| Date (yyyymmdd) | Comment |
| 20080614 |
Because of the un-usual heat, I got a bad case of the flu. By now I am almost over it. Been enjoying the European Footbal Cup and the success of the Netherlands Team. Professionally I am still struggling with Cobol. I found out how to call Win-Apis from Cobol. Thanks to google code search! In theory I can do all the things I had in mind for practice now. Still I am looking for the elegant Cobol way though. There simply is a difference between the kind of stuff I would like to do and the kind of stuff Cobol was made for. I started building my own routines as dll's for things as; file browsing, string handling list processing in Cobol. I also found some time to look into linux again. I was trying for a nice way to install a distro to an USB flash drive. For a friend I tried to install linux on his old PC. I took a whole bunch of old LiveCD's (2007) to his house. Most LiveCD's booted Ok, but the scripts to install the LiveCD to HD didn't work properly in most cases. Next time, I will try Damn Small Linux because I didn't have any problems with that one myself. |
| 20080629 |
Added a quick project; standing sinus wave. I started this in Cobol because Cobol also has Sin/Cos functions. Just did "move '*' to PrintLine(siny:1)". I was wondering how it would look animated in Hires so I did it in Javascript. It was first Javascript in a long time, so i could use the practice. Saw "The king of kong" movie; it's about retro-gaming. A friend of mine bought the Ultimate 1541, wich is a SD- card reader for c64. He also bought an eprom burner and eraser, expanded a c64 with speedDos and JiffyDos selectable. Because of that I am thinking about getting into retro stuff and hardware projects again. Didn't do a lot of linux lately Fixed my old 21" CRT screen; it standing idle on my nightstand now. I am still thinking about donating it to a friend. |