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Lawyers and pop tarts http://www.overlawyered.com/2004/12/poptart_fire_l awsuit.html

Flaming strawberry pop tart toaster blowtorch http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/

The definitive word from Dave Berry: http://www.cfcl.com/vlb/Cuute/f/pop_tarts.txt

The Semantic Wiki page on Wikipedia is a good starting point. I have also written my own overview, including an annotated list of known efforts. Finally, the Semantic Wiki Interest Group is the best place to go to get involved or watch for new developments.

I am particularly interested in the possibility of augmenting wikis with mechanically-derived content. For example, there could be a Doxygen-style wiki page for each function and data structure in a system. Users could create new pages and/or annotate mechanically-generated pages. I am working on a specification for a wiki that could support such a system, but it's still quite speculative.

The Semantic Wiki page on Wikipedia is a good starting point. I have also written my own overview, including an annotated list of known efforts. Finally, the Semantic Wiki Interest Group is the best place to go to get involved or watch for new developments.

I am particularly interested in the possibility of augmenting wikis with mechanically-derived content. For example, there could be a Doxygen-style wiki page for each function and data structure in a system. Users could create new pages and/or annotate mechanically-generated pages. I am working on a specification for a wiki that could support such a system, but it's still quite speculative.

And, if you can't do that, use your psychic powers or cast the yarrow stalks.

And, if that doesn't work, well, there's always print statements...

>Fine to have volume 1 and volume 2, but in this age of the digital
>wonderland, shouldn't there be hyperlinks from volume 1 to volume 2?

Yes, definitely. The same guy who put these books together has organized the FreeBSD documentation in a way you'd probably like.

For example, halfway down this summary page for vi you'll see hyperlinks to the appropriate tutorials and references found in /usr/share/doc/

For those who haven't followed the article's link to the Meta Project, you really should give it a spin.

Here's a sample from the FreeBSD browser, showing a metric arseload of info about the vi command. This page includes pointers to the vi man page, lists of other programs that are really symlinks to vi (and their respective man pages), config files used by vi, and temp files created by vi: all just a click away.

Here's another FreeBSD browser page for /etc/fstab. This points to the man page for fstab, as well as listing commands that read info from fstab (mount, umount, mount_nfs, etc) and their respective man pages.

Unix is complex, it is hard to succinctly show the interelations between all of the many pieces. The FreeBSD browser is a really nice step in the right direction!

For those who haven't followed the article's link to the Meta Project, you really should give it a spin.

Here's a sample from the FreeBSD browser, showing a metric arseload of info about the vi command. This page includes pointers to the vi man page, lists of other programs that are really symlinks to vi (and their respective man pages), config files used by vi, and temp files created by vi: all just a click away.

Here's another FreeBSD browser page for /etc/fstab. This points to the man page for fstab, as well as listing commands that read info from fstab (mount, umount, mount_nfs, etc) and their respective man pages.

Unix is complex, it is hard to succinctly show the interelations between all of the many pieces. The FreeBSD browser is a really nice step in the right direction!

IIRC, Safeweb does attempt to clean up JS and other dangerous stuff from pages it displays to you, but it's still a risk.

They do a pretty good job of sanitizing JS, but not perfect. In about an hour, I found a couple ways for a malicious server to compromise anonymity through SafeWeb, using JS. I'll grant that it's a tough job to sanitize all JS, but SafeWeb should provide a way for users to browse without JS. In my opinion, this is the single biggest problem with using SafeWeb.

I sent email to the Safeweb folks about the fundamental "You're using Javascript" problem, and got a really prompt reply from their technical management, which was good, but they fundamentally didn't get it, which bothered me.

Their FAQ indicates they don't get it-- they dismiss the notion that JS is a privacy concern, and discredit those who say it is. However, I think they realize it internally. I know someone who used to work there. He says they get emails complaining about JS every day, but they don't want to do away with their current UI.

As I mentioned, Triangle Boy is really cool - it's a sort of distributed set of volunteer-run anonymizing servers, which keep moving around to prevent blocking services from blocking them...

The concept is old... some people (*cough*) have been doing this since at least 1996. All it takes is an anonymizing proxy script that is released for distribution. I wrote one called CGIProxy, and there are others out there. Triangle Boy has pros and cons compared to these-- it puts the bandwidth load on SafeWeb's machines rather than the volunteer Triangle Boy servers, but then it won't work at all if the SafeWeb server ever has a problem (the other scripts run independently).

Feel free to ask more questions; this particular topic is a specialty of mine.

Camera? That's easy too:

here ya go

The system integration and telemetry is what's going to suck.

I reccomend an electric glider as a platform. It can stay up all day, they're easy to fly (hell, i can do it), there's an existing technology base, and all you have to do is drive along the bike race path and fly the plane overhead, even without telemetry. The model airplane distance record was set in just such a fashion.

And never underestimate the piper cub offense

good luck.

The leader of the project, SF Perl Mongers' own Rich Morin, is being very circumspect about it, trying to gather lots of information from experts in different OSs and distributions, and of course working on it in his free time, so the product is not there now--but if you're interested in contributing to such an effort, this would be the place to help out.

Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product

The leader of the project, SF Perl Mongers' own Rich Morin, is being very circumspect about it, trying to gather lots of information from experts in different OSs and distributions, and of course working on it in his free time, so the product is not there now--but if you're interested in contributing to such an effort, this would be the place to help out.

Vovida, OS VoIP
Beer recipe: free! #Source
Cold pints: $2 #Product