If he didnt patent it, B&N or another competeter might have and used it against him. and been a lot more nasty to everyone else... Remember the LZW patent...
Stability of a spinning drum might be a problem... On a drum, there's a lot of mass at the outside, with a disc, only the outermost rim is moving as fast as the entire surface of the drum. At low RPM's , not a problem, a drum would optimize the read/write speed, but if you want low latency, you have to spin it fast. Imagine a 5 inch diameter metal cylinder spinning at 15,000 rpm sitting on your desk? It'd make a mess if that came apart, or a bearing failed.
Running a linear voice-coil across the drum or multiple linear arrays of heads would be required to get track density up to disc track density.
Lesse.. 3 inch platter, spinning 15,000 Rev/minute, at the rim, thats 98 ft/sec, speed of sound is 1090 ft/sec, or 66MPH , so they could spin them faster by a bit... And... a 3inch platter has 28 sq inch on a side, while a 3inch high,3inch diam drum has 84 sq inch, roughly the usable area of 2 platters, both sides...
I have found that the opposite works quite well... I munch on Spicy Pork Rinds and pepperoni slices with string cheese and provolone slices at work. Have bacon, Eggs and sausage or chorizo for breakfast. And Dinner is also lo-carb. No suger soda or candy, no corn,wheat or rice products. Big salads with non-starchy items are OK. And I've lost about 30lbs, and keep my cholesterol under 200 with triglycerides are nearly zip. It's not a cheap way to eat, but it is satisfying
"Coding standards do matter. For example, when you have people using combinations of spaces, tabs, different size indentation, different size tabs, you will not believe the number of bugs that can be introduced just because the indentation is screwed up on somebody else machine. That is the very simplest coding standard that we implemented. It saves a lot of time being able to sit down with somebody elses code and not have to figure out their conventions before fixing their bugs, or implement enhancements. A software profession shouldn't mind such things: they can keep their personal styles for their hobbies."
Wow, where do you find programmers like that, most of the ones I've ever worked with would have absolute screaming fits if you ever dared to mention coding style standards... The majority of programmers re-write any other programmer's code to meet their style aesthestics, it's the first thing they do. The real fun comes when it's time to enforce standards, you get the 'it works, if you dont like my code, fix it yourself' attitude. Maybe I've just worked with prima-donnas, but they were productive coders, with the exception of a few who obfuscated to hide incompetance.
Yeah, that is weird, I dug out my Altair a while back and was fiddling with it and tried to remember the bootstrap code, I couldnt remember the bytes, but my fingers remembered the sequence of switch flips needed to boot the machine off tape, it was about 20 bytes, flip, flip, flip, deposit, flip, flip, deposit next,.... I must have done that hundreds of times, it's now burned into my wetware... Still retains the data after 25 years.
It's about control to be sure, they want to control how you view the DVD, but they really want to control the means of distribution. That's right, this is more about not allowing independent film makers the ability to press their own DVD's that can be read by 'open' players or even 'closed' players using the reverse engineered crypto keys. The MPAA controls who can use those keys on the DVD and in the DVD drive, open the keys, and anyone can now author DVD content and the MPAA does not get a cut of the profit. That's what really drives them to send out all the threats. They are on the verge of losing control of the media and distribution channels. This is why they want audio to go to DVD, they get control again, they lost it with CD, any artist can cut a CD now for not much more than the studios pay. But when the artist promotes with MP3 and direct sells the CD, they get all the profit, not some middleman. These people dont give a rats arse about Linux or PC players, its about the control of distribution.
You could use an Altera with onchip memory and a PCI controller as a single chip solution, or go with a PLX IOP480 which has an embedded PowerPC processor and an external memory bus. You could easily change your crypto program using one of these. I'm using a PLX9054 on a board with a PPC G3, they have really nice software support and DMA capability. I'll bet the G4 could really crunch some data with it's vector unit. 3x faster in Distributed Net numbers over G3 from what I've read.
Is he the guy that mandated that all window blinds had to be adjusted to the same height? I remember people telling me about getting yelled at for moving the blinds when the sun was shining into their cube and roasting them in the Texas summer. He wanted the windows to look uniform to passers-by on the street, 'looks professional'...
Same sort of idiocy that disrupted the test floow for a few days changing out all the lights because the tube white temperature was not uniform, so what!! was that supposed to improve yields??
My info is that Mot bought them because the internal tools groups are ineffective at best and they could unify the internal tools development at Metroworks. Problem with that 'brilliant' idea is that the Metroworks programmers wont stick around long if all they are writing is chip verification tools and layout routing tools. Not to mention having to work for Moto management...
The only way that makes sense for trademark issues is to create a TLD for each tradmark field, there are about 40 of them. Then add a country code since envery country does not have the same system of tradmard classification. So, for example , www.macdonalds.food.us would sell Big Macs, www.macdonalds.farm.us would do the EIEIO thing.. and etoys.merchant.us would leave etoy.art.uk alone. There would be room for apple.comp.us and apple.music.uk and apple.food.* and apple.electronic.uk could be Apple Computer's UK site depending on how the UK/EU does it's Trademark classifications.
I guess the Govt does not like any competition when it comes to spying on people...
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Moto didnt have a choice in whether to implement 68K opcodes in PPC, IBM owns PowerPC, Motorola is just licensing it. Trying to add an opcode to the PPC is a real nightmare because you have to get IBM's approval. Moto went to PPC beacuse Apple demanded it, not because it was better than the Moto RISC, the MC88110. Actually, clock for clock the '110 was faster than the 601, and it had a better bus design than the Power architecture, so they put the MC88110 bus on a Power core, and that became the PPC601. The '110 also had a graphics Execution unit as well as FP and Integer units. Of course, its internal design and transistor technology limited it to about 65MHz and it was a few years late, so Apple wanted an architecture with some industry backing, IBM. NeXT was well under way in designing a dual '110 machine, I wonder what ever happened to it. One CPU did the color Display Postscript, and the other ran the NextStep OS. I'm sure Jobs was having a bit of DejaVu when Moto couldnt deliver the 500MHz G4's on time/quantity.
I bought my two Robotics Invention Sets from toysmart with a 30% off and free shipping net 'coupon' for a total cost of $280, not bad for two complete kits. Now my Partner and I can build our own machines and not have to fight over the RCX or other parts. Also, get one of the big Plano fishing tackleboxes, lots of nice little compartments for little Lego bits, and room in the bottom for your robot and the IR box.
Pitsco has extra prats and the Robolab (LabView) software for $25, that makes 5 different environments for programming the RCX.
Lego's RIS 1.5 graphical National Instruments RoboLab graphical NQC C to RCX firmware bytecode compiler PbForth to Forth bytecode firmware interpreter LegOS H8 RealTimeOS Not bad for a 'toy' , if only all consumer electronics could be programmed by the end user, I'd love to change the onscreen menu's on a lot of my A/V equipment... I'd go out of my way to buy 'open' electronics, manufacturer's are you listening?
Preliminary specifications (Source: EE Times, January 18, 1999):
Wavelength: 400 nm (Border of violet-UV). Recommended Output Power: 5 mW. Maximum Output power: 30 mW/facet. Lifetime: 10,000 hours at 5 mW. Package: Industry standard 5.6 mm diameter can. Construction: GaN on Sapphire substrate, cleaved facets. Voltage: 5 volt operation (??). Threshold current 3.9 kA/cm2 (No indication of absolute current).
Engineering sample price: $2,000 (June, 1999). Yikes! And you can only get the privilege of buying them at this new low price by signing a non-disclosure agreement with Nichia. OK, calm down.... In a couple of years, violet laser diodes will be $2.98 at your local Radio Shack.:)
Doing CAD work, you need all the screen pixels you can get. The toolbars and side menus take up a lot of room on the screen, most CAD people go to multiple screens to get any real productivity. When you pay a designer $100+/hr, productivity increases will pay for expensive screens. The other issue is desk space, a 21" CRT takes a big desk, 2 of them require a bigger office, office space costs big $$$. In the business world, you can justify big LCD's if the users cost big $$$ per hour and the office space costs big $$$ per sqft. The other thing I see as a big advantage for LCD's is that in multiscreen setups, the screens wont interfere with each other like CRT's do, its really distracting to watch interference bands crawl down the screen.
At a pixel resolution of 123 Pixels/Inch I dont think you'd notice if the video card dithered properly. Not to mention, you wont get color fringing on vertical lines like you do on a trinitron.
IBM is also working on a 200PPI LCD, that's getting close to laserprinter quality.
My 21inch Mitsubishi has a Sony tube with.26mm phosphor pitch, that works out to 97 Pixels/inch My screen is 16 inches horizontally, 1600 pixels. (20 inches diagonal usable screen)
Let the people run an OS that they can compile, that does not have secret snitch routines, that each individual can control. This is the stuff that brings down totalitarian governments. Look what the PC and Fax did in the (former) Soviet Union . Dissidents could pass information without state control, it quickly eroded the Stalinist controls that had been in place for so long. I think Linux in China will do the same, the state will lose control of information flow, that's how they control the populace.
I helped out during the 97 SRL show in Austin TX, they brought one of Greg's big Tesla coils. The machine was a work of art if you ever got to see it closeup. He fed it with a bank of transformers that took 440 3Phase from a 300KW generator that we rented and stepped it up to about 10KV DC . The base of the Tesla coil has a motor driving a 1 inch thick aluminum disc with large copper electrodes bolted to the rim. The 10kV was fed to a stationary electrode on the bottom, jumped the gap when the rotating electrodes aligned with the top electrode which was connected to the primary coil. The operator pedastal controlled the speed of the motor, it was really interesting to hear the pitch of sound change as he tuned up the coil to get the highest voltage for the day's humidity and other variables. The primary was about 6 turns of copper busbar about 1/2 inch thick and about 2 inches wide. Really beefy looking since it carried about 100KW. The secondary coil had what looked like 0 gauge battery cable wrapped around a spool about 15 feet high tooped with an aluminum toroid. I think Greg said he got 2 million Volts at 50mA at the top electrode. He brought that same coil out to Burning Man in 1998, it was very popular, you could hear it across the whole Black Rock City. The one thing that was pretty neat was that one guy at the SRL97 show built a Faraday cage suit out of heating ducts and wire with a birdcage as the helmet and he walked up to the big coil while it was running. I was filming him on his first try of the suit, you gotta trust your physics at that point... The next night they tried it again and really freaked out some state trooper who was watching from across the street. They said he came rushing over with the car lights flashing and got out of the car and started yelling at them 'What the hell do you all think you are doing!!' It looked like the same suit that DR MegaVolt was wearing this year at Burning Man. He was standing ontop of a Ryder truck with a 5foot hight Telsa coil and was doing a lot of stunts with the electricity as one of his minions was exhorting the gathered crowd with a bullhorn 'All hail Dr MegaVolt... Bow to the power of Dr. MegaVolt.. Give us your offerings of love and food and alcohol and other things....' The crowd would give him some offerings to be held up to the coil where the arc would make them burst into flames. Quite cool...
$2500 is your time is worth $0/hr maybe... Seriously, how many robots that size have 18 degrees of freedom? Ever built a walking robot? I've built simple platforms using surplus wheelchair motors, a basic unit is at least $1000 in parts alone. This does not include the 32bit processor, video system and 16 other degrees of freedom. Now maybe if your parts are mostly free..
Anyway, I think Sony is taking a big loss on these just to establish a consumer market. Some prices on other 'hobby' robots...
The Rug warrior kit is $600 complete, it's a little (4") 2 wheel platform with a 68HC11 CPU w/ 32K ram. The Lynxmotion hexapod is $375, but it only has a PIC for the CPU. Hexapods dont sit up and beg though... The Carebot is about $2500, but it doesn't compare. It's a big 2 wheel platform with a Sonar and RF link. It uses auto window lift motors to drive the wheels.
The GPL allows for distribution of the source in printed media, does it not? So what's the problem? Customer downloads binaries, desires source, contacts distributer and purchases printed copy of source. No problem... GPL allows for charging media is distribution costs.
Hmm, I dont think Bruce was at BM99, at least not anywhere near HAmlet.. "Been there, done that, what's next" was the attitude I got from him when someone asked about BMxx
Damn... I didnt get to see the JCS show...
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If he didnt patent it, B&N or another competeter might have and used it against him. and been a lot more nasty to everyone else... Remember the LZW patent...
Stability of a spinning drum might be a problem...
On a drum, there's a lot of mass at the outside, with a disc, only the outermost rim is moving as fast as the entire surface of the drum. At low RPM's , not a problem, a drum would optimize the read/write speed, but if you want low latency, you have to spin it fast.
Imagine a 5 inch diameter metal cylinder spinning at 15,000 rpm sitting on your desk? It'd make a mess if that came apart, or a bearing failed.
Running a linear voice-coil across the drum or multiple linear arrays of heads would be required to get track density up to disc track density.
Lesse.. 3 inch platter, spinning 15,000 Rev/minute, at the rim, thats 98 ft/sec, speed of sound is 1090 ft/sec, or 66MPH , so they could spin them faster by a bit...
And... a 3inch platter has 28 sq inch on a side, while a 3inch high,3inch diam drum has 84 sq inch, roughly the usable area of 2 platters, both sides...
I have found that the opposite works quite well...
I munch on Spicy Pork Rinds and pepperoni slices
with string cheese and provolone slices at work.
Have bacon, Eggs and sausage or chorizo for breakfast.
And Dinner is also lo-carb. No suger soda or candy, no corn,wheat or rice products. Big
salads with non-starchy items are OK.
And I've lost about 30lbs, and keep my cholesterol
under 200 with triglycerides are nearly zip.
It's not a cheap way to eat, but it is satisfying
"Coding standards do matter. For example, when you have people using combinations of spaces, tabs, different size indentation,
different size tabs, you will not believe the number of bugs that can be introduced just because the indentation is screwed up on
somebody else machine. That is the very simplest coding standard that we implemented. It saves a lot of time being able to sit down
with somebody elses code and not have to figure out their conventions before fixing their bugs, or implement enhancements. A
software profession shouldn't mind such things: they can keep their personal styles for their hobbies."
Wow, where do you find programmers like that, most of the ones I've ever worked with would have absolute screaming fits if you ever dared to mention coding style standards... The majority of programmers re-write any other programmer's code to meet their style aesthestics, it's the first thing they do. The real fun comes when it's time to enforce standards, you get the 'it works, if you dont like my code, fix it yourself' attitude. Maybe I've just worked with prima-donnas, but they were productive coders, with the exception of a few who obfuscated to hide incompetance.
Yeah, that is weird, I dug out my Altair a while back and was fiddling with it and tried to remember the bootstrap code, I couldnt remember the bytes, but my fingers remembered the sequence of switch flips needed to boot the machine off tape, it was about 20 bytes, flip, flip, flip, deposit, flip, flip, deposit next, ....
I must have done that hundreds of times, it's now burned into my wetware... Still retains the data after 25 years.
It's about control to be sure,
they want to control how you view the DVD, but
they really want to control the means of distribution.
That's right, this is more about not allowing independent film makers the ability to press their own DVD's that can be read by 'open' players or even 'closed' players using the reverse engineered crypto keys. The MPAA controls who can use those keys on the DVD and in the DVD drive, open the keys, and anyone can now author DVD content and the MPAA does not get a cut of the profit. That's what really drives them to send out all the threats. They are on the verge of losing control of the media and distribution channels. This is why they want audio to go to DVD, they get control again, they lost it with CD, any artist can cut a CD now for not much more than the studios pay. But when the artist promotes with MP3 and direct sells the CD, they get all the profit, not some middleman. These people dont give a rats arse about Linux or PC players, its about the control of distribution.
You could use an Altera with onchip memory and a PCI controller as a single chip solution, or go with a
PLX IOP480 which has an embedded PowerPC processor and an external memory bus. You could easily change your crypto program using one of these.
I'm using a PLX9054 on a board with a PPC G3, they have really nice software support and DMA capability. I'll bet the G4 could really crunch some data with it's vector unit. 3x faster in Distributed Net numbers over G3 from what I've read.
Is he the guy that mandated that all window blinds had to be adjusted to the same height? I remember people telling me about getting yelled at for moving the blinds when the sun was shining into their cube and roasting them in the Texas summer.
He wanted the windows to look uniform to passers-by on the street, 'looks professional'...
Same sort of idiocy that disrupted the test floow for a few days changing out all the lights because the tube white temperature was not uniform, so what!! was that supposed to improve yields??
My info is that Mot bought them because the internal tools groups are ineffective at best and they could unify the internal tools development at Metroworks. Problem with that 'brilliant' idea is that the Metroworks programmers wont stick around long if all they are writing is chip verification tools and layout routing tools. Not to mention having to work for Moto management...
The only way that makes sense for trademark issues is to create a TLD for each tradmark field, there are about 40 of them. Then add a country code since envery country does not have the same system of tradmard classification. So, for example ,
www.macdonalds.food.us would sell Big Macs,
www.macdonalds.farm.us would do the EIEIO thing..
and etoys.merchant.us would leave etoy.art.uk alone.
There would be room for apple.comp.us and apple.music.uk and apple.food.* and apple.electronic.uk could be Apple Computer's UK site depending on how the UK/EU does it's Trademark classifications.
They raided Supercircuits in Austin TX.
I guess the Govt does not like any competition when it comes to spying on people...
Moto didnt have a choice in whether to implement 68K opcodes in PPC, IBM owns PowerPC, Motorola is just licensing it. Trying to add an opcode to the PPC is a real nightmare because you have to get IBM's approval. Moto went to PPC beacuse Apple demanded it, not because it was better than the Moto RISC, the MC88110. Actually, clock for clock the '110 was faster than the 601, and it had a better bus design than the Power architecture, so they put the MC88110 bus on a Power core, and that became the PPC601. The '110 also had a graphics Execution unit as well as FP and Integer units. Of course, its internal design and transistor technology limited it to about 65MHz and it was a few years late, so Apple wanted an architecture with some industry backing, IBM. NeXT was well under way in designing a dual '110 machine, I wonder what ever happened to it. One CPU did the color Display Postscript, and the other ran the NextStep OS. I'm sure Jobs was having a bit of DejaVu when Moto couldnt deliver the 500MHz G4's on time/quantity.
I bought my two Robotics Invention Sets from toysmart with a 30% off and free shipping net 'coupon' for a total cost of $280, not bad
for two complete kits. Now my Partner and I can build our own machines and not have to fight over the RCX or other parts. Also, get one of the big Plano fishing tackleboxes, lots of nice little compartments for little Lego bits, and room in the bottom for your robot and the IR box.
Pitsco has extra prats and the Robolab (LabView) software for $25, that makes 5 different environments for programming the RCX.
Lego's RIS 1.5 graphical
National Instruments RoboLab graphical
NQC C to RCX firmware bytecode compiler
PbForth to Forth bytecode firmware interpreter
LegOS H8 RealTimeOS
Not bad for a 'toy' , if only all consumer electronics could be programmed by the end user,
I'd love to change the onscreen menu's on a lot of my A/V equipment... I'd go out of my way to buy 'open' electronics, manufacturer's are you listening?
http://www.ambient.on.ca/bodmod/implants.html
also do a Google search on
The Enigma Horns
You'll find lots of links to the Jim Rose Circus.
The Bindlestiff Family cirKus is also quite unique.
http://www.eurotechnology.com/bluelaser/
Green is soooo old...
And if you're really hip,
Violet...
Preliminary specifications (Source: EE Times, January 18, 1999):
Wavelength: 400 nm (Border of violet-UV).
Recommended Output Power: 5 mW.
Maximum Output power: 30 mW/facet.
Lifetime: 10,000 hours at 5 mW.
Package: Industry standard 5.6 mm diameter can.
Construction: GaN on Sapphire substrate, cleaved facets.
Voltage: 5 volt operation (??).
Threshold current 3.9 kA/cm2 (No indication of absolute current).
Engineering sample price: $2,000 (June, 1999). Yikes! And you can only get the privilege of buying them at this new low price by
signing a non-disclosure agreement with Nichia. OK, calm down.... In a couple of years, violet laser diodes will be $2.98 at your local
Radio Shack.
Is there an Open Source alternative that works with ANY CPU?
Doing CAD work, you need all the screen pixels you can get. The toolbars and side menus take up a lot of room on the screen, most CAD people go to multiple screens to get any real productivity. When you pay a designer $100+/hr, productivity increases will pay for expensive screens. The other issue is desk space, a 21" CRT takes a big desk, 2 of them require a bigger office, office space costs big $$$. In the business world, you can justify big LCD's if the users cost big $$$ per hour and the office space costs big $$$ per sqft.
The other thing I see as a big advantage for LCD's is that in multiscreen setups, the screens wont interfere with each other like CRT's do, its really distracting to watch interference bands crawl down the screen.
At a pixel resolution of 123 Pixels/Inch I dont think you'd notice if the video card dithered properly. Not to mention, you wont get color fringing on vertical lines like you do on a trinitron.
.26mm phosphor pitch, that works out to 97 Pixels/inch
IBM is also working on a 200PPI LCD, that's getting close to laserprinter quality.
My 21inch Mitsubishi has a Sony tube with
My screen is 16 inches horizontally, 1600 pixels.
(20 inches diagonal usable screen)
Let the people run an OS that they can compile, that does not have secret snitch routines, that each individual can control. This is the stuff that brings down totalitarian governments. Look what the PC and Fax did in the (former) Soviet Union . Dissidents could pass information without state control, it quickly eroded the Stalinist controls that had been in place for so long.
I think Linux in China will do the same, the state will lose control of information flow, that's how they control the populace.
I helped out during the 97 SRL show in Austin TX, they brought one of Greg's big Tesla coils.
The machine was a work of art if you ever got to see it closeup. He fed it with a bank of transformers that took 440 3Phase from a 300KW generator that we rented and stepped it up to about 10KV DC . The base of the Tesla coil has a motor driving a 1 inch thick aluminum disc with large copper electrodes bolted to the rim. The 10kV was fed to a stationary electrode on the bottom, jumped the gap when the rotating electrodes aligned with the top electrode which was connected to the primary coil. The operator pedastal controlled the speed of the motor, it was really interesting to hear the pitch of sound change as he tuned up the coil to get the highest voltage for the day's humidity and other variables. The primary was about 6 turns of copper busbar about 1/2 inch thick and about 2 inches wide. Really beefy looking since it carried about 100KW. The secondary coil had what looked like 0 gauge battery cable wrapped around a spool about 15 feet high tooped with an aluminum toroid. I think Greg said he got 2 million Volts at 50mA at the top electrode. He brought that same coil out to Burning Man in 1998, it was very popular, you could hear it across the whole Black Rock City.
The one thing that was pretty neat was that one guy at the SRL97 show built a Faraday cage suit out of heating ducts and wire with a birdcage as the helmet and he walked up to the big coil while it was running. I was filming him on his first try of the suit, you gotta trust your physics at that point... The next night they tried it again and really freaked out some state trooper who was watching from across the street. They said he came rushing over with the car lights flashing and got out of the car and started yelling at them 'What the hell do you all think you are doing!!'
It looked like the same suit that DR MegaVolt was wearing this year at Burning Man. He was standing ontop of a Ryder truck with a 5foot hight Telsa coil and was doing a lot of stunts with the electricity as one of his minions was exhorting the gathered crowd with a bullhorn 'All hail Dr MegaVolt... Bow to the power of Dr. MegaVolt.. Give us your offerings of love and food and alcohol and other things....' The crowd would give him some offerings to be held up to the coil where the arc would make them burst into flames. Quite cool...
Finally, something a beowulf cluster might be useful for...
$2500 is your time is worth $0/hr maybe...
Seriously, how many robots that size have 18 degrees of freedom? Ever built a walking robot?
I've built simple platforms using surplus wheelchair motors, a basic unit is at least $1000 in parts alone. This does not include the 32bit processor, video system and 16 other degrees of freedom. Now maybe if your parts are mostly free..
Anyway, I think Sony is taking a big loss on these just to establish a consumer market. Some prices on other 'hobby' robots...
The Rug warrior kit is $600 complete, it's a little (4") 2 wheel platform with a 68HC11 CPU w/ 32K ram.
The Lynxmotion hexapod is $375, but it only has a PIC for the CPU. Hexapods dont sit up and beg though...
The Carebot is about $2500, but it doesn't compare. It's a big 2 wheel platform with a Sonar and RF link. It uses auto window lift motors to drive the wheels.
The GPL allows for distribution of the source in printed media, does it not?
So what's the problem?
Customer downloads binaries, desires source, contacts distributer and purchases printed copy of source. No problem... GPL allows for charging media is distribution costs.
They had a few good images,
The 'Good morning Mr. Gates, I'll be your Server today' withg a giant Tux looming over Redmond.
A farside inspired tux robot
A cigar chomping penguin with a double-barreled shotgun an the Linux Quake article.
And my favorite, a Soviet-heroic worker style poster of Linus with marching penguins
I like seeing 3 linux magazines on the newsrack. There need to be more...
Hmm, I dont think Bruce was at BM99, at least not anywhere near HAmlet..
"Been there, done that, what's next" was the attitude I got from him when someone asked about BMxx
Damn... I didnt get to see the JCS show...
EyeZone/EyeBot @ 2:55 Mercury
(be sure and make the TikiBus benefit 10/16 and Helloween on 10/30 if you're in CenTex)