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MM-cv     Friday

2000-04-14

Cool, windy, rain, sun, clouds, .... We are getting it all (no Tom, no snow and the temp is positive). Later on the bright spells become longer and outweigh the greyness.

A new 'problem' cropped up in Belgium. The interface for starting invoices is a filter screen. You select the address or the period or ... and the invoicing gets submitted to a background job-queue. That works (not like a charm but ...). But. When you don't enter an invoice date the *current date is used. Most of the time the current date is the day you see on the screen, if however the job has to wait in the job-queue until after midnight the current date is not what the user saw when he submitted the job. Still no problem. The Belgian operator knows this so to make sure he gets the right date he fills in the entry field over typing the date. Most of the time he over types with what is already proposed so the program doesn't see the difference and still passes *current to the invoicing. Some night the backup takes long and the invoicing shifts back.
Result : a problem report with status To_Be_Solved.

I got bitten Yesterday.
Not by a Virus but by an Anti-virus. (that is why I didn't post a thing yesterday).
I had packed the notebook and during my lunch pause this noon I started it up for further meddling. Hey.
I got a clean boot, going in Windows without as much as a hiccup. And the speed is almost normal (got the cache still turned off). Some tests later I can declare the box healthy and ready for delivery.
BTW I did get a reply on the mail I sent to Fujitsu, .... from the postmaster declaring my mail undeliverable. Nice site they have with no support and fake mail address. No wonder they can claim they don't get problems about their computers.

I was just lucky I was using such a user friendly system, even Joe Six-pack can use it <Malicious Grin>.
Hey give me Linux, this Win stuff is much to easy for me <MG>.