I’ve just bitten the bullet and upgraded from MS Office 2004 (for the Mac) to Office 2008. I actually prefer NeoOffice and Thunderbird, but we use Exchange for our corporate email and I am desperate for better calendar and address book support.
I can now check colleagues availability when making appointments, however I can’t view shared calendars.
At the moment it keeps asking for access to my keychain every 10 mins and the normal fix does not work
So far I can’t access our global address book either.
Microsoft will covenant not to sue open source developers for development and non-commercial distribution of implementations of these Open Protocols.
FLOSS developers and users used to be communists in the eyes of the Redmond giant, but now we are all one big happy family.
I notice that the list of products to which these principles apply it fairly limited (”Windows Vista including the .NET Framework, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008, Office 2007, Exchange 2007, and Office SharePoint Server 2007″)
Let’s also see what ‘non-commercial distribution’ means…
Updated 25/Feb/08 — Groklaw is not impressed either.
This often quoted phrase is rarley followed up with anything except generalisations. The easy way to show everyone how valuable you are is to write a simple weekly email for your manager (and anyone involved in your current projects). It should have four main headings:
Issues for attention - anything that might need action by others or that poses a risk
Progress since the last report
Planned activity for the next report period
Further information - Details or notes that don’t fit elsewhere (optional).
The secret is to keep this very brief, a series of one line bullet points is best. However you end up with paper audit trail of your working life and help make your boss’ life easier.
A presentation from my chum Kate on some of the new challenges facing organisations as Gen Y/Z comes on-board the workforce.
What I would like to see are some studies on how effective some of the new tools (Wikies, IM, “Project Centres” , Task Managers, etc) are in real life.
The wave of early adopter interest is moving - to video … perhaps
I hate to sound like a Grumpy Old Fart, but how about the early adopter interest moved back to something that is a little more traditional and productive? This is starting to feel like another nasty Web bubble about to burst and we’ll all end up with egg on our faces (again). Too much money being thrown at applications with no solid business plan/model
Slashdot identified our very own Jonathan Oxer as Australia’s Geekiest Man, a well deserved honour and it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Now we need to know who Australia’s Geekiest Woman is. Possibly Kirrily, although she recently moved to San Francisco so I don’t know if she still qualifies.
Updated: In early March Jon made it onto Australian national TV
Another presentation by Paul Fenwick, this time a lightning talk on Greasemonkey that was awarded best lightning talk at LAC last month. What is intresting is the presentation style, which we are starting to see a lot more at conferences. It makes a refreshing change from death by Powerpoint
In a similar fashion to a previous post about gvim you can use TextWrangler as your SVN or SVN log message editor by setting $SVN_EDITOR to the value of "/usr/bin/edit -w" and install the TextWrangler command line tools. I’m guessing that something similar would also work for BBEdit as well.
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