Articles posted on May 20th, 2004

‘Disk Is Full’ bug in Word: another Microsoft developer chimes in

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 • 11:38 pm

While reviewing Rick Schaut’s blog entry on the “Disk is full” bug in Word yesterday, I couldn’t help but notice that one of the people who had commented on his entry was another Microsoft developer named Larry Osterman. His comment was in response to a comment by Rick Schaut himself about the number of open […]

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Rick Schaut on ‘Disk Is Full’ bug

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 • 12:08 pm

Microsoft developer Rick Schaut has a very long piece on the process of identifying and fixing a bug in Word, which refers more specifically to the infamous “Disk Is Full” bug that has plagued Word for years and that I have already had the opportunity to discuss extensively on many occasions. The piece is far […]

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More on line breaks from Rick Schaut

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 • 7:35 am

Microsoft developer Rick Schaut has written a follow-up to his original post on line breaks in Word. In his follow-up, he specifically refers to my post on his blog entry. I don’t really have time to address his response point by point. I’ve already spent a lot of time trying to get Rick to understand […]

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Rolling Stone magazine music news feed

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 • 6:20 am

The Rolling Stone magazine web site has an XML feed for its Music News headlines, so I thought I’d subscribe to it in my favourite news reader, NetNewsWire. Here’s what I am getting in NetNewsWire these days: Geez, thanks, Rolling Stone! (For what it’s worth, the CD Reviews feed and the DVD Reviews feed work […]

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FileMaker Developer 7: Error in console.log

Thursday, May 20th, 2004 • 5:56 am

Each time I launch FileMaker Developer 7, either by opening the application itself or by opening a FMD7 file, I see the following error message in my console.log: 2004-05-20 16:38:04.374 FileMaker[664] CFLog (21): Error loading @executable_path/../ Frameworks/FMS.framework/Versions/ A/FMS: error code 0, error number 2 (dyld: /Applications/ FileMaker Developer 7/FileMaker Developer.app/Contents/ MacOS/FileMaker can’t open library: @executable_path/../ […]

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