Known Element Enterprises Corporate Blog

I have decided to take my Exchange replacement project mainstream. I am going to get a booth at SCALE this year. I have also submitted a speaking proposal and am waiting for feedback on that. I am not entirely sure if I want to give a presentation or not. Preparation for the booth alone will take quite a bit of work. That and managing the project that the booth will be about! I will post more about my SCALE exploits as time allows.

I have received an offer of employment from Electronic Clearing House as of 9:00 am this morning. I have accepted the offer and I start tomorrow. Go me! Good news for me and my wife indeed. We are very excited. I had conducted quite a bit of research on ECHO and am very enamored with the organization. Their SEC filings (http://sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721773/000114036105006105/0001140361-05-006105.txt) show a strong and established company with a respectable balance sheet. The team I will be working with appears very sharp and dedicated. I look forward to working with them. They have a very impressive infrastructure in place that is rapidly expanding. I will be at the forefront of implementing the growth. I do have some issues with the Intellectual Property rights agreement, but have discussed them with Human Resources and will be meeting with the corporate attorney.
However I also received dis hearting news today as well. A long time (almost 3 year) client of mine had his position with a major California based defense contractor terminated today. He has two weeks left. I find it intriguing that as my job hunt ends, his begins. For obvious reasons I can’t reveal the name of the organization. The reduction in force was fairly small (2 dozen or so).

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050220310%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050220310&RS=DN/20050220310

I really don’t understand. This stuff has been around for quite a while. I don’t know why they are getting a patent on it. Oh well.

http://www.openchange.org/smbtorture/RPC-NSPI_PROFILE/

Very interesting.

Yummy: http://www.openchange.org/ndrdump/38_out_nspi_NspiGetMatches.ndrdump

I turned on comments for friends only. Lets see what happens.

I updated my website (http://www.thewybles.com/~charles). Off to the bank and lunch.

While in the process of updating my website (changes aren’t posted yet but will be soon) I came across a link i had to a project called OpenChange.
The site is at http://www.openchange.org

I checked out the project again and found that they have made rather significant progress. Looks promising. Something to mess around with tonight for sure!

On slashdot today

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Re:What I’d like to see…
(Score:2, Funny)
by meringuoid (568297) on Tuesday October 25, @11:07AM (#13871920)
Right now, Wine apps look like something the cat dragged in

Do your bit for Windows compatibility!

“Right now, Wine apps look like something the type dragged in”.
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I laughed for like 30 seconds over that. It was awesome.

I want it

http://arstechnica.com/guides/other/msh.ars/2

Now. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Not 5 minutes from now. NOW!!!!!

Gimme!

I like it. I like it a lot. Single base class. Common argument parsers. Same methods exposed everywhere. Can you say bash 4.0????!?!?!?!?!?!!!

Wheeee!

Gimme gimme!

Its….. cool. Awesome. Nifty.

No. A new word needs to be invented to describe this work of art. The elegance. The beauty. The simplicity. I think Microsoft finally woke up. This…… wow. If its half as good as it seems….. I may just switch to Windows. *grins*
No. That would be treason. I would have far to many people suing me for breach of contract No. I can’t do that. And no I didn’t smoke anything. And if I did I doubt there is anything strong enough out there to make me switch. Now if this is .NET compliant et al I will be running it under mono. You bet. I’ll even go so far and install the Microsoft shared source version of .NET if need be.

You know. This makes me think of a funny parallel. You know how when a girl is talking to another girl about a great guy? And the girl asks “Does he have a brother?” Well. I wanna know if this puppy comes with source! And GNU/Bash devs all I can say is Are you listening?!

*goes back and reads more of article*

Its got hash tables!!!! Sweet!

And its object oriented.

Man. Talk about some deeeeeeep scripting fu. Oh yeah.

Looks similiar and its open source (well ok for the purists it is LGPL so tecnincally its not but we won’t go there):
http://www.beanshell.org/intro.html