Archive for October, 2007
links for 2007-10-30
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Mythbuntu is an Ubuntu derivative focused upon setting up a standalone MythTV system similar to Knoppmyth or Mythdora. Currently, it is a recognized as a community supported project by Canonical.
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So why does Microsoft think Facebook is worth $15bn? Here are 15 possible reasons….
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Mobile phone provider 3 has launched a new handset that will allow users to make free calls over the internet via telephony service Skype.
links for 2007-10-26
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I _really_ like KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machines) . It’s extremely simple to setup and use and lacks the intrusiveness of hypervisors like VMware and Xen. In this post, I’ll show you how to setup KVM on the latest Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon”.
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Since the late 90s I’ve dabbled with Linux, but there have always been compelling reasons to return to, or stick with, Windows. No more, for two reasons: Vista, and Ubuntu 7.10
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Inspired talks by the world’s greatest thinkers and doers.
Via http://www.collaborationmatters.com/blog/cmblog.nsf/dx/ted-talks -
Another one to check out, looks good, with some interesting features.
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A powerful semantic search engine that enables you to search your e-mail easily and effectively; plug-ins are available for Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes mail systems.
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The UK computer agency Becta is advising schools not to sign licensing agreements with Microsoft because of alleged anti-competitive practices.
Some minor CSS changes
Tweaked the fonts a little, as I always thought they were a little small and therefore difficult to read.
Inspired after reading this article on dive into mark.
What do you think? Is it better? Any other suggestions for tweaks?
No promises mind, I don’t have as much time as I’d like to play with this, real life gets in the way!
4 commentslinks for 2007-10-25
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BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft buys stake in Facebook
Microsoft has paid $240m for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the hugely popular social networking site at $15bn.
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Gengo is a full featured plugin that provides multi-language blogging for WordPress. It allows for an unlimited number of translations and summaries for any post and provides template tags to display language information.
To be checked out. Thx Danilo!
links for 2007-10-23
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sIFR, TrueType, and PostScript fonts - FONTSMACK
FONTSMACK is a repository of sIFR fonts along with TrueType and PostScript fonts.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Why popstars are going it alone
Internet law professor Michael Geist examines how musicians are taking the issue of copy controls into their own hands.
SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0
I found this gem over at dominobaloney
There are people who love mail folders and people who hate them.
Nowadays using folders is the “old” way to organize e-mail messages: put this memo here, that one there, and so on. Right, as in real life…
I’m trying to love Notes mail folders, and I must say that one handy tool is helping me a lot: its name is SwiftFile!
So what does SwiftFile do? Well, as Cristian goes on to explain:
SwiftFile is very handy because it “learns” how to manage you Inbox messages and then, for any open memo, it suggests which folders are likely to be chosen by the user, just showing folders name on top of the memo. Then the user make just one click on a folder name to move the memo inside that folder! Easy and fast!
In more formal speak, according to the readme:
SwiftFile is an intelligent assistant for Lotus Notes that helps users organize their e-mail into folders. SwiftFile uses a text classifier to learn each user’s mail-filing habits. SwiftFile uses the model it learns to predict the three folders into which the user is most likely to place each incoming message. The predictions are presented to the user as three shortcut buttons that allow the user to quickly file each message into one of the predicted folders. When one of SwiftFile’s predictions is correct, the effort required to file a message is reduced to a single button click.
SwiftFile 4.0 for IBM Lotus Notes 8.0, part number C1436EN can be downloaded from Passport Advantage. I have it installed and running fine in Notes 7.
A nice find, gracias Cristian!
No commentslinks for 2007-10-22
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Partimage is a Linux utility which saves partitions having a supported filesystem to an image file. Most Linux and Windows filesystems are supported.
IBM warming to Ubuntu?
Tell me its true!
So it was a big (and welcome) surprise to find not one but two groups within the company putting together distributions of the IBM desktop products for Ubuntu.
This was also picked up by Julian over at nsftools:
Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of IBM products specifically for Ubuntu. I know it’s internal to IBM and not-for-the-public and unofficial and all that, but very interesting to hear. Maybe that’ll get us one step closer to official Debian support.
Lets hope so. I know it would make a lot of people happy, and would get IBM products in front of a lot of linux users. Imagine Dell flogging laptops preloaded with Ubuntu + Notes + Sametime + Symphony! That’d be nice!
This also gives us a glimpse of the power of social software tools behind the firewall. Without them, Glen would have found it extremely hard, if not impossible, to locate this kind of virtual community within such a large organisation. The truth is though that all organisations have these kind of dispersed groups with common interests, and tools like Sametime and Lotus Connections can allow them to unite and achieve results.
It would not surprise me to see this made available in some form at some point in the future. Please IBM!
7 commentslinks for 2007-10-18
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DHTML: Draw Line, Ellipse, Oval, Circle, Polyline, Polygon, Triangle with JavaScript
This JavaScript VectorGraphics library provides graphics capabilities for JavaScript: functions to draw shapes and lines dynamically into a webpage. Usage of this Vector Graphics library should be easy even if you don’t have JavaScript experience.
links for 2007-10-17
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10 Questions to Ask When Taking a Digital Photo
Some good ground-rules here, I need to read through this carefully, and try to remember the tips!!
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BBC NEWS | Technology | BBC ‘must offer iPlayer for all’
A good example of where regulation can be a good thing. Lets hope this can bring longer term benefits to non-Windows platforms as they get a higher level of attention from some pretty clever tech folk at the beeb.
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Madonna signs radical record deal
More big changes in the music industry. We’ll have to wait for details as to how this will work out regarding digital downloads of her songs. Interesting times!
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APML - Attention Profiling Mark-up Language: The open standard for Attention Metadata
Very interesting development I came across today, this could be one to watch over the coming months, could make a big impact when incorporated into social software applications. Will look into this in a lot more detail….!
