According to a poll at Framework Programme Sevent (FP7) group on LinkedIn, Horizon 2020 (http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020) may include a cost model change to cover 100% of all direct costs, but limit the overhead rate to a flat 20%.   From my perspective this is a change for the better: • now some research organizations’ ...

Just installed Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) Release Candidate (RC), found the link at: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/internet-explorer-9-rc-available-for-download/11349 Was amazed by it’s performance and clean GUI (especially the choice to move the yellow warning bar to the bottom and make it of smaller width than the browser window in order to ...

WordPress just asked me to moderate a comment saying "of the many video clips that i download, i always watch those that are very funny" (with some emoticon ASCII chars following it). It was a comment on a post of mine about LvS which is related to video, so it looked ok, but the URL [...]

Sometime ago I got the above error screen (after clicking on the error notice at the statusbar) on IE8/Vista at the new Twitter UI (aka #NewTwitter). Exactly what does “The disk is full.” error mean to say? Wonder if twimg.com (probably used to host images served by Twitter like avatar images) was itself running out [...]

At Office (2007) Diagnostics tests I’d expect more fine-grained status codes (rather than a mere “Completed”) so that the Summary view wouldn’t mislead you to think all the identified problems have been corrected. After all not many people would click on the “Detailed results” based on the falsely positive summary as pictured above.