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Groupware for Small Consulting Organizations?
vrmlguy asks: "I've worked for several small consulting organizations over the past few years, and have discovered an unmet need. Every place I've worked has developed lots of code (usually scripts) that rarely gets reused except by the person who wrote it. Management always talks about 'knowledge management systems', but nothing ever gets off the ground. Does anyone know of something that works? I've looked at the CMS Info and TECFA Portals Pointers web sites, but haven't found much that seems to meet my needs. What I think that I need is something similar to sourceforge, but without the bells and whistles. BSCW looks like the closest fit, but I've got a few concerns about its licensing. The ideal solution would let me control any code that I upload, and search other peoples' code for stuff I can download and modify for my own use. CVS is overkill, since I expect that people will rarely check things back in that they've downloaded. Ease of use is important, since people always think it's easier to write from scratch than to search for things to reuse. Security is paramount, since there will be a lot of code that, for various contractual reasons, we don't want to share with anyone. Does anyone know of a great project that I may have missed?" -
Rare Desert Walking Robot: Mojave or Bust
An anonymous reader writes "Robust walking robots are still surprisingly rare. The Astrobiology Magazine is reporting today on the German-American Scorpion Project to conquer 25 miles of targeted navigation into the Mojave Desert and back autonomously. The eight-legged robot is triple-jointed and must travel by day (solar-batteries) for two-weeks alone without human intervention. Because it's a scorpion, the camera is in the tail." -
Filesystems, Metadata and Future OS Integration?
wdebruij asks: "After reading the 'The Mac, Metadata, and the World' article posted a few days earlier I was wondering what metadata progress is made outside of the Mac platform. I'm currently programming a set-based metadata system working on top of the standard file-system (called AtomsNet) and would like to know how the Slashdot community sees the future of metadata support in operating systems. The Resource Description Format and MPEG7 look like promising initiatives, but I do not know of any real life implementations so far." -
History Of Infocom aka The Creators Of Zork
halcyon7 writes: "My MIT research group has spent the last two months studying Infocom [?] , Inc. (the creators of Zork [?] ) in great detail. We have talked to many of the original founders and employees, studied board meeting minutes, looked through source code, and done everything we could to tell the story of Infocom's history in a fair and accurate way. As of Friday, our project has concluded. Our report and presentation, entitled "Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.", is available online in both PDF of the paper and a PDF of the presentation. The presentation was given on December 13th in a quasi-public forum to members of EECS, STS, the MIT community, and some former employees of Infocom." Ah, Infocom. Many a day was whiled away trying to figure the syntax for the next command *grin*. -
History Of Infocom aka The Creators Of Zork
halcyon7 writes: "My MIT research group has spent the last two months studying Infocom [?] , Inc. (the creators of Zork [?] ) in great detail. We have talked to many of the original founders and employees, studied board meeting minutes, looked through source code, and done everything we could to tell the story of Infocom's history in a fair and accurate way. As of Friday, our project has concluded. Our report and presentation, entitled "Down From the Top of Its Game: The Story of Infocom, Inc.", is available online in both PDF of the paper and a PDF of the presentation. The presentation was given on December 13th in a quasi-public forum to members of EECS, STS, the MIT community, and some former employees of Infocom." Ah, Infocom. Many a day was whiled away trying to figure the syntax for the next command *grin*. -
Is SCSI Sub-Par Under Linux?
twdorris asks: "I've been playing around with SCSI under Linux for a while now and I keep running into issues with things not working *quite* right (scanner not responding sometimes, having to retry operations for what appears to be no good reason, etc.). The SCSI subsystem under Linux is supposedly sub-par and is considered by those in the know to be a major hack, to put it nicely. See this little note from the cdrecord author for an example." (More)"His arguments seem to make sense to me and he certainly seems to know what he's talking about. So I'm curious how others in the know feel about the state of the Linux SCSI subsystem. If people tend to agree it's not in the best of shape, I'm curious what's being done about it? SCSI is an important interface to support and support *well* in a business environment, so I'm hoping someone smarter than I am already has plans to incorporate necessary changes to Linux to make it more enterprise friendly in this regard."
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Burning VCDs With Linux?
nestea` asks: "OK! I want to know if it is possible to burn Video CDs from Linux with cdrecord or some sort of recording software. As I understand it Video CD is not like normal CDROMs and can not be read the same way (according to www.mpegtv.com). The MpegTV site is my main source for Linux VCD info. Ideas?" -
Scientists Scramble Web Pages in Protest
Matthias L. Jugel writes "The scientists at the German National Research Center for Information Technology have scrambled their web pages to show their unrest about plans to cut down salaries by 13.5%. 86.5% of the web pages are now unreadable and it made a big bang as this was found out by the federal ministry beeing responsible for the cut-off. Especially the specific situation at an institute that employs computer scientists it makes no sense to cut salaries while most companies are looking for CS staff. It looks like that the government wants to set Germany back in computer science research. Read about the story that has found its way in the TV news "Tagesthemen" and almost all big German Newspapers today. " -
Scientists Scramble Web Pages in Protest
Matthias L. Jugel writes "The scientists at the German National Research Center for Information Technology have scrambled their web pages to show their unrest about plans to cut down salaries by 13.5%. 86.5% of the web pages are now unreadable and it made a big bang as this was found out by the federal ministry beeing responsible for the cut-off. Especially the specific situation at an institute that employs computer scientists it makes no sense to cut salaries while most companies are looking for CS staff. It looks like that the government wants to set Germany back in computer science research. Read about the story that has found its way in the TV news "Tagesthemen" and almost all big German Newspapers today. "