Musings

MESS An emulator of old, old computers. They emulate almost every computer I ever owned (ZX81, ZX Spectrum, Oric1, C-64) or used (the “ur” commodore and the TRS-80) SmartSpace - SyncML for the P800 SyncML Reference Toolkit (Sourceforge) Implementations of the SyncML protocol Synchronisation von Terminplanern mittels XML PHP Implementation of SyncML

The friendly people over on Joi’s IRC channel #joiito helped me by having me look at the Task Manager “Show Kernel Process” option. Then I wandered through the options and saw that the update frequence of the graph display was set to to “stopped”. Still wondering why it continued to show 100% CPU even when there was nothing going on. Setting the graph to update regularly, showed me that my system is in a normal state… Pheeew ...

In preparation for the project ahead I decided to install IIS and the latest fixes on this Windows XP SP1 machine. Then I got ActiveState Python to work as a handler to .py files (something that Microsoft Knowledgebase helps you with. I was rewarded with a working IIS con Python server and an unbelievable slow machine. Bringing up the Task Manager shows my CPU pegged at 100% - but none of the processes running seem to be responsible for it. Firing up ProcessExplorer by SysInternals shows a lot more information about the running processes, but no culprit. ...

I have a “filler project” coming up and I need to choose the right tools to get the job done. There’s a bit of infrastructure in place: MS SQL Server, IIS and a couple of databases on the SQL server. I need to write a web enabled front end for those, containing two forms to enter information. Also I need to be able to create reports from the database (also in HTML). ...

I’m working on a large spreasheet that builds a trackrecord of my other companies financial product. Without a formal education in Excel (and not being one of those people that read books about standard products ;-) ) my use of excel formulae was limited to the mere basic stuff. Then I needed to reverse the contents of a column. Googling a bit, I found the article Working with lists and a whole lot of related stuff. ...

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