Comment: You are not alone (Score 4, Insightful) 53
Right on!
FYI Another "Working Computer Museum" up since about 15 years in Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, nearby Siracusa,
privately run by volunteers and collectors: http://museum.dyne.org/
(website in Italian and some english, remote access to computers offered via telnet and ssh)
Definitely the way to go. Wait another 20 years and we'll all be establishment :^)
FYI Another "Working Computer Museum" up since about 15 years in Palazzolo Acreide, Sicily, nearby Siracusa,
privately run by volunteers and collectors: http://museum.dyne.org/
(website in Italian and some english, remote access to computers offered via telnet and ssh)
Definitely the way to go. Wait another 20 years and we'll all be establishment
+ - The Bitcoin conference this weekend in London->
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jaromil writes "The 2nd Bitcoin conference is taking place in the City of London next weekend. No live-stream planned, but video recordings of several talks will be published on-line. The line-up of speakers includes RMS, TV host Max Keiser, Icelandic MEP Birgitta Jónsdóttir and several Bitcoin developers."
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Comment: try also KMyMoney (Score 1) 195
on KDE there is this pretty good open source alternative to gnu-cash
I find it more intuitive
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
also make sure your bank's ledgers export is supported by some of the plugins in AQbanking
I find it more intuitive
http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/
also make sure your bank's ledgers export is supported by some of the plugins in AQbanking
Comment: Tonight in Brooklyn (Score 1) 398
For those in the near, the speakers are worth hearing: http://canopycanopycanopy.com/programs/60
+ - Running Tor on your TV->
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jaromil writes "TorTV is an early effort to embed Tor in household computing: run it on your TV at home. So far only WDTV installed with the homebrew WDLXTV firmware is supported. What other platforms do you think are viable for it?"
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+ - Inside Amazon's Warehouse->
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jaromil writes "The Morning Call interviewed 20 current and former Amazon warehouse workers who offered a behind-the-scenes glimpse of what it's like to work in there. This investigative journalism piece debunks some frightening aspects on labor conditions for the IT business corporation, "They're killing people mentally and phisically" an ex-worker declared."
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+ - dyne:bolic 3.0.0 "MUNIR" released-> 1
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jaromil writes "We've hit slashdot for more reasons than a simple release in the past, yet it might be worth to know that, after 5 years of inactivity, a new development campaign has started for dyne:bolic GNU/Linux, one of the earliest 100% free distributions vetted by the FSF. As it was for dyne:II there will be new and unseen "LiveOS" features coming out during the dyne:III development cycle which should last 3 or 4 years from now. There is a shiny new website to document them and here is the release announcement. Ciao."
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+ - Debian 6 out now->
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jaromil writes "Debian/GNU comes with Linux and FreeBSD kernels and is developed by a huge yet coordinated amount of people: it is much more than an operating system, it is a universe :) indeed, that's also what says Debian's brand new website.
Hacker crowds across the planet are now joining a global standing ovation clapping hands in front of screens, do it and join the online sensation now! but be careful in case you are reading this on your handheld: don't let it drop in enthusiasm!"
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Hacker crowds across the planet are now joining a global standing ovation clapping hands in front of screens, do it and join the online sensation now! but be careful in case you are reading this on your handheld: don't let it drop in enthusiasm!"
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+ - Charter for Innovation, Creativity and A2K->
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sTeF writes "More than 100 specialists from 20 different countries participated last week in the Culture Forum of Barcelona and created an international coalition to urge respect for the civil rights of citizens and artists in the digital era.
The Charter will be presented to more than 1000 political institutions and governments, including WIPO, the Obama administration, the European Commission and many national governments. Some of these organizations have already shown an interest in listening to the demands. Representatives of the European Commission and official observers from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, among others, were present during the approval of the Charter."
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The Charter will be presented to more than 1000 political institutions and governments, including WIPO, the Obama administration, the European Commission and many national governments. Some of these organizations have already shown an interest in listening to the demands. Representatives of the European Commission and official observers from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture, among others, were present during the approval of the Charter."
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Comment: Scriptable video compositing and interaction (Score 1) 500
FYI: freej 1.0 will be released in July, it is a vision mixer engine (2d) with a javascript interpreter (xulrunner) and python bindings
http://freej.dyne.org/
+ - Research on Brain-computer interface->
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jaromil writes "BrainGate, an investigational technology being developed to detect brain signals and to allow people with paralysis to use those signals to control assistive devices, is about to begin a second, larger clinical trial. The system is based on neuroscience, engineering and computer science research at Brown University."
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Comment: Re:FREEEEE (Score 1) 466
Actually FREEEEE was done by BLAG's developer Jebba, i guess the guitar piece is something he play with friends in his garage
We were highly enthusiastic about this device since the early beginning, FREEEEE was born with the intention to deploy the linux-libre kernel on the device
FREEEEE currently works with BLAG and Fedora-9 packages (I'm using it on my 900 eee), but is not actively mantained as we don't have so much time for it. Also the website is down.. yes we know
ciao
Comment: Re:Film at 11... (Score 1) 876
In the meantime, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
well said, but...
most electronic devices are crippled by protection to reuse them, like DRM, Trusted Computing and however you like to call what was there even before they invented those terms.
Comment: poor choice for a contemporary RTS game... (Score 2, Informative) 148
the Balanced Annihilation mod really lets you enjoy strategy to a decent level of detail, while slashdot readers should really have a look at the geeky Kernel Panic mod
cheers from XXX
with due rezpect to LAP, eXe and others