open_source

Microsoft periodically shuffles around what it thinks to be its biggest 'threat'. Right now, it's apparently open source. Yesterday, it was Google.

I disagree. Microsoft's biggest threat is itself. Particularly the higher-ups (here's looking at you, Steve...) for their refusal to embrace the open source community, rather than spouting FUD and lies.

"Potential. That's the single reason I would recommend Drupal over wordpress (or movable type, etc).

Of course, there are all the other reasons mentioned in this thread: crappy wordpress community support, centralization of third-party modules, active development, cutting edge tech... those are all good reasons too."

Building upon Drupal because it's 'cheaper' is a very poor reason to build on Drupal. It may be cheaper in the end than hacking up some closed-source commercial CMS to include the functionality that Drupal provides in its core distribution. But there's at least one thing to keep in mind:

Two new interesting things from microsoft on slashdot today:

Microsoft's patent application for an 'advertising services platform' (possibly an API?) built-in to the OS.. According to the article, it can even scan the contents of your documents and your personal information to in order to better shove more ads down your throat. How nice.

and:

Wikinomics is a book that I had high hopes for. That being said, I'm disappointed, but it's still good.

I found that the book lacks a lot of detail, and contains little support for its claims. But the claims made are broad-based

Is your copy geniuine

Today, Windows Vista will be available for sale to the public. So will Office 2007.

After an ancient Seagate 8GB hard disk of mine went into the last death-spiral of thrashing that I was willing to endure, I decided that it was time to put it out to pasture.

Pulling out a much newer 80 GB drive, also a Seagate, I decided to test the new Kubuntu 6.06.1.

After burning a CD, and rearranging the computer's contents to boot from CD, and then running the built-in CD verification, the machine started a live session.

Open-source DDR

A recent news article caught my attention. It touts the friendliness of Linspire (formerly Lindows until Microsoft decided it didn't want anybody elbowing in on it's generic product names). There are a number of things wrong with this article, and a number of issues it brings up.