qotd agust 03. William Gibson: “The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]
Archive | 2003
Yessss! UCITA dropped by NCCUSL.
Ed Foster: UCITA Effort Dropped by its Sponsor. “That’s good news indeed, but UCITA opponents are well aware it is by no means total victory. NCCUSL is not so much throwing in the towel as acknowledging the fact that UCITA is completely stalled, particularly because of its rejection by the American Bar Association earlier this year.” from Tomalak’s Realm
Doc Searls’ SuitWatch: What do we mean when we say ‘Market?’
An essay with Doc Searls unique perspective on broadcast, radio, the FCC and yes, even Linux. What do we mean when we say “market?”.
One answer to that headline is my latest SuitWatch, over at Linux Journal.
[The Doc Searls Weblog]
Cringely: Could Snapster provide legitimate music sharing?
Robert X. Cringely proposes and then refines the formation of a public company to legitimately share music among its shareholders without violation of copyrights, the recording industries needs, or the rights of the artists.
W3C XForms vs. Microsoft InfoPath?
As always, Slashot provides the bazaar of interesting and informed comments mixes with hidden agendas and bomb throwers. Nonetheless, the XForms technology sounds appealing. XForms Becomes Proposed Recommendation From Slashdot
Eric Rudder on Longhorn
Q&A: Microsoft’s Eric Rudder outlines Longhorn server plans. Eric Rudder, senior vice president of servers and tools at Microsoft Corp., this week laid out the road map for the next version of the Windows server operating system, code-named Longhorn. [Computerworld News]
Cooper: Guess what? Microsoft won
Update: Dell yanks Axim Pocket PC patch after hackers crack it. Dell pulled a patch for Axim handheld computers sold with Pocket PC 2003 after hackers cracked the software so they could snag a free copy of the operating system. [Computerworld News]
Cooper: Guess what? Microsoft won
I disagree with Cooper here. From what I am hearing, Microsoft is in serious trouble. Credibility is at an all-time low. Confidence is low. Microsoft’s strong-armed licensing policies badly hurt some companies. Badly bungled security patches hurt others. The finding of improper business practices made others uncomfortable. Guess what? Microsoft won. “CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper says the ‘end of Microsoft as we know it’ crowd must face the post-antitrust reality that the software giant is more confident and stronger than ever.” From CNET News.com
Ken Levy and Don Box: Croation Lunch
Don Box details his lunch with Ken Levy here. Glad to hear Ken is doing some work on getting a good XML editor into the Visual Studio box.
‘Cannot update the cursor?’ Yes, but WhichOne?
Ever had a problem when compiling a VFP project of “Not a table” or “Cannot compile.” I have, and wrote a short program demonstrating how to figure out Which One of the files was the culprit. (Microsoft has apparently added this feature to VFP 8, I haven’t tried that yet.) Barbara Peisch took my example and enhanced it for her conference session “But what does that MEAN?” last year, and Mike Lewis has added a bit of explanatory text and posted the program on his web site here. It’s nice when you see something you contribute getting used.