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Author Archives: Bob Sutor
Reminder: new blog and feed locations
Effective January 1, 2010, my blog is split into current and archived versions. Current blog Please update your bookmarks and feed subscriptions as follows: The address of the current blog is http://www.sutor.com/c/. The link to the blog feed is http://feeds.feedburner.com/BobSutor. … Continue reading
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The postings on this site are my own and don’t necessarily represent IBM positions, strategies or opinions, especially if they are about the guitar, fishing, gardening, carpentry, house painting, and musical tastes. Blog entries since the beginning of 2010 are … Continue reading
New locations for Bob Sutor’s blog
I’ve been extensively reorganizing my website and effective January 1, 2010, my blog will be split into current and archived versions. Current blog Please update your bookmarks and feed subscriptions as follows: The address of the current blog is http://www.sutor.com/c/. … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Open Source Oracle gives open source a patent pass Computer Business Review Oracle has vowed not to assert its patents against open source projects such as the Linux operating system kernel and the MySQL and PosgreSQL databases by entering into … Continue reading
Some favorite 2009 blog entries on open source, standards, and cloud computing
I’ve been doing some year-end maintenance on the blog and in doing so put together the following list of blog entries that are among my favorites on the topics of open source, standards, and cloud computing. I could have also … Continue reading
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My WordPress theming wishlist
Effective January 1, 2010, this site does not use Drupal and instead uses only WordPress. As I’ve mentioned here ad nauseum, I use both WordPress and Drupal for this website and though I’ve managed to find a WordPress theme similar … Continue reading
New Hampshire snowscapes, 2009
I’ve added some new photos of New Hampshire snowscapes to my collection of widescreen wallpapers and backgrounds. Click on the thumbnails below to see the full size images.
Daily Links for Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Open Source Is OpenOffice.org a Threat? Microsoft Thinks So ComputerworldUK / Glyn Moody This confirms what many of us have been warning about for some time: that Microsoft’s new-found eagerness to “engage” with open source has nothing to do with … Continue reading
Embedded programming languages
A long time ago when I first started at IBM I used an editor named XEDIT that ran under the VM/CMS operating system on mainframes. It was a fullscreen, line-oriented editor that looks primitive now but was quite sophisticated in … Continue reading
Finishing up 2009
There’s not been much action here in my personal blogosphere in the last few weeks since December has been exceptionally busy. I had two domestic business trips plus a week in Tunisia in North Africa, then followed by the holidays. … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Wednesday, December 24, 2009
Open Source Red Hat Revenues Up 18 Percent in Q3 eWeek / Darryl K. Taft Red Hat reported financial results for its fiscal year 2010 third quarter, showing revenues up 18 percent. For its third quarter ended November 30, 2009, … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 22, 2009
Open Source A Concise Introduction to Free and Open Source Software Consortiuminfo.org Consortium Standards Journal — August – September 2009 / Andrew Updegrove Abstract: In the early days of information technology (IT), computers were delivered with operating systems and basic … Continue reading
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Lake effect night snow in low rez
Photo of Lake Ontario lake effect snow on a cold December evening, Nazareth College, Pittsford, NY.
Chronicles of a trip home
This last week I had the pleasure to travel to Tunis, Tunisia, in North Africa, to speak at the Conference on Open Source Software. In another post I’ll put up some photos of my two hour tourist time in Carthage … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Sunday, December 20, 2009
Open Source WordPress 2.9, Now with Built-in Image Editor and Delete Undo Softpedia / Lucian Parfeni The latest version of the world most popular self-hosted blogging platform, WordPress 2.9, is now out and available for everyone to download and install. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Standards Netherlands helps Denmark with open IT The Industry Standard The Dutch government has provided Denmark with information regarding the Dutch national plan Heemskerk for open government IT. In Denmark, there is heated debate about the approach for open IT … Continue reading
Topics on open source for college classes
I’ve been asked several times for some ideas about topics on open source that would be suitable for one or more classes at universities. While I know there are curricula out there, here are some specific discussion areas that could … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Saturday, December 12, 2009
Open Source Linux Foundation Announces “Get One, Give One” Holiday Membership Program The Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that for every new individual member who joins the … Continue reading
First big snow of December, 2009
We’ve had some snow already this year, including very blustery weather yesterday, but overnight we had the first big snow. Here’s what the vegetable garden looked like this morning.
Daily Links for Friday, December 11, 2009
Cloud IBM: LotusLive paying subscribers go from 0 to 18 million in a year ZDNet / Larry Dignan That LotusLive tally at the beginning of the year was nil so the growth is stunning. I double checked with IBM to … Continue reading
Microsoft survey on “perceptions of interoperability”
Microsoft appears to be running a survey on “perceptions of interoperability.” I’ll let you decide for yourself whether this is phrased in a completely neutral and objective manner, but you might want to weigh in if you feel you want … Continue reading
Webcast: “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud”
On Thursday, December 17, IBM will present a webcast entitled “Smart Business Development and Test with IBM and Linux in the Cloud.” From the description: More than just a presentation, this webcast will take you from the theory of cloud … Continue reading
Daily Links for Thursday, December 10, 2009
Business Why CEOs Fail ITBusinessEdge.com / Rob Enderle After watching and working with CEOs over the last several decades, I think we can point to a number of endemic causes for failure. Let’s look at the ones I think are … Continue reading
Speeding up the site
At various times I’ve been concerned about the performance of this website. That is, how long does it take to serve up web pages from WordPress or Drupal and how much load does it put on the server? Reducing bandwidth … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Politics / Government Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government With this notice, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President, requests input from the community regarding … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Macintosh Official Google Mac Blog: Google Chrome for Mac goes beta! Official Google Mac Blog 73,804 lines of Mac-specific code and 29 developer builds later, we’re excited to finally release Google Chrome for Mac in beta. We took a hefty … Continue reading
Event and conference listing for Linux and open source in 2010
I’ve started putting together a listing of open source and Linux events that will take place in 2010 around the world. The list is small right now, but if you add a comment here or send me a message via … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, December 7, 1009
Software Microsoft to randomly generate EU browser ballot list Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski The previous method had them listed in alphabetical order, putting Apple’s Safari first. Complaints from Opera, Google, and Mozilla resulted in the change, and also pushed … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, December 4, 2009
Open Source 10 Linux features Windows should have by default ZDNet / Larry Dignan In my next two 10 Things articles, I am going to take pieces of each operating system and place them in the other. In this first … Continue reading
Open source software: modify, extend, or leave it alone?
Let me begin with a story. When I first started using WordPress for blogging, it didn’t have support for standards-level Atom feeds. Being open source, though, a colleague had looked at how RSS feeds were processed and had written some … Continue reading
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