I'm a self-employed freelance web-designer and programmer, and about to jump on the blog-firing band-wagon.
My plan is as follows; 1) Critcise myself on blog 2) Fire myself 3) Get masses of media attention. People will come to my website. 4) People will like my website and offer me work.
BBC News - news.bbc.co.uk is blocked. As is Google.
But as reported last month in NewScientist, you can use elgooG - (an impressive perl script that reflects Google, results and cached pages) to get past the GFoC.
It's also mentioned in the article that there's a relay server in China run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society that can be used to test what gets in through the GFoC.
Computers can learn the meaning of words simply by plugging into Google. The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed.
NewScientist (29 January 2005) - Google's search for meaning
Every year, Sun put OpenOffice in a box, and sell it as Staroffice. Fair enough, OpenOffice was developed from Sun's Staroffice after Sun released the source. So fair enough, Sun have supported the product from the start, and deserve to earn from it.
It's pleasing the same reversal of commercial to opensource with Mozilla and Netscape. I think other companies can learn from how Sun and Netscape are now profiting from the benefits of open development. Think of it, 5 years ago, they were both badly losing to Microsoft, but they released the source, and now it's had 5 years of free development. It doesn't matter if someone's compiled OpenOffice or a business has bought StarOffice in a box with manuals, they're still benefiting from open-source.
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I'm a self-employed freelance web-designer and programmer, and about to jump on the blog-firing band-wagon.
My plan is as follows;
1) Critcise myself on blog
2) Fire myself
3) Get masses of media attention. People will come to my website.
4) People will like my website and offer me work.
Woo.
BBC News - news.bbc.co.uk is blocked. As is Google.
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But as reported last month in NewScientist, you can use elgooG - (an impressive perl script that reflects Google, results and cached pages) to get past the GFoC.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn276
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
It's also mentioned in the article that there's a relay server in China run by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society that can be used to test what gets in through the GFoC.
Computers can learn the meaning of words simply by plugging into Google. The finding could bring forward the day that true artificial intelligence is developed.
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NewScientist (29 January 2005) - Google's search for meaning
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg185
Link on front page of bbc.co.uk - bbc.co.uk/voices/ - their attempt at tracking accents and dialects across the UK.
Every year, Sun put OpenOffice in a box, and sell it as Staroffice. Fair enough, OpenOffice was developed from Sun's Staroffice after Sun released the source. So fair enough, Sun have supported the product from the start, and deserve to earn from it.
It's pleasing the same reversal of commercial to opensource with Mozilla and Netscape. I think other companies can learn from how Sun and Netscape are now profiting from the benefits of open development. Think of it, 5 years ago, they were both badly losing to Microsoft, but they released the source, and now it's had 5 years of free development. It doesn't matter if someone's compiled OpenOffice or a business has bought StarOffice in a box with manuals, they're still benefiting from open-source.