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In the DSC episode 697 it was mentioned and played an interesting video that not only applies to the U.S. but to the rest of the Earth population/nations also. You must look at it, it’s The Story of Stuff.

Here’s some interesting stuff I’ve been hearing and reading lately, mostly heard on the Daily Source Code, tech5 and No Agenda podcasts which I really like.

First thing that [doesn’t] surprises me is that Microsoft won, again, a first place. This time because of Windows Vista being the Most Disappointing Product of 2007, I must say… Well deserved guys!
Did you notice how many Microsoft and Apple products are on the list?

Looks like HP paid Staples $100 million dollars to not sell inexpensive third-party ink cartridges. As John C Dvorak said, how many they’re doing from just ink? (FYI: a considerable portion of the company’s profits come from ink.) Ink definitely is overpriced. This makes me think about another company that pays to make its bad operating system be installed instead of Linux, although it isn’t working too well, right?

Another interesting tidbit is that the Intel Viiv initiative is officially dead. Hmm, I never heard about it before, could that be the cause?

And a non techy thing is that the U.S. actually “outsources” (sort of) the army (Blackwater) and jails (for example, this one) where by the way, people are put in prison even when they shouldn’t be there, but since these private companies may charge the government per “capita” then you know what that means, right? Go check the interesting commentary of it on the No Agenda podcast episodes 3 and 4.
Weird use of taxes.

Throughout the years I have seen a few times that the QNOTES user profile (*USRPRF) is changed in one way or another, causing undesirable and unknown effects. For example, recently, the QNOTES user profile on a system had the *ALLOBJ special authority, and this is not good, even dangerous I think. The only special authority that the Domino installation process in the System i (since the AS/400 days) gives to QNOTES is *IOSYSCFG.

Keep your Domino user profile as it should and you certainly will avoid problems.

Oh, and by the way, I recall vaguely that several years ago a customer had a group profile to manage its users and the user profile he was using to install Domino or create Domino servers was a member of a group which had the authorities required to do the job, but that’s not something supported by the product. Well, as you can see in the disclaimer on the sidebar, this is my own opinion. Just trust me and everything will work for you.

I just finished seeing two very good videos on IET.TV. The first one is a lecture from Grady Booch on The Promise, The Limits, and the Beauty of Software. The second one is another lecture, this time given by Roo Reynolds, with the name of Walking the Digital Dog - Work, Learn and Play in Virtual Worlds.

Definitely you should not miss them!

One strange thing is that the webcasts doesn’t show up when using Firefox, I had to use IE.