PyCon 2005 Impressions
It’s been a week since PyCon 2005 has started. I must admit that I’m having some difficulty in assembling my thoughts. It was difficult entering into this conference cold. There are really two aspects to PyCon that I would like to talk about. One is the technical state of Python and the development effort. The [...]
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PyCon – Drinking from the fire hose
I’m leaving for PyCon tomorrow and I’m a little nervous. I always get nervous about leaving my safe little home in my safe little town, especially when I haven’t been out much. I’ll be okay. I’ll be okay. I’ll be okay. I had planned on getting hot and heavy into Python but I had a [...]
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Who the heck is Richard Willoughby?
I used to get emails from this “guy” a lot. Then, the volume kinda died down. Invariably, the payload of these emails were viruses. Of many different types. Now, he’s back. I’ve received several emails, from several different email accounts but all from GBROnline.com. I’ve gone to their domain and sent emails to their abuse@gbronline.com [...]
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Glancing through the Raible Designs blog
A friend sent me this link to the Raible Designs blog: http://raibledesigns.com/page/rd I like his style. Plus he lives in Denver and talks about some of the places I know. There’s a lot of meat in his blogs. I like that. One thing he said that caught my attention: Microsoft is in a competitive battle [...]
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Divide and conquer yourself? Huh?
I saw this posting a week or so ago but I didn’t think much of it. A friend of mine then forwarded me this link saying that he liked what this guy was saying. Here’s the link: http://www.ranum.com/editorials/divide-conquer/ ……….. I think this guy has missed the point. At least for Linux. Linux isn’t at war [...]
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Attend Foxpro Presentations – Virtually!
If you can’t make it to the national events, and you don’t have a local Foxpro Users Group to attend, what do you do to keep current? You have a new resource at your disposal. FoxCast.org. Register for their seminars by the gods of FoxPro. Some presentations may require payment but many appear to be [...]
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Visual FoxPro in the Press : MS PressPass
Here a press release about the power and performance of VFP 9.0 put out my MicroSoft. VFP continues to be one of the best kept secrets owned by MicroSoft. Thank you MicroSoft for putting out this press release. http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-14VFoxPro.asp I need to do a better job of getting the word out in regards to how [...]
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Canton, GA chooses Neoware to help cut TCO
Canton, GA (The city where my wife grew up) is deploying a thin-client solution to help cut the city’s total cost of ownership. Here is the Enterprise Linux article: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1066591,00.html When the evaluation process was completed, Tidd chose Neoware because the space efficient thin clients could easily be integrated into Canton’s existing heterogeneous network. And [...]
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AOL Making A Grab At Customer IM Content
UPDATE! 3/15/2005 There has been a clarification to the article in eWeek by a representative at AOL. Check out this link: http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/aim.asp. Their waiver evidently pertains to content as it is posted into public sections and not to private IM messages. Whew! Perhaps I should have chosen to become a lawyer. Who thinks of this [...]
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FedEx : Incorrect Address
I ordered the Buffalo LinkStation 250G NAS a couple of days ago from PCNation on 3/8/05. The shipment went out the same day. The next day PCNation sent me an email with the FedEx tracking information in it. The shipment was coming from Mephis, TN so it got to Atlanta quickly. PCNation is headquartered in [...]
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