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Saturday, 27 August 2005 |
 When Novell aquired the second largest Linux distributor, SuSE,
some time ago, it left many wondering what the future of one of the
best Linux distributions would be. Novell didn't exactly have a
wonderful track record with the Open Source community and many worried
that a proprietary company like Novell would take a similar route as SCO and try to claim ownership of the code that makes up the Linux kernel.
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a look at this guy. He's got a smile on his face. Why? That's Jef, one
of my coworkers, and a new SuSE user. He's not a hacker, he's not a
computer guru, he's an Electrical Engineer who recently decided to try
SuSE for himself. You might guess that Jef has a smile on his face
because that chameleon is scaring him just a bit. You'd be right. Thing
is, though, that's the same kind of smile I see on his face when he
tells me about something new he's learned to do or something wonderful
he's discovered, on his own, about Linux.
It's the same kind of smile I had on my face when I learned that Novell
decided to move the development of SuSE into the community through the OpenSuSE Project.
That means people like Jef and I can have a part in developing and
improving what is, in my opinion, the best Linux distribution available.
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Friday, 26 August 2005 |
There is an article on WorldCAD Access about Autodesk's recent decision to support Firefox for some of it's products.
"Software company Autodesk said on Thursday that it is
working on Firefox support for MapGuide, a product that allows
companies to distribute GIS applications on the Web. 'We consider
Firefox support to be essential and are working on it for the next
version of MapGuide,' said an Autodesk spokesman."
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"Autodesk employee Scott Sheppard said on the Autodesk forum in
July that it has no plans to add Firefox support for this [DWF Viewer]
product at present: 'There are a fair number of Macintosh users who
wish to view DWF files. The Firefox/Mozilla customer base has not yet
reached a similar critical mass'."
While it's nice to see that Autodesk finally recognizes that
there are other people besides themselves and Microsoft who produce
software, they miss the boat completely when it comes to the wants and
needs of their end users.
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Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
If you aren't familiar with Occam's Razor it states
one should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything
In other words "the simplest solution is often the best solution"
Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam
(or Ockham). The principle states that one should not make more
assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the
principle of parsimony.
It underlies all scientific modelling and theory building. It
admonishes us to choose from a set of otherwise equivalent models of a
given phenomenon the simplest one. In any given model, Occam's razor
helps us to "shave off" those concepts, variables or constructs that
are not really needed to explain the phenomenon. By doing that,
developing the model will become much easier, and there is less chance
of introducing inconsistencies, ambiguities and redundancies.
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