- @chieftech: LOL, I can’t seem to cope with the concept of Christmas before mid-December! #
- Sametime 8 seems much snappier than 7.5.1
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Monthly Archive for November, 2007
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Wubi is an unofficial Ubuntu installer for Windows users that will bring you into the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other application.
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Simply put, Paglo is the world’s first search engine for IT. Think Google™ for IT. Use the open source crawler and discover everything about your computers, network
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…or quotes about drinking. Drinking beer, wine, spirits that is. Not to be confused with great quotes about drinking milk. Or great quotes about drinking sweet tea on your front porch. Without further ado…
Some thought-provoking commentary for all us Facebookers out there. Particularly at this time of year, when we are all turning to the internet to help with the task of Christmas shopping.
Here is some poor guy’s story, painfully making it clear why Facebook’s Beacon is a bad idea in its current form:
I purchased a diamond engagement ring set from overstock in preparation for a New Year’s surprise for my girlfriend. Please note that this was something meant to be very special, and also very private at this point (for obvious reasons). Within hours, I received a shocking call from one of my best friends of surprise and “congratulations” for getting engaged.(!!!)
Imagine my horror when I learned that overstock had published the details of my purchase (including a link to the item and its price) on my public facebook newsfeed, as well as notifications to all of my friends. ALL OF MY FRIENDS, including my girlfriend, and all of her friends, etc…
ALL OF THIS WAS WITHOUT MY CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE.
I am totally distressed that my surprise was ruined, and what was meant to be something special and a lifetime memory for my girlfriend and I was destroyed by a totally underhanded and infuriating privacy invasion. I want to wring the neck of the folks at overstock and facebook who thought that this was a good idea. It sets a terrible precedent on the net, and I feel that it ruined a part of my life.
Groundswell (Incorporating Charlene Li’s Blog): Close encounter with Facebook Beacon
Be careful out there folk, and think about what these things involve.
Via ChiefTech
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One to remember if you ever need a pure CSS menu
- Morning! Some good news,Mourinho puts his hat back in the ring for the England job http://tinyurl.com/286yc8 #
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CPU-Z is a freeware that gathers information on some of the main devices of your system.
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Adopting the best practices laid out in ITIL requires IT managers commit to a multi-year project, bring executive management on board and wear their thickest skin to work every day as a majority of people will resist the efforts to overhaul how IT does it
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A brief but good summary, including quotes from RedMonk’s Michael Coté
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Good to see others (outside the mainstream Lotus blogging community) installing LN8 on linux!
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Some amazing nautical photography, go take a look!
Interesting to see this come through the newsvine outside the usual (for me) IBM bloggers, and good to see a company see real value in the Sametime platform and want to publicise openly.
Carestream Health will integrate and sell a key component of the IBM Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC2) platform—IBM Lotus Sametime, the company announced at the 93rd annual meeting at Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).The combination of Lotus Sametime software and Carestream’s radiology services will facilitate rapid communication, including instant messaging and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) interactions between radiologists and other medical professionals involved in the diagnosis and treatment of patients, according to Carestream.Carestream also said that users can share computer screens, highlighting parts of an image to collaborate on a diagnosis.
Tags: lotus, sametime, carestream, uc2
America’s Cup champion Alinghi has lost its court battle against rivals BMW Oracle, raising hopes of the reinstatement of the 2009 event.
BBC SPORT | Other Sport… | Sailing | Alinghi loses America’s Cup case
I hope so, this has been an embarrassment on what is a major sporting spectacle.
Lets move on, and see this decided fairly on the water!
Tags: americas+cup, alinghi
- just enabled the Twitter Tools plugin on my blog #
- @chieftech: That makes two of us! But if you talk of moving to Ubuntu, thats a different story!
# - hunger wins again, off to lunch #
- enjoying writing a presentation in the version of Lotus Symphony in Notes 8 #
- I feel so much more productive in the Lotus editors than I do in MS Office, call me a basic user if you like! #
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