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September 16, 1999 Well, I'm in Seattle, and if you see this then I managed
to get on line. I am using FrontPage 98 for this, which means that it doesn't have a spell
checker. I could use Word to write it and paste it in: one nice thing about Office
97/FrontPage 98 is that the copy and paste work properly. In fact, I think I'll do that.
Half a mo...
So. I’m using Word from Office 97 to write the rest of this. While on the airplane
to Japan last week (or two weeks ago or whenever, it’s all beginning to blend
together) I found that something was corrupt in Word, and my attempts to edit one of the
chapters of the O’Reilly book that Bob Thompson and I are doing met with some, uh,
interesting results. I reinstalled Word on my portable when I got home. Actually, I tried
to do an Office "repeat last install", but after about twenty minutes of
trundling I got the message that my setup files were corrupt, and I had to do a full
reinstall of Office 97. I did that, but by then it was getting on for time to catch the
plane to Seattle, where I am now, so this is the first test of that installation. Seems to
be working fine.
I suspect the problem is due to upgrading this portable to Windows 98 Second Edition
from Windows 95 OSR2. Alex did that, and I am not sure but I think he did it as an upgrade
rather than scrubbing down and doing a new installation; and that, I think, is what may
have messed up the startup files for Office 97. All of this was more annoying than really
bad. I did have to take the work I had done on the book chapter, and a new copy of the
chapter as formatted by Thompson, and paste my new stuff into a copy rather than try to
send him the hideous mess that my corrupted Word had made of it. That took half an hour,
but it wasn’t too bad.
And that problem could have been in part due to my having Office 2000 on Princess, and
the chapter having passed through that. I find that in Office 2000 there are some settings
on compatibility, and you need to set things to save in Office 97 format; this can be
done, and seems to have cured that problem. Anyway, all is well there.
My connectivity isn’t. This hotel seems to have very noisy lines, and I am having
to do manual dialups to get on line; and Earthlink is telling me there’s no domain
server to validate my entry or some such, and that’s a problem. I did manage to get
on line and get some mail, and I think I can get more, and I hope to be able to use ftp to
get this posted. We’ll see.
I am afraid I live in interesting times. I do wish I had Outlook installed on here
properly, but I don’t, and I am having to use Netscape, which doesn’t seem to
have multiple mail accounts so I have to log in under different names to get different
mail; unlike Outlook 2000. But that’s in part unfamiliarity. I’m learning all
over again how to be a road warrior…
On that, I have a RoadWarrior kit, and if the phone gives me enough problems I’ll
take the darned thing apart and connect direct into the phone system bypassing the silly
phone instrument and it’s odd data port, which I think is connected to "line
2". The hotel operator doesn’t speak enough English to understand the question
"On which line, one or two, is the data port connected?" "Como?" I had
better luck communicating with the hotel authorities in Tokyo than I am having here.
Anyway, let’s see if I have overcome the problems. If you see this before Sunday,
then I have…
And this pasted fine. I do like this Compaq Armada for working away from home. Good
keyboard.
Later, after a boat ride on Lake Washington. I have now pictures of Bill Gate's house.
You'll see them next week...
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