Monday, July 07, 2008 - Posts

• Toothpaste Transplant

  A few weeks ago I had to go to London on a business trip. I had no travel-sized toothpaste but I did have an empty travel-sized toothpaste tube. Not wanting to carry a huge tube of toothpaste for a short trip and without even thinking about it, my mind hatched a plan. By opening both the the full tube and smaller empty tube and placing their tube-openings end to end I was able to slowly squeeze and transfer toothpaste from one tube to the other with almost no waste. Even more impressive, this resourcefulness Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 5:08 PM from Francis Shanahan[.com] | 1 Comments

• Gort! Klaatu barada nikto

  Because this blog is named ignisvulpis I think that it is allowed to write about a Firefox 3 "feature"... If you type "about:robots" in the address bar then a special page is shown. The title of this page is the quote " Gort! Klaatu barada nikto " from the movie " The day the earth stood still " which I liked as a kid and that is shown in German television really seldom. Anyway the number of google hits when you search for this quote is astonishing. So is the number of related films on YouTube. Here Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 3:58 PM from ignisvulpis | 1 Comments Filed under: firefox3, Klaatu brada nikto, easter-egg

• Gartner: Sun IAM & Open Source - STRONG POSITIVE

  Via Tatsuo Kudo - Gartner recently published their latest vendor rating for Sun . The overall picture is, well, sunny, if you'll pardon the pun, but I'm particularly pleased with their ratings in the areas of Identity and Access Management and Open Source - 'Strong Positive' * for both, which means that OpenSSO and OpenDS must be doubly blessed * Strong Positive: Is viewed as a provider of strategic products, services or solutions: Customers: Continue with planned investments. Potential customers: Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 4:04 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: Sun, opensso, gartner, opensource

• Slides from RMLL 2008

  I just uploaded my slides and photos from last week's RMLL conference in Mont-de-Marsan . This was a great event - amazing to see the strength of the open source community in France! Read More... Posted Monday, July 07, 2008 2:34 AM from Superpatterns | 1 Comments Filed under: opensso, rmll