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The Multi-Headed Beast of Web2.0 Adoption
I recently was forced to describe Web2.0 as a “Multi-Headed Beast”, and as the numbers of heads went up from Cerberus to Hydra proportions, I thought I’d whimsically arrange them into a spectrum of Web2.0 adoption, beginning with the ignorably trivial and working through towards the more larger goals of Web2.0; the result led to
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XenSource Denies Trademark Ruckus, Cites Sour Grapes
The drama continues; I shall have to hawk this around my colleagues because it doesn’t seem to me to square with what I’ve been told… blogs.xensource.com I can categorically state that Grandinetti’s statement is an outright fabrication and utter nonsense. XenSource has never made such an announcement, and would never do so. In my view
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How To Shoot Your Commercial Open Source Project In The Head
So there’s this software – Xen – which is an open-source virtualization solution embraced by the free unixes and linuxes as a non-proprietary solution for running multiple operating systems as “guests” under a “parent” installation. In short: an open-source competitor to EMC’s VMware. Some bright spark at XenSource – the administrators of Xen – has
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Randall Schwartz is Free
I have considerable interest in this case, as you may guess from the content. I am very happy this has happened, but gods – 12 years is a punishment even if it ends in expungement… news.com.com.com.com A former Intel contractor has seen his conviction for hacking into the company’s systems expunged, after a battle lasting
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Under a red moon…
Blood-red? Port wine? Merlot?
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Rachmaninov had big Hands
Go watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKKlhYF53w and maybe the longer demo. Possibly the world’s spiritual successors to Victor Borge have been found in Aleksey Igudesman & Richard Hyung-ki Joo.
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When Hardware Vendors try to do Web2.0
When hardware vendors try to do embrace a phenomenon like DotCom, Linux, Web2.0 or somesuch, takeover press releases like this generally result:- Cisco SAN JOSE, Calif., February 9, 2007 – Cisco Systems, Inc., (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Five Across, Inc. of San Francisco, Calif., a leading vendor in
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Brompton On Order
I’ve put in an order for my Brompton: a-la carte Brompton M-Type, 6-speed std ratio, L-type mudguards (no rack), raw-lacquer finish, telescopic seatpost, Marathon reflex tyres, S-bag set, Brooks saddle, no lights, dual-pivot front single pivot rear brakes, brompton bag For a gallery of huge pictures see the German website – much better equipped with
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Anatomy of a 419 Scam
A few weeks ago, I received the following scammy e-mail: Received: from real.edu.ee ([195.250.188.110] [195.250.188.110]) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by real.edu.ee (Postfix) Received: from real.edu.ee ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server [127.0.0.1]) Received: by real.edu.ee (Postfix, from userid 30) Reply-to: peg.morrison@yahoo.dk From: Peggy Morrison <peg.morrison@yahoo.dk> Subject: Hello Sender: wwwrun@real.edu.ee To: alecm From: Lady Peggy Morrison, 4
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Who needs iPhone when you can have MyPhone?
I was in the USA recently, and ran into my mate Adrian Cockcroft, an ubergeek; he’s heavily involved in the Silicon Valley Homebrew Mobile Phone Club who are – as you can probably guess – a coalition of geeks producing a cellphone to their own specifications, in an open-source sort of manner. Adrian brought the
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Roundup of Blog Postings about Telnet Bug
open solaris community alan hargreaves talks thru the fix creation announcements of ISRs (ie: patches) in french ditto, in german more opensolaris spin from gman opensolaris spin from danmcd (w00t)
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Spellchecker Humour
From a comment by Catrin Huws at Found :- re “2888” Catrin comments here: I tried to define myself with technology once. Unfortunately, the automatic spellchecker was switched on and I became a cartoon.