Its grey and cold, with no sunny breaks, real October weather. The only improvement is the lack of rain, Apart from a little drizzle in the morning it remains dry all day.

I solve the invoice address problem from Friday. And catch Jan actually testing. (I uploaded the wrong version of the program and he caught it :-). Later he 'test' it over my shoulder and lets me put the problem report in 'accepted' status.
After that I tackle a problem on which I started more than a month ago. Surprise, I am a bit behind on the planned schedule.

While speaking of Jan. I mentioned that I am interested in all sorts of hardware. Now he comes around with an old Amstrad laptop. He is willing to part from it but I have to name a price.
It is an i386SX/40 notebook, with 1MB of RAM and a 120MB harddisk. It has a greyscale (4 or 8 bit) VGA screen. He has Win3.1 installed and demonstrated it so the thing is working. Only the battery is non functional. Now what is it worth?
My brother could use it as a trade up from is aging i286 Toshiba but I guess he is more interested in the Fujitsu (AMD K2/350, etc.). I see only one reason why he would go for it and that is because he leaves the notebook in the pilot residence when he is at see or home. It is there unguarded and unlocked so it could be stolen. Everybody knows there are no locks there so nobody leaves valuables hanging around so the chance of theft is low, but still.
If it were free I wouldn't hesitate at all, but Jan is too good a sales man to let go of things for free, even though he doesn't use them.

 

And I still cannot reach my site for updates. (Wake me up if you can.)

I noticed Masset about this yesterday and I got a reply today. He asked if I had replied to the mail from NSI. What mail? While asking that I a mail from NSI drops in. When I got to actually handling that mail about an hour later, I had a confirmation reply from NSI stacked on top of the original. How so confirmation, I haven't replied yet!
Hah, another mail from Masset, in between the two NSI mails (but dropped into another folder) mentions that he did answer to NSI and that I only had to handle the domains at Joker because he doesn't know the password. That is called service I guess.
Of course I don't remember my password and I don't find the note with it (what else are sticky notes for?). Luckily (or not, depents on your point of view) Joker has a service where you can request the password. You ask the password for a certain domain and it is sent via (unencrypted) e-mail to either the owner or the tech-contact of that domain, not to the requester.
So now the DNS change should slip around the web. And I am going to change passwords.

Just apply some patiens.

Adios