The Notes client isn't free or Free (although many applications that run on it are - see openntf.org) however if you have a client license for Windows or Mac then you can use it on Linux at no additional cost. In fact the licensing is per person, if you have a Windows machine, a Mac and a Linux box or three then you can use your Notes ID on all of them at once if you like. If you are using Notes already, then moving the desktop operating system to Linux is most certainly a free lunch.
but the text is the thing of value to the author. Brave authors and publishers realise this, and allow access to the text of the book as a means of promoting the paper book (which people will readily pay for). My site http://www.astoryforbedtime.com/ works on this principal for books aimed at the pre-school audience, where the book with the pictures (and holes to poke fingers through etc.) is an essential part of the value of the book. I have permission from the publishers to allow anyone (yes that includes you . ..) to contribute an audio reading of the book, which I can distribute from the site for free. If folk want to see the pictures then they can click through to Amazon etc. and buy it (sales to date=$0.00, but it is more about sharing and promoting reading to kids than making money). Publishers of childrens picture books are very nice people, and very willing to accept innovative ways to promote reading, I was very surprised at how positively my site was viewed by the publishers.
if you don't need it then get sharepoint. Nice.
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Lotus vs. SharePoint
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'If you don't have the resources dedicated to developing collaborative applications, don't have complex application or integration requirements or if you are focused on the Microsoft solution stack, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is going to be hard to beat,' the review concludes.
so to paraphrase: "if you don't need a collaborative application server then get Sharepoint" so basically for the task at hand Domino wins by a mile but the review manages to end up with the wildly complex double negative conclusion that on first reading sounds like the M$ solution came up on top.
you seem to think that J.K. Rowling is an American
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The Great HDCP Fiasco
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Turn and face Canada, to your right is lots of water, on the other side of the water is a little island where Harry Potter lives.
Sametime was 5 years ahead of it's time about 7 years ago. It had been neglected somewhat in terms of development since then, and is 2 years behind the times so it needs to be brought up-to-date. Fortunately that is exactly what IBM has done. At Lotusphere in Orlando last month they showed Sametime 7.5 which will be out later this year, it is a complete rewrite of the client end (which needed it) it is now based on the Eclipse framework and is extensible and cross platform, it supports graphical emoticons etc and looks slick. Take a glance here: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/st75s hots.html also worth noting is that the meanwhile plugin for Gaim which supports Sametime servers will be part of the core Gaim distribution, so Gaim will work out of the box with Sametime servers including encryption. Encryption in Sametime is client-server, so basically connection encryption, but client-client encryption should be quite easy to implement as a third party extension if it isn't included in 7.5 (I don't know if it is), but then you would not get server-side logging, which depending on requirements could be good or bad.
I shouldn't really listen to rumours from an AC on Slashdot, but would you mind telling us if there is a Linux native Domino Designer client on the way or if it is just the Notes client embedded in Workplace? i.e. can I as a developer finally switch off Windows?
and delivery confirmation too. Recall message should not exist on any mail system. Once the mail has routed into someone elses mail box it isn't yours any more. You can't read it or delete it just like any other mail that doesn't belong to you. If someone posts a letter through my front door I don't want them poking an unwrapped coat hanger through the letterbox to try to hook it out again. Same goes for email.
yes, it isn't a consumer grade service, it is a service you have inside the corporate firewall. It was 5 years ahead of the competition 6 years ago and they haven't done much to it since, but on the plus side you can integrate it with Notes applications so every time a name appears anywhere on a form in a Notes database (expenses form, discussion database, document library etc.) it grows a little green icon you can click on to chat with the relevant person. Buddy list does not belong in a little window all by itself, IM awareness should be spread over all applications, anywhere there is a name I want to click to chat or mail, or VOIP or screenshare or webcam etc.
I don't put up much code for download on my website. I do put some stuff there packaged up in a non client specific way if I should do something of general interest. The GPL does not require that the source is posted on a website. It does not require me to distribute program and source to anyone who asks for it. It does require me to distribute the source to anyone who has obtained a copy of the program and asks for the source. I can charge a reasonable amount for production of the source. Basically in my context GPL doesn't make a heap of difference. It just gives the client more freedoms than they would otherwise have.
Read the GPL and the FAQ, you will be glad you did.
where is the incentive for someone to buy the product from the original developers vs someone else.
personally I develop bespoke applications for big companies. Generally it is wierd stuff that nobody else would want. I provide my services at a respectable daily rate and the software I produce is licensed under the GPL (mostly, there are exceptions.)
You can buy Redhat Linux from Redhat, you can get an identical product for free from Centos which isn't called "Redhat Linux" because "Redhat Linux" is a trademark. Some people get Centos, other people buy Redhat Linux. People still buy from Redhat because they want to do so.
Companies do understand the concept of recouping development costs, and will purchase at a reasonable price from the developers to support future development.
hosts a jolly good current affairs/analysis podcast radio show. Search for Open Source in iTunes and you will find the podcast. Open Source refers to the openness of the production process and the source of the news rather than code. I found it whilst searching for podcasts about open source code, so the name was misleading to me, however the show has merit in it's own right and I am not bitter about having found it.
it's all a hoax, and I have proof!
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King Kong Lived?
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Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935, when the Dutch paleontologist G.H. von Koenigswald discovered a yellowish molar among the "dragon bones" for sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy.
a half life of 15 minutes means just that, half of them will decay in the first 15 minutes. Half of what is left will decay in the next 15 minutes. The sun is 8 light minutes away from us, If the neutrons go at a speed of about c/2 then half will get here. An hour after departure there will be 1/16th of the neutrons left. The inverse square law also applies as they will be getting more spread out radially. Assuming constant speed, combining the halflife decay and the inverse square I think the decay is proportional to something like 1/((2^r)*(r^2)) but I might be wrong.
3300 feet is an over precise figure because the estimate is in metric and someone has converted it for people who can't cope with the modern measurement system. The height of the column is in the order of magnitude of a kilometer.
actually iSeries is the box formerly known as AS/400 and it is Power. pSeries was RS6000 and I think is now pretty much identical to the microcode level to the iseries hardware but runs AIX. If you want an intel box you need an xSeries, these were netfinity. If you want a laptop then you will be getting a thinkpad from Lenovo. Funnily enough you can get a Thinkpad iseries or xseries but that has nothing to do with AS/400 or Netfinity, just a left hand vs right hand cockup. Someone said recently on the subject of IBM's left hand not talking to the right that the problem is that IBM is not just a two handed creature where left and right are the only options, think of it more like several thousand hands and feet, with most of the feet in the mouth and most of the fingers being trod on by the remaining feet.
mods, please can you nuke the copies of the article posted with addresses and phone numbers.
From the Google cache of the original page:http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:t5F0lsD5UW sJ:jdj.sys-con.com/read/83267.htm+read/83267.htm&h l=en&lr=&client=firefox&strip=1
Exclusive: Who Is 'PJ' Pamela Jones of Groklaw.Net? Pamela Is A 61-Year-Old Jehovah's Witness Who Lives In A Shabby Genteel Garden Apartment In Hartsdale, New York By: Maureen O'Gara May 7, 2005 09:15 PM
A few weeks ago I went looking for the elusive harridan who supposedly writes the Groklaw blog about the SCO v IBM suit.
The now-famous opinion-shaping open source leader Pamela Jones, aka "PJ," doesn't give conventional face-to-face interviews. Never has, near as anyone knows. All communication is virtual. Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot. [address removed], NY[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:37 PM - [address removed], New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones, as the superintendent of the building calls it, Ms. Pam Jones.]
Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses.
Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at [address removed], New York. [removed] is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory.
See, even though Groklaw treats cell phones like they were Kleenex and changes its unpublished numbers regularly, one number it left with a journalist led to this flat and - wouldn't you know it but - some calls from there had been placed to the courts in Utah and to the Canopy Group so obviously this just isn't any Pamela Jones.
Pamela has lived in apartment [removed] for 10 years at least, according to the super, who says he's watched people move in, have children, and the children marry and move away.
Now, this isn't your usual anonymous New York apartment. It's practically a self-contained village where the super goes for the old ladies' groceries when there's snow on the ground and people know each other's business.[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:41 PM - [address removed], New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones.]
But the super didn't know much about Pamela except that she had a computer, worked at home (maybe sometimes) for a lawyer, was "paranoid" - his word - and "sensitive to smells."
He remembered how he was cleaning paintbrushes one day and she came running down the stairs screaming "Fire."
She was also missing and had been for weeks.
Nobody there knew where she was.
She had up and disappeared one day, and the super was worried about her. He said her son had dropped by and he didn't know where she was, and that some strange man that "nobody knew," as the super described him, had tried to get into her apartment while she was gone - the Medeco lock she had had installed on her door - something nobody else in the complex seemed to feel a need for - was more expensive than the door. But, as it happened, the super said, she had just sent in her rent in an envelope postmarked Connecticut. Like an episode out of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego," the trail led to [address removed], Connecticut, 24 miles away. Sure enough, parked in the driveway was Pamela's car, just as the super had described it, a dark gray '90s Japanese number with a bunch of Jehovah Witness pamphlets tossed on the backseat.
The woman at the house, Barbara Jones Sharnik, told a disjointed story. She didn't know Pamela, Pamela hated her, Pamela wasn't there, Pamela left her car there because it got bumped, Pamela left her car there because she left town, and so on.
Afterwards Barbara called the cops, and then the cops called the number we left with her and the cops said that she was Pamela
I think it was by Asterix, but I could be wrong, it might have been Obelix. I think they were preparing for battle with an army which specialised in pouring boiling oil on their foes. Whilst warming up the oil they dropped in some veggies and Gaul Fries were invented.
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Wise man say: "The Notes on Linux that is 6.5.5 is not the true Notes on Linux"
Quite a prolific blogger, and very good at it too, his blog is at http://www.edbrill.com/ and he talks about this announcement here http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/notes -on-linux-announcement?opendocument&comments
The Notes client isn't free or Free (although many applications that run on it are - see openntf.org) however if you have a client license for Windows or Mac then you can use it on Linux at no additional cost. In fact the licensing is per person, if you have a Windows machine, a Mac and a Linux box or three then you can use your Notes ID on all of them at once if you like. If you are using Notes already, then moving the desktop operating system to Linux is most certainly a free lunch.
but the text is the thing of value to the author. Brave authors and publishers realise this, and allow access to the text of the book as a means of promoting the paper book (which people will readily pay for). My site http://www.astoryforbedtime.com/ works on this principal for books aimed at the pre-school audience, where the book with the pictures (and holes to poke fingers through etc.) is an essential part of the value of the book. I have permission from the publishers to allow anyone (yes that includes you . . .) to contribute an audio reading of the book, which I can distribute from the site for free. If folk want to see the pictures then they can click through to Amazon etc. and buy it (sales to date=$0.00, but it is more about sharing and promoting reading to kids than making money). Publishers of childrens picture books are very nice people, and very willing to accept innovative ways to promote reading, I was very surprised at how positively my site was viewed by the publishers.
'If you don't have the resources dedicated to developing collaborative applications, don't have complex application or integration requirements or if you are focused on the Microsoft solution stack, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 is going to be hard to beat,' the review concludes. so to paraphrase: "if you don't need a collaborative application server then get Sharepoint" so basically for the task at hand Domino wins by a mile but the review manages to end up with the wildly complex double negative conclusion that on first reading sounds like the M$ solution came up on top.
Turn and face Canada, to your right is lots of water, on the other side of the water is a little island where Harry Potter lives.
Sametime was 5 years ahead of it's time about 7 years ago. It had been neglected somewhat in terms of development since then, and is 2 years behind the times so it needs to be brought up-to-date. Fortunately that is exactly what IBM has done. At Lotusphere in Orlando last month they showed Sametime 7.5 which will be out later this year, it is a complete rewrite of the client end (which needed it) it is now based on the Eclipse framework and is extensible and cross platform, it supports graphical emoticons etc and looks slick. Take a glance here: http://www.edbrill.com/ebrill/edbrill.nsf/dx/st75s hots.html also worth noting is that the meanwhile plugin for Gaim which supports Sametime servers will be part of the core Gaim distribution, so Gaim will work out of the box with Sametime servers including encryption. Encryption in Sametime is client-server, so basically connection encryption, but client-client encryption should be quite easy to implement as a third party extension if it isn't included in 7.5 (I don't know if it is), but then you would not get server-side logging, which depending on requirements could be good or bad.
it even has Beatles in the summary, it was just asking to be submitted by him.
one aged nearly 2 and the other is 3. The 5 year old is fairly competent now.
I shouldn't really listen to rumours from an AC on Slashdot, but would you mind telling us if there is a Linux native Domino Designer client on the way or if it is just the Notes client embedded in Workplace? i.e. can I as a developer finally switch off Windows?
and delivery confirmation too. Recall message should not exist on any mail system. Once the mail has routed into someone elses mail box it isn't yours any more. You can't read it or delete it just like any other mail that doesn't belong to you. If someone posts a letter through my front door I don't want them poking an unwrapped coat hanger through the letterbox to try to hook it out again. Same goes for email.
yes, it isn't a consumer grade service, it is a service you have inside the corporate firewall. It was 5 years ahead of the competition 6 years ago and they haven't done much to it since, but on the plus side you can integrate it with Notes applications so every time a name appears anywhere on a form in a Notes database (expenses form, discussion database, document library etc.) it grows a little green icon you can click on to chat with the relevant person. Buddy list does not belong in a little window all by itself, IM awareness should be spread over all applications, anywhere there is a name I want to click to chat or mail, or VOIP or screenshare or webcam etc.
I don't put up much code for download on my website. I do put some stuff there packaged up in a non client specific way if I should do something of general interest. The GPL does not require that the source is posted on a website. It does not require me to distribute program and source to anyone who asks for it. It does require me to distribute the source to anyone who has obtained a copy of the program and asks for the source. I can charge a reasonable amount for production of the source. Basically in my context GPL doesn't make a heap of difference. It just gives the client more freedoms than they would otherwise have. Read the GPL and the FAQ, you will be glad you did.
where is the incentive for someone to buy the product from the original developers vs someone else. personally I develop bespoke applications for big companies. Generally it is wierd stuff that nobody else would want. I provide my services at a respectable daily rate and the software I produce is licensed under the GPL (mostly, there are exceptions.) You can buy Redhat Linux from Redhat, you can get an identical product for free from Centos which isn't called "Redhat Linux" because "Redhat Linux" is a trademark. Some people get Centos, other people buy Redhat Linux. People still buy from Redhat because they want to do so. Companies do understand the concept of recouping development costs, and will purchase at a reasonable price from the developers to support future development.
hosts a jolly good current affairs/analysis podcast radio show. Search for Open Source in iTunes and you will find the podcast. Open Source refers to the openness of the production process and the source of the news rather than code. I found it whilst searching for podcasts about open source code, so the name was misleading to me, however the show has merit in it's own right and I am not bitter about having found it.
Research into Gigantopithecus blackii began in 1935, when the Dutch paleontologist G.H. von Koenigswald discovered a yellowish molar among the "dragon bones" for sale in a Hong Kong pharmacy.
a half life of 15 minutes means just that, half of them will decay in the first 15 minutes. Half of what is left will decay in the next 15 minutes. The sun is 8 light minutes away from us, If the neutrons go at a speed of about c/2 then half will get here. An hour after departure there will be 1/16th of the neutrons left. The inverse square law also applies as they will be getting more spread out radially. Assuming constant speed, combining the halflife decay and the inverse square I think the decay is proportional to something like 1/((2^r)*(r^2)) but I might be wrong.
I see no comments on the top 3 articles
and this is a registered well known port.
3300 feet is an over precise figure because the estimate is in metric and someone has converted it for people who can't cope with the modern measurement system. The height of the column is in the order of magnitude of a kilometer.
actually iSeries is the box formerly known as AS/400 and it is Power. pSeries was RS6000 and I think is now pretty much identical to the microcode level to the iseries hardware but runs AIX. If you want an intel box you need an xSeries, these were netfinity. If you want a laptop then you will be getting a thinkpad from Lenovo. Funnily enough you can get a Thinkpad iseries or xseries but that has nothing to do with AS/400 or Netfinity, just a left hand vs right hand cockup. Someone said recently on the subject of IBM's left hand not talking to the right that the problem is that IBM is not just a two handed creature where left and right are the only options, think of it more like several thousand hands and feet, with most of the feet in the mouth and most of the fingers being trod on by the remaining feet.
just search for "sucks" and you get a nice list of places to work to make things suck less.
mods, please can you nuke the copies of the article posted with addresses and phone numbers.
From the Google cache of the original page:http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:t5F0lsD5UW sJ:jdj.sys-con.com/read/83267.htm+read/83267.htm&h l=en&lr=&client=firefox&strip=1
Exclusive: Who Is 'PJ' Pamela Jones of Groklaw.Net?
Pamela Is A 61-Year-Old Jehovah's Witness Who Lives In A Shabby Genteel Garden Apartment In Hartsdale, New York
By: Maureen O'Gara
May 7, 2005 09:15 PM
A few weeks ago I went looking for the elusive harridan who supposedly writes the Groklaw blog about the SCO v IBM suit.
The now-famous opinion-shaping open source leader Pamela Jones, aka "PJ," doesn't give conventional face-to-face interviews. Never has, near as anyone knows. All communication is virtual. Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot. [address removed], NY[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:37 PM - [address removed], New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones, as the superintendent of the building calls it, Ms. Pam Jones.]
Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses.
Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at [address removed], New York. [removed] is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory.
See, even though Groklaw treats cell phones like they were Kleenex and changes its unpublished numbers regularly, one number it left with a journalist led to this flat and - wouldn't you know it but - some calls from there had been placed to the courts in Utah and to the Canopy Group so obviously this just isn't any Pamela Jones.
Pamela has lived in apartment [removed] for 10 years at least, according to the super, who says he's watched people move in, have children, and the children marry and move away.
Now, this isn't your usual anonymous New York apartment. It's practically a self-contained village where the super goes for the old ladies' groceries when there's snow on the ground and people know each other's business.[Photo: May 7, 2005 12:41 PM - [address removed], New York. The last known address of Pamela Jones.]
But the super didn't know much about Pamela except that she had a computer, worked at home (maybe sometimes) for a lawyer, was "paranoid" - his word - and "sensitive to smells."
He remembered how he was cleaning paintbrushes one day and she came running down the stairs screaming "Fire."
She was also missing and had been for weeks.
Nobody there knew where she was.
She had up and disappeared one day, and the super was worried about her. He said her son had dropped by and he didn't know where she was, and that some strange man that "nobody knew," as the super described him, had tried to get into her apartment while she was gone - the Medeco lock she had had installed on her door - something nobody else in the complex seemed to feel a need for - was more expensive than the door. But, as it happened, the super said, she had just sent in her rent in an envelope postmarked Connecticut. Like an episode out of "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego," the trail led to [address removed], Connecticut, 24 miles away. Sure enough, parked in the driveway was Pamela's car, just as the super had described it, a dark gray '90s Japanese number with a bunch of Jehovah Witness pamphlets tossed on the backseat.
The woman at the house, Barbara Jones Sharnik, told a disjointed story. She didn't know Pamela, Pamela hated her, Pamela wasn't there, Pamela left her car there because it got bumped, Pamela left her car there because she left town, and so on.
Afterwards Barbara called the cops, and then the cops called the number we left with her and the cops said that she was Pamela
or even the redacted text, ******* out the home address for a start.
I think it was by Asterix, but I could be wrong, it might have been Obelix. I think they were preparing for battle with an army which specialised in pouring boiling oil on their foes. Whilst warming up the oil they dropped in some veggies and Gaul Fries were invented.