Personally... I think finding someone with a stack of "Dragon" would be a bigger geek. You know that sitting right next to those Dragon magazines is going to be every Forgotten Realms and Dragonlance novel ever written. I bought my first Dragon in 1980 or so. I don't remember the issue #. It was the one with the Anti-paladin class, and the "Good Hits & Bad Misses" critical hits/fumbles chart. I do have a large stack of the magazines, though I only subscribed to it for a year back in 2004 or so.
The quality of the magazine was fairly good throughout, in my opinion. Of course I didn't bother to buy some, because they didn't have anything in them that appealed to me.
I had a collection of all the Dragon Magazines in PDF format on CD as of a few years ago, but seem to have lost it. I bought it through TSR or WoTC, whoever it was at the time.
I never liked the FR or Dragonlance books, having read 3 or 4.
I do wish I could find my Phineous Fingers collection:-(. (or was it spelled 'Fineous'?)
F-18 was good... Falcon was even better. The sound of starting up your engine, then going to full afterburner, was.... awesome.
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So I wasn't imagining things! Twice in the last couple of weeks my XP machine has rebooted itself after updating, and I would have sworn I never told it to do so, since I had a lot of stuff open (although none of it was in the same class as an unsaved document - it was mostly a lot of documentation and reports I had open. I was pissed, because it took a while to get everything arranged exactly as I wanted it.
It appears that nobody seems to be asking the next logical question: if the neutrinos aren't there, then what about the Sun? The Sun is there. I checked.:-)
God, how I hate those popups! Yes, I know I don't have a wireless connection here... *Yes*, I $%^&ing *know* I don't have a wireless connection here... Would you be willing to post the registry hack, or a link to it?
It's worthless to reply to anonymous trolls, but I will anyway. I've had quite a bit of income tax sucked out of me during the regretable periods I've spent working in MA, for the privelege of having my car destroyed by your traffic-choked, pothole-ravaged roads.
"Long he fought on, and undismayed, though he was wrapped in fire and pierced with many wounds." I seem to remember that Feanor survived the battle but died of his wounds shortly after, and burned away jedi-style:-).
Gothmog killed and was killed by Ecthelion of the Fountain. Another balrog killed and was killed by Glorfindel during the escape from Gondolin. Add Gandalf and the Balrog of Moria, and we see that it's usually bad luck to kill a balrog...
Possible that the poster lives in NH, and a lot of the people around here refer to MA that way because it has income and sales tax, and we don't. (Not defending the justice of the term, just offering a possible explaination).
Someone else eating at McDonalds doesn't make me obese through second-hand fat.
The weather here finally turned Spring, and I'm dreading being stuck driving behind assholes who don't realize or care that their goddamned smoke is flowing directly into my car...
Heh. Back in high school, a friend and I got our start by teaching ourselves 6502 machine language, mostly using the Apple ][ documentation. $C030 will always mean 'click the speaker' to me...
Those were my less socially well-adapted days. I delighted in going into computer stores and doing this:
]CALL -151
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... which prints a random character to the screen, then clicks the speaker, in a tight loop. The machine would just spew garbage to the screen while making an obnoxious buzzing noise. Ah, memories...
Disclaimer: I may have gotten the LDA and LDX instructions wrong; it's been a long time... If I got it right, that's:
For us, moving to a different DB as a back-end wouldn't be low pain, unfortunately. For historical reasons, we never bought in to VFP's 'database containers' (which are how you would talk to an ODBC source), and use its SQL implementation pretty much only for reporting. I suppose we could do something with having all of our existing 'tables' translated into cursors which are really pointing to views of an ODBC source. That's probably what you were talking about. We'd most likely lose some interactivity, though, which is important to our users...
Thanks a lot for the ideas. Of the three developers in the company, I'm the only one who is interested in the outside world as far as technology is concerned - the other two guys (one of whom is the owner) are supremely skilled VFP developers, but know almost nothing outside of Windows+VFP. They haven't had to, because our business is so specialized, and not going away any time soon (A/R, billing and records for the mental health industry) - it's not like we're a web-based.com where the technology changes every 3 months:-).
I've used MySQL a bit, but also hear good things about Postgres. They'd both be in the running.
And about nothing being forever: I certainly look forward to the day when the only Microsoft systems and shops are 'legacy' ones:-).
The shop is all-Windows. I make exactly the points you mention to the other guys as often as possible, and whenever I can, advocate getting away from MS. Over the years the other developers have been slowly coming around, but they still have a lot of investment in the comfortable, familiar Windows environment.
Visual Foxpro can, yes. That's certainly one good idea. My impression is that if we decide to change our product, it's not going to be halfway, though...
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The quality of the magazine was fairly good throughout, in my opinion. Of course I didn't bother to buy some, because they didn't have anything in them that appealed to me.
I had a collection of all the Dragon Magazines in PDF format on CD as of a few years ago, but seem to have lost it. I bought it through TSR or WoTC, whoever it was at the time.
I never liked the FR or Dragonlance books, having read 3 or 4.
I do wish I could find my Phineous Fingers collection
Translation: "I've decided to become part of the problem."
F-18 was good... Falcon was even better. The sound of starting up your engine, then going to full afterburner, was.... awesome.
So I wasn't imagining things! Twice in the last couple of weeks my XP machine has rebooted itself after updating, and I would have sworn I never told it to do so, since I had a lot of stuff open (although none of it was in the same class as an unsaved document - it was mostly a lot of documentation and reports I had open. I was pissed, because it took a while to get everything arranged exactly as I wanted it.
Fucking idiots. God, how I hate microsoft.
When it gets that bad, I'm moving into a shack in Montana and beginning work on my manifesto.
Thanks!
God, how I hate those popups! Yes, I know I don't have a wireless connection here... *Yes*, I $%^&ing *know* I don't have a wireless connection here... Would you be willing to post the registry hack, or a link to it?
The rednecks co-opted 'red'. I would have thought it was obvious. :-)
That's 'Morris', not 'Morse'.
The concept behind the BSOD isn't even remotely original to Microsoft, but I do admit that making the screen blue was a wildly innovative innovation.
(Yes, I know who you mean by 'WE'
It's worthless to reply to anonymous trolls, but I will anyway. I've had quite a bit of income tax sucked out of me during the regretable periods I've spent working in MA, for the privelege of having my car destroyed by your traffic-choked, pothole-ravaged roads.
"Long he fought on, and undismayed, though he was wrapped in fire and pierced with many wounds." I seem to remember that Feanor survived the battle but died of his wounds shortly after, and burned away jedi-style :-).
Gothmog killed and was killed by Ecthelion of the Fountain. Another balrog killed and was killed by Glorfindel during the escape from Gondolin. Add Gandalf and the Balrog of Moria, and we see that it's usually bad luck to kill a balrog...
Possible that the poster lives in NH, and a lot of the people around here refer to MA that way because it has income and sales tax, and we don't. (Not defending the justice of the term, just offering a possible explaination).
"I'm afraid. I can't say." would probably be even more truthful.
Oh, I know that very well. My complaint was that the stuff annoys me.
Someone else eating at McDonalds doesn't make me obese through second-hand fat.
The weather here finally turned Spring, and I'm dreading being stuck driving behind assholes who don't realize or care that their goddamned smoke is flowing directly into my car...
Those were my less socially well-adapted days. I delighted in going into computer stores and doing this:
]CALL -151
300:A5 4E 20 ED FD AE 30 C0 4C 00 03
300G
Disclaimer: I may have gotten the LDA and LDX instructions wrong; it's been a long time... If I got it right, that's:
LDA $4E
JSR $FDED
LDX $C030
JMP $0300
Very true. It will be an interesting next couple of years at this place...
For us, moving to a different DB as a back-end wouldn't be low pain, unfortunately. For historical reasons, we never bought in to VFP's 'database containers' (which are how you would talk to an ODBC source), and use its SQL implementation pretty much only for reporting. I suppose we could do something with having all of our existing 'tables' translated into cursors which are really pointing to views of an ODBC source. That's probably what you were talking about. We'd most likely lose some interactivity, though, which is important to our users...
.com where the technology changes every 3 months :-).
:-).
Thanks a lot for the ideas. Of the three developers in the company, I'm the only one who is interested in the outside world as far as technology is concerned - the other two guys (one of whom is the owner) are supremely skilled VFP developers, but know almost nothing outside of Windows+VFP. They haven't had to, because our business is so specialized, and not going away any time soon (A/R, billing and records for the mental health industry) - it's not like we're a web-based
I've used MySQL a bit, but also hear good things about Postgres. They'd both be in the running.
And about nothing being forever: I certainly look forward to the day when the only Microsoft systems and shops are 'legacy' ones
The shop is all-Windows. I make exactly the points you mention to the other guys as often as possible, and whenever I can, advocate getting away from MS. Over the years the other developers have been slowly coming around, but they still have a lot of investment in the comfortable, familiar Windows environment.
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Visual Foxpro can, yes. That's certainly one good idea. My impression is that if we decide to change our product, it's not going to be halfway, though...