Yet Another Format to Start Thinking about for the Future. Music CDs: Dinosaurs “Music downloads will render compact discs all but obsolete in the next five years, yet half of all companies that begin selling digital songs online will fail by year-end, a researcher warned Saturday. By 2008, about a third of music sales in… Continue reading Yet Another Format to Start Thinking about for the Future

New Project for Cataloging Personal Collections. From time to time, somone will email or IM me and ask for a recommendation for software to catalog their personal library. I'm happy to report that there is a new solution called LibDB on the horizon. “This is the development wiki of LibDB, an open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset… Continue reading New Project for Cataloging Personal Collections

Cooperative Linux is a scary hack that loads the Linux kernel into the NT kernel as a driver so that they can both run in ring 0 at the same time, allowing Linux apps to run full speed on Windows without porting. [Hack the Planet]

More on Jack Welch.  Hiring people is funny. It's one of the most important things managers do, but we have no idea how or why to do it right. Electing a politician is nothing but a hiring process, alas, we do it in public and we almost always do it wrong! Like John, I also… Continue reading More on Jack Welch

No rules for VoIP.  Mr Michael Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, told journalists at the World Economic Forum being held in Davos, Switzerland, that he has no intentions of regulating internet telephany(VoIP).”If you're going to say to me that Voice over IP is something that needs regulation, then you're going to have… Continue reading No rules for VoIP

Useit.Com: How Big is the Difference Between Websites? The average difference in measured usability between competing websites is 68%. This is smaller than expected, but makes sense given the dynamics of design within individual industries. [Tomalak's Realm]

Law Firms Providing Free Wi-Fi.  Larry Bodine reports at LawMarketing Blog that two law firms, Fenwick & West and Womble Carlyle now offer visiting clients free wi-fi wireless Internet connections in conference rooms. For $70 per location, this is a cheap way to cultivate an image as a firm that understands high tech.  [Netlawblog]

Ask Tog: Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. For a long time, people have been writing me, asking that I do an in depth review of OS X. I held off because I really didn't think OS X was ready for prime time. That's all changed. OS X, in the form of the… Continue reading Panther: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

How to configure RPC over HTTP in Exchange Server 2003. Need some help setting up RPC over HTTP(s)? This new KB article should be of some considerable help.  [MS Exchange Blog]