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Archive: March, 2005
IBM using the dessert cart approach, again
Not that it’s a bad thing, but it’s at least consistent.Â
I read this article today talking about how IBM are offering trial licenses for pre-installed VMWare servers w/ the purchase of their blade servers. I think it’s a decent-enough idea: as an advocate of VMWare’s products, I think they’re on to something. Once you start using them, you’ll see just how far ahead of the market that they are.
InfoWorld: IBM bundles VMware apps: March 28, 2005: By Ed Scannell : APPLICATIONS : DATA_MANAGEMENT : PLATFORMS : STORAGE:
IBM bundles VMware apps
Blades come with virtual softwareBy Ed Scannell
March 28, 2005VMware (Profile, Products, Articles) said it will bundle evaluation copies of its virtual-infrastructure software line with IBM’s (Profile, Products, Articles) Intel (Profile, Products, Articles)-based eServer BladeCenter servers.
Corporate users buying a BladeCenter server will receive bundled evaluation copies of VMware’s suite that are good for six months. At the end of that period, users decide whether to buy the suite, which includes VMware ESX Server, VMware Virtual SMP, and VMware VirtualCenter with VMotion.
VMotion is an INCREDIBLE technology that lets you shift a virtual machine from one physical box to another, just in case the physical dies….. all live. VERY slick stuff. If you’re looking to consolidate, take a look at the ESX server.
DeLay = Hypocrite
Get this — the same guy who’s pushing for government intervention today, allowed his own father to die in 1988.
DeLay’s Own Tragic Crossroads :
DeLay’s Own Tragic CrossroadsBy Walter F. Roche Jr. and Sam Howe Verhovek, Times Staff Writers
CANYON LAKE, Texas — A family tragedy that unfolded in a Texas hospital during the fall of 1988 was a private ordeal — without judges, emergency sessions of Congress or the debate raging outside Terri Schiavo’s Florida hospice.
The patient then was a 65-year-old drilling contractor, badly injured in a freak accident at his home. Among the family members keeping vigil at Brooke Army Medical Center was a grieving junior congressman — Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Texas).
More than 16 years ago, far from the political passions that have defined the Schiavo controversy, the DeLay family endured its own wrenching end-of-life crisis. The man in a coma, kept alive by intravenous lines and oxygen equipment, was DeLay’s father, Charles Ray DeLay.
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In 1988, however, there was no such fiery rhetoric as the congressman quietly joined the sad family consensus to let his father die.
Nice.
Now how can they still claim that this isn’t politically-motivated?
Google…. OS X Version…. sorta
If you go to this version of google, there’s a Dock-like bar of icons that offer the “maximizeâ€? effect when you roll over them, and a nice little saying at the bottom.
“Roses are red. Violets are blue. OS X rocks. Homage to you.�
I love OS X
I was faced w/ having to process a text file today.
The text file was an LDAP export; full of tons of information on each user account.
I only needed one line of the roughly 30 lines in each user’s account information. There are over 200 user accounts in that file; roughly 6000 lines.
My first thought? Let’s try MS Word. Guess what: it’s wildcard find/replace engine is really, really limited. There’s no way to do multi-word find & replaces that have variables in the middle.
Know what saved me? Regular Expressions (regex). UNIX saves the day, again.
As I read the rules on regex, I thought to myself, “These guys have put a LOT of thought into this.” Right after that, I reaffirmed the conclusion I’d made about three years ago: Apple’s done the right thing by using 30 years’ worth of programming genious for the basis of their OS.
It’s a sad, sad day: Microsoft to buy Groove Networks
As a Domino Developer, this makes me really, really sad. This is the moment in collaborative computing where Darth Vader joins the dark side.
Microsoft to buy Groove Networks | CNET News.com:
Microsoft to buy Groove NetworksPublished: March 10, 2005, 6:04 AM PST
By Martin LaMonica
Staff Writer, CNET News.comMicrosoft on Thursday said it will acquire Groove Networks and make Groove’s founder, Ray Ozzie, chief technology officer at the software giant.
Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Microsoft said it will incorporate Groove’s “virtual office” collaboration software into its Office line of desktop productivity applications. Ozzie, the inventor of Lotus Notes and a collaboration guru, will report to Bill Gates, Microsoft’s chairman and chief software architect.
Microsoft was an investor in Groove, which has closely tied its collaboration software to Windows and other Microsoft products.
“After working with Ray for years as a close partner, it will be great to have him on our senior leadership team,” Gates said in a statement.
Slashdot | Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP
Slashdot | Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XP:
Microsoft Uncertain About WinFS for XPPosted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 09, @09:41PM
from the still-deciding dept.
Ant writes “As a follow-up to WinFS to be available in WinXP story from a few days ago, BetaNews reports that Microsoft (MS) stopped short of confirming reports that it plans to back-port its next-generation WinFS file system architecture to Windows XP. MS tells BetaNews it is only evaluating the move while also acknowledging WinFS is still years off. �We are currently evaluating making the WinFS storage subsystem available on this platform and will make the decision based on what is best for customers.“ a Microsoft spokesperson told BetaNews.�
Wait….
If you (Microsoft) spend time (and therefore money) on developing a technology (WinFS, in this case), it’s usually because it’s got some value to your bottom line. It’s either a technology that’s going to help you do YOUR job as a developer/integrator easier/faster/more efficiently, or it’s going to add to the bottom line, directly or indirectly.
If, as I highlighted above, they’re so concerned about what’s best for their customers, why is the backwards compatibility even an issue? The answer’s easy — money. WinXP users are potential next-gen Windows users: providing them backwards compatibility detracts from the bottom line by giving them yet another reason to NOT upgrade.
It irritates me that they say claim to be so concerned about their customers when they’re really only worried about the bottom line.
Edit: Seems the original post on /. mis-interpreted what was said at the keynote. There’s an updated article here that leads me to believe that WinFS *is* being ported. Who’s right? Who knows?
Unmotivated…
Whew….
I’m feeling reaaaaally unmotivated to work this morning. I’m really not sure why, either; I slept really well, I’ve had my cup of coffee (huge google mug), and I’ve read through some news (w/ NetNewsWire).
Huh… maybe i just need time for the caffeine to kick in. More later :)
Really Slick DHTML Calendar
I just had to jot a quick note: this calendar looks to be exactly what I want. I’ll have to read through the documentation tonight.
More later!
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