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Entries from August 2008

Now that’s Interop! Total Yawn.

March 21st, 2007 · Comments Off

 Yawn. Too little too late. Who cares? Novell has slid to the
insignificant.

Check out Novell’s
BrainShare keynote for an amazing demo of the interoperability they have
built between Novell eDirectory and Microsoft Active Directory. You can
fast-forward to the demo if you’re impatient. It’s at 1:15:43 and it is
awesome.In an
earlier post (Jan. 18/07) I mentioned that BrainShare would be [...]

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Hackers selling IDs for $14, Symantec says

March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

    This is old news, but it still scares me. What is an identiy worth these days?
 

By Jeremy
Kirk, IDG News Service

Identity thieves are offering a personís credit-card number, date of birth
and other sensitive information for as little as US$14 over the Internet, said a
new report on online threats released Monday.

The data is sold on so-called [...]

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34 Reasons Why Readers Unsbuscribe from Your Blog

March 20th, 2007 · Comments Off

   
My biggest offense is infrequent posting. For this I have a remedy. Post more
frequently. 

Thanks to everyone who has added their thoughts on why
they unsubscribe from a blogís RSS feed. There have been 109 comments left
on that post so far and some interesting recurring themes have emerged.

Iíve attempted to categorize them below. Obviously with 103 opinions [...]

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Judith is Blogging again! Whoo Hoo!

March 10th, 2007 · Comments Off

    Here is her email about the event. The first time in over 4 years.

A step in the right direction. I am back to blogging. And much more. You
can bookmark this page http://judithburton.weblogger.com in hopes of staying in touch.

Love, Judith

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Taylor Mali–Powerful Poetry

March 7th, 2007 · Comments Off

   

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Novell drives nail into Microsoft Office coffin?

March 7th, 2007 · Comments Off

   
 Can anybody tell me what business Novell is in? This approach seems way of
course to me and hardly a real threat to Msft.

Novell drives nail into Microsoft Office coffin

By Stan Beer

Tuesday, 06 March 2007

The news that Novell has released an Office Open XML (OOXML)
translator for OpenOffice.org is yet another nail in the coffin of [...]

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RSS Poll

March 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

    Here is a quick poll about RSS usage.<noscript>www.viewletpoll.com/poll/You are trying to view a web poll created using Qarbon’s ViewletPollViewletPoll is the easiest way to create online polls or surveys.Your browser does not support JavaScript.The ViewletPoll cannot be displayed.</noscript>

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