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Thursday, May 23, 2002
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Business Week has a nice article on Linux. I thought the statistics of Dell and HP saying that 10-12% of their server sales are Linux machines was interesting.
10:31:05 PM 
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Ever wonder what the a day in the life of a blogger looks like? Jonas Beckman has a nice set of pictures that chronicle his day in Stockholm. This almost makes me homesick for my old home country Germany.
How about if all the bloggers who have digital cameras create a set of shots that depicted a day in their life. Wouldn't that be interesting? I guess you are all too busy......
- Did you notice that Jonas had no need to commute by car? The beauty of many European public transport systems is that they are plentyful and timely, so you'll only have to wait a couple a minutes for a bus. As a result a much larger percentage of the population uses them. In contrast, the best public transportation system in Los Angeles, where I presently live, existed 60 years ago. It was called "The Red Car" . The Los Angeles area was served by a vast network of electric railway lines operated by the Pacific Electric Railway. The “Red Cars”, the Pacific Electric’s trolleys and interurban cars blanketed the Los Angeles area on more than 1000 miles of rail lines. The system was aquired by an automobile manufacturer, I think General Motors, who proceeded to hamper its future and let it completely stagnate to death in order to assure the public's need for cars. GM executed the same strategy with a number of similar systems across the country.
....Now why would the anti-public behavior of one corporate giant almost a century ago remind me of the actions of another one this very week????
10:16:28 PM
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Kuro5hin: Strong Anti-Microsoft backlash in Taiwan. [Of course thats about the same as Texas revolting - they both have a little over 20M people]
9:49:40 PM
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When you got them by the short hairs... why would you want to let them go. Or in other words, MS has a licensing scheme thats about to hit paydirt with 45% cost increases.
8:16:47 PM
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MS Wonders About Mobile Future. At a routine event to rally software developers around its platform, Microsoft seeks reassurance for its mobile devices. It also has harsh words for Nokia. By Elisa Batista. [Wired News]
12:55:17 PM
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Open-Source Fight Flares At Pentagon: Microsoft Lobbies Hard Against Free Software:
"Microsoft's push is a new front in a long-running company assault on the open-source movement, which company officials have called "a cancer" and un-American."
I run Windows XP at work and home. I carry around a Microsoft PocketPC. Not only that, but I even like .NET. However, the more I read about Microsoft using tactics like those mentioned in the above article, along with their recent moves to leverage their patents against GPL programs like Samba, the more uncomfortable I become and the more I'm tempted to switch to Linux/FreeBSD as my primary OS. As for .NET, has there ever been a definitive answer from Microsoft on whether there is patented intellectual property in the .NET specification? [Ken Rawlings]
12:53:55 PM
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State Sanity Using Smart Clients. Wow! Chris Sells has started a WinForms column on MSDN!!! Truly stand-alone applications are a dying breed. Users want the combination of the best of Web applications and the best of the UI conventions supported by their operating system. Web services, which provide only functionality and not UI, when married with Windows Forms clients to handle the UI and session state, are the perfect hybrid for your .NET-enabled users.
Article. May 23, 2002. [Sam Gentile's Radio Weblog]
7:39:50 AM
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