FP Chat Room

[Matthew Williams]

I just recently hopped on the list so I'm not sure how many
suggestions have been tossed up in the air.  I made a quick attempt at
running that iVocalize client on a machine here at work just to check
it out and couldn't get it to run (windows 98 machine), i'm sure I
would have no problem on one of the XP boxes.

However, would setting up a IRC chat room be more structured?  I've
seen lectures and Q&A sessions held quite well on IRC, not to mention
it could be logged for those who cannot make it as well as there are
clients available for anything and everything, heck, my PDA (Zaurus
SL-5500) has many IRC client options!

I use IRC for tech help with various programming languages, there are
some websites out there (I don't know any off hand but could find
them) where you can paste a chunk of code and it will store that code
for display and give you a ID number, you send someone to that page
with that ID number and they can see exactly what you pasted;
perfectly preserved.  So if at anytime during the chat session if
someone needed to paste some code they could do it that way without it
being a mess and give out the ID for everyone to look at to pull it
apart and see whats wrong with it or make fixes to it.

Just a suggestion from a Filepro rookie!

Take care,
-Matt
Hale Mfg.
www.halebookcases.com


On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:58:28 -0500, Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:
> Last night was a wonderful experience. It was nice to finally speak to
> everyone instead of writing. That being said I have a couple of
> observations:
>  
> 1. Walter: I love AIX as the most reliable system I have ever been on. I can
> not afford to be done one day. AIX is the Mercedes or Cadillac of operating
> systems. I need AIX and filePro should support my request. They say they
> support it and they should. I shouldn't be inconvenienced to test another
> operating system that is never going to be as reliable.
>  
> 2. The Format Of The Meeting: The chat room started out with very few
> questions. John had to move us along. We should have an agenda, especially
> if we have Ken & Laura. One of the best parts of the evening was when Ken
> started to think of approaches that many of you were not aware of. Perhaps
> next time if we as a group are desirous to cover a particular area of
> filePro both Ken and Laura would prepare in advance on what they would like
> to present to us instead of thinking of it on the fly. They have so much
> knowledge, the group should try to channel their special expertise in the
> right direction. For example, we could have one evening on printer's and
> their implementation along with how to print certain things like bar codes.
> For that Jim Asman would be the moderator or guest lecturer. So many of you
> have such knowledge that I am in awe. I've been using filepro since 1979 and
> I don't want to stop. The list and the filepro chat room keep me in the
> game, and more especially the flexibility of the filePro program itself. I
> know people complain about what it can't do but we must emphasize what it
> can do. I have been able to do everything that every one of my competition
> does and more. filePro is amazing.
>  
> That's my take!
>  
> Again, we had a lot of very bright and well meaning people in the chat room
> last night. Let's take advantage of it perhaps in a more structured
> environment.
>  
> Dennis Malen
> 516.479.5912
>  
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