Re: OODL: Eric's Partnership agreement - first draft

1999-12-27 Thread Rob Cozens
I have posted Eric's partnership agreement at: http://ufp.uqam.ca/opencard/pagreemnt.htm It's a first draft and he'd like everyone to comment on what they think should be changed. Uli, et al: Just found a little time to check it out... * I believe it has already been mentioned that

Re: OODL: Eric's Partnership agreement - first draft

1999-12-27 Thread Mark Rauterkus
I have posted Eric's partnership agreement at: http://ufp.uqam.ca/opencard/pagreemnt.htm Rob wrote: * I wonder if it is really necessary to have a unanimous agreement on every issue? IMNSHO, the need to be unanimous is less than ideal as a standing policy. Does anyone know of

OODL: Unanimity, consensus, majorities

1999-12-27 Thread Alain Farmer
Rob: * I wonder if it is really necessary to have a unanimous agreement on every issue? Alain: Not necessarily. Rob: IMNSHO, the need to be unanimous is less than ideal as a standing policy. Alain: I agree. Unanimity is often hard to achieve and it only requires one dissenter to bog down

OODL: Temporary FTP server shutdown

1999-12-27 Thread Alain Farmer
I have to make some backups to CD-R, seek out and destroy viruses, defrag my disk, ... scheduled maintenance in a nutshell. So there will be a temporary FTP server shutdown, in 5 minutes from now, for one hour. I will notify the list as soon as the FTP is back online. Alain

Re: OODL: Temporary FTP server shutdown

1999-12-27 Thread Alain Farmer
I have to make some backups to CD-R, seek out and destroy viruses, defrag my disk, ... scheduled maintenance in a nutshell. So there will be a temporary FTP server shutdown, in 5 minutes from now, for one hour. Alain: It's going to take me 24 hours after all. What can I say! I will

Re: OODL: Eric's Partnership agreement - first draft

1999-12-27 Thread DeRobertis
At 8:25 AM -0700 on 12/27/99, Rob Cozens wrote: - I'm lucky unsolicited phone calls of this sort are illegal in Germany. You don't know how lucky, Uli. At least twice a month a I get callers wanting to speak with "the person in charge of your companys' telephone service." Often it's the same

Re: OODL: Temporary FTP server shutdown

1999-12-27 Thread DeRobertis
At 6:54 PM -0800 on 12/27/99, Alain Farmer wrote: I have to make some backups to CD-R, seek out and destroy viruses, defrag my disk, ... scheduled maintenance in a nutshell. So there will be a temporary FTP server shutdown, in 5 minutes from now, for one hour. I will notify the list as soon as

Phone Service [was: Re: OODL: Pick A Name for our group]

1999-12-27 Thread DeRobertis
At 10:24 PM +0100 on 12/27/99, M. Uli Kusterer wrote: But it's no where near justifying $400/mo for an ISDN. Or $50/mo for an ADSL line. And remeber, when you make a long-distance call, you still have to use to local wires. $400? That's really much. We have about 100DM max (and that includes

Re: OODL: Eric's Partnership agreement - first draft

1999-12-27 Thread DeRobertis
At 3:08 PM -0500 on 12/28/99, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Section 11: Voting All decisions and agreements made by the partnership are to be by unanimous vote of the partners. That is, each partner shall have the power of veto. THIS IS A GOOD THING! Remember, we're all liable for everyone else's

Re: OODL: Unanimity, consensus, majorities

1999-12-27 Thread DeRobertis
At 1:27 PM -0800 on 12/27/99, Alain Farmer wrote: Alain: I agree. Unanimity is often hard to achieve and it only requires one dissenter to bog down the process. Each participant is, in effect, given the power of veto. Which is a very good thing when each participant is legally liable for the

Re: OODL: Pick A Name for our group

1999-12-27 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
But it's no where near justifying $400/mo for an ISDN. Or $50/mo for an ADSL line. And remeber, when you make a long-distance call, you still have to use to local wires. $400? That's really much. We have about 100DM max (and that includes three numbers). Or were you talking about a one-time

Re: OODL: Button under Visual C++/MFC

1999-12-27 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
True -- but it still beats MFC. Huh? How'd you get that idea? This sounds to me like: using FrameWorkXY is a lot more complicated and slower and doesn't look platform-native on all but one platform, but it still beats the Mac toolbox. MFC is practically the Windows equivalent of the toolbox

Re: OODL: Button under Visual C++/MFC

1999-12-27 Thread M. Uli Kusterer
Yes, it plays QuickTime. Not sure about AVI. Anthony, well, it's one alternative to QT on Unix etc. Good to know. Does it have compatible APIs (like Quesa for QD3D) or do we need a separate wrapper for that? Cheers, -- M. Uli Kusterer