Progress everlasting...
Sep. 7th, 2010 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpI'm keeping pace with The Big Edit™, and expect to finish the most recent chunk tomorrow.
Yesterday, I went back to dig through a series of CDs that I burned 8-10 years ago to look for a Perl CGI script that I'd like to "translate" into PHP, and managed to find it. Now comes the hard part...
En passant, I ran across a directory for the first Windows version of a program called InfoSelect, which had previously been a DOS TSR program called "Tornado Notes." (Extra points for you if you knew that TSR stands for terminate-and-stay-resident, which described a class of program that was popular back when computer operating environments were designed to run only one program at a time.)
The thing that made InfoSelect so great was its inherent lack of structure - everything was text contained within a window - and so the program excelled at what it was designed for: entering information and finding it again later. Later versions of the program suffered greatly, IMO, from creeping featuritis, so much so that I eventually stopped using it.
The program won't run in Windows 7 but will run in a Windows 2000 session in VMPlayer. I am now tempted to routinely run VMPlayer as part of my setup just so I can have InfoSelect close at hand.
* * * My friend Feht suggested that this is a bad time of year to put stamps up for auction on eBay, and I am thinking he's right. Over the years, he's sold more than 2500 items on eBay, enough to make him a "Top-rated seller," mostly during slow translation periods, and I've found his advice regarding eBay (and stamps) to be spot on. Over the past couple of weeks, I've picked up some pretty good buys, not all of which I am going to want to sell when the market gets hotter later in the year, but that's why it's called "collecting," I guess.
Time to close down for the night, go upstairs, have another (small) portion of buckwheat, and settle down to watch Covert Affairs. The series sort of grows on you.
Cheers...
Yesterday, I went back to dig through a series of CDs that I burned 8-10 years ago to look for a Perl CGI script that I'd like to "translate" into PHP, and managed to find it. Now comes the hard part...
En passant, I ran across a directory for the first Windows version of a program called InfoSelect, which had previously been a DOS TSR program called "Tornado Notes." (Extra points for you if you knew that TSR stands for terminate-and-stay-resident, which described a class of program that was popular back when computer operating environments were designed to run only one program at a time.)
The thing that made InfoSelect so great was its inherent lack of structure - everything was text contained within a window - and so the program excelled at what it was designed for: entering information and finding it again later. Later versions of the program suffered greatly, IMO, from creeping featuritis, so much so that I eventually stopped using it.
The program won't run in Windows 7 but will run in a Windows 2000 session in VMPlayer. I am now tempted to routinely run VMPlayer as part of my setup just so I can have InfoSelect close at hand.
Time to close down for the night, go upstairs, have another (small) portion of buckwheat, and settle down to watch Covert Affairs. The series sort of grows on you.
Cheers...
