by ezs | May 5, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
No sooner had I written about the Novell blogging policy – when I got a comment from ‘SaladDodger’ asking about my use of Creative Commons and how that fitted with my restrictions on reuse.
Hands up. I was caught.
I was mid-site change and re-included the Creative Commons license without clarifying the commercial reuse of my blog posts.
I’ve redone some of the wording – it should be clearer.
In summary – please link to, trackback and quote my posts in your own blogs. If you’re a commercial entity please ping me and let me know you’re doing it. Give me some attribution.
by ezs | May 4, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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Novell recently updated its internal policy governing how employees use the internet.
One notable change in the policy:
Personal websites, weblogs and other forms of online discussion are encouraged, and Novell respects employees use of them as a medium of selfexpression.
Obviously as a public company Novell requires that no confidential or proprietry information is posted. Novell has an ethics code that all employees are required to agree to (and electronically sign).
I think this is a good thing. Communication is becoming more open – Cool Blogs, Jeff Jaffe’s CTO Blog and Novell Open PR are all great examples.
Your feedback to date has been incredible and much valued. Keep it coming.
What else would you like to see here? Let me know. We do read and publish your comments.
Written at: Provo, UT
by ezs | May 4, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
Novell today changed the inernal policy governing how employees use the internet.
One massive change for the good:
Personal websites, weblogs and other forms of online discussion are encouraged, and Novell respects employees’ use of them as a medium of selfexpression.
Obviously as a public company Novell requires that no confidential or proprietry information is posted. Novell has an ethics code that all employees are required to agree to (and electronically sign).
A good policy.
One interesting part it seems like my small print has been quoted directly in the policy 🙂
by ezs | May 2, 2006 | travel, Uncategorized
I’ve blogged before about the various airports offering ‘free WiFi’ to customers – this is generally a great service.
Chicago O’Hare is rolling out a new wireless service in the public concourses – run by Concourse Communications this is billed as ‘Wifi Zone – A Concourse Network’ – and the all important word ‘BETA’.
I’m in the United terminal; near gate C5 waiting to wait list to an earlier flight to Salt Lake City.
I’ve got ‘good’ signal on my wireless NIC; but the service sucks. It’s slow, unreliable, disconnects – I get better throughput via GPRS on my cellphone.
City of Chicago – while this is beta make sure it’s free! Concourse Communications – fix it – this is truly the worst public WiFi I’ve had to use in a long long time. I can’t believe people pay money for this. I’m certainly asking for a refund.
[As an aside – I’ve not had problems with T-Mobile Hotspots in the United Red Carpet Club lounges]
by ezs | Apr 30, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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Some light relief from the ongoing debate on management consoles – a real blast from the past – from the days of SYSCON.
Here is SNIPES. It’s fifteen years old this year.
You can download your own copy of SNIPES from Novell – it’s part of the NetWare Lite 1.1 update. Now doesn’t that make you feel warm, fuzzy and old.. Just download and run the NLSNIPES.EXE binary. 18k of DOS goodness.
Written at: Draper, UT.
by ezs | Apr 28, 2006 | blogging, evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
I blog a lot. Here, on my family web site, on Novell Cool Blogs.
Grania is also blogging – on the same family website – and also on ‘Bad Mothers Club’. Sounds bad doesn’t it – but it’s a UK centric mums forum site. It’s all good fun.
by ezs | Apr 26, 2006 | Uncategorized, ZENworks
Several articles on this blog have referred to the Cool Solutions Wiki – http://wiki.novell.com.
If you have not used a Wiki before – you may wonder what this weird and wonderful sounding thing actually is.
I’ll try and give some background – and finish with a plea for content!
Written at: Toronto, ON, Canada
Put simply (again – quoting Wikipedia – itself a wiki)
A wiki (IPA: [‘wi??.ki??] or [‘w?.ki??] [1]) is a type of website that allows users to easily add, remove, or otherwise edit all content, very quickly and easily, sometimes without the need for registration. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for collaborative writing. The term wiki is a shortened form of wiki wiki which is from the native language of Hawaii (Hawaiian), where it is commonly used as an adjective to denote something “quick” or “fast”.
The Cool Solutions Wiki is a central spot for all of that ‘other important information’ that should be shared across the community. Sometimes created by Novell people; most often by you – our customers, partners and developers.
The content is as good as the community. Like one large ‘pot luck meal’ – if we all bring something good we’ll have a feast. The vast majority of wiki sites become the body of knowledge for the broader community – I’ve already plugged Wikipedia – but other sites as diverse as the WordPress Codex to Science of Spectroscopy use the Wiki structure to facilitate rapid and broad information sharing.
Sounds like a public information film eh? All very co-operative and liberal.
Take a look at the Novell Cool Solutions Wiki – and think for a moment. Do you have a morsel of information that can be shared? Can you spare a minute or two to jot it down.
I’ll especially plug the ZENworks part of the site – I’m just writing a lab guide or ‘Cook Book‘ on ZENworks 7 Linux Management. I’ve also created a ‘Call for Content‘ – where you can take the lead and start sharing your information. It’s a work in progress; a living body of documentation.
Let me know your comments, feedback and whether the Cool Solutions Wiki is useful. I’ll see if I can whistle up some ‘Evil ZEN Scientist’ T-shirts for the best few articles that get written as a result of this post. Bribery always works.
Written at: Toronto, ON, Canada
by ezs | Apr 25, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Here is an interesting find:
Prisoners’ Dilemma is a game which has been and continues to be studied by people in a variety of disciplines, ranging from biology through sociology and public policy. Among its interesting characteristics are that it is a “non-zero-sum”game: the best strategy for a given player is often one that increases the payoff to one’s partner as well. It has also been shown that there is no single “best” strategy: how to maximize one’s own payoff depends on the strategy adopted by one’s partner. Serendip uses a particular strategy (called “tit for tat”) which is believed to be optimal under the widest possible set of partner strategies.
http://www.brembs.net/ipd/ipd.html
There is an online version here: http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/pd.html
by ezs | Apr 24, 2006 | evilzenscientist, Uncategorized
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by ezs | Apr 23, 2006 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, Uncategorized
Arrgh!
This has been rattling around my head for the last week or so – since I first had the link sent to me.
In a true “Memes don’t exist – tell your friends” moment – take a listen to LDN by Lily Allen; currently no download – just streaming. http://myspace.com/lilymusic
[Update – it’s everywhere – featured on recordoftheday.com, b3ta and a load of others.]
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