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SCO stock tumbles, E-level cashing out?

By on July 26, 2003 in Home Page

Tide Turns Against SCO SCO shares fell nearly 10% Friday, after an IBM memo rejecting SCO’s Linux claims turned up. Meanwhile, Andy Butler of Gartner said “Users should not start waving their cheque books” in apparent contradiction of earlier comments by his colleague George Weiss. GROKLAW lists several other analysts taking anti-SCO positions on Linux licensing. Form-4 filings with the SEC reveal SCO Executives have been cashing out stock. They made $398,833.90 in June, and $781,964.70 in July. Full stories with links at link above. From OSNews

New print server

By on July 22, 2003 in Home Page

A cute print serverInstalled an IOGear GPSU01 print server, a cute little thing with power supply brick, Ethernet and USB printer connection, not three inches on a side. Successfully installed and configured it on two W2K boxes pretty quickly. WinXP took a bit more work, as I had to drop the native firewall (one W2K box had ZoneAlarmPro, and was cooperative about the setup) in order to broadcast and locate the server’s IP address, but raising the firewall after that didn’t prevent printing. Hope to take on one of the Linux boxes tomorrow, as the device supports IPP and LPR.

Retired the old print server, Antigone, who’d served long and well. Originally my hotshot consultant laptop when I joined Blackstone, a 486/100 beauty with 24 Mb RAM and 500 Mb hard drive. Win95 was still perky on it’s 640×480 screen, but something went wrong recently, and network access to the shared printer queue wouldn’t work. A short bit of troubleshooting made it clear a $60 print server was cheaper than continued work on the old dear. Off to the Elysian Fields with her.

SourceGear & Ximian

By on June 13, 2003 in Home Page

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

Guardian retracts story — because of blog pressure?

By on June 5, 2003 in Home Page

Doc Searls points out the power of blogs to make a fuss that even the conventional media has to respond to: Off Guardian.

Daniel Drezner: The Blogosphere Gets Results from the Guardian. He posts,

The good news: The Guardian story that caused such a ruckus yesterday has been taken down from their web site. As a side note, this isn’t the only story they’ve had to retract this week.

The bad news: the Guardian ‘s blatant distortion of events has already been picked up by hostile media outlets in South Africa, the Middle East, and the United States.

Also at least 273 blogs, including my own, yesterday. I’ve noted the Guardian’s retraction on that post, too.

Thanks to Mike Sanders for the pointage.

[The Doc Searls Weblog]

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