Wednesday, March 31, 2004

The deadline for submitting your spring equinox world-wide panorama is coming up quickly -- see http://GeoImages.Berkeley.edu/wwp.html for details. 7:59:03 AM

Panoramic photographers often have to spend a lot of time testing their website to make sure their work is viewable under all the possible configurations site visitors might use. That can be a giant pain when for instance, multiple versions of Internet Explorer for Windows typically cannot be run on the same Windows operating system at the same time. So here's what people have had to do up until now: set up multiple PCs, one for each version of IE; install multiple versions of Windows on one machine using a virtual O/S like VirtualPC or VMware; or set up different partitions of their hard disk to boot up different Windows O/S's. Sounds like a lot of trouble, and it is. Well someone noticed how MS was packaging up a test version of Explorer 6 for the Eolas patent which could run side by side with an existing Explorer; suggesting it is possible to set up multiple versions of Explorer on the same machine without rebooting! Another person created Explorer kits so you can easily run IE4, 5.0, 5.5, and 6 on the same PC. Disclaimer: Since I don't know any of these people, I'd install this stuff on a sandbox PC and test it for viruses, etc. Oh, and it doesn't work on Windows 95 -- but looks like it should work on any Windows newer than that, plus Windows NT. Mindboggling to think this was possible all along, and of all the time spent rebooting in order to test a webpage in a IE5.5, 5.0, 4.0... 7:57:14 AM

A reminder: the International Association of Panoramic Photographers (IAPP) is having its 14th international convention at Monterey April 27 - May 2nd. 7:36:15 AM

Today is the last day of the VR 2004 conference put on by the IEEE. Sounds like some interesting topics on the program. 7:32:23 AM

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