Australia’s first Open Source Census published
“Results of Australia’s first large-scale Open Source community census have been released to the public. [The report] gives voice to the business potentials, patterns and concerns of a previously mute sector of the IT industry.”
(tags: waughpartners opensource census report)
Australian senator demands open source against US “lock-inâ€
“Australian senator, Karen Lundy, believes [...]
Back off, China tells Rudd on eve of visit
“Mr Rudd’s hardline approach comes amid Opposition claims that he is too close to China.” — Our newly minted opposition just can’t catch a break, no matter what they try.
(tags: kevinrudd china brendannelson liberal labor australia politics)
‘Ms Fits’ named top blogger
“Marieke Hardy’s blog, Reasons You Will Hate [...]
US software lock-ins harm local bidders
“There should be an insistence now at the policy level on open standards, thereby limiting the capture proprietary software companies have had in the past,” [Senator Lundy] said.
(tags: katelundy waughpartners opensource openstandards australia government policy)
Aussie open source report now a free download
“Sydney-based open source research firm Waugh Partners has published [...]
Jim Melton responds to Rick Jelliffe’s SQL/OOXML comparison
“[T]he standardizers of SQL weren’t so arrogant that we thought we could rush [...] 6,000 pages in one go, without it [being] visible to the vast, vast majority of the world until it started its FINAL ballot.” — Summarised here, do read the whole thing.
(tags: ooxml microsoft sql [...]
When standards ain’t standards
“OOXML works well, but things would have been much better had Microsoft adopted ODF. Microsoft now seems to have been too clever by half, to its own detriment and that of consumers.” — Mainstream opinion piece on OOXML by Graeme Philipson
(tags: ooxml odf microsoft office graemephilipson)
European Commission to increase its use of [...]
Lucky 7: you’re number isn’t up yet, Brendan
“An adult Australian, selected at random, is now statistically more likely to be an asthma sufferer than a Brendan Nelson supporter.” — Annabel Crabb is back! Yay!
(tags: australia politics annabelcrabb brendannelson liberal)
Firefox tip: delete an autocomplete entry
“Now this is cool. Select the autocomplete entry with the up/down arrows [...]
US comedian Will Ferrell wins James Joyce award
“I will also continue to drive on the left-hand side of the road. Will it be dangerous? Yes. Is it illegal? Highly. But that’s just how committed I am [to my Irish roots].” — Will Ferrell receives the James Joyce award while goofing around in Ireland.
(tags: willferrell jamesjoyce [...]
Ubuntu 7.10 on the XPS M1330
“Starting today, customers in Germany, United Kingdom, France and now Spain can purchase Ubuntu 7.10 with built-in DVD playback on the XPS 1330n” — Good move by Dell, shipping Ubuntu on highly desirable hardware… Not yet in Australia though.
(tags: dell ubuntu xps m1330 laptop)
Transactional Debian Upgrades with ZFS on Nexenta
“Meet apt-clone(8). The tool which integrates with the Nexenta system, keeps track of upgrade checkpoints and allows to create/destroy/edit checkpoints by request.” — Where Solaris could be today, if Indiana had built upon existing FLOSS infrastructure.
(tags: sun solaris nexenta debian apt zfs upgrade rollback via:gman)
AOL adopting XMPP aka Jabber
“You [...]
WPhone, WordPress Plugin
“Looking to manage your WordPress install via your phone? Then the award winning WPhone plugin is exactly what you need.” — Extraordinarly tasty (and tasteful!) WordPress admin interface plugin for mobile bloggers. Very sweet.
(tags: wordpress plugin mobile iphone phone interface)
