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Against all odds, I’m going to keep my flickr & del.icio.us account after all. Good news !

I’m worried, I use daily del.icio.us and I have a pro account on Flickr.com. What will happen to this two sites, if Microsoft & Yahoo are going to be the same company.

I was happy that my del.icio.us and flickr data were not under the Google umbrella, they have already my emails and search, that’s enough. But on the other side I will not stand a probably desastrous customization of del.icio.us or flickr by Microsoft. Imagine just a minute : msn + del.icio.us, enough said…

Now is the time to find good tools to backup all informations over there. In case something goes wrong… FlickrBackup looks promising (open source, in java…), I didn’t find anything for del.icio.us.

Among the gazillion posts on the Microsoft / Yahoo “merge” I found those 3 posts insigthful:

• Bruce Eckel on Should Microsoft Buy Yahoo ?
• Robert Scobble on What you all are missing about Google
• Francis Pisani (in french) on Yasoft ca se complique

I found this on a cartoon web site, and yes they have a rss feed, and maybe this answer partly Laurent’s question, at least I’ve followed this vendor advice and I’m happy as ever.

IE is one of the most blatant demonstration of “I don’t care of my users”, transforming it in “we heard you”, is one of the good old marketing bs which microsoft have accustomed us to.

I just don’t see a chance of installing this software myself, partly because today I spend most of my time on another OS, and also because the lastest vista release just completly put my PC out of order but mostly because I don’t see one feature demonstrated by IE which firefox or opera is not already doing today (We can also add safely Safari to the list btw).

If you are not running MacOS nor Linux, that you still don’t have a decent browser, that you’re ready to accept another wave of vulnerabilities (some of them are already out) and finally you don’t mind installing a system updated disguised into an internet browser. Go ahead, bloat your system a little bit more

Pendant que je réfléchissais aux outils qui se mette à jour de façon transparente (comme googleTalk par exemple), j’essaye la mise à jour du programme de Microsoft de chat. Non seulement elle est absolument pas transparente mais en plus elle me pose des questions comme on en voit que dans Windows et qui tendent à généraliser une intéraction stupide avec l’ordinateur …

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L’étape qui à suivi a été une désinstallation suivi de l’ouverture dans un navigateur de http://meebo.com…

For various reasons I was testing the newest beta release of maven : 1.1-beta1 on a windows XP machine using a non administrative account.
There was a previous installation of maven (1.0.2) on it. With the proper system envirnoment variable :

MAVEN_HOME= c:toolsmaven-1.0.2
PATH=.../...;%MAVEN_HOME%/bin

So the PATH one is somehow calculated upon the value of the MAVEN_HOME… Well I thouth that changing MAVEN_HOME dynamically (ie : set MAVEN_HOME=blabla) should do the trick …erm… I was far from it. Even if you change the MAVEN_HOME via the admin account (even after having unlogged from the normal account, ie by not using the switch user feature) the PATH variable will not be updated until you actually reboot the machine… I tried different combinations until realizing this…

Well anyway the good news is that JTGE is running fine with no changes to any maven conf files or properties under maven 1.1 !!
On the other hand, maven 2-alpha 2 is another story. I’m going to wait at least Wednesday when alpha3 will be out.