Off to Waltham for the monthly meeting of the Boston Area FoxPro User Group where I’ll be presenting my “Introduction to Data Design” session as practice for the upcoming DevEssentials conference.
Archive | May, 2004
Christof just got married!
Christof just got married!. “Long-time Fox expert, Christof Wollenhaupt (nee Lange) just got married this past week.” From Garrett Fitzgerald’s Blog
Best wishes, Christof!
The Buzz is finally over: Gates says ‘RSS’
Paying Attention.
Bill
Gates finally speaks the ‘R’ word as he highlights the increasingly
strategic role of RSS in Microsoft’s seamless computing direction,
eWEEK’s Steve Gillmor writes.
More on Gates and RSS on IT Conversations’ The Gillmor Gang.
And more on IBM Workplace in my print column, Signal to Noise.
[Steve Gillmor’s Blogosphere]
Fahrenheit 9/11 via BitTorrent? It’s a nice idea…
The Doc Searls Weblog blogs: Panning for gold in the bitstream.
Brian Dear says Michael Moore‘s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which won the Palme D’Or at Cannes, will be distributed via BitTorrent:
In
a stunning move, controversial documentary filmmaker Michael Moore
announced today that his latest film, “Fahrenheit 9/11”, will be
released by BitTorrent, the popular peer-to-peer file-sharing network.
From Brian‘s Denounce.com.
Warning: It always pays to read the whole article, and the disclaimer, which in this case says in part: “Denounce is a satire website specializing in false press releases that
are meant to neither inform nor educate. If it makes you smile and
think, we’ve done our job”
Interoperability is Good
An associate has a client that upgraded their file server to Windows
Server 2003 and broke my associate’s application. He has a DOS machine
at the client site that handles their faxing and EDI functionality, and
the client can’t get the DOS box to authenticate to the Windows Server
2003. Based on this KnowledgeBase article,
it looks to me like Windows 95 and DOS systems are out of luck if they
need to attach to Windows 2003 shares, as they lack the ability to
encrypt their authentication information. I wonder if Microsoft had
some legitimate reason to break backward compatibility, or if they did
it just to force obsolescence of older clients…
Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics
Wardriving a Zip Code and Looking at Demographics.
“A writer becomes curious about his California Zip code’s Wi-Fi
penetration, and creates a map: Lee Gomes of The Wall Street Journal
drives around for hours, picks up 3,000 hotspots in a population of
70,000 households, and then maps the results against income. His
conclusion: Wi-Fi has become so ubiquitous in urban areas that even
though it’s not linked together, we have practically a seamless network
already. (Tie that idea in with community mesh, and you’ve got
ubiquitous access.)” [link via Brian Chin]… [Wi-Fi Networking News]
Yet Another Switcher Story
Information Week has this sidebar to a story on Linux going mainstream:
‘Suppose I upgrade to Windows 2003 and Windows XP.
What would I be able to do then that I can’t do with my current boxes?
Nothing. I don’t need all of the collaborative features,’ Hentzen says.
What would I be able to do then that I can’t do with my current boxes?
Nothing. I don’t need all of the collaborative features,’ Hentzen says.
Watch for more and more of these stories in the coming months.
Fedora COre 2 Review
Fedora Core 2 Review at Linux Compatible. “Linux Compatible has published a review on Fedora …” [OSNews]
Installing today…
WordPress releases version 1.2
Here’s the WordPress web site that Mark Pilgrim uses for his blog. From the website:
Mark Pilgrim: Freedom Zero
Mark Pilgrim blogs about “Freedom Zero,” the rights to use software.
Movable Type is a dead end. In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.
Mark got a lot of reaction. Check out aftermath. Link via Scripting News.