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Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC 91

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday August 12, 2008 @01:31AM from the rock-you-in-the-head dept.

Engadget has pointed out a small band of people even we can consider nerdy that decided to cut loose and demo CERN's fancy new toy, the Large Hadron Collider. The resulting music video is certainly enough to "rock you in the head," and maybe even enough to cause a rip in space-time. Between Alpinekat and Dr Spatzo, I think my iPod just got a new entry.

Comment Real advice (Score 4, Insightful) 210

by djmitche on Monday May 12, 2008 @11:46AM (#23378944) Attached to: Recruitment Options For a Small-Scale FOSS Project?

I don't see anyone giving actual, useful advice here. I face similar problems with Amanda, and so far my solutions have been to lower the barriers to entry and to encourage users to increase their investment in supporting the product. I've tried to lower barriers by

writing better developer-level documentation
providing a list of "starter projects"
giving talks and webinars about Amanda's internals
rewriting parts of the application in a more accessible language (Perl)
making myself highly available for answers and advice

I've tried to increase investment by

prominently displaying the names of contributors in ChangeLog, NEWS, etc.
asking users to become "official" supporters (platform experts)
requesting testing from specific people, rather than sending blanket "everyone please test this" emails
asking users to donate processor cycles to automatic testing (this is still in the works)

Comment Re:Why would we expect anything else? (Score 1) 341

by ondasmom on Monday September 18, 2006 @03:55PM (#16132990) Attached to: Hotel Minibar Key Opens Diebold Voting Machines

Awesome! You got Microsoft into the first paragraph of an article about voting machine security!

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