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Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format vs ODF in newly public e-mail?No permission needed to circulate emails...... as once they leave your outbox, they belong to the recipient and the recipient can do with them as they please, within legal boundaries of course.Talk about standardized formats...or...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), CDF, office format, OpenDocument Format, W3C, Microsoft Corp., e-mail

Discussion threads 2007-12-04

Did the W3C acknowledge CDF's potential as an office format (vs ODF) in newly public e-mail?

Last week, after interviewing most of the players involved in a controversy regarding the future of the OpenDocument Format (a controversy mostly rooted in the confusion of two nearly identical but very different acronyms: ODf and ODF), I noted that some of those players -- IBM, the World Wide Web...

Tags: W3C, Microsoft Corp., E-mail, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., CDF, Edwards, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-12-04

OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?

OpenDocument Foundation folds; will Microsoft benefit?Only freedom is the real loserWhile corporations whose goals are to exploit the public (using well-placed lobbying and bribes) will be winners.The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.C'est La VieCDF? But, but, butno one needs two standards, right? :-)congratulations to Mary....for...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Idealism, benefit, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, CDF

Discussion threads 2007-11-14

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Hacking NASA: One small step for man, one giant leap for hackers?

The CORE Security Team released an advisory to the Full-Disclosure mailing list today that documented a stack overflow in NASA's Common Data Format libs. Looking at this bug, the tech details aren't overwhelming, I think I'm mostly excited about it due to the high profile of hacking NASA libs.  One...

Tags: NASA, Vulnerability, Hacker, Exploitation, Common Data Format 3.2.1, Security, Patches, Hacking, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-05-05

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating system

Microsoft and Google stalk the Internet operating systemIn the long run, Live services...will not make the big splash everyone is hoping for. Individual consumers may find it useful but Enterprises will move the services back in house. Especially with Open Source providing more and better services that can...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Game players, Internet, Yahoo! acquisition, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, cloud computing, Google Inc., computing, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-02-12

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'Wow!David-Thanks for the large effort here.At least the Spanish like our style.-SamGreat job, DavidThanks for digging a little truth out of the muckety-muck.Mucking is more of a muck-mongers malingering manipulation of many malignant minds. The muck just oozes out of them.Thanks...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format community, OpenDocument Format, car engine, theatric, Unix, belt, IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now impotent 'Foundation'

When in mid-October 2007, the OpenDocument Foundation (ODf, yes, that's a little "f" that's not to be confused with the OASIS- and 400-member strong OpenDocument Alliance-backed big F-ODF: the OpenDocument Format) announced that the World Wide Web Consoritum (W3C)-backed Common Document Format CDF was the heir-apparent to what it believed...

Tags: W3C, OpenDocument Format, IBM Corp., OpenDocument Foundation, ODf, Matusow, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-29

OpenDocument Foundation's 'woes' have little to do with OpenDoc Format's future

I've been so busy with other stuff that I've only peripherally been paying attention to an ongoing meme on the Internet about how the World Wide Web Consortium's Common Document Format CDF had been identified by the OpenDocument Foundation as a superior document format to the OpenDocument Format that it...

Tags: Drama, OpenDoc, Fact, OpenDocument Format, Disagreement, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-11-16

OpenDocument Foundation folds. Will Microsoft benefit?

The OpenDocument Foundation -- a group whose name and charter would lead one to believe that it was backing the OpenDocument Format ODF, but which ended up backing a different document format instead -- has closed its doors. Sam Hiser, a systems consultant who was Vice President...

Tags: Benefit, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-11-14

ODF and differences of opinion

ODF and differences of opinionNot really[i]It sounds like the OpenDocument Foundation thinks another XML document standard would better achieve their goals.[/i]Actually, it's much more of a political issue. They're after a file format that meets classical standards objectives such as testable conformance and round-trip integrity between conforming applications.According to...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OOXML, OpenDocument Format, OASIS, OpenDocument Foundation

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

ODF and differences of opinion

When I read that the OpenDocument Foundation had decided to back away from work on ODF in favor of CDF (a W3C-backed standard) out of a belief that ODF wouldn't achieve the real-world interoperability goals the OpenDocument Foundation was originally created to achieve, I wondered whether I should bother with...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, John Carroll

Blog posts 2007-11-02

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXMLIs the vote the most important issue?A splintering of ODF advocates won't affect IBM's attempt to discomfit a rival nor slow those who believe Microsoft villainous. But it does reduce or make less enthusiastic the number of those campaigning against Office and for ODF...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Matusow, Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OOXML

Discussion threads 2007-10-29

ODF infighting could help Microsoft's OOXML

Microsoft's battle with backers of the Open Document Format ODF standard could end up going the way that so many contests do: Won by Microsoft as much -- if not more -- because of the ineptitude of its competition than by Redmond's prowess. Just as Netscape and...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, OpenDocument Format (ODF), Emerging Technologies, Mary Jo Foley

Blog posts 2007-10-29

Probability Calculator (zip)

Probability Calculator is a quick, simple and effective tool which can be used by students, scientists, teachers or professional analysts alike. It supports over 30 different distributions (pdf, cdf, survival, hazard and cumulative hazard function). It calculates estimates for first 4 moments, percent point function ppf for any distribution and...

Tags: Distribution, Probability Calculator, Productivity, XML, Software/Web Development, Web Development

Software downloads 2006-11-16

Next thing ya know, Apple will try to patent RSS

Next thing ya know, Apple will try to patent RSSApple's a little late to the game:They are a little late as was Dave:Client-side system for scheduling delivery of web content and locally managing the web contentFiled: 1997Issued: 2003US Patent 6,594,682http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Freedman&s2=Jiggins&OS=Freedman+AND+Jiggins&RS=Freedman+AND+JigginsIn fact, RSS in its earliest incarnations was a clone of...

Tags: Channel management, patent rss, Next Thing, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-05-10

Performance Analysis of IEEE 802.11 for Multi-Hop Infrastructure Networks

Recent interest in Multi-hop Infrastructure Networks MINs has resulted in a need for an accurate model to predict the behavior of such systems. The paper considers a traffic-based network model to characterize these networks. The paper first analyzes the link delay characteristics of MINs. This is followed by a method...

Tags: IEEE 802.11, Performance, Network, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking

White papers 2005-08-30

Office 12: Why Microsoft passed on OpenDocument XML format

Office 12: Why Microsoft passed on OpenDocument XML formatEnoughJeez...what's with them??? can't Microsoft realize that earning more money is not the only thing that matters?You have enough money - now start thinking about us, the users, and make out life a wee-bit easier! sheesh...Lets be honest, the tail is trying...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Word processors, Microsoft Office, OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., Corel WordPerfect, Office 12

Discussion threads 2005-06-02

Interwise Case Study: The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection CDF is responsible for providing emergency services for over 31 million acres of woodland in the state of California. Such critical tasks require CDF to continually train and certify its personnel across the state in fire safety procedures; a difficult undertaking with...

Tags: Interwise, Training, Workforce Management, Human Resources

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