Posts by Luke

household-appointed admin

This household-appointed admin made a "C:>dir gdiplus.dll /s" on a XP Pro laptop and found out that there are 23 files with this name, with different sizes and date stamps. The one in Windows\system32 is *not* the newest. I wonder what the update updated.

... but ...

@Andy: whatever the iDisk address is, in my view it should not be possible to conclude the account name or email address from that. If I want friends and relatives to navigate to my shared folders, I will send them a link. And I want to decide who is allowed in. Is iDisk open to the world by default?

Note: I'm not a .mac user, and now I'm not sure I would want to be.

Ruohonleikkuri

I had never heard of this site either, so now I had to test. Farecast.com has some very nice features and their search seems fast. And they even cover non-US airports very well.

Equality?

BMW has announced it will cut 8100 jobs, Siemens will cut 3800 jobs...

But I have not seen any news about Germans boycotting their products.

What's the big deal, anyway?

Since you in the UK already have passports, driving licenses, credit cards, etc.. why is there such a big fuss about ID cards?

Yes indeed, what if ....

"The thing is though, what if Linus is right and Windows is full of code that draws inspiration from others' efforts?"

I'm convinced that this is the case: Windows and other MS products are full of copied/borrowed/stolen stuff. Considering the history, it's IBM, Apple, Sun, and many others, that would easily find their code in Microsoft products were they given the source to examine.

Something's wrong with my math?

"The BIG PLAN is to continue until at least half of Global Services, or about 150,000 workers, have been cut from the U.S. division."

well, as far as I can tell from the 2006 Annual Report, the US total of IBM's 355,000 population is 127,000 people.

How do you cut 150,000 from that?

Publicity gimmick?

I think this all just a publicity gimmick for the new Spiderman movie?

DVD in SECAM?

I have never seen a French DVD coded in SECAM. They have all been PAL. Players sold in France, both DVD and VHS, have always been dual PAL/SECAM or triple PAL/SECAM/NTSC.

And now with the digital broadcasting in France, SECAM has almost disappeared totally.

Shipping cost may be prohibiting using amazon.com for buying region 1 DVDs, but try dvdboxoffice.com. It's Canadian, so their DVDs even have French subtitles most of the times, and worldwide shipping is included in their prices.

It's amazing

It's amazing that in these times of ever higher technology, there is still a place where a simple pencil and paper are the only tools which are secure, reliable, sustainable, environmentally sound and non-disputed. If it ain't broken, don't fix it; however ambitious the engineers are :-)