Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan via use-livecode
On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > And my first stint of practicing law led to Hawkins' Second Law: There is > no lower bound to human intelligence. > > (I've forgotten the first law; it was a special case of the second) > I'm assuming the old "The difference between genius and

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-05 Thread Quentin Long via use-livecode
sez J. Landman Gay: > On 1/4/17 4:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > I feel so stupid. But I must confess I screwed up. > You did the right thing posting here. I have a client who runs into > problems all the time, so we schedule a Skype session where I can see > what's going wrong. Invariably, as soo

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 3:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Sounds remarkably like a possible urban legend I read, where a secretary > was asked to copy a floppy disk, so she put it into the Xerox machine. In this case, I was speaking to the guy that got the call. Frankly, though, this is one that

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/17 4:46 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You did the right thing posting here. I have a client who runs into problems all the time, so we schedule a Skype session where I can see what's going wrong. Invariably, as soon as she tells me about t

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > You did the right thing posting here. I have a client who runs into > problems all the time, so we schedule a Skype session where I can see > what's going wrong. Invariably, as soon as she tells me about the issue and > I'm watching her sc

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread Stephen Barncard
This is the case will all tech problem solving. And why I can't find my keys and my daughter can, instantly, with a smirk. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Invariably, as soon as she tells me about the issue and I'm watching her > screen, she immediately figures out the re

Re: Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/17 4:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I feel so stupid. But I must confess I screwed up. You did the right thing posting here. I have a client who runs into problems all the time, so we schedule a Skype session where I can see what's going wrong. Invariably, as soon as she tells me about the

Not Corruption

2017-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I feel so stupid. But I must confess I screwed up. I have a login stack that when a user logs in it sets properties of the mainstack to which it belongs, like the userid, the login name, the permissions level etc. Well one of the properties it sets is... wait for it... PASSWORD!!! I was settin