Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Blogging on August 15th, 2007 3 Comments »
A discussion I just had with David Levy got me thinking about how various social networking channels are working and not working for me and others. It seems like various social networking channels are finding their place, based on capabilities, usage, integration and push versus pull issues. Twitter is somewhat filling the social void felt by […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology on June 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Simon Phipps just posted a blog entry on archaeological chip documentation has some of the most compelling gems I’ve seen indirectly explaining why open source is just plain good business. Basically, closed source is a pesky, long-lived boat anchor on management attention and legal overhead for the companies that manage the intellectual property. This condition […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Rails, Web 2.0 on June 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was on a staff call this morning where the subject of red-shift came up. Its a hot topic with the Sun Executive, promoted to help balance our focus between bread-and-butter data center solutions and supporting atypical, non-traditional, hyper-growth markets requiring massively scaled, extreme-availability solutions. Of course, it’s easy to pick a heated discussion in relation […]
Posted in Technology, Solaris 11, Sun, Web 2.0 on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
A month or so ago I stumbled across a sad blog post by Jason Hoffman at Joyent. It described the utter apathy Joyent ran into trying to purchase some Sun kit about a year and a half ago. I know things have changed in our relationship; Sun shared a booth with Joyent at the recent […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Solaris 11 on May 25th, 2007 4 Comments »
Woo-hoo! Now I’m off to try out vnics in Solaris 11! I’ve encountered one minor issue, so far. Since the Solaris installer is 32 bit, I needed to create a 32 bit vm for the install. VMware was blowing up trying to get Solaris to install inside a 64 bit vm. I’ll need to futz with […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
There are a number of great resources on the Web explaining how to combine VNC with SSH so that you can get a remote display of a desktop. The exact combination of tools will depend somewhat on the operating systems of your client and host machines, but there are a host of options for Windows, […]
Posted in IT Architecture, Technology, Rails on May 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
The theme of the closing keynote by Dave Thomas at the Rails Conference was Rails is Love. But there was an undertone of anxiety in the keynote, and throughout the conference really, that Ruby might somehow become unlovely. The Ruby on Rails community has exploded. There are over 8,900 people on the Rails […]
Posted in Technology, Rails on May 18th, 2007 No Comments »
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Posted in Technology on May 16th, 2007 6 Comments »
For some time my Acrobat 7 Professional installation on my Mac has thrown an error on initial access to the Organizer (File menu option Organizer) “Could not initialize Organizer database”. I recently upgraded to Acrobat 8, and the problem persisted. After at least a week of extended dialog with Adobe support that was going nowhere, I […]
Posted in Technology on May 10th, 2007 1 Comment »
A friend and colleague of mine, Art Raymond, taught me several years ago that the revolution of Web media could be best understood in terms of the three major value propositions that mainline media covet:
The Channel The Content The Editing
The channel is the actual medium that is the vehicle for the message: the newspaper, the magazine, the […]
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