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Funny flashback Friday memory
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

I recall back in the late 90s or early 2000s people poo-pooing the VFP installations that had to carry the 15 megabyte runtimes also besides the program/application EXE itself. LOL

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A trusted application
by Paul Hemans 10 Jul '17

10 Jul '17

The challenge is to make an application that cannot be changed. It doesn't matter if it is copied, but it does matter if the application is changed. The application will always have an internet connection. The point is that the messages coming from the application to the server must be "trusted" that the contents are the original contents. So I was wondering if this workflow might do it, or if there is a simpler method. - On startup connect to the server and pass the build version number - The server verifies the build # and responds with a script and a unique id built from the server date time and version. - The script is Javascript that changes everyday with an output code. - The client runs the script which builds a hash from all the files in the application directory. - The script then takes the unique id, the hash, the output code and sends it back to the server as signature stored in the HTTP session - The server verifies that the response is within an acceptable response period by looking at the unique id. - The server verifies the hash against the hash for that version. - The signature is stored for the session and all messages within a session must have a matching signature or the request is rejected and the verification process is repeated. It would seem the weak point would be if someone analyzed the network traffic and then built a proxy to run the script and spoof the session, but it would be difficult because the session script could easily change the way it verifies the running environment. Another weak point might be if the network traffic was sniffed and a rogue application started using the signature. However that would involve a new HTTP session and so the verification would fail. Can you break it? --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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SMS (text messaging)
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 07 Jul '17

07 Jul '17

Anybody done a simple app that sends text messages to customers? I'm talking a simple database with name, phone number, email, and you send a specific message to the list. Example: you want to alert customers scheduled to come in to your business that it's closed (let's say due to avalanche). I have notes from YEARS ago where it was something like phonenumber(a)txt.att.net. Here's a lookup table I made back in 2009 regarding it: https://www.screencast.com/t/DUVsmmtd I know there are services like txtNation (http://www.txtnation.com/) I don't want to reinvent the wheel so I'd like to hear from those who have done this already. tia, --Mike

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[NF] B4i
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 05 Jul '17

05 Jul '17

https://www.b4x.com/b4i.html Anybody using this dev tool to build apps for iPhone? I know some of you have used B4A (for Android)...Dave Crozier, right? Just curious at this point. No work slated for it (yet).

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[NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive?
by Michael Madigan 04 Jul '17

04 Jul '17

https://mydailydiscovery.com/spo/fact-or-fiction-is-the-25-computer-real-th… I wonder, does this really work?

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ProFox List Statistics for June 2017
by List Administrator Account 01 Jul '17

01 Jul '17

================================================== ProFox List Statistics June 2017 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 289 ProFoxTech: 185 ================================================== Total Posts: 343 (Down 2.28% from May 2017) Total [OT] Posts: 1 (Down 80.0% from May 2017) Total [NF] Posts: 154 (Up 6.94% from May 2017) Daily Message Counts for June 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- T 1 - 8 F 2 - 24 S 3 - 6 S 4 - 3 M 5 - 14 T 6 - 38 W 7 - 32 T 8 - 19 F 9 - 10 S 11 - 4 M 12 - 12 T 13 - 21 W 14 - 4 T 15 - 15 F 16 - 6 S 18 - 6 M 19 - 18 T 20 - 20 W 21 - 5 T 22 - 18 F 23 - 3 S 24 - 1 S 25 - 4 M 26 - 24 T 27 - 1 W 28 - 7 T 29 - 15 F 30 - 5 Message Counts By Day of Week for June 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 17 Mon - 68 Tue - 80 Wed - 48 Thu - 75 Fri - 48 Sat - 7 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to May 2017) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 52 (Down 5.45%) OT messages: 1 (Down 66.67%) NF messages: 35 (Down 7.89%) Total number: 52 (Down 7.14%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 32 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 27 Ted Roche 3. 24 Stephen Russell 4. 21 Alan Bourke 5. 20 Thierry Nivelet 6. 18 Dave Crozier 7. 16 Paul H. Tarver 8. 15 Michael Madigan 9. 13 Gene Wirchenko 10. 11 Tracy Pearson 11. 9 John Weller 12. 9 Charlie-gm 13. 8 Kurt @ VR-FX 14. 8 Man-wai Chang 15. 7 Edward Leafe 16. 7 Richard Kaye 17. 7 Paul Hemans 18. 6 Kurt at VR-FX 19. 6 Peter Cushing 20. 6 Kurt Wendt Top 1 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 7% Gene Wirchenko Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 19 Stephen Russell 2. 17 Ted Roche 3. 10 Alan Bourke 4. 8 Charlie-gm 5. 8 Gene Wirchenko 6. 8 John Weller 7. 8 Dave Crozier 8. 8 Paul H. Tarver 9. 7 Thierry Nivelet 10. 6 Kurt @ VR-FX 11. 5 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 12. 4 Kurt at VR-FX 13. 4 Man-wai Chang 14. 4 Kurt Wendt 15. 4 Richard Kaye 16. 3 Edward Leafe 17. 3 Pete Theisen 18. 2 Peter Cushing 19. 2 Mike McCann 20. 2 Vince Teachout Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 32 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 27 Ted Roche 3. 24 Stephen Russell 4. 21 Alan Bourke 5. 20 Thierry Nivelet 6. 18 Dave Crozier 7. 16 Paul H. Tarver 8. 15 Michael Madigan 9. 14 Gene Wirchenko 10. 11 Tracy Pearson 11. 9 John Weller 12. 9 Charlie-gm 13. 8 Kurt @ VR-FX 14. 8 Man-wai Chang 15. 7 Edward Leafe 16. 7 Richard Kaye 17. 7 Paul Hemans 18. 6 Kurt at VR-FX 19. 6 Peter Cushing 20. 6 Kurt Wendt Top 20 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 6 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 5 Stephen Russell 3. 4 Paul H. Tarver 4. 3 Rick Schummer 5. 3 Michael Madigan 6. 2 John Weller 7. 2 Paul Newton 8. 2 Gene Wirchenko 9. 1 List Administrator Account 10. 1 Edward Leafe 11. 1 Al 12. 1 Malcolm Greene 13. 1 Ted Roche 14. 1 Ed Leafe 15. 1 Paul Hemans 16. 1 Charlie-gm 17. 1 Tracy Pearson 18. 1 rafael copquin 19. 1 Chris Davis 20. 1 Brant E. Layton Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 34 [NF] Do you prefer Digest Mode? 2. 25 [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 3. 24 e: [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 4. 22 FoxInCloud -- new project (not a conversion) 5. 20 VFP and Gmail 6. 19 [NF] Export video to DVD 7. 18 frx to html conversion 8. 16 "Record is not available" error in FPW 2.6 9. 12 VFP & Server 2012 10. 12 [ADMIN] Testing new SMTP relay 11. 10 Disappearing (and later reappearing) data on Windows Server 2016 12. 8 [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive? 13. 8 Is there any advantage for indexing on balance rather than on principle - payments +adjustments? 14. 7 Modify Project from Config.FPW 15. 7 web Ticket system online (FoxInCloud?) 16. 7 Bulk Imports While Multi-User System is in Use 17. 7 [NF] Find table where last record was added 18. 6 HotTracking Button in a PageFrame 19. 5 [ADMIN] Changed List E-mail Address 20. 5 [NF] Latest Ransomware "vaccine" Top 1 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 1 [OT] joke Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 34 [NF] Do you prefer Digest Mode? 2. 25 [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 3. 24 e: [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 4. 22 FoxInCloud -- new project (not a conversion) 5. 20 VFP and Gmail 6. 19 [NF] Export video to DVD 7. 18 frx to html conversion 8. 16 "Record is not available" error in FPW 2.6 9. 12 VFP & Server 2012 10. 12 [ADMIN] Testing new SMTP relay 11. 10 Disappearing (and later reappearing) data on Windows Server 2016 12. 8 [NF] has anyone played with Linux on a thumb drive? 13. 8 Is there any advantage for indexing on balance rather than on principle - payments +adjustments? 14. 7 Modify Project from Config.FPW 15. 7 web Ticket system online (FoxInCloud?) 16. 7 Bulk Imports While Multi-User System is in Use 17. 7 [NF] Find table where last record was added 18. 6 HotTracking Button in a PageFrame 19. 5 [ADMIN] Changed List E-mail Address 20. 5 [NF] Latest Ransomware "vaccine"

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Southwest Fox 2017: Super-saver deadline is today...
by Rick Schummer 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

Hear that sound? Tick, tick, tick, tick... That's the countdown clock here at Geek Gatherings getting closer to the Super-saver deadline for Southwest Fox! June 30th is *TODAY* and we thought we would pass along a reminder just in case you forgot to type it into your task list, or put a yellow sticky note on your monitor. We still need people to register to make the conferences happen. The conference takes place October 26-29, 2017 in Gilbert, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. We would hate to see you lose out on the $125 discount, the FREE pre-conference session, and an opportunity to win a scholarship or a license of Stonefield Query SDK (a $6,000 value). Head over to the registration Web site today: https://geekgatherings.com/Registration If you've already registered, we thank you. Can you help us remind your fellow developers who have been procrastinating about the looming deadline by sharing this email or tweeting about it? Spread the word by telling others you going on our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/201298070323046/ Also, if you sent in your registration and have not received a confirmation, please contact us to see what happened. Everyone gets a confirmation when the registration is processed. As promised, we are not cashing checks or processing credit cards for new registrations until the middle of July. Check out our list of amazing speakers and dig into our session tracks. Follow the news about the conference on our blog. Speakers: http://swfox.net/speakers.aspx Sessions: http://swfox.net/sessionsswfox.aspx News: http://swfox.net/news.aspx Blog: http://swfox.net/blog/index.php Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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[FiC] Fox In Cloud
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 30 Jun '17

30 Jun '17

I'm working with Thierry's group to beat around the latest versions of Fox In Cloud. He prefers support in public forums such as this so in order to help "categorize" these posts, I was going to preface the subject with [FiC] unless good reason why I shouldn't. I could use the forum over at WestWind but that wouldn't help educate anyone here at ProFox. Thoughts? Objections? Free beer? tia, --Mike

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[NF] debugger hacks for VS2017
by Stephen Russell 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

If you use VS these are some good ideas on how to debug better. Unless you don't need no stinkin debuggin https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2017/06/26/7-lesser-known-hac… -- Stephen Russell Sr. Analyst Ring Container Technology Oakland TN 901.246-0159 cell --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Bulk Imports While Multi-User System is in Use
by Ken Dibble 29 Jun '17

29 Jun '17

Hi folks, Having never attempted this before, I am seeking any guidance you can offer. I'm using VFP tables across a LAN, with VFP 9 SP 1. The tables are on a virtualized Windows 2012 file server that has gargantuan memory and HDD resources available. The workstations are Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit with processors in the 3.5 GHz range and 4 GB of RAM. My framework does not use the RAD features of VFP; no data environments, no control sources, no buffering (I actually wrote my own "buffering"/conflict resolution system), no auto-incrementing columns. The only time I manually lock anything is when my integer surrogate key-creation program is generating a new key--and I only lock the table that stores the last-used key value. I do use a database container so that the default value methods of the PK fields of my tables can call the key generation program. When users create new records, I use APPEND, not INSERT. The system was deliberately designed to divorce database access from business rules and GUI (because initially, long ago, I thought I might actually embark on writing my own database server). I understand that there is brief automatic locking, however, whenever VFP writes to a table (or, rather, when the server OS, in its infinite wisdom, deigns to carry out VFP's request to write to the table). I've been given the task of importing data from a spreadsheet into my multi-user system. I have not done any testing on this but it is possible that the import process, run every week or every two weeks, will create thousands of records that will be "children" of a few hundred "parent" records. The system is in near constant use by somewhere around a half-dozen people, and much larger numbers use it occasionally. Some of the half-dozen intensive users are quite likely to be accessing the parent records at the time the bulk import process is creating the child records. I am concerned about creating massive access conflicts leading to race conditions, freezing of the system, and/or data corruption. Should I just block everybody from saving any data while the import process runs? (I don't know how long it will take, but I do envision a lot of error-checking and logging on each row of the spreadsheet to prevent bad data from getting into the system.) Or are there simple things I can do to prevent issues ("simple" means, no major changes to the framework or the database)? Or is this something I don't really need to worry about? Thanks very much for any suggestions. Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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