http://ktn.blogsome.com Technology, Web 2.0, Domino, System i, etc. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 02:35:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I read an article that came in the September issue of the Harvard Business Review named “How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity” containing a sentence that I’m not sure if Ed Catmull, the author, was the one who said it or not, but I really think it’s true. If you give a ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/09/15/mediocre-or-not/ You would remember that several weeks ago I was asking if Juice will ever support Atom feeds because internally in IBM we have a huge repository of podcasts, videos, webcasts, presentations, etc., for which Atom feeds are provided to subscribe with a podcatcher. So I tried to use iTunes to subscribe ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/08/31/apple-do-you-know-what-atom-is/ On Wednesday I received my July copy of Communications of the ACM and I have to say that it looks nice, and new! The content has always been very good, but now the feeling is like you really have in your hands a magazine that features and talks about the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/26/the-new-communications-of-the-acm/ I have been very interested lately in articles, studies, etc., about Virtual Teams scattered in different locations throughout the world and their interaction. Primarily because I’m in one Global Virtual Team since several years ago working on the development and support of IBM Lotus Domino for System i (including QuickPlace, ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/05/global-virtual-teams/ Anybody knows if Juice will ever support Atom feeds? It has been sleeping for several years now that I’m sure there are not developers left doing anything with it. Anyone knows how can I get the source code? I would like to take a look and see if I can add ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/07/05/juice-please-meet-atom/ Some hours ago I read this post and it’s sad and unfortunate that when pride and you-know-who reign in your soul it’s obvious that you won’t believe in anything, in fact I have seen and heard people that say they are god. Success, happiness and wisdom are essential things that ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/06/15/pride-what-a-shame/ With great excitement I can tell you now that IBM Lotus Symphony 1.0 is available for everyone to download for free! It has good support for ODF, OpenOffice, MS Office and Lotus SmartSuite documents, so you can get rid of all of those other office applications and have just one installed ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/06/02/ibm-lotus-symphony-10-now-available/ I just finished hearing episode 27 of the No Agenda podcast and the stuff about China is pretty interesting. Worth a look. http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/05/08/no-agenda-episode-27-china-syndrome/ I was just informed today that one of the few supercomputers that UNAM got last year partially burned. It never worked well, and when it reached the 50% utilization it burnt. Won’t mention here any of the strange things that seemed to happen in the deal between HP and the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/04/22/unam-loses-its-hp-supercomputer/ Some months ago I read a magazine that I would rather call Software Newbie due to the basic nature of its articles, it comes with some translated articles from some other sources but anyways I don’t recommend it much. What was interesting, but not surprising, was the survey that they made ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/04/07/mexico-2007-it-salaries-survey/ I just read the article “Some Viruses Come Pre-Installed” by the Associated Press in ABC News and the fact that any type of gadget (hardware) coming from China could contain several viruses and infect your computers is very bad. Not only gadgets come with several viruses each like iPods, digital picture ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/30/beware-of-products-made-in-china/ Some time ago I read Andrew McAfee’s article “The Ties that Find” where he cites a really good article created in 1973 by Mark S. Granovetter called “The Strength of Weak Ties“. I didn’t have the chance at that time to read the article but, some weeks ago I decided ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/26/social-networking-and-weak-ties/ I just read an article in the IBM Systems Magazine titled “Preparing for V6R1” which I suggest you go and read if you’re planning to move to V6R1. It’s concise and well explained. The only thing that seem to not work is that I get a Server Error when trying ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/19/good-article-on-program-conversion-on-v6r1/ I just installed iTunes 7.6.1.9, the one that also contains Quicktime, but at the end of the installation my firewall software told me that a mDNSResponder.exe was trying to access the Internet so obviously what I did is to block it. Since it was in a Bonjour directory over the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/18/apple-bonjour-why-doesnt-itunes-told-me/ For several months now I’ve been interested in topics related to the technology industry, and one of them is that there are not much women doing development for Operating Systems, Applications, networking or hardware stuff. So I have been in the lookout for information, articles actually, that talk about the ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/17/women-in-technology-jobs/ We already knew that Vista’s a fiasco, but I have to say that the information in some Microsoft emails is quite interesting! http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/03/03/microsoft-intel-was-the-culprit/ Things are not going right lately. In the last 2 or 3 weeks Firefox is freezing when I’m trying to log into Gmail or when clicking the ‘Spam’ folder (to do manual cleanup). I’m now more careful when I have more tabs opened in Firefox. I don’t lose them if a ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/02/19/firefox-or-gmail/ Today I disabled completely the Windows XP Automatic Updates from my home PC, since looks like it’s crap these days. Patch Tuesday happened several days ago and it keeps telling that it has updates to install. The System Tray icon disappears after accepting to install the updates and then you ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/02/18/windows-xp-automatic-updates-disabled/ The Firewall software installed on the ThinkPad is telling me that the mscorsvw.exe is attempting to access the Internet. I searched on the Web and I can see that it “precompiles .NET assemblies in the background”. But why the heck it has to connect to the IP address 131.107.115.28 through ... http://ktn.blogsome.com/2008/02/14/mscorsvwexe-is-attempting-to-access-the-internet/ 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. http://ktn.blogsome.com/2007/12/28/the-story-of-stuff/