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Poland: no software patents

By on November 17, 2004 in Home Page

Polish rejection may derail EU patent directive. The future of the controversial European Union (E.U.) software patent directive was thrown into doubt Wednesday after the Polish government indicated it could no longer support the legislation in its current form. [InfoWorld: Top News]

Software patents are an abomination: licensing an idea, instead of the implementation of an idea (the latter is what copyrights are). Patents will chill the software development marketplace and reserve software development for the big companies that can afford patent lawyers. Stealing another programmers copywritten code is theft; building on another programmers code is progress.

Veteran’s Day 2004

By on November 11, 2004 in Home Page

Let us never forget those who have gone before us and made the ultimate sacrifice so that we might be free. Bless you all.

New MyDoom variant exploits an unpatched Internet Explorer flaw

By on November 9, 2004 in Home Page

New MyDoom variant exploits IE flaw. “A new variant of the MyDoom worm that exploits an unpatched flaw in Microsoft Corp.’s Internet Explorer (IE) browser is in the wild and posing particular risk to home and small business users, security experts warned this week.” Posted at InfoWorld: Top News.

Yet another good reason to look at FireFox.

FireFox 1.0 Released

By on November 9, 2004 in Home Page

Mozilla launches Firefox 1.0 browser. “The Mozilla Foundation has released Version 1.0 of its Firefox browser, an open-source product that has generated lofty expectations that it will offer real competition to Microsoft Corp.’s ubiquitous Internet Explorer.” Posted at InfoWorld: Top News.

Use BitTorrent, if you can, and the download goes faster than greased lightening.

Election contemplations

By on November 6, 2004 in Home Page

Dan Gillmor’s eJournal blogs Another Kind of Election Map. “Barry Ritholtz has compiled a great collection of election maps. The most important message: Land area does not equate to people. At left, for example, is a reduced version of another useful way to look at the polling results. The Republicans won, but this is more evenly divided nation than the geographic county and state maps suggest. Barry has collected links to lots of other informative maps as well. It’s useful to have perspective.”

Several very cool perspectives here. I liked the purple map. We’re just not all red or blue.

John Perry Barlow muses “At least we might try to listen as though the other side might have a point. I truly think we all owe one another an apology.”

Is a Wiki under your radar?

By on November 6, 2004 in Home Page

Chad Dickerson, columnist of InfoWorld’s CTO Connection, asks “Is Wiki under your radar?” For those of us in the FoxPro world, we’ve had the benefit of the FoxForum Wiki for several years, an excellent resource and knowledgebase for all things FoxPro related.

For those of you not in the know, you’ve got to try a wiki! A wiki is an interactive web site where readers can add, edit, modify, comment, attach and build web pages. I’ve used wikis for knowledgebases, project tracking, Honey-Dew lists, curriculum development and even blogging. Wikis are available in nearly every programming language, every OS. You can make it as secure and restrictive or open as you want. Many are free and open source.

Internet Explorer losing market share

By on November 3, 2004 in Home Page

Internet Explorer loses market share. “Although Microsoft Corp. still dominates the Web browser space, its Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to open-source rival Mozilla.” From InfoWorld: Top News.

Funny thing about a monopoly – it’s likely the only change in popularity could be downward. For Microsoft and IE, the change may seem rather insignificant, tenths of percentage points. But for the FireFox promoters, this means over seven million downloads!. Wow. It’s a pretty slick browser, and I’m using it pretty much exclusively, occasionally resorting to Safari on the Mac. Check it out.

Steve Gilmor moves blog addresses

By on October 31, 2004 in Home Page

If you’re tracking Steve Gilmor’s postings, his address has moved: As I was saying. “The last time I posted, some four months ago, it was to my blog over on eWEEK.com. Podcasting was a gleam in Adam Curry’s eye, Scoble had read 8,248 fewer posts, and John Dvorak was just months away from being totally clueless once again.” Posted at blogs.zdnet.com | Steve Gillmor’s Inforouter. Attitude seems to have remained the same… good to see.

Microsoft EULAs and Benchmarks

By on October 30, 2004 in Home Page

Get the Facts on Microsoft Benchmarks. “Now that Steve Ballmer and company have given you all the facts you need to compare Windows and Linux, allow me to add just one little tidbit.” Posted at Ed Foster’s Gripelog

Apple Posts Security Update 2004-10-27

By on October 29, 2004 in Home Page

ComputerWorld reports “Apple Computer yesterday posted Security Update 2004-10-27, which includes an updated version of Apple Remote Desktop v1.2.4 running on Mac OS X v10.3.” Article at http://www.computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,97020,00.html?nlid=MAC

The major fix seems to be for the Apple Remote Desktop Client. There’s also an update for QuickTime on the Windows platform – Check Help | Update on the QuickTime player menu to ensure you have the latest version. More details at the Apple site, http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

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