Comments (0) NewsForge | A PBX for everyone with Asterisk@Home
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This looks quite interesting especially for small businesses that are forking out major bucks leasing lines and or equipment from the phone company.
Or schools that have ethernet everywhere already. And all the teachers computers can be extensions.
Techdirt:Patent Examiners Don’t Scale
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Can we say “Entire US patent system collapsing under the weight of its own inept management and rules/laws”, boys and girls?
With MicroSloth alone applying for 60 new patents a day I can sorta understand why…
OPML Editor support: Mac Version Out
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A Mac version of the OMPL editor that Dave Winer n friends have been working on. I am trying it out and it looks interesting. I would want to run the server on my on domain instead of using his but so far the ease of updating is there. Markup is there. Links and images are there. So…
This looks good so far Dave! Thanks!
Now all I have to do is burn out a few more brain cells trying to figure this out… 😉
freshmeat.net: Project details for NoMachine NX
NoMachine NX is a fast terminal server system
based on the X11 protocol. In addition, NX also
translates and embeds the MS Windows Terminal
Server and VNC protocols into X/NX. NX is an order
of magnitude faster than VNC or X11 and can run on bandwidth
as narrow as 10 kBit/sec. By embedding RDP and
RFB, it enables users to compress and accelerate
remote Windows and VNC sessions. NX lets you work
fluently even across slow links like modems. The
NX project provides a suite of libraries and X11
proxying agents implementing efficient compression
and optimized transport of X11, SMB, IPP, HTTP, and arbitrary protocols like audio over the
Internet.
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Went to the site and looked around a bit and it sure looks interesting. The works over even slow links like modems is gonna make a lot of new apps available that depend on close machine/desktop interaction that haven’t been possible before now. The times I have had to use pcanywhere over a modem it’s been almost painfully slow. Haven’t tried it over a fast link so no idea but I suspect it takes a lot more pipeline resources than this does.
Everybody loves Eric Raymond » Sell out
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This comic is hilarious! I don’t think they can keep it up but hope I’m wrong.
Not real sure what to say about this one-a one inch cube mp3 player. The ultimate in portability, and sure to get washed by 43% of its owners in the first week. Then again, the kind of people that would pay $130.00 for a 1 GB 1″ cube mp3 player may not do their laundry as often as every week…..
“This site may or may not work in Internet Explorer”
“I may or may not care if it does or not”
(Sorry, but someone had to say it….)
Microsoft’s Earth deletes Apple HQ | The Register
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This kind of thing is a problem with any big company with lots of departments that is too big for any one person or group to monitor all of. But this is just plain stupid on any of MicroSloths employees parts. They keep acting kinda like a dying dinosaur, flopping around and breaking even more things while dying. And lets not even think about the latest patents they are trying to get. Someone should open source breathing while they still can!
I have been reading Scoble for a view of from the inside because I just couldn’t see that the entire company could be as bad as I thought they were. I stuck with his blog for quite a while but he has been on a “tablet pc’s are SO great” rant for so long now that it’s gotten more than a little old.
I didn’t when they first came out and today still don’t see the value in “me” owning one. For me, typing is a lot faster than writing (not to mention a lot less painful) and a touchpad or mouse is a lot cheaper to replace than a screen. All I use anymore is a laptop and yes they can be a bit clumsy to work with out on the road but most places I need a computer it works, and I don’t have to clean the skin oil off screen or try to see around my hand when trying to do something.
Anyway, back to Scoble “The Microsoft Evangelist”. So when the only retort he had yesterday about Apple pundits making fun of the “new” name for Longhorn was yea but yall don’t have tablet pc’s yet, I removed him from my feed. Sorry, I’ve tried time and again, but I see nothing about the company that is of any redeeming value.
» Blog Archive » Windows Memory Lane Is Lined With Monsters
I broke one of my own rules today…or almost did, the fact that I even considered it jolted me back to reality.
I came extremely close to helping a friend with a “Windows Problem.†I believe the operative and pivotal term here is “closeâ€.
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I know that one only too well. I have 3 people I will work on a windows machine for now and try not to even for them.
Helios makes some good points here. I’d like the hear/read the answers too…
User Friendly the Comic Strip – The Daily Static
Very nice tribute to Jame Doohan-remarkable man, veteran of D-day, father at 80, most celebrated engineer in Starfleet history. RIP, Jimmy…..
GROKLAW
Now, some artists don’t want to share, viewing intellectual property, as they like to call it, as property, just like a dog with a bone. Those who think like that view creative works as their meal ticket, and they want to extract every last dime, not only for themselves, but for their grandchildren as well.
They are free to squirrel their works away in a hole in a tree, if they wish. And they can erect as many gates and pitchforks around it as they like.
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The meal ticket part is what screws with my head.
A hard or paperback book costs what it does mostly due to the labor involved, not in writing it but in printing and then shipping, warehousing, advertising, and then sitting in a store taking up shelf space.
Same with music, and video.
The creative part that is the reason for all of this massive infrastructure is actually about the least part of its personal whole as far as effort and cost.
Lets step back 5 hundred years.
None of this exists. The books that do exist are produced by and mostly owned by the church. The average person and in fact most people cannot read or write. Story tellers were their writers and radio and musicians were regarded as thieves and whores.
Fast forward 4 hundred years.
In cities a fair number of folks could read and newspapers and penny dreadfuls were sold on the streets by urchins.
And then comes radio.
Then TV.
Then the internet.
Today an artist can take a picture and upload it to the internet at a cost of only what the connection and online storage cost. Then the world has access.
If I look at that picture as MY property and MY meal ticket then I need to restrict access to it. But I don’t. Unless you want to make money off of it. If you want to look at it, fine. Use it on your web page not a problem. Collect my pictures and print a book and sell it – Problem.
My writing is the same. Use it as you wish. Unless you make coin I care not. You make a profit on it, I want a piece.
But here again is a rub that I wonder about. In my life I have mostly done work for hire. I fix stuff. Someone pays me for that work. I don’t fix something once and folks keep paying me for it.
And this is were I have a problem with IP. If you are following me that is. Not sure I am at this point.
I go out and fix a car. I get paid. I go and buy a song and download it. And 10,000 more do the same thing. But the song still costs the same thing. Now the guy that wrote the song deserves something… But how much?
The one that wrote the book that just sold millions of copies on it’s first day out. Now she (no names) worked a few months or maybe a year to write that book. Okay, in that time it cost her a few thousand or a few 10 thousand to live. But she made so much more. But had she published on the web it would have cost almost nothing. And she could have gotten it to ALL her fans. And she would have been able to get ALL the money instead of just a few pennies on the dollar. But the HUGE retail sales infrastructure wouldn’t get their piece of the pie. And all those [thousands, tens of thousands, millions?] of gallons of fuel, used in making and shipping the paper, printing and shipping the books, customers going out at midnight to buy the book, wouldn’t have been consumed. And all the trees wouldn’t have had to die to print it on.
But she (read her lawyers and accountants) was scared that the business that she has become would miss out on a few pennies due to pirated copys.
So her fans buy the book and scan, proofread, convert to and ebook and have it available for free within 24 hours. Less time than it took to typeset the original. Now the courts get involved.
I don’t understand. I need enough for me to live on. I haven’t worked at a regular job in years nor do I ever expect to.
If I sell a used book I eat. If not I garden. Or write. Or work on sculpture. Which when sold is sold. No copies and the pictures are free.
Now tell me why I should pay for something that was originally paid for in hourly wages, again and again and again, just because it’s your Intellectual Property.
Folks, here is where I draw the line. I ain’t gonna do it. This whole Farking society is out of control and I will not assist in stopping its demise. In fact if, in any small way I can hasten the fall of big everything I will give my all in doing so.
Not gonna say I will steal from it. Not interested in anyones IP in any way. Not your movies, not your books (I buy them used, and sell them used, and no one but me gets any of it), and certainly not the RIAA’s farking music. I will not pay one red cent that goes into the RIAA’s coffers to allow them to sue more of the musicans fan base.
This has grown too big to be a comment but that’s what it started as and I guess that’s what it will end up as. Warts and all. I’m gonna spell check it and see if it reads somewhat coherent and post…
Version 0.3.0 released. I need to download a copy and try this out. It sounds like a dynamic sitebuilders dream.
NewsForge | Hooking OOo to MySQL
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This is amazing! Other than that I got nothing yet. Gonna see if NeoOffice has it yet as it’s the only OOo I have on here (iBook).
NewsForge | Run GNU/Linux from a USB pen drive
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Gonna have to try one of these pendrive distros one of these days. Sound interesting. And with the newer bios machines should boot right up. Don’t think anything I have will boot off a pen drive.
» Blog Archive » The Verdict is in…Some Windows Users are Idiots
And Helios is at it again… Trouble is he’s right. Again…
Resuscitating Microsoft Exchange 5.5 with Linux – OSNews.com
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I’d go with straight linux but if you have users that have to have exchange this makes much more sense than the microSloth option…
GROKLAW
It’s been fun watching SCO spin on the Davidson 2002 email/Swartz 1999 memo, don’t you think? While a few in the media showed some confusion, and one joined SCO’s frantic spin, most seemed to get one fundamental issue as clear as a bell, and you could almost hear a collective gasp and the world saying:
You mean it was all a bluff? Is this *all* SCO was holding when they said all those horrible things about Linux? Not just Linux, but Linus too?
The sheer gall of it is what resonated, even if many didn’t quite catch why it mattered legally. Their jaws dropped, because even now, this late in the game, people still thought that SCO must have something, some basis, at least in their own minds, to embark on their swashbuckling slash-and-burn litigation attack on Linux.
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I got nothing more to say other than I suspect those brass balls of ol Darryl’s are fixin to get roasted…
Guardian Unlimited | Online | Knoppix has it covered
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Interesting article that illustrates in much greater detail what I was trying to say earlier about linux being ready. Now. Also goes into the new installers and more.
City finds big savings in Linux
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Glad to see this. Wish more cities would wise up to not only the savings but the stability and openness. The drm restrictions on windoze products is getting worse and with LongTimeHorny coming it’s time to either make the switch or be locked in and quit bitching cause you done it to yo self…
And yes linux is ready for the desktop. And the apps are easy to install at least on some distros. PC Linux OS is one of the best I have found. It’s easy to try as it comes as a Live CD. Just pop it in the cd drive and reboot. Very easy to get used to with minor readjustment. Open office and Firefox take care of most of the general users needs and software install and update is in one application and most times you’re a click away from any app that is designed for that system. For those that need a windoze app there is Wine. Again a click install and quick configure and (most times) install the windoze app and then just click to run it.
Yes there are differences. But the time to switch and get others to switch is now. If we as techs continue to support companies that support drm and the windoze conspiracy we are letting big biz/gov win.
Make the switch now, you and your clients have nothing to loose but your:
BSODs
VIRII
Spam Generating Zombies
etc…
Techdirt:WinZip About To Get More Annoying
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So use another product. FreeZip is what I use when I am forced to be on a windows machine. And on other platforms other utilities are available and some if not most are free so not a problem.
My take here is that the bean counters are gonna kill yet another product. Sooner or later they (lawyers and accountants) will all die off and we can get on with civilization…
Digital Needle – A Virtual Gramophone
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He actually gets some noise out of the scan of a record. interesting concept!
Seems to have been done in 2002. not heard of it before.
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