the PC, but then the damage'd be done by the time you recognized it anyway. -Charlie __

Re: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-15 Thread Charlie Coleman
uming you meant they did not turn off auto-updates). I think everyone realizes if you enable auto-updates you get what you ask for - that is, auto-updates from MS which may or may not hose your system or apps. -Charlie ... >On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote: > >

Re: [NF] Has two network cards disabled today

2011-08-17 Thread Charlie Coleman
in profit. That's what companies do . We could expect the same from Mac or any other proprietary system (I don't think Mac has done it yet, but they could just the same). I'm not surprised they do stuff like that, I'm surprised the "trained" compute

Re: In-bedded Audio Files

2011-08-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
ith the SEEK you just are moving it straight from the table to disk. Note: the above is not tested and there are a lot of little things you'd want to fill in, check, etc. HTH, -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Main

RE: In-bedded Audio Files

2011-08-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
r many sound tables you would ever expand to in an application. I read the original message as if the application were going to be distributed to other computers, and that there were certain sounds that would be played by the application based on the application's design/logic. So my respon

Re: [NF] http://duckduckgo.com replacement for google.com

2011-08-26 Thread Charlie Coleman
should be able to describe it myself. So, sure, Google is funding itself by telling advertisers information about the people doing searches, and offering to do the in-your-face ads. And Google is probably trying to pass that off as "benefiting the consumer". Sorry, no buy-in from me.

Re: RDT and Windows XP Prof

2011-08-30 Thread Charlie Coleman
possible to just share/map a drive to that computer from other computers on the network. I'm not saying any one way is right or wrong, just curious what drove you to RDT. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: [NF] Want to remain relevant?

2011-08-30 Thread Charlie Coleman
ow, just wait until the "promise" of the cloud is interpreted as "Why pay these high-priced US techies to live in the US?" -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/p

Re: VFP9SP2 - Error 2066: Index file "z:\data\costs.cdx" tag "Njobid"iscorrupted. Please rebuild it.

2011-09-06 Thread Charlie Coleman
) copy structure to (cDataDir + cTbl2Zap) database (dbc()) with cdx drop table (cTbl2Zap + "_tmpthing") use (cTbl2Zap) return Of course, if ZAP was hitting an error, maybe the DROP TABLE would have triggered the same thing? -Charlie

RE: Anybody using VS Lightswitch

2011-09-15 Thread Charlie Coleman
t it. Even though they don't actually get "support" the IT group has someone they can blame and therefore keep their job. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/p

[NF] Rootkit - Carrier IQ - on Android and iPhone phones

2011-12-03 Thread Charlie Coleman
n like they do in the PC OS. Here is one site where I started reading about Carrier IQ: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/so-theres-a-rootkit-hidden-in-millions-of-cellphones/16708?tag=nl.e539 -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscrip

Re: [NF] Rootkit - Carrier IQ - on Android and iPhone phones

2011-12-05 Thread Charlie Coleman
they may occasionally capture anonymous metric data as part of your contract? Are you completely satisfied this software is only capturing and sending anonymous information? I'm not. But maybe I'm just too untrusting. After all, no company has obtained personal data without clearly g

RE: RUN an EXE

2011-12-05 Thread Charlie Coleman
ypoint into your .exe). I put it just before my READ EVENTS statement. If you have a "form" set as your "main", I'd suggest putting this code in the Activate Event. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscrip

Re: Vfp and counter

2011-12-05 Thread Charlie Coleman
7;ve got a couple cases where I'm messing with multi-millions of rows. I'll try it both ways and see how significant the difference is. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/

Re: Get a heads upon the new OS Win8

2011-12-22 Thread Charlie Coleman
o corps won't get surprised by some uninstall, or that this is just prelim stuff, or that Apple and Google have malicious app kill switches for phones - so why can't MS do it, etc. Don't waste electrons. If you really don't think this is a concern you're too far up MS'

Re: Get a heads upon the new OS Win8

2011-12-22 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 08:21 AM 12/22/2011 -0600, Stephen Russell wrote: >On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Charlie Coleman wrote: > > You all may find this interesting: > > > > > http://www.windows8news.com/2011/12/08/microsoft-remotely-delete-windows-8-apps/ > > > > I'm no

Re: [NF] firefox crashing?

2008-06-10 Thread Charlie Coleman
e each day (thank God I don't use that POS any more). :-D -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/pro

Re: VFP9 S/totals on report

2008-06-20 Thread Charlie Coleman
roup all "A's", "B's", etc, or on a complex criteria - like IIF(MOD(recno()+1, 41)=0, 1, 2)). Then, then you can define your report variables to sum values in the groups and reset when group changes, etc. Place those variables in the group footer, and so on -Charlie

Re: [NF] Another Microsoft basher

2008-06-27 Thread Charlie Coleman
on tieing everyone into their specific software (which is to be expected of course). And what is really the key - more and more people are starting to wake up and realize it. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: Entering field in the first character position

2008-07-23 Thread Charlie Coleman
ot set to highlight the whole thing. So in my class code I've got the following: IF THIS.SelectOnEntry == .T. THIS.SetFocus() ENDIF HTH, -Charlie At 03:37 PM 7/22/2008 -0400, Vince Teachout wrote: >Stephen Russell wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 12:23 PM, John

Re: [NF] Windows XP Service Pack 3

2008-08-05 Thread Charlie Coleman
's the standard type of MS response - reply with some kind of marketing statement, no help provided. ;-) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of t

Re: Time to argue about long vs short methods

2008-08-06 Thread Charlie Coleman
to think about too. But as you say, the guy may be locked in (a lot like I was) to his number. You can't do much in that case other than try to keep the most cohesive code together where possible. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@l

RE: Error 2199

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
Also make sure that the strings in the MEMVAR do not evaluate to greater than 240 characters. -Charlie At 07:51 AM 8/21/2008 +0100, Dave Crozier wrote: >John, >I think the problem may well lie in the format of the date field between the >PC and the index. > >Look at your "

Re: [NF] XP SP2 vx SP3

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
hook that deep, you're a goner anyway. :-) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchab

Re: [NF] M$ figts back in ads, took long enough

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 12:38 PM 8/21/2008 -0500, Stephen Russell wrote: ><http://www.devtopics.com/hello-im-a-pc-says-seinfeld/> Well, it is certainly apropos to have a comedian in MS commercials. Because MS, and all those that drink its coolaid are... well laughable.

RE: Error 2199

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
>> > > Error building key for index "c:\abc\shipment.cdx" tag >> "Locitemdat." >> > > >> > >The SHIPMENT table has an index tag called LOCITEMDAT that is made up of >> > >LOCATION+ITEM+DTOC(SHIPDATE). LOCATION

RE: [NF] Microsoft slips Novell another tenth of a billion

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
n't seen the once-per-month scenario. Of the 2 XP machines I have I've wiped one of them once and another of them twice in the past 3 or so years (maybe that's why they're not performing very well at the moment hmm). It certainly is a huge pain to wipe 'em. -C

Re: [NP] Is IT True ... XP v Vista ... A Word Doc Created in One Not Read it the Other

2008-08-21 Thread Charlie Coleman
kfully I don't have to do that any more, those folks are now on the OOo bandwagon). -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe

Re: [NF] XP SP2 vx SP3

2008-08-22 Thread Charlie Coleman
all the new security holes introduced by SP3 ;-) -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Arc

Re: [OT] I've changed my mind about Obama

2008-08-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
read, Leland, do you have any sources that directly refute any of the information Bob had provided? -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://l

Re: [NF] Domino's pizza tracker application

2008-08-27 Thread Charlie Coleman
Careful Michael, calling a trivial technology "revolutionary" is dangerously close to M$'s marketing strategy. You may find yourself the target of a copyright infringement lawsuit. ;-) -Charlie At 12:00 PM 8/27/2008 -0700, Michael Madigan wrote: >This is a revolut

Re: [NF] Space Station Laptops infected with virus

2008-08-27 Thread Charlie Coleman
to recall that NASA is building lots of systems using Linux and making lots of future plans to use it. It seems the "rocket scientists" have spoken. I wonder how long it'll take for the "ordinary" person to hear. :-) -Charlie ___

Re: [NF] Domino's pizza tracker application

2008-08-27 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 09:00 PM 8/27/2008 +0100, Paul Newton wrote: >Charlie > >I don't think hyperbole is subject to copyright :) Then how the heck can MS copyright anything :P -Charlie >Charlie Coleman wrote: > > Careful Michael, calling a trivial technology "revolutionary"

Re: [OT] United Way CEO earns 1.2 million dollars

2008-08-29 Thread Charlie Coleman
go work for a non-profit (or not-for-profit), your mentality should be one of "serving" not "being served" That may be difficult for MS-heads to understand, but there are actually people out there that want to do things for others and require the absolute

Re: [OT] Palin wants to be part of the US when it suits her

2008-09-02 Thread Charlie Coleman
dical than some of the more widely known groups such as the Libertarian Party. Now, if it was found out that Palin has some friends that are, say, members of the KKK, then yeah, that would truly be significant and comparable. -Charlie ___ Post Messag

Re: [NF] Chrome this!

2008-09-04 Thread Charlie Coleman
ing the BIG BUCKS! (All you DotNet guys get the premium pay, >right? ) Nah, the MS evangelicals are having meetings all month, trying to figure out a way to save the company. I got the memo (not sure why though, I removed myself from their "fanatics" list many years ago -

Re: [NF] Chrome this!

2008-09-04 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 01:02 PM 9/4/2008 -0400, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: >On Thu, September 4, 2008 1:48 pm, Charlie Coleman wrote: > > Nah, the MS evangelicals are having meetings all month, trying to figure > > out a way to save the company. I got the memo (not sure why though

Re: Speed issues - multiuser application

2008-09-05 Thread Charlie Coleman
e that direct table access is not advised. Even when editing a single record I use the SCATTER MEMO NAME ... approach. Maybe this is why I've never had problems with VFP DB corruption but others have and it's certainly why I've never had

Re: Speed issues - multiuser application

2008-09-08 Thread Charlie Coleman
ndy in other situations. E.g. the single record stuff - SCATTER...NAME because then you're got an object you can pass around. It makes it easier to create encapsulated code with high cohesion and low coupling, IMO. -Charlie >--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Charlie Coleman <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [NF] Looking for memory reseller recommendation

2008-09-09 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 10:54 AM 9/9/2008 -0400, Malcolm Greene wrote: >Looking for recommendations regarding a memory reseller - any thoughts? >Thanks! >Malcolm You can have mine. It doesn't seem to be working well for me lately. :-) -Charlie ___ Po

RE: [NF] Google to offer gigabit-speed internet in the US.

2010-02-13 Thread Charlie Coleman
as been sounding a lot like ICOTUA members for over a year. Are you starting to see where the real problem is Bill? -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of

Re: VFP9 - Speed

2010-03-19 Thread Charlie Coleman
if what you're doing is a sort of once-in-a-while type thing the performance over SQL probably won't be noticeable. But if it's in a tight loop of a hundred thousand or so clients, using the benefits of VFP and its index structure may be significant. -Charlie > > *There&

Re: VFP9 - Speed

2010-03-20 Thread Charlie Coleman
At 04:26 PM 3/19/2010 -0500, Stephen Russell wrote: >On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Charlie Coleman wrote: > > > Anyway, if what you're doing is a sort of once-in-a-while type thing the > > performance over SQL probably won't be noticeable. But if it's in a tig

Re: VFP9 - Speed

2010-03-22 Thread Charlie Coleman
ord. And note that nowhere did I say that I would not do the SQL code. I simply showed another alternative that is available for investigation since they have the power of VFP at hand instead of SQL only. > > I bet it's driving you INSANE that the world is still on TCP/IP. > >

Re: [NF] Just got strange request from boss.

2010-03-24 Thread Charlie Coleman
op-posting" because they expect immediate responses - so in their mind the thread is fresh. -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list

Re: [OT] Island succumbs to rising oceans

2010-03-26 Thread Charlie Coleman
xtort money and power away from people (which, from what I can see, is the actual hidden agenda of those driving the man-made global warming scare tactics). -Charlie ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mai

Re: [NF] Zonealarm free -- what a PoS

2010-05-25 Thread Charlie Coleman
can be trusted? Wow. Just... wow. I've been using ZA as well for many years. But since I haven't been forced to go to Windows Vista or 7 yet, I may not have hit your problems. But it's interesting that a "watchdog" software package would suddenly start having problem

Re: Silly VFP9 Issue....

2019-02-07 Thread Charlie-gm
Also check the font settings (the VFP Tools > Options menu). Go to the IDE tab and you can change font characteristics, etc. HTH, -Charlie On 2/7/2019 4:00 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: SET MEMOWIDTH TO 132 -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]

Re: Cryptovirus hit one of my clients

2019-02-22 Thread Charlie-gm
systems store their data in ... files. It sounds like some very insidious code has infected their server. I'd recommend a complete wipe before a restore (or at least verify boot sectors or any other root/bootup software, etc). -Charlie ___

Re: [OT] Nothing runs like the Fox

2019-02-23 Thread Charlie-gm
Haha! Fate is watching! I wish you a speedy recovery Ed. Take care. -Charlie On 2/23/2019 10:20 AM, Ed Leafe wrote: Ok, this is a stretch, but this past Monday I had my left knee replaced. It's a long story [0], but I got a kick out of the fact that my surgeon's name was Fox! [1]

Re: Creating a copy of a database -- best practice?

2019-02-27 Thread Charlie-gm
of doing the backup, you could just do the "COPY FILE TO " - that command allows paths in the from/to. Also, I think it allows wildcards, so you could do a complete copy in 1 command. Of course, the downside is the assumption of files being closed. -HTH, -Charlie On 2/27/2019 12

Creating a copy of a database -- best practice? - checking email - did not come through before

2019-03-02 Thread Charlie-gm
of doing the backup, you could just do the "COPY FILE TO " - that command allows paths in the from/to. Also, I think it allows wildcards, so you could do a complete copy in 1 command. Of course, the downside is the assumption of files being closed. -HTH, -Charlie ---

Re: Creating a copy of a database -- best practice? - checking email - did not come through before

2019-03-04 Thread Charlie-gm
ot;user" operation and so could be avoided during the backup process. It goes without saying, before using in production, this code should be thoroughly tested, customized, etc. HTH, -Charlie PS. Please don't make fun of my variable names - I was in a hurry when I gen'd this up

Re: A FoxPro Transition @ UCLA...

2019-03-22 Thread Charlie-gm
th a little... So let me say, pick up any of the "newer" platforms. For me, the best way to learn them is not necessarily "courses" (nor "certification programs"), but to build something "real" with them. If you land this job, you can help the employer in

Re: Your laptop

2019-03-24 Thread Charlie-gm
, not a lot of noise, and quite light in my opinion. I'm thinking about an Origin laptop for my next one (but still a ways off to buy) - impressive specs, generally good reviews, lots of customizing available. But expensive and not sure the brand is tried and true as the big names. -

Re: [NF] Conditions in JOIN clause instead of WHERE

2019-04-02 Thread Charlie-gm
explicit). Other than that, perhaps a particular DBMS would "optimize better" with INNER JOIN or WHERE - but I kind of doubt it. -Charlie On 4/2/2019 6:05 PM, Garrett Fitzgerald wrote: Hey, all. I had a general SQL question. Often, I find myself needing to use the syntax: FROM a L

Re: [NF] Conditions in JOIN clause instead of WHERE

2019-04-03 Thread Charlie-gm
Hey Eric, What do you mean? I have not run into a SQL DBMS that does not support both WHERE and INNER JOIN. -Charlie On 4/3/2019 4:35 PM, Eric Selje wrote: Just be aware that VFP's SQL lets you get away with that, but not all incarnations of SQL will. Eric On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at

Re: [NF] Conditions in JOIN clause instead of WHERE

2019-04-03 Thread Charlie Coleman
but I have not experienced that even with my most complicated "WHERE" clauses (of course, like all my code, I sometimes do not get the statement correct on the first try, but that can happen with my "JOINS" as well as my "WHERES" ). -Charlie On Wed, Apr 3, 2019 at 5:3

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