Warning: this post has no technical content. But is a little explanation why I have cranked out so little of that lately.

Due to not to happy circumstances I have moved. My new address is:

Gekko SoftwarePeter van Ooijen

Viermat 7

9753 KW Haren





Moving does provide lots and lots of fodder for rants. Some small ones
  • Trying to move an internet connection is sheer hell. I thought I had the best provider in the Netherlands, at least they say the public considers them such. The enormous hassle it took to move makes me wander how bad the others are. As a result my ex-wife had only one day without internet and I still have two wait two more weeks.
  • Mobile internet dongles are great. But don’t trust them to work always, especially not in an everyday scenario. So far I only got it to work on my Server 2008 R2 laptop. Not on my W7 desktop, neither on an XP laptop.
  • Watch out for W7N, the explorer-less W7 version created to please “that woman” Neelie Kroes. I overlooked the N installed the W7 ultimate N on our mediacenter and now my kids have tp watch a DVD on a laptop. W7N has nothing usefull for a family PC. No explorere and no Media player, you can play nothing on it.

So far the bad news. 2010 is going to be great and I’ll be back to normal posting.

Happy new year everybody




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