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  1. Cool on Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement · · Score: 1

    This is about time. I hate it when doing a literature search, and you can not access half of the journal articles.

    Another b*tch is the IEEE - even if you are a member, you can not view the articles. But they will gladly publish your article without giving you a cent.

    I luckily have access to IEEE Xplore, but a lot of the smaller universities can simply not afford it.

    People in industry must also dole out an arm and a leg for an article - yet they pay for most of the research (directly or indirectly).

  2. public domain game sounds/music on Free Sound Samples? · · Score: 1

    maybe check out golgotha collection.
    there is about 9 songs and a lot of sound effects.
    http://jonathanclark.com/golgotha/

  3. open source SA on South African Gov't Declared An Open Source Zone · · Score: 1

    a few thoughts on the matter:

    Good thing OS is going to be used in SA.
    If our goverment implements it right it might work.

    Hopefully they will use the money they saved to train people
    (they could start with my ex computer science teacher ms. Herbs).

    Our school bought a proprietary product for lots of RRR although i suggested using RealVNC for FREE.

    Microsoft sponsors all the software for schools and universities in South Africa
    (MS Office, Windows XP, Visual Std .Net) i wonder if it is going to end?

    The schools switched from Turbo Pascal to Delphi this year.
    Will the schools switch to Kylix next year?

    christo
    nylstroom,northern province(limpopo?)

    PS. ons gaan gat skop in die krieket wereldbeker