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RE: [NF] EXTERNAL SSD hard drives
by Gene Wirchenko 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

At 05:01 2016-11-18, Dave Crozier <DaveC(a)Flexipol.co.uk> wrote: >CTRL/ALT and if I remember correctly on the plus version it was both >shift keys together... > >These along with Wordstar control keys are indelibly engrained in my brain! > >How sad is that! Not sad at all. The WordStar keys are very useful. I use a WordStar-compatible editor for my programming. IME, no GUI editor has ever compared faintly as well for general programming editing. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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define class xx twice
by Thierry Nivelet 18 Nov '16

18 Nov '16

Hi, Just to be sure, would this behavior always be true wherever both DEFINE CLASS are located? dupClassTest = CreateObject('dupClassTest') ? dupClassTest.dupClassTest && 'duplicate' DEFINE CLASS dupClassTest as Custom dupClassTest = 'original' enddefine DEFINE CLASS dupClassTest as Custom dupClassTest = 'duplicate' enddefine -- Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/

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Re: Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2
by Paul Hill 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Broadcom network card by any chance? If so, you need to disable virtual machine queues in the network driver properties. Took me AGES to find this issue. On 17 Nov 2016 4:21 pm, "Ted Roche" <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > A former client from way back when emailed me with a brief question on > > "running VFP 9 on a server with HyperV and Windows Server 2012R2." > They are migrating an existing app from Server 2003 and he says on the > new machine, "it runs like a dog" and I'm guessing he doesn't mean > greyhound. > > With this lack of clues, has anyone got a shot-in-the-dark guess what > might be going wrong? > > -- > Ted Roche > Ted Roche & Associates, LLC > http://www.tedroche.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Guess the problem? VFP9, HyperV, 2012R2
by Ted Roche 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

A former client from way back when emailed me with a brief question on "running VFP 9 on a server with HyperV and Windows Server 2012R2." They are migrating an existing app from Server 2003 and he says on the new machine, "it runs like a dog" and I'm guessing he doesn't mean greyhound. With this lack of clues, has anyone got a shot-in-the-dark guess what might be going wrong? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Beautify
by Wes Wilson 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Is there a way to run a prg through BEAUTIFY without bringing up Tools->Beautify? e.g. BEAUTIFY anyprogram.prg Wes Wilson, President ERW Custom Programming, Inc. Crescent Lake Plaza 5459 Elizabeth Lake Rd. Waterford, MI 48327 (248) 683-4182 LinkedIn Profile "Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it" Philip Kotler www.erw.com weswilson(a)erw.com --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Setting >1 Page Orientation in PDFs
by Gene Wirchenko 17 Nov '16

17 Nov '16

Hello: One of the print options for my client billing app is to PDF file. I wrote the code for use with Adobe's Adobe PDF printer driver. It works mostly. I am now looking at switching to Bullzip. It works mostly. I would like to get rid of the "mostly". The problem I have is with printer orientation. I can set the orientation at the beginning of the print job to either portrait or landscape. That works just fine. What I can not do is change the orientation midjob. This problem exists with both Adobe PDF and Bullzip. Any later change to the orientation during the print job is ignored. To set the orientation, I first close printer, use a .frx with the appropriate orientation, and then do a =sys(1037,3). When printing to a physical printer, there is no problem: the orientation changes. Please note that I generate my output with set printer on and ?. Switching to .frt/.frx is not a viable option. The reason that I want this is because some PDFs should contain more than one report. (Some invoices should also have a transaction report following them.) Fortunately, I currently do not have a need to have these combined print job PDFs contain both portrait and landscape pages, but it would be nice to have in case it is ever needed. And it does not seem it should be so difficult. What am I doing wrong, or is it impossible? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] Here's something you never would have seen under Ballmer's M$
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/microsoft-joins-linux-foundation-another-step-…

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Re: [NF] Phishing and other cyber crime
by Gene Wirchenko 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

At 04:59 2016-11-16, Man-wai Chang <changmw(a)gmail.com> wrote: >You need government intervention if not regulation for that. Existing >laws could be applied, right? What good would that do? The phishing would still have occurred. There are laws against murder, but murder still happens. >It's all about *INTENTION**!! If there is an IT mess to clean up, the lack of intention to cause trouble does not make the mess less. [snipped previous] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Re: [NF] Phishing and other cyber crime
by Gene Wirchenko 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

At 04:28 2016-11-16, Peter Cushing <pcushing(a)whisperingsmith.com> wrote: [snip] >We now have software to stop people plugging their own devices in: > >[link deleted] > >and lots of web filters, but you still have the problem of people >clicking on links in emails. We have started sending out emails >with quiz type questions to try to educate people. > >[link deleted] > >I got 8/9. I blame the lack of tea first thing this morning for the >other one ;-) Both links appear to require JavaScript. Guess what I do not have enabled by default. Guess why. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] Phishing and other cyber crime
by Peter Cushing 16 Nov '16

16 Nov '16

Just want to throw this out there and see what other people are doing to keep attacks at bay. We are finding phishing and malware attacks are getting more and more sophisticated and it is getting harder to avoid them. We got hit by a crytowall 4 attack a while ago but fortunately have good backups. Even when we found out which machine it was, nothing showed up when you scanned it with all the virus and other scanners we could get our hands on. We just wiped the machine anyway. We learned the other day about a new type of malware that is extremely dangerous. If it got onto one of the machines that does internet banking (not mentioning the bank name), the machine can be controlled from elsewhere. When the user logs on using their smart card and pin entry devices which are both plugged into the machine, the malware then puts up a screen saying "Authorising account" or some such message with a waiting logo and in the background the hacker is putting payments through on a hidden screen. The hacker then prompts the user (again) for their pin, which authorises the hidden payment(s). I didn't think they could get past not having the card and pin present. We now have software to stop people plugging their own devices in: https://www.endpointprotector.com/ and lots of web filters, but you still have the problem of people clicking on links in emails. We have started sending out emails with quiz type questions to try to educate people. http://www.intronis.com/msp-resources/smb-phishing-quiz/ I got 8/9. I blame the lack of tea first thing this morning for the other one ;-) Thanks, -- Peter Cushing IT Department WHISPERING SMITH This communication is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. The contents are confidential and may be protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. www.whisperingsmith.com Whispering Smith Ltd Head Office:61 Great Ducie Street, Manchester M3 1RR. Tel:0161 831 3700 Fax:0161 831 3715 London Office:17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Tel:0207 299 7960

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