Jesse Ezell Blog

Novell:
"Importantly, and contrary to SCO's assertions, SCO is not the owner of the UNIX copyrights. Not only would a quick check of U.S. Copyright Office records reveal this fact, but a review of the asset transfer agreement between Novell and SCO confirms it. To Novell's knowledge, the 1995 agreement governing SCO's purchase of UNIX from Novell does not convey to SCO the associated copyrights. We believe it unlikely that SCO can demonstrate that it has any ownership interest whatsoever in those copyrights. Apparently, you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to transfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected."¹

The VSM article brings up something I've been hearing a lot lately, that this is a "Down Market" time. Maybe things are different out in the Midwest, but it has definately not been a down-market time for us. Revenues have doubled over the past year (ok, we are a start-up, so that isn't saying as much as if it was MS doubling their revenues, but it ain't too shabby either) and we have more work that we could ever hope to get done. And this is a down market? I don't even want to know what the "up market" looks like, we don't get enough sleep as it is...

"Quite a few readers and more than a few Web sites questioned the results published in our most recent salary survey, "2003 Salary Survey: How Do Your Earnings Stack Up?" by Susannah Pfalzer [VSM June 2003]. They told us that C# developers can't really command significantly more money than VB.NET developers, when the languages are so similar.

Nice little tip from the VS.NET 1.1 (final) installer.

"To enable IPv6 for a particular client or Web application, you must make the following changes to your Application configuration file (app.config) or your Web configuration file (web.config):

<configuration>
    <system.net>
        <settings>
            <!-- The following entry enables IPv6 support in the System.Net classes. IPv6 support is predicated on availability of an IPv6 WinSock provider. -->
            <ipv6 enabled="true" />
        </settings>
    </system.net>
</configuration>"

MSDN has posted upgraded versions of two ASP.NET reference applications which support speech based interfaces using the Microsoft.NET Speech SDK (IBuySpy and FM Stocks).

"Jesse, you're Chic 'n' Sexy

 Armani, Prada, Diesel, Sean John — they've got nothing on you. Wherever you go, trends follow — that's just the way it is. Your style precludes anything else you do, and that's what sets you apart from the crowd. You're a chameleon of sorts when it comes to sexy — able to change your shade to match the right mood, event, or setting. Careful, don't hurt yourself on that cutting edge. You're so fashion forward that you can hang with the sharpest people around. But you know what they say, you can take a fashionista to 5th Avenue, but you can't make them look as good as you. "

So, I have the OS installed now. But, due either to the botched MSDN iso's or some installation glytch, a mess of device drivers got crapped up, and I can't install any new devices either. Wouldn't be a big deal if it was just a sound card or something (I can live without that for a while), but TCP/IP is broken along with my network adapters, which means IIS won't run either. I am working with PSS to resolve the issue, and they are extremely good with customer service, but know suprisingly little about the Tablet PC OS. I guess they don't get to many Tablet PC calls yet (they didn't even know that the Tablet OS was built on top of XP, they seemed to think it was some type of CE device)...

"A lot of our habits are left over from a small-memory world. There was a time when you couldn't get the whole program in memory. So it became important to discard the names used in a program when the program is done. I take issue with the idea that you don't have to call things what they are. And I take issue with the notion that the program will get done. Any program that's being used isn't done. The notion that it'll be done, and we can forget about it, is the biggest lie that we've founded our practices on."
[Infoworld]