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- Bruce Perens hat aufgrund des großen Feedbacks den kürzlich vorgestellten Entwurf überarbeitet. |
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- Im australischen Hauptstadt-Territorium wurde ein Gesetz verabschiedet, das die Behörden verpflichtet, Open-Source-Software zu bevorzugen. |
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- Mit Hilfe des Native Widget Frameworks (NWF) soll OpenOffice.org bereits bald sein Aussehen weitgehend an den Desktop-Stil des Benutzers anpassen. |
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- OSNews is running a series of reviews of commercial Debian based distributions. The first was on Lindows, the second on Libranet and the latest is on MEPIS. This is interesting considering the recent proposals by Bruce Perens in his UserLinux whitepaper, which suggests that a multitude of companies would be required to tweak the distro to meet their needs. This is to some extent what is happening with the large number of Debian-derived distributions out there now. |
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- Bruce Perens has updated his UserLinux Manifesto with updates from his mailbox and from feedback on the list. For those who have not heard of UserLinux, Bruce is proposing the creation of a 100% free enterprise distribution (based on Debian of course) so that users are not tied in to expensive support paths from distributors. Ideally individual distributors would adapt the distribution to fit their specific industries and/or regional environments. |
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- Phil Hands, with much help from Steve Kemp has signed off a new set of CD images for the latest and greatest release of Debian "woody" 3.0. The images as usual are available at cdimage.debian.org. |
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- Apparently SCO needs to hire some System Administrators that have a clue on how to prevent this third DOS attack.... |
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- Network Rail is to get £22bn of public funds to improve track, signals and stations over the next five years. |
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- Professional Reading Shelf (5 Items) World Summit on the Information Society Source: IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) IFLA Has Posted Three Reports From the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva Repo |
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- ..., since it's inherent to the design of the TCP/IP suite" |
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- ...getting better and faster at exploiting flaws" |
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- ...to be security administrators and officers to Groklaw, a blog on the SCO case, debate whether SCO is suffering from a syn attack" |
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- BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis. We live in a weird world where the president of Iran knows everything about blogging. What would you get if you asked the danish PM - a "Doh" or some discriminating attitude about experts that wants to have a voice? "Do you blog? |
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- Lord, give us all grace... and wisdom... and unselfish hearts! |
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- In his Mailbox column for the Wall Street Journal, Walt Mossberg compares Windows and Mac multimedia applications, “In Apple’s iLife suite, the programs share a similar, consistent user interface and they can each easily tap into the others’ library of media files. For instance, the iDVD program can easily locate and use songs, photos and movies that are being managed by, or have been created by, its sister iLife programs — |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- Radioboy aka Matthew Herbert stellt derzeit auf der Homepage von Tigersushi sein 2002 erschienenes Album "The Mechanics Of Destruction"... |
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- MacInTouch reports this year’s Reader Choice Poll results, “As soon as we began to review the results for this year’s poll it became clear that there was one standout winner: the iPod and iTunes, along with the revolutionary iTunes Music Store. |
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- Dienekes links to an abstract calculating that the peoples of Japan are a hybrid population that has issued out of mixtures between the Jomon and Yayoi. Roughly speaking the latter are the most recent arrivals (from Korea, circa 0-500 C.E.),... |
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- Fortune magazine names the iTunes Music Store the Product of the Year. Peter Lewis writes, “Unlike most rival services, the iTunes Music Store gives customers the freedom to store music indefinitely, burn custom CDs, and transfer songs to the Apple iPod portable player. (The iTunes Music Store is not just about music; it also sells audio books. |
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- Tim Bray has another one of those experiences where meeting people in real life is a surprise. Fortunately, it turned out pleasantly -- Tim pronounced Dare to be "a friendly, cheerful, and interesting guy". I've been reading the XML 2003 posts with interest -- I've never made it to one of these conferences (being an exhibitor for IBM doesn't count), and since my interests are taking me away from the details of XML, it doesn't look like I'll be making it to future ones. Too bad you can't spend your life going to conferences. Even if I could do that, I'd hate the travelling. |
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- Filmmakers looking to add a little pizzazz to their work can check out the six free iMovie tutorials released on Thursday by Stupendous Software. Each tutorial offers step-by-step instructions to achieve certain effects, such as silent film look or textured backdrops, in Apple's popular movie editing software. [MacCentral] |
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- The latest research into 'god-blogs' is interesting reading. |
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- Line 'em up. The "dissent is treason" meme progresses yet another step: Of course, Al-Quada and every other major terrorist organization are also rooting for a Democratic victory over President Bush. Do we see a disturbing pattern here? A vote for the Democrats in 20 [Orcinus] Watch this to appear more and more. |
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Zec Online (Dec 12 2003 07:40 GMT) - Zec Online Dnevnik A Croatian Blog with a definate interest in educational blogging. See his blogroll. Wishing the edblogger success with his blog.... |
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Breakfast (Dec 12 2003 07:39 GMT) - One cup of Mollberg's blend coffee with a shadow of milk in it, one tomato ciabatta with housekeep-cheese (not matured for more than one minute), one bottle of doofus (a milk chocolate beverage), a pint of tap water , one Nordic Garden Dream Yoghurt from Arla and finally a monk covered with white chocolate. |
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- Vermonters for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel works to support the survival of the Palestinian people and to end the illegal, immoral, and brutal... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- Here is a choice quote from a speech by Benjamin Franklin at the Constitutional Convention, cited in a review of a new book by Gore Vidal in the New York Review of Books): I agree to this Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no Form of Government but what may be a blessing to the People if well-administered; and I believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a Course of Years and can only end in Despotism as other forms have done before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being incapable of any other. The review quotes the following comment by Vidal in his book Now, two centuries and sixteen years later, Franklin's blunt dark prophecy has come true: |
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Thanks Doc (Dec 12 2003 07:38 GMT) - I'd heard this while climbing in the truck yesterday, but couldn't get to a computer until now. Champagne all around... |
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- Take a lookee here Saddam of Iraq vs Asad of Syria: The Twin-regimes of Terrorism It has juicy comparos like... |
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- The Democrat Party is stabbing itself in the back. Former Clinton war room capo James Carville is trashing ex-Vice President... |
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Update (Dec 12 2003 07:38 GMT) - On the 'Sad News' post from Tuesday. Pentagon Identifies Stryker Brigade Soldiers Killed In Iraq The Department of Defense on... |
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