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Re: Indexes on VFP tables--when do they get updated
by Gene Wirchenko 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

At 12:21 2018-01-24, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: [snip] ><OldWarStory> >I once worked on an app where the original developer thought it would >be a "clever" idea to define index expressions as UDFs. Yes, it's It seems to me that it might be useful in some very limited circumstances. >possible. In his UDFs, he would switch work areas, open tables if not >already opened, look up values, and then return the value, cleaning up >work areas and tables as he went. For every index definition for every >record. A reindex with more than a couple hundred records brought the >entire system to its knees. ></OldWarStory> That does seem like a lot of unnecessary work. Wouldn't the tables needed already have been open? Or did he have SET ARCHITECTUREASTRONAUT ON? [snip] Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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[NF] RE: Timers in VFP
by Paul H. Tarver 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Something make me click on your website link, Ken, and I was surprised to see you work in the Binghamton, NY area. My wife is the from Elmira/Corning and I've been through your pretty town many times. Paul -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 11:32 AM To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com Subject: Re: Timers in VFP > I vaguely recall somebody saying timers in VFP were bad (at some point). I have a timer that tracks user activity and shuts down my application if there has been no activity for a period of time. It generally works well, but I've had a few issues with it: 1. Time is *very* approximate. If I configure it to shut down after 15 minutes without activity, I can expect it to go at least 15 minutes, but as long as 20 to 25 minutes. This seems to be affected by whatever else is happening on the machine. 2. Timers complicate debugging. I think they contribute to the fact that the debugger doesn't always land on the actual line of code where an error occurred. And if the timer is going to force a jump to some other place, or shut down the application, you need to have a routine to turn it off for your "debug mode", or you won't be able to spend much time analyzing things in the debugger. 3. I have speculated--with no proof--that timers contribute to incidents where VFP doesn't necessarily execute code in the order in which it is encountered. For example, various screen painting/updating issues. Sometimes you can call .Refresh() or .Paint() until you're blue in the face and it just doesn't happen until VFP gets done doing whatever it thinks is more important. I, too, recall this issue being discussed and I think some people had some even more esoteric points. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Re: Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status...
by Fernando D. Bozzo 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Hi Kurt: You can be sure that there is nobody with less than 40 here (including me:) Good luck and report back! :-) Fernando D. Bozzo El 23 ene. 2018 1:22, "Kurt at VR-FX" <vrfx(a)optonline.net> escribió: FYI - had a 1st interview via phone today - and, I think I'm a Shoe-In for this Gig! (Is this "shoe-in" still used as a common phrase - or only by OLD people such as Me?) Why? Cause exactly how many VFP programmers are still out there working in the world? Well - lucky for me - Seems there is STILL a NEED! Hell - we ALL of us here know of some Old Apps still in the field - still in VFP - and STILL Working! So - now its my time to quickly get acquainted with this app at this new potential Gig! Tomorrow is an Inperson interview. I should have no problem with that. But, will report back as to the Outcome. -K- On 12/4/2017 10:40 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 1:09 PM, Kurt at VR-FX <vrfx(a)optonline.net> wrote: > >> Thus why I am looking around for VFP >> work. So - if anyone knows of anything in the NYC area - or even work >> that I >> can do remotely - I would really appreciate it! >> >> Sorry to hear that, Kurt. I'll keep an eye out for opportunities to > send your way. > > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Southwest Fox 2018: Save the Dates
by Rick Schummer 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Geek Gatherings LLC is officially asking you to save the dates for Southwest Fox 2018! The conference takes place October 18-21, 2018 at the San Tan Elegante Conference and Reception Center, the same great location as last year. We choose speakers from the developer community based on their session proposals. We are always looking for new speakers. Watch the Call for Speakers page of the conference website; we'll post the Call for Speakers in late February. As in prior years, we run a substantial risk in running the conference, primarily the tens of thousands of dollars we have to commit to the conference center. So, once again, we ask you to register for the conference before the July 1 deadline so we can make our go or no-go decision. All the details about registration, speakers, sessions, and more will be available in May. Special Request!!! If there are any topics you hope will be covered this year, please send them to info(a)geekgatherings.com, right away. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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Performance issues on virtual 2K12 server
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 24 Jan '18

24 Jan '18

Client moved from old virtual 2K3 server to newer 2K12 server. They use an IT vendor to manage all of their IT setup. They connect via Terminal Services if I understand correctly. Apparently this legacy VFP application is run from the server by all users. Performance is inconsistent, with many times it getting almost frozen for some unknown reason. Other times it's fine. No good rhyme/reason standing out. A/V and other scans have the VFP app and data folders excluded (or so I'm told). For those who have worked with VFP apps in TS mode, any tips? tia, --Mike

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Re: Performance issues on virtual 2K12 server
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

On 2018-01-23 10:59, Ken Dibble wrote: >> Client moved from old virtual 2K3 server to newer 2K12 server. They >> use an IT vendor to manage all of their IT setup. They connect via >> Terminal Services if I understand correctly. Apparently this legacy >> VFP application is run from the server by all users. Performance is >> inconsistent, with many times it getting almost frozen for some >> unknown reason. Other times it's fine. No good rhyme/reason standing >> out. A/V and other scans have the VFP app and data folders excluded >> (or so I'm told). For those who have worked with VFP apps in TS mode, >> any tips? > > "IT vendor to manage..." > > Is this a "cloud"-hosted service? Have they applied the > Meltdown/Spectre patches? Supposedly, especially in a virtualized > setting, those can really slow things down. > > We have not applied any of those patches here. > > We use RDP here with a virtualized Windows 2008 server. Application > runs on that server, and the data (VFP tables) are on a virtualized > 2012 server on the same hypervisor. It's blazingly fast, no matter > where the end user is. Faster, in fact, for many users, than running > it on a desktop in our building. According to their IT vendor: 1) It's using SMB file sharing; the program runs on Client server from a remote server. (What, huh???) 2) They did not apply those patches and won't be for awhile. 3) RDP is not an option.

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Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status...
by Kurt at VR-FX 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hey there folks, I'm writing this email mostly as a way to do some Networking. So - on Fri I was laid off from my day job. The reasons kinda sucked, and its kinda complicated. Suffice it to say I didn't do anything truly Bad - I was just not doing the Right stuff according to some people. But, Others there - they will FREAK out on Mon. when the word gets around the co. that I was Fired! As many of you know - 3D Design and 3D Printing is my real passion. And, I WILL now be trying to make some true progress in that regards to making money. Actually going to see a patent lawyer associate of mine today to discuss some of my projects, and getting a patent on one or more of them. However, I need a kind of backup plan. Thus why I am looking around for VFP work. So - if anyone knows of anything in the NYC area - or even work that I can do remotely - I would really appreciate it! Oh - FYI - I did get one thing - as they agreed to pay me for the full month of Dec. - which isn't too shabby as far as severance packages go - although not that great. L8r, Kurt

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Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information
by Alan Bourke 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

These exploits are nasty but if they've been in Intel chips ever since they started implementing out-of-order execution in 1995 then surely if there was a serious real-world threat we would have seen it long ago? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 4 Jan 2018, at 7:46 PM, Ken Dibble wrote: > Virtually everything we do here involves HIPAA-sensitive information, > but we have very robust perimeter defenses. I'm much more concerned > about a potential 30%+ performance loss in systems that are > constantly used by nearly a hundred people every day. > > >The exploit allows VMs to go into the memory space of other VMs. > >Very bad. Unless you don't have any sensitive info that needs to > >stay that way. > > > >-- > > > >rk > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken Dibble > >Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2018 1:35 PM > >To: profoxtech(a)leafe.com > >Subject: Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information > > > >I just can't wait to see what it's going to do to my highly > >virtualized network--if I ever decide to let it through. Probably a > >smaller version of what it's already started to do to some commercial > >cloud systems. > > > >Windows Automatic Updates: Just Say No. (TM) > > > > >Also, kudos to Microsoft for shipping their patches a week early, and > > >spontaneously rebooting idle Windows workstations while people were > > >freaking out over the new exploits. Good job! > > > > > >On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Ken Dibble <krdibble(a)stny.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > Ask Woody has a very thorough report on this, with links to more > > > > information. > > > > > > > > We all need to be fully informed about this; it is going to affect > > > > everybody. > > > > > > > > https://www.askwoody.com/ > > > > > > > > Ken Dibble > > > > www.stic-cil.org > > > > > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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Craig Boyd
by Dave Crozier 20 Jan '18

20 Jan '18

Anyone know what Craig is up to these days. I needed to load some software of his and noticed his website has been completely re-designed but no new blog posts since 2010. He just seems to have disappeared off the horizon. Dave --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Weird "SUPER SIZED SCREEN" across dual monitors when I start VFP9
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 19 Jan '18

19 Jan '18

Win7Pro, VFP9SP2 (7423), Dell Latitude 5530, dual Dell E-series 24" wide monitors Recently replaced my laptop's hard drive. Use Macrium Reflect (and it couldn't have been easier). However, when I start VFP now, with the property setting to open maximized on launch, it opens with crazy dimensions, spread across both monitors: https://www.screencast.com/t/kMiExIye I end up having to make the screen normal via dbl-clicking the title bar, then dbl-clicking it again to maximize to just the one monitor, as I want it. This isn't fatal; it's just annoying. I found out which FoxUser.dbf file was in use, SET RESOURCE OFF, opened the resource file, then ZAPped it. Closed VFP and restarted--no different. Ideas? tia! --Mike

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