“Replace and defend. Reading the Longhorn SDK docs is a disorienting experience. Everything’s familiar but different. Consider these three examples: …” From Jon’s Radio
Jon cites Joe Hewitt’s blog where Joe says:
“This means that Microsoft may be attempting to simultaneously obsolete HTML, CSS, DOM, XUL, SVG, SMIL, Flash, PDF.”
Why is Microsoft confusing innovation with [...]
From The Doc Searls Weblog: “Storm of Light.
NASA’s October 2003 Aurora Gallery has some amazing photographs of the aurora show that the current series of solar storms has been putting on. Here’s a shot from the USAF Defense Meteorological Satellite Program that shows auroras that are not only brighter than the city lights below them, [...]
I’m looking for external hard drive solutions for making disk images and backups of a couple of our office laptops. Any opinions on 4200/5400/7200 rpm and bus-powered vs. transformer-powered would be welcomed. Tom’s hardware had a good review in “Mobile Data Storage: Up To 160 GB via USB and FireWire,” “External, But How? Mobile Storage [...]
Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit. “A leading Internet standards-setting organization took the unusual step of urging the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to invalidate a software patent.” By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Business]
I’m concerned that Microsoft’s decision not to pursue appeals potentially very damaging to the industry and [...]
A friend let me know that my page was throwing a scripting error in Internet Explorer. I hadn’t thought of trying that - it works okay in Mozilla and Opera. Here’s the dialog box. Notice the editbox on the bottom half? You can’t copy the text from the dialog. Why would you? Perhaps you want [...]
“This week, speaking at a Gartner conference in Orlando, Florida, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said some fascinating things about Linux and about Open Source software in general. And thanks to those remarks and the blinding realization they caused for me, I finally understand exactly why Microsoft doesn’t understand Open Source.”
Cringely always makes interesting reading. Listen [...]
Joe Average User Is In Trouble. Opinion Where’s my security blanket? [The Register]
A rare thing, a calm and reasoned opinion piece from The Register. A call to arms for computer professionals to help the computer helpless.
Amazon Offer Worries Authors. From David K. Kirkpatrick of New York Times: Technology: “Amazon.com has introduced a feature that lets users search for specific words or phrases in a database of the texts of 120,000 books, drawing skepticism from an authors’ group. ”
Amazon has offered to remove books whose authors do not want to participate. [...]
From Scripting News: “I’m at the Zap Your PRAM conference in Cavendish, PEI. ”
That sounds like quite the get-together. Several friends and collegues have kicked around the idea for years that we need to have a conference and not invite attendees, just speakers, or participants. Sounds like what these folks are doing. I’ll be interested [...]
So, this weekend I’ve got some time to spare and dedicated it to restoring my Linux laptop to life. I foolishly tried to update to RedHat 9 from 8 without considering the limitations of a 6 Gb hard drive with 2 Gb already dedicated to another OS. I was surprised that RedHat crashed the machine, [...]
