Entries from April 2005

Thursday, April 21st, 2005

Who’s Heard of OneNote?

Mike: “OneNote is one of the best things Microsoft has done lately. … But there are still lots of people who’ve never heard of it.” Right. I was on a meeting yesterday, taking notes in OneNote and everyone could see via NetMeeting. The folks I was meeting with aren’t stupid, or out-of-touch, but they’d never […]

Friday, April 15th, 2005

Setting Unix File Ownership from Perl

Here’s a little bit of Perl code from a module we use. These functions are used by our cron-driven Perl scripts to (re-)set file ownership after they’ve
finished working their magic. They’re probably nowhere near perfect
and I welcome any suggestions you may have to improve upon them.
Feel free to use this code in your own project […]

Saturday, April 9th, 2005

Common Navigation Keystrokes in OS X, Windows

A few weeks back I was looking for a good comparison chart of “common” navigation keystrokes between the two operating systems. It turns out that David Pogue already had it online, I just didn’t think to look there or find the right words to toss Google’s way.
It’s a valuable resource for switchers, either direction: Missing […]

Friday, April 8th, 2005

OneNote Demo Video

I’ve used Microsoft OneNote off and on since its public beta, but never have gotten into the habit of making it the “one place for all my notes” that it wants to be. Mostly that’s because my co-workers don’t use it and so sharing information with them wouldn’t be as seamless as it could.
This 45-minute […]