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Thursday, May 27, 2004
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Amnesty offers bleak outlook: "The global security agenda promoted by the US administration is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle. Violating human rights at home, turning a blind eye to abuses abroad and using pre-emptive military force where and when it chooses has damaged justice and freedom, and made the world a more dangerous place." [Guardian Unlimited]
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Visiting Norway on June 10-11 -- Comment()
I'll visit Tromsø in Norway in two weeks. The NOTUR 2004 conference takes place then. One of the interesting topics is the Rocks Linux distribution, which is a nice package for cluster computing on Linux.
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Wired: 40 top leaders of technology and innovation -- Comment()
The Wired 40 : "They are masters of innovation, technology, and strategic vision - 40 companies driving the global economy." And the top 3 are:
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Test driving Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac -- Comment()
Yesterday I received an evaluation copy of Office 2004 for Mac from Microsoft. The installation was easy, although starting up the applications the first time was quite slow. Also, the installation message up the fonts in Safari somehow, so I had to restart Safari. However, the installation did not require restarting the computer, which is nice. For me the biggest bonus is the built-in spellchecker for Finnish, which was lacking in Office v. X. Also, Word can now handle filenames with more than 31 characters. This was an annoying limitation in the previous version. I even tested the Entourage program for e-mail. Entourage seems to lack the nice learning spam filter of Mac OS X Mail, so a lot of spam gets throuh. Also, some of the keyboard commands are new to me. I tried, for example, to forward 400 spam messages, when I actually tried to classify them as junk mail. Update: Ssp asked: "Did the program actually open 400 forwarding windows?" Well, Entourage asked if I wanted to do the action, and I clicked ok. And then it went on opening new windows. I killed the program when there were about 50 windows on the screen. But nothing was lost when I restarted Entourage.
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