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- Make songbird look like spotify: http://addons.songbirdnest.com/addon/1440
- Got it, thanks Paul!
- Email me your email address so I can invite you Mike (paul@paulmwatson.com)
- Happy New Year to you, as well! I was stopping by to see if you would be willing to lend a reader a Spotify invitation. I am desperately hoping to be able try out the service. Thanks! Mike
- Nice one Jamie. Even more ironic is that that "mass production" is probably still underpaid, underage workers in some 3rd world country sweat-shop.
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I’ve spent the past hour or so with a co-worker trying to get a Cocoon+Java+RSS+MySQL+XSL+DELI system to do the simplest of tasks. What a nightmare. It is incredible in its flexiblitlity. I can’t think of much it can’t do. But what it does do is very lit
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I got out of IT ages ago but still run my own Debian setup which I'm now using as my new business' server.
I spent over a week trying to get two Java apps running on Java System Application Server or Tomcat. I finally managed on Tomcat.
While there is tonnes of stuff available through open source, the installation process is still fraught. This is partly due to the number of possible platforms and configurations.
But that might be the silver bullet open source is waiting for - deploying configuration managers (registries?) that applications can standardise their installtion process by. The Open Standards project is one attempt at this, but there is a very long way to go.
Sorry, just wanted to share my rant about a lost week I did not have.
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