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The Open Source Commandments

The Open Source CommandmentsFirst CommandmentShouldn't the first commandment be: "Microsoft is Evil"?;-)RE: The Open Source CommandmentsWhat about the other commandments:"Thou shalt insult anyone who criticizes open source""Thou shalt not use any other software except the ones we use"Religion and sciencewhat a great taste that tastes great together. Someone calls...

Tags: commandment, open source, Passover Family Experience, Open Source Commandments, OSS

Discussion threads 2008-04-09

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Open source 10 commandments a step in the right direction

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Tags: open source

Discussion threads 2009-10-14

Open Source Haggadah, chapter 2

Last Passover, I spoke of the Commandments that companies should follow in order to be good Open Source citizens. Also read: Open Source Commandments I Also read: Open Source Commandments II My, what a difference a year makes -- or maybe...

Tags: Ubuntu, Novell Inc., Richard Koman, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Linux, Open Source, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-08

Apple plugs 21 Mac OS X security holes

Apple plugs 21 Mac OS X security holesWhere's the retraction of their lying PC adsOther countries seem to be able to prosecute companies for lying in advertisements.Only in America... ;-)RE: Apple plugs 21 Mac OS X security holesOh my god...I am flabergasted by the sheer number of computer illiterates...

Tags: Operating systems, security, Apple Inc., Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Mac OS X security hole, Mac OS X security, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-12-15

Livin' La Vida Linux

Livin' La Vida LinuxWell...Sure there are licenses. It all boils down to what you think is best for you.A proprietary license which is a collection of onerous restrictions on end-users or the GPL which can be loosely termed 'share and share alike'.No one is "looking over my shoulder". That is...

Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Linux, shoulder, Samba, personal use

Discussion threads 2008-10-15

News to know: Yahoo; ToorCon; Microsoft Surface, XP; Apple; Psystar

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft Nathan McFeters: ToorCon Seattle 2008: Nuke plants, non-existent sub domain attacks, muffin diving, and Guitar Hero ToorCon gallery. Mary Jo Foley:...

Tags: Google Inc., Hard Drive, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Veterans Administration, Help Desk, Open Source, It Operations

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins

Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins"Thou shalt not hate or mistreat the foreigner among you, . . ."Thou shalt not hate or mistreat the foreigner among you, for you yourselves were foreigners in a strange land." (With profound apologies to the King James translators ...)Enough with trashing Windows and...

Tags: Linux, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Open Source Commandments II, Passover Penguins, foreigner, open source

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Open Source Commandments II: Passover Penguins

In my previous piece discussing the first four Open Source Commandments I talked a bit about the traditions of Passover, where Jewish families gather together to eat a festive meal and discuss our liberation from slavery in Egypt during the reign of the Pharaoh (while the one in the...

Tags: Console, OSS, Open Source, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-18

News to know: Microhoo; Adobe patch; Windows bloat; AMD

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo goes nuclear vs. Microsoft: Inks limited Google ad deal; Microsoft fires back Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google: The vicious antitrust circle Yahoo's strategy: Torpedo the Microsoft deal or up the offer? Garett Rogers: Google gets business from Yahoo...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-04-10

The Open Source Commandments

Next Sunday, the Passover again falls upon us. For those of us Jews that celebrate the holiday, it is most associated with a ceremonial meal spent with family, where we recite the story passed down to us over hundreds of generations from Maxwell House haggadahs chronicling the exodus from Egypt...

Tags: Jason Perlow, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Operating Systems, Pharaoh Rameses, Software, UNIX

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn

Media support in Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty FawnInstall Mplayer or VLC instead ...It has built in codec support for Quicktime 7 files. There is also a graphical front end that's included. Mplayer will also allow you to capture network streams and do conversion with mencoder, but it's on the command line...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Consumer electronics, Windows Media, Apple QuickTime, Ubuntu, VLC Player, mplayer, Automatix, Mplayer, DVD

Discussion threads 2007-06-20

For ComputerWorld's Seven deadly sins of outsourcing, here's an eighth

ComputerWorld tapped IT vets to come up with The Seven Deadly Sins of Outsourcing. Nice timing, given that ZDNet launched a piece on the 15 IT Commandments and then subsequently updated it with 12 more from readers in the last couple of weeks. According to the CW...

Tags: CRM, outsource, outsourcing

Blog posts 2006-05-09

IT Commandment: Thou shalt not let thy web servers be hacked

Over the past few months I've become increasingly aware of the number of web sites being compromised and used for phishing and/or dropping malware. I expect the owners of the sites were unaware of what was going on. I've contacted ISPs and gotten a number of such sites shut...

Tags: Web server, server

Blog posts 2006-04-13

IT Commandment: Thou shalt document all thy works

Reuse is at the heart of all today's hot IT trends: open source, SaaS, Web 2.0, mashups, etc. But how is anyone supposed to reuse a piece of code or a service if the documentation's inadequate? When I started out writing this commandment, it was headed "Thou shalt not...

Tags: information technology, IT Commandment

Blog posts 2006-04-10

IT Commandment: Thou shalt not fear change

I've been wracking my brain for a commandment which would fit with the theme this week, and I figured that the commandment "Thou Shalt Recognize the Inherent Superiority of Microsoft Software" might be a tad too partisan, particularly coming from guy who works for Microsoft in its IPTV division (queue...

Tags: information technology, outsourcing

Blog posts 2006-04-05

IT Commandment: Thou shalt not condemn departments doing their own IT

Thou shalt not try to stop departments from experimenting with web services and developing skinny applications for their own uses.The IT department has often been among them the most conservative and change-phobic in the entire company. "That's not the way we do things and we've been doing this 15 years,"...

Tags: IT-departments, information technology

Blog posts 2006-04-03

The IT Commandments: Thou shalt give something back to the community

The IT Commandments: Thou shalt give something back to the community"Open source" isn't "free"Open source software may be "free" on a monetary level, but the moment you start giving back to the community, it has a very real cost. If you were a manager of IT, ask yourself this simple...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Tools & Techniques, open source, Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition, software, work-around, Microsoft Windows, IT Commandment

Discussion threads 2006-04-02

IT Commandment: Thou shalt not use nonsecure protocols on thy network

You may have noticed recent posts from some of the ZDNet bloggers in a series we're calling IT Commandments. Here's a commandment for any of you responsible for administering your company's network: Turn off Telnet and FTP and use secure protocols to provide access through the...

Tags: firewall, network

Blog posts 2006-04-02

IT Commandment: Thou shalt give something back to the community

Following in the model of Paul Murphy and Dion Hinchcliffe, here's a commandment for anyone who uses open source software: Give something back. Before I get into the why, I want to take a moment to discuss the what and the how. First, what exactly are you supposed to give...

Tags: software

Blog posts 2006-04-01

The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other things

The IT Commandments: Put thy users first, above all other thingsPart of the reason I posted...... was the implicit assumption that a dissatisfied user is going to leap onto the internet, find the right software, etc. for his purposes, program, and do his work on his own private system.Leaving aside...

Tags: Channel management, Development tools, Scripting languages, GUI programming, AJAX, Web, Web 2.0, exponential factor, Hinchcliffe, Web programming, IT Commandment

Discussion threads 2006-03-28