unicode defined

Good shit.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html

Corporate IT sucks

So here I am with two machines — a laptop and a desktop — and I can’t install Visual Studio for .NET on either of them.
My desktop was Kuwaited by my corporate IT cops and my administrator privileges were removed, so my developer platform just became a friggin’ email and web client. Um, excuse me? [...]

ActiveSync, Pylon, and AvantGo not playing nice

11/06/2003 07:14 AM
Subject: ActiveSync error

Hi,
Error just started occuring.
ppc2002 device with avgo 3.3 in rom.
activesync 3.7
installed avgo 5.1.60
everything was fine yesterday and this morning, but now im getting the following error when syncing via activesync…
“device components missing or out of date”.
modem sync works fine (device connected to computer via sync cable)
uninstalling and reinstalling avgo client doesn’t [...]