Sounds like Dave had a blast at Harvard Law last night. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it. Notes of the session are here, and Derek Slater has some comments here.
Archive | February, 2003
DSL Update
DSL was installed, up and running, in 45 minutes this morning, by MCT Telecom’s ace lineman, John. Steve and I confirmed it was working and set the DNS entries to update. I’ve moved the http://www.tedroche.com domain to the new DSL, but need to convert it to the new server. It’s currently running on a beater P-166, and needs to be updated. But it works! We installed the Win2K server, a Linux workstation and a WinXP workstation on the network, and have installed WallWatcher on the WinXP box to watch the packets hit the router. A few dozen tries, mainly at port 137, but a hit or two at 1434 (SQL Server) and others as well.
Poor ($40B) Microsoft getting picked on again
More Legal Pains for Microsoft. An industry lobbying group tries again to put the brakes on the software giant. [The Motley Fool] The best quote: “It must be nice to sit around filing complaints and impeding market processes all day long. CCIA exists for this very reason.” I guess we shouldn’t stand in the way of monopolies doing their bundling. There are no market processes impeding a monopoly, and certainly not one previously found guilty of improper business practices. Honestly!
Children of Dune, March 16th, SciFi Channel
Slashdot has a lively discussion of Sci-fi Channel’s Children of Dune. Check out the previews, timelines, and graphics available on the SciFi Dune site.
Gee, ain’t it good to be back home again…
On impulse power this morning, after a weekend-long retreat with a great bunch of guys and girls. Excellent topics, arguments, agreements, presentations, conversations, networking, ad-hocing, meals, drinks, handshakes and hugs. Twiki and wireless made some interesting changes in the meeting; overall a positive I think. Posted pictures for the attendees on a private site this morning, using LViewPro to generate the entire web site with little tweaking. Photo album software is definitely making progress, reducing 60 meg of high-res digital photos to 7 meg, allowing me to fit it in one of the 10 meg slots AT&T-Comcast allows.
FoxCon Toledo, Day II
Rough start this morning. Only six of twenty-four attendees were present 15 minutes before start. Scrambling to get the network and wireless up and running, starting 10 minutes late.
Scoble has some insight on what I’m missing at the MVP Summit
Scoble: “Who wants to make Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer richer without getting rich themselves?” No thanks. [Scripting News] Sorry I can’t make it out to Seattle; it sounds like it could be interesting.
Dave in Beantown, more details…
Tuesday’s live session at Harvard will be at 6:30PM at Lewis International Law Center, room 301. Here’s a map of the law school campus [Editor’s note: 2003 link is long gone, updated tp 2022 link. Campus currently closed due to COVID-19, and the event is long gone.]. Dan Bricklin will be there. Peter Rukavina is coming from Prince Edward Island. This is so cool. As always the Web brings people together like nothing else before it. [Scripting News]
Dan Gillmore, retreating…
Talking about Some Stuff at Someone’s Retreat, Somewhere. I’m at a weekend “retreat” with several dozen smart and engaging people. The rules are no quoting without specific permission,… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal] Seems like a a good weekend for retreats, similar to what I’m doing here.
Wireless Blogging in Toledo!
Blogging live from FoxCon Toledo. This rocks! The great guys at Geeks and Gurus (G2) provided the router and wireless AP, Bob Ruple, the conference coordinator, arranged for POTS dial-out (the only option for the hotel), and I provided a Linux server for a few utilities and a Twiki web site running under Apache. And it all works!