09-V-2005.
Mentioned auntie Ema on UA (v. Fefi) when I saw what I wrote and got an idea how to solve the problem by simply reading how I explained it. The mention is in a shape of a real link, at sGradlj.com. So the site went official any time between 2003 and now. At least this is the oldest mention of programming jokes that I could find. OK, so I went to the hosting pages, where I administer the site (requires almost no maintenance so I forgot it's there)... and found the date. It was in 2004.
In the morning, a long chat with David... something about controlling how many instances of an app would be allowed within one Citrix session. We used Yahoo's chat app, with which I got fed up and installed Trillian instead, to avoid always updating the bloated Yahoo's one. We then got entangled in trying to untangle the messy layout of that madman's tables, trying to figure out how did he package transactions in his Access app („if one of your pieces was involved in a move in some later transaction, you won't see it, you'll only see the number sequence now having a hole“). The guy doesn't know what he put in what pocket, a field from one table is referenced in another table in a field whose name bears no connection to the first one. And even such an idiot managed to make a million or two - there's his house in White Plains, where there's no house below 500K$.
Working on natal charts in zod for Gary. It's a graphical gimmick, to have one's natal data (date, location) entered on the webpage, and then calculate the positions of major zodiac signs and draw a .png representing that, and show it on the webpage. It was somewhat complicated, but I made it. From fox I'd calculate everything, then generate the graphical representation, using PostScript commands, writing them into a .ps file, then passing that file to GhostScript to generate the .png file. It required drawing the circles and circle sections, positioning and connecting the dots, putting the dot labels in right places, drawing the short and longer lines for degrees, font which would have all zodiac signsconverting all the polar cooordinates into cartesian, then converting those coordinates into that of PostScript. Turned out excellent, the result was worth the effort, and Gary was satisfied.
With the classic posters site we had different trouble.
What I figured may have happened today on Server 1 is that Windows rebooted and started checking the services - and discovered that IIS is there but isn't the default web server, and then decided to set it up as such. Knowing m$, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. They have a long record of doing this or that against competitors' software running on their Windows.
Mentions: David Krakovski, Ferenc Farkaš (Fefi), fox, Gary Brandywine, Majkrosoft (m$), sGradlj.com, UbiquAgora (UA), zod, in serbian