JonathanBrickman0000 - Slashdot User

Comment: Build a virtual PC on Rackspace (Score 1) 403

by JonathanBrickman0000 on Saturday July 03 2010, @02:56PM (#32787324) Attached to: Tunneling Under the Great Firewall?

Build a virtual PC on Rackspace, whichever OS you wish, Fedora or Windows Server 2008 R2 among several others, and remote to it. A dollar a day buys you a whole lot of power, and you can buy it by the day.

Gnome to Split Off from GNU Project?-> 0

Submitted by blozza2070 on Friday December 11 2009, @09:39PM

blozza2070 writes "According to a recent posting from Philip Van Hoof, he suggests that Gnome split off from the GNU Project and proposes a vote. He has been informed he will need 5% of members to agree for there to be a vote put forth. At the same time David Schlesinger (on the Gnome Advisory Board) has agreed on a vote. Stormy Peters claims she doesn’t agree with this but then gives everyone instructions on how to achieve this goal. She mentions that roughly 20 members are needed to agree."
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What is the state of Linux security DVR Software? 0

Submitted by StonyCreekBare on Friday December 11 2009, @07:43PM

StonyCreekBare writes "I am wondering what slashdotters have to offer on the idea of Linux based security systems, especially DVR software. I am aware of Zoneminder, but wonder what else is out there? Are there applications that will not only monitor video cameras, but motion sensors and contact closure alarms? What is state of the art in this area, and how do the various Linux platforms stack up in comparison to dedicated embedded solutions? Will these "play nice" with other software, such as Asterisk, and Misterhouse? Can one server host three or four services applications of this nature, assuming CPU/memory/disk resources are sufficient?"

GNOME dev proposes vote on split from GNU Project-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2009, @05:35PM

An anonymous reader writes "A senior member of the GNOME Desktop Project has proposed that the project hold a vote on whether it should remain a part of the GNU Project."
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Comment: Rigorous media player reviews (Score 1) 488

by JonathanBrickman0000 on Saturday April 04 2009, @01:43PM (#27458797) Attached to: VLC 0.9.9, The Best Media Player Just Got Better

eball wrote just now of the Combined Community Codec Pack, and on a page on their site is the only set of API-level media player reviews I have ever found. I have been looking for this a very long time, they are covering all of the Windows comprehensive media players I've used. The reviews all start at the API level, and I hope that some more Windows developers out there start to work to the standards recommended; if they do, things will get much better.

Gaboogie Conference Service runs on Open Source-> 0

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mrtaylor

on Thursday August 02 2007, @06:27PM

mrtaylor writes "The Gaboogie Mobile and Group Conference service is based on open source products: from the operating system running on the servers (CentOS) to the primary programming language (Ruby) to the actual devices doing the switching and routing (FreeSwitch)

Many of the features in Gaboogie are familiar to anyone who uses a conference calling server, but a lot of them are innovative and make the service very nice to use.

http://gaboogie.com/"
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A decentralized myspace to filter spam?

Submitted by

JonathanBrickman0000

on Monday May 14 2007, @09:36PM

JonathanBrickman0000 writes "Just recently got onto myspace, am enjoying, but just now read about the growing spam problem. The most significant downside, it seems to me, is the centralization of it all on one server farm, one platform, one database. Mightn't it be better to do this using a more distributed technology? Perhaps a way to squirt enough webapp code (could be multilingual, Perl and PHP and server-side Java and Ruby and anything else that can support the APIs) onto three or four different major web-server architectures, to allow us to weld our own $10/month web spaces on tens of thousands of different servers, into one coherent whole which we all independently control most carefully for our own benefit and the benefit of all. And then when we have such a distributed setup, all of us participating make money exactly the way MySpace does, to the limit of the capacity of the web space we are either renting or owning.

Not entirely unlike IRC in distributed nature, but MySpace-like instead, and using unspecialized hardware and software, both rented space and owned servers, with real income-production potential.

Anyone care to try?"

OSS for medical records?

Submitted by

JonathanBrickman0000

on Friday April 27 2007, @08:15AM

JonathanBrickman0000 writes "I help keep a network for a small poorly-funded medical clinic for persons without health insurance, which currently runs 27 workstations and three servers, for two different locations linked with bargain-basement DSL. It's all Windows, 2K on the servers and XP on the clients. The current medical records platform is a very proprietary FoxPro-based product, whose developers promise lots of options and usually do not deliver. If I touch that FoxPro myself, even to build a basic custom query/report, I void the contract. We want better. We need accounts receivable, doctor/patient/clinic scheduling, automatic drug pricing, and automatic drug-manufacturer-submission forms creation. Recommendations?"