Wrong. I work in a French bank, and our contract management system is written in a French programming language: The variables are in French, the comments are French, the function names are in French, the operators are French... For example, "if" is "si". It's unbelievable for outsiders, but this is real.
Join a mailing list and help people out if they have got problems that you can solve. You cannot image how easy to answer some question are. But they take time to answer. Write an FAQ.
Help the developers getting information. For GNumeric, that would be for example providing EXCEL sheets that don't work with current versions of GNumeric. For GPhoto, contact any manufacturer that won't release specs for their digital cameras and ask for information.
Since several months now I have been trying to get some specs on the protocol that the early digital cameras from HP use - to no avail. Nothing, rien, nichts, nada. Technical service didn't even know where to get that information. After tons of e-mails and expensive telephone calls (you know, the extra-expensive service numbers) I finally got to the German product manager. She was really nice, she tried to contact HP US by herself, but didn't reach anything neither.
Luckily, the konica protocol, which has been published by konica, is very similar, so it had been relatively easy to reverse engineer the protocol for gphoto.
I can only advise you to buy digital cameras from Nikon, Minolta, Konica, or any company that provides the specs so that you can actually use your camera.
Be careful when you play around with the new kernels and PCMCIA/APM. Those two don't like each other (yet). If you would like to avoid troubles: Never change a running system...
Smile sold laptops with AMD chips, but they stopped selling notebooks completely. Sad truth, because virtually all chips (usb, sound, I2C, graphic...) are supported. But look around - there are AMD laptops out there...
Supposed you win a high-end Digital Camera. You take some pictures, are amazed of the quality and convenience, and you discover that the camera is not supported by gphoto yet. You discover that there is one guy who tries to reverse engineer the protocol of your camera, but he needs help. He has already done a little bit, a (very) alpha version exists. Would you join him and finish the driver?
Up to now I thought that I am pretty well served with my 233 PII. But the new gnome-core slows the whole thing down... If only my hardware improved automatically like the software!
... and frightened. I am using my computer every day. It is so simple to write some program. It is interesting to play with the hardware and do more with it than would be possible when using some window$ software. It is curiosity, playfulness. And you learn a great deal by doing it. Does that mean by simply writing a program or driver for a chip you've got in your computer and sharing your thoughts with some friends (social contacts, another positive side effect) you could suddenly be prosecuted?
It seems to me that somebody want's to split the world into two groups: One huge group (me included) that has to use the software (and pay for it) and a very small group that develops and distributes the software and makes the money.
Jon Johansen tried to cross the border and has a huge problem now. I don't know where the border is but fear that I already crossed it by simply running Linux and storing DeCSS on my hard drive. I would like to help Jon, but I do not know how I could...
... as of 2000/12/18 18:25 eastern time. $2,375 for a check worth $500. It is always amazing to see the fever of the auction thing catching the bidders. I guess, the last bidder will have to write his investment off as a tuition charge: Never bid again... Does anyone know how much ebay earns by hosting this item?
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Wrong. I work in a French bank, and our contract management system is written in a French programming language: The variables are in French, the comments are French, the function names are in French, the operators are French... For example, "if" is "si". It's unbelievable for outsiders, but this is real.
I suggest leather instead. A proven concept, and won't make your back hurt that much.
- Join a mailing list and help people out if they have got problems that you can solve. You cannot image how easy to answer some question are. But they take time to answer. Write an FAQ.
- Help the developers getting information. For GNumeric, that would be for example providing EXCEL sheets that don't work with current versions of GNumeric. For GPhoto, contact any manufacturer that won't release specs for their digital cameras and ask for information.
- Translate projects.
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It's not all about money...*gulp* per CPU?!? Wwhuahahahahahahohohohou....
Huh. Back to work again.
Luckily, the konica protocol, which has been published by konica, is very similar, so it had been relatively easy to reverse engineer the protocol for gphoto.
I can only advise you to buy digital cameras from Nikon, Minolta, Konica, or any company that provides the specs so that you can actually use your camera.
So far for HP and open source...
I just had to say this.
Lutz
The only thing missing in this post is the "funny" flag. I couldn't help laughing!
... I forgot to mention :-(
Please respond! I'd really like to have the little toy...
I tried to call them, too. But they seem to be slashdotted... I wonder if they are willing to send this thing to Germany :-)
Be careful when you play around with the new kernels and PCMCIA/APM. Those two don't like each other (yet). If you would like to avoid troubles: Never change a running system...
Smile sold laptops with AMD chips, but they stopped selling notebooks completely. Sad truth, because virtually all chips (usb, sound, I2C, graphic...) are supported. But look around - there are AMD laptops out there...
Supposed you win a high-end Digital Camera. You take some pictures, are amazed of the quality and convenience, and you discover that the camera is not supported by gphoto yet. You discover that there is one guy who tries to reverse engineer the protocol of your camera, but he needs help. He has already done a little bit, a (very) alpha version exists. Would you join him and finish the driver?
They talked about cuban boys, presidential elections, economy, snow - but I didn't see anything that had to do with DVD...
... is all I can say. Something is going terribly wrong.
Up to now I thought that I am pretty well served with my 233 PII. But the new gnome-core slows the whole thing down... If only my hardware improved automatically like the software!
... and frightened. I am using my computer every day. It is so simple to write some program. It is interesting to play with the hardware and do more with it than would be possible when using some window$ software. It is curiosity, playfulness. And you learn a great deal by doing it. Does that mean by simply writing a program or driver for a chip you've got in your computer and sharing your thoughts with some friends (social contacts, another positive side effect) you could suddenly be prosecuted?
It seems to me that somebody want's to split the world into two groups: One huge group (me included) that has to use the software (and pay for it) and a very small group that develops and distributes the software and makes the money.
Jon Johansen tried to cross the border and has a huge problem now. I don't know where the border is but fear that I already crossed it by simply running Linux and storing DeCSS on my hard drive. I would like to help Jon, but I do not know how I could...
As far as I know, virus is a latin word. And then the plural form is viri, not virii. Sorry, I could not resist. But 'virii' hurts...
... as of 2000/12/18 18:25 eastern time. $2,375 for a check worth $500. It is always amazing to see the fever of the auction thing catching the bidders. I guess, the last bidder will have to write his investment off as a tuition charge: Never bid again... Does anyone know how much ebay earns by hosting this item?
... is here
Fix it... Would be less confusing then...