The Misadventures of Dan
Peer into the mind of Dan as he tries to build an MP3 Player for his PDA and searches for the next thing in his life be it an electrical engineering job or graduate school.
Tuesday, August 12, 2003
.:11:29:37 PM:.
Lost Time
My friend Gail showed me a picture of me she took back in Grade Four. Apparently we were all given one-shot cameras back then to take a picture of something we thought would be typical of a 'Week in St. Albert'. Apparently she won. This was back in Grade four. Neither my other friend nor I remember ever getting camers-I think I would remember something that cool but here's this picture of me staring at me from a book. Wow. We were trying to remember what had happened in the following years but only certain key events stuck out. Funny how that is.
Early this morning, I patched all the computers at work to prevent the spread of that W32.Blaster worm. Just now, I came across this page containing ALL the previous service packs for Windows 2000. This would have been helpful. What would have been even more helpful was the instructions to uninstall the service pack 4 because it kept on rebooting the computer whenever I tried to run Word or print-which conveniently are also on that page. They never released a patch for that, I don't think they will. Anyways my new setup isn't that bad. I finally managed to dual-boot Windows 98 and Windows 2000.
Recently I'm working with Raiser's Edge and Crystal Reports to build a specific event summary report without the use of the RE:open module. Its weird because originally I was able to see the SQL statements in the queries. I thought this was part of the program but then when we made the giant leap into version 7 (its sort of like the leap from socialism to communism-and altogether now-jump!) the modules disappeared along with the capability to see the SQL statements. Bummer. So now, the current solution is to use the 'Merge Queries' function in Raiser's Edge with hopes that I'll get the right combo... on time... which is by the end of the week-eep.
One recurring problem is trying to get Windows XP Home to connect to the domain at work. The problem is that there is no direct way to change the domain. In fact looking at the help it says the only way to change the domain for a computer is to use Windows XP Professional-what kind of a solution is that!?! An interim workaround is to delete the user's password for the Windows XP Home and make sure that the same user name is added on the server. I totally don't like that solution one bit.
I've always used lynx, it was my first browser-I used it back in the days when I had to do all my research for debate on Edmonton's Freenet-it was great it gave me exactly what I wanted without any popups (its kinda hard when you're in ASCII). So recently, I found an online lynx emulator. Why on earth did I need an emulator? Because my connection at work kept on dying so there's no good way to render a text-only page. Sure you can turn off CSS and turn off the images, but you're still left with the way the headings appear certain pages still show presentation stuff. Lynx literally strips away all the presentation and leaves only the content. Its an ugly, ugly world out there baby and someone's gotta see it! Plus if you're talking about accessibility and ease of navigation-its best to start with the basics.
