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Saturday, November 30, 2002
Another bit of software silliness I ran into today. I needed to find out if it was practical to drive from home to Toledo, Ohio. The machine that had my mapping software on it has left the premises, so I had to choose a volunteer and install the software. Disk One, Disk [...]
Friday, November 29, 2002
Steve and I struggled Wednesday to downgrade an older PII-366 laptop from Win2K to Windows 98SE as a test platform for a client project. Since it’s NTFS, we’ll need to blow away the partitions. The MSDN CD for Windowsw 98 isn’t bootable. Found a wonderful resource for bootdisks at – where else? [...]
Thursday, November 28, 2002
Happy Thanksgiving to those in the US, and happy Thursday to the rest of the world.
I have much to be thankful for this year.
Wednesday, November 27, 2002
Installed and configured WinCVS? on my machine for source-code control of a new client’s application. Lots of good documentation on http://www.computas.com/pub/wincvs-howto/ and http://ccvs.cvshome.org/servlets/ProjectHome and http://www.cvshome.org/docs/
Pretty neat package. I’m looking forward to working with it and seeing how it compares to VSS.
Monday, November 25, 2002
Monday was five hours of commuting and eight hours on-site with a new client. A very exciting new project. Glad to be working again.
Sunday, November 24, 2002
Sunday. I’m trying to catch up on a week unblogged and, gosh, I can’t even remember what I did on Sunday.
Saturday, November 23, 2002
Succeeded in re-assembling Steve’s double-hung window. Stripping and reglazing turned out to be far more challenging than we thought. Next time, we’ll plan to take the window out after the first frost.
Friday, November 22, 2002
TGIF. Back to work, and getting up to speed at work.
Dave Birley posted a link to his pictures from Great Lakes. Nice job!
Thursday, November 21, 2002
Back home. Spending a slow day catching up on email, snail mail, newspapers and house chores.
Robert X. Cringely starts his column about Comdex and ends with his predictions about the IT economy for 2003 and 2004. We’ll see.
Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS02-066 this week, about a number of security problems primarily [...]
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
I hate to see the party end, but I’m not sure I could have taken much more. The closing session was great, and featured a professional magician. Very fun.
Had a nice quiet lunch with a few friends afterwards, and started the long trek home. We were hours and hours early to the [...]
