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These guys build some very sweet boxes, they have been at LFNW the last 2 years (that I know of). Take a look at 3.5T for $10k here at their site -- and no this isn't because they gave me a free hat.

bcl

I think doing some dot releases for FC would be great as well, but they probably just won't have the time. It would almost have to be a seperate project. In fact I have found a very interesting project called Up2dateISO

It looks like a nice way to create an iso with all the updates in place. I just wish someone would make premade images available using this. It would make things far easier.

I currently use digitemp to monitor the temperature in my computer room using Dallas Semiconductor DS18S20 temperature sensors. I had thought that they also had iButtons that also monitored humidity, but I don't see them now.

I have a digital temperature sensor in the garden outside the house. I can state for a fact that it got to 42 outside here in Roseville on Saturday. Here's a graph of the readings from Saturday-Sunday. Roseville's in the northern suburbs, just north of Sydney Harbour in case people are wondering. It was an absolutely f-ing stinker and thank god it was a one-off. If conditions were repeated then forget fires, people would start dropping dead from heat stress. Sunday and today have been quite nice, even compared to Saturday.

Brian Lane has made public drivers for these nice Dallas Semiconductors temperature sensors. The software can be loaded from here.

--jarkko

Brian Lane has made public drivers for these nice Dallas Semiconductors temperature sensors. The software can be loaded from here.

--jarkko

By the way, the interesting thing about these sensors is that they are actually network devices, each with it's own unique ID. You can address each of them separately over the "1-wire network" and get their temperature reading. Also note, that these sensors directly give you a temperature reading, not current or some other reading. So, they do not require any calibration and are a breeze to use.

Doesn't this box have a serial port? I monitor the temperature of our computer room using Dallas Semiconductor DS-18S20 sensors and Digitemp. The sensors can be connected to your computer via the serial port and are relatively inexpensive (approx $3.00 for the sensor, $10.00 for the serial port interface)

Brian C Lane has Linux software available for measuring temperatures. It uses the Dallas Semiconductor 1-wire thermometer and includes directions for building & connecting it to the serial port. You can find it here.

and I pay for the software I used. I was one of the first to pay for Opera on Linux, even before it was completely useful. I need people to buy my software and programming services. This is really what happens when they buy software, they are paying you the amount it is worth to them to not have to write it themselves.

But I don't think that you can consider non-payment as piracy. These people want something for free and will never pay you for your work, no matter how low your price is. You really can't count them as lost revenue if there was no chance of revenue in the first place.

Morally these people shouldn't be using your software, but in the end there isn't anything you can do about it. The end result will be less available quality software. You have to be willing to support programmers, even if its $5 or so.

A previous poster made a good point about distribution. In the 'old days' you had to find a software publisher, or post it on BBSes. FidoNet helped software distribution greatly, and then along came the internet. The whole world is only a modem away and the cost of distribution is almost zero now -- So software prices should be reduced accordingly.

Take a look at the prices of PalmOS software, most are in the range of $5 to $20. For me the price break is around $10 for PalmOS apps. Similar pricing structures should be adopted for PC software. The market is huge, if you can lower your price and attract more users you are going to make up for those who aren't willing to pay.

Brian Lane
Programmer, etc.
www.brianlane.com

Now that they have closed access to the database, can I request that all the submissions from XfreeCD be removed from the database? I'd certainly like to do so. My program is under GPL, and so is any data that it generates (if that's possible -- Hell, I wrote it, so I say so) must be accessable to anyone who wants it.

Brian Lane
Homepage

PS. XfreeCD hasn't been updated recently, and probbly doesn't work with newer kernels or GTK+ versions. I'll fix this when I have the time.

Now that they have closed access to the database, can I request that all the submissions from XfreeCD be removed from the database? I'd certainly like to do so. My program is under GPL, and so is any data that it generates (if that's possible -- Hell, I wrote it, so I say so) must be accessable to anyone who wants it.

Brian Lane
Homepage

PS. XfreeCD hasn't been updated recently, and probbly doesn't work with newer kernels or GTK+ versions. I'll fix this when I have the time.