Study: Notebooks to push out PCs. “Within three years, less than half of corporate workers will use a desktop PC as their primary information device–moving to notebooks or thin clients, according to a report.” Linked from CNET News.com – Front Door
Laura and I do all of our desktop work on notebooks. And turning off the big iron in our office had a delightful, unanticipated side benefit – quiet. Ahhh!
Boston Fox UG, Wednesday, January 28, Guy Pardoe and DBI Controls. Start time this month is 7pm. Guy Pardoe demonstrates the use of selected third party ActiveX controls
(from www.DBI-Tech.com) for calendaring and scheduling. Solutions::Schedule 7.0 is an excellent component for applications where
you need to handle scheduling of resources. We cover many of the different views and visual presentations of this control, the ability to work with XML data, and output to JPG images. We also take a look at Calendar Tools 3.0. Six easy to use, drop-in
calendar components for presenting, selecting and managing dates and times.
BONUS: Two door prize products provided by Microsoft.
Location: Microsoft tegional offices, 6th floor, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA.
For more UG information and directions, tune into http://www.bostonusergroups.com/vfpboston By Boston Area FoxPro User Group. [FoxCentral News]
c|Net carries this article on three flaws Microsoft is documenting and patching:
You can find details and links to the patches at http://www.microsoft.com/security/
I report from the article, as I haven’t seen these in my inbox yet, although I was signed up for Microsoft security bulletins and I certainly got a lot of them last year. A link off the security site leads to this announcement which may mean they are no longer issuing the bulletins as MS04-01, MS04-02 and MS04-03 as they would have in previous years. It’s the third week of 2004.
This MSNBC article indicates that Yahoo is experimenting with allowing users to customize their “MyYahoo” site with RSS feeds. Those who remember the past will recall that Netscape developed the original RSS and RDF for just such a purpose at the MyNetscape site.
An excellent presentation on the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to replace ugly and complex table layout in HTML. And here are some great follow-up notes on the Visual FoxPro FoxForum Wiki.
WIND CHILL WARNING – Merrimack (New Hampshire). …THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WIND CHILL WARNING FOR ALL OF WEASTERN AND SOUTHERN MAINE AND ALL BUT SOUTHWEST NEW HAMPSHIRE TONIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY…
Issued At: 2004-01-13T08:35:00
Expired At: 2004-01-13T16:00:00
Issuing Weather Forecast Office Homepage: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/gyx/ [New Hampshire: Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for New Hampshire Issued by the National Weather Service]
THE COMBINATION OF STRONG NORTHWEST WINDS AND WELL BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURES WILL ALLOW WIND CHILLS TO FALL TO EXTREMELY DANGEROUS VALUES OF 30 TO 50 BELOW ZERO BY LATER TONIGHT AND CONTINUE THROUGH WEDNESDAY.
Ow! Stay warm, folks!
Microsoft extends Windows 98, ME support to 2006. The high volume of support calls for the operating systems from users in small, emerging markets, including Kazakhstan, Kenya, Slovenia, Tunisia and Ivory Coast, drove the decision, Microsoft officials said. [Computerworld News]
OSNews links to three stories: Reviews of Mac OS X Panther by Bruce Tognazzini: Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, “Make Your Mac a Monster Machine” and “Top Ten Nine Reasons the Apple Dock Still Sucks.” Bruce was Apple employee #66, and is a respected authority on human-computer interface design.
Slashdot links to a UK ZDNet story reporting that Microsoft Extends Win98/SE Support, which in turn is linked to an Australian ZDnet story. I have yet to see confirmation on a major news feed, nor on the Microsoft site, where I could still find this announcement of support’s imminent demise.
Some of my clients (software developers) and many of their customers (end users, small businesses) still have machines with Windows 98 on them, and have no reason to want to upgrade. Microsoft has had the luxury during the Win95 and Win98 eras of dragging along most of their customer base onto a new platform, but it’s hard for a lot of small businesses to see the ROI in an expensive upgrade likely to require matching hardware upgrades. It’s good to see Microsoft recognizing the reality of the marketplace, and grudgingly continuing support.
An interesting theory on SlashDot was that the U.S. government, afraid of exploits of Win98 machines turning into a cyberterror attack, may have encouraged Microsoft to consider the move.
From Joho the Blog: Amazon Easter Egg. Type “old fart” (no quotes) into the search box at Amazon. Act now! (Thanks to Dan O’Neill for the info.) (If that doesn’t work, try here.)…