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The
LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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January 1995
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Out and About
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to come to trial in the United States. She is part of the thousands of workers, operators, and journalists who are suing various computer manufacturers, including IBM, NCR, Apple, Atex, and Wang. Currently, there are 44 lawsuits pending in New York and at least 20 pending in Minnesota. Since this case is the first to come to trial, it will bear watching.
Elsewhere, the California Supreme Court handed Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) a big victory in its long-running dispute with Intel Corp. over a 1982 cross-licensing agreement between the two companies. The court, in a 4-3 decision, reversed an appeals court decision and upheld an arbitrator’s 1992 ruling that gave AMD the rights to all Intel intellilectual property needed for the manufacture of microprocessors compatible with the Intel 386 chips. Since that technology is now outmoded, about the only net effect the decision will have will be to remove the threat that AMD would owe Intel millions of dollars in back royalties. However, there are still three other federal cases regarding the licensing agreement between these two companies.
That ruling is unfortunate for Intel, since the chip giant could have used the money to fund the replacement of all those faulty pentium processors, rather than take a hit in the credibility category. Can you imagine having to prove that you needed the floating-point processing capabilities in order to receive a replacement chip from Intel? Give me a break.
Lastly, DevCon is upon us and yours truly is eating a little crow. It seems that all that talk on C’Serve about attendees receiving a beta copy of Visual FoxPro is true, as confirmed by Cris Wittrous (MS) at our last meeting. But given the circumstances, and the chance to walk away from DevCon with the beta, I don’t think crow ever tasted so good.
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“Time Trakker allows you to easily keep track of time spent on clients & jobs for billing purposes. Using a Time Clock metaphor you can Punch In/Out or use manual entries to log time. Flexible reports allow you to get detailed information about the time spent. Supports user defined bill types, multiple users, multiple open enthes, a calendar and much more
"TT features Standalone & Sysmenu operation, full DOS/Windows support, source code and easy integration into your own apps. TTRAK.TXT for more info.
“Fully functional shareware.”
That’s the description as it appears in CompuServe’s MS Fox Users Forum (3rd Party Products) for Time Trakker v3.72. At 1250 downloads, since 12/16/94, it’s one of the more popular FoxPro-related shareware programs to come along in the last three months.
Time Trakker uses familiar metaphors to guide you through the process of logging in and keeping track of the hours billed against your clients. We’ve been using it for the last 2-1/2 months (we started with v3.71) to monitor the hours spent in bringing a project for a major client to completion.
“Punching in” (see Figs. 1 & 2) is as simple as doubleclicking on the client’s name, clicking on the
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