Ron Lindeboom
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[Bob Zelin] “No one earns my respect more than a company that gets bashed over and over, and they keep responding, and trying to make things work, and make customers happy. This shows that a company is behind their own product.”
I would agree mostly, (he said, quaking in fear that Bob might reach for the XLR cables and pummel him if he were of a disagreeable sort). But what I really love to see are the companies who learn from their customers, give them what they want, quit getting beat and make a lot of money selling people what they want.
There are a few companies we have asked to leave as they just do not fit the COW profile. Companies that insist on NOT refunding monies when the product really doesn’t work, or will not let a user sell a license that the company rep stalked a user until they beat them into buying the thing and when it isn’t what the used thought they were getting, they won’t let them sell it. Bull, me says. And so I have walked some companies from the COW and never want them back.
Some companies simply do not “get” the COW and think that we are going to shut people up for them because they buy ads. It doesn’t work that way. It can’t, not if the site is going to serve any real and legitimate purpose. To find companies that truly can function as a part of this community is not 100% — although all of the new ones you mentioned, Bob, look like good candidates. We just haven’t been asked and no one has come forward to host. But I think the time may have come with them to ask the companies to assist as they are all good companies you mentioned.
Thanks, Bob.
Ron Lindeboom
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Stephen says that his beard is on the top of his head, does that count?
:o)
Ron Lindeboom
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One quick way to help resolve MANY Filemaker issues is to create an EMPTY CLONE file save of your database.
Then, make sure that the database that is acting all wonkie (the technical term for database corruption), is open to all records showing. Close it in that state.
Open the new clone copy that is empty, and import the old file into the new Filemaker clone.
Tada, many of FM’s deepest seated psychological issues are resolved in this manner. (I have been using Filemaker since it was first introduced as Filemaker 1.0 by Nashoba and was licensed to the Forethought people who also developed and sold PowerPoint to Microsoft. Nashoba wouldn’t let them sell Filemaker. In fact, I still have my 1.0 packaging and discs around here just because I refuse to give them up. It’s a nerd thing.)
Trust me on this, it is a great way to solve MANY recurring (though it is rare for Filemaker to get these kinds of errors) issues that may affect both Filemaker and your nerves.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Some of those were very funny, Kai.
My favorite? “I want it white, but somehow black.”
Okay, I get it now, Mister Client…I’m not confused at all.
;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Mark,
We appreciate the heads-up and your warning, though please know that we are aware of Googlewave and have been following it and will be jumping onto it very shortly.
Abraham has been investigating it, learning the API, etc., and we are just deciding how and where to feature it in the COW.
We would never underestimate Google here at the COW.
;o)
Ron Lindeboom
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[Mark Spencer] “Thanks, guys, and I look forward to the Cow hazing…”
Yes, being marched down Main Street wearing only the orange and white cow-spotted spandex (crowned with the Chez Bovine™ headwear as seen here modeled in black and white by the COW’s own Joe Bourke) — replete with the obligatory flailing ample rubber udders — is a little bit embarrassing.But you’ll get used to it, Mark. In fact, leaders like Walter Biscardi tell me that they rarely take them off anymore.
Best,
Ron & Kathlyn Lindeboom
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Steve has always been a cow leader. Unfortunately, he refused to wear the obligatory cow leaders’ fluffy cow slippers and LL Bean executive PJs while working and so we had him on probation for a while.
When chided for this infraction of cow leader protocols, Steve muttered something about “bikers look really stupid riding around in PJs and fluffy cow slippers.”
“Rules is rules,” we told him. “Without standards, where would society be?”
His wife sent pictures of him in compliance, and so we pulled him off his probationary standing.
And that’s exactly as it happened and that’s the truth.
Ron Lindeboom
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As others here have suggested, Franklin, using Google as a place through which you forward all emails, is an option. It is one that Abraham uses and he loves it.
Me, I tried it for a little while and gave up on it as I didn’t want private things sitting on some Google server for the next 30 years.
Ron LIndeboom