Musings

I’m working on a Dell Inspiron 8200 with Windows XP. When I bought it a couple of months ago, I alos put a copy of RedHat Linux 7.3 on it, but didn’t use it much. Prompted by vowe about his installing RH 9, I decided to try that too. 3 Diskimages and an hour of installation later I had an updated system that hung forever on starting sendmail and canna (whatever that is). It displayed in 800x600 during install and not at all after I booted from HD. ...

Over at the whiskey Bar, there’s a series of quotes… What a tangled web we weave by Billmon Read them and weep

I haven’t seen this discussed widely yet - but TDNBW (This does not bode well) for Microsoft: The city of Munich, Gemany decided on 2003-05-28 to migrate from Windows NT to Linux and OpenSource based solutions for their 14'000 desktops. Sources: Microsoft kann in Munchen nicht “fensterln” (heise.de) Suse Press Release While this is only a small dent in Microsoft’s bottom line it’s good to see that there are institutions that don’t rely on a monopoly for their IT needs. Interestingly enough, IBM is in the pole position to realize this project. This jibes with what Joel writes in his Strategy Letter V: ...

Implemented Kalsey’s Technorati Plugin - you can see the last couple of inbound blogs in the sidebar on the right.

PragProg features Dave and Andy who wrote two wonderful books…. Dave has some thoughts about Code Kata’s. I’m a student of Karate myself, so this rang a bell for me. I will think about this some more, when I’m more awake than right now ;-) Oh - Andy is blogging too

Not content of just having a blog or a wiki, Martin Fowler rolled his own Bliki. Back when I started my blog, I used Steve Pikes PikiePikie, which was a wiki with blog functionality. Sadly, Steve seems to have given up on development. His server has been down for a loooong time. Update: There seems to be life in PikiePikie yet: Go to the newHomePage of PikiePikie You can still check my Pikie out here ...