May 2004 - Posts
Found this in comp.databases.ms-access: Altova producers of Altova XMLSPY, the world's leading XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language) development environment, today announced that the Home Edition of its award-winning XMLSPY product is now being offered to the public through a FREE software license. What's also pretty cool is that the EULA is available on their web site for you to read before you even download the software.
My Toshiba e805 arrived home yesterday, after its second trip to Toshiba for repair.I'm not sure what they did the first time, but it didn't fix the problem. This time I called and found out they replaced the motherboard. Hopefully this time it's fixed for good.
Jamie is looking for better style sheet support/creation, Alex Malek, Program Manager with the FrontPage team. says that is great feedback and he's passed it on to the product team. Jonathan Hardwick, Software Architect, has started a FrontPage Feedback page.
I wonder how long my DSL will stay up?
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John Durant posts about a new FrontPage article on MSDN: Customizing Code Snippets in FrontPage 2003 You should try it - you'll like it. I did some work in customizing the FrontPage Accessibility Checker and it was a great learning experience.
My sister's dentist told her that and boy, is it true. Take good care of your teeth - you don't want to go through what I've just been through. On April 29th, I had oral surgery to have two implants put in. I'd already had two, done at separate times with local anesthesia. This time I had two done at the same time, one on each side, with local anesthesia and some kind of sedation where I was awake but didn't care if it hurt. I don't know if it's because I'm getting old or what, but it took me a full two weeks for the swelling to go down and to feel normal again.
A few weeks ago, I reported the passing of my Toshiba e805 PocketPC. I returned it Toshiba for repair and got it back on Friday. I set it up and reinstalled ActiveSync on Saturday, and by Saturday night at 10 pm, I had had to 'soft reset' it 6 times - it kept locking up while it was sitting in the cradle. Sunday morning, I put it in the cradle, it turned itself on and booted to a white screen, and then told me to tap the screen to set up my PocketPC (I had just done that on Saturday).
This baby is going back to Toshiba as soon as I get them on the phone.
Links to this month's Microsoft Security Bulletin Summaries can be found at Jerry Bryant's blog. What are you waiting for?
Contrary to the remarks it made to the ComputerTimes, Microsoft now claims that it will not permit users who have obtained Windows XP illegally to upgrade to its latest service release. Instead, the software giant will continue to enforce compliance with its licensing.
In a nutshell, Microsoft group product manager Barry Goffe told ComputerTimes that Windows XP Service Pack 2 would not exclude pirated copies from upgrading, and that it was more important to keep user safe than to be "concerned about the revenue issue."
To clarify its position,
a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews, "Press reports indicating Windows XP Service Pack 2 will install on pirated or illegal copies of Windows XP are not entirely true. Prior to installing, SP2 will check the OS' product ID (PID) against a list of known pirated PIDs. If a PID is found to be invalid, SP2 will not install."
BetaNews confirmed the accuracy of the spokesperson's statement with a source within the company.
According to a Computer Times article posted on May 5, 2004, both legitimate and unlicensed users of Microsoft's XP operating system software will be able to download the Service Pack 2 security patch for free
Microsoft's increasing concern over information security has translated into its decision to bite the bullet and make its upcoming SP2 (Service Pack 2) security patch available to all users - including those using pirated copies of its Windows XP software.
"We haven't explicitly done anything to SP2 to exclude it from pirated copies," said Microsoft group product manager Barry Goffe. The United States-based executive was interviewed via telephone.
FrontPoint Using Microsoft FrontPage to do amazing things with SharePoint Products and Technologies, brought to you by the folks from the dev/pm/test teams who create FrontPage. We got to meet these folks at the MVP Global Summit last month and I am so excited to see them blogging. They've already featured an article on MSDN about using FrontPage 2003 to write ASP.net pages written by Dave Berry, a FrontPage MVP.
Murphy's Law states that “If something can go wrong, it will and at the worst possible time“. Here's an example: http://msmvps.com/harrywaldron/posts/5872.aspx
Kirk Biglione give some examples and he makes some valid points, such as why Microsoft doesn't use valid HTML including DOCTYPEs on their site (I've often wondered the same thing myself). But seriously, calling a font tag an “atrocity“? A little over the top, don't you think?
Julie Lerman is aggregating discussions on Women in Technology
When I first started in IT, it was called EDP (Electronic Data Processing) - that should give you an idea of how long ago that was. OK - I'll confess - it was 1976. I took the standard Programmer Aptitude Test and passed. I remember during the job interview being asked if I was planning on having any children (I was married at the time). I knew that the asking of the question was illegal but I wanted the job so badly I answered it anyway rather than protesting. I got the job (Programmer Trainee) and was sent off to class to learn how to program in COBOL. There were 6 people in my class - 5 women and 1 man. The 5 of us women passed the course with flying colors - the man flunked out and was sent back to the job he came from.
I programmed in COBOL and various associated languages until 1995, when the Internet came along. I made the switch to HTML, and then JavaScript, VBScript and CSS - I think my programming background made the transition a lot easier. It might also be genetic - my dad was a programmer for most of his career.
Interesting readings: Why Technology Needs Women “So, just as the technology industry's largest and most successful company merger ever was led by a woman, the cessation of a decades-long rivalry that resulted in some of the least productive and most useless bickering in the technology business was instigated by two women, neither of whom (as far as I know) are even on the payroll of their husband's companies.“
The Question without an Answer - Women in I.T.: Julie Lerman asks “the question, of course, is why are there not more women programmers? Why don't we see more women at summits/at conferences/publishing books/writing articles?”