The auntie Ema joke (v. Fefi) is now posted among the programming jokes on sGradlj.com, though it wasn't called that yet, I still didn't buy a domain and the whole site was hosted on Geocities.
Which didn't last, I think within a year the Geocities were bought by Yahoo, and they immediately started inserting ads into my pages. Which is the slime of the lowest calibre, so I took the site down and moved it to my then host, I think Earthlink, i.e. to whatever space I had there as a subscriber to their services.
At Zero, we're about to go live at some hospital in California. Ford needs to know the username and password for the VPN to there, but I knew only the name, someone else typed the password for me and it stayed memorized, never saw it.
The music player we used, namely WinAmp (on headset), is now prohibited on office machines. Certified apps only, which means m$ and nothing else. Their media player is, thus, the only anointed one, and fuckit it's so slow to draw the fancy little screen, and so trying to organize my files into whatever it wants (as someone said, every app wants to be a database when it grows up), and as for playing, it's just bad. So I wrote a player of my own a while ago, and today I emailed it to myself so I can finish it at home. It's using the same engine, i.e. the media player COM object, it's just that the GUI isn't unnecessarily complicated by gold plating.
From Avai, Joja is leaving soon, just waiting for whichever job to come through. The Dutches eventually told him to fuck off, not in those terms, they were very much dancing around the real reasons, but he eventually got them to confess the real reasons, which were of strictly commercial nature, but they couldn't put that in writing. He got back to the airport just in time for a serious downpour, and his car stalled twice - he had to find a way to dry the cables, but at least he got home. Some others stayed by the road, waiting for the rain to stop. There's some outfit from Slovenia where he could fit in, but the trail got cold, so he may try to search again.
Meanwhile, he's asking for some help with compiling our apps into executables, because in some places where they still had DBA's apps as well, there were traces of someone messing with our code. It's been a tradition to leave source open everywhere, because if anyone was able to mess with it, he'd have to understand it first, and then we'd offer the guy a job. The compiler, ie. project manager was complaining about not finding all those path related functions from fpath.plb (later foxtools.fll). I gave him what instructions I could, and pointed him to the two tools I wrote to help complete the exe. After all, what we did in Szoftex needed them, and so I wrote them then.
In post scriptum, he said he almost missed my email, because I sent it to his Avai address, and he's barely spent five hours in the office this year, he's permanently in the field, but it was Peja who dragged him by his ears to the screen to read it.
On my side, I was trying to finish the HosTract, visual fox version, though I have no idea what was I using, probably what framework Rick left.
Then a long exchange with Vanji... told him that I was really busy these days, with Lena's birthday, then Nina's machine (linux doesn't see the network card, tried to install W98 on it just to free zmajček so I can get work done... eventually succeeded today). Told him how we get the error reports from users here - they do a screenshot of the problem, paste it into a word document, send that as attachment in an email (which adds substantially to the size of the email, but possibly the then Outlook wouldn't recognize a bitmap in the clipboard so you couldn't just paste an image into email... and I've seen this image in a doc technique as late as 2018, when it surely could, but nobody told the users). Takes some training of the users, but I've heard such a crash course take two minutes over the phone and email arrived in another three, problem solved within 30 minutes - the PC Anywhere just works. Well, except with California, noise on the modem line. But with two most important customers we can connect over internet, so a six megabyte exe ships in five minutes.
He's hiring another guy, a beginner, so the employment fund will be paying his salary for a year. Accidentally, he'll now be only the second guy in the office who speaks hungarian. Well, I said, Cica should speak some, about the level Joška spoke it first year there.
Regular trouble with the network at zzzzz... ever since we added the third box. Must be that its cable passes by some nasty machine which interferes, pretty much like the x-ray at Gemenc did.