Yves's planethttp://moustaki.org/planet/atom.xml2008-08-28T17:16:54+00:00Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org[from hublicious] Freebase Suggest Example for Tagginghttp://mqlx.com/freebase-suggest/examples/suggest_demo_tagging.html2008-08-28T16:51:45+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00Experiments with Ubiquityhttp://danbri.org/words/2008/08/28/3692008-08-28T16:48:32+00:00<b>danbri:</b> And completely gratuitous Hobbit screenshots<br /><br />
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00[from kurtjx] eclipse-tutorial: Eclipse Visual Tutorials - Generating Ant Buildfile for Eclipse Java projecthttps://eclipse-tutorial.dev.java.net/visual-tutorials/generatingantbuildfile.html2008-08-28T16:34:21+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00State Cannot Force Removal of SSNs From Privacy Advocate's Sitehttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1536249&from=rss2008-08-28T16:17:00+00:00jvatcw brings us a story about Betty Ostergren, who operates a website dedicated to pointing out the social security numbers visible in public records. The purpose of the site is to raise awareness of privacy concerns regarding the personal information shared in Virginia's governmental websites. Legislation was introduced in Virginia to combat Ostergren's website, but last Friday a judge shot down the attempt to censor her, writing, "It is difficult to imagine a more archetypal instance of the press informing the public of government operations through government records than Ostergren's posting of public records to demonstrate the lack of care being taken by government to protect the private information of individuals."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1536249&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/1536249" /></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1536249&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=AIr2tW"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=AIr2tW" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377258578" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.[from bbcmusicnews] Alphabeat drummer, Troels, gets a grilling (not literally, of course)http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/chartblog/2008/08/alphabeat_drummer_troels_gets.shtml2008-08-28T16:16:45+00:00Alphabeat are pretty darn good at a lot of things. Writing infectious pop songs is one example. Inventing quirky dance moves is another. But there is one thing that Alphabeat drummer Troels fails miseDelicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00ubiquity - sindice command (allows to simply query a term)http://sw.joanneum.at/ubiq/2008-08-28T15:48:56+00:00<br />
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<i>(2008-08-28 15:23)</i></a>Semantic Web Interest Group Scratchpadhttp://swig.xmlhack.com/Semantic Web Interest Group ScratchpadSemantic Web Interest Group IRC scratchpad where items mentioned and
commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00[from inkdroid] Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity 0.1 Author Tutorial - MozillaWikihttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Ubiquity_0.1_Author_Tutorial2008-08-28T15:44:38+00:00little tutorial on how to write ubiquity commandsDelicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from ebx] SWSM2008 - WWW2008 Workshop on Social Web Search and Mininghttp://keg.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn/SWSM2008/2008-08-28T15:36:17+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00Rover Exiting Crater To Continue Martian Marathonhttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1435236&from=rss2008-08-28T15:27:00+00:00Riding with Robots writes "The robotic geologist Opportunity has nearly reached the rim of Victoria Crater, which it is leaving after a year of exploration inside. Rover handlers decided to abandon attempts to approach the crater's cliff walls when they saw a power spike similar to the one that preceded a broken wheel on its twin, Spirit. Opportunity is already making do with a stuck robotic arm. The mission's manager said, 'Both rovers show signs of aging, but they are both still capable of exciting exploration and scientific discovery.' Opportunity is set to continue trekking across the Meridiani Plains of Mars, even though its wheels have already seen 10 times the use they were designed for. Meanwhile, Spirit has survived yet another harsh Martian winter to produce another striking panorama." Adam Korbitz notes other Mars-related news that funding has been approved for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Genomes (SETG) Project. The project was one of 15 selected to receive funds through a NASA research opportunity program. The stated goal of the proposal is to "develop a PCR detector for in situ analysis on other planets, most immediately, Mars. This instrument is so sensitive it should allow the detection very low levels of microbial life on Mars, and will determine its phylogenetic position by analysis of the DNA sequence of the genes detected in situ."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1435236&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/1435236" /></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1435236&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=wkL1NQ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=wkL1NQ" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377224783" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Hadoop User Group UKtag:blog.last.fm,2008-08-26:59ab5fd5ebdd7507425a613a80c0101f/9062953002404ccdea03d34309caca6e2008-08-28T15:24:54+00:00<p>At Last.fm we’re fond of elephants. A few months ago <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/martind">Martin</a> and I went to a <a href="http://blog.last.fm/2008/04/01/hadoop-summit-2008-creating-new-infrastructures-for-big-data">gathering of elephant enthusiasts</a> and liked what we saw. In fact, we liked it so much that we decided to host a similar event in London. Some 50-60 herders turned up to enjoy the presentations as well as the free beer and food kindly supplied by <a href="http://developer.yahoo.net/blog/archives/2008/08/uk_hadoop_user.html">Yahoo!</a> and <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/">Skills Matter</a>.</p>
<p>If you are wondering what on earth I’m talking about, the event was focused on <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/core/">Hadoop</a> – “a software platform that lets one easily write and run applications that process vast amounts of data.” We use Hadoop extensively at Last.fm and, judging by the number of people who came to the event, we’re not alone.</p>
<p>To make sure you don’t miss the next event you can subscribe to the <a href="http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/huguk/">Hadoop User Group UK</a> mailing list by sending an e-mail to <a href="mailto:huguk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com">huguk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com </a> and then replying to the confirmation e-mail. You can also simulate the experience by getting a beer from your local shop and watching the videos and presentations below. Sadly you will have to talk to yourself after you’ve watched them as we won’t be there.</p>
<p>Doug Cutting (Hadoop project founder, Yahoo!): <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/hadoop-overview">Hadoop overview</a><br />
Tom White (Hadoop committer, contractor): <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/hadoop-on-amazon-s3ec2">Hadoop on Amazon S3/EC2</a><br />
Steve Loughran (Hadoop committer, HP): <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/smartfrog-and-hadoop">Deploying Hadoop with Smartfrog</a><br />
<a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/cloud-grid/hadoop-usage-at-last-fm">Martin</a>, <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/hadoop-at-last-fm-radio-log-analysis-for-ab-tests">Elias</a> and <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/cloud-grid/hadoop-at-last-fm-lessons-learned">Johan</a> (Last.fm): Hadoop @ Last fm</p>
<p>Miles Osborne (University of Edinburgh) – <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/using-nutch-and-hadoop-for-natural-language-processing">Using Nutch and Hadoop for Natural Language Processing</a><br />
Tim Sell (Last.fm) – <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/postgresql-to-hbase-replication">PostgreSQL to HBase replication</a><br />
Mark Butler (HP) – <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/distributed-lucene-for-hadoop">Distributed Lucene</a><br />
Klaas Bosteels (Last.fm) – <a href="http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/home/dumbo-hadoop-streaming-made-elegant-and-easy">Dumbo: Hadoop streaming made elegant and easy</a></p>
<p>A big thank you to the presenters!</p>
<p>My only regret is that we didn’t have time to finish all the beer, better luck next time.</p>
<p><img src="http://blog.last.fm/images/68.jpg" width="375" height="562" alt="Hadoopers" title="Hadoopers" /></p>Johan Oskarssonhttp://blog.last.fm/Last.fm – the BlogMusic and Web Geekery from East Londontag:blog.last.fm,2005:59ab5fd5ebdd7507425a613a80c0101f2008-08-28T16:00:34+00:00Veodiatag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://2.17362008-08-28T15:10:39+00:00<p><a href="http://veodia.com/">Veodia</a> seems useful, as far as I can tell from the 500 minutes (viewing, per month) and 500GB of storage they provide for free. It uses a browser plugin to get audio and video from a camera (iSight or DV camera, for example), provides both HTTP and RTSP live H.264 streams, and stores a recording on their server that anyone can download or view later, embedded in a web page as QuickTime or Flash.</p>
<p>The RTSP stream can be <a href="https://support.secondlife.com/ics/support/security.asp?questionID=4434">embedded in Second Life</a> as a video wall - unlike <a href="http://www.apple.com/quicktime/streamingserver/">QuickTime</a>/<a href="http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/">Darwin Streaming Server</a> you don't have to worry about firewalls or hosting multiple streams. <a href="http://blog.secondlife.com/2007/10/16/the-next-best-thing-to-being-there/">Zee Linden used this last year</a>, for a presentation that was recorded and is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoBVBOLm9Nk">available on YouTube</a>.</p>
<p>I'm hopefully going to give Veodia a proper test at the <a href="http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/whatson/events/talkscience.html">TalkScience</a> event at the British Library next month.</p>Alf Eatonalf@hubmed.orghttp://hublog.hubmed.org/HubLogDROP ALL DATABASES;tag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://22008-08-28T15:48:43+00:00[from hublicious] YouTube - Voice Chat: Customize Speech Gestureshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa7-aRi4VpE2008-08-28T14:46:45+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00New Algorithm Boosts Network Efficiencyhttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1353245&from=rss2008-08-28T14:35:00+00:00palegray.net writes "Researchers at the University of California have developed a new network routing algorithm that has the potential to significantly boost Internet traffic routing efficiency. This new approach focuses on the needs of dynamic networks, where connections are frequently transient. From the article: 'What the team did with their new routing algorithm, according to Savage's student Kirill Levchenko, was to reduce the "communication overhead" of route computation — by an order of magnitude.' For the technically inclined, the full research publication (PDF) is available."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1353245&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/1353245" /></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1353245&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=9KGt6m"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=9KGt6m" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377186257" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.[from clement.denis] 20 Popular CSS Online Tools and Generatorshttp://www.cssjuice.com/20-popular-css-online-tools/2008-08-28T14:10:26+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from hublicious] MIBBI portal - MIBBIhttp://www.mibbi.org/index.php/MIBBI_portal2008-08-28T14:08:36+00:00experiment ontologies?Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from hublicious] Google Research Datasets (Trusted Testers) | Google Groupshttp://groups.google.com/group/google-research-datasets-tt2008-08-28T13:55:12+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00WCG Tournament Director Admits Drugs In E-Sportshttp://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1249210&from=rss2008-08-28T13:44:00+00:00SlappingOysters writes "In the lead up to the World Cyber Games finals in Germany, Gameplayer has an incredible interview with Tournament Director Alex Walker in which he freely admits knowledge of participants taking illegal drugs to enhance their performance. The interview came in response to a previous article by the site in which they examined whether there was a need to bring drug testing into professional gaming events to ensure a level playing field. Walker said, 'I've seen a number of players at national tournaments who came in "baked" (that's stoned for the uninformed) purely so they could play better. In most cases they did, although obviously they couldn't just pull out another joint midway through. In one WCG, a player I knew took amphetamines an hour before his match to boost his reflexes.'"<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1249210&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/1249210" /></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1249210&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=CkXuH2"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=CkXuH2" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377155536" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.[from clement.denis] Eyal Lupu Java Bloghttp://www.jroller.com/eyallupu/entry/an_introduction_to_hibernate_search2008-08-28T13:33:15+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from hublicious] Re: Pulseaudiohttp://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-October/msg00136.html2008-08-28T13:29:25+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00PulseAudio resamplingtag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://2.17352008-08-28T13:22:22+00:00<p>One <a href="http://artipc10.vub.ac.be/serendipity/archives/50-Bye-Bye-PulseAudio.html">problem</a> that seems to crop up often with PulseAudio is <a href="https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=36084">its high CPU usage</a>, which occurs when it needs to resample audio from one sample rate to another. CDs and most MP3s are encoded at 44.1 kHz, so it makes sense to pass the signal to the audio card at this sample rate too - in <a href="http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001731.html">my case</a> this means setting JACK to run at 44.1 kHz, so PulseAudio passes the audio straight through.</p>
<p>The problem comes when you try and play a FLAC file, for example, which is encoded at 96 kHz (which provides more information per second and so can encode higher frequencies). Two things happen: first is that PulseAudio — by virtue of using a high-quality resampling algorithm (speex-float-3) — uses lots of CPU time; second is that you lose all the additional audio information, as the audio is downsampled.</p>
<p>You could get around the loss of information by running JACK at 96 kHz by default, but then the rest of your audio which is at 41.1 kHz (most of it) would have to be upsampled unnecessarily. You could switch between sample rates in JACK manually when needed, but this often means restarting applications. You could set the default resampling algorithm to one that is lower quality (speex-fixed-0) but faster, but this means losing audio quality again.</p>
<p>The best solution is probably to leave JACK as it is (at 41.4kHz), not worry too much about the CPU usage as most files don't need to be resampled, hope that <a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/ticket/299">SSE-optimised resampling gets into PulseAudio soon</a>, and switch JACK to a higher sample rate when you <i>really</i> need the extra quality.</p>
<p>Now to find out what damage audio hardware is doing to the signal...</p>Alf Eatonalf@hubmed.orghttp://hublog.hubmed.org/HubLogDROP ALL DATABASES;tag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://22008-08-28T15:48:43+00:00[from hublicious] gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.generalhttp://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.audio.pulseaudio.general/7422008-08-28T13:19:24+00:00"Gst defaults to comparatively small fragment sizes, which causes a higher CPU load than playing back the same file on other players would cause. "Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from tristanf] CrowdFire / Homehttp://www.crowdfire.net/2008-08-28T13:10:41+00:00"But with CrowdFire, we hope to provide all of us music fans a platform for doing with the experience of music what we're already doing with the experience of the web: a place where all of us can share and produce our experiences: a many to many celebration of live music, in real time, as well as as an ongoing, living archive of what has happened, and what might happen next. "Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00[from clement.denis] 10 useful jQuery plugins :: ENHANCEhttp://enhance.qd-creative.co.uk/index.php/2008/javascript/10-useful-jquery-plugins2008-08-28T13:08:39+00:00Delicious/network/moustakihttp://delicious.com/network/moustakiDelicious/network/moustakiitems bookmarked by users listed as contacts for moustakihttp://feeds.delicious.com/rss/network/moustaki2008-08-28T17:16:34+00:00Intel X58 To Be First Non-NVIDIA Chipset To Get SLIhttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/120208&from=rss2008-08-28T12:55:00+00:00Vigile writes "In a somewhat surprising move from a company that is used to holding its proprietary technologies close to its chest, NVIDIA has announced that it is opening up a 'certified SLI motherboard' program for boards using the upcoming Intel X58 chipset. The X58 is Intel's core logic offering for Nehalem/Bloomfield processors and many people wondered how NVIDIA would support SLI on a platform for which they had admitted to not developing a chipset. At first, NVIDIA was pushing the use of their dedicated nForce 200 chip, but have instead decided to open up the SLI technology to X58 motherboards that meet certain NVIDIA requirements. This leaves a lot of questions about NVIDIA's previous SLI statements, how the pricing of the certification affects partners, and if NVIDIA's chipset business is truly at its end now."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/120208&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/120208" /></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/120208&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=L1rsiQ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=L1rsiQ" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377120744" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.IE8 Beta Released To Publichttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1139207&from=rss2008-08-28T12:04:00+00:00Tim writes "English, German, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese versions of Internet Explorer 8 have been released for public beta. New features include accelerators, which provide instant context menu access for a number of common tasks; automatic crash recovery, which prevents a single page's failures from taking down your entire browser; and browser privacy, a feature that didn't make Firefox 3. I'm primarily a Firefox user, and I've been using IE8 at work (MS) for the past few weeks. It's a definite improvement over previous versions, and brings a lot to the table that Firefox requires extensions for. Give it a spin, submit feedback, and help keep all browser makers on their toes by facing each other's competition."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1139207&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/1139207" /></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/1139207&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=QJvc0T"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=QJvc0T" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/377080572" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#2008-08-28T11:31:37+00:00http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#Semantic Web Interest Group Scratchpadhttp://swig.xmlhack.com/Semantic Web Interest Group ScratchpadSemantic Web Interest Group IRC scratchpad where items mentioned and
commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Desire project (1999) deliverable on Quality Ratings in RDFhttp://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D3.1/2008-08-28T10:33:10+00:00<b>danbri:</b> Has a number of scenarios where I expect RDF to help. I still expect it, ... :)<br /><br />
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00BarCampLondon5http://barcamp.org/BarCampLondon52008-08-28T10:16:24+00:00<b>tommorris:</b> It's a BarCamp, and it's in London. Win.<br /><br />
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<i>(2008-08-28 09:48)</i></a>Semantic Web Interest Group Scratchpadhttp://swig.xmlhack.com/Semantic Web Interest Group ScratchpadSemantic Web Interest Group IRC scratchpad where items mentioned and
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Wikileaks To Sell Hugo Chavez' Emailhttp://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0314205&from=rss2008-08-28T09:31:00+00:00I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Wikileaks seems to be a bit hard-up for cash, so they're trying a little experiment. They plan to auction off an archive with three years worth of Hugo Chavez' email. The winner will get a period of embargoed access to break any stories they can find in the files, while Wikileaks will later publish the archive in full. Wikileaks plans to use the profits for their legal defense fund, but they may run into trouble because most reputable news outlets have policies against paying sources."<p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0314205&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/0314205" /></a></p><p><a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0314205&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Coming soon...http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/08/coming_soon.shtml2008-08-28T08:45:57+00:00<p><span class="mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image"><img alt="Radio Pop" src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/images/radiopop_placeholder.png" width="494" height="173" class="mt-image-none" /></span></p>Radio Labshttp://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/Radio LabsThis is our new blog for BBC Radio Labs - a place where we show some of our prototypes for new sites and services. They are all at an early stage of development and some of them might not work quite right, some might look a bit sketchy and they may never be taken any further. They're what we call "betas".
We'll write about every new beta we release on this blog so please play with them and come back here to let us know what you think. We'll also be writing about other things we're working on, how we do our work and anything else we think you might be interested in.http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/index.xml2008-08-28T08:45:57+00:00Copyright 2008Ignite NYC II - Submit a talkhttp://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/ignite-nyc-ii-submit-a-talk.html2008-08-28T08:30:42+00:00<p>
<img src="http://radar.oreilly.com/200807011018-tm.jpg" align="right" />
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On the night before the <a href="http://ny.web2expo.com">Web 2.0 Expo NY</a> Ignite is coming back to NYC! On September 15th we will have 10 Ignite speakers who each get just five minutes on stage. Bre Pettis, the co-creator of Ignite will be hosting a cupcake decorating contest. Ignite is going to be at <a href="http://www.newworldstages.com">New World Stages</a> (340 West 50th Street) where we are a guest of the <a href="http://www.nytvf.com/">New York Television Festival.</a> They are providing us a ~400 person theatre and free beer (during the cupcake contest).
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We are currently looking for speakers. If you have something geeky to share then submit a talk! Each speaker will get 20 slides that auto-advance after 15 seconds for a total of five-minutes. Put in your talk idea <a href="https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=en&key=pGj9uVDQ6OGMTm_UFgKGDNw">here</a>. We will let people know by September 10th but submit early as selection is rolling.
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If you plan on entering the cupcake decorating competition plan on bringing your own decorations. We will have some on-hand but if you are going to be the cupcake decorating champion of NYC then you'll need to bring something unique. You will not be required to use our cupcakes; feel free to bring your own.
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Here is a rough schedule for how the night will go.
<br />7:15 Door & Bar opens
<br />7:30 Cupcake Contest Begins
<br />8:15 Cupcakes Contest Ends
<br />8:45 Ignite Talks Begin
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9:45 Ignite talks end; upstairs bar opens
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RSVP at <a href="http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1051741/?ps=5">Upcoming</a> or <a href="http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=23690381796">Facebook</a> to give us an idea of how many people to expect (but you do not have to).
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<a href="http://radar.oreilly.com/200808272031.jpg"><img src="http://radar.oreilly.com/200808272031-tm.jpg" height="100" width="133" border="1" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="4" alt="many ignites" title="many ignites" /></a>
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After this Ignite the New York community will be taking on the event (though I will come back next summer to do some). They're already put up a community <a href="http://ignitenyc.org/">site</a>; <a href="http://tikvamorovati.com/">Tikva Morowati</a> is on point if you are interested in being involved.
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If you don't live in New York (or Seattle or Portland) or anywhere with an Ignite start your own! I urged people at <a href="http://gnomedex.com">Gnomedex</a> last week and we will soon have new Ignites in Vancouver, Nashville, Dallas and DC (they'll soon be joining all of those logos to the right). Check out our <a href="http://ignite.oreilly.com/">community site</a> for more information.
</p>O'Reilly Radarhttp://radar.oreilly.com/O'Reilly Radarhttp://radar.oreilly.com/http://radar.oreilly.com/rss.xml2008-08-28T08:30:42+00:00Copyright 2008Quebec Gov Sued For Ignoring Free Softwarehttp://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0310216&from=rss2008-08-28T06:58:00+00:00Mathieu Lutfy writes "The CBC is reporting that 'Quebec's open-source software association is suing the provincial government, saying it is giving preferential treatment to Microsoft Corp. by buying the company's products rather than using free alternatives. ...Government buyers are using an exception in provincial law that allows them to buy directly from a proprietary vendor when there are no options available, but Facil said that loophole is being abused and goes against other legal requirements to buy locally.' The group also has a press release in English."<p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0310216&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/28/0310216" /></a></p><p><a href="http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/28/0310216&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=QxmT82"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=QxmT82" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376895138" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Orwell Diarieshttp://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/?p=852008-08-28T06:30:19+00:00<div class="snap_preview"><br /><p>Night before last an hour’s rain. Yesterday hot & overcast. Today ditto, with a few drops of rain in the afternoon. The <a href="http://www.theorwellprize.co.uk/the-award/works/orwellessayhoppicking.aspx" target="_blank">hop-picking</a> due to start in about a week.</p>
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<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=InUBWl"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=InUBWl" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376795498" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.New Map From Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescopehttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2229219&from=rss2008-08-28T02:02:00+00:00I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "NASA has received interesting results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, originally known as GLAST, which has allowed them to create new map of the gamma-ray sky. The secret to its ability to resolve gamma-rays is that they use layers of tungsten interleaved with silicon detectors. When a gamma-ray strikes tungsten, it produces an electron/positron pair due to the photoelectric effect, which cascades as it goes through further layers of tungsten. Meanwhile, they record which silicon detectors had electrons or positrons pass through them to determine the direction of the source and they also record the total energy of the electron/positron pairs to calculate the wavelength of the gamma-ray using Planck's Law. The data gathered in just its first few hours of operation is reportedly comparable to the data from the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope, which gathered data for nine years back in the 1990's and there are hopes that it could detect dark matter in the form of weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs)."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2229219&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/2229219" /></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2229219&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=FrgZzN"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=FrgZzN" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376716543" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.45th Known Mersenne Prime Found?http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2220226&from=rss2008-08-28T00:18:00+00:00An anonymous reader writes "The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) has apparently discovered a new world-record prime number. A GIMPS client computer reported the number on August 23rd, and verification is currently under way. The verification could take up to two weeks to complete. The last Mersenne prime discovered was over 9.8 million digits long, strongly suggesting that the new value may break the 10 million digit barrier — qualifying for the EFF's $100000 prize!"<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2220226&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/2220226" /></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2220226&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=XV2PJn"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=XV2PJn" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376642328" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.The Power Grid Can't Handle Wind Farmshttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2217221&from=rss2008-08-27T23:09:00+00:00DesScorp writes "The Times reports on the problems of adding wind farms to the power grid. Because of the grid's old design, it can't handle the various spikes that wind farms sometimes have, and there's no efficient way to currently move massive amounts of that power from one section of the country to the other. Further complicating things is the fact that under current laws, power grid regulation is a state matter, and the Federal government has comparatively little authority over it right now. Critics are calling for federal authority over the grid, and massive new construction of "superhighways" to share the wind power wealth nationally. Quoting the article, 'The dirty secret of clean energy is that while generating it is getting easier, moving it to market is not.'"<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2217221&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/2217221" /></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2217221&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=H2zmlQ"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=H2zmlQ" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376609080" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.ISMIR Proceedings 2008! Wow!tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2889894315257595136.post-45153056462914462762008-08-27T22:50:00+00:00I'm extremely impressed. The ISMIR proceedings <a href="http://www.lulu.com/content/3804316">are online</a>. Whoever wants a printed copy can organize it themselves (it couldn't be much easier). Some might also want to only print the papers they are interested in. And some might be happy to have only an electronic version. <br /><br />It's always been a pain to drag the heavy ISMIR proceedings home. And it always felt like a huge waste of paper.<br /><br />I heard Juan and Youngmoo talk about this idea a year ago in Vienna (at last year's ISMIR). I'm very happy to see that they found a solution that should make everyone happy.<br /><br />Juan writes in his email:<br /><i>We hope that you will like this new approach to printing the proceedings which we intend to be more cost effective, more convenient, and, with luck, more environmentally friendly than mass printing of proceedings for all attendees who may not wish to carry a printed copy around.</i><br /><br />Wonderful! :-)Eliasnoreply@blogger.comhttp://mir-research.blogspot.com/MIR Researchtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28898943152575951362008-08-27T23:16:22+00:00projectM-pulseaudiotag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://2.0017342008-08-27T22:30:59+00:00<div class="dark"><p>One of the nice things about using PulseAudio as a sound system is that you can easily plug visualisations into the chain - <a href="http://projectm.sourceforge.net/">projectM</a> has versions for input from both PulseAudio and JACK. There's <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=749793">a HOWTO on the Ubuntu forums</a> - use the latest released version rather than getting projectM through subversion.
<p>It's a slightly odd compilation: you have to create a folder, extract the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=104201">libprojectM, libprojectM-qt and projectM-pulseaudio</a> source archives into that folder, then compile them each in turn: <code>cmake .; make; sudo make install</code> (checkinstall doesn't seem to install all the presets, for some reason).
<p>Once it's installed, run projectM-pulseaudio and the visualisation should start up in a new window. Press 'm' to get to the menu: there are lots of options to tweak to get good, fullscreen performance.
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}Alf Eatonalf@hubmed.orghttp://hublog.hubmed.org/HubLogDROP ALL DATABASES;tag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://22008-08-28T15:48:43+00:00Digital Storage To Survive a 25-Year Dirt Nap?http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2119252&from=rss2008-08-27T22:12:00+00:00AlHunt writes "I've been tasked with finding a way to bury digitally stored photographs in a small underground time capsule to be opened in 25 years. It looks like we'll be using a steel vessel, welded closed. I've thought of CDs, DVDs, a hard drive, or a thumb drive — but they all have drawbacks, not the least of which is outdated technology 25 years from now. Maybe I'll put a CD and a CD-ROM drive in the capsule and hope that the IDE interface is still around in 25 years? Ideas and feedback will be appreciated."<p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2119252&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/2119252" /></a></p><p><a href="http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2119252&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=gxG28A"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=gxG28A" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376570379" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Au delà du logiciel...http://www.nojhan.net/geekscottes/982008-08-27T22:00:00+00:00<a title="Cliquez sur l'image pour le fichier source au format SVG." href="http://www.nojhan.net/geekscottes/./strips/geekscottes_097.svg">
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<p>Parfois, il faut savoir relativiser l'intérêt du logiciel, notamment du logiciel libre. Quoi de plus approprié pour ce faire qu'un projet libre ?
Et après ?<p>
<p>Licence : <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/</a><p>
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<a href="http://geekscottes.spreadshirt.net/fr/FR/Shop">Boutique</a></p></p></p></p>nojhannojhan@gmail.comhttp://www.nojhan.net/geekscottesGeekscottesDes miettes libreshttp://www.nojhan.net/geekscottes/rss.php2008-08-28T17:16:30+00:00Copyright nojhanPulseAudio voodootag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://2.17312008-08-27T21:38:55+00:00<p><a href="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">PulseAudio</a> is the default audio interface in Ubuntu. Somehow I managed to get it working with a reasonable latency (35msec — which isn't perfect, but it's a built-in Intel sound card — and no overruns).
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<p><a href="http://hublog.hubmed.org/archives/001731.html">Read the full post...</a></p></p></p>Alf Eatonalf@hubmed.orghttp://hublog.hubmed.org/HubLogDROP ALL DATABASES;tag:hublog.hubmed.org,2008://22008-08-28T15:48:43+00:00Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Machttp://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2046220&from=rss2008-08-27T21:16:00+00:00blackbearnh writes "It may make you feel very, very old, but the Macintosh will be turning 25 in January. As we approach this momentous anniversary, O'Reilly News had a talk with Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh designers, about the long and storied history of the Mac. Hertzfeld, who tells the story of the Mac in his book A Revolution in the Valley, shares his thoughts about how the Mac has aged over time, how life might have been different if Steve Jobs had stayed on at Apple, and the differences between working for Apple, and for Google (his current employer.)" Read on below for a bit of what Hertzfeld had to say.<p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2046220&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/2046220" /></a></p><p><a href="http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/2046220&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=ZozBwF"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=ZozBwF" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376526867" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Full Immersion Cooling Comes To Desktop PCshttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1930214&from=rss2008-08-27T20:28:00+00:00mr_sifter writes "After three years of research and around £100,000 of R&D costs, UK-based Armari has unveiled its XCP prototype. It's a full immersion liquid cooled PC which supports standard ATX components. Unlike conventional liquid cooled PCs, the components are all easy to swap in and out as they're swimming in liquid, rather than under waterblocks. It also looks amazing, pumping around 70KG of electrically inert cooling fluid (salvaged from an old Cray) around its military grade perspex shell."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1930214&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1930214" /></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1930214&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=2SvGWz"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=2SvGWz" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376492570" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Mozilla Labs' "Ubiquity" Helps Automate Web Interactionshttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1843222&from=rss2008-08-27T19:40:00+00:00Martin writes "Mozilla Labs have released a prototype version of the Firefox add-on Ubiquity. It is basically Launchy (the application launcher) for Firefox with the difference that Ubiquity makes use of web APIs and the Firefox browser. The official website contains examples, a command list, information about creating your own commands and of course the Ubiquity extension that is compatible with Firefox 3.x. Ubiquity can pull and send data to various services like Twitter, display, find and embed Google Maps, perform searches, write emails, add entries to the calendar, digg stories and more."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1843222&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1843222" /></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1843222&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=MZDP7h"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=MZDP7h" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376461190" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Corporate Gaming Is Good For Businesshttp://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/188247&from=rss2008-08-27T18:53:00+00:00The Economist is running a story about how gaming is on the rise in corporate environments, and how games are also becoming a popular tool for advertising. From internally developed games to commercial offerings to simply creating a framework in which employees can interact, game-based competitions and community building are leading to increased productivity, even for Fortune 500 companies. Quoting: "Take Microsoft's own experience. Before it releases a new version of its Windows operating system, it asks staff to help debug the software by installing and running the system. In the past, project managers had to spend a great deal of time and effort persuading busy Microsoftees to help them with this boring task. So for Windows Vista, the system's latest incarnation, Microsoft created a game that awarded points for bug-testing and prizes such as wristbands for achieving certain goals. Participation quadrupled."<p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/188247&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/188247" /></a></p><p><a href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/188247&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=Sj3iWV"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=Sj3iWV" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376423694" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.News: Marissa&#39;s Bunnyhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/08/27/marissas-bunny/2008-08-27T18:09:40+00:00Gabe : it went up kind of late so you might have missed me mentioning Marissa's Bunny yesterday. If you didn't see it you can follow this link and read the post.Well the bunny just showed up and made his way around the Penny Arcade office. He'll be heading off to PAX on Friday with an all access pass. I fully expect to see him crowd surfing during the Jonathan Coulton concert. -Gabe out<img src="http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/376383573" height="1" width="1" />Gabegabe@penny-arcade.comhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/Penny ArcadeNews Fucker 5000http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite/2008-08-28T04:48:06+00:00Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Penny Arcade, Inc.Capturing 3D Surfaces Simply With a Flash Camerahttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1734224&from=rss2008-08-27T18:02:00+00:00MojoKid writes with this excerpt from Hot Hardware (linking to a video demonstration): "Creating 3D maps and worlds can be extremely labor intensive and time consuming. Also, the final result might not be all that accurate or realistic. A new technique developed by scientists at The University of Manchester's School of Computer Science and Dolby Canada, however, might make capturing depth and textures for 3D surfaces as simple as shooting two pictures with a digital camera — one with flash and one without. First an image of a surface is captured without flash. The problem is that the different colors of a surface also reflect light differently, making it difficult to determine if the brightness difference is a function of depth or color. By taking a second photo with flash, however, the accurate colors of all visible portions of the surface can be captured. The two captured images essentially become a reflectance map (albedo) and a depth map (height field)."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1734224&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1734224" /></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1734224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=3V8CV7"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=3V8CV7" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376404103" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.News: BJ Sheahttp://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/08/27/bj-shea/2008-08-27T17:33:44+00:00Gabe : You might remember a few years back I got into a fight with a local radio show host named BJ Shea. Well he has since changed radio stations and apparently wants to bury the hatchet with me. He said on his show the other day that if I came back on he'd donate $1000.00 to Child's Play. I'll be on tomorrow morning at 7:25am PST. You can hear his show on 99.9 KISW here in Seattle. -Gabe out<img src="http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/376367244" height="1" width="1" />Gabegabe@penny-arcade.comhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/Penny ArcadeNews Fucker 5000http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite/2008-08-28T04:48:06+00:00Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Penny Arcade, Inc.LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Trackshttp://torrentfreak.com/?p=41942008-08-27T17:21:51+00:00<p>Most people know Limewire as the application that can be used to download music for free, but earlier this year, the Limewire team opened up their very own music store. Starting at $0.27, the Limewire store offers high quality, DRM-free MP3s, and today they added 1.2 million tracks to their library.</p>
<p><img src="http://torrentfreak.com/images/limewire-store.jpg" align="right" alt="limiwire store" />LimeWire is by far the most used filesharing application, with a market share of approximately 35%. Their popularity is <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/p2p-statistics-080426/">declining worldwide</a> - mostly due to the BitTorrent boom - but roughly 18% of all PCs worldwide still has the application installed.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, the company <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/limewire-store-beta-open-for-business-080317/">opened their <a href="http://www.store.limewire.com/">official music store</a></a>, which they have expanded ever since. Today LimeWire takes another step forward, as they announce the largest distribution deal since the store launched. They teamed up with “<a href="http://www.theorchard.com/">The Orchard</a>“, which distributes more than 1.2 million songs, mostly from Indie labels.</p>
<p>Greg Scholl, President and CEO of The Orchard, said in a response to the announcement: “We’re pleased to support the LimeWire store, a retail offering that protects copyrights while fairly compensating artists and labels. This exciting entrant to digital retail offers us a unique opportunity to connect our clients with an online audience of potentially millions of new customers.”</p>
<p>Tracks from the Limewire store are 256kbps DRM-free MP3s and cost $0.99 each. However, there are significant savings to be had with some of the subscription plans. The ‘Platinum’ plan offers the best price, offering 75 ‘Download Credits’ for $19.99 a month, which works out to $0.27 per track. ‘Download Credits’, which is more reasonable that most other stores.</p>
<p>The LimeWire store is linked to the filesharing client (hmmm), meaning that LimeWire users will see “buy now” offer in the search results. This does of course drive a lot of new customers to the store, but it’s also an interesting marketing opportunity for record labels. Still, most of the big labels are hesitant to partner with the store.</p>
<p>The LimeWire team has also added some new features such as radio playlist integration. Users can browse the playlists of radio stations in their area, with direct links to buy the songs. “We’re focused on features that will allow people to discover new music as well as interact on a different level with their existing favorites,” Jason Pelzer, the LimeWire store Technical Director told TorrentFreak. </p>
<p><strong>Playlist integration.</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://torrentfreak.com/images/limewire-radio.jpg" alt="limewire radio" /></p>
<p>“LimeWire Store development has been running at full speed to provide a number of exciting new features, and we are enjoying the opportunity to improve our user community’s experience via the feedback they’ve provided,” he added.</p>
<p>One of the major downsides of the <a href="http://www.store.limewire.com/">Limewire store</a> is that it’s only available to US customers, due to licensing issues. In a way it’s also strange that the download store named after and developed by a P2P company, doesn’t use P2P to distribute their content. Other than that, the service looks like a good alternative to most of the music stores that are currently out there.</p>
<p>This is an article from: <a href="http://torrentfreak.com">TorrentFreak</a></p>
<p><a href="http://torrentfreak.com/?p=4194">LimeWire Music Store Adds 1.2 Million Tracks</a></p>
<p><a href="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~a/Torrentfreak?a=3eAGsR"><img src="http://feed.torrentfreak.com/~a/Torrentfreak?i=3eAGsR" border="0" /></a></p>TorrentFreakhttp://torrentfreak.comTorrentFreakTorrent News, Torrent Sites and the latest Scoopshttp://feed.torrentfreak.com/Torrentfreak/2008-08-28T12:30:47+00:00Zero Day Threathttp://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1257230&from=rss2008-08-27T17:10:00+00:00Ben Rothke writes "Zero Day Threat: the Shocking Truth of How Banks and Credit Bureaus Help Cyber Crooks Steal Your Money and Identity is an interesting and eye-opening look at how banks and credit card companies make ID theft and fraud rather elementary. But with all that, this book must be read in the larger context of how today's society deals with, and is often oblivious to, risk. When is comes to risk, American society tolerates tens of thousands of drunk-driving deaths, gives millions in federal tobacco subsidies, and is oblivious about near-epidemics such as heart disease, obesity, and diabetes. With all that, it is doubtful that the myriad horror stories Zero Day Threat details will persuade Congress or the other players to do anything to curtail the problem with identity theft and internet fraud." Keep reading for the rest of Ben's review.<p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1257230&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1257230" /></a></p><p><a href="http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1257230&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=K6va4c"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=K6va4c" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376345444" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Questions and Answers: The Desktop and The Webhttp://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/08/27/questions-and-answers-the-desktop-and-the-web/2008-08-27T16:46:18+00:00<p><a href="http://myopenlink.net/dataspace/person/kidehen#this">Kingsley Idehen </a>made an interesting blog post recently in a question and answer format (see his blog post: “<a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/dataspace/kidehen@openlinksw.com/weblog/kidehen@openlinksw.com%27s%20BLOG%20%5B127%5D/1415">The future of the desktop</a>“), so i’ve decided to provide my own answers:</p>
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<p><cite>Q: Is the desktop of the future going to just be a web-hosted version of the same old-fashioned desktop metaphors we have today?</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: In terms of becoming web-based the desktop as we know it will not change much at the very surface level. I doubt that a web-hosted version of the old-fashioned Operating System would ever be stable enough (some of you will know if you’ve ever used a “</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumb_terminal#Dumb_terminal">dumb-terminal</a>“). The Operating System, however, is likely to become more and more web-aware; taking up more and more of the challenge of “Web Universal Plug and Play”.</p>
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<p><cite>Q: The desktop of the future is going to be a hosted web service</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: False. I think it’ll be totally the inverse, I’m even inclined to say that everybody would host their own space which is interconnected with other services across the web…. it won’t be a “hosted web service”.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The Browser is Going to Swallow Up the Desktop</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: Interestingly this is where Microsoft were heading in the right direction… the file system explorer was also the internet explorer, just by changing the location in the address bar you were capable of switching from file mode to web mode. (takes quite a lot for me to admit that). If you have a fully integrated system then you can take full advantage of everything. The web of documents, is a web of documents…. what are file systems good at manipulating… documents (and also viewing metadata)! So is the browser going to swallow up the desktop? No… it already has.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The focus of the desktop will shift from <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Information" id="link-id1667e2e0">information</a> to attention</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: No information is vital…. attention will become an interesting part of search, but it’s actually has to maximise utilisation of information (aka knowledge) in order to do it’s best (just as any other program needs to do). This effects both desktop systems and browser systems.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: Users are going to shift from acting as librarians to acting as daytraders</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: People are always going to categorise things, and other people will always want things categorised. How can you expect someone to trawl through their bookmarks without them being categorised? However, things will become more automised when interlinked with other interlinked data…. therefore users are likely to become Personalised Knowledge Managers controlling what knowledge they possess and how they want their intelligent agents to deal with it.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The Webtop will be more social and will leverage and integrate collective intelligence</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: OK, first off… really bad terminology usage going on here. Webtop? That’s a bad name… and for something which I don’t think will become widespread. Also collective intelligence is actually about agents having specific knowledge. The web-aware desktop will slowly include more and more agent technology (see some of the Apple/Xerox work on Intelligent Agents and Intelligent User Interfaces done in the late 80s and early 90s) and will certainly encorporate </p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> technologies (see the <a href="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/">Semantic Desktop</a> and <a href="http://www.openlinksw.com/vos/main/Main/Ods">OpenLink Data Spaces</a>).</p>
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<p><cite>Q: The desktop of the future is going to have powerful semantic search and social search capabilities built-in</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: Yes, I’ve mentioned this in most of my answers above.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite> Q: Interactive shared spaces will replace folders</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: I agree with Kingsley when he says “Data Spaces and their URIs (Data Source Names) replace everything. You simply choose the exploration metaphor that best suits you space interaction needs”… there is nothing more to say than that…. a URI is the key to a data space, a data space is where your data objects are stored which also have their own URIs.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The Portable Desktop</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A:The portable desktop (or ubiquitous desktop) will emerge as a mobilisation of a Linked Data desktop…. all depends on hardware at the moment. This will go beyond mobile phones, mobile computers (such as the Asus EEE) and PDA’s.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The Smart Desktop</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: Yes, this is what I’ve been discussing.</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: Federated, open policies and permissions</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: Have we not got the technologies for these points already <img src="http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" class="wp-smiley" /> </p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: The personal cloud</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: Can’t add anything more to Kingsley’s point “</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/OpenLink_Data_Spaces" id="link-id104ba580">Personal Data Spaces</a> plugged into Clouds (<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Intranet" id="link-id15bbb970">Intranet</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Extranet" id="link-id1026d6b0">Extranet</a>, <a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Internet" id="link-id140508c8">Internet</a>).”</p>
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<p><cite>Q: The WebOS</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: There are some interesting implementations of the WebOS idea out there, and a few years I was actually considering building one using Ruby On Rails and AJAX….. really we don’t need to focus on this right now, it’s more about interlinking things (aka Linked Data)</p></blockquote>
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<p><cite>Q: Who is most likely to own the future desktop?</cite></p>
<blockquote><p>A: I have nothing more to add to Kingsley’s comment: “You! And all you need is a </p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Uniform_Resource_Identifier" id="link-id106b79e8">URI</a> (an ID or Data Source Name for “<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id133c88a0">Entity</a> You”) and a Profile Page (a place where “<a href="http://dbpedia.org/resource/Entity" id="link-id15fa8060">Entity</a> You” is Describe by You).”</p>Daniel's Bloghttp://vanirsystems.com/danielsblogDaniel's BlogA technological, personal, spiritual, and academic blog.http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/feed/2008-08-28T12:48:21+00:00News: PAX 2008!http://www.penny-arcade.com/2008/08/27/pax-2008/2008-08-27T16:37:47+00:00Gabe : PAX is almost upon us and I just have one last post to make. We've got some cool PAX related swag this year that I wanted to let you know about.First up is this set of custom consoles. The second place winner in the Omegathon this year will receive a set of these. First place will also get them along with their trip to the Tokyo Game show. Next up is this limited edition PAX Razer mouse. Only 400 of these will ever be made and they will be available for $60 at the PAX booth in the exhibition hall. ...<img src="http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/~r/pa-mainsite/~4/376332194" height="1" width="1" />Gabegabe@penny-arcade.comhttp://www.penny-arcade.com/Penny ArcadeNews Fucker 5000http://feeds.penny-arcade.com/pa-mainsite/2008-08-28T04:48:06+00:00Copyright (c) 1998-2008 Penny Arcade, Inc.Google Tests Custom Highlights, Comments In Searchhttp://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1531241&from=rss2008-08-27T16:21:00+00:00Ian Lamont writes "Google is testing functionality that lets users tinker with query results by re-ranking them and commenting on them. The reason for the commenting feature: 'We're just curious to see how it will be used,' according to a Google engineer quoted in the article. The company has posted screenshots of some of the experiments, which also involve highlighting certain results as well as stems and synonyms within results. Google declined to answer any questions about the experiments, and it's not known whether Google would factor the rearranging of results by users into the overall computation for ranking results for those specific queries. It's also not clear whether search result comments would be made available to anyone to read."<p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1531241&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1531241" /></a></p><p><a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1531241&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=k22zJT"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=k22zJT" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376324552" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UKhttp://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1521248&from=rss2008-08-27T15:30:00+00:00Wills writes "Apple has been running an iPhone ad saying 'all parts of the internet are on the iPhone', but it had to be withdrawn after Britain's Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it gave 'a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone' because the iPhone cannot access Flash or Java – features that are essential to some websites. This raises an interesting issue of where do you draw the line between essential and non-essential features of websites. What should the web look like? Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?"<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1521248&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1521248" /></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1521248&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=R5LdjO"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=R5LdjO" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376285848" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.A 'foaf' command for Mozilla Labs' Ubiquity commandline UIhttp://danbri.org/2008/ubisg/2008-08-27T15:03:11+00:00<b>danbri:</b> For now this simply calls Google SGAPI. It could easily poke other sources, including the URLs that the SGAPI returns.<br /><b>danbri:</b> To install, add the Ubiquity extension (see User Guide), and invoke command-editor by typing alt or ctrl with space and 'command-editor'. For now, paste the javascript into the textarea.<br /><b>danbri:</b> There's a bug in Ubiquity which means you can only install this way for now. Eventually you can subscribe to the commands from the ui at top of page (it spots a link/rel in the page)<br /><br />
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00RjDj - interactive music for the iPhonehttp://blogs.sun.com/plamere/entry/rjdj_interactive_music_for_the2008-08-27T14:58:25+00:00This looks real fun. <a href="http://www.rjdj.me">RjDj</a> is a music application for the iPhone. It uses sensory input to generate and control the music you are listening to. It is not released yet .. but there's a <a href="http://www.rjdj.me/private-beta-signup/">private beta</a> that you can sign up for.
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<p> </p>Duke Listens!http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/Duke Listens!On the stairway to the Celestial Jukebox - a blog by <a href="http://research.sun.com/people/mybio.php?c=45">Paul Lamere</a>http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/feed/entries/rss2008-08-27T20:30:49+00:00Copyright 2008HTML4ever or: the next logical stephttp://news.oreilly.com/2008/08/html4ever-or-the-next-logical.html2008-08-27T14:48:30+00:00<b>mhausenblas:</b> my 2c re the ongoing HTML5-and-related discussion<br /><br />
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<i>(2008-08-27 14:24)</i></a>Semantic Web Interest Group Scratchpadhttp://swig.xmlhack.com/Semantic Web Interest Group ScratchpadSemantic Web Interest Group IRC scratchpad where items mentioned and
commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Nvidia Firmly Denies Plans To Build a CPUhttp://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1357211&from=rss2008-08-27T14:39:00+00:00Barence writes "A senior vice president of Nvidia has denied rumours that the company is planning an entry into the x86 CPU market. Speaking to PC Pro, Chris Malachowsky, another co-founder and senior vice president, was unequivocal. 'That's not our business,' he insisted. 'It's not our business to build a CPU. We're a visual computing company, and I think the reason we've survived the other 35 companies who were making graphics at the start is that we've stayed focused.' He also pointed out that such a move would expose the company to fierce competition. 'Are we likely to build a CPU and take out Intel?' he asked. 'I don't think so, given their thirty-year head start and billions and billions of dollars invested in it. I think staying focused is our best strategy.' He was also dismissive of the threat from Intel's Larrabee architecture, following Nvidia's chief architect calling it a 'GPU from 2006' at the weekend."<p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1357211&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1357211" /></a></p><p><a href="http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1357211&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=Rh4h1g"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=Rh4h1g" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376240116" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.CrunchBase Interview - bengeehttp://bnode.org/blog/2008/08/27/crunchbase-interview2008-08-27T14:02:02+00:00<br />
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commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Make your Data Web Friendlyhttp://www.w3.org/QA/2008/08/make-web-friendly-data-rdfa.html2008-08-27T14:02:02+00:00<br />
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<i>(2008-08-27 13:36)</i></a>Semantic Web Interest Group Scratchpadhttp://swig.xmlhack.com/Semantic Web Interest Group ScratchpadSemantic Web Interest Group IRC scratchpad where items mentioned and
commented on in IRC get collected.http://swig.xmlhack.com/index.rss2008-08-28T17:16:44+00:00Space Cube &ndash; the World's Smallest Linux PChttp://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1334214&from=rss2008-08-27T13:47:00+00:00Barence writes "Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end, which the blogger takes a look at, and there are some great photos of the device being loomed over by everyday objects like coffee mugs and cellphones. It has connections for controlling various electronics used by ESA, NASA and JAXA, but it will also apparently be for sale to the public soon, for use by amateur engineers and robotics clubs."<p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1334214&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1334214" /></a></p><p><a href="http://mobile.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1334214&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=rGKgst"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=rGKgst" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376201661" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Computer Virus Aboard the ISShttp://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1231224&from=rss2008-08-27T12:54:00+00:00chrb writes "BBC News is reporting that laptops taken to the International Space Station by NASA astronauts are infected with the Gammima.AG worm. The laptops have no net connection; officials suspect the worm may have been transferred via a USB flash drive owned by an astronaut. NASA have said this isn't the first time computer viruses had travelled into space."<p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1231224&from=rss"><img src="http://slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rss&op=image&style=h0&sid=08/08/27/1231224" /></a></p><p><a href="http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1231224&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashdot.</p>
<p><a href="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?a=JhHID4"><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~a/Slashdot/slashdot?i=JhHID4" border="0" /></a></p><img src="http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~4/376182990" height="1" width="1" />Slashdothttp://slashdot.org/SlashdotNews for nerds, stuff that mattershttp://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot2008-08-28T17:01:17+00:00Copyright 1997-2008, SourceForge, Inc. All Rights Reserved.Various bits of news (late August 2008)http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/2008/08/27/various-bits-of-news-late-august-2008/2008-08-27T12:35:38+00:00<p><strong>Greenbelt 2008</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenbelt.org.uk/festival/2008/">Greenbelt festival 2008</a> was really fantastically good! <a href="http://www.spearheadvibrations.com/">Michael Franti & Spearhead</a> are an awesome band, as are <a href="http://www.aradhnamusic.com/">Aradhna</a>. Plus my church (<a href="http://foundationbristol.org/">Foundation Bristol</a>) did a fantastic service where they told the story about the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Babel">Tower of Babel</a> using some funky music and interesting visuals (it was quite “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media">New Media</a>” style and “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerging_church">Emerging</a>“) (”To Confuse is to Liberate!”). I actually feel more enlightened after the whole weekend, and Beki and I have booked our tickets for Greenbelt 2009 and are even thinking about running our own event!</p>
<p>At the event I bought a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo">didgeridoo</a> and a Peruvian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocarina">Ocarina</a>. I also learnt how to sing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiz%C3%A9_Community">Taize</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Community">Iona</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_chant">Gregorian</a> Chants and Songs.</p>
<p><strong>Linked Data SemanticBible</strong></p>
<p>Development of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data">Linked Data</a> version of the <a href="http://semanticbible.openlinksw.com/about/">SemanticBible</a> is going well, and a big thank you to <a href="http://semanticbible.com/">Sean Boisen of semanticbible.com</a> for assisting us with various things. I’ll be working on hooking the ontologies in with various other ontologies around the Linked Data Cloud.</p>
<p><strong>Fishes</strong></p>
<p>It seems like two of my <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oranda">oranda</a> fish are “getting it on”… having lots of little baby fish is going to be quite scary. Not sure what I’ll do with them!</p>
<p><strong>Hospital</strong></p>
<p>I went to hospital this morning for my Dilated Cardiomyopathy (for the first time in Bristol), they took 7 tubes of blood out of me, gave me an ECG. They are also going to book me in for an Echocardiogram appointment and potentially a treadmill, they will also be sending me a week-long heart monitor device. Also, rather unfortunately, I’ve got to double up on my Bisoprolol (a beta-blocker) which means that I’m going to probably experience some periods of fatigue while I get used to the new dosage <img src="http://vanirsystems.com/danielsblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif" alt=":-(" class="wp-smiley" /> </p>
<p><strong>Bristol Knowledge Unconference</strong></p>
<p>Bristol Knowledge Unconference organisation is going really really well. I sent out a few emails to people on the registration list this morning, letting them know a bit more about the style and organisation of the event. And I&#