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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.
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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...
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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...
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http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/04/02/21/220341.HTM#W54O
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Presenting SDS to others requires a base of credibility. Experience at Boeing helps meet this requirement, as set out in your letter on 041118...

http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/04/11/18/162700.HTM#KT45
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The structure of Murray's survey seems very helpful for customers to consider the things SDS supports, as shown in the scope for "intelligence" in NWO.

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.
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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.

Sincerely,



Rod Welch
rodwelch@pacbell.net