I’m sure there’s a story here. A very few boxes of VFP 8.0 were autographed by the development and support team (I have a treasured VFP 3.0 box). I wonder if there was a “spare” or if there were some hard feelings. In any case, someone on eBay got a good deal! 
Archive | April, 2003
Social Software Alliance forms
Just joined the Social Software Alliance. Sorry I won’t make their BOF session in Santa Clara at the EmergingTech conference, but hope to keep tags on what’s happening online. The wiki is running “Nice Little Wiki” from SocialText.com, and , well, it’s a nice little wiki – some great features.
We are no longer the Knights of NeXT
Dan notes the interesting journies of a couple of NeXT applications to OS X. NeXT Stands Out in Mac Incarnation. I noticed recently that I was using a bunch of applications on my Mac that came from another era –…’ read more at Dan Gillmor’s eJournal
First flowers of the season
Just last week, the snow finally melted away in a few days, and we’re digging out the flower beds from under their protective covers of leaves. The first flowers of the season, bluets, are sticking their buds out. Ah, spring!
And now, for the other news…
What Washington Did While the War Was on TV. “While Humvees sped toward Baghdad, the machinery of the federal government plodded along at home, churning out laws, executive orders and court decisions that passed relatively unnoticed by a public fixated on the war.
It might come as news that Congress, in creating a national kidnapping alert system, altered how federal criminal sentences are handed down. Or that the House voted anew for Arctic oil drilling. The Supreme Court issued an important decision on liability limits; the Environmental Protection Agency made a decision environmentalists liked. And nine Democratic presidential candidates held their first cattle call.” By Carl Hulse, in the New York Times: NYT HomePage
A couple more links I want to go back and read in depth
Reconfiguring the office HP OfficeJet with the wicked-cool JetDirect ethernet print server. Initially we set it up as DHCP but now realize it needs a fixed IP address, otherwise no one can find it. So, had to dredge around in the Windows Registry and .ini files. Crashed and burned the program along the way, and it’s reboot time. Before they disappear off the radar screen, a couple quick links:
- Syndication Made Simple – Presstime – http://www.naa.org/presstime/PTArtPage.cfm?AID=4924
- Essential System Administration – a Slashdot book review – http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/14/1731218
- Trust by Design – http://www.semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000011.php
Microsoft antitrust compliance
BusinessWeek Blowout on Wi-Fi. BusinessWeek devotes huge section to Wi-Fi: BusinessWeek devoted a whole host of articles to the subject of Wi-Fi, most circling around hot spots and cellular. One of the most succinct and excellent comments on the relationship of 3G cellular to Wi-Fi was in an interview with Nicholas Negroponte: If you give me broadband…[2-5 Mbp+]…I cannot really use it without devoting my fullest attention (which means my hands and eyes, not just my ears)…many of the issues that face cell-phone operators aren’t present (like hand-off). The problem is different. There really is room to cohabitate. Exactly! Oddly, Andy Reinhardt’s commentary in the same section ignores that critical difference. Wi-Fi can provide a virtual desktop experience: you can act not too far off from being in your office. 3G, even in its best possible incarnation in the next zero to two years, will be a slow data interchange format for making quick email retrievals and spooling, or for queuing data through slow pull (i.e., grab my email over the next 30 minutes as I drive to my destination). Some other good remarks– A T-Mobile exec on how Wi-Fi and cell differs: With cell phones we had to give people devices to use it. Here [with Wi-Fi], people already have the devices. We just give them new areas where they can log on…. [Wi-Fi Networking News]
Microsoft antitrust compliance
Microsoft details compliance progress in antitrust case. “The company said in a filing that it has established an antitrust compliance committee, appointed a compliance officer, provided antitrust training for officers and established a Web site for third-party complaints.” [Computerworld News]
Andrew Tridgell Talks About Taking Samba Beyond POSIX
Andrew works for IBM and is one of the key developers on the Samba project, the Linux/UNIX software for providing and consuming SMB (Windows) shares on a network. In this interview on the IBM developerWorks site, he talks about the need for a pretty significant rewrite. Interesting stuff. Link courtesy of OSNews
The Register picks up the Whil Hentzen Linux story
Picking up on the story I covered here and here:
“MS legal threat derails Foxpro on Linux demo. You run our stuff where we say” from The Register. Jim Roepke links to the story from an Ed Leafe reference.