Showing posts with label IT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label IT. Show all posts
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
Apple, please get with the Java program ( 13949712720901ForOSX )
So, I'll bite.
I'd like to see Apple release a quality Java 6 JDK for OS X. I'd further like to see them admit that they're not going to release these things with any kind of regularity, and so they'd like to instead encourage Sun to do it for them or even better that they'd like to kick what resources they can into doing this work in open source.
Actually, personally, I'd love to see Apple's software empire collapse, hoisted on its own petard.
A model of "please, please, oh vendor, grace us by giving us the obvious thing this platform needs to be a good platform for which to develop stuff" is pretty hopelessly broken. I'm more in favor of a free as in freedom model where everyone is maximally empowered to produce maximally excellent software for the platform. One path to this empowerment is making all the source code free to read, free to use, free to modify, and free to redistribute.
However, I don't have a lot of hope for Apple open-sourcing all their IP in the near term, and that will be just fine. (I get very OS X like experiences on Ubuntu where I'm allowed to see the source code I'm running and even modify and redistribute it, incidentally.)
It would be better for JDK 6 to be unambiguously the go-to modern Java platform, without having to deal with any whining from Mac OS X users that it's hard to get working on that platform, so, Apple, please get with the program.
Ok, thanks, bye.
13949712720901ForOSX
I'd like to see Apple release a quality Java 6 JDK for OS X. I'd further like to see them admit that they're not going to release these things with any kind of regularity, and so they'd like to instead encourage Sun to do it for them or even better that they'd like to kick what resources they can into doing this work in open source.
Actually, personally, I'd love to see Apple's software empire collapse, hoisted on its own petard.
A model of "please, please, oh vendor, grace us by giving us the obvious thing this platform needs to be a good platform for which to develop stuff" is pretty hopelessly broken. I'm more in favor of a free as in freedom model where everyone is maximally empowered to produce maximally excellent software for the platform. One path to this empowerment is making all the source code free to read, free to use, free to modify, and free to redistribute.
However, I don't have a lot of hope for Apple open-sourcing all their IP in the near term, and that will be just fine. (I get very OS X like experiences on Ubuntu where I'm allowed to see the source code I'm running and even modify and redistribute it, incidentally.)
It would be better for JDK 6 to be unambiguously the go-to modern Java platform, without having to deal with any whining from Mac OS X users that it's hard to get working on that platform, so, Apple, please get with the program.
Ok, thanks, bye.
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Amazon Kindle: Only Good for Kindling
Succinct yet devastating remarks on Amazon's latest Defective By Design offering, Kindle, replete with Digital Restrictions Management technology.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Unicon and uPortal in the news
Pretty cool to see Unicon and uPortal positively featured in a CNNMoney.com news item. Lest anyone wonder whether the free and open source uPortal portal platform can scale: one million users, baby.
Read an article about an Internet Relationship
I found this article pretty disturbing.
It's the sort of thing that reminds that "intentional infliction of emotional distress" isn't always hogwash.
It's the sort of thing that reminds that "intentional infliction of emotional distress" isn't always hogwash.
Saturday, October 27, 2007
PodCampAZ volunteer coordination meeting
Went to the PodCamp AZ volunteer coordination meeting today. In retrospect I should have brought a laptop. This would require owning a laptop with usable wireless access, which isn't quite presently the case, but I have high hopes for the newly-Unicon-issued work laptop.
I'm helping with set-up crew on Saturday, as well as manning the registration desk in between the sessions in which I have interest. Must remember to bring lunch. It will be fun to be unskilled labor for a day.
I'm helping with set-up crew on Saturday, as well as manning the registration desk in between the sessions in which I have interest. Must remember to bring lunch. It will be fun to be unskilled labor for a day.
Monday, October 01, 2007
Simple Personal File Backup
I've been trying out Mozy for file backup on my personal computer. So far I've been very impressed. I wish they had an Ubuntu client, in addition to the Mac OS X and Windows support.
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Saturday, August 25, 2007
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