I once worked at a law firm that had a really great software package called DocsOPEN. It replaced the Word/WordPerfect Save As dialog box with a basic database frontend. You didn't have to provide a filename, you just provided your name, your client, the subject, some keywords, and the name of the document, etc. Sure it took a few extra seconds to save a file, but it made it SIMPLE to find documents, etc. Why hasn't anyone implemnted anything like this in linux yet? I've searched for DocsOPEN and I can't seem to find the application anymore. It's would be really nice if we could make linux apps provide this functionality and tie it to a MySQL db or something. As I accumulate more and more data (textfiles, email, code, etc. - I'm quickly finding myself lost in the filesystem-directory-filename convention of file storage. Using locate and grep helps me find the files, but then I have use that list and load each file up, make sure it's the right version, etc. I need something more productivity friendly.
Does anyone know of any packages for linux that can help me organize my data?
If you're that worried about startup, why not roll your own scripts?
Hell, I remember a great approach to starting/init'ing services using Makefiles a few months back. The article can be found here: http://lwn.net/Articles/50115/
That article inspired me to create my own binary that gets called from init. My binary is basically just a static series of system() calls. I chose these over exec() because they require one less call to sh.
Long story short - using a Makefile or a simple C binary can allow you to fine tune your startup. However, the flip side of this is that you'll have to know your system startup inside and out.
Just what we need - a new DDos method. By using the scenario you described above, an attacker could easily prevent rightful remote users of a service, by simply knocking on random ports.
It's a very interesting idea, and I tend to think if it can be done properly, it could provide just one more hurdle for haX0rs.
I can't think of many other sources that use CANbus for data transfer. I think your best bet is going to be VGA distribution (assuming that you're trying to send the same signal to multiple sources). We did this a few years ago as part of the dashpc project. It's nothing new.
However, if you're trying to multiplex a VGA signal, you're on your own - I don't think there's a definitive method of doing that (yet).
Please note that I'm assuming that my understanding of your question is clear. If not, please feel free to elaborate.
Microsoft partners with Yahoo, with the greater goal of crushing Google.com, and returning Yahoo the #1 search engine ranking (as powered by msn.com).
I for one, certainly hope that google releases a mail service SOON. By doing so, they'll pre-emt the forthcoming Microsoft strike. Furthermore, if they do it right, they can easily become the #1 mail system AND kick MSFT back a few steps in the process.
But what do I know - I'm just a slashdot-reading-msn-bigot and I don't want no stinking google corrupting my great msn.com search results!
The question is not, do we want this; this is going to happen because of the global internet that we [IT's] have created. It's a side effect that we couldn't have seen coming.
The question is, how do we cope? There are emerging studies that say that this could actually be a good thing in the long run (Inc. Magazine - current issue).
I'm kind of curious as to what people are doing about the language barrier. I would think that a lot of people over there speak English; but I personally think it's rude to ask a native to speak English when I'm in a foreign country. I try to learn as much of the language as I can when I'm in a foreign country just to show the other culture that I do respect them (except the French - for some reason they scoff at you even for "attempting" their goofy little language improperly).
Breaking standards is just part of their bigger strategy - dividing the internet in two.
I think they are trying to create a Microsoft internet, and a non-Microsoft internet. I'm finding more and more places where Microsoft is becoming "standardized" in places of importance (US Post office "offical" stamps that REQUIRE Microsoft Office software anyone?).
What happened to the RFC's? ANSI, IETF, etc?
In fact, now that I think about it, virtually all of the new Microsoft-only technologies are linked to DRM in some form or another. I can't help but think that they're trying to create an internet that you can be a part of if you have nothing to hide, i.e. an internet where you remove all anonymity. In such a world, they can:
a) guarantee revenue for software (no piracy)
b) solve the worlds problems by making every user accountable / trackable
c) profit!
They're going to make Linux users, etc. out to be "hackers" and the "dark side of the internet". They're going to point out that in their safe, accountable, Disney-like theme-park-of-the-internet [MSN], you will be completely safe to roam the park, with no fears (and with NO sense of reality - have you EVER seen a Disney character with their suit-headress off? - NO, Disney does that by design!)... The result is going to be a fantasy-land where there is no reality and there is no human thought. Those butterfly commercials are just the beginning. Oh yah, you'll need a Microsoft ReplayTV box to see "suitable" television too.
Let's just hope the FTC doesn't allow the inevitable Microsoft+Disney+MSNBC+BuenaVista Movie Studio merger.
I pray that consumer rights groups keep a very CLOSE eye on every MSFT tentacle. I'm very wary of the goals of the company that's _already_ the most powerful company on Earth.
Breaking the standards is just one facet of the Microsoft machine.
Mod this as flamebait if you feel you have to, but be willing to come back and mod me back up in 2 years after it's happened (if you're on this side of the internet or if slashdot.org is "allowed" content).
If I'm not mistaken, he was killed in a car accident in early 2003. Unfortunately, none of his kin/sucessors knew the importance of updating his website(s), so when the ISP bill expires the plug will be pulled on the content as well (no pun intended).
I'm not 100% certain about the accident, however I recall hearing something about it a while back.
I like the ad-blocking hosts file idea... why not just publish a text file called hosts.ads that can be appended to the end of a users existing/etc/hosts file? I have a script that I use to automatically update my pci.ids and usb.ids file(s). These files help me keep the output of lspci and lsusb current on my PC. Why not use a moderated hosts files system to do something similar for AD servers?
Does anything like this currently exist?
Or how about adding a feature to Mozilla, et al. that would allow a user to right-click on an advertisement and anonymously submit the URL/imagesize/etc. of the offending ad so it can be blocked for others.
As the copyright holder, YOU can negotiate terms for the use of your code. If you're dead set against anyone using it commerically, let them know and don't let them use your code (but overall the community will suffer).
If you think you should be paid for your work, and its a commercial product, ask them for fair compensation.
Keep in mind, though, that there are several reasons not to make ludicris requests:
a) it hurts the community overall - by working out a deal with the company/violator directly, you can potentially work out terms that you're both happy with. Ultimately this makes Open Source look more [financially] viable in the corporate realm.
b) you have the power to contribute back to the community 2-fold - one with your code; and 2 with a financial contribution to the organization of your choice (FSF, etc) based on some kind of negotiation with the violator (like I mentioned in a above); compromise by allowing them to keep their derivative work closed source (and simultaneously preserving their business model), but ask that they contribute X% of the profits to the FSF, or yourself, or whatever you deem appropriate [within reason of course, the more companies that are successful with open source business models, the better].
c) don't ask them to open their source!!! Before modding this post as flamebait because it contains a controversial statement, hear me out... Most companies DON'T have a product if they are forced to open their source code. Some do, however, it makes it much more difficult to do from a business sense, and it makes Linux very incredulous in the eyes of investors / Venture capitalists, etc. HOWEVER - business models DO exist that are helping the linux community AND succeeding commercially. A good example is Tivo. They've created a successful consumer product and they haven't released the sourcecode - BUT the community saw something useful in Tivo and thus FreeVO and MythTV, etc. were created to fill the non-commercial niche. In addition, they help the OS community by allowing hacks while still trying to maintain business income (and food on the tables of their programmers/IT staff).
We can't have it both ways, guys! We can't on one hand piss and moan about the lack of IT jobs, while simultaneously demanding total financial compensation for our community contributions. The bottom line is that we have to work with what we have and strike a balance with the corporate Linux companies.
The linux community is searching for the elusive "business model" - I'll tell you what it is: It's compromise. It's allowing a business to use your code and make a profit in exchange for providing yourself and the business/GPL violator with a reasonable symbiotic relationship. "Clone" applications will surface immediately to fill the market of people that aren't willing to pay for the product (insert Tivo / FreeVo example here). The businesses can market their products to the general society and make money; and they can help the Open-Source community develop a "free" (for those with the tech know-how) equivalent.
This _IS_ the leader that wants to do it for re-election reasons, however. He doesn't want to be a dud/non-visionary like his father. Especially in an election year.
I say more power to him. It will give the Dem's ammo going into the 2004 election (how many Americans are unemployed again?), so he can hopefully be replaced in 2004. I doubt it will happen now that Florida and many other states are on paperless-trailed voting machines.
I'd just like to see him ousted from power simply because of the controveriality (is that a word?) of the 2000 election. America needs a new President just for the sake of keeping the Democratic-Republic integral.
It's not 1984 yet, so at least let us think we still have voting power until the paperless voting machines invisibily take our rights away.
dashpc.com is the headquarters for linux car computing enthusiasts. The site seems to be down right now, but if you google for dashpc you can find a ton of info. A cached link to the discussion forum can be found here.
Leave Windows as just an OS and not an industry gobbling monster. Bill G's brainchild Windows (and Microsoft itself) are gobbling up / crushing / absorbing all of the new innovation and forthcoming technology. THAT very thing is why Linux users love to "hack" the kernel, code, etc. and why they don't use Windows. If Linux was an OS back when Bill G. was in the homebrew computer club, HE'D BE A LINUX GEEK! Ironically, he's lost touch with the joy that comes from a cool hack / tweak / project / idea and he's using his company to SMASH all the potential (the Linux/OS community) that he once would've lived for.
Bill if you read this, work WITH US (the hackers and computer/tech enthusiats). Give us opportunities for innovation and creating our own successes. If you don't help us, by definition the only action we can reaonsably take is to circumvent and otherwise destroy your flagship product. We'll dilute it. We'll out-innovate it. Bill, we have the same mentality that you had / have. Millions of programmers and converts can't be wrong.
The best thing to do would be to contact the licensor directly and see if you can work out terms that they are agreeable upon such that they can grant you a unique license/contract for use. The best outcome would be that: a) the GPL'd coders get to [reasonably] dictate the terms that you can use the code that they worked hard on - ie. he/she/it/they can ask that you kindly donate x% of profits to the FSF and y% of the profits to them directly or some combination thereof. Hopefully, this would result in a balance between the "freedom" nature of [GPLd] open-source and the financial support required to maintain the civil liberties/rights of the very coders and consumers that compose the end product.
b) you can distribute your app commercially (Step 3: PROFIT!)
c) the overall community can benefit from the balance of GPL coders that will want either monetary contribution, community contribution, civil liberty-FSF & EFF contribution, etc. with the commercial needs of business operations (which would directly affect the FSF, GPl, etc). The better the company does with the overall product; the better the company can contribute to, assist, develop, rationalize and overall make open-source a very VALID business model.
Please keep in mind that this is just my.02 cents. That said, if we can strike the necessary balance betwix GPL/Profit I tend to think that the software world will revolutionize much more rapidly...
It's serial, but I'm fairly certain it would work with a USB-Serial converter. Also, it allows you to use up to 4 sensors and you can locate where you'd like (Dallas Semiconductor DS1820 3 wire chips).
I was in the Phoenix Airport and I saw a BSOD over the security area... I snapped a quick pic with my digital camera, only to be apprehended by the Security folks. They confiscated my camera, and I promised them that I could delete the picture if they'd give me the camera back. So I did, and reluctantly they let me have it back.
"When I work at home, my girlfriend is there with me [...] She's in nursing school so I get to spend most of the day with her."
Man, I can't believe there's a school for Nursing. My mother seemed so natural at it. Of course, I was very young and my memory has faded a bit since I was an infant.
After the 2004 Election Chaos that will undoubtedly ensue - (most likely a "hacked" machine somewhere; somehow) - there will be a new Mandate that will pass UCITA straight through the congress and the DMCA will be expanded in its scope. Furthermore, DMCA violations will become Zero-tolerance - resulting in mandatory prision terms of 20 years for ANY violation (no questions asked). DMCA violations will fall under the "Terrorist" umbrella and thus violators will not be eligible for due process (NO right to speedy trial). Instead they will be tried and held indefinitely until they are "judged" in a military tribunal (they can do that to US Citizens now you know - see Guantanamo Bay). Similar to what happened to Mitnick, however, they'll use the "Military Tribunal" to justify indetermininate imprisionment.
The end result will be this: - Scientists and security professionals will NOT BE ALLOWED to question/criticize or even evaluate future voting machines. - The SIGs,lobbyists,corporate attorneys will end up with the Government in their back pockets (moreso than they currently do) - The corporations will become the new government - The people/consumers will become the victims
Also, if you think this is just an "American" problem, think again. You'd be naive to think that the USA doesn't influence other governments in one way or another.
Welcome to 1984 (George Orwell Novel).
Let the revolution begin.
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Microsoft has just announced that in an attempt to further demonstrate their innovation committment to the industry - they have decided to break new ground on the recently popular "internet".
Microsoft Corp. is currently slated to deliver TRUE 24(tm)-bit alpha(tm)-transparency(tm) to The World(tm) via the Wide Web.
In an attempt to further our position as the #1 Welfare and Community Company, we (Microsoft) have decided to expand our "Community Assistance Initiative (CAI[tm])" by delivering 24 bit alpha transparency via.PNG(tm) technology to the world. We at Microsoft (long-since innovators in the alpha-transparency and computer graphics industry), have decided to contribute this bleeding-edge graphics technology at NO COST to the consumer! Furthermore, the forthcoming Microsoft Longhorn Windows 2003 Server Professional Plus 98-03k Upgrade "Security Edition" will offer Alpha PNG transparency at the base level. NO UPGRADE required (Licensing details apply; Legal rights apply to consumers only where applicable. Residents of CA, UK, DE, NL, FR, Earth; ineligible. Your rights may vary).
Furthermore, our legal department(tm) have advised us to confirm the rumors that our R&D department has developed a hot new, unconventional, cutting edge, and never-before-seen browsing technology. Codenamed "Tabbed"; Microsoft intends on revolutionizing the browsing world by introducing a patented-method of displaying multiple windows in ONE window! Unbelieveable! (Prior art need not apply; US Supreme Court Judges and USPTO already owned by Microsoft(R); all consumer rights invalid on first 9 planets in Milky Way region of Universe; your rights may be less).
Ed. Note: Microsoft Longhorn 2002 is slated for release in Q1 of 2006.
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I once worked at a law firm that had a really great software package called DocsOPEN. It replaced the Word/WordPerfect Save As dialog box with a basic database frontend. You didn't have to provide a filename, you just provided your name, your client, the subject, some keywords, and the name of the document, etc. Sure it took a few extra seconds to save a file, but it made it SIMPLE to find documents, etc. Why hasn't anyone implemnted anything like this in linux yet? I've searched for DocsOPEN and I can't seem to find the application anymore. It's would be really nice if we could make linux apps provide this functionality and tie it to a MySQL db or something. As I accumulate more and more data (textfiles, email, code, etc. - I'm quickly finding myself lost in the filesystem-directory-filename convention of file storage. Using locate and grep helps me find the files, but then I have use that list and load each file up, make sure it's the right version, etc. I need something more productivity friendly.
Does anyone know of any packages for linux that can help me organize my data?
This is actually a great idea. Over at oneshare they have Martha Stewart. One good villian deserves another. I'm not sure if they have SCO though.
If you're that worried about startup, why not roll your own scripts?
Hell, I remember a great approach to starting/init'ing services using Makefiles a few months back. The article can be found here:
http://lwn.net/Articles/50115/
That article inspired me to create my own binary that gets called from init. My binary is basically just a static series of system() calls. I chose these over exec() because they require one less call to sh.
Long story short - using a Makefile or a simple C binary can allow you to fine tune your startup. However, the flip side of this is that you'll have to know your system startup inside and out.
Just what we need - a new DDos method. By using the scenario you described above, an attacker could easily prevent rightful remote users of a service, by simply knocking on random ports.
It's a very interesting idea, and I tend to think if it can be done properly, it could provide just one more hurdle for haX0rs.
I can't think of many other sources that use CANbus for data transfer. I think your best bet is going to be VGA distribution (assuming that you're trying to send the same signal to multiple sources). We did this a few years ago as part of the dashpc project. It's nothing new.
However, if you're trying to multiplex a VGA signal, you're on your own - I don't think there's a definitive method of doing that (yet).
Please note that I'm assuming that my understanding of your question is clear. If not, please feel free to elaborate.
Microsoft partners with Yahoo, with the greater goal of crushing Google.com, and returning Yahoo the #1 search engine ranking (as powered by msn.com).
I for one, certainly hope that google releases a mail service SOON. By doing so, they'll pre-emt the forthcoming Microsoft strike. Furthermore, if they do it right, they can easily become the #1 mail system AND kick MSFT back a few steps in the process.
But what do I know - I'm just a slashdot-reading-msn-bigot and I don't want no stinking google corrupting my great msn.com search results!
The question is not, do we want this; this is going to happen because of the global internet that we [IT's] have created. It's a side effect that we couldn't have seen coming.
The question is, how do we cope? There are emerging studies that say that this could actually be a good thing in the long run (Inc. Magazine - current issue).
I'm kind of curious as to what people are doing about the language barrier. I would think that a lot of people over there speak English; but I personally think it's rude to ask a native to speak English when I'm in a foreign country. I try to learn as much of the language as I can when I'm in a foreign country just to show the other culture that I do respect them (except the French - for some reason they scoff at you even for "attempting" their goofy little language improperly).
Breaking standards is just part of their bigger strategy -
dividing the internet in two.
I think they are trying to create a Microsoft internet, and a non-Microsoft internet. I'm finding more and more places where Microsoft is becoming "standardized" in places of importance (US Post office "offical" stamps that REQUIRE Microsoft Office software anyone?).
What happened to the RFC's? ANSI, IETF, etc?
In fact, now that I think about it, virtually all of the new Microsoft-only technologies are linked to DRM in some form or another. I can't help but think that they're trying to create an internet that you can be a part of if you have nothing to hide, i.e. an internet where you remove all anonymity. In such a world, they can:
a) guarantee revenue for software (no piracy)
b) solve the worlds problems by making every user accountable / trackable
c) profit!
They're going to make Linux users, etc. out to be "hackers" and the "dark side of the internet". They're going to point out that in their safe, accountable, Disney-like theme-park-of-the-internet [MSN], you will be completely safe to roam the park, with no fears (and with NO sense of reality - have you EVER seen a Disney character with their suit-headress off? - NO, Disney does that by design!)... The result is going to be a fantasy-land where there is no reality and there is no human thought. Those butterfly commercials are just the beginning. Oh yah, you'll need a Microsoft ReplayTV box to see "suitable" television too.
Let's just hope the FTC doesn't allow the inevitable Microsoft+Disney+MSNBC+BuenaVista Movie Studio merger.
I pray that consumer rights groups keep a very CLOSE eye on every MSFT tentacle. I'm very wary of the goals of the company that's _already_ the most powerful company on Earth.
Breaking the standards is just one facet of the Microsoft machine.
Mod this as flamebait if you feel you have to, but be willing to come back and mod me back up in 2 years after it's happened (if you're on this side of the internet or if slashdot.org is "allowed" content).
If I'm not mistaken, he was killed in a car accident in early 2003. Unfortunately, none of his kin/sucessors knew the importance of updating his website(s), so when the ISP bill expires the plug will be pulled on the content as well (no pun intended).
I'm not 100% certain about the accident, however I recall hearing something about it a while back.
I like the ad-blocking hosts file idea... why not just publish a text file called hosts.ads that can be appended to the end of a users existing /etc/hosts file? I have a script that I use to automatically update my pci.ids and usb.ids file(s). These files help me keep the output of lspci and lsusb current on my PC. Why not use a moderated hosts files system to do something similar for AD servers?
Does anything like this currently exist?
Or how about adding a feature to Mozilla, et al. that would allow a user to right-click on an advertisement and anonymously submit the URL/imagesize/etc. of the offending ad so it can be blocked for others.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueler? Anyone?
As the copyright holder, YOU can negotiate terms for the use of your code. If you're dead set against anyone using it commerically, let them know and don't let them use your code (but overall the community will suffer).
If you think you should be paid for your work, and its a commercial product, ask them for fair compensation.
Keep in mind, though, that there are several reasons not to make ludicris requests:
a) it hurts the community overall - by working out a deal with the company/violator directly, you can potentially work out terms that you're both happy with. Ultimately this makes Open Source look more [financially] viable in the corporate realm.
b) you have the power to contribute back to the community 2-fold - one with your code; and 2 with a financial contribution to the organization of your choice (FSF, etc) based on some kind of negotiation with the violator (like I mentioned in a above); compromise by allowing them to keep their derivative work closed source (and simultaneously preserving their business model), but ask that they contribute X% of the profits to the FSF, or yourself, or whatever you deem appropriate [within reason of course, the more companies that are successful with open source business models, the better].
c) don't ask them to open their source!!! Before modding this post as flamebait because it contains a controversial statement, hear me out... Most companies DON'T have a product if they are forced to open their source code. Some do, however, it makes it much more difficult to do from a business sense, and it makes Linux very incredulous in the eyes of investors / Venture capitalists, etc.
HOWEVER - business models DO exist that are helping the linux community AND succeeding commercially. A good example is Tivo. They've created a successful consumer product and they haven't released the sourcecode - BUT the community saw something useful in Tivo and thus FreeVO and MythTV, etc. were created to fill the non-commercial niche. In addition, they help the OS community by allowing hacks while still trying to maintain business income (and food on the tables of their programmers/IT staff).
We can't have it both ways, guys! We can't on one hand piss and moan about the lack of IT jobs, while simultaneously demanding total financial compensation for our community contributions. The bottom line is that we have to work with what we have and strike a balance with the corporate Linux companies.
The linux community is searching for the elusive "business model" - I'll tell you what it is: It's compromise. It's allowing a business to use your code and make a profit in exchange for providing yourself and the business/GPL violator with a reasonable symbiotic relationship. "Clone" applications will surface immediately to fill the market of people that aren't willing to pay for the product (insert Tivo / FreeVo example here). The businesses can market their products to the general society and make money; and they can help the Open-Source community develop a "free" (for those with the tech know-how) equivalent.
d) Everyone PROFITs!
Gee, none of the links that I click can be found:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/error-404.html
is the error-redirect that I get when I click on each one. Even changing the URL to fy2002 provides dead links.
Anyone else getting the same result?
I smell a rat.
This _IS_ the leader that wants to do it for re-election reasons, however. He doesn't want to be a dud/non-visionary like his father. Especially in an election year.
I say more power to him. It will give the Dem's ammo going into the 2004 election (how many Americans are unemployed again?), so he can hopefully be replaced in 2004. I doubt it will happen now that Florida and many other states are on paperless-trailed voting machines.
I'd just like to see him ousted from power simply because of the controveriality (is that a word?) of the 2000 election. America needs a new President just for the sake of keeping the Democratic-Republic integral.
It's not 1984 yet, so at least let us think we still have voting power until the paperless voting machines invisibily take our rights away.
Allow me to re-phrase:
The point isn't to improve security. The point is to get re-elected.
Just ask this guy. Mine, however, would include a linux based DashPC development area like this one.
I'm partial to the Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" time synced with The Wizard of Oz video. I believe it's called "Dark Side of the Rainbow".
It's pretty wild how the audio matches the video.
I guess it really depends on what drugs will be present at your party...
dashpc.com is the headquarters for linux car computing enthusiasts. The site seems to be down right now, but if you google for dashpc you can find a ton of info. A cached link to the discussion forum can be found here.
Leave Windows as just an OS and not an industry gobbling monster. Bill G's brainchild Windows (and Microsoft itself) are gobbling up / crushing / absorbing all of the new innovation and forthcoming technology. THAT very thing is why Linux users love to "hack" the kernel, code, etc. and why they don't use Windows. If Linux was an OS back when Bill G. was in the homebrew computer club, HE'D BE A LINUX GEEK! Ironically, he's lost touch with the joy that comes from a cool hack / tweak / project / idea and he's using his company to SMASH all the potential (the Linux/OS community) that he once would've lived for.
Bill if you read this, work WITH US (the hackers and computer/tech enthusiats). Give us opportunities for innovation and creating our own successes. If you don't help us, by definition the only action we can reaonsably take is to circumvent and otherwise destroy your flagship product. We'll dilute it. We'll out-innovate it. Bill, we have the same mentality that you had / have. Millions of programmers and converts can't be wrong.
I'm glad I'm not the only person that thought that Gigli was interesting.
It's a chart topper!
6th place isn't _that_ bad.
The best thing to do would be to contact the licensor directly and see if you can work out terms that they are agreeable upon such that they can grant you a unique license/contract for use. The best outcome would be that:
.02 cents. That said, if we can strike the necessary balance betwix GPL/Profit I tend to think that the software world will revolutionize much more rapidly...
a) the GPL'd coders get to [reasonably] dictate the terms that you can use the code that they worked hard on - ie. he/she/it/they can ask that you kindly donate x% of profits to the FSF and y% of the profits to them directly or some combination thereof. Hopefully, this would result in a balance between the "freedom" nature of [GPLd] open-source and the financial support required to maintain the civil liberties/rights of the very coders and consumers that compose the end product.
b) you can distribute your app commercially (Step 3: PROFIT!)
c) the overall community can benefit from the balance of GPL coders that will want either monetary contribution, community contribution, civil liberty-FSF & EFF contribution, etc. with the commercial needs of business operations (which would directly affect the FSF, GPl, etc). The better the company does with the overall product; the better the company can contribute to, assist, develop, rationalize and overall make open-source a very VALID business model.
Please keep in mind that this is just my
I use this little beauty:
http://www.quasarelectronics.com/3145data.htm
It's serial, but I'm fairly certain it would work with a USB-Serial converter. Also, it allows you to use up to 4 sensors and you can locate where you'd like (Dallas Semiconductor DS1820 3 wire chips).
They also have linux drivers, sample code, etc.
I was in the Phoenix Airport and I saw a BSOD over the security area... I snapped a quick pic with my digital camera, only to be apprehended by the Security folks. They confiscated my camera, and I promised them that I could delete the picture if they'd give me the camera back. So I did, and reluctantly they let me have it back.
That BSOD almost cost me my camera - ugh!
"When I work at home, my girlfriend is there with me [...] She's in nursing school so I get to spend most of the day with her."
Man, I can't believe there's a school for Nursing. My mother seemed so natural at it. Of course, I was very young and my memory has faded a bit since I was an infant.
After the 2004 Election Chaos that will undoubtedly ensue - (most likely a "hacked" machine somewhere; somehow) - there will be a new Mandate that will pass UCITA straight through the congress and the DMCA will be expanded in its scope. Furthermore, DMCA violations will become Zero-tolerance - resulting in mandatory prision terms of 20 years for ANY violation (no questions asked). DMCA violations will fall under the "Terrorist" umbrella and thus violators will not be eligible for due process (NO right to speedy trial). Instead they will be tried and held indefinitely until they are "judged" in a military tribunal (they can do that to US Citizens now you know - see Guantanamo Bay). Similar to what happened to Mitnick, however, they'll use the "Military Tribunal" to justify indetermininate imprisionment.
The end result will be this:
- Scientists and security professionals will NOT BE ALLOWED to question/criticize or even evaluate future voting machines.
- The SIGs,lobbyists,corporate attorneys will end up with the Government in their back pockets (moreso than they currently do)
- The corporations will become the new government
- The people/consumers will become the victims
Also, if you think this is just an "American" problem, think again. You'd be naive to think that the USA doesn't influence other governments in one way or another.
Welcome to 1984 (George Orwell Novel).
Let the revolution begin.
For Immediate Release:
.PNG(tm) technology to the world. We at Microsoft (long-since innovators in the alpha-transparency and computer graphics industry), have decided to contribute this bleeding-edge graphics technology at NO COST to the consumer!
Microsoft has just announced that in an attempt to further demonstrate their innovation committment to the industry - they have decided to break new ground on the recently popular "internet".
Microsoft Corp. is currently slated to deliver TRUE 24(tm)-bit alpha(tm)-transparency(tm) to The World(tm) via the Wide Web.
In an attempt to further our position as the #1 Welfare and Community Company, we (Microsoft) have decided to expand our "Community Assistance Initiative (CAI[tm])" by delivering 24 bit alpha transparency via
Furthermore, the forthcoming Microsoft Longhorn Windows 2003 Server Professional Plus 98-03k Upgrade "Security Edition" will offer Alpha PNG transparency at the base level. NO UPGRADE required (Licensing details apply; Legal rights apply to consumers only where applicable. Residents of CA, UK, DE, NL, FR, Earth; ineligible. Your rights may vary).
Furthermore, our legal department(tm) have advised us to confirm the rumors that our R&D department has developed a hot new, unconventional, cutting edge, and never-before-seen browsing technology. Codenamed "Tabbed"; Microsoft intends on revolutionizing the browsing world by introducing a patented-method of displaying multiple windows in ONE window! Unbelieveable! (Prior art need not apply; US Supreme Court Judges and USPTO already owned by Microsoft(R); all consumer rights invalid on first 9 planets in Milky Way region of Universe; your rights may be less).
Ed. Note: Microsoft Longhorn 2002 is slated for release in Q1 of 2006.