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Steve Gillmor predicts “Look Out, Outlook: RSS Ahead in 2004” in his eWeek column:
This is a game at which Microsoft excels÷the waiting game. Clone, wait, collaborate, extend, wait, repeat, rinse, dry. But now comes RSS÷and the rules may have changed. First, the enemy is now scattered, behind rocks, in startups, open source, virtual coalitions that [...]
I’m looking at republishing much of the white paper and slide material available at my site as PDF. Why? The format is “Portable” readable in many browsers and platforms consistently. It’s easier to print out in readable format. It doesn’t take significantly more space or bandwidth than the bloated HTML of Word or StarOffice documents. [...]
RSS doesn’t have to just be about news, or blogs. It can also serve as a good source of information on what’s new on a web site. At http://www.tedroche.com/trweb.rdf, I’ve just started an RSS feed where I will post changes to the web site as they are made. There are a substantial number of white [...]
Scott Dierdorf writes a great column in the Baltimore Sun this week, picked up by my local paper — haven’t found a link online yet. In it Scott bemoans the machine that takes more to maintain than it gives us back. In part, he says:
Would John Steinbeck have finished The Grapes of Wrath if he [...]
Friday was “Buy Nothing Day,” but unfortunately, I didn’t stick with it this year, the first in a decade or two. At 5 AM, I could be found outside the local Best Buy with Laura, shivering in the cold. We bought a laptop that’s the graduation present for my son. What a miserable experience! An [...]
Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, spoke recently at a panel discussion of a Gartner-sponsored conference, and was fascinating to watch. He blundered and spouted and was nearly incoherent. The one allegation he said that stuck with me was the claim that, in the first 150 days of release, one version of Windows had less security [...]
A caution to those of you who might have deployed Exchange Server 2003: it appears that the Outlook Web Access interface may provide a security hole, not the first time this component has done that. It appears to be related to the disabling of Kerberos security. Here’s one article on the problem.
I saw another article [...]
Brother Joe made it to Seattle on his humanitarian mission to Yap in Micronesia before being told to stand down, and then scrambling for a way back east on the busiest travel week of the year. Fortunately, he made it and got to visit for Thanksgiving yesterday. Much to give thanks for.
He also sent on [...]
Ars Technica has a quick overview of SUSE 9 that sounds pretty positive. They say: echo $TITLE|grep Linux.Ars. “SUSE LINUX 9 is out, and Linux.Ars has one of their surprisingly thorough capsule reviews.”
Jeremy Zawodny notes the release of PostgreSQL 7.4 and links to a couple of interesting articles. PostgreSQL is certainly an attractive alternative database.
