THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
rodwelch@pacbell.net
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:02:41 -0800
03 00050 61 04121001
Mr. Garold L. Johnson
Modeling and Simulation
Boeing
5301 Bolsa Ave.
Huntington Beach, CA 92647-2099
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Subject:
Academic Review SDS
Dear Gary,
Just now got c14 up and running again. Initially, Dell said the
only solution was to install the OS from scratch. Encouraging
further effort caused anger and frustration, but led to
discussions with supervision, and this led to 3 or 4 ideas, one
of which worked. One that didn't work was using F8 for Safe
mode. For reference, you may know that Windows XP has a "Repair"
option that can be run from the standard installation CD. This
takes about an hour, but saved about 48 hours of work to
reconfigure.
.. Very sorry to have caused a problem this morning, and previously,
by submitting plans for promoting SDS in the academic community
with Murray, per the letter on 041208, shown below.
The answers to the Ceryle survey for my experience and practice
seemed to me would not be a credible presentation, and so the
plan was for you to respond because your practice is closer to
the customer profile Murray has in mind. The record on 041208
recognizes you will have different answers to the survey
questions...
.. http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/04/12/08/074045.HTM#UF6I
Thus, the answers in my record are not intended to be answers that
you might submit. I don't think it is helpful for me to promote
SDS to people like Murray, because I tend to exaggerate SDS
support and overlook valuable features in other tools, rather
like a mom beaming at her child, and seeing only flaws in the
neighbour's kids. Jack Park warned about this in a letter on
040221...
.. http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/04/02/21/220341.HTM#W54O ..
Presenting SDS to others requires a base of credibility. Experience at Boeing
helps meet this requirement, as set out in your letter on 041118...
Another angle shaping up was observed by Tom Munnecke at SAIC on
020912, when he commented that "knowledge" work may be so closely
intertwined with personal experience that transformation from
support for information to a higher level of "knowledge" is not
only difficult, but may be impossible. Improving foundational
capabilities over 50 years, per your letter on 011210, and a
month or so later on 020217, is tantamount to being impossible
for most of us.
.. I am just about finished with upgrading the Contact System. The
basic work is done, and debugging would be finished, except for
the wrinkle of the OS crashing this morning.
The past few days changed the philosophy of processing records
and the summaries. This eliminated quite a bit of code and
recovers compiler space. For users, the alphabetical listings of
people in the organizational indexes, now has the same
functionality as for the organizations. Previously, on 041107,
the first leg of conversion was accomplished to the the save
operation to construct alternate listings. The recent work
hopefully has everything working together correctly.
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Thanks.