Debisys, a prepaid phone transaction service processor, thought it
would be a Windows shop forever. Debisys runs Windows 2000 servers, a
SQL Server database, and Windows desktops. "There was a perception
that we'd always buy Microsoft software," says MIS Manager Mike
Figeuroa. But that is all about to change. "We are doing a complete
migration to open source."
In 1999, the World
Wide Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee looked back on the previous
decade and lamented: “I wanted the Web to be what I call an
interactive space where everybody can edit. And I started saying
‘interactive,’ and then I read in the media that the Web was great
because it was ‘interactive,’ meaning you could click. This was
not what I meant by interactivity.” That vision of a genuinely
interactive environment rather than “a glorified television
channel”—one in which people not only would browse pages but also
would edit them as part of the process—did not disappear with the
rise of the read-only Web browser.1 It’s churning away more actively
than ever, in a vivid and chaotic Web-within-the-Web, via an anarchic
breed of pages known as “wikis.”. This has been added to my Wikis
section in Bots, Blogs and News
Aggregators web page.
Open source cracks publishing wide open
Open source cracks publishing wide open06/17/2004 11:24 AM Once upon a time, publishing was the domain of large corporations.
Then came desktop publishing and the tools to produce a book shrank
from the cost of an aircraft carrier to the price tag of a PT boat.
Now, small publishers on the bleeding edge of technology are fomenting
a revolution that may change the publishing market forever. Open
source publishing tools, long derided as not being ready for battle,
are proving themselves in the trenches of small publishing.
Red Hat frees Wide Open
Red Hat frees Wide Open05/16/2004 12:24 PM For all of the FUD that some are eager to spread about Free Software
and Open Source, the real truth is that the purveyors of such tripe
are truly fearful that you might learn the simple object lesson: a
long and happy life is filled with learning. They want you to believe
that you are too ignorant to understand new ideas, and that your
capacity for learning has eluded you. They need you to believe that
you are too lazy to make an effort to think for yourself. Don't buy
that idea, for it is nothing more than an abdication of your
obligations. Try to learn something new every day, no matter how
small, for it will sharpen your mind and rejuvenate your spirit.
Mind Wide Open excerpt
Mind Wide Open excerpt02/18/2004 10:53 AM Salon is running a long excerpt from Steven Johnson's mindblowing new
book, Mind Wide Open, which I read last week and have been returning
to in my thoughts several times a day. Johnson takes apart the jargon
and theory of various kinds of brain and mind science and exposes us
to a bunch of aha! moments about the physiological, evolutionary and
non-material bases for our thought processes. Reading this book, you
get this curious form of vertigo in which you begin to see your brain
as a collection of chemicals and processes and physiological
serendipities, and then realize that that very same collection of goo
is the thing that is having this realization, and boy, that's a weird
goddamned feeling. As for me, after reading this I'm in the market
for a cheap travel-sized USB neurofeedback EEG.
Areas that do show noticeable changes appear on the images as a
cluster of bright yellow pixels, fading out to orange and red at their
peripheries. The images look strikingly like the Doppler radar images
you see on the Weather Channel. (If you blur your eyes a little, you
might think that yellow patch on the image was a thunderhead, not a
brainstorm.) The image is projected over a grid with numbers running
along each axis. The numbered grid and the slices create a
three-dimensional system of coordinates, the latitude and longitude of
neuromapping. The grid is made up of small cubes called "voxels," and
each voxel has a specific address.
Joy begins by laying down the twenty-five slices for stage one of our
experiment, the dreaded checkerboard. The pattern of activity is
immediately visible, even to my untutored eyes, mostly because there's
literally nothing going on in 95 percent of my brain. Only a thin band
wrapping around the back of my head, roughly at ear level, glows
yellow.
"We know that the flashing checkerboard is a very salient stimulus for
just the visual processing areas of the brain," she says. "And that's
exactly what's happening here."
So I snagged Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow this weekend via
BitTorrent and
then converted it to run on my PSP.
Actually, it wasn't that he snagged a major movie off BitTorrent
that had me thinking.
He wouldn't have been able to unless it wasn't a common albeit
illegal and shadowy activity.
What had me thinking was his response to the obvious questions:
I simply described an activity that many, many people are already
doing with or without
me. Do you really think that not talking about this sort of illegal
use of BitTorrent
is going to somehow protect it?
While my answer to his question is no, I do think talking in public
about illegal
activities does somehow cause changes, changes which the affected
or interested parties
(i.e. MPAA, FBI) may consider extremely harmful and thus proceed to
counter by setting
examples.
Based on my mutated theory of ying and yang, what belongs in
the shadow should
stay in the shadow. Failing to do so leads to chaos.
300 Holes Capped in IE - Still Wide Open09/13/2002 05:26 AM Despite fixing 300 holes in IE on Monday, security testers are saying
that "You can do anything...it's wide open".
In the New Age of Parity, Shinnecock Is Wide Open
In the New Age of Parity, Shinnecock Is Wide Open06/16/2004 04:35 PM Domination is out and parity is in, giving players who have yet to win
a major even more hope as they prepare for the United States Open at
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.
iTunes DRM cracked wide open
iTunes DRM cracked wide open01/06/2004 04:24 AM A lot of work going on behind the scenes to capture and encode
streaming Video & Music. Links to a...
CAN-SPAM Leaves Lid Wide Open
CAN-SPAM Leaves Lid Wide Open05/20/2004 04:06 PM Almost five months after Congress passed a law to reduce the amount of
junk e-mail flooding the nation's in-boxes, industry experts widely
agree that the opposite has occurred: We're getting more spam than
ever before.
Open Wide: Decoding the Secrets of Venom04/05/2005 04:31 AM Scientists believe that understanding how snake venom works will help
lead to medical breakthroughs.
Eyes Wide Open Over Anime Piracy
Eyes Wide Open Over Anime Piracy07/27/2004 06:16 AM Amid proliferation of counterfeit Japanese animation products, an
American distributor fights back in court. Randy Dotinga reports from
San Diego.
In Brief: Gluecode readies enterprise app server03/24/2005 12:15 PM Gluecode Software in the second quarter of this year plans to offer an
enterprise-level version of its open source Joe application server,
which is based on the Apache Geronimo application server. Gluecode?s
Joe Enterprise Edition will be J2EE-compliant and support EJBs,
portlets, and business process management. An integrated management
console will be featured and drivers will be provided to link to other
software such as the Microsoft SQL Server database. Connectors to
systems such as SAP and Siebel applications will be sold in the third
quarter for Joe. Gluecode will provide support services.
In Brief: Gluecode readies enterprise app server (InfoWorld)
In Brief: Gluecode readies enterprise app server (InfoWorld)03/24/2005 08:32 AM InfoWorld - Gluecode Software in the second quarter of this year plans
to offer an enterprise-level version of its open source Joe
application server, which is based on the Apache Geronimo application
server. Gluecode’s Joe Enterprise Edition will be J2EE-compliant
and support EJBs, portlets, and business process management. An
integrated management console will be featured and drivers will be
provided to link to other software such as the Microsoft SQL Server
database. Connectors to systems such as SAP and Siebel applications
will be sold in the third quarter for Joe. Gluecode will provide
support services.
FOOTHILL RANCH, California (PR WEB)September 26, 2004-- Debisys, Inc., a leading provider of prepaid solutions, announced today the introduction of Primero Uno!; an exciting bundle of new products targeting the Hispanic market.
Their have been some updates to MSN Spaces here is a link to a list
of them. [Microsoft Developer]
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!
xa0! xa0! Non breaking spaces!07/07/2004 11:15 AM Users of the FedEx Tracker trying, and failing, to get it to work with
a windows machine should find it now works. For what it's worth, an
error of 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xa0 in the Feed Validator
means...
Psychophysical spaces
Psychophysical spaces02/10/2004 02:53 AM Psy
chophysical spaces - the tuberculosis sanatorium of Paimio,
Finland from the beginning of thirties. Explore Alvar Aalto's soothing
Scandinavian functionalism on a detailed virtual tour.
Categorizing with spaces
Categorizing with spaces03/06/2004 02:05 AM Jon Udell's been paying a lot of attention recently to categorizing
XHTML elements. Two of his readers suggested that he use the class
attribute, delimiting the categories (if necessary) with spaces; this
is also valid CSS. I'm in favor of it as well, as it has worked well
for me in two other circumstances. At del.icio.us/crysflame, I keep a
notebook of interesting links. Each link has several pieces of
metadata; of interest is the tags field. The content of this field is
a space-delimited list of categories, so to speak; a blog post about
Google's IPO would be assigned "blog business", while a paper about
graphing social dynamics would get "science social math". It's worked
out very well for me, so far; I can find things easily enough by
selecting individual tags, though more complex slices of the data
aren't...
MSN Messenger 7.0 and MSN Spaces Go Final
MSN Messenger 7.0 and MSN Spaces Go Final04/07/2005 12:25 PM Late Wednesday, Microsoft pulled the trigger on the final versions of
its MSN Messenger 7.0 instant-messaging tool, as well as its MSN
Spaces blogging service.
New MSN Spaces, Messenger 7 Launch
New MSN Spaces, Messenger 7 Launch04/07/2005 02:22 AM Concluding four months of beta testing, Microsoft has launched final
versions of both MSN Messenger 7 and its "Spaces" blogging service.
The new releases bring tighter integration and more communication
options for Messenger users, including full-screen video and PC-to-PC
audio.
PPS has
an international reputation for its work on the design and management
of public spaces. A non-profit, PPS was founded in 1975 to continue
the pioneering work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. PPS has
helped over 1,000 communities in 44 states and 12 countries improve
their parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries and
countless other public spaces.
"Clicking on the orange RSS button or the "Syndicate"
link above will no longer spit out raw XML to your readers using a
modern browser. Instead, they will see a "pretty printed" RSS feed
with a link to learn more, subscribe in My MSN, or subscribe in an
aggregator supporting one-click subscription
(feed://)."
In other words, readers of any of the 4.5 million
MSN Spaces blogs can now simply click a feed link to subscribe to the
feed in FeedDemon, NetNewsWire, NewsGator, Shrook, RSS Bandit,
NewzCrawler, Sharpreader or any other RSS reader which support the
feed URI scheme. Very nice!
NASA Spaces on Energy Solution06/22/2004 05:53 AM Beaming power gathered by satellites to Earth could help satisfy the
world's need for energy, and several nations are researching it.
However, the country with the biggest pockets -- the United States --
has taken a pass. By John Gartner.
Namespaces, Name With Spaces, and Attribute Values
Namespaces, Name With Spaces, and Attribute Values10/28/2003 11:06 PM In this month's XML Q&A column John Simpson answers questions about
namespace prefixes and the legality of XML element names that include
spaces.
Reports: MSN Messenger 7, MSN Spaces Both Set to Go Final
Reports: MSN Messenger 7, MSN Spaces Both Set to Go Final04/06/2005 05:40 PM Word on the street (on Neowin.net and other places) is MSN Messenger 7
and MSN Spaces are both set to go final on Thursday. Grok Description matches for How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide open spaces GrokA matches for How Gluecode led Debisys into the wide open spaces
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