[Dxbase] Thoughts from Joe WA6AXE - abt DXbase's future

Sun May 22 11:41:04 EDT 2016

Interestingly I never found Jack to be uncommunicative. Maybe he felt 
sorry for me. :)))) I started with the first version in DOS too. I 
had a tough time with the transition to Windows as I was not a Windows 
user. I'm slightly better now but I have hacked my way through the 
program in terms of what I need to know. Most of this help came from 
Jack before Joe was on the scene. I admire Joe's work and I'm glad he 
is here. However, I don't qualify for his assistance based on his 
warnings regarding knowledge of Windows. I'm not criticizing but I'm 
personally not there yet. I do read everything he has to say here. 
Maybe some of it will rub off.
I think I'm safe for the rest of my lifetime unless something very 
strange happens with Windows which is a possibility.
Speaking of strange and somewhat off-topic, has anyone had the hidden 
patch that MS sends out to Windows 7 users that automatically installs 
Windows 10 on your computer without your knowledge? It happened to me 
and it happened to a friend. I was able to abort the installation and 
also found out which update contained the patch based on research. It 
was on all my machines. I removed it and told my computers to let me 
choose patches instead of having it happen automatically.
In my opinion, what MS is doing with this is no different than some 
hacker engaging my computer.
Steve, N4JQQ
On 5/22/2016 8:54 AM, David Blake wrote:
> I've been a DXbase user since the days of DOS and when DXB was supplied on a 5" floppy and came with a great spiral bound book! The original program was fantastic if you were aserious DXer and remains so today. It has been made t look pretty spiffy, but all in all it isall I could ask for. Talking to Jack was like talking to a wall, way back Joe came to my rescueand resolved a problem in the original software that had to do with CW contacts prior to 1974.Thank you Joe! HI. Later I mentioned a problem on the list and Joe looked me up and calledme on the telephone on his nickel, forget what it was but once again got it fixed. Since therehave been several times when I've messed up the data base and Joe has fixed it one wayor another.
> Without Joe I would have likely given up years ago. He is the man when it comes to printer problems, label creation, etc, etc. I once had a personalized QSL label where I printed athumb nail, color pix of my shack on the label -- with the help of Joe of course!
> THANKS Mr Glockner, 73.
> Dave -- N4DB --
>>> On Sunday, May 22, 2016 7:38 AM, Nick Mironov via Dxbase <dxbase at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>>> Dear Joe,
> Thank you very much for your unbelievable quick and 100%-exact support of all of us.I am with DXBase since MS-DOS versions time.
> 73, Joe!Nick UX4UA
>> From: Joseph Glockner <wa6axe at verizon.net>
> To: dxbase at mailman.qth.net
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2016 9:46 PM
> Subject: [Dxbase] Thoughts from Joe WA6AXE - abt DXbase's future
>> Hello to all DXbase users!!
>> After knowing now that the future of DXbase is truely dead, I want
> all who want to stay with DXbase2007 - knowing that the current
> DXbase2007 is the final version - to know that I am staying with
> DXbase2007 myself!
>> The reasons for my staying with DXbase2007 is that:
>> (1) I can help anyone else who is going to stay with DXbase2007.
> (2) I can still program standalone utilities, reports, etc for DXbase2007.
> (3) At my age (72 yrs) - and with my Operating habits - DXbase2007
> is good enough for me. I tried all of the other logging programs and just
> can not find one that is even close to what DXbase2007 offers.
>> I will NOT hope for any further versions of DXbase - as after Neal's ownership
> of DXbase for the past going on 7years - and promises that just never come
> about - I have to totally given up any hope.
>> NOTE!! I may be kicked-off the DXbase Reflectors, for what I am saying here
> - so, when I say my 73's below - it might really be 73's.
>> YES! While Neal is on his vacation - if anyone has a requirement for
> a DXbase2007 reg file (new or changed) - I can help you out directly.
> Neal gave me the EXE program that MAKES the reg file - so that I
> could help people out and not have to bug him each time that I
> needed to make a REG file here at my QTH.
>> ALL the VERY BEST from Joe WA6AXE
>> 73,
>>> Joseph Glockner
> wa6axe at verizon.net
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