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Post dated 2002-12-07 00:00:00

By on December 7, 2002 in Home Page

Saturday, 07 December, 2002



Pearl Harbor Day. RIP.

Now that I got Win98SE installed on the laptop for testing of the client app, I decided to mess it up by trying a dual boot with Linux. I used the Partition Magic 8.0 disk to repartition: dropped drive D:, added a Linux partition, moved drive C: so there was a 500 Mb swap partition first on the disk, and then installed Red Hat 8.0. The disks from GLGDW were bogus, but I had a previous set I’d burned, so I got it installed.

The RH installer didn’t like the partition configuration at all. It complained that the other partitioner did not properly understand the geometry of the hard disk, but that it was recoverable. It created a 100 Mb boot partition out of the swap space and installed GRUB as the boot loader. The rest of the install went without a hitch, and I was up and running Linux.

Next came the interesting configuration challenges. Restarting the machine, the Win98SE loader would fail to start Win98, asking for the location of C:\Windows\COMMAND.COM. Tackle that tomorrow.

The other challenge is getting Linux to recognize the wireless card, a LinkSys? WPC11. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.

Finished off the day by sitting through the entire showing of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” While I had seen bits and pieces before, I am sure I had never seen the whole thing, as several plot twists surprised me. Enjoyed it, and feel that I have now plugged it a little better to American culture. Some day I’ll understand this stuff.

Post dated 2002-10-16 00:00:00

By on October 16, 2002 in Home Page

Wednesday, October 16, 2002

I’ve been looking for development platforms for Linux. While it seems to have some pretty good tools for server-based applications, software development still all seems to be text-based. So I went looking for GUI IDEs. There are lots of them, of varied maturity and features.

Kylix is promising: C++ and Delphi/Pascal.

“Komodo is optimized for Perl, Python, PHP, Tcl, and XSLT, and runs on Windows and Linux. ” according to http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/index.plex. [URL updated, 16 years later, to a very different IDE]

Metroworks has ported their popular CodeWarrior to Linux: C++ and Java.

And there are some home-grown categories, too, such as Code Crusader.

Joe Barr had an interesting column about IDEs in June 1999 Linux Journal:
http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-06/lw-06-vcontrol_1.html

I’d really like to see VB/Access/VFP type GUIs, with toolbars, palettes, drag-drop and snippets, but that may still be a ways off.

Post dated 2002-09-26 00:00:00

By on September 26, 2002 in Home Page

Thursday, September 26, 2002

Fun meeting last night. A great exchange of opinions and views.

Fortune magazine is coming to the conclusion that “ It turns out that the Linux doubters were wrong.” Interesting to read in a mainline publication. And in the same issue, a second columnist concludes “Sure, corporations could save millions by replacing all their Microsoft desktop licenses, but it’s doubtful the cost savings merit the hassle factor.” Wow. I wonder how it will all turn out.

Post dated 2002-09-13 00:00:00

By on September 13, 2002 in Home Page

Friday, September 13, 2002



Salon: “Forbidden Thoughts of 9/11”

Jim Alchin was busy yesterday. First, he’s Frustrated over the lack of Web Services acceptance here, criticizing the Linux kernel here, and then he’s making promises for 2003-4-5 here.

I’ve been trying to download Service Pack 1 of Windows XP for three days. I have gotten to within 97% complete and gotten the transfer terminated. Microsoft doens’t seem to be providing an ftp server where I could try to pick up the transfer where it drops off. This is frustrating. It’s only 133 megabytes. I had no trouble downloading .iso files for 6 CDs worth of Red Hat, around 3 gigabytes. Wonder if someone is trying to tell me something.

Cringley is at it again, with details here of his plan for a freely-distributable, GPL, compatible with any platform, TV for nerds series. With all this noveltie about the medium and its delivery format, I sure hope the content justifies the rumble.

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 2002-07-24 00:00:00

By on July 24, 2002 in Home Page

Wednesday, 24 July, 2002



The fourth Thursday of the month, and time for the Boston Area FoxPro? Users Group meeting tonight.

No need to sweat Social Security, I guess. The BBC says a huge asteroid will destroy the Earth in 2019. However, they’re quite likely mistaken.

Friday is System Administrator Appreciation Day

Some useful links for DNS stuff:

Daniel J. Bernstein, author of qmail, explains Internet mail wonderfully here.

Post dated 2002-07-23 00:00:00

By on July 23, 2002 in Home Page

Tuesday, 23 July, 2002



A great history of Microsoft at http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_1975-1998.htm. For example, “11/12/90 Bill Gates unveils his vision of the future of computing in his keynote address,”Information at Your Fingertips,”at Fall/COMDEX ’90. ”

How to Run a Microsoft-Free Shop and another 12-step article on advocacy, with some good insights, here.

Bill Gates emailed all his friends, except me. Reaction was not all positive.

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