Mark Hinkles Blog: Linux, Open Source, Free Culture, and more

Zenoss, OpenNMS and Clouds on the IT Management

Mark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:59:50 -0500

I am not a big podcast listener but one of the ones I listen to regularly is the IT Management podcast with Redmonk’s Coté and John M. Willis. Today Zenoss’ Matt Ray and Tarus Balog from OpenNMS were guests and I thought it was a particularly good episode because of the open source angles. Here’s [...]

Open Source Links 7-16-2008

Mark — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:25:16 -0500

tecosystems » Earth Class Mail: Still Open for Business? - Stephen’s review of Earth Class Mail a snail mail handling service. Looks intriguing. Amazon.com: Intellectual Property and Open Source: A Practical Guide to Protecting Code: Van Lindberg: Books - from Amazon’s description: “Clear, correct, and deep, this is a welcome addition to discussions of law and [...]

NetDirector: Open Source Configuration Management Goes GPL

Mark — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:55:48 -0500

A few weeks ago I felt a little like a proud pappa, well maybe more like an uncle since I can’t claim to have been present for the conception. NetDirector, an open source configuration management tool that I helped get off the ground has finally been released under the GNU Public License making it a [...]

Open Source Links 7-11-2008

Mark — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:54:43 -0500

SourceForge.net: ICEcore - ICEcore collaboration software is the July 2008 SF.net project of the month. GNOME hires Stormy Peters as Executive Director - Open Logic’s Stormy Peters leaves OpenLogic for the GNOME Foundation interesting job. (Via Savio) SnapLogic Blog » Connecting Clouds - Integration and Cloud Computing - Mikeyp gets it right, “…cloud computing will not happen overnight [...]

Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship Winners

Mark — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:24:18 -0500

This week Andy Beal announced the winners of the 3rd Annual SEM Scholarship I was honored to be one of five finalists out of 31 entries. I didn’t win but congratulations are in order for Linda Bustos whose article 8 Stupid Things Webmasters do to Mess Up their Analytics is excellent. I was surprised that I [...]

CAN-SPAM Act Enforceability Goes into Effect Today

Mark — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:15 -0500

Updates to the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (CAN-SPAM) becomes effective today. They four main provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act for commercial emailers are: Bans false or misleading header information Prohibits Deceptive Subject Lines Requires an opt-out method Requires Commercial Email to be Identified as an Advertisement an must include the senders valid [...]

Xandros Acquires Linspire

Mark — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:00:48 -0500

Today Linux desktop manufacturer Xandros acquired Linspire for an undisclosed amount. Xandros will also be keeping existing engineering, support, and key sales employees and long-time Linspire employee and CEO Larry Kettler will be joining the Xandros executive team as the VP of Business Development. While Xandros didn’t mention their total employee numbers Xandros CEO Andreas [...]

Oil Crisis Analysis by Congressman Rosco Bartlett

Mark — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:58:05 -0500

Maryland Congressman Bartlett has some incredible analysis of oil usage in the world. Incredibly well articulated state of world oil production and usage complemented with Tufte-like charts. Technorati Tags: Congressmen Bartlett, Edward Tufte, Oil crisis

Links: Open Source Week in Review

Mark — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:14:47 -0500

Removing Barriers to the Community - MySQL Moves to Bazaar - Jay Pipes It is the role of a community manager to remove the barriers — both technical and ideological — between the user/developer community and the company or group of individuals which produces the open source software Linux.com :: Lessons learned from NCSU FOSS class As textbooks, [...]

The “Art” of Programming

Mark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:14:56 -0500

For those of you who think writing code is just wrangling ones and zeros. You should check out these visualizations of code submissions over time to various open source projects. They are examples of organic information visualizations called Code Swarm by Michael Ogawa Ph.D. student in the Computer Science program at UC Davis. Check out the [...]