How is it possible to say that restricting access to the product you have paid for actually makes the product better?  This week has seen some interesting talks between the CRTC and a few main Canadian ISPs.  The CRTC was curious about how the ISPs practiced traffic shaping.  The CBC has been following the story.

 Google has announced that there will be a Chrome OS delievered sometime in mid 2010.  What does this mean exactly?  Well the first thing I thought of was how does this play with Android?  

The news is offical:

 http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/06/01/bidding-adieu-to-the-dell-inspiron-mini-9.aspx

I have to say that I am offically unimpressed with the decision to discontinue the Dell Mini 9.

 Dspace is a fairly complicated piece of software.  There are a lot of knobs and buttons to tweak to get it going. My biggest pet peeve with it is that it natively works on the Tomcat default port 8088.  That creates a very ugly URL that could create problems down the road.  The neat thing to do would be to set it to port 80 (and port 443 for your secure traffic) the problem is that Tomcat needs to run as the dspace user who doesn't have admin privledges and can't use port numbers in the restricted range.  To get around that you need to cook up some scripts that can be run as root that will start Dspace for you.

My presentation material for the 2009 ECIUG conference in Toronto.