Wednesday Weltschmerz
Segway Lite. This guy here decided he wanted a Segway but didn't want to spend $5,000USD to get one. So he built his own.
Ctl-Alt-Del. This guy here was the guy who gave the world the three fingered salute. The article is short but gives some general background into the man who came up with the common key combination that everyone now uses.
Novell 32 - Dan 0. My problems with the Novell client continue. As a review, we have servers running network operating systems (NOS) from Microsoft, Novell, IBM, DEC, and Wang (Last time I looked, there were about 50 servers, including IBM mainframes.).
Each NOS has its good and bad points. But each requires the loading of client software to login and interact with the server. Some of these clients are fast and easy to use. Some aren't.
Up until one of our servers was converted to Netware 6.x (the latest version), I used the Microsoft Client Services for Netware (CSNW) that comes with Windows 2000/XP to access our Novell Netware servers. The MS client is fast, bug free, and works great with Netware 4.x and 5.x.
Compare this with the official Novell client that is full of hundreds of bugs and causes all manner of problems with my copy of WindowsXP. For example, boot time is increased by a factor of at least three. Accessing Netware servers went from almost instantaneous to 20 seconds. Running applications, especially MS Office (what a coincidence - Ed.) on a Netware server is a great excuse to go get a cuppa while you wait for the hour glass to clear.
Once the Novell client is installed, uninstalling does not clear the problems. The only thing to do is to reformat the drive and install everything, except the Novell client.
But in my case, if I don't use the Novell client when connecting to a Netware version 6.x server, the MS CSNW does strange things. While you do get logged in, drive mapping does not seem to occur. Yet, if you manually map a drive to a volume, the other drives magically appear. I don't know why this is happening but I guess I'll be reformatting my drive and starting over.
All I can say is Novell makes a terrific network operating
system. But their client software blows chunks leaves
much to be desired. Sigh.
Aloha!