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Australia plans tough web rules
Australia’s Labor government plans new rules to protect children from online pornography and violence….
Colin Harman MACITP

Linux Rage Looks Likely
Beyond 3D recently reported that id Software, you know the people behind such games as Wolfenstein, Doom and Quake, was not going to be making the next big release available on the Linux platform. Quoting an interview in a German publication with the id Software CEO, Todd Hollenshead, the article suggested that there would be no Linux version of Rage, and that the Windows version would use Direct3D instead of OpenGL as a further kick in the family jewels for the open source movement. The interview does, indeed, show Hollenshead as stating that a Linux version of id Tech 5, the new game…

Another way of looking at this

Jamie A comments to an article on Channel Register:

Here’s a slightly less technical way of looking at the issue:

Microsoft essentially have 2 editions of a program. The first edition speaks English (User Interface) to the user, but in behind can speak French (COM) to other components.

The second edition also speaks English and French, but can also speak Russian (VSIP - Visual Studio Integration Programme).

Microsoft intends that your components speak Russian in order to extend Visual Studio. Their VSIP license agreement also states that you can only try to speak Russian to the second edition of the software. Attempting to speak Russian to the first edition is not allowed (even if it does speak the language).

Rather than try and speak Russian, Jamie has been using French. He has asked Visual Studio if it talks a certain dialect (COM interface), and it has said “oui”. So he uses that dialect to talk to Visual Studio in order to do what he needs.

The main problem from Microsoft’s point of view is that they didn’t intend for anyone to use that dialect of French in order to talk to Visual Studio. They only expected Russian to be used. However, there’s nothing that explicitly states this. Microsoft even has public notes on the French dialect.

Therefore, Jamie thinks he’s in the right because Microsoft have not said that speaking French is forbidden. Microsoft sees it the other way. And the way things are going, it looks like the decision is going to come from a judge or jury.

There will be some French lessons in a follow up post.

SharePoint 3.0 and MOSS 2007 Service Pack 1 Update
I had a number of problems installing SharePoint 3.0 Service Pack 1 and then Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1. In fact, I managed to put my server completely out of action and I have been trying to fix it off and on for a couple of weeks (I have been on holiday). This being my …
Martin Hinshelwood

links don’t work in IE7 for top half of the page
I’ve got a really strange problem that I haven’t been able to crack. On my web page (http://www.daviddaniell.com), when viewing it on IE7, most of the hyperlinks do not work when the link is rendered near the *top half* of the body of the page. For example, see the “Discography” page …