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Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?

BinaryGrind writes "I just got started taking Computer Science classes at my local university and after reading Universities Patenting More Student Ideas I felt I needed to ask: How do I tell if any of my projects while attending classes will be co-opted by my professors or the university itself and taken away from me? Is there anything I can do to prevent it from happening? What do I need to do to protect myself? Are there schools out there that won't take my work away from me if I discover TheNextBigThing(TM)? If it does happen is there anything I can do to fight back? The school I'm attending is Southern Utah University. Since it's not a big university, I don't believe it has a big research and development department or anything of that ilk.

I didn't do it Mum, says Gordon Ramsay

The chef and his wife, seen here leaving their home this week, both attended the Good Food Show in Birmingham on Thursday. Gordon joked about allegations he'd been unfaithful and assured the audience, which included his mum: "I didn't do it"

Poll: What type of computer do you use to design Web pages?

It seems like I switch what type of computer I use to do Web design about every 2 years. I was using a desktop for everything, but then I got my MacBook Pro, and now I do everything on my laptop. I still have my desktop, but it doesn't get turned on too often. The benefits of a laptop include that I can work in the same room as my infant son (well, now that he's mobile it's harder...). I have decided, however that I'm saving for a Mac Pro - a desktop. I figure that by the time I've saved the money to afford it, Jaryth will be in school (hopefully, preschool, not college) so I'll be able to work out of my office more often. The ability to upgrade and a faster processor are a huge draw for me - especially when I have 6 graphic intensive programs open at once, usually with multiple documents open in each.

I do, I do, I do, I do...

They only missed out 1949 because John was stationed in Bermuda with the Royal Navy, reports The Sun.

I'm on a quest for the ultimate Web page editor

I've been looking for the best Web page editor for years now. When I started designing Web pages, Web page editors didn't exist. I used vi or Notepad or SimpleText (now TextEdit) and was amazed that I could even read the stuff I was writing, let alone have it make Web pages. Then I learned about a tool with a name that inspired me - "Dreamweaver". Isn't that what I wanted to do? Weave my dreams into reality? Of course, my boss had a different idea and bought me the program "FrontPage". I couldn't afford Dreamweaver on my own, and after 10 minutes of using FrontPage (version 1), I was back to writing HTML in my text editors. But since then, I've started looking for the best of the best Web editors. In that quest I've downloaded and evaluated over 130 Web editors on Windows, Macintosh, and even Linux.

Poll: Do you use Web templates?

Web templates are a great way to get a website up quickly. But I always wonder if by using a template I'm dooming the site to look the same as some other site. So even when I have used templates, I've ended up tweaking them as much as if I hadn't used the template in the first place. These days I tend to use templates I've created myself - they act more like frameworks than templates. I use wireframe templates to get the basic structure of a site (2-columns header footer, etc.) and then build the site design inside that. That way the site will truly be unique, but I'm still getting some benefit from using a template. Do you use Web templates?

Why are you a designer?

I am a designer because I wanted to solve problems in a beautiful way. I started out focusing purely on the way things worked - solving problems with my code. But as I created more and more pages I realized that the best solutions were the ones that connected with the customers. And the ones that connected were the designs that looked the best (or maybe it's that the ones that looked the best connected most with the customers...). At any rate, I realized then that I couldn't just focus on how a Web page solved a problem, I had to focus on the design as well. Now, I think of myself as a Web designer/developer. I build Web solutions that look great and serve a purpose. The Design O'Blog has a number of other reasons why people are designers. Why are you a designer?

Where Did My Firewall Disappear?

OK, I just got this HPdv6000 laptop, and it came with Norton, and I replaced it with Avast, and it has Windows XP. I now have a little shield saying that I don’t have a firewall, and when I go to turn it on Windows says that the security center cannot turn it on. So I click turn on manually, and I get the message that Windows firewall is not using the recomended settings to protect my computer. I try to click on update settings and get a message that Windows Firewall was unable to make the requested updates. Now what do I do? I have no firewall! Thanks, Chris

Hands-on with Picasa for the Mac

I'm a somewhat dissatisfied owner of a new MacBook. One of the things I was looking forward to with the computer was the vaunted easy photo management I kept hearing about. But I found the Mac's free photo management app, iPhoto, frustrating to use, compared to the product I had become accustomed to on Windows: Google's Picasa. I didn't like the fact that I had to manually import photos into the product--even photos already on my Mac--and that the import process made duplicates of my photos when I did so. I much prefer Picasa, which simply scans your computer's directories and shows you the photos it finds on your disks.

Poll: Have you ever written anything in XML?

I started working with XML about 7 years ago, and as I go on I find myself doing more and more with XML documents than I ever thought I would. I write two RSS feeds from scratch (as well as maintain several feeds through blogs and other automation), all of my About.com documents are written in XML, and I'm starting to dabble in XML data to drive Ajax Web applications. When I wrote my first XML article, I barely scratched the surface of what was possible. Even now, I feel like I'm missing more than I'm grasping. Have you written anything in XML?

3 questions to ask before foreclosure

I have a first mortgage with IndyMac, and a second with National City. I am working with a HUD counselor. HUD sent paperwork off to both lenders, and I talked to them yesterday, and basically they won't budge. National City told me that on the 25th of this month I will be 90 days, or 120 days over. I think that's what she said, and that they will then do a "charge off" and that they can either take other property I own or garnish my wages. I need to know what to do, and what they can legally do. I guess I will have to file a bankruptcy, and let my home foreclose. Please help me sort some of this out.

BCCI blamed for polarising cricket world

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The Microsoftie Who Embraced the Dark Side (Open Source)

"One day it just hit me -- I should quit. There were no big reasons, only a lot of little ones. I had just launched v1 of the client and server side of Spot, and while it contained sophisticated technologies, I didn't really believe it would take off in the marketplace. I had gained lots of knowledge yet only understood the Microsoft world. I had made some good money, but I had no time to enjoy it. Though my boss was happy with me, I was losing motivation to just keep doing the same thing I had been doing for over a decade. I looked around the company and saw a lot of ancient codebases and unprofitable ventures.

Google Measures The Readability--Yikes!--of What You Write

Last night I was typing using Google Docs at home, and when I used the Word Count tool, I discovered some metrics that I didn’t know about: scores to show me how “readable� my prose was. As I scrolled down the screen that popped up when I simply wanted to see how many words I’d written, I discovered not only the average length of my sentences and words, but also what grade level could understand what I wrote, as well as the ease to which they would absorb it, and what my “automated readiblity index� was—at least for that first draft I’d banged out.

Optimizing Linux Use On a USB Flash Drive?

Buckbeak writes "I like to carry my Linux systems around with me, on USB flash drives. Typically, SanDisk Cruzers or Kingston HyperX. I encrypt the root partition and boot off the USB stick. Sometimes, the performance leaves something to be desired. I want to be able to do an 'apt-get upgrade' or 'yum update' while surfing but the experience is sometimes painful. What can I do to maximize the performance of Linux while running off of a slow medium? I've turned on 'noatime' in the mount options and I don't use a swap partition. Is there any way to minimize drive I/O or batch it up more? Is there any easy way to run in memory and write everything out when I shut down? I've tried both EXT2 and EXT3 and it doesn't seem to make much difference. Any other suggestions?"

Getting Started With Part-Time Development Work?

fortapocalypse writes "I'm getting paid a good salary as a Java developer and the hours are great. It is also very stable, which means something in today's economy, especially with a family to feed. However, I'm very unmotivated both because of the work that I do, which is boring, and because the organization I work for is highly political, disorganized, and lacks accountability. I've done what I could to try to change things at work and have pretty much given up on that. I want to go out on my own, either starting my own company or just working as a contractor doing Java development, but I'm not sure of the best way to get started, and my family needs the stability of my current job. I'd really like to start out part-time at 5-15 hours a week to use it as supplemental income (which my family could really use at the moment), but I really

Byline for iPhone

Most people are creatures of habit. I know I am. I try to maintain certain routines. I have a way of reading online that has evolved slowly but steadily over the years. Occasionally, I will make a great leap forward or sideways, such as when I dove into Twitter or started reading Alltop. But generally speaking, I'm a headline guy. And I get most of my headlines from my RSS feeds.

Review: Byline for iPhone

Most people are creatures of habit. I know I am. I try to maintain certain routines. I have a way of reading online that has evolved slowly but steadily over the years. Occasionally, I will make a great leap forward or sideways, such as when I dove into Twitter or started reading Alltop. But generally speaking, I’m a headline guy. And I get most of my headlines from my RSS feeds.

ONSTAGE & BACKSTAGE: Pancakes With Julia Murney

Hey, everyone! It's 2009 and I'm feelin' fine. And by "fine," I mean a terrible case of vertigo brought on by blocked Eustachian tubes. I started feeling it Saturday, and took a decongestant, which I thought would relieve it by Sunday morning. No. Then I took two Dramamine to get rid of the dizziness, which did nothing for the dizziness but caused me to take a four-hour nap in the middle of the day. The last time I slept that many hours during an afternoon was when I saw a matinee of Nicholas Nickleby. Settle down, Charles Dickens estate, I never actually saw that show.

" Tracey Emin: There was someone else in the house...

I've been up since six o'clock this morning and my day started reasonably optimistically. Not me – I didn't start off optimistic, but the early components of my day had very nice, comforting qualities. I like the darkness in the mornings, it's a completely different kind of darkness to night, I feel less afraid. Having a fear of the dark is something that I promised myself to resolve. I talked to a doctor about it recently, he gave me the lowdown on melatonin levels, depression, exhaustion and nausea – all effects created by too much light, as well as too little. I'm in the too much light category. My fear of the dark means I have to sleep with the light on, admittedly a low level of light, and strangely enough, glowing primeval through an orange lampshade, orange light being almost tolerable to sleep with, as subconsciously the orang

Holiday Blogging

Having been home - well, away from Bishop’s - since December 12th, I’m looking forward to getting back to BU. The weeks away have been nice and relaxing, with the Lawson family heading to San Andres on vacation for a week in December. Our week-long trip was nice and relaxing, and I had a chance to catch up on sleep and reading. While I find the reading I do at school thought-provoking, I find I have very little time to read for pleasure. Among the books IÂ enjoyed down south were Rory Stewart’s Prince of the Marshes, Michael Ross’ The Volunteer, and BU Alum Alex Paterson’s My Life at the Bar and Beyond.

Clyne to concentrate on bank's backyard

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