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Oh boy. Yesterday I said it starting off warm (13°C). That was just joking. Now Today, it is starting off warm. 22°C at six. And getting warmer all the time, to 35°C again. On the attic I had 44°C in the evening.

We did hit a wall with TeleSales. A big, ugly concrete wall.

On the AS/400 the field names in the database are all 6 characters long and in uppercase due to a limitation of the RPG/400 compiler (fixed format statements based on old 80 column punch cards). Progress is a less dated language allowing long field names. Using the Progress V8 we translated all the fields from their AS/400 format (ex ohadno) to a long format name (addr-no) without problem. Now, with Progress V9 the conversion seems to be a problem.
The only solution we see at this moment is renaming all the fields in TeleSales. That means changing all the programs. Ronny is as happy as you can guess.

Theo is not in the office today. He sometimes works from home but that is usually on Wednesday so I didn't know if he had a day off or if he was working (he didn't react on mail from Jan so he probably had the day off). He did inform me when he left yesterday evening but apparently he did not inform anyone else. Jan, visiting Germany, reported a few bugs (to be solved immediately of course) but, with Theo not in, Ronny was a bit rudderless. He had some questions and some decisions had to be taken. This did not sit well with Jan and Wilbert.
Some firm discussion will follow one of these days. The only real problem is communication but that is often the biggest issue when deadlines and bugs are around

I finished a first draft of the correction program.

 

On his notes Tom explains how he is going to move his domain from iTool to his own local machine.
I moved away from iTool to Masset, a local shop, over the weekend. Toms four step method did not apply to me mainly because I am not hosting my own site.
I think that Masset was a bit too enthusiast to get me over though. I asked a quote. Got it ten minutes later, same price as iTool for same size but with wider, low profile tires, (I mean bandwidth). Told him I was actually interested and about ten minutes later I got a form from NSI. This was fully filled in for transferring the domain, all I had to do was send it back.
That was step-1
Step 2 is obvious, Wait. Whenever computers are involved that is always the second step <g>. Although I get the feeling that Masset did cut out this step.
Step 3 was probably done by Masset for me. I haven't got a clue what a Zone record or an MX record is.
Yea, step 1 and 3 (maybe 4 as well) all done by the new hosting company. I only had to nod and return a mail.
BTW while changing over from iTool he also transferred the domain registration from NSI to Joker. Which means I will save a bit on subscription next year. Talk about service. (Since I mentioned Joker to him he is not using NSI anymore).

Because Masset was so enthusiastic about all this the domain got transferred before I had a chance of getting something uploaded to the server. I didn't even had an IP number yet (was posted half an hour later).

While uploading and testing I got some certificate messages and file-not found errors but now I can see my pages again. The main (only) difference that I notice is that now I have to add the WWW. at the front. But maybe that is only necessary until the DNS change has percolated trough.

PS If the DNS change hasn't propagated yet you can look at 216.87.223.206.

Oh, yes there is still football.

England - Roumania : 2 - 3
Portugal - Germany : :3 - 0

I didn't watch TV and I missed the news so I don't know what ramains of Charleroi. Probably just some intersting ruins.
And some journalists have been caught bribing 'suporters' (by buing driks or distributing fireworks) to get more interesting 'news'. Just as I expected.

Adios