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Saturday, April 13, 2002 |
Microsoft and OsX
I finally got some time to read Kevin Browne's (Microsoft) comments about the future of the Macintosh Business Unit...
So what's next? The first thing that's coming, late May or early June,
is a service release for Office.
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We're pleased to actually provide, finally, the full support for
anti-aliased text throughout the suite, this is something that some of
our customers had dinged us on.
... the next bit is about Interner Explorer ...
We have straddled OS 9 and OS 10, and had to make tradeoffs accordingly.
We're discarding the OS 9 work from now on, and we're going to be an OS
10 browser, and the best damn OS 10 browser you could ever dream of.
Sounds good to me. A real ODBC connection from Excel would be handy, I've seen people set up live connections to various kinds of databases that way and it looked pretty useful.
3:49:43 PM 
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You're killing me Larry!
As I suspected, the Oracle drivers are the same drivers available for other platforms. How do you determine version info in .jar or .zip files? Sometimes you can find it in the manifest file if there is a comment there. For Oracle drivers, do this:
unzip -l classes12.zip
That'll dump a lot of information, including dates, which in this case is May 17, 2001. Nothing new there.
So how about some real support? We need the database and tools such as sqlplus. They have been ported to Windows and it's been over a year since OsX was released. Time for Steve to kick some butt at the next board meeting in my not so humble opinion.
3:35:32 PM
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New Oracle drivers for OsX?
The Oracle 9i thin drivers for MacOS X look the same as the standard drivers (I have been using the Solaris version) but I have not yet poked around to see if there are differences. I think I am going to try replacing the drivers I've been using and see if I run into any issues connecting to our 8.1.7 and 8.1.6 DBs.
[MacNN X]
2:20:27 PM
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DragThing scripting
I've got DragThing working the way I want it to, but it required some work on my part. James wasn't sure what was going on, something in the system had already grabbed
the keys I wanted (F14 and F15). He suggested I use AppleScript to grab them back, which worked, after digging around and learning the DragThing terminology.
The thing I've always disliked about AppleScript is the ambiguity. You have to keep pushing and poking at it, looking at the raw data you get back and trying new things. I understand why it is the way it is (the object model, developer flexibility, wiring up interface objects, etc.), but it still drives me nuts. Luckily, there was already a hot key scanning script that was only slightly broken. Once I got that working I was able to fix my problem.
11:17:15 AM
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© Copyright 2002 Dave Ely.
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