Lefthandedlayup

I installed YM!8 the other day, and was wondering about this:

From this article:
“Content providers have opposed the (creation of a) not-to-text registry, saying that it was invasion of privacy. They said that our [pending guidelines] are sufficient. But the NTC thinks there is a need to do this. The present way of doing things are insufficient. The content providers will be submitting their position paper [...]

Probably owing to my background as a groupware purveyor (I used sell Lotus Notes solutions, and was also a Microsoft Product Manager and evangelized MS Exchange - for which I studied certification for), I am a heavy believer in the Calendar, the central focus of a groupware solution after the Inbox.

Company groupware is one of the most difficult to implement not only because of its complexity, but there’s also a great deal of politicking involved, forcing programmers to do the one thing they hate most - talk to the user.

Viruses can do some strange and wonderful things. Of these the windows metafile situation is by far the most amazing. Consider for instance, that you are viewing a webpage with your favorite internet browser on your favorite operating system. You reach a website with an embedded .wmf file, and voila!

Onstance January 7 installation, various anti-virus tweakeths taken upon myself to enhanced postfix main.cf file on client mailserver has accrueth positive consequences. Whereas previously bedeviled by spam, has heretofore since reports indicative of spam rejected! Viruses are thus flung onto fields of the dreaded dev/null and the internet beyond!

Wittnesseth thee maillog!

How about open-source sofware you say? The fact that it’s not been widely accepted by the cafes just means, to me, that it’s failed to provide a suitable alternative. I think the last paragraph in the article (it’s since been edited) where, a cafe owner threatened, more or less, that he was the BSA’s clampdown on them was “forcing them to think about open source software”, only makes me wonder one thing: Why don’t you?

Couldn’t help it, because (1.) today Microsoft today announced a new version of MS SQL, said to be targetting rivals Oracle and IBM.

It just makes sense. See, MS Office has been Microsoft’s big money making monster for years, a collection of bloated elephantine over-featured over-done software which everybody used or had to use. Microsoft therefore has to support the concept of individual installations (and licenses) of software on individual machines - the foundation of their business.

But here came the concept of ’software as a service’, delivering software on the web, and Microsoft had a choice, either go with that, or defend it’s chosen foundation to the hilt, and now we know it did that - to it’s detriment.