Tag Archives | Microsoft

Post dated 2002-05-25 00:00:00

Saturday, 25 May, 2002


Happy Memorial Day weekend.

FoxPro? got one of those all-too-rare mentions on the Microsoft site, in MSDN’s Dr. GUI column. Check it out here.

This site has a great article on creating Cascading Style Sheets that will adequately print the onscreen text. Good stuff. And check out the links from there…

Post dated 2002-05-24 00:00:00

Friday, 24 May, 2002


Tortured poor Apollo this morning. I had it all set up as a web server, less content, but not yet exposed to the internet. However, I was also setting it up as a SourceOffSite server, but I do not yet have enough licenses for the entire staff. So, I turned it back into a file server, allowing sharing of the SourceSafe data directories (around 2 Gb at this point). It was a little tricky, as there were several places within the interfaces I had to change:

  • Enable the Guest user in Computer Management | Users
  • Enable access over the network for Guest in Security Policies
  • Allow directory access, read/write in the file share properties

Added a bunch of MSKB articles to the WebHome? MSKB and FoxPro? articles. Wish there were an easy way to gather all of them related to VSS and organize and manipulate them locally. I suppose I should install the monthly MSDN Library disks, but they always screw up my machine.

Found the DLL Help Database again – I had lost it for a while. It can be reached at http://support.microsoft.com/servicedesks/fileversion/dllinfo.asp?sd=MSDN

Tuesday, 21 May, 2002

Studying .Net, and Steven Platt’s Book, Introducing .NET Framework, is one of my guides. His home page is at http://www.rollthunder.com/index.asp.

Jon Udell talks of The Wiki Way as it relates to email threads in discussion groups and publishing.

The Wiki Way ISBN:0-201-71499-X by Bo Leuf and Ward Cunningham, is an insightful book into the ways of the Wiki.

Rand has an interesting study of Space Weapons

Windows/.NET magazine is one place I am considering submitting an article on VSS Maintenance.

IISAnswers has a step-by-step guide to installing Perl on IIS, including a link to an MSKB test script, MSKB:Q245225 “Configuring and Testing a PERL Script with IIS 4.0 and 5.0”

Sunday, 05 May, 2002

Had a great break in the middle of the day – took the dogs on a mile-long hike through the Hopkinton State Fair Grounds.

Other than that, worked on IIS 5.0, securing the new Windows server. Links of interest:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/securiis.asp

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.microsoft.com%2ftechnet%2ftreeview%2fdefault.asp%3furl%3d%2fTechNet%2fprodtechnol%2fiis%2fdeploy%2fdepovg%2fsecuriis.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/securiis.asp

MSKB:Q316347

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 2002-04-06 00:00:00

Saturday, 06 April, 2002

Spent a half hour trying to help Whil understand the joy of Outlook distribution lists. It’s not a pretty story. Sue Mosher’s SlipStick.com is considered one of the best sources: http://www.slipstick.com/contacts/dl.htm

The guys and gals at Memory Man, http://www.memory-man.com (don’t forget the hyphen!) have a great online system for identifying the kind of memory you need, and an efficient order processing system. I’ve bought from them successfully a number of times. Just upgraded the Dell Latitude CPiA to 256 Mb RAM this morning, effortlessly. I like it when stuff works the way it is supposed to!

Replaced the rechargable battery in the Microsoft Phone, earned for writing cerification questions in Palm Springs, for the first time. Almost $20, and a special order. But the phone is working again.

Spent the day shopping for new office furniture. Had fun. Nothing bought, yet.

Saw “Toy Story” tonight – yeah, I know I’m a few years late. Excellent flick.

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