Mental notes to myself

I was trying to explore alternatives for slave/master architectures and gave a try to federated tables.

No this post is not about Sun buying mySql.

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It was about time that somebody really care about an open source flash.
I wonder how Adobe is feeling about it.

Congrats to Aral Balkan and his team.

I was reading this article about “Top 8 Reasons HCI is in its Stone Age” and one of the arguments was about the screen corners:

The irony is that we argue about whether systems should be application-centered or document-centered, probably the two most important entities in a computer. Have you ever seen a system which lets you, out-of-the-box, hit a corner in order to do anything at all even remotely related to anything having anything at all to do with a document or application? So maybe documents aren’t the most important entity in a computer. Browse the internet by hitting the screen corner? Check mail in the screen corner? Get Info in the screen corner? System preferences in the screen corner? Switching applications in the screen corner?

And this argument makes more sense after seeing SymphonyOS: a Desktop computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux and Knoppix GNU/Linux.

I seems some people out there is really working on human computer interfaces…
Great job. I’m impressed.

InfoWorld has an interesting article about using open source software in the business…

Some titles:

A buyer’s guide to open source
Open source business intelligence
Open source business process management
Open source content management
Open source CRM
Open source ERP
Open source enterprise service bus
Open source identity
Open source directory
Open source portals
Open source point of sale
Open source RFID
Open source VoIP/Telephony
Open source licensing offers many choices

Here is the link

After watching the Longhorn- RSS and Browsing Teams 1 hour video, I was so amazed. At first it was something really unexpected from Microsoft. Supporting RSS at OS Level? Having APIs for RSS? Is Microsoft approaching to the open source guys by supporting RSS deeply?

Days passed and I see the things much clearer.

After reading this passage, you’ll understand the Microsoft way and Microsoft’s idea about computers and computer users (plus developers). The question you should ask to yourself is “What is an Operating System?”
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