Archive | October, 2002

Post dated 2002-10-11 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 11, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, October 11, 2002

Andy Kelly’s presentation at the NE SQL group last night was fact-filling and interesting, but long. That, combined with a horrible traffic backup for the last three miles of I-93 in Massachusetts lead to a very late night.

Pablo Roca posted pictures from DevCon? on Portal Fox: http://www.portalfox.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=My_eGallery&file=index&do=showgall&gid=14

The Advisor Folks have their album here: http://www.advisor.com/AdvAlbum.nsf/vEventID?Open&RestrictToCategory=CMX0209

Alex Feldstein’s are here: http://www.feldstein.net/VFP_Devcon2002/Page.html

Post dated 2002-10-10 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 10, 2002 in Home Page

Thursday, October 10, 2002

SQL Server User Group meeting tonight.

Still troubleshooting my main machine. Tried to add SpeedFan? (a nify little power-tray displaying temperature and fan speed app) and United Devices UD Agent (fighting cancer using idle cycles) back into the machine, and it locked up. Had to log in as Admin and remove them from the Startup folder, again. Very frustrating.

Post dated 2002-10-09 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 9, 2002 in Home Page

Wednesday, October 09, 2002

Microsoft claims to eat its own dog food in this series of articles on .NET: http://www.microsoft.com/net/basics/msuses_default.asp

Post dated 2002-10-08 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 8, 2002 in Home Page

Tuesday, October 08, 2002

After 19 months of pretty solid operations (looks like about 12 crashes), my main development machine crashed hard (power reset) and often (random bluescreens 9 times) yesterday. Over the months, this has gotten to be the go-to machine, the dependable one, so, of course, there’s software on there that’s nowhere else. It was the VSS repository while the servers got re-arranged. It had the latest development source and email stores. Tried rolling back the latest security patch (applied yesterda), no joy. Ripped out the external SCSI ZIP drive and the parallel printer we’ve been testing a client app on. It works. Unlikely it’s either cable; far more likely it’s a loose something inside the case that got shifted when I moved it. Sheesh. I hate hardware.

Back up and running this morning means it’s time for backups!

Thirty-two degrees this morning when I walked the dogs. Frost in the fields. Fall comes quickly after the equinox, bringing thoughts of the cycle of life, mortality and the passage of time. Fall has always been a melancholy experience for me.

The New England SQL Server User Group is back on line, and advertising their upcoming October 10th meeting.

Post dated 2002-10-07 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 7, 2002 in Home Page

Monday, October 07, 2002

Up late watching the Forsyte Saga last night. Great drama, but sadly, 11 PM is too late for us old fogeys.

Post dated 2002-10-06 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 6, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, October 06, 2002

Sunday.

Post dated 2002-10-05 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 5, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, October 05, 2002

Saturday at home, working on the house. Removed panes from Steve’s bedroom window upper frame, breaking only one in the process. Boiled linseed oil didn’t make the glaze dissolve as well as I had hoped.

Post dated 2002-10-04 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 4, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, October 04, 2002

Even on the same coast, travel takes all day. But no jet lag, and I’m home by 4:30. Exhausted.

Post dated 2002-10-03 00:00:00

By Ted Roche on October 3, 2002 in Home Page

Thursday, October 03, 2002