| 1. |  | Foundations: Globalization  - Captured: 9-2-2005 19:04:04
For too many software products, localization is something that blindsides the product team either late in the cycle (near release date) or after the English release. You have a successful product, you're selling like hotcakes, and now your sales team wants to expand into Europe, Asia, South America, Africa... anywhere they can make money! Then begins a trek up a steep learning curve and often the need to rewrite large portions of code to take into account all the differences between ...
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| 2. | | From VAX to Windows - Captured: 19-1-2005 17:29:50
When I first got involved with Microsoft
it was around 1990 or ’91. The world of the time was dominated by IBM, with
DEC a close second. If you wanted to network PCs you used Novell or Banyan. All PC
programs were DOS programs. “Windows” was just one of many graphical libraries
being used by software to handle drawing on the screen. And if you wanted to do real
work you used a mainframe or minicomputer.
At the time, M...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 5. | | Sunday 23rd January In Colombo - Bowling At Millenium Park - Captured: 23-1-2005 11:31:00
I spent this morning catching up on posts at vbCity. Managed to progress a few along without definitely solving any.
Then off to Millenium Park, which hosts Colombo's only 10 pin bowling alley. I managed scores of 112, 92 & 115, which considering I haven't played in a few months was reasonable - 150 is an exceptional score for me even when I'm in the zone ;-). Millenium Park is a pretty reasonable bowling alley and it cost us about 1400 rupees (£7.50) for my wife and myself to have 3 games ea...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 6. | | More Info on the Auction - Captured: 21-1-2005 17:28:03
The auction should go live in 24
hours. Bookmark this post as I will put the link here and the start date as soon as
we have it!
This auction is a charitable contribution.
Bidders will pay for an hour each of consulting time to benefit the Tsunami
victims of Banda Aceh. ALL of
the money will go to help the victims (tax benefit for you as well).
Bid for an hour of a .NET Celebrity
Consultant’s time...
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| 7. | | Karici i BK Televizija - Captured: 15-2-2005 19:23:51
Radim vec nekoliko godina na BK televiziji i kad god neko nov cuje gde radim, kaze :"A pa vi se tamo ubijate od para!". Ljudi misle da ako su Karici bogati onda sigurno i bogato placaju radnike. Ima tu logike, ali ne i istine. Situacija na BK televiziji, je nikad gora, tacnije katastrofalna, a plate nikad bednije. Nekada je bilo ok, ali sada je dno. Vidite ovako, prvo su "obradovali" radnike da ce primiti samo 50 % plate za novembar i to im je sve za taj mesec, onda su nam dali 70 % plate za dec...
From: Serbia Blog |
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10/18/04 - Companies Across Europe Choose Sun Microsystems Java Enterprise System For Virtually Unmatched Value, Affordability And Performance
- Captured: 15-2-2005 21:34:35
LONDON, U.K. and SANTA CLARA, Calif. - October 18, 2004 - Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), today announced that a diverse set of customers across Sun's EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region have purchased the Sun Java Enterprise System during the last six months to help reduce the costs and complexity associated with acquiring and operating software. These customers - which range from small and mid-sized businesses to enterprises - include Inmarsat, Turkcell, Borsa Italiana, E-Plus...
From: Sun Microsystems Press Releases |
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| 9. | | Poverty and George Bush - Captured: 16-2-2005 6:59:26
Chuck Currie has a passionate new post about poverty and the George W. Bush administration. Here is an excerpt -- but go check it out -- it is good to find other souls in this world who find deep meaning in Christ's love for the poor. We are the only nation that can't a national voice to speak out against poverty even in our own country, let alone Africa or Asia.
Thank goodness for Bono, and for the present hip trend in Hollywood to follow his and others' examples, and lend their voices to ...
From: Three Sumach-Red Dogs I Run With |
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| 10. | | Congratulations Serena - Captured: 16-2-2005 7:02:08
Hey girl, congrats on your second try at mommyhood... Good luck and all the best on your move from Czech to South Africa. If Zeth doesn't treat you right, Justin, Chris, Robin and I will pay a visit and beat him to a pulp, tell him to watch out :D. (You did tell him we're all 6 foot 4, right?)
From: Embrash |
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| 11. | | Shark Bites Drop Due to Florida Hurricanes - Captured: 19-2-2005 17:23:37
MIAMI (Reuters) - Sharks and humans both fled the coast as hurricanes battered Florida last year, causing a dramatic drop in shark attacks in the state that usually has a third of the world's annual total, scientists said on Tuesday.
Shark attacks occur most often in North American waters, and Florida normally has more than any other state or country because its long coastlines, dense population and year-round swimming weather often bring sharks and people together.
But Florida had on...
From: Serbia Blog |
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| 12. | | gaim 1.1.3 Released - Captured: 19-2-2005 23:37:39
http://gaim.sf.net This new release fixes two critical security issues:
- Remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML
- AIM/ICQ remote denial of service
I recommend downloading the new version ASAP! Good work to the gaim team!
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| 14. | | Back Into .NET - Captured: 26-2-2005 12:20:00
For the first time since November I have managed to open up Visual Studio .NET and get stuck into some coding in real anger. Man it feels so good :-D Nothing earth shattering has been accomplished as most of the time was spent scratching my head, trying to figure out how to do really basic stuff. I set myself a little project up to create a command line email application. One that you could run at the DOS prompt and pass command line arguments to for stuff like email server, recipient, sender, s...
From: VB & .NET Blogs @ vbCity.com |
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| 15. | | You cant get something for nothing... - Captured: 1-3-2005 3:38:38
Free
speech isn’t free. In fact, maintaining
your right to free speech might cost you all of your aid from the Federal Government if
you are a NGO the deals with AID/HIV, and you support distributing condoms to sex
workers or clean needles to drug users.
The Bush
Administration wants to require NGO's to sign a pledge opposing the sex trade and
illegal drugs trade. Some NGO's fe...
From: Anomalous Data |
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| 17. | | DOS Creator Sues Over Book Chapter - Captured: 3-3-2005 2:23:57
In a recent book, writer Harold Evans described the creation of QDOS as a "rip off" of Gary Kildall's CP/M. Depending on who you talk to, many people would probably agree. However, Tim Paterson, the creator of QDOS is apparently so upset over this slight in describing something that happened 25 years ago that he's suing Harold Evans and the book's publisher. While it does suck to have your work pooh-poohed as being a mere copy, isn't it about time to look at this in perspective. Paterson won...
From: Techdirt |
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| 19. | | Hybrid CD: making it run on Mac and PC - Captured: 10-3-2005 3:12:22
"Just write it on a CD" can mean a lot of things. There's the plain audio CD (also 'IEC 908' or 'Red Book' standard - 74 minutes of audio), the CD-ROM (or 'Yellow Book' - 700MB of data), the CD-R ('Orange Book') and I'm not even gonna go into stuff like SVCD (Super Video CD - up to 60 minutes of video).
While these colorful standards define the lowest level of formatting, for a CD-R/CD-ROM you still have the issue of which filesystem to use on it. Apple has chosen for using it...
From: blog.forret.com |
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| 20. | | The future of Windows? - Captured: 9-3-2005 15:57:24
I
have this long-standing theory and thought I???d share it. The theory goes like this:
First there was DOS.
Then there was Windows
which ran on DOS.
Then DOS was emulated
in Windows.
Then there was .NET
which ran on Windows.
Then Windows was emulated
in .NET.
Of course that last bit hasn't happened
yet, but I expect it is just a matte...
From: Rockford Lhotka |
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| 21. | | BMM provides auditing and verifications services f... - Captured: 9-3-2005 20:37:13
BMM provides auditing and verifications services for government-sponsored gaming institutions such as the Arizona Lottery Commission, Michigan Gaming Control Board, Montana Department of Justice, and National Gambling Board of South Africa. The top online poker websites regulated by BMM include Party Poker, Empire Poker, and Poker Stars.
I've played at Party Poker and other online poker rooms - I don't see Party or any other being rigged, as it would produce no real benefit to them. Th...
From: Party Poker News |
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| 22. | | VB.NET vs VB.Classic or VB.COM - Captured: 11-3-2005 0:44:00
No wonder people give us VB guys a hard time... we even cause problems among ourselves. What's it this time? Well, I just don't get this whole keep VB6 thing.
Let's look at a couple of things, shall we?
VB6 was released in 1998. Pretty much a run of the mill upgrade to VB5 which as released 1996. That's nine (count them, 9) years since there was a major revision to the so-called VB.Classic or VB.COM as some people are starting to call it!
OK, so l...
From: AddressOf.com |
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| 23. | | gaim 1.1.3 Released - Captured: 12-3-2005 19:40:34
http://gaim.sf.net This new release fixes two critical security issues:
- Remote DoS on receiving malformed HTML
- AIM/ICQ remote denial of service
I recommend downloading the new version ASAP! Good work to the gaim team!
From: nethub.org |
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| 24. | | Caribbean Forum on 12 March at the “ITB Convention - Captured: 13-3-2005 7:33:58
http://www.itb-berlin.de/ International Tourism Exchange presents new possibilities in the Caribbean – the attractions of the smaller islands as vacation destinations
Caribbean Forum on 12 March at the “ITB Convention
Market Trends & Innovations“
Berlin, 16 February 2005 – Almost everyone is familiar with the Dominican Republic and Cuba, but what about the other 35 islands in the Caribbean, from St. Eustatius to the US Virgin Islands and Guyana as well? Tourists from Central Euro...
From: SiteMap |
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| 25. | | Panamá presente en ferias internacionales de turismo - Captured: 13-3-2005 7:33:58
http://panama.centroamerica.tv/ Martes, 4 de Enero de 2005
El Instituto Panameño de Turismo (IPAT) participará durante el año 2005 en las más importantes ferias de turismo a nivel internacional en la que promoverá al paÃs como destino de atracción segura para el visitante.
Entre las más importantes ferias mundiales donde participará el IPAT se encuentran la Bolsa Internacional de Turismo (BIT), en Milán, Italia; la Exposición TurÃstica, en San José, Costa Rica; la Feria Intern...
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