When you are going to hear a Microsoft employee dance around your the answer to your question, they will always begin the sentence with a pause… and then a little stutter… then: “So…”
Just saying.
That’s a loss for Microsoft – OSS Ramblings
Congratulations to Tony, who has succeeded in migrating his company off of Microsoft Exchange an onto an open source replacement. Check out his blog to see how it was pulled off.
Granted, they probably aren’t using shared calendaring much – but still, an interesting project for any small business out there.
E-mail may be hazardous to your career – May 14, 2007
This is a Fortune 500 article about how careless email can take you down. Most of this makes common sense (not that typical users have any of that), but some of it is interesting. You might want to wake up to the fact that people performing investigations will look at threads based on the subject line – so if your discussion stops involving the business at hand and starts involving bondage, you’d best change that subject line. Again… common sense.
I was chatting with Whitey tonight about the HD-DVD key postings. It occurred to me that last night had me interested and tickled because watching the net go ballistic against The Man was so very… Pump up the Volume-esque. It appealed to the teenager in me.
I think it did to everyone.
It goes without saying that tonight is a dark night in Digg’s history. When a user posted a story about the HD-DVD code and it was removed by moderators… thus began the anarchy.
I thought I could coin a term for it but… it’s just too hilarious. The open rebellion on the net tonight against corporate greed tards is just too beautiful. I can hardly wait to read all of the comments from the journalists out there in netland.
There’s something interesting going on over at There’s something interesting going on over at one of my daily haunts for keeping up with the everchanging world of IT.
I really like the administrator of the site (Digital Dave) and by and large the site has been a fun resource. Some of the less advanced Windows users hang out on there and they do get help. However, an interesting thing has started to occur over there.
Mac Mojo : a love letter to Entourage
A Microsoftie in the MacBU has crafted the above article on MSDN, where she describes her love for the PIM creme-de-la-creme (cough) Entourage.
It would be nice if the MacBU would stop patting themselves on the back for the useless My Day application and spend their time on application compatibility in a mixed environment with Outlook and Entourage.
Sadly though, they aren’t doing much in that area.
So finally, it looks like the Evolution team is sitting up and paying attention about their buggy code. Evolution 2.10.1 on Feisty Fawn actually works without issue so far. It’s laggy, but it works even against our monster of a mail system. I’m impressed.
GNOME Mobile & Embedded Initiative
So this was GNOME’s big announcement today. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. I suppose that if GNOME is getting the industry behind their desktop initiative enough to get some wider open source adoption, that’s a good thing. However, I have mixed feelings whenever I read about the GNOME folks getting their fingers in other pies when they still release some seriously buggy shit. I often feel that they should step back, hunker down, and really spend some quality time with their source before opening up other rabbit holes.
Okie, I took a cue from Jennifer and changed the permalinks. She’s right – I should fix it before it gets out of control.
If you linked to this site, please note that the /index.php/ stuff has been removed from my permalinks.
