Tuesday, December 17, 2002

So farewell then, OS/2 - Windowed to death, finally. 'Better Windows than Windows' Losedows [The Register] I'm experiencing renewed sadness at this.  I remember when IBM said that it would always back OS/2 and that it was in the OS war for the long haul.  Then, a few months later just after OS/2 Merlin came out, IBM announced that they were going to use it only as a proprietary OS for embedded systems and not support it on the desktop.  Now the legacy is over.  Man, it was a sweet OS!!  I remember being so pumped that I could fire up Turbo Debugger in a window and edit my assembly in another and the two never crashed each other.  So sweet...  especially "in the day". 6:35:56 PM    comment []

Tim Knip has Groove talking to Radio. Apparently it was quite a bit of work. I'm surprised because Radio has a BDG-compliant SOAP implementation, and that's a very big target and it's totally frozen. I guess it's no secret that I feel that as new implementations come online they should be tested with the ones that came before and they should interop. [Scripting News] Smack! Looks like a melding of tools is happening.  When will there be some searching?  Of course, you could spider your Groove content after it was posted to Radio... 5:29:18 PM    comment []

Weblogging at Work Just thought of a great use for weblogging where I work.  I have a habit of keeping a file of project notes for each project I work on.  I usually organize them by day with separate entries for each day.  I put in issues, resolutions, things I did to the system that were of note, comments about meetings, etc.  This is essentially a weblog or k-log waiting to happen!  It's actually happening on my hard drive, but it's not in a place where my teammates can have access to it. There are some things that would need to happen: Secure the weblog by category (or project in this case) so that only certain people could see it.  Sensitive information, you know. Publish the weblog to a company intranet server. Establish a practice within the company of people creating a weblog with project notes for each project Set up spidering of everyone's blogs so that you could search for information Link the blogs together to find information about a particular topic, project, client, etc. 3:46:08 PM    comment []

Infoworld is reporting that a German city is dropping Windows in favor of SuSE Linux.  SWEET!!!  Battle for the desktop is on, baby! 3:40:09 PM    comment []

Just found a cool topic linking tool for Radio called liveTopics.  I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, but it sounds promising.  Sounds like it can automatically link topics to related items in other places on your weblog.  It's meant to be a k-logging tool that automatically creates a knowledge map.  Cool. 9:01:46 AM    comment []

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