Why oh why does Microsoft always insist in trying to reinvent the wheel ( poorly ).. In every field you can imagine they have a crappy clone ( Zune anyone? ) nobody wants. Same thing with their Live Search. They always end up paying the few fucktards who fall for the peanuts MS throws at them.

I have personally witnessed that they came around the bigger businesses, and actually _giving_ money ( and LOTS of it ) to replace all postfix/courier servers ( who run great for years in a row on commodity hardware ) with Exchange ( which only runs “well” if you have a battery of servers.) Luckily management refused every offer because of the hardware costs and maintenance it would require to keep the crap working. ( Lower TCO my *** )

The merchant paying the customer to take his crap.. How low can you go.

If you just put a Windows XP install CD ( Or a Vista CD if your house is REALLY dirty ) on your living room table, the contents of the CD suck so hard that your house will never see a single particle of dust again!

Thank you MS!

There are rumors that some Yahoo executives would do everything in their power to stop the Microsoft deal, giving Google a small chance, but it’s all over for Yahoo anyways.. I can imagine that the best employees already looked for a job with more certainty, and that if Google takes over, a lot of people will become redundant since Google has its own skilled people.. And if Microsoft takes over.. bleh, don’t even want to consider that..

I will have to dig into the Zimbra license again to make sure that the project is forkable, but i pretty much think a fork would be the only thing to save it. Hell, I would even start it up myself Where is anti-trust when you need it?

Embrace and extinguish anyone?

Here a quick overview of the prices: ( Single metered tariffs! )

For gas, Nuon asks 3.84 cent / kWh, while Electrabel asks 4.46 cent / kWh. Their fixed yearly fees are 40,68 EUR and 41,87 EUR respectively.

For electricity, Nuon charges 8,14 cent / kWh and Electrabel 9.51 when you use less than 2000 kWh and 8.56 when using a bit more. The lowest price you can get at Electrabel is 8.26 cent / kWh, when using over 20.000kWh yearly. Yearly fees are 57,41 EUR up to 111,73 EUR for Electrabel, while Nuon charges 46,26.

Eventually I signed up with Nuon, because according to my nooby calculations, it was the Right Thing ™ to do

Anyways, I see Electrabel in much the same way as I see Microsoft and Belgacom: big overpriced companies trying to suck as much many out of you as possible, no matter what it takes.