Jim Edwards has been awake while others were sleeping.
In his sleuth like fashion he alerts us to a serious disablement
of features in Internet Explorer and what this could mean
to your web site.

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Article Snippet:

One of the top news stories this week that got virtually no
popular press involves the judgment against Microsoft by a
small company with a big software patent.

University of California and Eolas Technologies, Inc. hold a
patent which Microsoft, according to several judges,
violated with its popular Internet Explorer Web browser.

… read full article

But really all you need to do is make the day equal to 10 units.

You have 10 Googies in a day. Each Googie equals 100 moogies.

there are 100 boogies in a moogie.

So at 6am in our current system now becomes 2.5 am decimal.

That is - 50 moogies past the 2nd Googie

The real problem with changing time systems is getting everyone to agree to change.

Pros and Cons:

Less hours in the day means you don’t live as long.
Hours are longer means you work more for less money.
Having a time system based on ten is too simple for complicated people and it might
put some experts out of work.

Some reference books may have to be rewritten, which will annoy publishers, but give the Encyclopaedia buyers and excellent reason to push the new edition.

Cars will travel faster because they will be able to travel further in an hour so this will mean
we will get to work more quickly, meaning we will work even longer - which is a unlooked for synergy between two points above.

What’s your vote? Should we have a decimal time system or would you be as confused as the author?

P.S I do hope you realize there is some attempt at humor in the above post.

Ever tried to install EasyPHP or Xammp or even IIS and found trouble. Well I just spent an hour to find that Skype is running on Port 80, which means that Apache couldn’t start.

From Windows XP or Server 2003 you can run a port scan but in Windows 2000 a little utility called Fport will be useful. If you’re using Skype, turn it off and try again.

Otherwise download Fport. It’s a little tricky - it saves itself to a directory called Fport-2.0. Their instructions are actually wrong.

They say to run it from the command prompt c:/>fport, but it’s actually c:/>Fport-2.0/fport

it just depends how you save it I suppose.

Anyway, that little sucker will tell you what’s running on all ports on your computer, and could be pretty handy one day.

Well, a bit technical but pretty cool.