On holidays for a week..

Starting today, I'll be on holidays throughout the whole next week. I must say that it is a very much needed rest from my daytime work wich seems to consume each bit of my own resources.

Maybe it's just my impression, but it seems sometimes that our work with computers is never finished - I mean - once you propose youself to do something and eventually get around to complete your assigned task - something else appears along the way also needing some attention creating an endless loop..

Well, this time I'm (almost) on vacations - will be flying back home tomorrow and ensure some things get properly done back at work on monday so that I can really rest for the rest of the week.

On a bright note: the next release of winbuilder is almost ready - still missing to fix the upload mecanism wich decided to not play nice with the rest of the improvements, maybe all it needs is just another code shake up to see where things are not working well.

While I'm on vacances I'll take the oportunity to some things I've been wanting to do for some time - deliver my tax return form online, study for the math exam on 12th of April and just wake up late everyday.. ;)

To Vista or not to Vista..

Operative Systems evolve, and we somehow try to evolve along with them.

Most of us around here still remember a time when an operative system would confortably fit on a floppy and creating a boot disk was as simple as typing "format a: /s" from the command line prompt..

On these days that quickly pass, our boot disks have grown in features, but have also grown in complexity and responsability.

Vista is a shiny example on how certain things shouldn't be taken as granted to not change in a near future - In our case the whole process involved in creating and modifying registry hives needs to be rethinked and likely recoded to ensure that winbuilder can still operate under the newer OS user account control (UAC) restrictions.

Maybe an answer can be found soon. In the meanwhile I notice that the players on this cat and mouse game have changed, but the challenge remains the same: learn, share and create new solutions..

Multiple languages

Here's a new challenge: Replacing english inside winbuilder with other languages. The idea sounded simple at the begining, but there are so many variants on how text should be placed inside buttons that we end finding out that it's isn't as simple on a first look as it first seemed..

First was a question of adapting some labels to show up greek characters, then it was some minor fixes on labels that we're mixed. Now comes the big question: How to use german words bigger than 46 words??

A really nice discussion can be found here:

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<a href="http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?s=&amp;showtopic=1104&amp;view=findpost&amp;p=10932">enjoy!</a>

Greetings from the Azores..

Hi everyone,

This is my first entry on this blog system. Hopefully there will be more postings related to toughts and opinions from our community members. These writings don't necessarly need to be just about computers, it's a simple everyday life blog to keep a written record and have some fun when going back a few years from this date and read them back again, who knows?

That's all for now, stay tunned for more posts soon..

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