What a glorious day! Thirty-five degrees this morning when I went out to walk the dogs, but warming up nicely. Spent a busy day paying bills, watching “Lord of the Rings” again, this time with Steve and Laura, mowing the lawn, and email 92 user group leaders the HackFox7 press release. That’s it.
Archive | 2002
Saturday, 20 April, 2002
What a day! Laura and I spent the morning hacking down overgrown shrubbery. Exhausting for two desk jockeys to spend hours on their feet with arms raised. Pretty sad lot we are.
A couple of CoolLinks: http://www.opencontent.org/ offers an open source copyright license for written works, and http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ campaigns for a “Viewable with Any Browser” policy, both of which I admire.
Post dated 2002-04-19 00:00:00
Friday, 19 April, 2002
TGIF.Post dated 2002-04-18 00:00:00
Thursday, 18 April, 2002
Yet another busy day. Glorious weather – sun and temperatures in the 90’s – record-breaking heat for this part of the world. Billable work, cleaning up the successful launch this week. Tomorrow, I need to update the documentation on what I’ve created. Yesterday involved huge moving around of office equipment. Today was letting the dust settle and finding all of the piles of stuff. Figured out the terminal services problem – I was trying to use the “friendly” name for the machine – Apollo – and it was resolving to Apollo.attbi.com on my ISP rather than locally. Once I specified the IP address directly, I was in.Eight days until I fly off for Essential Fox. Looking forward to the conference. Still got to get things together on the laptop, but that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Post dated 2002-04-17 00:00:00
Wednesday, 17 April, 2002
Is nothing safe? Now it looks like the Back button (or backspace) can be used to exploit your computer. Is Nothing safe? At the prodding of Ken Levy to fix the stuff I messed up yesterday, I got to play with the Web Services interface of http://www.foxcentral.com. Pretty slick and simple and elegant.Ten-thirty AM, and the web server is up and running in the basement, er, the server room :). Not bad. Three-thirty PM, with a break for lunch, and Steve and I have the Dell Workstation set up with a clean installation of Windows 2000 Server, with SP2, SP2SPR1, and dozens of other security patches. Can’t get Terminal Services to work, but everything else is running. More tomorrow.
Microsoft isn’t the only one doing underhanded things to boost revenue. Oracle looks like it took the state of California in grand style, and Microsoft is shaking down the state of Texas for 5-year-old licenses..att%KBAlertz is a new service on the web that will send you email about changes or additions to the Microsoft Knowledge Base on the topics you select, for free. Good deal!
Post dated 2002-04-16 00:00:00
Tuesday, 16 April, 2002
Bruce Perens has an interesting article here on Microsoft’s continued antagonism towards the open source community: http://news.com.com/2010-1075-882846.html. With the aid of TR&A’s new Network Administrator, Steve, we set up a rack in the cellar and moved the Dell Workstation 400 onto the rack. Running Cat-5e to the basement was not a pretty sight, but it’s up and running. The web server moves tomorrow.Monday, 15 April, 2002
Happy Tax Day. Twelve hours of billing yesterday left little time for blogging. Today was cleanup and errands and also little time.
Ken Levy sends a “Memo from Microsoft” with good news for Visual FoxPro enthusiasts.
Microsoft claims HailStorm wasn’t killed, the strategy just changed, in this (now deleted) piece. Spin doctoring.
Funniest MSKB:Q313166 article of the day stated:
“Known Issues”
NT domain authentication does not work on computers running Windows XP Home Edition
When working with the Workflow Designer for SQL Server or the Workflow Manager for SQL Server on a computer that is running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition, you will not be able to obtain NT domain authentication. To avoid this issue, do not use the Workflow Designer for SQL Server or the Workflow Manager for SQL Server on a computer that is running Windows XP Home Edition.”
Sounds like the old vaudeville routine: “Doctor, it hurts when I do this” “So, don’t do that” OK, it was funnier in the original Yiddish.
Microsoft cancels the PDC: no big surprise, they talked out all they could at TechEd. They might need to actually back it up if they had any more conferences :). A report on that and the reaction from the DevX editor to a quiet TechEd.
A Washington Post column reviews a promising, simple ThinkFree Office.
Post dated 2002-04-14 00:00:00
Sunday, 14 April, 2002
Happy Tax Day Eve.Post dated 2002-04-13 00:00:00
Saturday, 13 April, 2002
“IBM, Microsoft plot Net takeover” is the alarm-bells-ringing title of this article on ZDNet’s Tech Update site. In the meantime, the Java Developer’s Journal thinks that Java has 5 years left, tops, thanks to Microsoft’s C#. Too busy with client work to get much updating of the Wiki done. Eager to try out cookies, but need a few hours free. Hopefully next week…Friday, 12 April, 2002
Groggy morning, following a user group meeting last night – SQL Server Users Group.
Continued troubleshooting issues with VFP development, Outlook and Exchange Automation. And continued, and continued… whew.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=30972&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=111&mode=thread&pid=3329065#3329156 has an interesting discussion on adding mailto links to a page without having them easily screen-scraped by spam bots, but still easy to use. I wonder if all of the effort is worth it… Read the source here for one of the solutions…
// Anti e-mail address harvester script. function n_mail(n_user) { self.location = "mailto:" + n_user + "@" + "tedroche" + "." + "com"; }<a href="n_mail('tedroche');">tedroche <!-- antispam -->@ <!-- antispam -->tedroche <!-- antispam -->. <!-- antispam -->com <!-- antispam --></a>