Monthly Archives: May 2002

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Sunday, 26 May, 2002



An interesting story of using small claims court to try to collect on overdue writer’s payments: http://www.mediabistro.com/content/archives/02/01/10/

Spent the day cleaning out the cellar. An ugly job, but rewarding is the outcome.

SlashDot sent me off on an interesting trail through the web starting at http://research.yale.edu/lawmeme/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=227. Worthy of more study. Short form: Lessig good, MPAA/RIAA/Adkinson bad. But, we knew that. Many. many very worthwhile links from this page, though, including http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/piracy.html. Fascinating commentary, with some really interesting conclusions, like:

cost in a market with piracy will always be less than in a market without piracy

Lessig’s links are surely impressive as well: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/future/. His thesis in The Future of Ideas, ISBN:0375505784, is that there is a coming Dark Ages of the Information Era, as AOL Time-Warner, Sony-Paramount, Microsoft and the other big media conglomerates take over the web is a pretty chilling conclusion.

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Saturday, 25 May, 2002


Happy Memorial Day weekend.

FoxPro? got one of those all-too-rare mentions on the Microsoft site, in MSDN’s Dr. GUI column. Check it out here.

This site has a great article on creating Cascading Style Sheets that will adequately print the onscreen text. Good stuff. And check out the links from there…

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Friday, 24 May, 2002


Tortured poor Apollo this morning. I had it all set up as a web server, less content, but not yet exposed to the internet. However, I was also setting it up as a SourceOffSite server, but I do not yet have enough licenses for the entire staff. So, I turned it back into a file server, allowing sharing of the SourceSafe data directories (around 2 Gb at this point). It was a little tricky, as there were several places within the interfaces I had to change:

  • Enable the Guest user in Computer Management | Users
  • Enable access over the network for Guest in Security Policies
  • Allow directory access, read/write in the file share properties

Added a bunch of MSKB articles to the WebHome? MSKB and FoxPro? articles. Wish there were an easy way to gather all of them related to VSS and organize and manipulate them locally. I suppose I should install the monthly MSDN Library disks, but they always screw up my machine.

Found the DLL Help Database again – I had lost it for a while. It can be reached at http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/dllinfo.asp?sd=MSDN