> if he had a favorite charity. He never answered me, which cost that entity, > if it exists, $50.)
Charity is something that has been lookdown upon in nordic countries during the last century. Sure there have been thing like Band Aid, and galas to collect money for a good cause over seas. But most of the charity is (was) looked upon as something that the government should provide, or should be provided through social reforms.
So giving to charity wasn't really in the mindset of people during 1994, things might have changed since.
It says: That it was presented in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (that's the November 28 issue). That leads us to the Abstract for the paper, where you have to BUY the paper, you know peer review costs lots of money.
In the Cal tech press release, you can see that the researches are Michael H. Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem, and Douglas L. Altshuler. They all work in the Dickinson Lab which has some cool equipment for researching flight of insects.
Yes it is, almost all cellphones grant access to the camera via the Java api, but bluetooth is abit morestateof the art it accsesible on most good phones these days (such as k750). The problem is that Micro java is really shutdown on most phones and requires user acknowledgement each time it want to acces he camera.
But there is need for more batteries, I wouldn't have enough juice for constant usage on my transatlantic flights. I mean my X40 battries lasts longer than 8 hours.
Oh yes! At last my dream will be fullfilled an application for an inflatable mouse. It would be perfect for this, and there sure would be enough space on a PC card for the fabric. You don't need much more "height" to make this mouse comfortable/ergonomical.
The problem is that to store images compressed on the server you would have to decompress, resize, compress and then store it on the server, and you would still hav to keep the original in the client. Lots of the pictures on the web are resized before being shown by the browser.
I have been using GSM mobilephones in the subways since 1998, I don't see what's so new about this there is 500km of rails in stockholm and it is all covered. And since 2003 they have been woking on WLAN coverage in the subway system, but I don't think it will ever be public, rather it's going to be just for ticket control. They might have canned the idea since it really has some complications, for the ticket controllers.
This is posted on a 32KB/s connection underground (3G has only worked for 6 months or so)...
Debconf 5 video archive has a video about Fully Automated Install, FAI really is impressive it does a full installation which taks a bit more time but it's alot more flexible than using Partition Image.
I use a 10GB partition with 5GB of data which Partition Image does in 3min, the exact same thing is done in 10min with FAI. On the other hand with FAI it is very easy to keep the image up to date, which is a very tedious process with Partition Image. Also growing filesystems aren't really that wasy in Linux yet.
I would say go with FAI, it's the cheapest route, in hours.
Both AMDs Pacifica, and Intels "VT" (Virtulization Technology, used to be called Vanderpool) is getting support in the up comming Xen 3.0 release in december (hold your thumbs). So we will perhaps see some serious boost up in performance, there was recent discussion on the mailinglist about it. I'm waiting for Pacifica support which seems to be abit better (DMA virtualization), but that willl probably not be in XEN 3.0.
It's important different cultures are always important, I want to see more influences from Latin America and Asia. Not just the people you see on mailing lists but the ones who don't speak english and hack anyways. I believe that it's great that there will be some fresh blood in the relative monocuture Comp.Sci scene. Hence it would be nice to know who they are.
It will draw lots to have 10 or twenty of these chips in a ramdrive, at some point you will actually be paying more in electric bill than it would cost to buy bigger ram. I basing this on using one of HP server rack configs were I added 20 sticks of 1GB ram and the wattage went to the roof, but don't take my word for it.
I would say that ubuntu is perfect for developing, it leaves all the stupid configuring to the people who spend their life doing it and let us ordinary programmers not care about things those insignifaicant things. Since it commesout so often it's very seldom that you don't have an development library that you need, it somehow always seems to make it into the next version at just exatcly the right time.
Now Ubunutu isn't very good on installing games, if you want to do that go with Gentoo which IMHO actally has the best installation procedures for commercial games (demos).
Well SD would be fine and dandy if there was no license issues. You have to pay alot of money to the SD consortium for using the SD standard, among the members is Microsoft. Did you know that the spec is closed as well so you can't release drivers under opensource.
I wonder why the AG hasn't done what Google is doing, to being able to search in books is one of the most sought after features among report writers I work with, it's the holy grail. there seems to have been no steps at all to acheive this during the 10 years of "internet revolution".
Google press (or something simmilar), is one of the biggest steps we have made for a long while. I really hate that you can be so narrow mind to protest against it, are they afraid of having their scripts up for the whole world to search in?
Sure they can protest against copyright infringment, it's their right. But the question is what's the best solution, just to protest or offer a real solution to a real problem?
this has always been an issue, back in 98-99 I was trying to get an 2 year old closed source OpenGL game. Without anyluck, the issue was the Debian libc-glibc change...
There was a nice talk about this at Debconf last week in Finland. About writing enterprise ready software , it was one of the SkoleLinux developers (pere). And even though School != enterprise there are some valid point about how to make thing work for large organizations.
Actually I believe that the language argument is the usual "Tech savy people want english" and since they are the ones that will be heared in this report that's the opinion that will come across.
In Sweden there is a simmilar problem.
Key observations from the study (cut n paste)
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Both free/open source software and proprietary software can be used to offer technology solutions appropriate for African public-access computer labs.
The thin-client model provides a reliable, cost-effective and popular solution for public-access computer labs in Africa.
Software license costs for proprietary software are significant in principle, but in practice they are not borne by many of the public-access computer labs in Africa.
At ground level in Africa, the potential for cost savings gained from the use of FOSS depends on many factors.
General ICT skills levels -- especially for installation and maintenance of software -- are low overall, and experience with proprietary software is more pervasive.
Training courses for PS are more widely available than for FOSS.
The fact that FOSS makes source code available and encourages modifications is not exploited by the vast majority of public-access lab staff or users in Africa because they lack the necessary skills. However, it does offers an opportunity for local service providers to create customised applications.
The availability and quality of local technical support in Africa (for both free/open source and proprietary software) is reasonably high overall, although FOSS support tends to rely on free services.
While there are a number of projects underway to translate software into African languages, these localised versions are not yet widely used in publicaccess labs and there is some disagreement about the value of local language software.
Most FOSS labs in Africa are set up and supported by a small group of enthusiastic implementing organisations, so the success of FOSS labs relies heavily on their efforts.
General trends with regard to economic situation, age of the lab, and staff experience can be identified among labs that use the same type of software.
Nice, then I won't have to compile mozilla to run the Visualhistory plugin: WebMap It's a wonderfull way to get a grip of your surfinghistory, which IMHO isn't that good by default. Sadly the guy who made it is form Japan, do most of the doc is quiete unreadable for most people.
I believe that browser history has been neglected for a long time.
I beg to differ, the first time I used a Mac was on a Mac classic (1988-89? those ten inch screens). And it really was wonderfull to use compared to what was available at the time. Sure the commandline has always been faster, but a true graphical interface which was alot more intuitive than the gnome of today.
Now I used that system for 3 years, and I was around ten at the time so this might just nostalgia.
I have a nice X40, which does this. I tried to plugin a random mini-pci just to test it and well it didn't work. I did this just to confirm that they did it there is a guy who as written about a workaround. That is a prety cool hack, from a really determined guy, it's a good read even if you don't have an Thinkpad.
Didn't try it myself, no need. But The new thinkpads from IBM contains TCPA chips that means that theoretically it could become impossible to do those kind of hacks. This is the only goal of TCPA I don't like, the crypto stuff would IS wonderfull to have, no one can read my cryptokeys save me and those with my password.
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> if he had a favorite charity. He never answered me, which cost that entity,
> if it exists, $50.)
Charity is something that has been lookdown upon in nordic countries during the last century. Sure there have been thing like Band Aid, and galas to collect money for a good cause over seas. But most of the charity is (was) looked upon as something that the government should provide, or should be provided through social reforms.
So giving to charity wasn't really in the mindset of people during 1994, things might have changed since.
It says: That it was presented in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (that's the November 28 issue). That leads us to the Abstract for the paper, where you have to BUY the paper, you know peer review costs lots of money.
In the Cal tech press release, you can see that the researches are Michael H. Dickinson, Esther M. and Abe M. Zarem, and Douglas L. Altshuler. They all work in the Dickinson Lab which has some cool equipment for researching flight of insects.
Yes it is, almost all cellphones grant access to the camera via the Java api, but bluetooth is abit morestateof the art it accsesible on most good phones these days (such as k750). The problem is that Micro java is really shutdown on most phones and requires user acknowledgement each time it want to acces he camera.
But there is need for more batteries, I wouldn't have enough juice for constant usage on my transatlantic flights. I mean my X40 battries lasts longer than 8 hours.
Oh yes! At last my dream will be fullfilled an application for an inflatable mouse. It would be perfect for this, and there sure would be enough space on a PC card for the fabric. You don't need much more "height" to make this mouse comfortable/ergonomical.
The problem is inflating it...
Actually it's the whole "nyud.net:8090/" that gives you Coral cache.
The problem is that to store images compressed on the server you would have to decompress, resize, compress and then store it on the server, and you would still hav to keep the original in the client. Lots of the pictures on the web are resized before being shown by the browser.
I have been using GSM mobilephones in the subways since 1998, I don't see what's so new about this there is 500km of rails in stockholm and it is all covered. And since 2003 they have been woking on WLAN coverage in the subway system, but I don't think it will ever be public, rather it's going to be just for ticket control. They might have canned the idea since it really has some complications, for the ticket controllers.
This is posted on a 32KB/s connection underground (3G has only worked for 6 months or so)...
Debconf 5 video archive has a video about Fully Automated Install, FAI really is impressive it does a full installation which taks a bit more time but it's alot more flexible than using Partition Image.
I use a 10GB partition with 5GB of data which Partition Image does in 3min, the exact same thing is done in 10min with FAI. On the other hand with FAI it is very easy to keep the image up to date, which is a very tedious process with Partition Image. Also growing filesystems aren't really that wasy in Linux yet.
I would say go with FAI, it's the cheapest route, in hours.
It's important different cultures are always important, I want to see more influences from Latin America and Asia. Not just the people you see on mailing lists but the ones who don't speak english and hack anyways. I believe that it's great that there will be some fresh blood in the relative monocuture Comp.Sci scene. Hence it would be nice to know who they are.
It will draw lots to have 10 or twenty of these chips in a ramdrive, at some point you will actually be paying more in electric bill than it would cost to buy bigger ram. I basing this on using one of HP server rack configs were I added 20 sticks of 1GB ram and the wattage went to the roof, but don't take my word for it.
The Groklaw interview with Mikos from MySQL AB
I would say that ubuntu is perfect for developing, it leaves all the stupid configuring to the people who spend their life doing it and let us ordinary programmers not care about things those insignifaicant things. Since it commesout so often it's very seldom that you don't have an development library that you need, it somehow always seems to make it into the next version at just exatcly the right time.
Now Ubunutu isn't very good on installing games, if you want to do that go with Gentoo which IMHO actally has the best installation procedures for commercial games (demos).
Well SD would be fine and dandy if there was no license issues. You have to pay alot of money to the SD consortium for using the SD standard, among the members is Microsoft. Did you know that the spec is closed as well so you can't release drivers under opensource.
Proprietary formats sucks.
I wonder why the AG hasn't done what Google is doing, to being able to search in books is one of the most sought after features among report writers I work with, it's the holy grail. there seems to have been no steps at all to acheive this during the 10 years of "internet revolution".
/Erik
Google press (or something simmilar), is one of the biggest steps we have made for a long while. I really hate that you can be so narrow mind to protest against it, are they afraid of having their scripts up for the whole world to search in?
Sure they can protest against copyright infringment, it's their right. But the question is what's the best solution, just to protest or offer a real solution to a real problem?
Best whishes
this has always been an issue, back in 98-99 I was trying to get an 2 year old closed source OpenGL game. Without anyluck, the issue was the Debian libc-glibc change...
There was a nice talk about this at Debconf last week in Finland. About writing enterprise ready software , it was one of the SkoleLinux developers (pere). And even though School != enterprise there are some valid point about how to make thing work for large organizations.
Great talks.
Actually I believe that the language argument is the usual "Tech savy people want english" and since they are the ones that will be heared in this report that's the opinion that will come across.
In Sweden there is a simmilar problem.
technology solutions appropriate for African public-access computer labs.
for public-access computer labs in Africa.
in practice they are not borne by many of the public-access computer labs in
Africa.
FOSS depends on many factors.
software -- are low overall, and experience with proprietary software is more
pervasive.
is not exploited by the vast majority of public-access lab staff or users in
Africa because they lack the necessary skills. However, it does offers an
opportunity for local service providers to create customised applications.
free/open source and proprietary software) is reasonably high overall,
although FOSS support tends to rely on free services.
African languages, these localised versions are not yet widely used in publicaccess
labs and there is some disagreement about the value of local language
software.
enthusiastic implementing organisations, so the success of FOSS labs relies
heavily on their efforts.
experience can be identified among labs that use the same type of software.
Nice, then I won't have to compile mozilla to run the Visualhistory plugin: WebMap It's a wonderfull way to get a grip of your surfinghistory, which IMHO isn't that good by default. Sadly the guy who made it is form Japan, do most of the doc is quiete unreadable for most people.
I believe that browser history has been neglected for a long time.
I beg to differ, the first time I used a Mac was on a Mac classic (1988-89? those ten inch screens). And it really was wonderfull to use compared to what was available at the time. Sure the commandline has always been faster, but a true graphical interface which was alot more intuitive than the gnome of today.
Now I used that system for 3 years, and I was around ten at the time so this might just nostalgia.
Didn't try it myself, no need. But The new thinkpads from IBM contains TCPA chips that means that theoretically it could become impossible to do those kind of hacks. This is the only goal of TCPA I don't like, the crypto stuff would IS wonderfull to have, no one can read my cryptokeys save me and those with my password.
You can see the layout here, if this thing is real that is.. the layout
and the same picture
In Sweden we pay between 0.60 kr - 1.50 kr per SMS ($US: 0.09 - 0.22) that would be roughly 15 SMS per hour if you pay $800 a month.