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40,000 ASU Students Leap to Google Apps; University Pays Zero - Technology News by InformationWeek“Within the next two months he expects to offer personalized home pages as well as online word-processing documents and spreadsheets based on Google Apps.”(tags: google Office2.0) © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2007. Posted under: del.icio.us [...]
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I’m spending today and tomorrow in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s program on “Cross-Boundary Governance through Agreements and Standards: Assuring Compliance and Results”. I’ll try to bring many of the things I’ve discussed in this blog to bear throughout the two days, but I’m really looking to gain greater insight from [...]
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Sometimes you need to go out and check those darn rocket engines yourself. © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2007. Posted under: Second Life. Permalink | No comments | Add to del.icio.us
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Here’s a link to a nice entry by my colleague Rob Weir regarding an ISO fast track proposal that didn’t do so well: “Fast Track. Wrong Direction.”It’s probably best that no one claimed victory after the contradiction period.In my last post I quoted Pogo. Here’s an apropos one in this case from George Santayana:Those who [...]
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Watarrka Park at 229, 67 (slurl)Second Life open source information center.(tags: secondlife opensource)Red Hat Plans Linux Desktop Offering ‘for the Masses’“Red Hat is planning a packaged Linux desktop solution that it hopes will push its Linux desktop offering to a far broader audience than exists for its current client solution.”(tags: redhat linux desktop)Redmond Developer News [...]
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In light of Red Hat’s new push on the Linux desktop and the growing success of Novell’s and Ubuntu’s distributions, I thought I would ask a slightly different question about use. I use Second Life on Linux all the time and the latest First Look client works just fine. In fact, I would argue that [...]
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Second LifeSecond Life and the Virtual Property Tax - by Sonia Arrison - The Heartland Institute“Late last year, a congressional committee began examining the idea of taxing property inside digital gaming worlds such as Second Life.”(tags: secondlife taxes)Business Communicators of Second Life®: The Weather Channel Second Life Island: Seriously Fun“Second Life may be called Seriously [...]
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ODFOpenDocument and the office experience: WHAT’S INSIDE?Linux Magazine: “OpenDocument format offers a new approach to data storage and document exchange for office applications. But what does ODF mean for the user? What’s inside an ODF file? How portable is ODF?”(tags: linux odf)Music and Open SourceRobin’s Wiki | EMusicJ / An eMusic download manager for Linux“eMusic/J [...]
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This week seems to have been a great big challenge in being disconnected, and not on purpose. I traveled down to North Carolina to give talks at NC State, UNC Chapel Hill, and UNC Charlotte. Aside from the normal running around doing things during the day, my Blackberry wasn’t pulling down email because it was [...]
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Last year I did several parts of what I called my “Dr. ODF” series on elementary processing of ODF files via the Python programming language.The April 1, 2007, edition of Linux Journal has an article called “Extract and Parse ODF Files with Python” by Kamran Husain. (Look here if the previous link gets stale.) [...]
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It’s really quite amusing sometimes to hear how the “enemies of open” categorize the whole open source and open standards discussion. One of the tactics, which has the properties of being both wrong and misleading, is that we are confusing the two on purpose in order to break down proprietary business models. Perhaps these people [...]
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My website was down for nearly 48 hours while 1&1 figured out what the problem was with a number of servers (they weren’t really specific). Evidently we’re now beaming to you from somewhere in Kansas. Over the weekend I’ll try to catch up on the links that didn’t get posted and some other housekeeping things. © [...]
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On behalf of my possibly soon to be former website provider, I would like to apologize for the downtime from around 8 AM EDT to sometime this afternoon. It’s always so nice when visitors get that helpful 404 message. © Robert S. Sutor for Bob Sutor's Open Blog, 2007. Posted under: Website. [...]
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I took some time last weekend to landscape some new land I picked up next to my castle in Second Life. This land was intriguing for a couple of reasons. First, while it was adjacent to my other property, it was in a neighboring sim. That meant that I could not share the total prim [...]
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