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dBase: 1979-2026 2 months ago

You may compile .prg files with Harbour, an open source Clipper clone compiler, on github.

Strange it is not cited in the post.

Have a look at harbour project on github. It compiles Clipper code to be run on several different platforms, in text and gui mode (also with Qt bindings) and mow there are several frameworks for web development

Da vinci is great software but for long time vegas users it is not easy to adapt. I tried several times and failed. I used to edit a couple of my daughter theatrical performance with up to 5 cameras and wanted to use da vinci for its "sync-with-audio" feature and easier color correction for the various, different cameras.

I also use 2 pc to edit with vegas, with project and video on an external usb3 disk, moving it from home to office. It is not so easy with da vinci that uses an external database: doable but not easy.

Yes. Going back to the top or confirming tha data when exiting the last field was a setting. You may have multiple commands on one row but you have to separate them with a ;

You can still compile dbase/Clipper programs with Harbour, github hosted, open source, Clipper 5.2 compatible compiler that runs almost everywhere, from native windows 64 bit to mac, raspberry, linux, embedded appliances, anywhere there is a c compiler available.

The language has been slightly expanded and with external libraries you may have gui programs (win32, qt, gtk) l, connect to databases (sqlite, mariadb,postgres...) create PDF, excel files.

I have a program started in 1986 on dbase III, then ported to Clipper and now to Harbour...

Your past data shows you sell 100 apples every day, despite the cost. Then it shows that you may sell other 100 if the price is considered "low" by the clients or 30 if the price is "high". Then you know how many are in stocks, from how many days, and how many are arriving. And you fix the price accordingly

I live in that part of Rome where we have 2 phases and no neutral.

I discovered being electrocuted and I could not understand why.

Fortunately heat pumps, "stupid" car chargers and other appliances work with no problems. But an installer told me that I could have had problems with smart car chargers and he refused to do the work.

Also Shelleys seem to work.

Someone told me that our public facing dns server running bind has 3800+ days of uptime and despite bind is up to date, the Linux version is really old... it's running on a dl360 g4 server. Since they also proposed to have a different master/slave configuration my idea was to use ansible to have all the stuff reproducible. Then packer seemed to be necessary, then started to look at some more complex configurations and found that in many cases you just create gigantic bash script that apply the configurations. So I should go to my wiki page with all the commands to create my server and transform them into a script that I should test several times. Ok if you have 100s of identical servers, but when you have just 4?

I spent 1 month in Australia and my daughter 6. Hiring ads are on almost every shops or business activities, so - probably - those 715.000 workers are necessary.

Giving them a decent house for living is another problem

I've been thinking about this very problem recently.

My solution for an air-gapped backup is a linux server with no exposed ports, no daemons running.

A cron job starts a scp that copies data into a directory named as the date.

If you want you can expand using zfs with snapshots, compress, deduplicate.

Or if you have the money, buy a data domain or similar appliance and set it with immutable backups (nobody can delete them) and double password for any destructive operations. You can set it up as a tape with fiber channel or with ddboost, other ways to create a air gap

If the software is FEL, an open source time-tabling software, you can run the gui-less executable. I did it in Linux on a 30× core server, starting 30+ processes.

Edit: read the other answers. In FEL you can specify hard and soft constraints. Search can be long nonetheless...

the op was talking about hardware, I think. but you are spot-on on the mad scientist. we are just in the process to de-clutter all the non standard, hand made, highly customized, never documented, stuff produced buba coworker that, unfortunately, passed away.

btw, we also wrote a HA cluster software for sun solaris in year 2000...

I run 10 years old HP servers, something like DL580G5, with care-packs (extended, paid warranty). We needed to flash firmware, 2 motherboards broke and they sent spare parts to replace. Probably with less enterprise-y server firms it may be difficult to find spare parts after 10 years..

I'm receiving some spam emails in the inbox folder since spring. They are clearly spam.

I analized 2 arrived this morning: both have 2 message-id header, one from gmail the other from sendgrid; both have a in-reply-to header (that is used for ARC and DKIM signature); both have 2 DKIM-Signature... both have the same CaMelCasE html... both are flagged as spam by a corporate antispam and my own spamassassin... one message has fake Received: headers with date in year 2019...

gmail has all the information to mark them as spam