There's a commercial company called Zoomsafer that has been doing work related to this. Their current software offerings focus on measuring use of devices in fleet contexts to help companies manage risk.
It's a copyleft-style license drafted by a lawyer that permits a broad range of activity. Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond helped review it. Open hardware licenses are still in the early stages of evolution and adoption. If TAPR does not meet your needs, the Wikipedia entry on Open-source hardware lists more alternatives:
Taskjitsu could work for you. This professional services automation package tracks customers, projects, tasks, and time, and has extensive reporting features. It's an open source Java application distributed under the GPL.
It might be particularly useful to you if you want to track time spent per job. You would create a separate Taskjitsu project for each job, then log time per project in the time sheet system.
It runs under Tomcat 5.0 on a variety of different operating systems.
My company, PKR Internet, provides commercial support for Taskjitsu. Taskjitsu's motto is "The Art and Science of Tasks and Time".
You can find the article in the July 2007 issue of the print magazine, or read it on the web if you are a Linux Journal subscriber. Linux Journal typically opens up their archives to public access a couple months after publication, also, though I would encourage people interested in Linux to subscribe to support this quality magazine.
Since writing the article, I've also helped another company with a postmortem analysis of a different Mambo exploit that RHEL 4's SELinux implementation also stopped.
For the last ten years, I've been developing Taskjitsu, an open source professional services automation system that tracks time sheets and tasks. It is freely available, GPL-licensed, and commercially supported by PKR Internet.
Public health authorities often require public accomodations to list notices if someone with an infectious disease has visited. A fellow parent in my son's preschool described to me yesterday that that child of one of her friends had meningitis. The child's parents had to provide a two-week diary of where they had been and who they had seen. Notices were posted in places like the Post Office where they had visited, so that people who might be exposed could seek treatment. The restaurant analogy is not so flawed.
I've installed FC2 on a Sony VAIO PCG-GRX600P that has a built-in Synaptics touchpad. I too was annoyed by the lack of tap-click on the touchpad, but a bit of google research revealed that this is a kernel 2.6 issue. You can enable tap-click support by adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to the kernel boot parameters in/boot/grub/grub.conf file for the kernel you are running.
Here's an article that goes into a bit more detail on the subject:
The current DC convention center is too small to attract the biggest conferences out there. Maybe the organizers found more interest than they had initially thought was there, and had to move it to a space that could accomodate all the participants.
DC is building another convention center that will also be too small to attract the really big conventions when it is completed. Go figure.
Living near DC, I'd also looked forward to this, but it's possible to take Amtrak from Union Station in DC to Penn Station in NYC in the morning, do a full day's conference, and take Amtrak home in the evening. It's not cheap, but Amtrak has electrical outlets at every seat in the cars, so you can use your laptop all the way there and back without fear of battery failure.
Unfortunately, that list appears not to be archived. This new list is archived automatically, and it has a distinct purpose: accumulate and sift through enough performance and reliability information to create a Performance-and-Reliability-HOWTO document.
I'm not sure that these lists will overlap too much; the list I started is focused on system-administrator level tools to monitor both the health and load of Linux systems. It's scope is larger than just performance tuning -- it's not only about tweaking systems to run benchmarks better, but about making sure you get notified when your systems go down.
It's not about duplication of effort -- it's about a different perspective and different goals.
I also attended the performance and reliability BOF at Linux Expo. We need to have more communication about this topic in the Linux community. To that end, I've started a mailing list that aims to discuss these matters further.
To join this list, send a message consisting of the single word "subscribe" (in the message body , not the subject) to:
linux-performance-request@lists.microstate.com.
The first objective of this list is to gather enough information to build a performance and reliability HOWTO. Many of the attendees of the BOF are on this list. This list is still in its infancy, but I'm sure that the Slashdot effect will change that!
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There's a commercial company called Zoomsafer that has been doing work related to this. Their current software offerings focus on measuring use of devices in fleet contexts to help companies manage risk.
You could use the TAPR Open Hardware License:
http://www.tapr.org/OHL
It's a copyleft-style license drafted by a lawyer that permits a broad range of activity. Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond helped review it. Open hardware licenses are still in the early stages of evolution and adoption. If TAPR does not meet your needs, the Wikipedia entry on Open-source hardware lists more alternatives:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_hardware
Taskjitsu could work for you. This professional services automation package tracks customers, projects, tasks, and time, and has extensive reporting features. It's an open source Java application distributed under the GPL.
It might be particularly useful to you if you want to track time spent per job. You would create a separate Taskjitsu project for each job, then log time per project in the time sheet system.
It runs under Tomcat 5.0 on a variety of different operating systems.
My company, PKR Internet, provides commercial support for Taskjitsu. Taskjitsu's motto is "The Art and Science of Tasks and Time".
Linux Journal just published a case study I wrote on how SELinux protected a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 server from an attack on a Mambo installation:
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/xstatic/abstracts/200
You can find the article in the July 2007 issue of the print magazine, or read it on the web if you are a Linux Journal subscriber. Linux Journal typically opens up their archives to public access a couple months after publication, also, though I would encourage people interested in Linux to subscribe to support this quality magazine.
Since writing the article, I've also helped another company with a postmortem analysis of a different Mambo exploit that RHEL 4's SELinux implementation also stopped.
For the last ten years, I've been developing Taskjitsu, an open source professional services automation system that tracks time sheets and tasks. It is freely available, GPL-licensed, and commercially supported by PKR Internet.
Taskjitsu is at its core a Java web application, layered on top of Tomcat and PostgreSQL. It runs on Windows, Linux, and any other system that can run Java 1.4. We have RPMs available that work with Red Hat Application Server 1.0 and other JPackage 1.6-derived systems.
Public health authorities often require public accomodations to list notices if someone with an infectious disease has visited. A fellow parent in my son's preschool described to me yesterday that that child of one of her friends had meningitis. The child's parents had to provide a two-week diary of where they had been and who they had seen. Notices were posted in places like the Post Office where they had visited, so that people who might be exposed could seek treatment. The restaurant analogy is not so flawed.
I've installed FC2 on a Sony VAIO PCG-GRX600P that has a built-in Synaptics touchpad. I too was annoyed by the lack of tap-click on the touchpad, but a bit of google research revealed that this is a kernel 2.6 issue. You can enable tap-click support by adding "psmouse.proto=imps" to the kernel boot parameters in /boot/grub/grub.conf file for the kernel you are running.
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Here's an article that goes into a bit more detail on the subject:
http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/index.php?s=91
DC is building another convention center that will also be too small to attract the really big conventions when it is completed. Go figure.
Living near DC, I'd also looked forward to this, but it's possible to take Amtrak from Union Station in DC to Penn Station in NYC in the morning, do a full day's conference, and take Amtrak home in the evening. It's not cheap, but Amtrak has electrical outlets at every seat in the cars, so you can use your laptop all the way there and back without fear of battery failure.
I'm not sure that these lists will overlap too much; the list I started is focused on system-administrator level tools to monitor both the health and load of Linux systems. It's scope is larger than just performance tuning -- it's not only about tweaking systems to run benchmarks better, but about making sure you get notified when your systems go down.
It's not about duplication of effort -- it's about a different perspective and different goals.
To join this list, send a message consisting of the single word "subscribe" (in the message body , not the subject) to:
The first objective of this list is to gather enough information to build a performance and reliability HOWTO. Many of the attendees of the BOF are on this list. This list is still in its infancy, but I'm sure that the Slashdot effect will change that!