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Category Archives: Software
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
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
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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Daily Links for Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Open Source An Open Source Tool for Every Task School Library Journal / Steve Hargadon Following are some of the most popular OSS applications for schools. All are freely available, requiring no license fees, and can be loaded on an … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Standards, Virtual Worlds
Tagged Google, Microsoft, OpenSim
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Daily Links for Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Open Source Open Source Proves Elusive as a Business Model The New York Times / Ashlee Vance The grass-roots nature of open source has led advocates to view the projects as a populist foil to proprietary software, where a company … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 30, 2009
Software Kindle 2 finally gets native PDF support, screen rotation Ars Technica Newly sold Kindles will come with an expanded battery, and those with the Kindle 2 will get a holiday gift as well: native PDF support and screen rotation. … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, November 23, 2009
Open Source Microsoft delays open sourcing Windows 7 tool Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski After committing to making the source code and binaries for the Windows 7 USB/DVD Tool available under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 … Continue reading
Operating systems: upgrade or reinstall? guilt or pleasure?
Through the years I’ve run many versions of Microsoft Windows. For the last two and one-half years I’ve had Apple Macs, so I’ve used both OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. I don’t even know how many different desktop Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Macintosh, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Fedora, Linux, Microsoft, Ubuntu
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Daily Links for Sunday, November 1, 2009
Software Microsoft to indirectly fund L.A.’s switch to Google Apps Seattle Post-Intelligencer / Nick Eaton Talk about irony. Of the $7.2 million the Los Angeles city government will be spending to switch its e-mail system to Google Apps, $1.5 million … Continue reading
Novell’s John Dragoon on “Battle Of The OS Titans” in Forbes
Novell’s CMO John Dragoon has a very nice article over in Forbes called “Battle Of The OS Titans” that emphasizes many important points about the changing desktop operating system scene. He says, in part: Gone are the days when the … Continue reading
Daily Links for Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Cloud Amazon Offers MySQL Cloud Service, Cuts Server Fees InformationWeek / John Foley In a preemptive strike at Microsoft, Amazon Web Services offers a relational database in the cloud, high-memory configurations, and cuts hourly fees for its Windows and Linux … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, October 26, 2009 – Fun (?) with Windows 7 Edition
Software Windows 7 Upgrade Woes Mount: Endless Reboots and Product Key Problems PC World / Jacqueline Emigh Call it the legacy of Microsoft’s Vista operating system. PC users upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 have run into a variety … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, October 23, 2009 – Early Edition
Software Nokia: Apple iPhone Violates Our Patents BusinessWeek / Jack Ewing and Arik Hesseldahl The Finnish handset giant said Oct. 22 it has filed suit against Apple (AAPL) in U.S. District Court in Delaware, accusing its California-based rival of infringing … Continue reading
Posted in Music, News, Open Source, Software
Tagged Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Linux, Nokia, Patents, Ubuntu
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IBM/Lotus, Canonical/Ubuntu, and your Linux desktop
Today IBM and Canonical announced the next phase of their program to deliver Lotus desktop- and cloud-based software to users running on Ubuntu Linux. Here are a few links that sum up the announcement: IBM and Canonical Launch Linux- and … Continue reading
I’m waiting
Every once in a while I realize that I’m waiting for something. Here are some of those things. I’m waiting for … The next release candidate of Ubuntu Linux 9.10. Fedora Linux 12. Winter. I know it’s coming, and I’m … Continue reading
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Daily Links for Saturday, October 17, 2009
Software Security Fix – Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD The Washington Post / Brian Krebs Also known as “Live CDs,” these are generally free, Linux-based operating systems that one can download and burn to a CD-Rom. The … Continue reading
No-cost office suites for the Mac
This article and something I saw earlier on the web today reminded me that not everyone is aware of office productivity suites for the Mac that are available for no cost. Microsoft grants Mac Office 11th-hour reprieve ComputerWorld / Gregg … Continue reading
Daily Links for Friday, October 9, 2009
Software September 2009 browser stats: IE sees biggest drop yet Ars Technica / Emil Protalinski Another month, another set of data that shows the main browser usage trend is unchanged: though its lead remains large, Internet Explorer is still losing … Continue reading
Daily Links for Wednesday, October 8, 2009
Software Study: Windows 7 doesn’t boot faster CNet / Ina Fried Despite positive reviews of the new operating system’s snappiness, PC tune-up company Iolo Technologies says its actually takes longer than Vista to get going. Cloud IBM Thinks Big with … Continue reading
Downloads of WebSphere software
A long time ago when I was in the IBM WebSphere organization, I did a blog post about some free downloads of the software. Therefore, I still get a lot of blog search hits on this. To update the information … Continue reading
IBM Lotus Symphony free download
Several people have asked me about Lotus Symphony, the free office productivity suite included in the package we announced this week for Africa with Canonical (Ubuntu) and Virtual Bridges (VERDE). The primary Symphony site is here, and the download section … Continue reading
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iPhone, photos, and ColorSplash
I recently got an iPhone and have been having a good time playing with it. One of the cool applications I installed is called ColorSplash. Essentially it allows you to take or reuse an existing photo, converts it to black … Continue reading
Daily Links for Monday, September 14, 2009
IBM Adds Widgets to Symphony Office Suite internetnews.com / Larry Barrett: This latest iteration lets users drag and drop widgets into Lotus Symphony. IBM developers say this feature distinguishes it from static office productivity tools such as Microsoft Word and … Continue reading
Daily Links for September 3, 2009 – Morning Edition
Software CA Chief Swainson To Retire InformationWeek / J. Nicholas Hoover CEO John Swainson, who has led the IT management software company back from a disastrous $2.2 billion accounting scandal since he took over in February 2005, will retire by … Continue reading
Some note taking and writing software for the Mac
I’ve been on vacation this week, so blog posts have been rare, but here’s an article from earlier this year and some links to note taking and writing software for the Mac that I think are interesting. Also, check out … Continue reading
Daily Links for August 10, 2009
InfoWorld: VMware buys SpringSource in cloud move “VMware said Monday afternoon it is acquiring SpringSource, maker of the popular open source Spring framework for Java development and related technologies, for $362 million in cash and equity plus the assumption of … Continue reading
ZDNet video on cloud
ZDNet has now published a composite video of some interviews they did at the Cloud Expo in London a couple of weeks ago. My bit starts at about 2:39 into it. Who is really moving to the cloud? | ZDNet … Continue reading
The Open Cloud Manifesto has been published
The very, very secret (not really) Open Cloud Manifesto is now published and available online.
Video on IBM and open clouds
Here’s a video from YouTube of IBM Researcher Jonathan Appavoo talking about IBM and open clouds:
When you choose your clouds, don’t make foggy choices
Whenever there is a major evolution in IT technology trends, the industry has a choice: do we go with proprietary data formats, protocols, and programming interfaces, or do we take a more open approach, allowing the provider with the best … Continue reading
