Tuesday, January 25, 2005

FreeBSD 4.11 Released. This is expected to be the last of the 4.X releases, and will be an Errata Branch. Well-tested fixes to basic functionality will be committed to the branch in addition to the normal security fixes. Most developers are now focused on 5.X or the cutting-edge development in HEAD. [OSNews] 3:34:42 PM    comment []

Secure terminal serving for $60 per concurrent user, now thats a bargin. Tarantella has always lagged behind Citrix, but with the advent of "Secure Global Desktop", reviewed here, and at $60/concurrent user it offers incredible value for money and near key feature parity, especially for enterprises with a very low concurrent to potential user ratio. [Adventures in home working] 2:09:20 PM    comment []

Beagle - innovation in action. Its great tgo see that even in a application space dominated by the big boys MS, Google, yahoo etc there is room for innovation, check out Beagle on Linux http://nat.org/demos/, great UI, Command Line, API etc.  Of course being a die hard X1 user it won't tempt me, especially now that they have confirmed Lotus Notes support is on the way! By the way make sure you actually look at the demo's.  its amazing how much more powerful they are than screenshots! [Adventures in home working] 2:08:35 PM    comment []

Notes/Domino 7 beta 3 now available. Go get them here >... [vowe dot net] 2:08:15 PM    comment []

Where was desktop search when we needed it?. Desktop search engines are sprouting like weeds. Google's showed up in October, then Microsoft's in December, and now Yahoo's this month. ... For lots of people I know, any one of these choices will produce a life-changing productivity boost. For me, though, that's no longer true. The Gmail experiment has become a lifestyle choice. I still maintain a local Outlook mail store, and it's indexed several ways, but I rarely need to search it. Similarly, most of the documents I create -- InfoWorld stories, Weblog postings -- are pushed to the cloud and are searchable there. Few of you can or should live in the network cloud to the extent that I do. But if you refocus on the corporate intranet, cloud-based storage has compelling advantages. The first and most obvious one is the ability to access your stuff anywhere, anytime, from any client. A subtler point is that documents in the cloud are documents that other people can help you tag and find. The gating factor for desktop search is metadata. Finding documents based on words they contain is a huge benefit, something we should all have been able to take for granted years ago. But the future isn't faster or prettier full-text search; it's more context and better relevance. And your personal hard drive isn't the garden where these flowers will grow. Google's PageRank showed us that relevance is a collective judgment. Services such as del.icio.us, Flickr, and Furl are likewise showing us that metadata tagging wants to be a group effort. One of the ironies of desktop search may prove to be that, by the time it went mainstream, the personal hard drive was about to become an endangered species. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] ... [Jon's Radio] 11:33:19 AM    comment []

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