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Re: if Carlsberg made typos - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:50:47 -0000

The cupboard is most probably stationary and maybe (s)he is a consultant on the subject of principles.

Please don't ever read anything I write. I can't spell for toffee so I do this sort of thing all the time. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: My Thoughts on Wave

jkuramot — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:23:03 -0000

Actually, those two were noticeably absent from the demo. They showed how Wave can interact with a blog, but not how it could aggregate information. They also didn't cover how contacts got into Wave.

My guess is to do FriendFeed style aggregation would be possible via a robot, which I'm sure someone will build very early. Same thing for social network contact management. The APIs on those systems would make that pretty attractive as a starting point for developers.

The consumer waves will be built quickly, but just as quickly, that well will run dry b/c there just aren't that many out there to build. This is why Rich and I see more promise for enterprises, leading to an ecosystem of enterprise waves built to support enterprise processes.

Re: My Thoughts on Wave

oraclebase — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 02:36:30 -0000

Hi.

I've already given my first impressions on Rich's original blog, so I won't repeat myself.

I have been wondering if wave could end up being the new friendfeed? My biggest challenge in terms of a Web 2.0 wannabe is actually keeping an eye on everything. Friendfeed helps, but it's not the answer. With the right extensions, wave could merge my emails, RSS, social networks and microblogs into a single consistent stream? You never know. :)

What's more, wave could give me the finer granularity so I don;t need to use LinkedIn for business and Facebook from 1st-life friends...

I know it's a bit of a trivial use, but maybe that will attract the masses more than the business aspects of collaboration...

Cheers

Tim...

Re: The Enterprise Implications of Google Wave

jkuramot — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:26:25 -0000

I had the same reaction, i.e. it's going to need a dumbing-down for the average user to get comfortable. That's not a problem, just an observation.

After working with OpenSocial, we already know the code will be a bit iffy. Still, the extension framework is the key part. As long as it's stable, we can build robots and gadgets and get a feel for how it works.

I see a lot of promise right now. But again, no one has code in hand yet.

Re: The Enterprise Implications of Google Wave

oraclebase — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:55:57 -0000

Hi.

I watched the 1:20 Google I/O session on youtube. First, let me say I was very impressed by the idea and the technology, but I have some reservations:

- Are people ready for a product like Wave? Many people are struggling to cope with basic Web 2.0 concepts and Wave takes it a step further. Not sure how it will be perceived by the non-geeks in the near future.

- It is not just a beta in the Google sense of the word. It looks less than an alpha to me. I think there is a long way to go before I would commit to using the product. During the demo there were bugs, page refreshes required and functional omissions.

- I wonder what network impact of wave will be. In a large company with constant updates between multiple wave subscribers. Is this going to be an issue?

Fast forward 6 months and I hope all my doubts are unfounded. I can't wait to have an interface like wave. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: New job, lots of exciting stuff

dannorris — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:22:04 -0000

Thanks for boiling it down--you're right. Should be all down hill from here.

Re: New job, lots of exciting stuff

oraclebase — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:44:09 -0000

The most important thing to do when starting a new job is, find out where the toilets are. As you're working from home you've got that one sorted. The rest is plane sailing. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: singalonga Shearer - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:30:02 -0000

Now that's just mean. You better not go neat Newcastle in the near future. ;)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: why Ballack, Drogba and Terry need to look inwardly - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:58:07 -0000

Hi.

If you judged Drogba on this performance alone you would have thought he was drafted in from a Sunday league side. He was just plain rubbish. He missed some goals I think I could have scored. And the feigning injury and all that nonsense just adds to the sorry package.

Ballack... His name says it all. He's a load of Ballacks. :) He's big and strong, but he wouldn't know how to play football if a Penguin book of football walked up to him, slapped him in the face and told him out to play. I'm not sure he even realizes he's meant to be playing football.

Barcelona were playing better football, but Chelsea were stronger and muscled them out. Just as Jamie Redknapp said, if they carry on playing like this the last 20 minutes is going to get really dangerous. I think he may be psychic. :)

Iniesta is very good, but the guy hit the deck every time someone sneezed near him. The authorities really need to do something about it. Either punish them or start presenting awards for the best faker of the match.

I feel sorry for Chelsea, having it stolen at the last minute, but when you play with fire you're sure as hell going to get burned.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Oracle’s latest acquisition: Me

oraclebase — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:20:30 -0000

Noooooooo. Everyone knows that you disappear from the blogsphere once you join the evil empire 2.0. :)

Well done mate. Sounds like a great oppertunity. Hope it all goes well for you. I'll be thinking of you when I'm at the OpenWorld Appreciation night and you are struggling to find a ticket. :)

See you at ODTUG or OpenWorld.

Tim...

Re: More Fun with Virtualization

jkuramot — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:20:29 -0000

Re. performance, I didn't do much with DSL other than other prove the concept. It did seem fast enough, but I wonder how it would perform during a sync of the disk file to Dropbox.

Re: More Fun with Virtualization

oraclebase — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:42:09 -0000

I love VMs. I do everything with them. I keep a clean Linux (CentOS 5) install as a host OS and do everything on VMs. As you mentioned, if anything goes wrong you just fire up a clone. It's also cool when you need to transfers stuff between physical machines. Just move the images. No reinstalls. :)

The cloud stuff sounds cool, but I wouldn't trust it for a demo. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: beyond the expected - Blog in isolation

oraclebase — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:05:03 -0000

If that's even half-way true it's freakin' hilarious.

Cheers

Tim...

PS. Always type, don't write...

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

jkuramot — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:05:04 -0000

Heh, licensing, another reason to go Linux.

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

oraclebase — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:20:04 -0000

I'm not saying Vista is the better choice of Windows. XP is leaner, faster and a bit neater. It's just I have a proper license for Vista on that laptop, and I'm not into breaking the law these days. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

jkuramot — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:43:06 -0000

Funny "does more of the things I need, with less hassle" sums up nicely, with the emphasis on hassle. I've only run Vista a bit on a VM, but it seemed very heavy, as do all Windows O/S compared to Linux and Mac. Still no VPN issues, dual monitors worked mostly fine, etc.

Good point about h/w, supporting more kinds does mean exponentially more driver work.

After the latest move, I'm trying to stay more cloud/backup/VM centric to ensure that I can lose the box and still be fine.

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

andymurd — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:10:22 -0000

That hardware advantage is huge.

I use OS X, Windows and Ubuntu and I find that I spend similar amounts of time tweaking Windows & Ubuntu but none on OS X. Apple's hardware restrictions mean that I buy far fewer hardware upgrades so that has a big effect.

That said, I've found that any Windows install seems to "rot" over time. Taking longer to boot, using more and more memory and gaining conflicting DLLs. This just doesn't happen with Ubuntu.

Re: OS X, Ubuntu and Other Fun Stuff

oraclebase — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:29:09 -0000

One advantage Apple have over Windows and Linux is they only have to worry about a small amount of hardware drivers. If they started to sell OS X for install on all x86 & x86-64 kit they would have to write thousands of drivers. The biggest gripe I have with Linux (even Ubuntu) is the limited number of divers.

I've switched between Linux and Windows several times on my laptop. A few days ago I switched back to Vista. I don't like it, but it does more of the things I need, with less hassle.

I switched from CentOS5 to Ubuntu on my PC. I'm coming to the end of my love affair with Ubuntu. I think I'm going to switch back to CentOS5. It's more solid and that machine is more of a server, so it's a better match.

As I've said before, stick to VMs and your transitions between OSes are very easy. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: More iPwnage

jkuramot — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:16:37 -0000

Heh, I wouldn't know, since I already have a perfectly good one :) If one were released, it would probably be US only, which might be why you missed it.

Re: More iPwnage

oraclebase — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:34:47 -0000

Has a new version of the iPhone been released? You would have thought the press would have picked up on that!

Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 4

jkuramot — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:08:50 -0000

Another solid point, although for me, having a Mac and now a Linux box means I can dabble more easily in development. Not that XP prevented that, but the tools we use are very Mac/Linux friendly.

Frankly, for now it's a new toy, and even though I spend most of my time in a browser, I'm enjoying messing about with it.

Re: Taking the Plunge: Part 4

oraclebase — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:18:58 -0000

Hi.

I think there's an element of emperors new clothes about reinstalling a machine. When I switched from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu 8 on one of my boxes I lived on it for a few days. After that I realized no matter what OS I run I spend 99% of my time in Firefox and virtual machines, so the OS doesn't really matter for me. Now it's just another box I use, rather than my preferred box.

Although I agree that Ubuntu has come a long way in terms of ease of use, I think one of the biggest things that's helped Linux on the desktop is the fact we do more stuff online these days. This frees us up from the constraints of the environment.

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Taking the Plunge

jkuramot — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:45:47 -0000

Excellent advice. I use VirtualBox because it's free as in beer. This will be a chance for me to get closer to that ideal; all my files are on a USB drive, so now all I need is an XP image.

It's funny how much faith we put in hard drives. Moving parts fail. I can't wait for solid state to be everywhere.

Re: Taking the Plunge

oraclebase — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:49:30 -0000

I do everything on the internet or on VMs. If I lost my laptop tomorrow I could be back online in the amount of time it takes to buy the new laptop, install VMware Server and copy over the VMs.

If you can get into the habit of doing this it makes life very easy. :)

Cheers

Tim...

Re: Gmail on the up down under - Digging in a Habari sandpit

oraclebase — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 07:49:28 -0000

They should just palm off their whole operation to Google.

Google University would set an essay, automatically search Wikipedia, create an essay for you, mark it, gmail the lecturer a link to Google Analytics, which would have a plugin for essay results.

People could automatically complete their entire degree in about 10 minutes with no need for human intervention. I call it progress!

Cheers

Tim...

PS. I think a lot of companies will start farming off their infrastructure to big companies like Google and Amazon. The resources they free up from mundane administrative tasks can be used to do something creative.

I know a lot of people will see this as a threat to their livelihood, but it wasn't long ago we were all working the fields guiding 1 horse ploughs.

Cheers

Tim...