January 2009

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Today marks the start of the new episode. For several years now, I have a very is painful neck, so much so that it has prevented me from writing in detail of the sort I’d like to, on a whole range of topics.

Given that I’m a well-known mumbler and prevaricator.  I imagine that trying to read these posts, initially at least could be very difficult.

It should be fun to find out.  It Today is also remarkable for the fact that I have finally divorced myself from an addiction or at the least a dependence upon Apple’s, iTunes.  

I got sick of a range of issues that I was suffering from with iTunes and so I have replaced it with Mozilla is Songbird. http://getsongbird.com/

The issues that I had was when I asked by iTunes to copy my files from the standard format to an MP3 format.  Rather than replace the file the existing songs with their MP3 versions, iTunes simply made another copy of the same files.

Having done this a few times, I add it up with multiple copies of nearly every song in my music collection.  I went through all of the subfolders and directories of music and removed all duplicates leaving only the MP3 files.  

iTunes, of course, didn’t update its playlist, so I would be fortunate if one in three files listed in the playlist were actually able to play. Rather than work through the whole, iTunes environment to try and figure out what the hell was going was going on how to fix it I decided to replace iTunes altogether

I now have a new music player, which looks fantastic sounds great, and seemed to have all my music on.

What more could you ask willo, having purchased Dragon NaturallySpeaking, of decided that all my posts from now will be done using speech recognition, stay well

RSS Open Source Initiative

  • A simple declaration about "Open Core"
    Recently, there has been debate in the press about "Open Core". I don't care to debate the minor points but make a simple declaration: read more
  • Resources for Open Source Compliance
    Open source is everywhere today and there is growing awareness that companies have to meet certain obligations when distributing open source software. Here are some useful resources to learn more about open source compliance. read more
  • Creating a FLOSS Roadmap, brick by BRIC
    Last year I attended Open World Forum in Paris. It was a lively conference with broad representation of industry leaders, community organizers, and government officials and administrators. The warm reception by the Mayor's office in Paris (at the Hôtel de Ville) underscored what has become increasingly obvious in the analysis of economic statistics: […]
  • Why Open Core has a problem and is not a problem.
    Pamela Jones, of Groklaw, thinks that OSI has a problem in Open Core. I think she has it backwards. The Open Core (most notably SugarCRM) folks have a problem. They'd like to convince people that they can achieve the open source effect by having two versions of their code: an open source version, and a proprietary version. They'd like to convin […]
  • Malaysian Government has reached 97% OSS Adoption -- WOW!
    When I started working on GNU C++ in 1987, I could almost feel the course of history changing with every line of code I wrote. When I started Cygnus Support in 1989, I was convinced that it was only a matter of time before companies began to realize that proprietary software restrictions did nothing to help their competitive advantage and everything to harm […]
  • Open Data Definition at OSCON
    I'm running a BOF at OSCON on Wednesday night July 21st at 7PM, with the declared purpose of adopting an Open Source Definition for Open Data. Safe enough to say that the OSD has been quite successful in laying out a set of criteria for what is, and what is not, Open Source. We should adopt a definition Open Data, even if it means merely endorsing an […]
  • Ushahidi tracks the Gulf Oil Spill: Open Source Crowdsourcing at Work
    On April 20th, 2010, a methane gas explosion ripped apart the operational oil rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico. This accident has become a catastrophe - the largest oil spill in US history. It has damaged the entire ecosystem of life in the Gulf. The ocean waters and shorelines of Gulf states all the way to Florida and the Mississippi […]
  • Brazil and India: The Next Generation of Open Source
    Those of us who follow the growth of open source in the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China) know that both Brazil and India are leveraging open source at a rapid pace towards economic development. Indiaread more
  • Your Chance To Change OSI
    When I said recently that we still need the Open Source Initiative (OSI), it started a flood of comment. There's no doubt that we need OSI - but we need a better OSI. The one we have now is just too small to be effective and too mired in past successes; a renaissance is needed. You can help. read more
  • OSI Committee Chairs Election for 2010-2011
    Earlier this month, the OSI board held elections for the organization's committees. Board members interested in working on OSI initiatives such as membership, education, policy and economic development, outreach submitted their candidacy to the board. Based on the slate of candidates, the board voted the following chairpersons to lead each OSI initiativ […]