About Doug McDavid

Doug McDavid is an Executive Consultant, retired from IBM in 2009. He now maintains a web presence at enterprisology.com.

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Deepin Linux triple boot Kubuntu and Ubuntu
Moving to Deepin Linux from Manjaro Deepin on triple-boot laptop with Kubuntu (KDE) and Ubuntu (Unity / Gnome). Kernel panic in Manjaro Deepin, when Ubuntu updates the Linux Kernel and Grub, a problem unlikely to be resolved in foreseeable future: “Dual boot with Kubuntu and Manjaro” | Dec. 2016 at https://forum.manjaro.org/t/dual-boot-with-kubuntu-and-manjaro/14621 “Kernel panic – not syncing: […]
mastodon.cloud/@daviding
Experimenting as https://mastodon.cloud/@daviding with federated social network microblog. Hunting for other leading-edge people interested in communicating on an open platform, as an alternative to the walled gardens. Haven’t heard of Mastodon? See: “A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the hot new open-source Twitter clone” | Megan Farokhmanesh | Apr 7, 2017 | The Verge at https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/7/15183128/mastodon-open-source-twitter-clone-how-to-use “A complete Sloth’s […]
GParted fails; KDE Partition Manager succeeds
Repartitioning disk with Ubuntu 16.04 GParted fails; Kubuntu 17.04 KDE Partition Manager works. Booting my Thinkpad X200 from an Ubuntu 16.04 live USB key, GParted was able to successfully shrink a NTFS partition and leave unallocated space. Then, a request to either (i) shrink the existing \ EXT4 partition, or (ii) create a new empty […]
Freedom Mobile call forwarding
MMI codes from @FreedomMobile 611 support: Conditional forwarding (when busy + when unanswered + when unreachable) to a Canadian phone number … To activate: *004*1nnnnnnnnnn# To deactivate: ##004# Unconditional forwarding (phone won’t ring, with $0.75 charge per call) … To activate *21*1nnnnnnnnnn# To deactivate ##21# Last year, conditional forwarding resulted in phone charges in Japan […]
Accuweather minutecast
Discovered @Accuweather MinuteCast will forecast rain in neighbourhood down to a 3-place postal code, and show radar weather map. Good for planning short shopping trips on the bike. #forecast, #radar, #rain, #weather
Wrap-up smear
“Wrap-up smear” as deflection. @NancyPelosi said “You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, everybody is writing about this charge”. Added to lexicon on smear campaign on Wikipedia , based on interview at transcript of CNN’s State of the Union with Jake Tapper Nancy Pelosi |”State of the Union with Jake […]

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2013/07/27 Beau Lebens “Taking WordPress to the Front End with O2” (web video)
The WordPress O2 plugin with P2-Breathe theme results in a Facebook-like or Twitter-like streaming interface. The idea was first presented in 2013, evolving from the P2 theme in 2009 (originally launched as Prologue in 2008) when hosted on wordpress.com. “Beau…Read more ›
2016/09/10 Tim Ingold, “The Sustainability of Everything” (web video)
Talk at the Centre for Human Ecology, Glasgow, announced at http://www.che.ac.uk/tim-ingold-talks-about-the-sustainability-of-everything-10th-sept-2016/ Video posted at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncLv9Gk7XrI and https://vimeo.com/182572764 This digest was created by editing the text transcript generated by Youtube. View the video yourself for a more authentic reproduction. Lapses, grammatical…Read more ›
2016/09/07 “One World Anthropology | Tim Ingold | AIBR
Plenary presentation by Tim Ingold, at the 2nd @AIBR_ International Conference of Anthropology. The 2nd AIBR International Conference of Anthropology brings together anthropologists from different parts of the world under the theme “Identity: Bridges, Thresholds, and Barriers.” [….] [6:58] So…Read more ›
Service Platforms, Living Labs, The Future of Open Innovation | Henry Chesbrough | Sept. 2016 | Berkeley Exec Ed (web video)
Responses @HenryChesbrough on service platforms, living labs, and the future of open innovation. Since 2003, he has provided a precise definition, as the godfather of open innovation. InFocus Podcast with Dr. Henry Chesbrough. Dr. Chesbrough is the Program Director for…Read more ›
2016/05/11 “Apache Open Tech is fueling tomorrow’s game changing innovations” | Todd Moore | ApacheCon North American 2016 (web video)
History of open source at IBM from 1998 @tmmoore_1 @ApacheCon NA 2016, and current IBM Open Cloud Architecture. Todd Moore, VP of Open Technology at IBM will share a retrospective of IBMs deep roots ASF and then follow with some…Read more ›
2012/03/13 Tim O’Reilly interviewed by Andrew McAfee, “Creating More Value Than You Capture”, SXSW Interactive
Digest of an interview of @timoreilly by @amcafee below, abstract from schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP100142: One of the great failures of any company – for that matter of a capitalist economy – is ecosystem failure. Great companies build great ecosystems, one in which…Read more ›

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2017/07 Moments July 2017
In July, I travelled no further than bicycling distance from my desk at home.
2017/06 Moments June 2017
Quiet month at my computer in Toronto, punctuated by afternoon bicycling, a son's university convocation and Toronto Jazz Festival concerts.
2017/05 Moments May 2017
Fairfield, Iowa; Iowa City; Iowa; Coralville, Iowa; East Moline, Illinois; Chicago, Illinois; Evanston, Illinois; Kerwood, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario
2017/04 Moments April 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Shanghai, PR China; Kalamazoo, Michigan
2017/03 Moments March 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Santa Clara, California; Milpitas, California; San Jose, California; Oakland, California; Hayward, California; Mountain View, California; Palo Alto, California; San Francisco, California; Mountain View, California; Half Moon Bay, California, Pescadero, California; Santa Cruz, California; Tokyo, Japan
2017/02 Moments February 2017
Toronto, Ontario; Mississauga, Ontario; London, Ontario

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