1. email postings
For some reason I no longer are receiving the postings via email. Did
somethingl change?
A question.... My killer app is multiuser using mysql and I am looking for a
method to keep the software updated on each workstation(windows) whenever I
update the software on the server. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
2. Re: email postings
> A question.... My killer app is multiuser using mysql and I am looking fo=
r a
> method to keep the software updated on each workstation(windows) whenever=
I
> update the software on the server. Any thoughts on this would be apprecia=
ted.
I believe this was supposed to be a feature in Euman's installer. I
guess he was gonna have a library that would "call home" to a server
and look for updates, and if there were, download and install them.
Never heard anything from it though.
~Greg
3. Re: email postings
- Posted by Patrick Barnes <mrtrick at gmail.com>
Sep 29, 2005
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Last edited Sep 30, 2005
A simple answer could be to have a table, with only two bits of
information in it (1 record, 2 columns):
version: A string with the current version.
program: All the program files, zipped and stored as a BLOB.
That way, the program can store its version, and on startup check that
the version string in the DB is not different. If it is, it asks the
user if it can update, downloads and unzips the program files (into a
DIFFERENT directory) and then copies them over the main ones.
On 9/29/05, George Walters <guest at rapideuphoria.com> wrote:
> A question.... My killer app is multiuser using mysql and I am looking fo=
r a
> method to keep the software updated on each workstation(windows) whenever=
I
> update the software on the server. Any thoughts on this would be apprecia=
ted.
--
MrTrick
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4. Re: email postings
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
Sep 29, 2005
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Last edited Sep 30, 2005
George Walters wrote:
> For some reason I no longer are receiving the postings via email. Did
> somethingl change?
Topica has been having problems lately.
Quite a few people, including me, are no longer receiving
e-mails from them. That's one of the reasons I'm
experimenting with RSS.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: email postings
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:54:04 -0400, Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> A question.... My killer app is multiuser using mysql and I am looking for a
>> method to keep the software updated on each workstation(windows) whenever I
>> update the software on the server. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
>
>I believe this was supposed to be a feature in Euman's installer. I
>guess he was gonna have a library that would "call home" to a server
>and look for updates, and if there were, download and install them.
>Never heard anything from it though.
>
I must admit I've been wanting to try this for a while, and this was
as good an excuse as I was going to get.
I had a play with Euman's installer yesterday, and found it could not
handle subdirectories, plus MSComp.exe kept asking me for a directory,
and no matter what I entered it reported it was not a directory... So
I went hunting and found this, which I think is rather neat:
http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/
There is a wizard (which I have not tried) and a command line version,
so I can build things using a simple batch file. Within half an hour I
created a couple of installers for Edita which you can find here:
http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download
As for "calling home" and upgrading, I think you would just have to
download a "current_version.htm" file from your homepage, (I've still
never done that but it should be easy?) and if you can do that, you
can also download and run the installer.exe. I think George can just
treat such files on the server almost as if they were local.
There is an option to automatically install, though that would
probably be to the same location on every machine. There is also an
option to run a program automatically, which may be useful.
Regards,
Pete
6. Re: email postings
>So I went hunting and found this, which I think is
>rather neat:
>
>http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/
>
>There is a wizard (which I have not tried) and a command line
>version, so I can build things using a simple batch file. Within half
>an hour I created a couple of installers for Edita which you can find
If only it had simple password protection support. Nothing elaborate
(DES), but something simple along the lines of what is offered in Zip
and Rar.
But still cool none the less.
7. Re: email postings
Pete Lomax wrote:
>
> On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:54:04 -0400, Greg Haberek <ghaberek at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >> A question.... My killer app is multiuser using mysql and I am looking for
> >> a
> >> method to keep the software updated on each workstation(windows) whenever I
> >> update the software on the server. Any thoughts on this would be
> >> appreciated.
> >
> >I believe this was supposed to be a feature in Euman's installer. I
> >guess he was gonna have a library that would "call home" to a server
> >and look for updates, and if there were, download and install them.
> >Never heard anything from it though.
> >
> I must admit I've been wanting to try this for a while, and this was
> as good an excuse as I was going to get.
>
> I had a play with Euman's installer yesterday, and found it could not
> handle subdirectories, plus MSComp.exe kept asking me for a directory,
> and no matter what I entered it reported it was not a directory... So
> I went hunting and found this, which I think is rather neat:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/">http://www.disoriented.com/FreeExtractor/</a>
>
> There is a wizard (which I have not tried) and a command line version,
> so I can build things using a simple batch file. Within half an hour I
> created a couple of installers for Edita which you can find here:
>
> <a
> href="http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download">http://palacebuilders.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/edita.htm#download</a>
>
> As for "calling home" and upgrading, I think you would just have to
> download a "current_version.htm" file from your homepage, (I've still
> never done that but it should be easy?) and if you can do that, you
> can also download and run the installer.exe. I think George can just
> treat such files on the server almost as if they were local.
>
> There is an option to automatically install, though that would
> probably be to the same location on every machine. There is also an
> option to run a program automatically, which may be useful.
>
> Regards,
> Pete
>
>
Hi Pete,
That was sort of a 'first release' of a program which we both worked on.
Euman was suppose to get back to me with an updated GUI that allowed
the dev'er to drag and drop any file or directory into a file explorer
and i was going to implement the handlers, but that was months ago now
and i havent heard from him. He made a really nice GUI replacement for
the main interface too, but that didnt get there yet either because i
never got the source code, which he was suppose to send me.
Well anyway, sorry it doesnt work the way you want it too yet.
Take care,
Al
And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
8. Re: email postings
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
Sep 30, 2005
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Last edited Oct 01, 2005
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:27:17 -0700, Al Getz <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:
>That was sort of a 'first release' of a program which we both worked on.
>Euman was suppose to get back to me with an updated GUI that allowed
>the dev'er to drag and drop any file or directory into a file explorer
>and i was going to implement the handlers, but that was months ago now
>and i havent heard from him. He made a really nice GUI replacement for
>the main interface too, but that didnt get there yet either because i
>never got the source code, which he was suppose to send me.
Yeah, I heard a bit. I hope Euman is feeling better these days.
>
>Well anyway, sorry it doesnt work the way you want it too yet.
No worries, in a way I'm glad because it drove me to a much simpler
solution, plus in short order time I now understand much better how it
all really works.
Regards,
Pete
9. Re: email postings
- Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
Sep 30, 2005
-
Last edited Oct 01, 2005
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:15:10 -0700, Ed Davis <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
wrote:
>If only it had simple password protection support. Nothing elaborate
>(DES), but something simple along the lines of what is offered in Zip
>and Rar.
Not that I was looking too hard, but on my travels I didn't notice
anything that managed that. One program I have used many times is
Filzip, which supports both AES encryption and EXE build, but, sadly,
it seems you have to decrypt /before/ you build the EXE ;-((
You might find something on the following page:
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/downloader/fwzip.html
Regards,
Pete
10. Re: email postings
Pete Lomax wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:27:17 -0700, Al Getz <guest at RapidEuphoria.com>
> wrote:
>
> >That was sort of a 'first release' of a program which we both worked on.
> >Euman was suppose to get back to me with an updated GUI that allowed
> >the dev'er to drag and drop any file or directory into a file explorer
> >and i was going to implement the handlers, but that was months ago now
> >and i havent heard from him. He made a really nice GUI replacement for
> >the main interface too, but that didnt get there yet either because i
> >never got the source code, which he was suppose to send me.
> Yeah, I heard a bit. I hope Euman is feeling better these days.
> >
> >Well anyway, sorry it doesnt work the way you want it too yet.
> No worries, in a way I'm glad because it drove me to a much simpler
> solution, plus in short order time I now understand much better how it
> all really works.
>
> Regards,
> Pete
>
>
Hi Pete,
Oh yeah, i forgot he has some problems with his health...
I hope he's doing ok these days.
Take care,
Al
And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
