It still looks butt ugly but at least this bug was partially addressed in the latest beta release of Open Office. The opening date for this one, “Dec 19 19:13:00 +0000 2001″. That’s more than seven years ago! This show stopper has prevented me from writing my thesis, any scientific articles, or in fact anything [...]
Also tagged reviewsBefore joining Nokia, I worked for a small web startup in the Netherlands called <GX> Creative Online Development during 2004 and 2005. When I started there, I was employee number forty something (I like to think it was 42, but not sure anymore). When I left, they had grown to close to a hundred employees [...]
Also tagged gxThere is a nice article on Ars discussing Microsoft’s business practices regarding windows and how they appear to be not quite working lately. It used to be that your PC came with windows whereas nowadays you have to select from a around five different versions and Microsoft is rumored to go to an even more [...]
Also tagged apple, beer, google, microsoft, nokia, ubuntu, windowsI’ve blogged several times already about my problems connecting my pc to the internet:
Getting a cable modem was easy.
I mistakenly bought a Siemens wireless network USB stick. Solution don’t buy crap and use a decent brand. Currently I’m using an smc pci card; my ibm/lenovo’s laptop’s built in network card and my Nokia e70 with [...]
Luckily my parents laptop came with a windows xp pro cd and a valid product key. So, after backing up important files using ubuntu, I proceeded to install windows. I had forgotten how annoying installing windows can be.
After having seen ubuntu the experience is, well, extremely user unfriendly and extremely likely to end in disaster [...]
Last weekend (Easter holiday, long weekend) was a good opportunity to visit my parents in the Netherlands. Apart from beloved son, I’m also their system administrator. Last time I made a mistake, I left them behind with a partially secured windows machine. The thing was behind a router and they were using firefox (saw to [...]
Also tagged reviews, ubuntuI first began considering buying a new digital camera around 2004. Forever drooling over dpreview and other sites I ultimately decided not to buy the Canon powershot A90, 520, 620, IS, IS2. Reasons varied from “I don’t really need one right now”, “camera X sure looks nice but lets wait for camera Y” to “my [...]
Also taggedIt’s now a few days after my previous post on the vista delay. The rumour machine on the Vista delays is now rolling. A few days ago this wild claim about 60% of vista being in need of a rewrite started circulating. Inacurate of course but it woke up some people. Now this blogpost [...]
Also tagged microsoftOuch, Forbes unleashes some criticism on Microsoft. Well deserved IMHO. I don’t see the result of six years of development by thousands of software engineers reflected in the currently marketed featureset.
A few small predictions:
Vista and office 2007 (or whatever it is called) are going to go into history as the two releases that reversed the [...]
Also tagged google, microsoftOver the years I’ve encountered, and resolved many annoying software issues with Microsoft. This one surely counts as one of the more annoying ones.
The problem is that my previous PC had a beautiful suspend to ram feature, which basically means that whenever you put the machine in stand by mode the system turns of almost [...]
