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That’s a shame. Internet Explorer is an excellent tool for downloading Firefox!
Read the press release here:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hGWpt2Jl279bg2BaPZz52moEnlnA

One thing is that NetBeans wants to expand tabs into spaces, at least thats a hot topic. Although, why the hell would anyone use spaces when the keyboard actually has a dedicated key to produce a nice indentation is beyond me. But why in the name of all that is holy isn’t line numbering turned [...]

I’m so sick and tired of Subversion! A couple of days ago our repository server was down which caused the f… stupid svn client to hang. Not even pressing Ctrl-C would stop it. In the end I had to kill it the hard way. This obviously messed up the svn locks. You should think that [...]

I’ve been trying out the beta build of NetBeans version 6.7 and it’s looking very good. The PHP support is becoming very good.
Even Grails support is coming along with support for Grails 1.1. Rumors has it that even debugging is supported now! Nice work!

I don’t know about other countries, but in Norway you get ripped of when buying razor blades. Imagine my thrill when I found out that Dealextreme.com are selling the same blades (with Chinese packing, but who cares?!) for 1/3 of the price!
Enjoy cheap shaving!

I had no idea that webservices were this easy in Java EE! Just smack on two or more annotations. Annotate the stateless session bean with @Webservice and the methods you want to expose with @WebMethod and you got yourself a webservice! That’s really nice!

Once again it’s time for my six months upgrade tradition. I’m really impressed with how much better the Linux user experience has gotten the last two-three years!
Haven’t tried Linux yet? Give Ubuntu 8.10 a chance!

I’ve tested the really neat Dropbox project for some days now (www.getdropbox.com). It offers really fast synchronization of data between multiple computers running Windows, Mac and even Linux! The only drawback, it does not support encryption of your precious data.
Recently I stumbled across EncFS (http://www.arg0.net/encfs). EncFS offers an encrypted user-space file system. The only drawback [...]