Sorry about being MIA for a while. I’ve had quite a bit going on, most of which centered around work. Last week I was on the west coast for some work in San Jose.
Excuses aside, I simply had to comment on the big announcements today from the fruity people. I think it goes without saying that the devices unveiled today are compelling and beautiful. Apple continued the trend-setting posture today. I won’t bother to go over each and every device because I’m sure that by now, you’ve read about all you can read on them – perhaps even purchased one or two of them.
Jeff Jones Security Blog : July 2007 – Operating System Vulnerability Scorecard
Jeff Jones, who makes a living for himself as a security consultant, has released a scorecard for operating systems as they stood around July 2007.
Not surprisingly, the charts are fodder for everyone to bolster their arguments about which OS is better, which therefore just doesn’t prove much at all… except perhaps the definition of the word “futility.”
iWeb has me all hot and bothered. You see, I really, really like the simplicity of it. I’m irritated, however, by its reliance on .Mac. I don’t have a .Mac account yet because… well… I don’t truly own a Mac for myself. I will soon, but I don’t yet. I’m keeping myself away from those special Apple anemities until I actually lay down some greenbacks and feel the full pain.
Apple beats Microsoft at its own Open XML game
Couldn’t have said it better myself. I like it when I agree with people who are paid to analyze this stuff.
Wow, okie I suck. I’ve not been posting in a while, I realize this – but to look over my Adsense and see that I had *2* page impressions yesterday? Hahahaha wow.
Sorry I’ve been MIA folks. I’ve been quite busy. This is the obligatory, “Sorry my blog sucks, but I’ve not given it much attention lately.” By the time I get to Seattle, WA this afternoon, I will have clocked in about 62 hours on the day job this week. It’s things like this that keep me away. I’m sure you understand. If you don’t understand, tough.
Proving that Mary Jo Foley knows absolutely nothing about what she’s writing, she claims to have “inside information” that Apple will announce it has licensed Exchange ActiveSync so they can hook up to Exchange servers.
Article is here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=534
Why do I say she’s an idiot?
Anyone who’s been paying attention knows that the iPhone already does POP or IMAP and Exchange supports this out of the box. Granted, it doesn’t support it well (that’s a story for another day kids), but it supports it. So, sorry Mr. IT Manager… come Friday, you will have those big boss cheeseheads scrambling to get their email from your Exchange server; security be damned.
Margaret Heffernan: Why Does Microsoft Hate Its Customers? – Business on The Huffington Post
While this is a really small example of how Microsoft has been ganking up its software, the basic premise applies to a much larger scope. I echo this sentiment for Exchange, Office 2007 and Mac Office 2004 (soon to be 2008).
I can only hope people continue to wake up to how badly Microsoft’s software is sucking.
Something has dawned on me tonight that I wish had dawned on me before.
I have a nightmarish situation developing that I will have to face soon.
On my Macbook Pro, I have a fairly gigantic iPhoto library consisting of many, many pictures… most of them are duplicated on my home PC, but not all.
My home PC is in the same state – some pictures there, but not on the Macbook. They’re cataloged on Picasa and sorted in a specific folder structure on the disk.
Greetings again from WWDC 2007.
Those of you who know me know that I’ve made my living thus far as a Windows admin. I’ve always had a particular bent toward messaging technologies and I do have certifications in the Microsoft space to prove that I can architect these solutions.
The project I am working on now has made me take a second and more objective look at Exchange server. For a long time, I’ve heard Microsoft trainers and other folks complain bitterly about Microsoft Exchange. Most of the complaints started around Exchange 2000, when Exchange merged in with Active Directory. The complaints get worse as the enterprise grows. Exchange 2003 has some real issues with clustering and large deployments. I’m hoping many of these issues are resolved in Exchange 2007, but as I’ve not had the chance to dive into that just yet I cannot speak for any improvements.
I spoke with a developer here at WWDC who is deploying Exchange 2007. He said that the Linux/UNIX folks on Evolution are finding it impossible to use due to some kind of webdav issues introduced with Exchange 2007.
I’ve not yet had a chance to test/play with this to look into it deeper. I will get a chance to do so next month. However, as I said before, Exchange 2007 introduced web services for working with your mail and that’s where Evolution needs to go. Webdav is officially deprecated in 2007 and will be completely absent from the next Exchange server. Evolution needs to uhh… evolve.
