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By Mike Gunderloy
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
Somewhat reluctantly, I'm abandoning CityDesk for content management
on this site. The problem is that somehow the Microsoft-supplied
HTML-editing control sometimes loses entire entries when I save them.
This has now happened to me three times while writing the Daily Grind,
and that's three times too many. You'll probably see some slow redesign
work around here over the next few weeks.
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- I spent some time recently trying to set up a VirtualPC VM with
DOS installed. Having laid out an enormous sum of money to Microsoft
for MSDN-Universal access, you'd think this would be simple. But no:
for some reason, there are no bootable DOS floppy images on MSDN. Oh
sure, there are DOS 6.22 floppies, but they are the upgrade version.
So I had to grub around in my closet and try to find a boot floppy
that had survived the years in working condition, and that's not
easy. Would it really be so hard for them to make DOS 6.0 floppy
images available? Or, better yet, to bundle a DOS VM with VirtualPC,
preferably with CD-ROM drivers preinstalled, so you could get a new
VM up and running and install the OS of your choice quickly? There
are times when I wish the monopolistic greedy market-domineering
bastards would get their world domination act together a bit more
quickly.
Mike Gunderloy is the lead
developer for Larkware and author of numerous books and articles on programming
topics.
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