Strange XP Problem
Mood:  lyrical
Topic: work
Rico approached me early to report that mapping6 was logging off automatically after displaying a dialog box saying:

"A problem is preventing Windows from accurately checking the license for this Computer. Error code 0x80090019"

After fruitless searches in Google and MS.com, I had to reinstall XP. Fortunately, all I had to do after installation were the ff:

1. Install OS updates
2. disable the digital signing bla bla
3. re-register some DLL's and OCX's for viewer.

In addition, I installed AVG and myodbc, and ran the audit script for winventory. :-)

I spent about 2 hours including some cleaning of the external and internal components and installing a used CD-ROM drive.

More fine-tuning
Topic: i-Solv Project
Alemon did more fine-tuning on the collection module.

The CSR module looks good! Even Sir Jing was impressed with the graphs!! :-)

Collection module
Topic: i-Solv Project
Data migration was done by Alemon last Tuesday, and we fine-tuned the collection module...

More Customization
Topic: i-Solv Project
Alemon and Sir Jing did more interviews and customization with inputs from Rico and yours truly.

We concentrated on the bill computations.

Testing
Topic: i-Solv Project
Tested the latest BCMS.exe all day long. :-)

BCMS
Mood:  chatty
Topic: i-Solv Project
Alemon and Sir Jing came and observed the tellers after doing some updates in the source code with me and rico observing and answering queries and offering suggestions here and there.

I left them at around 2pm when JTL asked me to join them in the board room for his review of the Board Meeting reports for Wednesday.

Inventory
Topic: work
Installed wmicore and scr56en, along with myodbc 2.5 on CFC's PC, and ran the audit25 script.

Working product
Topic: i-Solv Project
Sir Jing and Alemon finally were able to present a working .EXE to JTL and AGD.

They didn't go in too deep, which was a good thing, 'coz when I asked them to go into one of the modules deeper, a run-time error occurred. :-(

As usual, (P) didn't forget to inject some "baka magkaproblema tayo diyan, kasi... ganito, ganyan, ... (and finally pauses after 3 years of explaining)..." which could've been explained faster using another approach. Even if the audience was technically-challenged, sometimes she just goes too layman-ish for her own good.

The sad thing is, this simplify-everything style of hers seeps into her programming. I remember all too well that "convert a single letter into the corresponding ordinal number in the alphabet" algorithm she used... Her 54-line code could be converted into a 1-liner by yours truly. I would've offered it to her if I didn't know better to be interpreted as usual as "nagmamagaling."

Rico replied "yes" when AGD asked him if i-Solv was at least 70% into the software development. I myself confirmed that it could be estimated to be more or less 70%.

Posted by Samboy at 12:01 AM JST

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Inventory
Topic: work
Installed:

1. wmicore and scr56en, along with myodbc 2.5 and 3.51.11-1 on Ely Lopez's PC (I asked Rico to install them on Gina's, Pie's and Amy's, too)
2. wmicore and scr56en, with myodbc 2.5 on John PC
3. myodbc 2.5 and 3.51.11-1 on rockydb

Presentation
Topic: i-Solv Project
Today Sir Jing and Maricel came to present BCMS to AGD, at 2:30pm.