janvier 2003 (21)

vendredi 24 janvier 2003

YAdNNA: FeedExpress

Yet Another dotNet News Aggregator : FeedExpress... not cross-platform, and closed source for the moment. Does anyone knows if there is already a good CLI => C# decompiler ?

dimanche 19 janvier 2003

Found on slashdot...

By smilingirl: Lord of the Desktops Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking I mentioned that I had recently installed Windows XP on my PC. I told him how happy I was with this operating system and showed him the Windows XP CD. To my surprise he threw it  […]

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vendredi 17 janvier 2003

Two good news aggregator with .Net ...

... and I don't know any good one in Java. I should read less and start to do something with my free time. For the record: Syndirella by Dmitry Jemerov. Not cross-platform. Aggie by Joe Gregorio. Not cross-platform.  […]

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jeudi 16 janvier 2003

A "look and feel" is not a replacement for a native UI

In Netbeans does SWT!, Danno Ferrin says: Ray mentioned that he didn't like the "swingy" look of NetBeans, and this does a good job of getting rid of it. Please, look two seconds the screenshot... look the screenshot on that page. It's striking yes. JGoodies tried to mimic SWT in its  […]

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GBA reborn...

Just a quick note, my girlfriend gratefully took the soldering iron and installed an Afterburner in my GBA. Now I'm less reluctant to play with it again :-)

Why are they leaving home?

Two days ago (I didn't manage to post before, freeroller.net was down when I tried), the departure of GI's for the gulf struck me. The weapons inspector say their work is far from finished, and they have not shown evidence yet. So why send people now? Is it urging? Has the security council more  […]

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dimanche 12 janvier 2003

Feedreader went Free Software

I didn't notice before, since 29th of december 2003, Feedreader is licensed under the term of the GPL. Sadly it requires Borland Delphi 6.0 Professional to be compiled (1000$ for version 7), and I haven't done Pascal for at least... 6 years. So I don't think I'll volunteer for helping (I've never  […]

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samedi 11 janvier 2003

Regarding fiscal pressure...

Keith Devins says that France is a socialist country because we have some laws he doesn't grok and some high tax rate figures... Well, on this basis I would say that the USA are an oiligarchy, and it's not much better. Regarding the high tax rates, USA are taxed mainly on the capital, and France on  […]

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Fiscal pressure, second approach

Keith Devins posted a link to an OECD Observer article regarding top marginal rates. What is the top marginal rate? I'll try with a simplified example. Paul earns 1000 units a year, he's among the top earners in his country. Regarding taxes, this income can be divided like this: 200400...100  […]

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vendredi 10 janvier 2003

To Prague

I'm going to Prague this afternoon until sunday. Forecasted weather: snow and -2°C...  […]

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mercredi 8 janvier 2003

Must change the color palette

After having seen several freeroller.net blogs, I was truly ashamed... I've not changed the default color theme, and I'm not the only one ^^; I've planned to do this this evening, but it's already 1:22am, and I'm still working on the internationalized version of cinemasie.com, with the subtles  […]

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mardi 7 janvier 2003

Nintendo has betrayed us

©nintendo They've announced the released of a new GBA with light. What can we do, us first purchasers? Either go AfterBurner'ing, or buy the new unit, with a completely new design, just in order to show us that we've bet on the wrong horse? Poor nintendo.

Poor Vivendi Universal... we can live without them

One thing fun... today I tried to find some information on a CD published by one of the hundreds labels of Universal Music. I thought at first that it would be easy, since the vision of JM Messier is "convergence of media", their sites must be top-notch. So let's try: since I'm looking for  […]

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lundi 6 janvier 2003

Back from Prague

Cold week-end. Prague (Praha) is a very touristic place, with a really nice old city, and some less nice things like abandonned buildings and tagged buildings as soon as you leave the center. There are a lot of small and medium sized shops with overpriced typical items. What's impressive is there is  […]

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Chora, a CVS viewer

Found today that PEAR used Chora, an Horde project. I might try this one one day, and see if it usable with TortoiseCVS. Those projects on Horde are impressive...

Six is mad

Check nanoweb, an HTTP server written in PHP. Check also sites using the t0x-engine, so bad the source code has not been released.

dimanche 5 janvier 2003

New tool from Google?

Found this today in my referers log : http://labs1.google.com/cgi-bin/gviewer.cgi?q=php+rss+feed+own+site&btnG=Google+Search&delay=5&start=30. Interesting... a bit slow currently, but the navigation is fun.

Big Blue or the the big unavailability

I've finally found why Bouygues Telecom online services are so often unavailable. They were made by IBM! The same that have a temporary unavailability with their HelpCenter server for at least two months...

samedi 4 janvier 2003

Sans titre

I should post somewhere one of this day my customised version for i18n of the GPLed template engine XTemplate... and write the documentation... and do some benchmarks...

Waiting eagerly for 1.4.1_02, mantis

The correction of the infamous computer freezing is announced for 1.4.1_02. I can't believe the fix has not yet been released, considering that the bug report is 6 months old. And those guys want the JRE to be bundled with Windows? No way, it's my 4th reboot today, I don't want this pain to be  […]

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It is snowing on Paris

A long time we've not seen that.