http://kim.haverblad.net Thoughts about things that really should matter Fri, 02 May 2008 09:19:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OOXML changes was granted without further discussion and the delegates from 87 nationals that has gathered in Geneva are exhausted and frustrated with an agenda with over thousands points of order – Chaos seems one word on everyone’s lips according to several reports from the meeting. How do you go through ... http://kim.haverblad.net/2008/03/03/ooxml-changes-granted-without-discussions/ Most people have heard about card skimming and other credit card fraud but in Swedish media there are several interesting articles regarding how a local branch office to Swedebank manage to stop a fraud transaction in the last minute. The Swedish police won’t talk about it but media claims that ... http://kim.haverblad.net/2008/01/30/remote-bank-fraud-against-swedish-swedebank/ Referring to the ongoing OS/2 Open Source Petition at OS2 World there is an interesting story from inside of IBM that goes back to 1998 when I worked at IBM in Stockholm and had the opportunity of meeting Jeff Smith who at that time had the short and consist titel ... http://kim.haverblad.net/2007/12/11/what-if-ibm-actually-had-ported-the-os2-wps-code-to-linux/ As a big enthusiast of open source and as well since I have earlier has been product manager for OS/2 at IBM Sweden; I really feel for this great operating system that have during many years been far more productive than for example Windows XP for me should be open ... http://kim.haverblad.net/2007/12/07/is-it-possible-to-get-ibm-to-open-source-os2/ Have you ever been trying to get commercial smart card solution available on the marked to work with more than just one operating system? Then you might be familiar with that it's not a walk in the park to get it to work. During my evaluation of both hardware and ... http://kim.haverblad.net/2007/11/04/smartcard-for-multiply-operating-systems/