Category: observations

Doubt’s log : Doubt’s log

Kevin, who works at Apple, says we should wire RSS up to Rendezvous. Basically when someone pops on the network who has an RSS feed, this info would be available to all people on the network.

.:: The complete guide to pleasing your IT department ::.

The complete guide to pleasing your IT department

Not really all that funny, especially if you’ve worked in IT.

Was the Microsoft 1999 Annual report produced on a Macintosh?

Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers that people would sometimes rather not see get out. An interesting example is the 1999 Microsoft annual report which was released on the Web last week as a Word document. The file headers indicate that the annual report was created on a Macintosh and not Windows!

Hey, at least they used Word: how would it look if they used AppleWorks?

Windows XP Shows the Direction Microsoft is Going.

If you protest effectively against Microsoft abuse, you are not against Microsoft; you are more pro-Microsoft than Bill Gates.

Interesting article. I’d like to see the claims corroborated.

If the points raised are valid, I would have to question the judgment of any IT executive who chose software like “Windows XP [that] makes your computer dependent on Microsoft computers.”

As Mr Gates himself said, “New versions aren’t there to fix bugs. I have never heard of such a twisted reason to bring a new version onto the market.”

Calendar – Standards Based Calendar Client Project

I’m intrigued by this. I am using iCal to make and share calendars and the Mozilla calendar uses the same file format and supports the same publish and subscribe protocols (.mac or webDAV).

Add PHPiCalendar to your toolbox and you can do this.

And it creates RSS feeds of all its calendars. I like it.

I finally got in installed with mozilla in FreeBSD and I like it a lot. The file format is truly cross platform: calendars I have created in iCal on the Mac are readable in Calendar (even after being published to a third machine).

This is what I was hoping for when iCal was released: it’s not an Outlook-killer but it negates the calendar server requirement.

The Seattle Times: Local News: The note that saved Nickels’ budget

Seattle Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis threatened to yank the funding for a Green Lake fire engine if the City Council didn’t let Mayor Greg Nickels keep a big increase in his office budget.

The note, written by Dwight Dively, the city finance director, said: “Because of the Council’s vote on the Mayor’s office budget, we can’t promise the money for Attack 16 now. Sorry.”

“Attack 16” is the Fire Department’s term for the Green Lake fire engine.

Not a lot to say about this: I’m not sure who the Mayor resembles more, Nero or John Gotti.

I’d say a recall is in order for anyone who cares more about the size of his personal entourage than public safety.

So for some giddy reason, I decided to see if I could get Internet Printing to work: WIN2K supports it, I understand, but none of the other OSes I use do.

It’s not as easy as it might be . . . . . for reasons I can’t fathom, you need to create a new printer instance and within that instance, create a new port for the IP connection. A Local Port to make a TCP/IP protocol work?

Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
You can use IPP to print directly to a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) over an intranet or the Internet.
[ . . . . ]
Continue the wizard and install the appropriate driver for the device.
Method 2: Install a suitable driver on the client computer and redirect the printer to the appropriate IPP URL.
Click Start, point to Settings, click Printers.
Double-click Add Printer, and then click Next.
Click Local Printer, and then click Next.
Click Create a new port.
In the Type box, click Standard Port Monitor, and then click Next.
Type the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the IPP print server.
Continue the Add Printer wizard and install the appropriate driver.

And I still have no idea it will work. I ran my battery down getting all the service packs I supposedly need. Perhaps the IPP driver will be among them.

We just don’t get violent weather here: this is very unusual, but as long as I don’t lose power, I’m OK with it.

Horizontal rain, I’m used to, and I’m getting plenty of that tonight.

Nicest of the Damned

It seems like the aggregator could be reduced to a panel (like the Mozilla sidebar, or perhaps a floating palette) so that you could watch the headlines come in without leaving the browser, and your browser could better manage the resulting windows.

Frank raises the question of how long aggregators will exist outside the browser, instead of being another module or sidebar panel. I think it makes some sense, but I wonder if a fatter aggregator that could display pages in some form would be better than an even fatter browser.

Open Source Initiative OSI – Doc7:Halloween Documents

Due to the sensitive nature of this information, please forward with discretion only to those people who can clearly gain value from it.. For those members of the Linux Strategic Review Core and Virtual Teams, this information is for background use/understanding during the Linux Strategic Review.

The latest Hallowe’en document (what *is* it about Halloween and these things?) in it’s marked up entirety. Found the link at Professor Lessig’s site.