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An Open Source Coffee Machine 99

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @02:56PM from the quite-entirely-unlike-tea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Source Coffee Machine [video link] is a recycled coffee machine, controlled by a PC running Beremiz, and using some MicroMod CANopen I/O nodes from Peak-System. This machine have been prepared by Peak-System and Lolitech for SCS-Paris-08 exhibition. It served free coffee during four days at Peak-System's booth, and has been donated to IUT of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France, so that students can have fun practicing automation."

Sun's Mickos Is OK With Monty's MySQL 5.1 Rant 155

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 08, 2008 @09:11PM from the say-what-you-want dept.

narramissic writes "Back on November 29, MySQL developer Michael Widenius trashed Sun's decision to give MySQL 5.1 a 'generally available' designation in a now-infamous blog post. Widenius warned users to be 'very cautious about MySQL 5.1' because 'there are still many known and unknown fatal bugs in the new features that are still not addressed.' And now we get Sun's response. In an interview Monday, Marten Mickos, senior VP of Sun's database group, said, 'I learned over many years about the benefits and the painfulness of absolute transparency in open source. A little bit of debate never hurts. This is part of being an open-source company. ... People are free to blog about what they want.' Doubtless, this will do nothing to end the debate over whether Widenius will follow fellow MySQL co-founder David Axmark's lead and leave Sun."

Comment As if this will be the last DVD set... (Score 0) 530

by ian_ian on Tuesday July 06, 2004 @01:01PM (#9623017) Attached to: Ten-disc 'Matrix' DVD Box Set Planned

We've seen it before *COUGHGeorgeLucas*:

This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back.

You keep the normal DVD -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed with your wallet intact and believe whatever normal plotline you want to believe.
You buy the Kajunga-Extended-DVD -- you stay in "I just gotta see every cut scene ever" -Land and I show you how deep the money-hole goes.

:/

...why oh why didn't I keep my 44.99 pounds sterling?

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