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Monday, April 22, 2002
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Sam Gentile clarified the term "monopoly" in reference to Mozilla. And in the process also points out that AOL/Time-Warner maybe overlooked in terms of the monopoly power exercised by that company. Yes - absolutely. AOL/Time has such a far reaching arm into the life of consumers its quite amazing. PBS Frontline had a story a few months back about the connection between media companies, certain manufacturers like Coca-Cola and teenage consumerism. Quite amazing. But I digress. As much as I like IE, I believe even more strongly in competition. The alternative is the problem my buddy Dan ran into when he found that IE 6 on Win2K pretty much witheld certain international domains and did not generate any useful DNS query whatsoever. That is the kind of silent problem that is usually helped by competition - even if it comes from another monopoly. (If your interested in the details I can post them)
8:10:20 PM 
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Oh this is really great! David Berlind has an article on ZDNet entitled "When will IBM buy Sun? " Its a very readable conspiratorial piece.
3:40:46 PM
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Jonathan talks about the changes he went through from being a Photographer to becoming a Writer. He has a very very nice picture with the story. Funny thing is that I graduated with a degree in Photography and worked with some really talented people here in LA , before having to make a real living and teaching myself how to program. It's amazing where creativity can be found. In a well composed picture or in a beautifully written piece of code. I am touched in similar ways by both. Funny.
3:33:55 PM
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Joe Gregorio answers Sam's question: "Who cares about Mozilla?". My own experience has been that Mozilla is very buggy. Thats not to detract from Joe's point.
3:20:07 PM
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Dan Gilmore in China? Certainly seems that way. While we are on the subject of totalitarian regimes, have look at the column he wrote about our loss of pricay. Think Big Brother is watching you? Think again! More like Big Brother, Big Sister and Big Fat Cousin too.
3:10:07 PM
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This is big: SAS one of the most respected and profitable software companies in the country will be using Java for version 9 of it's product. SAS is a very serious player. They have incredibly good management and very low employee turnover. They were actually one of the first companies to offer child care on the premises (about 12 years ago I think). As a statistical analysis tool SAS is all over Wall Street and the Banking Industry. As far as I know, they are the market leader of their segment. For SAS to tap Java as a tool to accomplish this modernization, it would have really taken some serious evaluation. In my mind, this blow is equally as large as the one SAP dealt when it announced the use of Java. At least with SAP one could argue a case of "corporate latency" - getting late to the party - but with SAS this is not the situation. I wonder if I was so busy with MS tools that I missed an initial leaning toward Java by this company. In any case I'm a little bit blown away.
1:25:21 PM
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E-Week: MS Security tool leaves holes.
1:17:28 PM
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DaveNet: How to be a revolution. "You can't undermine by trying to dictate the terms, you have to do it by invading at night, slipping in the back door unnoticed. Then when the old folks wake up, it's too damned late." [Scripting News] (Oh Dave, Dave, Dave - don't you know that just as high-fashion trends are created by bitchy little teenagers, so do the winds of change in IT blow for next generation? Its just the way things are. That said, the only thing I envy is that a young whippersnapper usually has more energy and less overhead than I have, which allows the person to be extremely mobile in most all aspects.)
1:06:45 PM
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Sourceforge: C# Data Tier Generator by Adrian Antilla. - Question: Do many people use generators like this one? It examines all tables in a db and creates basic select, insert, update and delete stored procs as well as dataclasses for them. Is this useful or an exercise in clever programming? In my own work I utilize a specific aspx page on occassion that I can point to a stored proc in order tp output a method that has all the tedious parameters in place. But thats pretty much as far as it goes. The nice thing about this approach is that I can work just as always and take advantage of automation for one very specific purpose - rather than having the generator attempt to create my entire app.
10:34:10 AM
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Peru Discovers Machu Penguin. Much to the chagrin of Microsoft, Linux continues to gain momentum in Latin America. A bill making its way through the Peruvian legislature would mandate the use of free software in government computers. By Julia Scheeres. [Wired News] ( That goes hand in hand with a Gartner Group report that lists the incredible market penetration of Java in countries like Brazil)
9:05:43 AM
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Bush team involved in Venezuela coup attempt? The Guardian Observer has more. I wonder if this newpaper is decidedly leftist , the way some in the US are decidedly leaning right.
7:10:29 AM
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Good morning. What does Mono look like? This is especially interesting to Dan because it may shine some light on his concern.
6:52:35 AM
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