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IE 7 is one of the buggiest pieces of garbage I've ever come across.. 
here's one problem I had.. (a quoted solution.)

This is just so 
Microsoft" it should almost be expected.


I had recently installed IE7 in an unsupported way using the instructions 
found here.  The nice thing about this, is that it lets you run IE7 
side by side with IE6.  As a developer, there's no way to just let 
IE7 install itself over IE6, so I thought this would be a good solution.


Fired up IE7 for the first time and it took about 2 minutes for me 
to realize there is just no possible reason why anybody would find 
this useful at all.  Not for end users... not for developers... it 
just doesn't work right.  The new toolbars are not that special either, 
IMO.


So, that was it.  At least for Beta 2.  Fast-forward one week and 
I'm doing some serious testing of one of my new apps.  Of course, 
I'm testing on the fly in Firefox but testing in both browsers after 
finishing all pieces of major functionality.  Enter my URL into IE, 
press enter... and bang... up comes Firefox with the page I loaded!?!?! 
 Uh... what?


Google to the rescue.  A search for "IE Launches Firefox" returned 
only 2 results... but luckily, one of them had the solution.  It 
seems that a registry key installed when IE7 is run causes this situation. 
 Just brilliant.  From the IE Blog... locate this registry key and 
remove it: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{c90250f3-4d7d-4991-9b69-a5c5bc1c2ae6}

As stated... it fixed my problem.  Thanks Microsoft...

The windows registry is probably the most "crappy" (native english 
speaker, please replace this word by the word that is in my head 
and I can't find) invention of all the computer history.


If you have a problem and it's not hardware, then it's 99% chance 
it's a registry problem. The 1% rest is for files and DLL problem.

My boring all day experience.

Crappy

 is just fine Dide. :-) There are stronger choices, which might apply 
 to the registry, but "crappy" gets the point across without being 
 offensive (IMO).

Put one that is offensive, please ;-))

Bill already own the high score in "Bird names" (direct french translation 
for  a non offensive manner to represents offensive words ;-) given 
by all the world computer guys who tried to make Windows X Y working.

I think he is rising over Adolph H. in this area (no, ok, bad joke 
here).

hmm, hmm - http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1944044,00.asp - 
Ruby on rails takes on Java ... interesting how Carl is right - ppl 
don't buy technologies, they buy solutions ... and Rails is solution, 
which makes Ruby a king ... although it all is surrounded by nice 
hype .....

What solution does Ruby provide?

(RoR)

(hmm, that could be missed.. I meant to say What solution does RoR 
provide?)

RoR like most other framework, sells the ease to get things done. 

What I think makes them standout, is the way they SHOW it.


1. Ruby itself is always a 'simpler' approach to Java. That is one 
EASE


2. They SHOW you on their webcast...and they said it themselves. 
'SHOW, Don't Tell'
http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts


3. And they also SHOW it by using tools other programmers use, eg 
TextMate, drawing a targetted group
potential user.


The success of RoR puts a lot of big companies to shame. (given the 
resources they have)

I've toyed with RoR, and frankly, it doesn't impress.  
For one thing, the syntax is archaic... like this.. 
def self.up
add_column "posts", "author_name", :string

Post.find(:all).each {|posts|posts.update_attribute :author_name, 
"Anonymous"}
end
def self.down....

yuk

Framewerks semantic data model makes this look pale.

(or schema for the intellectual types)

Being symbolic, a query can be as little as 3 bytes.

Whoever heard of a 3 byte database query?

I have.

Real men play with bits not bytes
, er?

Digital is only saturated Analog, so a bit can be split to various 
levels, but then logic become fuzzy.

Our wetware uses sub-bit queries.

After Ruby on rails, Sql on rails. How to make killer web apps: http://sqlonrails.org/screencast

That says it all, Davide

Ok, how about 16581375 different declaration or queries using only 
3 bytes?

initial sync...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/<--- Apple Boot Camp, lets 
you partition and dual-boot OSX and XP easily on Intel Macs

the timing is kind of funny, since hackers have been working their 
asses off to win the big prize on getting XP to run on macs. now 
Apple offers an official solution, which they said they wouldn't 
do

Its funny indeed.. I just wonrder if they did had it on the shelf 
already...

in 2 weeks time  a cooperation of micorsoft  together with Apple 
can build very nice applications that bring money ;-)

who would think of this.. actualy its a nice idea...-> http://ilps.science.uva.nl/MoodViews/

http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2006/03/hiring-lake-wobegon-strategy.html

http://www.dumpalink.com/media/1144224508/WOW_With_Touch_Screen_Technology

it s about the movie not the silly website around it..

A Year in the Life of a BSD Guru

 Josh Berkus of PostgreSQL http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/unix/bsd/archives/008710.asp

Jaime, I presume you post such an article to bring to attention the 
interesting release process they have, with "Feature Freeze" etc.

Yes, and that he considers the Open Source movement the success story 
in biz, while the old model is dying the lawyers from the past are 
trying to derail it.

http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6060741.html<--- Google to launch 
calendar application

http://calendar.google.com<--- actually it's open now

re: Google Calendar:  Chris Sherman, executive editor of Search Engine 
Watch.com. "The interface is classic Google--clean, crisp and relatively 
uncluttered.... The one down side to the program is you have to be 
online when you use it"

All those Google applications. Wouldn't it be a lot better user experience, 
if REBOL clients were made, instead of having the applications inside 
a browser? Might be a good plan:

1) Get people away from MS products. It's not the best solution having 
everything inside a browser, but it lets them know again, that they 
have a choice.

2) Now people have choices, they can choose the best solution, which 
is REBOL reblets.

Let's see some nice hovers etc from Rebol apps.

We just need someone to make the applications in REBOL. Any investors 
around?

and rich text.

and list views

VIA finally delivers on resource savy, yet powerfull CPUs - http://arosshow.blogspot.com/2006/04/this-is-interview-with-aros-developer.html

wrong link?

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=5&ArticleID=462&P=1

http://www.infoverse.org/octomatics/octomatics.htm

OTTAWA — California-based linguist Paul Payack expects the English 
language to gain its one-millionth word this autumn. The language 
has come a long way indeed, as the English would say, in 400 years. 
In 1582, the English grammarian Richard Mulcaster could say that 
the language was "of small reach, stretching no further than this 
island of ours, nay not there over all.

http://www.languagemonitor.com/

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

http://projects.star.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/projects/MEDIA/xv/index.html