This morning I got the notification of an amazing business opportunity!!!!!
No, this time it was not spam, but it was a scam.
This time, it involves eBay, Paypal and the distribution of comparatively small amounts of money (£3.00, in this case).
Here's an extract:
Dear valued Customer/Seller
As we did business recently, I thought you might be interested in this money
making opportunity. If it works it is great and I am going to take a chance.
This e-mail is going round all paypal and eBay users and it seems to be
working.
Please do not delete this before reading it in full - it is not a scam and
There is a very good, detailed, look at the problem often encountered by Linux proponents about the 'making Linux like Windows' debate. You can read the full piece.
The problem is that users from the Windows world expect Linux to work the same, because they hear it is a replacement, but they are not willing to learn or adapt to the new system. Too often we hear 'but X doesn't work like Windows' or 'Y doesn't run on Linux'.
We should be carefully pointing out that 'X doesn't work like Windows, but Q is an alternative way of doing the same thing' and 'Y doesn't run on Linux, but Z is much better piece of software'.
Well, Apple announced their Intel based Macs yesterday in two forms, a desktop (in the form of a new iMac) and a laptop (in the form of the MacBook, a replacement for the Powerbook). This is ahead of schedule, and it shows that Apple have been working hard to modify their hardware to support the alternative CPU and environment. I've actually been using an Intel based Mac for a while now. As a developer I was fortunate enough to be able to get a Apple Transition Kit. I can say, quite simply, that I'm impressed. I'm even happier that as one of the early developers to embrace the new technology that Apple are providing us with an upgrade path in the form of a new Intel based iMac to replace our ATK.
The first part of a new series of tutorials on building a grid application based on standardized web services like WSRM (Reliable Messaging) and WS-Security. The first part is an overview of the grid application (a movie storage system) and looks at the standards and how they will be used within the grid.
The tutorial is currently top pick on the IBM devWorks site:
This is a joint venture between myself and Tyler Anderson who has written a few of the other tutorials and articles I’ve written for IBM. Tyler has provided the code, based on my design guidelines and thoughts for the grid, but all the words are mine.
You can read the first part of the tutorial through this link.
Apparently there is some sort of keynote or something going today by Apple.
I'm not going to be there, but based on past experience, it could be an expensive day (I've purchased hardware after a number of these keynotes as soon as the Apple store has opened).
Predicting what is coming is impossible - Apple have pulled too many tricks on us before now. Pointing you to pontification is also fairly pointless. However, I do think Jason Fox tried an interesting approach...
A better approach to get the info is to visit one of the many sites that will be providing information straight from the keynote. MacDaily News already has a page available, and it's likely that other sites such as Macintouch, The Apple Blog (one of my other blog sites) and MacNN will have some live commentary. MacNN also have some pre-Macworld photos available, just in case you can't wait.
One of the interesting elements about the modern web experience is that users are expected to be part of a community, and web site owners are expected to provide the infrastructure to support it. You can see that in a combination of different tools.
Blogs contain support for people to comment, and you'll often see the same people comment on the same post, and even have conversations through the comments on a single post to the point that you know the person that is posting based on their posts. We're seeing the same with other sites. del.icio.us, Shoutwire, digg and even older sites like Slashdot all work on the same principle.
