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MM-cx     Wednesday

2000-04-19

Dry and sunny is the <!-- MS Theme --> today. Ever heard about something from Redmond that has no flaws? So. We get a hazy and cloudy morning (5°C) before it gets bright and during the afternoon a few patches of cloud drift by. Not too bad after all, the day didn't need a reboot. Unlike that time last year. (Yea, I know the MS spin doctors wanted us to believe in a solar eclipse but I for one don't take their sweet talk).

I finally found and solved the problem with the invoices. Though I don't understand how it could have escaped detection so long. Last year, in December, I changed the programs to pass the invoice address from the selection screen, trough the invoicing program to the actual printing program. Before that the address was only passed to the invoicing program. The printing did print all the newly created invoices which typically was correct. Sometimes invoices were made but not printed however and they had the tendency to get printed at the next invoicing run, even it they didn't fit the filter.
In solving this I made a mistake so that only invoices for the requested address would be printed. No address would mean print for all addresses but actually said print nothing. That is why now nothing gets printed unless you test individual invoices (they bypass all the tests). This fix was tested (ahum) and accepted by Pieter and is active in Belgium. I don't know how the Belgians handle their invoices but I doubt things are running as they should.
Well it is fixed now and tested by the OFI people, not by some ......

Checkout this : www.theregister.co.uk/000419-000004.html . And then notice that Tom has a link to Seti@home. And he claims he broke his box. This cannot be coincidence.
What was he really doing?

And Toshiba starts building water cooled notebooks ( www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/press_release/04172000_3.jsp ). What I find amazing is that they have a 'patent pending' on it. So, Ford and GM, get ready to pay up or switch your engines to air cooling :-)

     Temptation.
The parquet is ready and now we are moving the books back from the attic to the front room. That means picking up books checking them (we are entering them into a database while moving) and finding an appropriate place. That is handling over a hundred books and not taking the time to read them.