30-IV-2001.
Writing to oldwave:
And now look at the problem - the only exemplar of the baselet being on the server in the office, I decided to send it to myself to my spare address, and when I [got] there it's Yahoo who doesn't accept files of that size. Hmmm, never mind, I can still access the FTP in Zero, so I copied it there, and then didn't get online from home for the whole weekend. I was either suffering trouble with Linux on Nina's machine (got it to sing, i.e. I got the sound card setup right, the network still resists), or I washed the car (it being all yellow from polen, it's 20m tall oaks* all around the house), or we went shopping (new guinea pig). Meaning to say I still didn't catch the time to look at it.
But then really, what we're messing with is actually much older, and the mrz-revolution was actually the way to finally get our hands on what we were always looking for, a collection of music which was hard to get back then. There were ways, though, even then, but those were the murky schemes with ordering music from various suppliers from London, by mail, and if you're lucky and the postman doesn't fold the record to fit the mailbox... and it cost a bit steeply above what we could afford at the time. Even the money I saved by not smoking yet at the time didn't help :). I've said before that that money never existed...
The new piglet was named Mrvica. Now whether it was planned for today, or we didn't find the kind the girls wanted... I think I'll stick to the 20-V-2001. as the official date. But then this shot is from a series made on tenth, so that's more likely.
A piece of code from GenerAll found some use, after so many years. The routine for roman numerals now also takes a string containing a number, because I see I commented in it that „annexes are, ahem, text and we need a number“. Took me a while to remember what annexes and where... ah, yeah, of course, HosTract. Which means I was still helping Avai.
I've also found something about the photos of resident[ doctor]s, which is a silly name for doctors in training, i.e. medical students... There the photos from one location were moved and/or renamed, in Hossy. And I don't quite remember where did those photos appear at all, except on some reports.
Ah, here it is, some ten days later, the explanation, when I wrote to Škrba again:
I was astroundled when I saw what level of detail we have to take care of - individual values in lookup tables, official versions of such tables... took us three weeks to check the data on academic institutions, so that they may be correctly classified into american state/privat, canadian, ostheopatic and foreign. Apart from the classification being ridiculous as such, it's that we had to roam the net for hours looking for ways to check whether a particular thing even existed, and if ti did whether it was a training course around the corner in Kolkata (which is just called college of medicine but consists of a walk with the guru). I even pulled some of my own connections on the Net to check one school in Kluž (rom. Cluj, hun. Kolozsvár).
Back home the things were orderly - ours the code, yours the data, everyone guard their own things (as in romanian group sex). Took us three days to get the doctors photos in order after they messed them up.
As Brlja said when he was here and saw the caprices of customers, said just „I go home to kiss Andraš“ (the most difficult yet best customer of Avai).
On UA, discussing with Berix the selective launching of applications (because Hossy is a suite), depending on rights of the current user...
Exactly what we've concluded here. I actually had an idea to mark the executable as invisible to certain groups of users, but then, trying on my own machine, saw that the traces of VAX VMS have sneaked into NT: if you rename the file, its rights go with it, they don't stay with the name. This will make the maintenance nearly impossible - we'd have to have two degrees of launchers - first one to launch the second one (which would be permanently there and permanently visible/invisible) and then the second one would actually launch the app (which may be an .app file now, hmmm).
What we usually do is rename the old exe and keep it around for a while (just backup) and ship a new one instead. That would mean that all the rights to the new exe are in some default state, and whatever was done to set the rights for the old version should be redone for the new one.
While I was writing this message ("massage" - Marshal McLuhan) I discussed the above solution and we decided that was the ticket.
Thanks to y'all (do I sound South enough?), I've learned a lot (of things I thought I'll never need :).
p.s. Why did the chicken cross the street?
For security reasons.
The point on the joke is the cessation of discussion. Nobody laughs, but there are no comments either, nothing, end. When something's for security reasons, there's no discussion henceforth.
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* the polen is actually from pines, which we established three years later
Mentions: 20-V-2001., Avai, Cecilia Roxbury (Berix), GenerAll, Goran Staković (Brlja), Gradivoj Škrbić (Škrba), Hossy, HosTract, Mrvica, Nevena Sredljević (Nina), oldwave, UbiquAgora (UA), Zero Distance (Zero), in serbian
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