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Last Update: Sun May 4 19:01:42 2008 | | + 4 years later, what's changed? +
Everything!
It's ironic to me to be writing this entry while my primary job duties generally involve Windows Server 2003. At home, [...] but it's mostly a development system.
But I'm going to try and write a bit more on this blog. I know it's been a long time -- |
| + Novell: The ''quiet'' IT company +
There's some interesting articles in Business Week about Linux about a month ago. Here's one that sizes up Red Hat competitor Novell. [...] have a tidy business supporting legacy NetWare customers, but not a lot else really going for them. But last year they made some bi |
| + The Economist: What now, Scott McNealy? +
The Economist has a great analysis of the recent Sun v. Microsoft settlement. Read it here. Key grafs: Microsoft and Sun have a new [...] competes with Windows and with Sun's Solaris but which, unlike the other two, is written by volunteers and shared freely among all who |
| + PacBell Park's new WiFi system +
The San Jose Mercury News published a "man-on-the-street" article which gets fan reaction to Pacific Bell Park's new WiFi hotspot [...] don't. During this initial introduction period, the service is free. Baseball fan Kevin Fong is quoted : Fong, a computer programmer |
| + Blogging in business? +
The Economist reports on a growing trend of business blogging, both as an internal medium for employees and an external medium for [...] an interesting development. There's no denying that blogging can be useful in a few areas, like the ones profiled, but I'm still ske |
| + Mobile phones on airplanes +
The Economist reports on a new technology called "pico-cells." These cellular points of presence allow one to use a cell phone on [...] by Subject | Mobile phones on planes" href="http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=255917 |
| + Official GNOME 2.6 release webpages +
No April Fool's Joke... here're the GNOME 2.6 Release Notes . They look great and detail all the new improvements in my favorite Free ... |
| + Great preview of GNOME 2.6 +
Ars Technica has a great preview including lots of screen shots of the improved GNOME 2.6 desktop which is set to be released [...] "upgrade" GNOME releases by installing an updated Linux distribution, you might be in for a bit of wait while GNOME 2.6 is incorporate |
| + The sky is falling! +
The European Union is set to fine Microsoft a whopping $615 million for antitrust abuses. "This ruling is yet another example of the [...] Murray, a Democrat from Microsoft's home state of Washington... Murray called on the Bush administration to "engage" the EU in set |
| + Stuzt's essay on ''commodity software'' +
(Link via Slashdot ) David Stutz wrote an intriguing essay about the history of global commodities (i.e., sugar, oil, cotton, [...] he points out is constantly changing, and [b]y definition, something that changes constantly cannot be a commodity; the commo |
| + SCO confirms ''Halloween X'' memo, denies Microsoft involvement +
According to this article in eWeek, SCO admits the "Halloween" memo is authentic, but SCO, Microsoft and Baystar Capital, the [...] conclusions drawn by Eric Raymond. This item is to follow up yesterday's post which mentioned the above linked Halloween memo in passi |
| + GnomeMeeting 1.0! +
Readers who've been checking in for a while know that VoIP is a personal technology interest of mine. That's why the announcement of [...] clients. But there's more that you can do with GnomeMeeting than audio or video conference with other computer users. For example, |
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