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		<title>Dennis in peuterspeelzaal</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Januari 2012: Een foto van Dennis gemaakt op de peuterspeelzaal. Hij heeft het altijd naar zijn zin op de peuterspeelzaal.]]></description>
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<p>Januari 2012: Een foto van Dennis gemaakt op de peuterspeelzaal. Hij heeft het altijd naar zijn zin op de peuterspeelzaal.</p>
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		<title>Opbouw files van Magic Music Module Professional</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Magic Music Module Professional]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bij het opruimen van een oude klapper op zolder vond ik een document dat ik in 1993 heb geschreven. Het beschrijft de structuur van bestanden van het programma Magic Music Module Professional.  Dit programma is een step-time muziekeditor voor de MSX-computer. Ik heb dat programma tijdens mijn schooltijd geschreven. Mocht iemand nog de behoefte hebben <a href='http://gogognome.nl/2012/01/mmm-pro-filestructuur/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bij het opruimen van een oude klapper op zolder vond ik een document dat ik in 1993 heb geschreven. Het beschrijft de structuur van bestanden van het programma Magic Music Module Professional.  Dit programma is een step-time muziekeditor voor de MSX-computer. Ik heb dat programma tijdens mijn schooltijd geschreven.</p>
<p>Mocht iemand nog de behoefte hebben om muziekbestanden van Magic Music Module Professional in te lezen, bijvoorbeeld om ze om te zetten naar MIDI-bestanden, dan is dit document handig om te hebben.</p>
<p><a title="Opbouw files van Magic Music Module Professional" href="http://www.gogognome.nl/downloads/mmm-pro-filestructuur.pdf" target="_blank">Klik hier</a> om het document te downloaden.</p>
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		<title>Disable button click triggered by enter in Compact Framework 2.0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 12:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile devices do not have mouse. When the user uses the touch screen to click on a button, then this click is translated to mouse events. This way existing software can still be used on a mobile device without mouse. When the mobile device has a barcode reader, then when a barcode is scanned, this <a href='http://gogognome.nl/2012/01/disable-button-click-triggered-by-enter-in-compact-framework-2-0/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mobile devices do not have mouse. When the user uses the touch screen to click on a button, then this click is translated to mouse events. This way existing software can still be used on a mobile device without mouse.</p>
<p>When the mobile device has a barcode reader, then when a barcode is scanned, this barcode is offered to the application as if it was typed on a keyboard. And typically a key press for the enter key is added after the barcode.</p>
<p>But what happens if the user accidently moved the focus from a text box to a button? If the user then scans a barcode, the key presses for the barcode are ignored, but the key press for the enter will cause a button click!</p>
<p>It turns out that preventing this button click is difficult in Compact Framework.</p>
<p>I finally found a solution in <a title="Subclassing a TextBos using Native Callbacks" href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/TextBox_subclassing.aspx" target="_blank">the article &#8220;SubClassing a Control Using Native Callbacks” at codeproject.com</a>. Compact Framework offer the possibility for native code (like the Button class) to call managed code using a callback delegate. The article describes how to implement a callback delegate that is called when the mouse button is pressed or released.</p>
<p>The solution I came up with is to create a subclass of Button. When the mouse button is pressed a flag is set. The method OnClick() only handles the click if the flag is set and then clears the flag.</p>
<p>One minor problem was that pressing enter on the mobile device actually sent two mouse press events. The second event always has wparam = 0 and lparam = 0. When such an event is received I also clear the flag so that the following call to OnClick() does not handle the click.</p>
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		<title>UNetbootin</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I decided to try a new Linux distribution. Last time I installed Linux I installed it from a USB stick. I remember I needed some special software to make the USB stick bootable. Now I discovered UNetbootin. This tool copies a Linux distribution to a USB stick and makes it bootable. It can even download <a href='http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/unetbootin/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I decided to try a new Linux distribution. Last time I installed Linux I installed it from a USB stick. I remember I needed some special software to make the USB stick bootable.</p>
<p>Now I discovered <a title="UNetbootin" href="http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">UNetbootin</a>. This tool copies a Linux distribution to a USB stick and makes it bootable. It can even download any of the popular distributions for you.</p>
<p>UNetbootin is available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.</p>
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		<title>Leuk dat het kan, maar daar zit ik niet op te wachten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Technologisch gezien kunnen we nu ontzettend veel. Wie begin twintigste eeuw had gezegd dat binnen honderd jaar een mens op de maan zou lopen werd voor gek verklaard. Inmiddels is het al weer veertig jaar sinds de eerste mens op de maan is geweest. Ook niet voor te stellen aan het begin van de twintigste <a href='http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/leuk_dat_het_kan/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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<p>Technologisch gezien kunnen we nu ontzettend veel. Wie begin twintigste eeuw       had gezegd dat binnen honderd jaar een mens op de maan zou lopen werd voor gek verklaard.       Inmiddels is het al weer veertig jaar sinds de eerste mens op de maan is geweest.</p>
<p>Ook niet voor te stellen aan het begin van de twintigste eeuw was het Internet.       Het Internet heeft zich sinds de jaren negentig sterk ontwikkeld. Het Internet wordt       steeds vaker gebruikt om bestaande media als radio, TV en kranten aan te vullen       of zelfs te vervangen.</p>
<p>Maar zijn al deze ontwikkelingen nou allemaal even wenselijk? Mensen die mij       al langer kennen, zullen de volgende uitspraak van mij inmiddels ook kennen:       Leuk dat het kan, maar daar zit ik niet op te wachten.</p>
<p>Neem nou eens het bericht        <a href="http://www.nu.nl/internet/2284157/techniek-onderzocht-voedingsinfo-gsm-lezen.html" target="_blank">Techniek onderzocht om voedingsinfo op gsm te lezen</a> dat op 3 juli          te lezen was op de nieuwspagina <a href="http://www.gogognome.nl/nl/nu.nl" target="_blank">nu.nl</a>.       In dit bericht oppert Herman Koëter van de        <a href="http://www.orange--house.eu/" target="_blank">Orange House Partnership</a> om voedingsinformatie van allerlei producten te tonen op de mobiele telefoon.       Als een klant in de winkel voedingsinformatie van een potje pindakaas wil krijgen hoeft hij       niet het etiket te lezen, maar moet hij zijn mobieltje richten op de streepjescode       van het potje. Vervolgens verschijnt de voedingsinformatie op zijn mobieltje.</p>
<p>Het is leuk dat dit technisch mogelijk is, maar wie zit hier nou op te wachten?       Veel consumenten doen slechs eens per week boodschappen. Ze kopen dan altijd hetzelfde merk       pindakaas, frisdrank, melk enzovoort. Ze gaan echt niet iedere week de voedingsinformatie       van deze producten bekijken op hun mobieltje.</p>
<p>Naast tonen van productinformatie stelt Koëter ook voor dat voor mensen met       overgewicht een &#8220;rood alarm&#8221; krijgen voor slechte producten. Dit is echter een onpraktisch idee.        Binnen een gezin is het meestal dezelfde persoon die de boodschappen doet voor        het gehele gezin. Het mobieltje kan moeilijk bepalen voor welk gezinslid het potje pindakaas       bedoeld is en of pindakaas ongezond is voor dat gezinslid. En geeft het systeem ook een       alarm als iemand in het gezin allergisch is voor pinda&#8217;s?</p>
<p>Mensen die echt op hun voeding moeten letten vanwege een dieet verdiepen zich       in de materie. Dit doen ze niet in de winkel, maar thuis. Verder doen ze dat niet       met hun mobieltje maar met boeken       of webpagina&#8217;s. Er zijn al talloze boeken en webpagina&#8217;s beschikbaar met gedetailleerde       voedingsinformatie van alle producten.       Dus de mensen op wie het nieuwe systeem gericht is kunnen prima uit de voeten       met de huidige informatiebronnen.</p>
<p>Tot slot vrees ik dat een dergelijk complex systeem zeer duur is om te ontwikkelen.       Ten eerste zijn er techinsche uitdagingen om een mobieltje een streepjescode te laten lezen       en informatie op te laten zoeken op Internet. Ten tweede zal het een gigantische klus zijn om       alle voedselproducenten ter wereld hun etiketinformatie digitaal te laten aanleveren.</p>
<p>Het moge duidelijk zijn dat het voorgestelde systeem moeilijk en duur is om te realiseren.       Verder is het een technologische oplossing voor een probleem dat al opgelost is met       eenvoudigere middelen. Voor mij geldt dus: leuk dat het kan, maar daar zit ik niet op te wachten.</p>
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		<title>Julia en Dennis bij Sinterklaas</title>
		<link>http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/julia_en_dennis_bij_sinterklaas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Op 26 november kwam Sinterklaas op bezoek bij het werk van Natasja. Julia en Dennis moesten natuurlijk bij de Sint op schoot. Dennis heeft pepernoten gesnoept. Op deze foto kijkt hij wat beteuterd. Wellicht wil hij nog meer pepernoten?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright" title="smarty-family-picture" src="http://www.gogognome.nl/pictures/smarty-family-picture.png" alt="Smarty family picture" width="150" height="134" />Op 26 november kwam Sinterklaas op bezoek bij het werk van Natasja. Julia en Dennis moesten natuurlijk bij de Sint op schoot.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://gogognome.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DSCN05731.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-87 aligncenter" title="julia-bij-sinterklaar" src="http://gogognome.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DSCN05731-226x300.jpg" alt="Julia bij Sinterklaas" width="226" height="300" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Dennis heeft pepernoten gesnoept. Op deze foto kijkt hij wat beteuterd. Wellicht wil hij nog meer pepernoten?<a href="http://gogognome.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DSCN05841.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-88 aligncenter" title="dennis-beteuterd" src="http://gogognome.nl/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/DSCN05841-225x300.jpg" alt="Dennis kijkt beteuterd" width="225" height="300" /></a></p>
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		<title>Samba problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Samba configuration file can be very small and simple. However, when the winbindd daemon was running, my Linux and Windows machines could not look into the shared folders (although they could see the shares).]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Samba configuration file can be very small and simple. However, when the winbindd daemon was running,       my Linux and Windows machines could not look into the shared folders (although they could see the shares).</p>
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		<title>Sudo without password</title>
		<link>http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/sudo-without-password/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want sudo without entering a password, edit /etc/sudoers and add: username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Save and that&#8217;s it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want sudo without entering a password, edit <code>/etc/sudoers</code> and add:</p>
<p><code>username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL</code></p>
<p>Save and that&#8217;s it.</p>
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		<title>Search in file does not work in Eclipse</title>
		<link>http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/search-in-file-does-not-work-in-eclipse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Eclipse is run with GCJ the file search does not work properly. Solved by adding a file ~/.eclipse/eclipserc with the following content: export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11 For details see the bug in the Eclipse bug database.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When Eclipse is run with GCJ the file search does not work properly. Solved by adding a file ~/.eclipse/eclipserc with the following content:</p>
<pre>export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11</pre>
<p>For details see the bug in the Eclipse bug database.</p>
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		<title>Solving the Incompatibility Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sanderk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article related to this subject appeared at www.technologyreview.com on December 3, 2003. It is The Myth of Doomed Data by Simson Garfinkel. Introduction Do you get irritated when you receive e-mails containing HTML for a fancy layout? Or when someone sends you by e-mail a Word document containing a few lines of text <a href='http://gogognome.nl/2011/12/solving-the-incompatibility-problem/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An interesting article related to this subject appeared at   <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/" target="_blank">www.technologyreview.com</a> on December 3, 2003. It is   <a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/03/12/wo_garfinkel120303.asp?p=1" target="_blank">The Myth of Doomed Data</a> by Simson Garfinkel.</p>
<h2>Introduction</h2>
<p>Do you get irritated when you receive e-mails containing HTML for a fancy layout?   Or when someone sends you by e-mail a Word document containing a few lines of text   (that could easily have been sent as a text-only message)?   Or when a company sends its weekly newsletter in Word format and you   are using Linux and may not have access to Microsoft Word at all?</p>
<p>If so, then you are suffering from the incompatibility problem. You might feel   a bit relieved to know you are not the only one suffering from this problem.</p>
<p>If not, then it is likely your computer runs Microsoft Windows, your word processor   is called Microsoft Word and you use Microsoft Outlook as a mail client. And probably   you are viewing this web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer.</p>
<h2>The incompatibility problem</h2>
<p>I define the incompatibility problem as the problem that data created with one    application can not be used by another application without problems. Examples of   data are text documents, spreadsheets, web pages, e-mails, music and pictures.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are many examples of this problem:</p>
<ul>
<li>documents created in Microsoft Word     look slightly different when opened in Open Office Writer</li>
<li>e-mails formatted in HTML become illegible when opened     in a text-only mail client</li>
<li>web pages specifically designed for Internet Explorer look     very different in other browsers (e.g., Mozilla Firefox, Opera     and Konqueror)</li>
<li>even worse: some web pages designed for Internet Explorer      are completely unaccessible in other browsers (e.g., because     Visual Basic scripts are used)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Solution 1: standardise the software</h2>
<p>One way to prevent the incompatibility problem is by using one   application per type of data, so that there is no &#8216;other application&#8217;    that has problems with that type of data.</p>
<p>This solution is very popular in companies. Especially large   companies tend to choose one word processor, one spreadsheet,   one mail client, etc. All of their employees must use those applications,   which become a company-wide standard.</p>
<p>To avoid the incompatibility problem from occurring, companies   have to forbid their employees to use other tools than the ones   offered by the company.</p>
<p>But is it wise to solve the incompatibility problem by standardising   the applications? This solution has its disadvantages:</p>
<p>First of all, other companies may have standardised another set of    applications. The incompatibility problem still exists between companies!</p>
<p>The incompatibility problem between companies could be solved by standardising    the applications worldwidely. For a big part this is the case anno 2004: Most people use    Microsoft Windows as operating system, Microsoft Word as word processor    and Microsoft Internet Explorer as web browser. This brings me to the second   disadvantage&#8230;</p>
<p>If one becomes dependent on a certain type of application,   the producer of that application can ask (even more) ridiculous amounts of money    for this application. Further, the producer can get away with delivering an    application with serious bugs and security leaks! Switching to another application    is hard, because of the incompatibility problem! (Wasn&#8217;t that exactly the problem    that one tried to solve? How ironical&#8230;)</p>
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<h3>Side step about Microsoft</h3>
<p>There are some good reasons why one does not want to be     dependent on Microsoft: their operating systems, mail clients and web browsers     contain many security leaks that have allowed many viruses, Trojan horses and     worms to infect computers all over the world.</p>
<p>Further, it seems that Microsoft tries to     make their customers more and more dependent on their products, e.g., by not     publishing the format of their file formats and by adding extensions to     HTML that only work in Microsoft Internet Explorer. E.g., allowing scripts     written in Visual Basic, by allowing ActiveX components and by adding     HTML-extensions that are not part of the HTML standard.      Micrsoft even made an effort to make their MSN website illegible for people     using the Opera web browser! See the article <a href="http://my.opera.com/community/dev/discussion/openweb/20030206/">Why     doesn&#8217;t MSN work with Opera</a> for details.</p>
<p>For me these reasons are sufficient to avoid Microsoft&#8217;s products! It seems I am not the only     one for which this holds: the Belgian federal government decided that as of September 2008 proprietary file formats     are not allowed anymore. (See <a href="http://pda.tweakers.net/?nieuws/43155">an article at Tweakers.net</a> for      more details. Unfortunately this article is available in dutch only.)</p>
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<h2>Solution 2: standardise the data</h2>
<p>Another way to prevent the incompatibility problem is by     standardising the data instead of the applications that     use the data.</p>
<p>In many domains non-proprietary, open standards have been     defined for data. For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>for sharing documents, that do not need       to be edited anymore, the PDF format is well-suited.       It replaces the older postscript format that is popular in       the Unix domain.</li>
<li>for offering hypertext documents (e.g., via the Internet)       the HTML standard was designed. The document you are reading now        is an HTML file.</li>
<li>for sharing pictures the GIF, PNG and JPG formats are very popular.       Computers, digital cameras, DVD players, mobile phones       and many more devices can handle these formats. This goes       much further than just sharing between applications!</li>
<li>for sharing music, the MP3 file format and, more recently also the Ogg file format,       are widely used.       Computers, CD/DVD players, car radios, portable MP3       players and many more devices can handle these formats.       Again, this goes much further than just sharing between applications!</li>
</ul>
<p>The XML standard makes it relatively easy to define new standards   for data. The ability to share files between applications, when using XML,   comes almost for free! Many new applications and tools   (especially from the free-software domain) use the XML standard.   For example:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ant (Java&#8217;s version of the &#8216;make&#8217; tool) uses     well-defined build files, based on XML, which are far better readable     than the traditional makefiles.</li>
<li>Gnumeric (a spreadsheet for Linux) stores its data     in compressed XML files.      (By the way, Gnumeric handles Excel sheets quite well!)</li>
<li>OpenOffice (an office suite comparable to Microsoft     Office) stores its data as compressed XML files.</li>
<li>The bookkeeping application GnuCash stores data as XML files.</li>
</ul>
<p>Note that standardising data does not suffer the problems mentioned   for solution 1.</p>
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<h3>Side step about protocols</h3>
<p>From standardising data it is a small step to standardising protocols.     Protocols typically specify the way data is exchanged between applications,     computers or electronic devices.     The huge success of the internet has been impossible without standardising     protocols.</p>
<p>Avoid using proprietary protocols; use protocols defined     in open standards instead. There are many such protocols. A few examples are:</p>
<ul>
<li>TCP/IP for sending packets of data. This protocol can be       considered the basis of the internet.</li>
<li>SMTP for sending e-mails.</li>
<li>POP3 to retrieve e-mails from a mail server.</li>
<li>FTP for transferring files.</li>
<li>HTTP to retrieve hypertext documents via the internet. This       protocol is typically used by web browser to retrieve web pages.</li>
<li>RTP, RTCP for streaming data via the internet. These protocols       are typically used for streaming audio and video over the internet.</li>
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<h2>Conclusion</h2>
<p>I hope I have convinced the reader that the best way to solve and prevent the      incompatibility problem is by standarding data (file format) and the way data      is exchanged (protocols) instead of standardising applications.</p>
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