Archief voor maart 2009

Internet Explorer 8 released

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Internet Explorer 8 is out of beta as of the 19th of March. I haven’t personally tried it yet, but I’m fairly sure it’ll make it’s way to my home computer sooner or later. Even though it’s already been hacked. What I am hoping though, is that people and companies still using IE6 will realize that they’re running behind 2 versions now and hopefully feel the need to upgrade!

Violent games make you a psycho?

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For those of you who haven’t seen this on the news recently, Tim Kretschmer (Germany) visited his former school and shot 15 people. Why? Because he’s a mental case, not because he played video games. I too am saddened that these things happen in this world, and I certainly despise the people that are responsible for such acts. But what I despise even more is the media’s position on the situation. Multiple newssites all around the globe are now putting out headlines like “German shooter played violent games”. Why is this even relevant? The mainstream media still seems to think that there is a connection between playing violent games and being a psychopath with personal issues. I don’t get it. (meer…)

Congratulations Mad Science!

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I would like to congratulate Oppie on the first birthday of his Mad Science comic! Hopefully you can keep it up and get some more mainstream exposure in the next year! Unless that ofcourse stresses you too much that you decide to return to a once a month schedule ;-) Anyways, keep up the good work!

Validation of viewstate MAC failed

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When adding a SharePoint webpart or an existing webpart’s properties we occasionally came across the following error. We did not use a web farm and none of the other suggestions in the error message made any sense in our case. We came across some solutions to this, which I’d like to share with you. (meer…)