(So this isn't a comment about roll-your-own DSL, instead it's about saving money by rolling your own ISP and DSL sharing.)
Together our Condo Home Owner Association runs our own ISP/network. Every unit has 2 cat5 cable drops connected to our central server room. There we operate a simple mail/proxy/DNS/dhcp server for the residents of the building. In addition we now have wireless access on most floors of the building and are considering adding network attached security cameras so we can see how's at the front door.
About 20 people are sharing a 1.5/1.5Mbps SDSL connection for the paltry sum of $22/month/user. Each person saves around $30/month and gets the higher peak bandwidth. I would definitely recommend doing this, especially if you have the tech volunteers to implement it.
As for despotics tactics, what's despotic about not giving a temp benefits? I don't see full-time employment or health care listed in the Constitution, Magna Carta or the UN Declaration of Human Rights.
Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
That's not to say that it is the employer's responsibility, but basic health care should be something that everyone is entitled to.
FoodTV already tried their own "Iron Chef" wannabe - it was called "Ready-Set-Cook!"...
This is a cheap knock-off of a much better british show called Ready Steady Cook. The premise involved two average joe contentests. Each one brings £5 worth of random food, which the celebrity chefs have to make into something in 30 minutes..
Seems like it was quite popular. There are even a variety of books. that evolved from the show..
Of course they didn't stop there, the same folks came out with Can't Cook, Won't Cook. A truly terrible show...
My old school, the University of Minnesota, has
it's own policy
posted.
An interesting excerpt:
Intellectual property created solely for the purpose of satisfying a course requirement is owned by the creator and not the university.
of course there are a bunch of other clauses there that can trip you up.. So best thing to do is ask your university legal department to clarify their policy before you turn in that homework...
The old cue cats came with a television cable, so this is nothing new. The only big difference is that NBCi.com has entered into a marketing agreement to promote the format and the device.
Still, I don't see how they're going to convince thousands of people to string audio cables between the TV and the computer.
ABC's enhanced tv much does it smarter. By syncing the web site to the television timing you get exactly the same effect. TV commercials on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" result in the same ad on your computer screen..
Unicode is the only sensible way to do any multi-language application on the web. Without it your brain will explode.
If you want to see unicode in action visit a site I developed: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights site. It has 320+ language translations of this document, the majority of which are in unicode. You will also find a nice browser UTF-8 torture test there..
There are still languages that do not have standardized unicode glyphs (Amharic for example) thus you'll find some pdf and scanned images there.. But all in all unicode made this project doable.
McDonalds, on a percentage basis gives back very little to the community at large; especially when you consider everything that society gives up for their 2 dollar happy meal. Katz summarized pretty well what we lose; indivuality, local community, decent jobs etc.
Consumer/user pressure does work though.. McDonalds does respond to pressure from consumer groups. Recently they've moved to using slaughterhouses that do NOT skin cows alive, no more chicken beak amputation, etc.. (This is in contrast with Burger King, which continues to use suppliers that do not even adhere to UK animal cruelty laws. See http://www.murderking.com for more on the disgraceful actions of BK..)
The sad part of all this is that as time goes on people forget how it used to be, and assume that corporate conformity is 'the way things are'.
We are our own worst enemy.
There is one point to consider.. SGI has been quite good at creating a community of developers around XFS. This means that the folks who are laid off can find work at another company to continue work on the same project.
This is a great benefit of open source software. In a closed source situation you could never again work on a project you've contributed your entire lifeblood to.
Another point, if your project becomes unsupported you can take your skills AND the code to another company, or start one up on your own.
Just a few more ways that open source is good for software developers!
(Minor celebrity note.. I wrote the unix gopher client and server looooong ago.)
Gopher may be relaxing in the retirement home, but it has spawned many offspring...
* Linking between servers (what it's not all on one box!)
* Linking multiple services together -- Gopher supported Telnet, TN3270, and CSO PH servers as basic types.
* It put the internet in non-techies hands. All those people with a Mac+ could use it. People with cheap 286 PCs could use it. It was simple -- at the time FTP, telnet and such were not.
* Gopher 'greased the skids' by making an infosystem work well in spite of slow computers, slow modems. The web would not be where it is today without Gopher.
* It provided the first infosystem based full-text search engines, which used NeXT's text indexing technology, and later on linked WAIS.
* Liberalized publishing. Gopher servers could run on cheap Macs and PCs. Most of the early gopher-space was on machines not normally thought of as servers.
* The suffix...master, I didn't call myself gophermaster for nothing...:-)
In the end, Mosaic 'embraced and extended' Gopher. Once the you became a.gif crack-addict you could never go back to the simple world of menu oriented gophers...
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(So this isn't a comment about roll-your-own DSL, instead it's about saving money by rolling your own ISP and DSL sharing.)
Together our Condo Home Owner Association runs our own ISP/network. Every unit has 2 cat5 cable drops connected to our central server room. There we operate a simple mail/proxy/DNS/dhcp server for the residents of the building. In addition we now have wireless access on most floors of the building and are considering adding network attached security cameras so we can see how's at the front door.
About 20 people are sharing a 1.5/1.5Mbps SDSL connection for the paltry sum of $22/month/user. Each person saves around $30/month and gets the higher peak bandwidth. I would definitely recommend doing this, especially if you have the tech volunteers to implement it.
I beg to disagree. Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states:
That's not to say that it is the employer's responsibility, but basic health care should be something that everyone is entitled to.
This is a cheap knock-off of a much better british show called Ready Steady Cook. The premise involved two average joe contentests. Each one brings £5 worth of random food, which the celebrity chefs have to make into something in 30 minutes..
Seems like it was quite popular. There are even a variety of books. that evolved from the show..
Of course they didn't stop there, the same folks came out with Can't Cook, Won't Cook. A truly terrible show...
An interesting excerpt:
of course there are a bunch of other clauses there that can trip you up.. So best thing to do is ask your university legal department to clarify their policy before you turn in that homework...
Still, I don't see how they're going to convince thousands of people to string audio cables between the TV and the computer.
ABC's enhanced tv much does it smarter. By syncing the web site to the television timing you get exactly the same effect. TV commercials on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" result in the same ad on your computer screen..
If you want to see unicode in action visit a site I developed: the Universal Declaration of Human Rights site. It has 320+ language translations of this document, the majority of which are in unicode. You will also find a nice browser UTF-8 torture test there..
There are still languages that do not have standardized unicode glyphs (Amharic for example) thus you'll find some pdf and scanned images there.. But all in all unicode made this project doable.
McDonalds, on a percentage basis gives back very little to the community at large; especially when you consider everything that society gives up for their 2 dollar happy meal. Katz summarized pretty well what we lose; indivuality, local community, decent jobs etc. Consumer/user pressure does work though.. McDonalds does respond to pressure from consumer groups. Recently they've moved to using slaughterhouses that do NOT skin cows alive, no more chicken beak amputation, etc.. (This is in contrast with Burger King, which continues to use suppliers that do not even adhere to UK animal cruelty laws. See http://www.murderking.com for more on the disgraceful actions of BK..) The sad part of all this is that as time goes on people forget how it used to be, and assume that corporate conformity is 'the way things are'. We are our own worst enemy.
There is one point to consider.. SGI has been quite good at creating a community of developers around XFS. This means that the folks who are laid off can find work at another company to continue work on the same project.
This is a great benefit of open source software. In a closed source situation you could never again work on a project you've contributed your entire lifeblood to.
Another point, if your project becomes unsupported you can take your skills AND the code to another company, or start one up on your own.
Just a few more ways that open source is good for software developers!
(Minor celebrity note.. I wrote the unix gopher client and server looooong ago.)
...master, I didn't call myself gophermaster for nothing... :-)
.gif crack-addict you could never go back to the simple world of menu oriented gophers...
Gopher may be relaxing in the retirement home, but it has spawned many offspring...
* Linking between servers (what it's not all on one box!)
* Linking multiple services together -- Gopher supported Telnet, TN3270, and CSO PH servers as basic types.
* It put the internet in non-techies hands. All those people with a Mac+ could use it. People with cheap 286 PCs could use it. It was simple -- at the time FTP, telnet and such were not.
* Gopher 'greased the skids' by making an infosystem work well in spite of slow computers, slow modems. The web would not be where it is today without Gopher.
* It provided the first infosystem based full-text search engines, which used NeXT's text indexing technology, and later on linked WAIS.
* Liberalized publishing. Gopher servers could run on cheap Macs and PCs. Most of the early gopher-space was on machines not normally thought of as servers.
* The suffix
In the end, Mosaic 'embraced and extended' Gopher. Once the you became a