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MM-cl     Monday

2000-05-29

We had about the same weather as yesterday without the high winds. Well it is still blowing hard and irregular but nowhere near as hard as yesterday. Same temps as well.

We don't have Imperial Troops so we don't have a rememberance day. It's a normal working Monday here.

The ring around the town center has been rebuilt.
It was a double two lane with parking lane boulevard with a strip of grass and trees in the middle. It was fondly called 'Den Boelvard, which is Dutch for 'The Boulevard'.
Now it is called 'De Groene Boelvard' which means 'The Green Boulevard'. It is now a on-way counterclockwise two lane road with a wide, asphalt walkway in the middle with two rows of trees and a wide cobblestoned parking area on the inside. The grass is gone so it actually is less green than the old one but now I am nit-picking.
All the old trees have been replaced with new ones last autumn and about half of these have been blown over now. For one they haven't had time to get a firm grip with their roots and secondly they haven't got enough place for their roots with all the cement rich ballast covered with cobble stones or asphalt. (And they will never get enough water either but that is nit-picking again I guess.)

I lost half the day with passing trough the synchronization problem we had last week. We already did most of the things Wilbert suggested. We did produce a few log files to communicate back to Progress.

Then I assisted Ronny in testing out the solution to a problem we have been struggling with for months. The problem is that the data base is not a Progress database, it is located on an AS/400 system. Whenever a non-Progress program changes something in the database the Progress programs don't see the change because Progress serves up the data from an internal local buffer. Closing the function you are using and reopening it refreshes the buffer (actually that deletes and recreates the buffers). Quite annoying because the AS/400 does all the calculations so if you make an order and you want to know the total order value you got to save (without releasing), quit and reopen the order.
Now a new startup-parameter can be used to bypass the buffers on every read. It is a slowdown we could well do without but we don't really have a choice here.

And lastly I got the transport-costs adaptation tested fully. Both in OMSI-3 and TeleSales. It is now transferred to System-Test for Jan. Later this week I expect it back, approved and with the request to do the same thing in the previous release.
I can fully understand the reluctance of MS to support programs years after they stop shipping them. It is hell.

In the news

Lots of storm damage reports but also ..

In Ostend three Alouette helicopters have been blocked for three weeks because the actual destination was not clear. Now, after three weeks, the destination is found, AirKatanga in Zaire Congo. The Alouettes, dating back to 1957, are not exactly built for civil aviation. They can be used for military purposes but if that was the intention they should have been accompanied by special transit licenses. These were not even requested.
Well if it takes three weeks to find out the buyer of them I guess none of the other transport documents were OK.