Well it's not totally useless - there are a few useful shortcuts...
Windows Key + D - Show Desktop*
Windows Key + E - Windows Explorer
Windows Key + F - Find Files or Folders...
Windows Key + M - Minimize All Windows
Windows Key + Shift+M - Undo Minimize All
Windows Key + R - Run...
Windows Key + Tab - Select Task
Windows Key + Break - System Properties
Windows Key + F - Windows Help
* Requires Internet Explorer 4.0 Desktop Update.
Not all that much there, eh? Well, WinKey allows you to assign your own shortcuts. Dead handy. Recommended for all Windows victims users.
Using Eclipse? Stuck with VSS for source control? Then you need Marcus Nylander's VSS Plugin for Eclipse.
Seems to work pretty well. The initial refresh from VSS takes an age, which is inevitable, but after that it's all really smooth, and much more convenient than swapping between Eclipse and VSS Explorer and navigating down to whatever it is that you want to check out or whatever.
BTW - some useful Eclipse options here, including -vmargs, which allows you to pass arguments to the underlying VM.
An end to OutOfMemory errors, perhaps? Just shove -vmargs -Xmx128m on the end of your Eclipse shortcut, and off you go. (See java - the Java application launcher for available VM arguments as at Java 1.3).
If you work in an office with lots of people, chances are that you work with a person who hangs pictures up that their kids have drawn. The pictures are always of some stupid flower or a tree with wheels. These pictures suck; I could draw pictures much better.
Via dutchbint.
The Insects from Shaggy - Scooby Doo meets The Call of Cthulhu.
Via FARK.
Sun's CEO Scott McNealy contends that Open Source is hurting Sun (and J2EE) in its fight against Microsoft (and 'NET).
In Sun's J2EE Standard Needs JBoss, Marc Fleury, JBoss founder, contends this.
O'Reilly's William Crawford has some interesting reflections on all this in J2EE Open Source.
VB and Java the only successful languages of the last two decades? Hmmm. Well, it really depends upon how you define successful. In terms of market share, I suppose that he's right, but people are successfully using Python, Ruby, Haskell, Objective C, PHP, Tcl and especially (shudder) Perl to develop useful tools, to name but a few. None of which detracts from his essential points.
It is certainly true that Java isn't really delivering revenue for Sun. But then, as Joel points out (Headline: Sun Develops Java; New "Bytecode" System Means Write Once, Run Anywhere), a hardware company developing a system which effectively makes hardware a commodity was always rather an odd decision. I'm not sure that you can pin the blame on Open Source!