unseen

unseen

The unseen forces that bind us, Force us to our Given fates. All around us, it binds us together forcing us to live.
With the Tribal nature of humans, as always keeping us in the shadows of mental warfare. For some, this mental warfare
is the stuff of legend and myth with which to be distant. For others others.. its a call to the shadows where by the challenge
of the unseen forever challenging us.

-Nex6

Opendocument

Here is a summary of OpenDocument
here

here is some info on MA going to Open standards for all documents.
Here

I think, the more we have standards based Information systems which include, programming languages, office file formats, etc the better thens will be and the more compatiable thing will be with future systems. as less "leagacy" types of things will come along and things can be archived
without much trouble. its a brave new world.....


-Nex6

Linux Desktops

As, a longtime IT profissional I have been using and supporting computers for over 10 years. Below are some thoughts
On desktops and Linux. Now, I know everyone jumps on this bandwagon and spews out all sorts of junk.
this is not an atemp to do anything other then place a few thoughts down.

1:) Is Linux ready for the desktop/laptop?
well, this greatly depends on your needs. I have been using it for many years so i am not your typical user. I am an admin/programmer. but, my kids use it fine :)

I think the main thing, people need to keep in mind is. there is more then one "Linux Desktop". there are desktop
enviroments like Gnome and KDE, and more lightwieght ones like blackbox,FVWM and IceWM. all have there good points.

the thing is for software: which apps do you use and are they available for Linux? or are there Linux replacements?

2:)Is it more secure?
the zelots would always say yes to this, but I'll say. it can be, by a far margian. but it depends on how it is setup and weather it is pacthed.

more:  /dev/random

I think for kiosks types of uses and custamer service and other cookie cutter basic user Linux is ready by far today and would
help IT support staff support them by far. but for power users who use all sorts of windows apps and god knows what else
would be far more difficult to replace. not impossible but would take time to map out al the apps and there replacements


the other thing is for activeX based web services, internal pages based on this should be reworked to be standard based.

Email, IM  are all available as are web,mainframe etc.



-Nex6

Vint Cerf

Linkage

above is a link to a C|NET posting about Vint cerf and geographicaly index'd data. and a blarb about
a common space based communctions protocal ala tcp/ip but for space net. all very cool stuff.

imagine the abilitiy to open up your blackberry or Ipaq/Palm whatever, and ask it where the nearest restraunt is? now thats cool.

-Nex6