Too bad there seem to be no microphones used in the system. This way people could use the surveillance system as a service rather than for the pure exertion of power. Would be nice for people getting easily lost and might reduce the boredom of the guards...
While the bricks itself will most likely not be able to provide much benefit, I imagine that they are important for any upcoming intelligent building infrastructure. Not only in the already mentioned area of detecting damaged building parts, new services might be built with these bricks. Who would have thought in 1980 that IP might some day be used for sharing music and video files by end users?
The article claims that the traditional kind of programming produces proprietary software. This seems wrong to me. Wasn't software in the beginning just an addition to very expensive hardware and only became later a product of it's own?
Heise Newsticker reports http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-27.05.03-0 01/
that Frankfurt (Germany) sticks with Microsoft products and just signed contracts to use MS products in the future.
I consider this perfectly timed. The Munich Stadtrat hasn't decided yet on going the Linux way (so far it is just a recommendation) and another big city in Germany stays on Microsofts side. Wonder how far Munichs decision will be influenced by that!
LinuxTag is the largest Linux and Open Source fair in Europe. Our concept unites technical expertise and the special charm of the world of free software. This mixture has made LinuxTag the most successful event of its kind.
The Open Source culture finds its expression in the organization of the event: everyone is invited to play an active part in the preparation of the fair. At LinuxTag, innovative technologies are not only planned out in theory, but also made a reality.
Use VPN to prevent sniffing and spoofing. Here at ETH Zuerich the IT services switched to that concept for all wireless systems and it seems to run well. Simply take your laptop/PDA within range of an AP (Accesspoint), start your VPN connection and network you have. Of course there is an administrative overhead involved, as someone needs to enable your usage of VPN on involved server(s).
I think the best employees are those who love what they do, and would continue doing that as a hobby even if they weren't being paid to do that.
Back in university an economics prof of mine said in a lecture about organization of work that it doesn't matter if people are happy or unhappy with their work and working environment, the output is the same. I'm not sure if this applied to all kind of work or was specific to factory work.
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Too bad there seem to be no microphones used in the system. This way people could use the surveillance system as a service rather than for the pure exertion of power. Would be nice for people getting easily lost and might reduce the boredom of the guards ...
While the bricks itself will most likely not be able to provide much benefit, I imagine that they are important for any upcoming intelligent building infrastructure. Not only in the already mentioned area of detecting damaged building parts, new services might be built with these bricks. Who would have thought in 1980 that IP might some day be used for sharing music and video files by end users?
The article claims that the traditional kind of programming produces proprietary software. This seems wrong to me. Wasn't software in the beginning just an addition to very expensive hardware and only became later a product of it's own?
Heise Newsticker reports http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/anw-27.05.03-0 01/
that Frankfurt (Germany) sticks with Microsoft products and just signed contracts to use MS products in the future.
I consider this perfectly timed. The Munich Stadtrat hasn't decided yet on going the Linux way (so far it is just a recommendation) and another big city in Germany stays on Microsofts side. Wonder how far Munichs decision will be influenced by that!
It's explained on the webpage LinuxTag.org.
Taken from there:
LinuxTag is the largest Linux and Open Source fair in Europe. Our concept unites technical expertise and the special charm of the world of free software. This mixture has made LinuxTag the most successful event of its kind.
The Open Source culture finds its expression in the organization of the event: everyone is invited to play an active part in the preparation of the fair. At LinuxTag, innovative technologies are not only planned out in theory, but also made a reality.
Use VPN to prevent sniffing and spoofing. Here at ETH Zuerich the IT services switched to that concept for all wireless systems and it seems to run well. Simply take your laptop/PDA within range of an AP (Accesspoint), start your VPN connection and network you have. Of course there is an administrative overhead involved, as someone needs to enable your usage of VPN on involved server(s).
I think the best employees are those who love what they do, and would continue doing that as a hobby even if they weren't being paid to do that.
Back in university an economics prof of mine said in a lecture about organization of work that it doesn't matter if people are happy or unhappy with their work and working environment, the output is the same. I'm not sure if this applied to all kind of work or was specific to factory work.
With nethack you can always claim it is some sort of archaic debugger. Which it actually is about: debugging dungeons...