An interesting and in a way humorous read: Why smart people defend bad ideas. Of course you will not agree to all of it, but I guess you will recognize a lot.
Thanks, Christopher.
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Jul 132005
Yeah! We bought the camera yesterday. It’s a dream: it’s small, it’s light, it’s easy to use, it’s fast, and it makes excellent pictures.
Jul 102005
If GoogleMaps is as good as everybody seems to tell me, then why are the Netherlands and Belgium not correctly named on their maps?!
Jul 102005
That’s right: free training from Microsoft itself about ASP.NET. The offer is supposed to be temporary, so don’t be late. Go here.
Jul 092005
Yesterday I switched from ZoneAlarm to Kerio as my personall firewall. Although I’m not sure if my findings will apply to someone without any knowledge of how tcp-filtering works, but I like KPF more than ZA. It seems to detect more, it starts BEFORE Windows starts (ZA starts after you login), and it does not seem to slow down my system as much. Furthermore, it works with Azureus, the Bittorrent-client (with embedded tracker) I use. No more ZoneAlarm for me.
Jul 072005
Oracle 10g release 2 is there, but only for Linux (x86) at the moment. Other OS-es will follow, and will be available on this page.
Jul 062005
I just learned, that if you uninstall ZoneAlarm (Pro), the Windows XP Firewall is automatically enabled. I don’t know if the uninstall does that, or that Windows does that, but it resulted in some hair pulling, since I still couldn’t get to work what I wanted. When I wanted to see whether a port was enabled or disabled in Windows (just to be sure) I found out the firewall was enabled. Disabling did the trick (it’s just temporary).
Jul 052005
Niall quotes Niehls Bohr on it:
Prediction is difficult, especially if it is about the future.
So the release was not done before June, 30th, but there is no new date whatsoever. Read the hightlights of 10gr2 in the mean time. And yes, they include CLR stored procedures. Yeah!
Jul 052005
Rido found an interesting piece of software. If you’re as organized as I am, you probably don’t need Backpack. But for those that are not, have a look at their website. Backpack enables you to organize your life, your project, your wedding, your list of tutorials for knitting babysocks, whatever. The free edition allows you to have lists and notes and appointments, while the subscription version gives you file and image uploads, and more pages to enter your data.
Of course you can do it all in Outlook, but…where is your Outlook when you’re on the beach, and you want to store the roomnumber of the nice girls you’ve just met and invited you for their party?! You could have run to the nearby internet-cafe, and stored it in your Backpack (wow, now I’m starting to sound like a commercial).
Jul 042005
I learned about it a little late, but Oracle bought TimesTen, a company that specialises in real-time databases. The before-Oracle version already had the ability to act as a cache for an Oracle-database, which is perhaps why Oracle was so interested in them.
You can read about it on Oracle’s website, or you can browse to TimesTen‘s website.
You can use TimesTen from Java (JDBC) or via the ODBC Direct Connect driver (which obviously fakes to be an ODBC-driver). And having an ODBC-driver means you can use it with a number of programming-languages (Delphi, the .NET framework, scripting-langauges, whatever). I think I need to check it out!