Saturday, January 25, 2003

Today, my wife and I started preparing the baby room. Wow, what a job! We started cleaning out the closet and preparing to move my office downstairs. As we're doing this, I can't help wonder why I hang on to so much stuff? I'm a packrat. There, I've said it. But why? I find slips of paper with random thoughts on them, office supplies from college, and pictures of people I barely remember. Funny in a way I suppose. 2:26:51 PM    comment []

Wall Street Gaining Respect for Linux. One of the primary reasons financial service companies have adopted the Linux operating system is the savings it has brought, IT executives from Wall Street firms said at a panel at LinuxWorld here this week. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] It sounds like people are starting to realize the TCO with Linux is lower than Windows due to stability. However, the article makes reference to Linux having to provide more than stability to truly become mainstream. People are looking for interoperability with Windows, AIX, Solaris, etc. The person in the article mentions compatibility with Active Directory, and how that's not there for Linux. I suppose that the gentleman from JP Morgan has never heard of LDAP. Either that, or he doesn't realize that Active Directory can be treated like an LDAP server. Perhaps he doesn't even realize there are other directory technologies. 2:22:08 PM    comment []

Hyperion Leads BI Surge. Business intelligence software developers proved the viability of their business in slow economic times with mostly improved earnings reports this week. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis] Also from the same article CPM specialist Comshare saw increased earnings as well. BI is booming in the down market. 2:17:31 PM    comment []

Voila! Workspot Linux is instant and portable 'magic'. Very cool [The Register] This is a very cool idea, but I don't understand the business model. It's a company that is making a Red Hat Linux 8 desktop available to subscribers via a Java applet. It's basically VNC on a massive scale. They are proposing you use it to spread the word of Linux love, work from anywhere without having to have a laptop, allow multiple users to access the same desktop for demos, etc. I'm just not sure what kind of demand there will be for this. At $9.95/month, it doesn't make sense to me. It's still a very cool idea, though. I hope they can make it work. 2:09:10 PM    comment []

CodeCon to trailblaze emerging tech. Suit-free revolution [The Register] Wow! This sounds like an extremely cool, geek fest. A bunch of programmers hammering out crypto, distributed computing, and hacking solutions. No way you could get an employer to pay for this though... :-( 2:03:09 PM    comment []

Fredrik Lundh's Python RSS reader supports the comments feature described above. Excellent. [Scripting News] 7:55:15 AM    comment []

Setting up Radio to Upstream to Userland and our RCS Server Jeff and I have been playing with publishing to RCS and Userland.  It was somewhat tricky to pull off.  Here's how I was able to do it: Made a backup of my ENTIRE Radio Userland directory. Changed my Radio Community Server by following the documentation to our internal RCS server.  This caused my "Home" to be the RCS server, so all the posts to my home page went there.  Not really what I wanted. Shut down Radio.  Made a second backup of the ENTIRE Radio Userland directory. Copied my first backup copy of Radio over the current. For my "Work" category, I copied the #upstream.xml from the www directory of my second backup of Radio over the category's copy. Restart Radio Easy enough, just took a liittle doing. 7:50:16 AM    comment []

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