A Microsoft-Red Hat warming trend? | CNET News.com
“The chief executives of Microsoft and Red Hat held a private meeting in New York, CNET News.com has learned, an indication that relations between the rivals might be warming.Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer and Red Hat’s Matthew Szulik met for more than an hour at a McCormick & Schmick’s restaurant in New York in late March, sources familiar with the situation said. Microsoft initiated the meeting, one source indicated.“
ActionScript/JavaScript integration
Kevin Lynch: ActionScript/JavaScript integration
“There’s increasing interest in connecting ActionScript in Flash with JavaScript on web pages, and we’ve been working on techniques for accomplishing this well. An example of this working today is the Macromedia weblog aggregator report that was developed by Christian Cantrell and Mike Chambers.”
OSS Projects Offer Bounties: Code for Rewards
Slashdot | OSS Projects Offer Bounties For Features
“The market for open source developers seems to be heating up. Asterisk, Gnome, Horde, and Mozilla all have bounties for desired features. Recently, Lime Wire updated its wish list to include bounties on open source development work! Similarly, i2p also released a bounty list. Is it time to consider quitting my day job to do open source development full time?“
CALI tried this to get some community particiaption on web services development, but the effort was less than a success with 1, 2, takers and not a lot of general enthusiasm. I was surprised that no .NET, ASP, ColdFusion, or Java folks stepped up and at least tried this out. Probably says more about the teknoids community than the notion of bounties.
New Mobile Windows Unleashed
Slashdot | Gates Releases Details on New Mobile OS
“Microsoft’s Bill Gates released details about the company’s new mobile operating system, code-named Magneto, at the Mobile & Embedded Developers Conference in Las Vegas today. There has been a lot of recent speculation about the new OS. People have been describing it as a possible ‘Blackberry killer.’ Windows Mobile 2005 will be released to hardware manufacturers immediately. The OS will integrate Smartphone, Pocket PC, and Pocket PC Phone Edition operating systems into one platform. It will also include updates to the mobile versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.“
greasemonkey: Take Back the Web, Really!
mozdev.org – greasemonkey: index
“Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page’s style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page’s design or interaction.“
So, here it is, a little javascript here, a little DHTML there and, ta-da, you get control over those annoying webpages made useless by clueless webmonkeys:) That’s right, strip out the ads, point ot print versions, suppress navigation areas, all the power goes back to you.
WordPress 1.5.1 Released
freshmeat.net: Project details for WordPress
“Changes:
There have been over 170 bugfixes and enhancements since version 1.5. These include security fixes, login fixes for IIS, improved i18n, better IDN support, extended ping support, improvements to the administration interface, improved caching, database query reductions, plugin API bugfixes, improved conditional GET support for all content/feeds, and support for pingback on systems with “allow_url_fopen=Off”. Plugins can now override certain core functions (allowing external authentication, for example).“
Novell Seibt Resignation, Formerly Prez of SUSE
NOVELL: Novell Announces Executive Departure
“WALTHAM, Mass.–May 9, 2005 –Novell today announced that Richard Seibt has resigned his position as president of Novell® EMEA. Mr. Seibt was formerly president of SUSE LINUX, Inc., acquired by Novell in January, 2004.Jack Messman, chairman and CEO of Novell, said, “I would like to thank Richard for his contributions to Novell, especially in the transition and integration of the SUSE® LINUX business. We wish him well in his future endeavors.””
Mr. Seibt’s duties will be assumed by Ron Hovsepian, president, Worldwide Field Operations.
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BoleyBlogs stays on top of hte latest CALI news and info:) Thanks.
New Tiger Problems With Samba, AD
Tiger “Caged by SMB, Active Directory Problems
A number of sites running Apple’s new “Tiger” operating system are experiencing problems with SMB file sharing and authentication with Microsoft’s Active Directory, Ziff Davis Internet News has learned.Although Apple Computer Inc.’s Tiger increases support for Server Message Block file sharing and Active Directory, several sources say that the Finder fails to log on to Windows and Linux Samba file servers.”
Info on MSFT’s Linux Lab Operation
Meet the Head of Microsoft’s Linux Lab
“Before joining Microsoft about a year-plus ago, Hilf was instrumental in driving IBM’s Linux technical strategy for its emerging and competitive markets organization. Before his stint at IBM, Hilf was the senior director of engineering for eToys, where he helped build the company’s e-commerce business infrastructure. All told, Hilf has been involved with the open-source world for over a dozen years, he said.Hilf says he spends a lot of time “making Linux more transparent to Microsoft managers.” He does a lot of educating around the open-source development, testing, deployment and licensing models, he said.“
There is also a good set of interviews with Martin Taylor and Bill Hilf at Channel 9 that sheds some light Microsoft and Linux. Part 1 | Part 2