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Open Meta Tools Make It Big
Morgahastu writes "Byte.com has a great article about open meta tools and open software in general: "After more than 10 years of open-software development in the scientific community, open software now holds a preeminent place in the operation of the computing community. The three products I have written about simply scratch the surface of the powerful tools available. OpenLDAP and OAI both enable a wide variety of sharing and automated access.""
Another fine day for the /. trolls
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Does anybody know what metadata specifications the OAI uses or can use?
It would be neat if it used PRISM or SCORM. (Or both!)
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Yeah, I remember when I used to get this at home a few years back.
I subscribed for 7 fucking years, and 2 months into my last subscription, what do I get?
A card saying they aren't printing Byte anymore, and they gave me a couple issues of some half ass "home-office computer" magazine.
CMP won't ever see any of my money again.
Use LDAP as a library card file? Perhaps you could, but that sounds like a classic database application to me. Powerful search functions? Like SQL?
Ne mæg werig mod wyrde wiðstondan, ne se hreo hyge helpe gefremman.
The vast masses will not use it aslong as there is no WORKING way of making money on open source.
Its good that these meta tools are making progress, but what we need are real standards, and they should be open source, currently there is a lot of confusion, well its true that open source is about choice, but many times too much choice becomes a pain
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The greatest thing about Free, as in free software is that it's most often also free as in open software, free as in freedom and free as in free beer. ^_^
Just because it is free doesn't make it a valuable and stable IT asset your company can rely on. Many, many companies get burned going with opensource 'standards' based software that turns out be a support nightmare that no one else is really using in a big way (thus negating the idea of it being 'standards' compliant and interopperable). Alot of 'standards' based apps are written by amateur coders who couldn't code their way out of a wet paper bag, with lots of errors... the problem is them exacerbated by the simple fact that support is next to non-existant. Third is the 'retraining' costs involved.
No thanks...
The link Byte.com goes to bye.com!
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It has come to my attention that the entire Microsoft community is a hotbed of so called 'alternative sexuality,' which includes anything from hedonistic orgies to homosexuality to pedophilia.
What better way of demonstrating this than by looking at the hidden messages contained within the names of some of Windows' most outspoken advocates:
The incredible faggotry of the Microsoft community can also be seen in its software products. Internet Explorer sounds harmless enough, but on the Microsoft 'campus' (obviously a reference to the colleges and universities where these perverts first practiced their filthy homosexual behavior) it is referred to as 'InterNUT Explorer' and refers to a device used to tickle the sensitive area of the scrotum between the testicles.
Microsoft Exchange clearly refers to the 'exchange of bodily fluids' which is of course how these depraved specimens of humanity plan to transmit the AIDS virus to the rest of the world.
As far as William 'Homo' Gates goes, that filthy fudge-packer was actually quoted in Time magazine as saying the following: "Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's alot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
And this isn't a made up troll bullshit either! He actually stated this tripe, which makes it obvious that he is trying to politely say that he's a God-forsaken homo slut!
Furthermore, Mr. Gaytes has been quoted as saying "There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go," proving that the fag sympathisers are wrong, and these perverts really do want to recruit our fine young heterosexual boys and turn them into flaming queers like themselves.
Speaking about 'flaming,' who better to point out as a filthy chutney ferret than Microsoft's own self-confessed homo pimp Craig Mundi(e). He has already confessed, nay boasted of his status as a gay sex pusher. To quote from an interview
with Planet IT:
"One of the things we want to do and recognize that there's a market for [is] selling people services on a contract or recurring revenue basis, as opposed to traditional royalty bearing for the one-time shipment"
Selling 'people services,' eh? Is this why you were touching your penis in the cinema, Craig? And charging the other boys money to touch it too?
We should also point out that Craig has been referred to as 'Microsoft's resident Gasbag.' Is there any more doubt? For those fortunate few who aren't aware of the list of homosexual terminology found inside the Windows 'Shared Sauce Philosophy,' a 'Gasbag' is a pervert who gains sexual gratification from having a thin straw inserted into his urethra (or to use the common parlance, 'piss-pipe'), then his homosexual lover blows firmly down the straw to inflate his scrotum. This is, of course, when he's not busy violating the dignity and copyright of small software companies
by gathering together their utilities and combining them en masse into the next version of Windows to further his twisted and manipulative agenda of world domination.
Sick, disgusting antichristian perverts, the lot of them.
In addition, many of the Windows error messages (an 'error message' is the most common way the faggots communicate) are full of homsexual slang. 'This program has performed an illegal operation' is their way of advertising that they have been engaged in the vile practice of sodomy. 'A fatal exception has occurred' is obviously stating that AIDS has claimed the life of another dick sucker. Rather than recognizing that the fag was properly punished for his deviant behavior, Microsoft-loving queers suggests giving a 'three finger salute' when this happens. Needless to say, this gesture of sympathy involves inserting three fingers into your rectum and farting loudly.
Another group of Windows anal violators, going by the code name 'Windows Update' ( ) encourage users to 'download' (receive into their rectums) 'service packs' (also known as 'fudge packs') and 'device drivers' (some sort of mechanical penis, I suspect).
The fags have even invented special tools to aid their faggotry! The program Outlook Express is an anagram of 'Super Sex Tool OK,' which obviously is an endorsement of all kinds of sick behaviors. And obviously PowerPoint is a motorized device for penetrating a virgin anal sphincter.
More evidence is in the fact that Windows users say how much they love 'My Computer.' They sometimes go so far as to say that all new Windows users (who are in fact just innocent heterosexuals indoctrinated by the gay propaganda) should use this icon. The correct spelling of this phrase can again be found in the 'Shared Sauce Philosophy.'
It is actually 'My cum pooter,' an endearing term used by dominant fags for their queer-love
partners. In no other system do users boast of frequently having their rectums pumped full of semen, then farting to expel the jism in a fine mist.
Other areas of the system also show Windows' inherit gayness. For example, people are often told of the 'C: prompt' but how many innocent heterosexual Linux users know what this actually means. The answer is shocking: Seek colon, prompt - a request given by a faggot to his partner when he desires immediate, deep penetration of his ass!
Even the icon 'Recycle Bin' originally referred to a homosexual practice. 'Recycle Bin' of course refers to the popular gay practice of using a young boy's anus as a repository for semen. Shortly after one disgusting faggot spews a load of hot jism into the boy's ass, another queer will lick the 'Shared Sauce' back out of the 'Recycle Bin'.
To summarise: Windows is gay. 'Microsoft' is the graphical description of the state of a fag's penis after he has spewed a load of hot sperm into his gay lover's mouth or rectum. And
Unless they are getting the rare medal, they are going to be metabusy for dealing with metadata. If they can't keep up, they can KISS THE DATA GOOD BYE!!!
The Matrix....company Neo worked for...
And the 9 meta actions of doing anything.
Matrix Squared
Mass Squared
Mass Cubed
On a less meta-phorical note:
usenet posts from google Just call me Neo...
see lower part of page
These really are the primary set of meta action constants.
Who knows, maybe this will liven up this article responses...oh yeah, there is also my journal here in slashdot to consider.
Protocols to mention besides OpenLDAP and OAI are Whois++ and Z39.50. OAI actually is transported over HTTP. You could do the same with EAD or others.
Projects which implemented Z39.50 for the purposes of interoperability are ONE and ONE-2, EUROPAGATE, Desire and Desire II, DECOMATE and DECOMATE II, and Renardus just to touch the surface. Don't forget OHIOLINK...
Another other older, but interesting, metadata activity have been SGML MARC, and the corresponding XML MARC.
Those that are interested in more detailed reading can check out the Nordic Metadata Project, Nordic Metadata Project II, which studied the practical implications of cross browsing multiple databases and especially the use of Dublic Core. Even if you get agreement on the protocol and data standard, cross searching's not as easy as it sounds. One of the tools is the Dublin Core Metadata Temple (get it while you still can).The BYTE article was exciting to see again and could have benefited further from pointing out the relative ease of use of Dublic Core. OAI uses unqualified Dublic Core, SAFARI uses qualified Dublin Core to create an up to date index over academic research in Sweden. Shoot, since it already uses some META tags, you could even tweak htdig to use Dublic Core on your own site for those high precision searches.
With the interest in structured data (XML?) maybe well see some sites serving up not just HTML with Dublic Core, but maybe even Docbook or even TEI / TEI Lite. There are great tools for converting from Docbook to HTML, PDF, RTF, etc. and AbiWord and Kword already have partial support for docbook. If there were more, then we could see some real changes on searching the web. Coding for SGML is more difficult, so the obvious choice would be to start from Docbook XML.
Beta is broken and the link to classic doesn't work. Stop wasting our time or there won't be anybody left here.
Not if the signal to noise ratio moderation is any indication...
A joke I used to make long ago with another co-worker was how easily we could be distracted into sinking loads of time and energy into doing "Meta Work"
Instead of doing the job, we'd see where if we just put in a little bit more infrastructure, we'd be 10 times more productive doing the actual work.
The Meta Work paid off, when the time came to the real work, it had to be done at the last minute in a real hurry, since we'd been squandering all that time doing the MetaWork.
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I don't see any prominent mention here of the preeminent free operating system, FreeBSD. Every article should mention this.
Two things.
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I love the underpants gnomes, and you have the best troll nick I've ever seen. I had to stare at it for 3 minutes to figure out your username.
Of course, I'm high as fuck, and that's probably why I'm bugging you on
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