RasterWeb!I just recently heard about NeoOffice/J, and I finally got around to installing it this week. Wow! I’ve been using OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X via X11, and while it more or less works, the experience of using NeoOffice/J has been much nicer. It looks more like a Windows app than the nice Aquafied OS X apps you might be used to, but it managed to open Microsoft Word and Excel files with ease. One less reason to use Windows…
CIO Magazine: The Myths of Open Source looks at, and attempts to dispell the myths of open source in large organizations.
What are those myths?
Chris Pirillo sent me a link to the new new Lockergnome design, which happens to be valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional, not that nasty mess of invalid non-semantic table gunk they spit out recently that we all complained about…
Thanks, Chris, you done good…
Someone else just doesn’t get it…
Let me let you in on two dirty little secrets of blogging. First, for every blogger, there is probably a handful of readers.
Sure, blogging is a new publishing mechanism (sort of). But it has more in common with wanna-bes who self-publish deathless prose through vanity presses, or pre-teens who pour their hearts out into diaries with flimsy locks, or little old ladies who write poetry with quill pens to read to their cats and store in the sock drawer, than with actual, grab-your-audience-by-the-hair (or other body parts) and get ’em to think writing.
Yawn…
It’s like that phone thing. It tends to be used by teenagers planning what to do on the weekend, it couldn’t possibly be a serious business tool! Or those PC’s. I mean, I love playing games too, but how could we utilize them for professional journalism? Which we need a lot more of!
Still, I no longer have the time to keep updating a personal observation blog. And lack of time is the primary reason I’m abandoning Byte Me’s companion Random Bytes personal blog and will shortly take down its archives.
Ok, so besides the fact that this guy obviously made no useful connections through his weblog, as illustrated by his whining and then saying he’ll shut it down, he adds that he’ll remove all archives, as if in shame of his failed experiment. Well, the Google cache will hold it for a while, and then if we’re lucky it’ll go into the Wayback Machine.
Try talking to people who are using weblogs for everyday tasks directly related to business, or people who use them to solve real problems, or track issues, or do research… or… Many weblogs are authored by professionals who just happen to be experts in their domain. It’s not all angst-filled teens with the weight of the world on them. And honestly, that’s as valid a use of weblogging technology as anything else, isn’t it?
They say open-source will never catch on…
Asa from the Mozilla Foundation says this:
Today in Bugzilla, over 350 bugs were resolved…
We have about 50,000 people who have ever reported a bug in Bugzilla. About 17,000 of those people are repeat reporters who account for about 200,000 reports.
Henrik Gemal is the top bug reporter with almost 2,600 bugs reported…
…more than 7,600 people have resolved at least one bug report.
Boris Zbarsky is our top bug resolver having personally put to rest over 7,700 bugs…
We’ve got a large and prosperous community of engineers and testers but there’s always room for more. Every week we’re growing those numbers, working with lots of new faces — people who have decided that they want to be involved with more than just an occasional bug report…
In reading that you might thing “Sheesh! Mozilla is full of bugs!” but consider that anyone can submit what they think might be a bug, and it might actually have already been submited (DUPLICATE) or might not even be a bug (NOTABUG.) The thing to focus on here is that the bugs are getting addressed, which is more than I can say for some software producing entities…
I know that not every piece of open-source software is Mozilla-like, but there are many projects and products out there that have similar stories, though the names are numbers might be different.
Oh, and way to go Henrik!