Category Archives: Rant

Politiken’s Weird Computer Ways

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Politiken runs an article titled “EU action may cost you your internet connection” (article in Danish, Google Translation) about how European Windows 7 users may not be able to access the internet because of the EU’s intervention against MS’s browser … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse Cancelled

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

It really is true! When something’s too good to be true, it’s not! … Or whatever… In this case it’s Microsoft’s (deliberately?) half-assed implementation of ODF rendering my previous predictions of doom and destruction more than just a little inaccurate. … Continue reading →

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It’s the end of the world!

Posted on May 3, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Yup — it’s here, I’m sure. Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 now supports ODF out of the box and has the option of using ODF as the default format. And just to add to that hell-freezes-over feeling, Office 2007 SP2 finally … Continue reading →

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Emulation as something new

Posted on February 18, 2009 by Anders K. Madsen

Politiken has an article about how the EU wants to develop an emulator — KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable — in order to preserve video game history. (Original article in danish; Google translation.) According to the project description it should … Continue reading →

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Science wants to be free

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Anders K. Madsen

In science we learn and do research based on the findings of — and conclusions drawn by — others before us. (“Standing on the shoulders of giants” ring a bell?) That is the very essence of cumulative science. To make … Continue reading →

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