December 2004 - Posts

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Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! by FransBouma

I would like to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, or in other words: Happy Holidays! Here a small christmas message from us, with the Pier of Scheveningen, and part of the beach, that's 300meters from my house.
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Yes! EU Software patent directive stalled! by FransBouma

More here . This is great news! All credits go to Poland. Of course my own minister (Brinkhorst, The Netherlands) was asked by the parliament to do the same thing as Poland's minister did but refused to do so, to avoid losing credibility among fellow...
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Darwin in full effect by FransBouma

Peter Torr did spend a lot of time to tell the world why he doesn't trust Firefox as a browser. Is this really important? No, it's not. I always call these kind of things: "Darwin in full effect". You see, the more people deny that another thing is better...
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Sometimes rants are funny :) by FransBouma

Via Scoble I stumbled into this rant today. I must say, it was a great read and he has a point. I'm not sure if it will ever change though. I mean, most people find it even too hard to setup a TV, despite the tremendous effort manufacturers put into the...
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WinFS delayed again: corporate politics or incompetency? by FransBouma

Friday, Microsoft brought the news that WinFS, the highly anticipated new filesystem annex object store, is delayed again. It is now said they hope to release a test version in late 2006 and it will not be present in Longhorn server as well. If WinFS...
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VS.NET 2003 C# code-editor tip of the day by FransBouma

Three tips actually. All color coding related. Open VS.NET, click Tools - Options and then Environment - Fonts and Colors Under display items , browse down to Operator . Select 'Maroon' for foreground color and check 'Bold'. Under display items , browse...
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Object^H^H^H^H^H MSN Spaces by FransBouma

No... no objectspaces, but MSN Spaces ! and no O/R mapper, but a blogging site! . Of course, I created a spot, err... space, over there: http://spaces.msn.com/members/fransbouma . I'll use it for off-topic rambling, but I'm not sure if anyone will ever...
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