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1999-02-01, Monday

I prepared the Saturday and Sunday logs of last week at home and simply copied them in. This works reasonable.

My PC had trouble this morning. It crashed 4 times while using e-Mail. Either a Microsoft (win95B) - Netscape (comunicator Mail 4.5) disagreement or a monday-morning problem (no more crashes after 10h00). Life can be interesting if you are using shrink-wrapped beta programs.
Everybody says that the truffles are verry good, but they don't disapear as fast as I expected. There will be a lot of them left over.
Actualy only 2 truffles were left at half past five.
I didn't do much at home anymore. Apart from reading that is.

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1999-02-02, Tuesday

Yesterdays problem was deffinitively a blue monday affaire. The system runs smoothly today.
I have been fidling with the last two PRS problems. They seem to be management hickups in stead of real problems. Searching takes quite a lot of time.
The Spain problems are still floating around. I copied the text from the PRS site to a text document for Peter so he can present it to Jan. Wait and see.
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1999-02-03, Wednesday

Workshop on Data Warehousing should be today (15h00) in R2-5/6. That is in the vicinity of the restaurant.
Togheter with Peter Chabot a data-Warehousing server proposition was composed for Germany. The budget was 13000DM maximum. The proposition is a Dell Precision 610 workstation (450MHz PII Xeon, 1GB RAM, 2x9GB 10000rpm SCSI disk, RAID controler).

The problem in Norway escalates into significant proportions. I had to visit them. The program they have is actualy not a local version but the real common one, I checked line for line. Even more, the object was still the object as sent from Venlo, with source-file reference to V06SRCSCB7.
In the CS save-library the F58061 that contained OMSI-3 records had the offending field correctly filled. I am passing the ball back to John.
I missed the workshop trough it.

Some more tips on Win9x entered in the PC-info files (os/2). The great cleanup goes on (or is this the Never Ending Story?).

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1999-02-04, Thursday

It seems that John doen't have time to get on with the Norwegian problem. Not only Jan Geurts is becomming inpatient, Sef as well has payed me a vistit to inform about the status and eventual progress. If John cannot do it I will have to.
This is eating time.

I have also been spending time on Spain. Now I must just wait a response from Inma.

The OCS release 7.08.2 is nearing completion (sceduled for the 17th) and that means that GUI/400 must be picked up again. It is currently not installed on my PC so I will have to do that first

A serious problem in Norway, with the S3 file cropped up. They seem to have lost about 80% of the creditnotes. Btw lost in the sense that they were never created. Only the statistics for them is lost and these statistics can be rebuilt so that is not realy a big problem. What is serious however is that the reason is unknown. Maybe other things have gone wrong. As the missing records are not in a sharply restricted bock but distributed troughout the file (ex some recs from January missing but records for February are there) going back to 1995.

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1999-02-05, Friday

The S3 problem eats the whole day. Maybe more.
They are going to patch up the S3 by running OMS761R against a manualy (querry) filled TH file. The only disadvantage that has is that we will not be able to check what actualy is wrong. The only way open is trough code tracking. And hoping the error repeats in Norway.
This is wading trough sticky mud!

I've been trying HTML at home on OS/2 but I don't have a good browser. The WebExplorer from OS/2 is not realy capable enough. It shows text and tables well enough but it dumps to manny colour and font attributes and it doesn't keep the layout clear. For example on my Cairn page the TOP lables are not centered and a horizontal line HR of thicknes 1 is white iso black. In tables the NOWRAP is honored but the collumn size defined in the TABLE key is ignored. On the positive side, it is reasonabely fast and it will show HTML errors more clearly. One of the greatest lackings for real Web work is that there is no place to type in an URL. But hey this is a 5year old browser, way in the senility age for web programs.
Lotus WordPro does alter handcrafted HTML, making it less clear for reading and changing the layout in an inconsistant way. It is no wors than M$ Word but no better either. I miss the drag and drop editing in E and cut & paste using ctrl+c and ctrl+v is better than the OS/2 standard ctrl+ins and shift+ins as you don't have to let go of your mouse.
An AZERTY keyboard is not the easiest for typing HTML code.

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1999-02-06, Saturday

The electrician is going to lay one (or two) extra cirquits for small-room and computer room today. He should test the other cirquits as well to advice on new, more powerful mains connection (homologation).
All for good of cource but that means no Linux (or any other computerish thing) as the electricity wil have to be cut.
Well I may catch up on some reading that I've been posphoning all too long now. Maybe.

As it turned out I didn't do any reading at all. I just hung about and helped the electrician. Sort of. The expected problem with the grounding wire turned out to be no problem at all the wire did fit, tightly, in the old telephone pipe so no new hole had to be drilled. The only deviation from mu brothers plan was that the main sockest are on the upper side of the roof beam and not on the front of it. The advantage now is that powerconvertes don't risk dropping off, the disavantage that the wire run on the top, ecluding the beam from being a bookshelf. because there will be a deep desktop in front of it the use as a bookshelf was questionable, it was more likely to turn into a dust and mouse bin.

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1999-02-07, Sunday

Gone running but I slipped off the railroad embankment, straight into the ditch. Up to my knees in the water. I went in again, change shoes (and stockings) and started off again, more cautionous. My leg is recovering faster than expected, it will propably be OK somewhere in May. I did take the white trunks allong but I didn't put them on.

I didn't do much for the rest of the day.

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