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Seriously tho... I was encouraged when our lawyers suggested this paragraph and approved our final boilerplate contract. I had these same concerns (as foo_48120) that we would never be able to build a "legal" code library when all these (uneducated) customers insisted we developers have no rights to code.

Another caveat... almost every single one of our customers that got around to reading the contract expressed concern about this paragraph. Granted it never really stopped anyone who was actually interested in Steem, but we did have to use the "reversed" version a few times.

not a chance, he's simply amazing imo, besides, he's part owner :) he's pretty much self taught for the most part. check out our website and portfolio steem.com the page and portfolio kinda out of date, but you can get the idea

I recenlty bought an SV24. ( $250 from MWave ) A very small barebones PC that's a little larger than a toaster, but kinda noisy. (hopefully I can fix that with maybe a via c3 cpu with no cpu fan and maybe hacking in a quieter case fan) Put Debian linux on it (needs new xfree86 savage driver, or linux locks up hard upon start of x, sound works fine, I used alsa), stuffed in a TV tuner card, 1gz celeron, and dvd drive, loaded roomjuice on it (mentioned above) and some mp3s and voila, a nice little home entertainment PC. Complied mplayer on it, it plays dvd's, avi's, divx movies, mpgs, vcds, etc. Use xawtv to watch tv. (actually I use wmtv for wmaker, mplayers new tv junk wouldn't work :( ) I still have my vcr doing the channel tuning/recording though. Maybe that'll change someday when I have time to figure out a good way make it record like a vcr. Still have to get my remote that came with my tv tuner card working as well. Just haven't had the time yet. I'm currently using a 17" monitor as my viewing device, as it is bigger than my old 13" tv. :) But the SV24 has vga, svideo, and composite out, so you can use whatever. The machine also has 4 usb ports, 2 firewire (well it's technically not called that, heh), serial, paralell, I skipped the installing a floppy drive, who needs em anymore? :) Anyway it's an interesting project, my next thing I guess is to make everything better integrated somehow, so every thing can be controlled via a mouse or other pointing device somehow, and easy enough for my mom to figure out. It's almost there using "gentoo" off of freshmeat. But it would be nice to have a custom program.

Sorry a lot of the above is lot of disconnected information/thoughts, but it's hard to compose a decent post in a 60x10 box that /. gives me, I know, I should just compose everything in vim first, so sue me. :) Why don't people use big text area boxes anyway? The small ones I always annoy me, maybe if you could resize them with mozilla. That would be nice. :)

I have been wanting exactly what you are talking about for at least 6 years now. I've been looking for off-the-shelf because I've felt that I didn't quite know enough about hardware to build one and really don't have the time. A few years ago when Sun was talking about Java chips that could natively handle the language and perhaps it's own OS I thought they might head this direction with some hardware... but alas.

There are certainly enough (net|sys)admins out there to support a 'community' for this effort. After all this hardware setup is perfect for us at work or on the road. (Even at work we are away from our desks at racks of computers or in foreign data centers!) My company (Steem) will gladly step up the web resources , maybe even hardware purchasing if we could begin producing something 'sell'able. I would even venture to guess that ThinkGeek would support the endevour on some level.

I'll keep an eye on this story and see what develops. Obviously the more off-the-shelf (COTS as the gov businesses call it) stuff we can find the better. I have looked at the PC104 hardware and it seems do-able but we'll need to work at getting all the other pieces together.

BTW, if you haven't read through the MIT wearable web pages or wearables central, I suggest that you should. Lots of good hardware suggestions there.

libgtk1.2 is ~615k while libglib1.2 (required by gtk) is ~61k. Plus the dev .debs, probably not much bigger. (I already closed that window and I'm lazy, heh) Most importantly I have all of these .debs already installed, as nearly all my applications I run are gtk based. People who say that linux doesn't have standard toolkit/feel aren't running the right programs IMHO. :) (I don't use gnome or kde, I use windowmaker only). My desktop screenshot can be found here, for the curious.

And the speed all matters on how fast of a computer your linux box is. Some of still don't have exactly top notch hardware, or a top notch internet connection for that matter. :)

My main gripe I guess is that no one is programming things like microsoft office or photoshop for java. Why is that? Too slow? Licensing too restrictive? Because the public (like me) wouldn't accept it as a real competitor? People see it as an additional thing to insta/run? Too big of a memory footprint? Or What?

Aparently no one's tried downloading anything with mozilla, because both the JRE 1.3 .bin file and the limewire .bin file open up as plain text in mozilla. Sun uses a form submit to download from an ftp server, why? And the cnet auto refreshes to an ftp server, I'm never given a link so I can right click donwload or copy the ftp urls to the clipboard to download using snarf. I had to hit stop on each ftp download, and copy the url from the location bar.

After awhile of fighting, I figured out that I need to add the jre bin dir to my path to make limewire run. (This isn't in the jre install notes at all). Now there's the jre 1.3x and 1.4x, limewire doesn't work with 1.4x, so if I have a 1.4x java program I need to have both jre's installed in running. The memory footprint of the jre 1.3 according to top is 30 meg, yikes! gtk-gnutella is 3 meg.

Now I'm not saying that gtk-gnutella is the perfect program, far from it. But recently the gtk/glib libraries for win32 are becomming pretty good. I've seen a few cross platform programs linux/win32 using these graphic toolkits. www.videolan.org (dvd player for any os out there) is one of them that comes to mind right away.

mozilla in turbo mode with the following windows open: slashdot window comments, the slashdot comment post window which I'm typing in :), two pages on mozilla.org. and an about: mozilla window.

2 copies of mirc

miranda icq (great win32 icq clone, GPL'd)

innoculate it virus scanner (only free as in beer)

du meter

leechftp

taskmanager

I have a mozilla icon to execute "mozilla -turbo". That way I can boot up faster and execute it when I know I'm gonna be smurfing the web a lot. And if you want it out of memory, just select file->exit from the mozilla window. The quicklaunch thing definitely isn't end all be all, but for people with gobs of ram, it's great. My housemate found sticks of 256meg sdram dimms the other day for under $40. Anyway, I don't think it's a bad trade off, seeing as how I rarely use up 384 meg of ram in win2k anyway, well, unless I start up gamespy, then my ram usage shoots through the roof, I've caught that pos using near 100 megs of ram before here.

Win2k takes forever to boot up anyways on this machine though, I really don't want some quicklaunch thing slowing it down, since I like to turn my machine off at night to save power and what not. Which is why I have the -turbo icon.... :) There always an extra few minutes of grinding after my desktop comes up, win2k goes off starting up 10 million services I don't use and can't possibly turn off because they are "vital". My linux machine on the other hand only runs what I SAY to run. It's just a beautiful desktop machine, and runs quake3 great. :) What we really need is -turbo mode for linux, it's amazing how fast a 1.33ghz machine running reiserfs comes up, even when shutdown badly. :) And startx with windowmaker is no more than a few seconds, even with 6 retarded dock apps... heh

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Specifically the zip has a replacement (Windows 9x, dunno if it works for NT or 2K) DLL (Only one in this zip but I have DLL's for many other versions.) for Netscape 4.76 DOMESTIC. Here's a bit from the readme that lists some of the changes I hacked in:

I have turned off the Netscape 4.7 "Shopping" button. I hated that thing. luckily I only had to look at it once. :)

The search button goes to google.com!

The "My Netscape" button goes to slashdot.org/index.pl!

The mail window's bottom frame no longer loads Netscape ADs. Instead it loads this.

FYI In the current version I have hacked the "about:" page which isn't quite kosher for showing credit were credit is due for the Netscape corporate legal stuff... but oh well it's a hack.

http://steem.com/all-hack-netscape.zip - Contains all DLL's that I have hacked (basically starting with 4.51 when I first saw the "Shopping" button.)
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude

Specifically the zip has a replacement (Windows 9x, dunno if it works for NT or 2K) DLL (Only one in this zip but I have DLL's for many other versions.) for Netscape 4.76 DOMESTIC. Here's a bit from the readme that lists some of the changes I hacked in:

I have turned off the Netscape 4.7 "Shopping" button. I hated that thing. luckily I only had to look at it once. :)

The search button goes to google.com!

The "My Netscape" button goes to slashdot.org/index.pl!

The mail window's bottom frame no longer loads Netscape ADs. Instead it loads this.

FYI In the current version I have hacked the "about:" page which isn't quite kosher for showing credit were credit is due for the Netscape corporate legal stuff... but oh well it's a hack.

http://steem.com/all-hack-netscape.zip - Contains all DLL's that I have hacked (basically starting with 4.51 when I first saw the "Shopping" button.)
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude

Specifically the zip has a replacement (Windows 9x, dunno if it works for NT or 2K) DLL (Only one in this zip but I have DLL's for many other versions.) for Netscape 4.76 DOMESTIC. Here's a bit from the readme that lists some of the changes I hacked in:

I have turned off the Netscape 4.7 "Shopping" button. I hated that thing. luckily I only had to look at it once. :)

The search button goes to google.com!

The "My Netscape" button goes to slashdot.org/index.pl!

The mail window's bottom frame no longer loads Netscape ADs. Instead it loads this.

FYI In the current version I have hacked the "about:" page which isn't quite kosher for showing credit were credit is due for the Netscape corporate legal stuff... but oh well it's a hack.

http://steem.com/all-hack-netscape.zip - Contains all DLL's that I have hacked (basically starting with 4.51 when I first saw the "Shopping" button.)
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Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude

I think you can still take a look at a demo copy of it in our portfolio. Located on http://STEEM.COM. Check out... it's a beautiful page that unfortunately I had nothing to do with designing. :)

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