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Monthly Archives: October 2006
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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, house painting, and musical tastes.
links for 2006-10-31
Interview with Matt Mullenweg by Blogging Pro Interview with one of the key founders and developers of WordPress. (tags: wordpress)
News from the campaign trail
As I previously mentioned, I’m taking the few days off before election day next Tuesday to help with my wife Judith Hunter’s political campaign for the New York Assembly. A few of you have asked, so I thought I would … Continue reading
Posted in Politics / Government
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links for 2006-10-28
Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) arrives “Ubuntu 6.10, aka Edgy Eft, is now available for download by worldwide fans of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Edubuntu Linux.” (tags: ubuntu linux) Zillow – Your Edge in Real Estate Find assessed values of homes in … Continue reading
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links for 2006-10-27
Open Source OpenOffice ships version 2.0.4, seeks extensions, turns six Direct export to LaTeX is a cool idea – gives you professional quality typesetting. (tags: openoffice sun opensource latex) Geek to Live: Top Firefox 2 config tweaks – Lifehacker Via … Continue reading
Posted in Document Formats, News
Tagged browser, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, real estate, UK
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New IBM Open Source site
IBM has just put up a new site devoted to Open Source and business. Here’s some info about what we’ve put up so far: This is IBM’s first Web site solely devoted to Open Source and acts as a starting … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source
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Short article: “Conquering Open-Source Fears”
The PDF of a short Q&A article with me called “Conquering Open-Source Fears” from Linux Executive Report is now available online in PDF form. By the way, I would not have put the hyphen between “Open” and “Source” in the … Continue reading
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links for 2006-10-26
Linux and Open Source Novell announces PCs preloaded with SUSE Linux “Wouldn’t it be great to just get a PC with Linux already installed and ready to go? Novell thinks that’s a grand idea too” (tags: novell linux suse) Ellison … Continue reading
Posted in Blog and Website, News, Open Source
Tagged Linux, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, WordPress
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“Toward” vs. “Towards”
This entry is one in a series that tackles issues of proper word use and grammar in English. Continuing in the vein of my wildly popular blog entries ““Complementary” vs. “Complimentary”” and ““It’s” vs. “Its”,” I thought I would tackle … Continue reading
Where’s Bob?
We’re now less than two weeks from Election Day in the US, and that means a lot of activity in our household. As I’ve mentioned before, my wife Judith Hunter is running for the New York State Assembly. This means … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-25
Open Source Oracle courts Ubuntu, Red Hat in denial “Even if Red Hat’s relationship with Oracle is still more or less intact despite Ellison’s barbs, the Linux distributor needs to recognize that Oracle now considers them a competitor.” (tags: redhat … Continue reading
Firefox 2.0 is available
As a follow-up to my post of a couple of days ago, Firefox 2.0 has been officially released. I’m also very happy that two of favorite extensions, Tabbrowser Preferences and Del.icio.us has been updated to support version 2.0.
links for 2006-10-24
PC World – Irked Users Seek Vista Licensing Clarification “Microsoft’s announcement of limited transfer rights for Vista OS unpopular, confusing, users say.” (tags: linux microsoft vista) Leaving A Startup: It’s Not Me, It’s You “Leaving a company is rarely easy … Continue reading
Firefox 2.0 RC3
Just ahead of the final release of Firefox 2.0, I decided to download RC 3 and take it for a ride. Verdict: very nice look and feel, great stability, but where are my extensions? Actually, I know where some of … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-23
BEA chief’s misguided missives on open source “Levy’s comments to be taken with a grain of salt, says Neil McAllister.” (tags: bea opensource geronimo) The Liberty Papers’ Blog Archive – Is This a Market Failure? “But the writing is on … Continue reading
ODF at Harvard
On Friday, there was a meeting at the Harvard Berkman Center called “USER Perspectives on Open Document Format (ODF).” I was not able to attend but several of our ODF experts were there. Once I get a chance to talk … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-21
Technology News: Business: Study: Worldwide Biz Open Source Deployment at 50 Percent ‘IDC projects that open source will drive “vicious price competition” in the software industry, though it also adds that, “Price effects are a less important impact of open … Continue reading
Posted in News, Open Source
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Sahana – Free and Open Source Disaster Management System
I’d like to point you all to a very important free and open source solution that, unfortunately, only gets really used when something goes really wrong. According to its website, Sahana is a Free and Open Source Disaster Management system. … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-19
WebSnapr Preview Thumbnail Tools by Blogging Pro This is cool, though I’m not sure what I would do with it yet. (tags: blogging)
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links for 2006-10-18
MA Gives Big Hug to Open Source & ODF “GOS? Sure, it�s another TLA, but this time it spells a big win for the Open Source movement as more state activism in Massachusetts leads the way, embracing ODF – OpenDocument … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-17
Office 2.0 Business Two Zero � Blog Archive � What is Office 2.0? “Following the excellent Office 2.0 conference in San Francisco I decided to add one of my resource pages titled �Office 2.0 – the insider�s guide� over in … Continue reading
How the anti-open game is being played in Europe
Some things never seem to change. See the TechWorld story “Leaked letter warns of open source ‘threat to eco-system’.”
The next Microsoft document standard attempt?
Interesting article over at ars technica: “Microsoft’s PDF-killer heads towards standards body”. In private conversations, I predicted that this would happen. It will be interesting to see the industry response, if any.
NY Times article
A colleague just pointed me to the New York Times article by Steve Lohr that came out on Saturday called “Is Windows Near End of Its Run?”. (Registration or subscription might be required.) I’ll let you read it and draw … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-16
CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock – New York Times (tags: music) Ext2 IFS For Windows “It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This … Continue reading
Is Open XML a one way specification for most people?
I have been accused in the past of using a “weight” argument against the Open XML specification because it is several thousand pages long. While some people may think that is cute or funny, it is a real concern and … Continue reading
The calendar according to Excel, or why Open XML is standardizing mistakes
See Rob Weir’s blog entry “A Leap Backward.” This is more evidence that Open XML is an attempt to standardize the functionality and behavior, even if wrong, of Microsoft’s own products. Rob ends with: So there you have it, two … Continue reading
links for 2006-10-15
Office 2.0 Conference IT|Redux � What I learned at the Office 2.0 Conference “With over 450 participants (375 iPods only, sorry�), 105 speakers, and 56 sponsors, the inaugural Office 2.0 Conference was a success.” (tags: Office2.0) Business Two Zero – … Continue reading
Desktop Linux: It’s the wifi adapter, stupid
I’m the IT guy of the house. My 9 year old son’s computer started having some wireless problems several weeks ago. When I finally got around to looking at it, I realized that his hard drive was starting to fail. … Continue reading
Quote
Here’s a great quote from race car driver Mario Andretti that I just saw on David Terrar’s blog: If everything is under control, you are going too slow. Maybe I should adopt that as the formal motto of my group … Continue reading
