A typical frantic day of pre-flight chaos. Gotta be on a bus 10 miles from home at 6 Am tomorrow to make the connection to the wait-in-line to the flight to the place where I start talking at 8 AM the next day (fortunately, a couple time zones to the left). Ah, such a life…
Forty-two errands to run today, including a 250-mile round-trip dropping off computers and visiting clients. I can sleep, I’ve been told, when I’m dead. Good. I’ll be ready then.
Great news, and hopefully a step in the right direction. I’ve been following SourceGear for years, as I use their SourceOffSite products to connect to client’s remote SourceSafe databases. SourceGear has developed a powerful replacement for the file-server model SourceSafe, a new product called “Vault.” While a promising client-server, low-bandwidth architecture, I was disappointed when they chose to limit themselves to the Microsoft platform with .NET languages and SQL Server as their back-end, making for a more expensive and more platform-dependent application, a more difficult sell to my clients in these lean times. Now, SourceGear has announced a venture with Mono to port clients to other platforms. My hope is that the server may follow.
SourceGear and Ximian Announce Partnership. Link from OSNews
Now, to see if the cutting edge hardware I bought back in January is upgradable and workable with the new standards… IEEE approves 802.11g standard. The new standard sets ground rules for wireless LAN gear capable of at least 24Mbit/sec. and up to 54Mbit/sec., while remaining backward compatible with 802.11b gear, which tops out at a maximum 11Mbit/sec. From Computerworld News
In a CNET interview following the release of a company-wide memo, is Ballmer actually trying to steer a new course, or offereing up marketing fodder? Hard to read, as always… Ballmer: We Have to Think Differently Linked via OSNews
A fixture in our house in the 60s, a way to know that, despite sometimes horrific news, there was always a basic humanity I could count on. Brinkley never liked it, according to an interview rebroadcast with Terry Gross yesterday, but the simple ritual of two men wishing each other good night set a remarkable tone to the entire news show.
David Brinkley, 82, Newsman Model, Dies. David Brinkley was the wry reporter and commentator whose NBC broadcasts helped define and popularize television news in America. By Richard Severo. From the New York Times: Business
Good night, David.
Dad got to celebrate his first Father’s Day when I was born on the day… a few years ago. It’s also my birthday this year. To celebrate the day, and because I finally got around to it, I picked up Dad’s computer and took it home to tune it up. It’s a PIII-550, Dell Dimension, 128 Mb RAM, 10 Gb HD, Win98SE, IE 5.00.000 (oh, oh), a couple of years old. Did the usual scandisk, defrag (had to go into safe mode to get it to work, oh-oh!). Ran Windows update to get IE 6.0 SP1 and 17 other critical patches. Then on to virus check. I used HouseCall’s online service (http://www.antivirus.com), as his Norton subscription had expired years ago. Oh-oh, again. 512 copies of Klez.H had infected just about everywhere. Used Symantec’s tool to clean it up, and it looks like it was able to repair nearly all the files. Then, on to Ad-Aware (http://www.lavasoft.de) to remove Alexa and a doubleclick.net cookie it didn’t like. Got 512 Mb of RAM and a new copy of Norton to keep things clean.
Essay. “At the risk of being blogged under by many postings from the Jupiter weblog conference, I submit my thesis on weblogs: Copy-Paste Culture” from Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog
A wooded area adjoining my property, known locally as George’s Park, is town land that houses the town high school and ball fields. In the corner by my land, it is heavily wooded. A dozen pink ladyslippers, like the one at right, spring up this time of year. The New Hampshire state wildflower, it is an endangered species in several nearby states.
Testing interoperability of some web sites, I just downloaded, installed and paid the $15 upgrade fee for Opera 7.11. What a great browser! Well worth the cost – and I didn’t even have to buy an operating system to go with it!
Watch for the bump in their stock as Steve Jobs once again kicks on his reality-distortion field. Apple to Announce the Power Mac G5 at WWDC? [OSNews]