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    Have a look at http://www.no2id.net/content/flash01.html, and indeed the rest of the site. I got to this site after reading an article about the Big Brother awards in the Register.I hate big government and I really hate them wasting my taxes. Once I

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 29 July 2004

    Good old XP!

    I installed a version of PC-Anywhere on my works laptop because I need to administer an old machine. It did warn me that I was installing a version that was incompatible with the version of Windows I was running (XP). I've seen this message before wi

    Comments (1) . Thursday, 22 July 2004

    Back to JDeveloper - loading config files from the classpath

    Eclipse V3 didn't do a lot. Could not be bothered wasting a day configuring it, double click on a file and it started up NetBeans because that was the default editor for files with a java extension. Back to JDev 10g. It just works. A downside is that

    Comments (0) . Tuesday, 20 July 2004

    NetBeans cost me a day

    Twice this useless IDE didn't save the file I was working on, even though I pressed ^S and exited it. Nor did it warn me I had unsaved changes.Switching to Eclipse.Still using Oracel JDeveloper for Oracle-specific things, particularly Java in the dat

    Comments (0) . Monday, 19 July 2004

    Bill Gates - what wealth is really for!

    Quoting from this site:The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has stumped up $44.7m to fund research into tackling tuberculosis (TB) - the leading cause of death among HIV-positive people. The cash will be used to formulate strategies to control TB

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 15 July 2004

    Oracle Repository

    Spent the day evaluating Oracle Repository. I quite like it, as far as it goes. I'm busy preparing a powerpoint so I can share my conclusions with the rest if the company. It isn't as good as some products (but is better than PVCS) but to be honest,

    Comments (0) . Wednesday, 14 July 2004

    Friendly Fire

    Think about it:All your life you've let other people's envy and stupidity hold you back because you let yourself believe them.You are the victim of friendly fire - you are constantly firing on yourself.I had a whole song about this going through my h

    Comments (0) . Friday, 9 July 2004