Telewest broadband upshift
Mon Apr 26 09:42:21 BST 2004 Permalink
Telewest boosts broadband speeds. More zoom for same dosh By Tim Richardson. [The Register]
w00t! Go Telewest!!
w00t! Go Telewest!!
2004-04-26w00t! Go Telewest!!
Word escape velocity attained at last!
Mon Apr 26 09:22:41 BST 2004 Permalink
Using Open Office to convert MS Word documents. Rickard Öberg recently posted a request for suggestions about using Java to convert MS word docs into HTML. I have been doing some work on this lately using the freely availiable, open-source OpenOffice.org to do the hard parts, making calls... [sockdrawer.org]
Paul has done some very craft work here -- many people want to solve this problem.
In fact it's a problem that he and I worked on last year. At that time we were looking for out of the box tools to do the job and not getting very far with it. Since then he's cooked up a clever solution by implementing RPC with an OpenOffice server. Neat!!
Is it del.icio.us?
Mon Apr 26 08:22:03 BST 2004 Permalink
In what passes for my spare time at the moment I am trying to understand what del.icio.us is about. I've signed up for my own page
and added the bookmarklets to my, already overcrowded, browser
bar. Now I just need to understand what it is and why it's a good
thing.
Software licensing for small ISVs
Mon Apr 26 08:18:33 BST 2004 Permalink
Dan Bricklin's rap on Open Source.software licensing for small ISVs. good thinking about being open without being open source [anil dash's daily links]
Great rant and tutorial by Dan Bricklin. I wonder why Anil doesn't just say that?
[Marc's Voice]
At first read an interesting outline of the issues faced by small ISVs (Evectors fits that bill although we think of ourselves more as compact and bijou) contemplating whether to make their product open, or open source and how to understand competition in that model. Dan appears to be going the dual license route: one free, one commercial with the commercial license being activated by specific activities.
Db4o do something similar with their license which allows for free use of the product in free applications and a commercial %revenue basis otherwise - although they charge everyone an annual fee to join their developer network where you can download the latest release and get support. I'm not sure how much revenue they make from this fee ($100 for individuals/$1000 for organisations) and whether it affects take up.