Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
…but I finally have a VMPlayer image that has
Now maybe I can finish that functional spec.
My contract got extended. Only for 6 months this time, but man that’s a load off my mind.
I hate this holiday brinksmanship. I bet nothing sucks worse than getting told your contract won’t be renewed the week before Christmas.
I’m having problems installing new software in my CrossOver Office Windows (non-)emulator, so I’m trying to get a VMWare Windows virtual machine working. A coworker gave me an image that’s working for him, and suggested that I just use that.
First thing I did was delete his personal account and create a new one for me. Then I copied over my .id file from ./.cxoffice/dotwine/fake_windows/data/notes/data/[foo].id to the appropriate place on the virtual machine. And when I fire up Notes, it says has my id in the drop down, and I can log in with my current password. But when I click the “Mail” item, it shows me my cow orker’s mail box. Just in case you missed that, let me spell it out for you – I used my password and accessed his email.
I mentioned that to our sysadmin guy (who takes care of the local Unix servers, and helps us work around the stupidity of corporate IT who are responsible for the Windows boxes). He said yes, you can put your Notes ID file on a thumb drive, take it to any Windows box in the company, log in with your password and read the email of the person who owns that box. Is it just me, or that just about the stupidest thing you’ve ever heard? Now, I don’t know if that’s a deficiency of Notes, or a deficiency of corporate IT, and I don’t particularly care. I’m just boggled.
But accepting that bogglement for the moment, does anybody know how to make Notes forget about the person who used to read Notes on this box and now doesn’t even have an account on the box, and allow me to read mine? The sysadmin says the only way is to remove Notes and reinstall it, but when I try that I get a Notes that doesn’t ask for any password and complains that the mail file wasn’t found when I start it.
One Laptop Per Child “XO” computers + health club tread mills = really green Beowulf Cluster or data center.
Now to submit my idea to the Google green initiative.
I just got to see “One Six Right” in HD, and as far as I’m concerned that one movie justifies the purchase of the HD tv and the TiVoHD. (Although I’m sort of hoping they’ll re-show “Planet Earth” in HD one of these days.)