Luci Sandor’s blog

I heard a new IE toolbar is in town, so decided to give it a try.
The privacy statement didn’t offer an escape as the Google toolbar has: you must allow the toolbar to spy on you.

Another odd thing was that I had to choose “yes” so the toolbar and ALL its next versions would be installed. I know what’s an automatic update, but that sound really weird: so I’m not allowed to block automatic update, and more, it seems that the uninstallation procedure would be “format C:”.
So I checked the help, which was, at the moment I’m writing, at least poor:for every link in the menu I had to F5 the page and when I got to the chapter “Hiding or removing the toolbar” I got a 404 that reminded me the leaked Sidebar shown about a year ago an all beta-spy web sites. That sidebar had the help files on a web server in the MS intranet.
Since I’m not yet aware of the removal procedure and I don’t want to help Inktomi (why do they need my clicks? they can make a search engine that indexes only ads)… well, I’m not installing it yet.

JNode is a ghost that should scares the shit out of big corporations, and this ideea scares the shit out of devs. The future is like no hardware donations, no money, but maybe a lawsuit for the guys that dare to escape the JDK oligarchy. The two proprietary and locked-in-old-RISC-*nixes monsters, IBM and Java, that competed to make the x86 JRE slower with every release will not be happy, yet they are still not giving a darn (and that’s the starting point for a project killing).
Do not wonder if one day the 29 developers (including at least 2 romanians) will close the source and will offer you high-bill phone support. Looking at their mostly empty lists, I can think about what happened to JBoss. Hunger is an excuse, maybe the best of them.

From: webmaster at euronews.net
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 15:23
To: Luci Sandor
Subject: RE: Correct spelling for "Chivu"
Dear Luci
Thanks for the information. We are very glad to receive comments on the pronunciation of names of places and personalities.
Head of English team

—–Message d’origine—–
De : Luci Sandor [mailto:lucisandor@...]
Envoye : samedi 10 janvier 2004 11:57
A : …@euronews.net
Objet : Correct spelling for "Chivu"
I am romanian, living in Bucharest and I watch Euronews in english. I’ve noticed that your speakers keep reading chee-voo, when the correct romanian reading is kee-voo. Please verify at your will and correct this issue.
Regards, L.S.

Hooray! I’ve learned from one of those newsletters written by my beloved e-journalists, writing about anything from middleware to cameras, that I can get an antivirus for free. You know, if you have Windows and you go to Windows update site, you can see those “protect your computer…1-2-3″. (I’m not visiting Windows Update site, since it gave me an 0×800$$$$ error on IE and another one on WindowsUpdate.log; I have contacted a Microsoft Support Professional that told me to use msconfig.exe on my Windows 2000, an impossible-to-do thing).
So I got this AV, eTrust EZ AV from CA, but after downloading it I’ve changed my mind. I read there that it is free for an year and that I’ll have to uninstall any other AV. They asked me about my billing address and I thought that, as in porn scums, they will offer me one year free (more…)

I’ve seen a lot of refferals from Google as if I woud be the master of Dexplore.EXE. No, this is not true. Want to learn more about HTMLHelp and its versions? Join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MSHelp2/.

From an old CHM file, a little JS snippet:

if (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE 5") == -1) {
	alert("You are using an old browser. \n" +
		"Help may not display correctly. \n" +
		"Please upgrade to the most recent version of IE");
	}

So there wasn’t and isn’t any updated browser except IE 5?

I am trying to connect Eclipse through Quantum DB perspective to a local instance of SAP DB. Eclipse is Java-based, so its plugin is JDBC-based. The docs online from SAP are missing one little thing: the name of the class that SAP uses for JDBC driver (more…)