Comment This explains a lot (Score 1) 156
Like why I can't seem to be able to tan at all...
Submission + - Matt Cutts offers $2000 for app's for Kinect (mattcutts.com)
Glubbdrubb writes: Google's Matt Cutts is offering $2000 for applications of the Kinect driver released by the Hector Martín Cantero for adafruit.
From Matt's blog:
"I want to kickstart neat projects, so I’m starting my own contest with $2000 in prizes. There are two $1000 prizes. The first $1000 prize goes to the person or team that writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second prize goes to the person or team that does the most to make it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux."
From Matt's blog:
"I want to kickstart neat projects, so I’m starting my own contest with $2000 in prizes. There are two $1000 prizes. The first $1000 prize goes to the person or team that writes the coolest open-source app, demo, or program using the Kinect. The second prize goes to the person or team that does the most to make it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux."
Submission + - Fedora To Ditch X.Org, To Bring Wayland F15 Onward (digitizor.com)
dkd903 writes: Last week Mark Shuttleworth announced plans for Ubuntu to move away from X towards Wayland. Granted it is a long a time away, but a lot of people commended Canonical for such an important decision, which can potentially take desktop Linux to the next level (graphics wise).
Well here is more good news, from Red Hat this time. In a post in the Fedora mailing list, Adam Jackson of Red Hat, has said that Fedora will eventually switch to Wayland. Like Shuttleworth, he also said that Wayland is not stable enough and did not put an exact time frame. However, he said that Wayland might be packaged in Fedora 15 for developers to play around with it.
Well here is more good news, from Red Hat this time. In a post in the Fedora mailing list, Adam Jackson of Red Hat, has said that Fedora will eventually switch to Wayland. Like Shuttleworth, he also said that Wayland is not stable enough and did not put an exact time frame. However, he said that Wayland might be packaged in Fedora 15 for developers to play around with it.
Comment There is always this option... (Score 1) 421
Submission + - Unrealiable GPRS network breaking FTP, help?
Glubbdrubb writes: I run a network of 50 plus nodes all connected via a patchy, inconsistent cell based GPRS/Edge network. We use vsFTP to receive and send files to and from each node, one at a time. The problem occurs when the data transfer slows down to a point where the FTP session won't time out but still stalls in the middle of a transfer. I tried changing the session time-out and idle time-out values but I can't find a balance where valid sessions aren't closed down and stalled sessions are. The only solution I think of is a replacement for FTP itself. Any suggestions?
Comment It is about time (Score 1) 1
The autisitic have always been known to be briliant in there own fields.
It makes sense that someone would do this.
I for one welcome our Autistic Overlords
Comment Well (Score 1) 2
It is about time.
Comment Well in South Africa... (Score 1) 334
We have basically have 2 television broadcasters: The national broadcaster SABC (which is free) and a private satalite based system DSTV (+- 80$).
More and more local content is being made and is being broadcast mainly by SABC. It is mostly rubbish. DSTV, however licenses a bunch of American and British channels and content.
Due to the terrible state of broadband here (I wish I could get 50 GB a month. It is more like 3 GB on average.), watching TV is the only sustainable method of content delivery (that and leaching at lan parties).
Comment Processing.org (Score 1) 180
It is a language (based on Java) made for this sort of thing. Made together with one of the guys who wrote "Visualizing Data" (Ben Fry). It is fun to play with too.
