There's a link to my page in the sig, which explains all about what I do and what I do it with. In short, Linux, Apache, Tcl, other various open source tools.
There is a list of hardware that is not very Linux friendly here: http://www.leenooks.com/ - perhaps this stuff would make a good addition to the list.
The gorge is a nice area, but it's warmer down south, and I really like Ashland. It feels vaguely European in that it's small with a nice, well looked after (and, dare I say "vibrant") downtown. It's also got all the outdoor stuff - cycling, skiing, rafting and so on. Wonder what the high tech scene is like there. It's one of the areas I'd consider if I moved back to the states, although the "problem" right now would be my fiancee`, who is in biotech, which seems to go a lot more by clusters than IT does. Bay Area, San Diego, Boston... And I don't want to go back to the bay...
VOIP is by definition an area where network effects are going to play a prominent role, and the uptake of Skype means that it just gets stronger. Skype is something my parents could probably use without problems, whereas I'm dubious about some of the "fancier" systems. All I want is to be able to make a call, and if my parents are around, they answer, and we don't pay the phone company more than they already rip us off for DSL.
I'm particularly interested in something open source, though, because Skype doesn't run on my ppc-linux system.
Thanks. Now - what leads anyone to believe that blogs are somehow not suspect? A blog is just some random persons blatherings... why should they be any more trustworthy than the TV? I guess if you have all day, you could read hundreds of blatherings and get an idea of the aggregate opinion. Or maybe just the opinions of people with even more time to waste than you do:-)
Well, you're free to buy the search terms for your own company's name and your competitor's name as well, so I don't see the problem, even if I can certainly understand the annoyance. It creates the potential for a bidding war where none existed before.
I wonder if this means that OSDL or someone could sue in France to have MS not pay for the 'Linux' search term. MS are currently doing that in Italy (look at the ads on the right, and maybe click on it to transfer a few cents from Microsoft to Google:-)
I use this technique as well, although with a less harsh image saying "thanks for your interest in my pictures, feel free to look at them on dedasys.com".
I wonder what will happen if enough people start using it though - will people simply start copying the images?
I guess if you're worried enough, you can watermark them or use other things to keep them from being useful, if you want people to pay.
BTW, whenever anyone actually asks to use my photos, I always say yes and have never asked for money - what irritates me is people not even asking, or putting a small photo credit.
Look, it's called 'unstable'. What sort of impression do you think that gives people?
One of the reasons people use distributions is to get a stable set of packages that work with one another, instead of having to pick them all out by hand. Your method above is basically reverting to hand selection, and is not really something that is acceptable outside of a hobbyist setting. One of the reasons for Ubuntu's instant success is that they QA'd a bunch of recent packages, and released them as a distribution.
This situation has, from my observation of things, led to a lot of people abandoning Debian for things like Ubuntu and Fedora. I guess it doesn't matter all that much - we're not going to lose out on any revenue;-) - but it's a pity, as Debian use to have an excellent technical reputation.
I suppose marketing types might say that Debian has mismanaged its brand or something like that, becoming known for the "freeer than thou" political battles with the FSF, and having a very out of date distribution rather than technical excellence. Hopefully, we can get that back, but it will be tough.
Care to suggest any open programs? I'm in the market for one. I need to communicate from my PegasosPPC machine running Debian to my parents' computer running MacOS X.
All three are certainly different projects, that require different kinds of talent and abilities, so it's likely that what works for one may not work for the others, but I think it's instructive to compare and contrast.
As far as openness, the 'meritocracy' system works fairly well if those on the inside are inclined to add others. Nothing prevents J Random Hacker from making patches or writing code. Do that successfully for a time, and you will be invited to participate.
The original Tivo was done with a lot of Tcl scripts, probably with a healthy dose of C integration (which is very easy with Tcl). The point being, that yes, using scripting..errr..dynamic programming languages improves flexibility, and if you plan carefully (doing the right bits in C), won't even impact performance much.
Linux is probably a bit big, but something small and light like eCos might run quite well. They even mention digital cameras in this text which I found with google:
On the other hand, it may also give a degree of freedom to their correspondents in repressive countries like Zimbabwe or China. Even here in Italy, The Economist was sued because of some of the dirty secrets of Berlusconi's they talked about. Not having an author means the magazine deals with the lawsuit, not the individual author.
It's an interesting debate, but equating open technical specifications to whether or not articles are signed is... stretching it a bit, I think.
Lisp (+ scheme) and Tcl are also extremely flexible languages, where you can write new control structures in the language itself, or modify the meaning of existing functions/commands. Tcl isn't as flexible as Lisp (macros), but it's pretty good for a language that has made it to the mainstream. And it has a beautiful, fun, and well written C API that lets you do neat things at that level. It's got a scheduler, a filesystem, all kinds of neat stuff... it's nearly an OS;-)
I'm not much of a Java fan, but j2me is available on a fairly wide range of phones, and costs nothing to develop for.
It's "free" as in free beer, and who knows, if enough people contribute to efforts like Classpath, maybe open source java will become more common.
In any case, I've done some experimentation with j2me, and while it's nothing fantastic, it seems to work alright.
Symbian might be another option, but that's going to limit you some more in terms of which phones it runs on, although you can write code in C++ or even Python!
If one looks at the situation with a little bit of distance, and reason, arguments such as those put forth here that "well, he's against the US, so he must be ok" don't really hold much water.
Chavez can probably best be described as a 'populist' rather than a socialist.
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There's a link to my page in the sig, which explains all about what I do and what I do it with. In short, Linux, Apache, Tcl, other various open source tools.
But that's what I base my consulting business around, so I guess it it sort of follows that it would:-)
I've been a Debian developer since 1997. I like Debian a lot, and still think it's the best thing out there in many ways.
But "just run unstable in production environments" doesn't cut it for a lot of people.
Dammit, that should be:
e r/jokes.html#Solutions%20for%20a%20small%20Planet
http://wwwradig.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~dressl
Sorry...
Solid enough to use like this?
s le r/jokes.html#Solutions%20for%20a%20small%20Planet
http://wwwradig.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~dres
There is a list of hardware that is not very Linux friendly here: http://www.leenooks.com/ - perhaps this stuff would make a good addition to the list.
The gorge is a nice area, but it's warmer down south, and I really like Ashland. It feels vaguely European in that it's small with a nice, well looked after (and, dare I say "vibrant") downtown. It's also got all the outdoor stuff - cycling, skiing, rafting and so on. Wonder what the high tech scene is like there. It's one of the areas I'd consider if I moved back to the states, although the "problem" right now would be my fiancee`, who is in biotech, which seems to go a lot more by clusters than IT does. Bay Area, San Diego, Boston... And I don't want to go back to the bay...
VOIP is by definition an area where network effects are going to play a prominent role, and the uptake of Skype means that it just gets stronger. Skype is something my parents could probably use without problems, whereas I'm dubious about some of the "fancier" systems. All I want is to be able to make a call, and if my parents are around, they answer, and we don't pay the phone company more than they already rip us off for DSL.
I'm particularly interested in something open source, though, because Skype doesn't run on my ppc-linux system.
Vaguely sounds like WebDAV to me, but I could be wrong.
First, let me point to a favorite link of mine about "blogs":
o gs.html
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/bones/WhyIHateWebL
Thanks. Now - what leads anyone to believe that blogs are somehow not suspect? A blog is just some random persons blatherings... why should they be any more trustworthy than the TV? I guess if you have all day, you could read hundreds of blatherings and get an idea of the aggregate opinion. Or maybe just the opinions of people with even more time to waste than you do:-)
Well, you're free to buy the search terms for your own company's name and your competitor's name as well, so I don't see the problem, even if I can certainly understand the annoyance. It creates the potential for a bidding war where none existed before.
r ca+con+Google&meta=
I wonder if this means that OSDL or someone could sue in France to have MS not pay for the 'Linux' search term. MS are currently doing that in Italy (look at the ads on the right, and maybe click on it to transfer a few cents from Microsoft to Google:-)
http://www.google.it/search?hl=it&q=linux&btnG=Ce
I use this technique as well, although with a less harsh image saying "thanks for your interest in my pictures, feel free to look at them on dedasys.com".
I wonder what will happen if enough people start using it though - will people simply start copying the images?
I guess if you're worried enough, you can watermark them or use other things to keep them from being useful, if you want people to pay.
BTW, whenever anyone actually asks to use my photos, I always say yes and have never asked for money - what irritates me is people not even asking, or putting a small photo credit.
Look, it's called 'unstable'. What sort of impression do you think that gives people?
One of the reasons people use distributions is to get a stable set of packages that work with one another, instead of having to pick them all out by hand. Your method above is basically reverting to hand selection, and is not really something that is acceptable outside of a hobbyist setting. One of the reasons for Ubuntu's instant success is that they QA'd a bunch of recent packages, and released them as a distribution.
This situation has, from my observation of things, led to a lot of people abandoning Debian for things like Ubuntu and Fedora. I guess it doesn't matter all that much - we're not going to lose out on any revenue;-) - but it's a pity, as Debian use to have an excellent technical reputation.
I suppose marketing types might say that Debian has mismanaged its brand or something like that, becoming known for the "freeer than thou" political battles with the FSF, and having a very out of date distribution rather than technical excellence. Hopefully, we can get that back, but it will be tough.
Care to suggest any open programs? I'm in the market for one. I need to communicate from my PegasosPPC machine running Debian to my parents' computer running MacOS X.
This is in some ways similar to how Apache Software Foundation projects work:
l #meritocracy
http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.htm
I think it's a pretty sensible way of doing things.
Compare this with the rather more beaurocratic Debian procedure for adding new maintainers:
http://www.debian.org/devel/join/newmaint
All three are certainly different projects, that require different kinds of talent and abilities, so it's likely that what works for one may not work for the others, but I think it's instructive to compare and contrast.
As far as openness, the 'meritocracy' system works fairly well if those on the inside are inclined to add others. Nothing prevents J Random Hacker from making patches or writing code. Do that successfully for a time, and you will be invited to participate.
The original Tivo was done with a lot of Tcl scripts, probably with a healthy dose of C integration (which is very easy with Tcl). The point being, that yes, using scripting..errr..dynamic programming languages improves flexibility, and if you plan carefully (doing the right bits in C), won't even impact performance much.
Linux is probably a bit big, but something small and light like eCos might run quite well. They even mention digital cameras in this text which I found with google:
s g00000.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-announce/1999/m
On the other hand, it may also give a degree of freedom to their correspondents in repressive countries like Zimbabwe or China. Even here in Italy, The Economist was sued because of some of the dirty secrets of Berlusconi's they talked about. Not having an author means the magazine deals with the lawsuit, not the individual author.
It's an interesting debate, but equating open technical specifications to whether or not articles are signed is... stretching it a bit, I think.
Yes, I have one of these and it works fine when plugged into my powerbook. Closed x86 "linux drivers" won't cut it here...
Lisp (+ scheme) and Tcl are also extremely flexible languages, where you can write new control structures in the language itself, or modify the meaning of existing functions/commands. Tcl isn't as flexible as Lisp (macros), but it's pretty good for a language that has made it to the mainstream. And it has a beautiful, fun, and well written C API that lets you do neat things at that level. It's got a scheduler, a filesystem, all kinds of neat stuff... it's nearly an OS;-)
If anyone has cards, or other hardware, that doesn't work, please point them out to the Linux Incompatibility List.
Thanks!
I'm not much of a Java fan, but j2me is available on a fairly wide range of phones, and costs nothing to develop for.
It's "free" as in free beer, and who knows, if enough people contribute to efforts like Classpath, maybe open source java will become more common.
In any case, I've done some experimentation with j2me, and while it's nothing fantastic, it seems to work alright.
Symbian might be another option, but that's going to limit you some more in terms of which phones it runs on, although you can write code in C++ or even Python!
It's called "tile" and the goal is to make Tk look native on all platforms, in a 21st century sort of way.
http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/
Combine that with starkits, and you have 0 dependencies. Just distribute one file.
We already have a nice, cross platform language and graphical toolkit - Tcl combined with Tk. Or Python, if you like that.
If one looks at the situation with a little bit of distance, and reason, arguments such as those put forth here that "well, he's against the US, so he must be ok" don't really hold much water.
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Chavez can probably best be described as a 'populist' rather than a socialist.
Read about him at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Ch%E1vez
Note that he attempted a coup against the then president himself at one point.
The Economist talks about him some - they don't like him, but the coverage is reasonable:
http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_i
I think their points are reasonable, just as I thought their reasons for not voting for Bush were well thought out.