The FP Room: Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody

[John Esak]

FP Room Meeting with Ken and Laura Brody,

This Tuesday evening at 9pm, we will host Ken and Laura Brody in The FP Room
for a special tech-based session. Both Ken and Laura are finding more time
for "other-than-kids" stuff these days and dropping by the room more often.
It's great to have them.

It was suggested that we pick a special time that people could meet with
them. We have chose 9pm Tuesday (the 11th of January) as the first meeting
date. We will spend an hour talking about anything
filePro-technical-programming from beginner to advanced and even expert and
above. There isn't much you would be able to stump this pair over, not to
mention the other brain trusts that frequent the FP Room for most of any
day.  John Esak, Jim Asman, Tony Ryder, Fairlight, Nancy Palmquist, J.P.
Radley, Richard Kreiss and many others.

Come and ask your questions this Tuesday. Ken and Laura will be happy to
contribute anything they can toward furthering our understanding of filePro
and how it all works.  There is only one proviso. There will be no
"bitching", "moaning", "complaining", "grousing", etc., etc., as regards
filePro and FP Technologies. That is not the purpose of this meeting and not
part of their kind offer to make themselves available. No questions other
than technical/programming questions will be handled. Nothing other will be
appropriate for this valuable time.  If it all goes well, Ken and Laura will
probably do this every week for a while. So, again, constructive criticism
and discussion, no problem, beyond that into anything else... well, we hope
it will be as the Room has always been... pleasant, fun, exciting and just
plain great.

So, mark your calendars, get logged in, try out the room beforehand so you
can see how neat it all is. Just click on:

   www.tinyurl.com/yuag7

any time to get into the room. A small client will be downloaded to your
machine and you will then be able to talk, see and hear all that goes on. Be
sure to have a microphone connected to your system or you will be relegated
to just typing your thoughts while everyone else spouts off verbally.

There will usually be folks on hand in the Room to help you set up things
correctly, although there is usually nothing to do but login. Please use
your name or a combination of your name and initials. This is a professional
forum and not a place for "handles". (special dispensation for Fairlite
because no one would know what to call him otherwise...)

If you happen to be using XP with Service Pack 2 installed, you will have to
go into the Securities section of the IE browser, set custom level and
enable the four or five checkboxes dealing with Active-X. (Signed
Certificates, Unsigned Certificates, Run scripts, etc., all need to be
enabled to download the iVocalize client which is what we all use to access
the room.  There are several new servers and clients available for non-MS
browsers, but none are installed yet, so sorry, once again, this will only
be for Internet Explorer users.  Maybe soon, we will install the next stuff,
but only when it is really out of beta.

See you Tuesday... however, once again, do all of us a favor and sign on
much earlier than the scheduled meeting date so you can acclimate yourself
and your system to the room. We won't want to be doing much of helping
people make their microphones work during the valuable time with Ken and
Laura.  This is absolutely NO problem all other times between now and then.
So, find a mic, login and we'll see you in the room.  If you are having any
trouble with the XP SP2 stuff and can't get into the Room because the client
won't download, you may call me at (570) 384-2444 most anytime (how about
8am to 1pm EST) and I'll be happy to help you get it done.

Take care,

John Esak

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