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Physics Nerds Rap About the LHC 91

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

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:The reason they're starting to do this now. (Score 1) 423

DirecTivos don't do their software updates over the phone, they get them from the satellite, then dialup to verify that the machine is active, then run the patches. I can't be 100% sure, but the standalones and the DirecTivos are completely different, so there's no way to just magically make HMO (Home Media Options) work.

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