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Monthly Archives: June 2006
Monthly disclaimer
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, house painting, and musical tastes.
links for 2006-06-30
Microsoft delays Office 2007 again | Tech News on ZDNet “Microsoft said Thursday that it is making another slight delay to the planned arrival time for Office 2007, citing performance concerns with recent test versions.” (tags: microsoft) Whisper Chain Gets … Continue reading
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OSCON in July
I’ll be speaking at OSCON, the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, on Thursday, July 27. The title of my talk will be “The Future of Software is a Blend, But of What?”. Here’s the abstract: The industry is moving from a … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-29
Linux Mandriva Linux 2007: music contest “From June, 21st to August, 20th, produce and submit the workspace session jingles for the next Mandriva Linux 2007 distribution which will be released in next September.” (tags: linux music) Red Hat CEO Says … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source, Programming
Tagged Adobe, Aperi, Java, Linux, Mandriva, Red Hat, Sun
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On Panels
Following up on a post by Steve O’Grady on what makes a good conference or panel at a conference, I like to see and be on panels that represent a broad range of experience as well as opinion. The panels … Continue reading
Aperi in Eclipse links
As I promised in a previous post, here are some of the news links that are appearing about the Aperi project getting started in Eclipse. I’ll post more as they appear. (I don’t know about you, but “Aperi in Eclipse” … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-28
The importance of Callisto, a sum greater than its components “Some open source projects are important in-and-of themselves. Firefox is an example. Others are important because of what they enable. Eclipse is in that category.” (tags: opensource eclipse) Belgian gov’t … Continue reading
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Aperi proposed as an Eclipse project
Last Fall we started talking about the Aperi project for open source storage management. Today it was officially announced that Aperi has been proposed as a project in Eclipse. Here is part of the press release: Aperi Storage Community to … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-27
BusinessWeek: How to break Microsoft’s lock on applications Blog entry by Steve Hamm, talks about Massachusetts, ODF, and Microsoft. (tags: massachusetts microsoft odf) IBM in Microsoft’s Upgrade Path ‘Indeed, said Matt Brown, an analyst with Forrester Research, “the battle lines … Continue reading
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Sunday at Yellowstone
My wife Judith took this yesterday at Midway Geyser Basin near the Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. Note the hat. Click here if you need a hint. I’ll post more photos when I get them organized.
links for 2006-06-24
ODF / Open Standards BetaNews | OpenDoc Gains Ground in Belgium, India “OpenDocument made additional strides in establishing itself this week, as the Belgian government certified the OASIS format as the only acceptable standard for internal documents. In addition, OpenDocument … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged Belgium, Eclipse, India, Linux, ODF
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From Ubuntu to OpenSUSE and back again
I have Ubuntu running in dual boot mode on two different machines. Given all the news with Novell yesterday and the recent praise for OpenSUSE 10, I decided that I would test install OpenSUSE 10.1 on one of the machines. … Continue reading
ODF in India
There was a seminar that took place in India today about the importance of OpenDocument Format for governments. Details are in this article: “23 Jun: National Seminar On Open Document Format.” Here is an excerpt: Friday, June 23, 2006: New … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-23
Blogging and Social Bookmarking Add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to Blog Posts Code for adding social bookmarking links to your WordPress blogs. (tags: blogging wordpress) Digg, Furl, del.icio.us posting in PHP and Javascript (tags: blogging php) Changing of … Continue reading
CNet Article: Belgian government chooses OpenDocument
This breaking news is just out via CNet: “Belgian government chooses OpenDocument.” An excerpt: The OpenDocument Format (ODF) is to be the standard format for exchanging documents within the Belgian government. This proposal, which is expected to be approved by … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-22
Open Source Integration Developers News: Geronimo J2EE 1.4 Quickly Enters Mainstream “Since IBM�s early adoption of Geronimo as a core component of a Websphere J2EE app server for mid-sized companies, other ISVs, partners and end users are all showing healthy … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, Document Formats, News, Open Source
Tagged conference, Eclipse, Linux, Massachusetts, Novell, ODF, WordPress
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Comments are back on
I’ve switched spam blocking technology and turned generally comments back on. We’ll see if that improves matters. For a few of the older entries that were being specially targeted by the spambots, I turned off both comments and pings. If … Continue reading
Comments off for a while
This blog is curently under a comment spam attack. For that reason I’m going to turn comments off for a few hours and see if things calm down. Akismet is doing a great job of catching almost all of them, … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-21
One of everything today, including an open source-related career move. Higgins Trust Framework makes its debut at Harvard ID conference “Earlier today, here at the Identity Mashup Conference being put on by the Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet … Continue reading
DRM and interoperability
One of my del.icio.us links that will show up today is to an article about the Coral Consortium’s latest spec for DRM interoperability. First, let me state that I am not a DRM technical expert in any way, but in … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-20
Hmmmmm Will Microsoft’s US$30 million grant to Massachussetts buy more than software? “Still, he [Updegrove] points out that the company has given the state only US$40 million over the preceding five years, so this is an unusually large grant that … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Document Formats, Games, News, Open Source, Travel
Tagged Massachusetts, Microsoft, OOXML, Sun
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Xgl on Ubuntu
I’ve been reading for some time about the new 3D support for Linux using Xgl and compiz, both originally donated to open source by Novell . This evening I finally got around to playing with it (though I should be … Continue reading
Planning the pilgrimage
Take me on a trip upon your magic swirlin’ ship, My senses have been stripped, my hands can’t feel to grip, My toes too numb to step, wait only for my boot heels To be wanderin’. I’m ready to go … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-19
Open source creates U.S. manufacturing jobs “Open Source Storage has just opened a 32,000 square foot manufacturing plant. In Sunnyvale. California. On the old Atari campus.” (tags: opensource)
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links for 2006-06-18
ClockLink.com Clocks for your website. I had never heard of them, but you might find them interesting. This is not an endorsement. (tags: blogging) Consortiuminfo.org – ODF, MS and MASS: Now you see the dots (and now you don’t) “Two … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, News, Open Source, Software, Web 2.0
Tagged AJAX, Massachusetts, ODF
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Father’s Day
Today is Father’s Day and I got to use my main gift, a cordless hedge trimmer. I picked this out myself and it is a great improvement over the previous model because 1) the blade on the other one was … Continue reading
Consolidating blogs
I just put a short entry over in my “Personal Blog” that I will be consolidating that blog into this one. For readers of this blog, that will mean more content on non-IT matters, but I trust you to pick … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-17
Open Source Wiki Spreadsheet | PC Pioneer Dan Bricklin Develops Open-Source Spreadsheet-Wiki Hybrid “WikiCalc allows users to collaborate on spreadsheets over the Internet using a browser. Bricklin wrote the first PC spreadsheet, VisiCalc.” (tags: opensource spreadsheet) The Jakarta Post – … Continue reading
Dan Bricklin on the MTLC OSS SIG panel last week, with podcast
Last week I took part in a panel sponsored by the Mass Technology Leadership Council Open Source Software Special Interest Group in Waltham, Masachusetts. The program was called “Proprietary Software Company Views On Open Source” and was moderated by Dan … Continue reading
links for 2006-06-16
Open Source Banshee on Ubuntu Breezy “Banshee allows you to import CDs, sync your music collection to an iPod, play music directly from an iPod, create playlists with songs from your library, and create audio and MP3 CDs from subsets … Continue reading
