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  Technology: Google Launches Lively, an Avatar Based 3D World 2008-07-09 08:38

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday July 09, @08:38AM
from the get-a-first-life dept.
no.good.at.coding writes "Google has launched a Windows-only, in-browser (you need to install a client first, though) 3D avatar world — Lively — that you can embed in websites and use to interact with other people. It's not as expansive as Second Life yet, but expect things to get better."
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 [+] story, tech, google, wtf, windowsonly, porn, getafirstlife

  Technology: First Ethernet Switch In Space 2008-06-14 10:48

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday June 14, @10:48AM
from the iss-lan-party-arrives dept.
Rebecca will you marry me? writes "The ESA's Columbus laboratory module was added to the International Space Station in February, but Hewlett-Packard has only now chosen to reveal that the LAN onboard Columbus uses a ProCurve 2524 switch." HP admits it was the "most unusual and demanding" project ProCurve has done yet.
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 [+] story, tech, networking, hardware, hp, space, yesyesyes

  Linux: Nokia Urges Linux Developers To Be Cool With DRM 2008-06-13 08:52

Posted by kdawson on Friday June 13, @08:52AM
from the unclear-on-the-concept dept.
superglaze writes in to note that according to Nokia's software chief, its plans for open source include getting developers to accept things like DRM, commercial IP rights, and SIM locks. "Jaaksi admitted that concepts like these 'go against the open-source philosophy,' but said they were necessary components of the current mobile industry. 'Why do we need closed vehicles? We do,' he said. 'Some of these things harm the industry but they're here [as things stand]. These are touchy, emotional issues, but this dialogue is very much needed. As an industry, we plan to use open-source technologies, but we are not yet ready to play by the rules; but this needs to work the other way round too.'"

  Ask Slashdot: F/OSS Multi-Point Video-Conferencing 2008-05-18 12:19

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday May 18, @12:19PM
from the and-what-about-those-flying-cars dept.
DarkSarin writes "Given that solutions like iChat can seamlessly video-conference for multiple parties on the Mac, and that others are semi-commercial, like Oovoo (which recently left beta and is no longer free for more than 3-way calls), what do you recommend in terms of a F/OSS solution to a need for moderate-sized video-conferencing? Ideally, it would be something which does not use a web-page and does not require hours of configuration. iChat is insanely easy to use. Mebeam.com is also quite simple to operate, but requires so much screen real estate that it can't easily be used in conjunction with any other software. Referring to other documents while in the middle of the conference is nice, but it's important to have the reactions of the other participants — and not everyone has multiple monitors. I am aware of projects like vmukti and services like ustream.tv, but I am thinking more in terms of a stand-alone application that is F/OSS (Ekiga/GnomeMeeting comes to mind, but it does not do multi-point video chat unless one also has access to an H.323 gateway, which is apparently non-trivial to implement). With the prevalence of broadband connections, I am surprised that a solid effort is missing for making easy, painless multi-point video-conferencing for more than 3 or 4 connections (which seems to be the most that a lot of 'free' solutions offer, or even the low-cost ones). So, my question is two-fold: First, why isn't there a better effort at medium to large video-conferencing that pretty much anyone can set up? Second, do you know of any F/OSS applications which work well and support a minimum of 6 to 8 connected parties?"
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 [+] story, askslashdot, communications, ekiga, foss, itsnoichat, getamac

  Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Build a Searchable Document Index? 2007-10-01 17:36

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday October 01 2007, @05:36PM
from the build-a-better-boss-trap dept.
Blinocac writes "I am organizing the IT documentation for the agency I work for, and we would like to make a searchable document index that would render results based on meta tags placed in the documents, which include everything from Word files, HTML, Excel, Access, and PDF's." What methods or tools have others seen that work? Anything to avoid?
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 [+] story, askslashdot, software, spotlight, swish, beagle, grep

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