Teknoids

Thanks to a post from our friend Ben Chapman @ Emory I share with you this presentation on managing your email, instead of letting it manage you.

We've all been there right? Too much in the old inbox, crying out 'Look at me!', no where enough time. Well take a look at this presentation from Merlin Mann of 43 Folders. This talk runs about an hour and was delivered at Google as part of their Tech Talk series. You may want to share this with everyone at your law school:)

Attention Teknoids!

I've tuned up the interface to www.teknoids.net a bit, switching to a cleaner template and re-working the menu system. I'm thinking that this will make it easier for y'all to use the website. Remember, everyone on the list has access to the website.

In response to conversations started at the conference in Vegas, there are 2 new groups on teknoids: LawDUG (http://www.teknoids.net/groups/lawdug) and CALIcon08 (http://www.teknoids.net/groups/calicon08). LawDUG is a Drupal users group for those of us in the legal area. It should come in handy for anyone with interest in using Drupal. CALIcon08 is a group to help plan a more hands-on tech oriented track for next year's conference in Baltimore. If you want to help plan this track, this group is for you.

As with all teknoids groups, there are feeds for both groups and after you subscribe to the groups, you can opt for email updates to help keep up with what's going on. BTW, feel free to create your own groups too.

Finally, let me remind everyone about the teknoids.net feed at http://www.teknoids.net/node/feed that aggregates everything that appears on the teknoids homepage into a single feed. The feed includes main thread posts from the mailing list, public posts to teknoids groups, blog posts from a number of tech oriented blogs, and more.

Questions, suggestions, contributions, just holler.

Elmer

A number of enterprise customers have already signed up for 16,000 of the 70,000 annual SUSE Linux enterprise subscription certificates Microsoft is offering under its recent, controversial deal with Novell. Heading the list of customers taking advantage of those certificates are Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse and AIG Technologies, all of whom have welcomed the interoperability moves between Microsoft and Novell.

Microsoft Hands Out 16,000 SUSE Linux Subscriptions

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Windows Vista Community: Windows Vista Beta 2 Customer Preview Program - get it while it's hot! Hint: you'll need a DVD burner.

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The Internet experienced its strongest site growth ever last month, powered by a surge in blogs and free web sites. In the June 2006 survey we received responses from 85,541,228 sites, a gain of 3.96 million sites from the May report. This is the largest one-month increase in sites in the history of the Netcraft survey, surpassing a gain of 3.3 million in March 2003, although the 2003 gain was larger in percentage terms (8.5%, compared to 4.7% this month).

Netcraft: June 2006 Web Server Survey

The software giant on May 23 delivered Beta 2 versions of its Windows Vista operating system, Office System 2007 and Windows Server Longhorn at the same time. The scheduled 2007 arrival of the three products, now in beta, means that 2007 is shaping up to be one of the most important periods in some years for Microsoft, and by extension, the PC industry. But by delivering all three betas simultaneously, Microsoft is also setting out to prove that the trio is also more tightly coupled than before when it comes to security and productivity features, including search and document sharing.

Microsoft Releases 3 Beta Products at WinHEC

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As expected, the software giant on May 18 unveiled its Windows Vista Get Ready Web site, along with a set of minimum PC hardware guidelines for Vista Capable PCs—which call for at least an 800MHz processor, 512MB of RAM and a DirectX 9-capable graphics processor, but ask for more for those who seek to use all of Vista's features—and an Windows Upgrade Advisor application as part of a campaign to prepare people.

Microsoft Tells All on Vista's Hardware Needs

Needless to say these are the 'minimum' requirements.  The premium level of Vista will reuire a much heftier PC.  Read all about it here. 

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The Austin, Texas, PC maker has long been an Intel shop. But it intends to change that later in 2006, when it will begin offering a multi-processor AMD Opteron server.Dell, which announced its first-quarter earnings May 18, said in a statement that it would begin offering "AMD Opteron processors in our multi-processor servers by the end of the year offering a great new technology to our customers at the high-end of our server line."

Dell to Launch AMD Server

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Novell opened the LinuxWorld Conference here with the introduction April 3 of the beta program for Mono 1.2, its open-source implementation of the Microsoft .Net Framework designed to help corporate IT and ISV developers migrate existing .NET applications to Linux and build new Linux and cross-platform applications.Novell also announced it is developing a new Linux build service framework and disclosed details about the availability of SUSE Linux 10.1, the newest version of its community Linux distribution.ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

LinuxWorld: Novell Tunes Linux for .Net, Enterprise Desktops

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Microsoft has acknowledged that a planned update to the way Internet Explorer renders multimedia on Web pages could cause some serious problems, and promised to give developers an extra two months to modify their pages to ensure a smooth transition.The Redmond company was forced to make the changes in response to a patent dispute with Eolas Technologies. The fix would affect the way ActiveX controls are displayed on Web pages, according to experts. If no changes were made, a user would have to "activate" an ActiveX or Java control before it would be usable.

BetaNews | Microsoft Offers 60-Day ActiveX Reprieve