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Archive for June 13th, 2003

13 Jun

Forget Palm Springs, I get to speak in… Knoxville!

EastTennesseeFoxProUserGroup. Starting in June, the East Tennessee Foxpro User Group meets regularly in Knoxville, TN Next Meeting (inaugural meeting) When: June 24 2003 at 7:00 pm, though the room is open starting at 5:00 pm, and has Internet access. Where: 16 Emory Place, [FoxForum Wiki]

13 Jun

A switcher speaks

All my bags are packed, and I’m ready to go… (to OS X). I read David Weinberger’s account of PC woe today, and a smile ran across my face.  Not because I wish ill on David; I most certainly don’t (and I feel his pain).   I smile because his account of having to reinstall software on [...]

13 Jun

Off to another conference

A typical frantic day of pre-flight chaos. Gotta be on a bus 10 miles from home at 6 Am tomorrow to make the connection to the wait-in-line to the flight to the place where I start talking at 8 AM the next day (fortunately, a couple time zones to the left). Ah, such a life…
Forty-two [...]

13 Jun

SourceGear & Ximian

Great news, and hopefully a step in the right direction. I’ve been following SourceGear for years, as I use their SourceOffSite products to connect to client’s remote SourceSafe databases. SourceGear has developed a powerful replacement for the file-server model SourceSafe, a new product called “Vault.” While a promising client-server, low-bandwidth architecture, I was disappointed when [...]

13 Jun

IEEE approves 802.11g standard

Now, to see if the cutting edge hardware I bought back in January is upgradable and workable with the new standards… IEEE approves 802.11g standard. The new standard sets ground rules for wireless LAN gear capable of at least 24Mbit/sec. and up to 54Mbit/sec., while remaining backward compatible with 802.11b gear, which tops out at [...]

13 Jun

Can Ballmer "Think Differently?"

In a CNET interview following the release of a company-wide memo, is Ballmer actually trying to steer a new course, or offereing up marketing fodder? Hard to read, as always… Ballmer: We Have to Think Differently Linked via OSNews

13 Jun

Good night, David

A fixture in our house in the 60s, a way to know that, despite sometimes horrific news, there was always a basic humanity I could count on. Brinkley never liked it, according to an interview rebroadcast with Terry Gross yesterday, but the simple ritual of two men wishing each other good night set a remarkable [...]

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