A little too late. Open Source release of Frontier?. Wow – UserLand plans open-source release of Frontier kernel. The kernel includes things like the UserTalk script interpreter, all the UserTalk builtin functions, the Frontier ODB and the Frontier web server. I don't expect that it will gather as many developers as the big open source… Continue reading A little too late
Month: May 2004
Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis: “You can't be a software company and a service company under one roof, for you will inevitably end up competing with your customers.” [Scripting News] Hmm, most major software companies have a services group, don't they?
Notes and Tips: Xserve Delays
Notes and Tips: Xserve Delays. Ridiculously long Xserve delivery delays are hurting Apple's image with its customers. [MacInTouch]
no WinFS!
no WinFS!. longhorn loses WinFS. perhaps microsoft will never actually get to Cairo [anil dash's daily links] I gotta say I'm a little bummed that WinFS ain't happening for another little while. Does that mean that media, messages and people/groups aren't first order objects? I hope Scoble will let us know. It's a shame 'cause… Continue reading no WinFS!
Revised pricing structure for Movable Type Personal Edition
Revised pricing structure for Movable Type Personal Edition. In response to concerns by their customers (as well as non-customers, Slashdot readers, and pretty much anyone with a blog and an opinion), Six Apart has modified the pricing structure for the Personal Edition of Movable Type 3. A couple of quick thoughts on this: 1. Six… Continue reading Revised pricing structure for Movable Type Personal Edition
Seymour Hersh
Seymour Hersh drops a bomb on Rumsfeld. A must read. The roots of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal lie not in the criminal inclinations of a few Army reservists but in a decision, approved last year by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, to expand a highly secret operation, which had been focussed on the hunt… Continue reading Seymour Hersh
William Lind
William Lind opines on US domestic politics ( Lind is one of the best, albeit grumpy due to years of institutional neglect, minds thinking about next generation warfare. My bet is that Zawahiri reads Lind and Boyd as closely as Guderian read Hart and Fuller). But what of the world beyond Iraq? That is where one sees the… Continue reading William Lind
GotoMeeting blows away WebEx and LiveMeeting
GotoMeeting blows away WebEx and LiveMeeting. Citrix has announced GotoMeeting, a new conferencing service. For a mere $49/month you can have All You Can Meet unlimited meeting with up to ten people. That's eight times less expensive than the competition for a superior product! You can share a PC for presentations and a have unlimited conference calling (non-800#).… Continue reading GotoMeeting blows away WebEx and LiveMeeting
WP
WP. Instability in Venezuela is contributing to the current high energy prices: Venezuela used to send four to five shipments of refined gasoline to the United States a week, with up to 500,000 barrels in each, Verleger said. That extra supply met a critical demand spike during the summer driving months. Now, those shipments are… Continue reading WP
New Post to Global Guerrillas
New Post to Global Guerrillas. TARGET: GHAWAR. If you don't know what Ghawar is, you should. A global guerrilla attack on Ghawar could send the world's economy into a tailspin. [John Robb's Weblog]