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Post dated 2002-08-13 00:00:00

By on August 13, 2002 in Home Page

Tuesday, August 13, 2002



SlashDot’s Slashback column had a mention of “Revolution OS,” a documentary on the Linux, Open Source and Free Software movements. Preview a nine-minute short from the film here or visit their website here. The film should be out on DVD and VHS this year.

Novell is pushing a white paper titled “What Microsoft Doesn’t Want You To Know,” a brutal beating of Microsoft for security failures, and the laundry list of complaints on Microsoft Licensing 6.0.

— TWikiGuest – 13 Aug 2002

Post dated 2002-08-12 00:00:00

By on August 12, 2002 in Home Page

Monday, August 12, 2002



FoxPro makes the news!, although not in the way that Fox zealots would like. The article details a conversion of Westport River Wineries away from FoxPro to Linux, thanks to IBM. Remember when IBM was the bad guy and Microsoft the scrappy young promise?

Ah, the pieces start to fall into place. I missed the announcement Microsoft made about Trustbridge, their proposal for security within Web Services. That relies on WS-Security, a proposed standard. That’s written with some IP from Microsoft, IBM and Verisign that’s threatening to require royalties, introducing the “reasonable and non-descriminatory” (RAND) fee charged for an “Internet standard” that will push the open source movement off to one side. I think. So many players. So many stories. In this article. Verisign is promising an open-source version on SourceForge, so that doesn’t add up…

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. — Mark Twain

Post dated 2002-08-11 00:00:00

By on August 11, 2002 in Home Page

Sunday, August 11, 2002



A quiet Sunday morning, followed by a busy day. Replaced the window screening in one of the original, hang-on-the-outside screens – not a simple task for a non-DIYer like me! Had to peel apart all of the wooden pieces, not breaking any, fit new screening material into the gap (thanks to Laura for the extra hand and skill), and fit all the wooden pieces back together. And then paint the whole thing. Whew!

On top of that, I ripped out the four window frames on the front of the porch, nailed in the new trim, trimmed back the screening material, and painted them all. I’ll try to get those in tomorrow morning, after they’ve dried thoroughly.

Pizza for dinner was exactly what we all needed.

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

By on August 10, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, August 10, 2002



What a surprise. When preparing my notes to be turned in, I discovered the due date was last Monday, not Friday. Ah, well. Hope they’ll still accept them.

This morning, the computer decided to start to a blue screen STOP messages, informing me my computer was not ACPI compliant. Funny, it was compliant yesterday. Like the Microsoft message that tells me “to avoid seeing this message in the future, properly shut down your computer,” this one arrogantly assumes that the problem is mine and not theirs, incorrectly. Rather than reading a TXT (with what?) or installing a new BIOS, as recommended by the page of text I was presented, I reset the computer and restarted without incident. Really!

Visited the State Prison’s store of materials from the wood shop. Saw some really nice pieces of furniture, including several Arts & Crafts style pieces. Once we get some work, we’ll plan on another visit to http://webster.state.nh.us/nhci/new_wood.html

Thursday, August 08, 2002

By on August 8, 2002 in Home Page

Great minds thinking alike. I found a discussion on the MSDevApps? forum of CompuServe? where VFP MVPs Andy Kramek and Christof Lange discuss the possibilities of manipulating the Task Scheduler from VFP and suggest the ActiveX control at http://home.sprintmail.com/~mpryor/c-frame.htm?tskfaq.htm.

Trellix (a great company with a radical concept: web editing using a web interface), Dan Bricklin’s latest company, announces blogging interface to complement their already cool product.

Monday, August 05, 2002

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Dan Barclay writes about Language Stability, the bane of the VB story for the past few versions. Interesting reading.

Microsoft explains their Desktop Product Lifecycle here.

Google’s Zeitgeist web page is always fascinating reading.

SourceGear, manufacturers of SourceOffSite, may be going into competition with Microsoft with the imminent release of their product, Vault. Interesting!

The VC has a great set ot strips mocking the foolishness that was. The foolishness that ate my 401k. Grrr.

Larry McElvoy, author of BitKeeper, is interviewed here.

Post dated 2002-08-03 00:00:00

By on August 3, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, August 03, 2002



Another blissfully domestic Saturday. Worked on restoring and rebuilding the wooden screens for the porch. Saw dragonflies swarming over the house as it cooled down from a steamy 90 degrees at the peak of the day. Whew.

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