Computer Aces

I didn’t talk to you there, but I did listen to you and the others with you at the Houston launch.

I had already convinced myself that I would not install Windows Vista or install it on my kids’ PCs (we have 8 in the house including the central file server). In fact, I was close to abandoning MS altogether which would have been quite a migration for me. Please bear with me as I don’t get to tell my story much.

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Did you ever wonder who actually invented the “buddy list” that has become so ubiquitous on computers worldwide? I guess it was a couple of years ago while chatting with a “buddy” who I have known online since 1987 that it hit me: I invented the “buddy list”!

The documentation for AOTools tells the story about how I got the idea.
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or, How to Really Motivate Your Employees
or, The Best People Manager Doesn’t Even Manage People

They once called me Colonel Kurtz. Mind you, I’ve never seen “Apocalypse Now”, so someone had to explain to me why that should be derogatory. I guess I can see why some people considered me dangerous… I upset the ox cart. I changed the rules and I won. Mind you, I didn’t break the law or even do anything immoral. What I did was my job and that bothered them. I just didn’t do my job their way.
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I finally got desperate - I have all of the audit files from an application that we sell, and it creates LOTS of duplicate files. The only problem is that they don’t have the original file name, so I end up doing a search for specific data in the file instead of knowing what’s in it by the name. I copied the files to my computer so I could fish for only the files that I need, and then dump the duplicates. That’s how I discovered [xplorer²] .
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