Daynote ,Svenson

MM-cxxiv     Wednesday

2000-05-03

A rainy morning (at 12°C) starting of with a light drizzle at 6h00 gradually intensifying to a veritable torrent by 10h00 and then slacking off again. Although it remains somewhere between mist and drizzle the whole day.

Jan should have come for testing the performance stuff but he doesn't turn up (he calls instead). So we apply the adaptation everywhere without his approval. This applying does involve some unexpected changes. And a lot of keyboard wear.

To cool my fingers I visited all the daynoters for this week. Sorry, no time to pick up the missed notes from last week.

And Then I tackle (pickup, investigate, solve and test) the problem with the F14 on the additional order line detail screen. This was a misleading function because it got invoked from an order line but impacted the whole order. Yep, the function is disabled now. (prs-13???)

And I start the maintenance programs that Theo requested yesterday (prs13499). I got the objects reserved and the sources in place but no code written yet. That must wait till Friday

In the news.

France Telecom, the telephone "monopoly" in France had a bug in its computers. Half of Paris was cut off by this. People couldn't call out using regular phones. Of course if the normal phone doesn't work people grab their mobile phones. As a result the GSM network got overloaded and virtually broke down. The problem should be solved in the morning.

Dr. Keyboard has added links to his past notes, going back one and two years. His previous-year link sits under his previous day link, logical. His two-years-back link sits under his next-day link, logical? Not at all, intuitively it seems to point to his next-year page.

A Mail Tom rage seems to have struck the daynotes gang. I am not sure why but his e-mail address is poping up all over the place (unless it is a sort of DOS attack).

Found this opening on a LinuxWorld article ( www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-2000-05/lw-05-remedies.html ) about the MS trial.

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies."
-- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)