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What Does It Mean To Be an Open Source Author?

lolococo writes to tell us that Laurent Cohen, founder of the open source project JPPF (Java Parallel Processing Framework), has decided to share what life is like for an open source contributor in general and little bit about what that means. "There came a time of coding, releasing, coding, releasing. The project started gathering some momentum, as a small community of users started to use it, but why was it not working in this case, or why did it not have this feature, or how could I do this, etc...? You get the drift. Oh my, now I had to start interacting with other folks! What was I to do? That started a (thankfully short) period of intense existential self-questioning. What was the purpose of this project? Why did I actually open-source it? I resolved this by deciding unilaterally that it would be a free contribution, for whomever wo

Official: Workers started Universal Studios blaze

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Workers using blowtorches accidentally started a weekend fire at Universal Studios, Los Angeles County spokeswoman Judy Hammond told CNN Monday.

Sanyo Buys LCDs from Sharp

Sanyo Electric announced on Friday that it has started buying liquid crystal display (LCD) panels from Sharp for use in its flat-screen TVs sold in North America. "We hope to expand our business by having a mutually complementary relationship with Sharp," said Sanyo spokeswoman Yuko Hosaka. "Sharp's strength in LCDs is part of that." The company started ordering LCDs from Sharp in April, but will also continue procurement from other suppliers. This move comes as Sharp, the world's third-largest LCD TV maker, expands attempts to secure a stable source of demand for its LCD panels from rival TV set makers as it aggressively invests in expanding output.

Celebration of Compost Week at Botanical Garden

St. John's, Newfoundland The Composting Council of Canada started off International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) on the East Coast, at the Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) Botanical Garden in St. John's. When the Botanical Garden was started in 1971, the plot of land was bedrock and contaminated with lead. Rebuilding the soil was step one, and composting was a necessary part of the reclamation. That practice has continued to this day. The Garden collects leaves from St. John's for its composting piles, using the finished product for topdressing on raised garden beds. "As a nonprofit organization, we could not possibly afford to buy all the soil, especially here, where Newfoundland is called the rock because we don't have a lot of good soil to grow plants in," says Anne Madden, the garden's education coordinator, in a recent Tele

A new way to use Linux.

Gael Duval, the founder of Mandrake/Mandriva Linux distributions started a new project after his departure, from Mandriva, in 2006. It is called ULTEO, and can be found at http://www.ulteo.com Back in the early nineties, when I first started hearing about the internet, I imagined it to be a place I could connect to, use software onsite, store my data onsite, and not have to have a computer bloated with store bought software. This appears to be the goal of ULTEO. There is an excellent interview with Mr. Duval located here:

Removing Logical Devices Using LVM On Linux And Unix

The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "...[T]oday, we're going to finish one part of what we started in our previous posts regarding getting started with LVM logical volume management and making use of LVM's monitoring and display commands..."

Was This the First CC Community-Edited Novel?

Odinson writes "In late 2005 I released a draft of a science fiction novel under the by-nc-nd CC license. I started accepting edits in the hope of polishing a manuscript for submission to a publisher. A publisher never materialized, but after thousands of comments the draft started getting really solid. So a couple of months ago I decided to buy an ISBN and sell hard copies from Lulu. While doing research for a press release, I was unable to uncover the first community-edited, CC-licensed work of fiction. I strongly suspect that my novel is the first. Can anybody point to a prior example? How about under other licenses? If someone has traveled this road before, I'd like to ask them how it went. I would also like to vet this question here before staking a claim to be the first.

Swell3D Is A Blog That Stands Out--Literally

There aren't many websites that can be traced to a "specially marked box of Fruity Pebbles." Actually, there's probably only one--Swell3D.com. It all started for Sean Gleeson when his two pre-teen daughters started asking for that cereal box with the 3D artwork on it. He couldn't find it! Improvising, he set out to create some 3D imagery on his own. With the girls' help he made some dorky looking red and blue 3D glasses and looked at artwork he'd drawn on his computer.

Search engine One Green Globe hires MarketiQ

The One Green Globe Directory (www.onegreenglobe.com) located in San Francisco, California has hired MarketiQ (www.marketiQ.net) to develop and manage their Internet marketing strategy. Founder of One Green Globe (OGG) Dean Mello, started the vertical search engine to offer visitors a comprehensive, search-engine friendly resource - specifically designed for humans, by humans. The directory was started by a collective group of concerned individuals as a means to simplify and refine the process of finding quality resources and information on environmental, alternative health, holistic and sustainable lifestyle categories. "We have put a lot of time and effort into our search technology and the tools currently available on the site," says Mello.

Firefox 3 First Look

I've loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn't imagine using anything else. But, then Firefox's memory leaks went from annoying me to ticking me off; I started having real stability problems with it on both Windows and Linux; and security holes started appearing far more often. I was about to switch to Safari on Windows and MacOS and Konqueror on Linux, when Mozilla got serious about not just fixing, but rebuilding Firefox. Now, Firefox 3 release candidate 1 was released early. Based on my quick look at it, I may end up sticking with Firefox after all.

Firefox 3 First Look

I've loved Firefox since version 0.93. It was so much better than Internet Explorer and the other alternatives that I couldn't imagine using anything else. But, then Firefox's memory leaks went from annoying me to ticking me off; I started having real stability problems with it on both Windows and Linux; and security holes started appearing far more often. I was about to switch to Safari on Windows and MacOS and Konqueror on Linux, when Mozilla got serious about not just fixing, but rebuilding Firefox. Now, Firefox 3 release candidate 1 was released early. Based on my quick look at it, I may end up sticking with Firefox after all.

Getting Started with XForms in OpenOffice

DevX.com: "Most developers have heard of XForms as an XML-based forms language meant to replace traditional HTML Forms.

Getting Started with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit

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Getting Started with the Google App Engine

It's a bird, it's a plane, no it is Guido Van Rossum and the App Engine Team. After cranking through writing an instructional application this weekend using Google App Engine, I have to say I am really impressed. In fact my exact thought are "Holy $!ck, this is awesome!

Getting Started with Silverlight

Just because Web sites are easy to build these days, that doesn't mean it's easy to build a quality Web site that meets your business objectives.

Get Started with Oracle on Windows DVD

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Getting Started with IIS7 (Part 1)

Visual Studio comes with an inbuilt web server. No doubt the inbuilt web server comes handy during development. However, finally your web site needs to sit inside Internet Information Services (IIS). If you are an ASP.NET developers you are probably familiar with IIS6. More...

How To Get Started With Logical Volume Management In Linux

"Today, since past posts regarding disk management software have mostly been limited to Veritas Volume Manager, I thought we'd look at LVM on Linux (In a future post, we'll check out the differences between LVM 1 and 2, but for now I figured we could keep it simple and broad).

Software Helps Developers Get Started With PIV Cards

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed two demonstration software packages that show how Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards can be used with Windows and Linux systems to perform logon, digital signing and verification, and other services. The demonstration software, written in C++, will assist software developers, system integrators and computer security professionals as they develop products and solutions in response to Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 and the FIPS 201-1 standard.

iPhone 3G Line already started in NYC

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iPhone 3G Line already started in NYC

A couple hours ago I wrote a story on the iPhone 3G launch and asked the question when the lines will start to build.

Dairy owner Mark McAfee started selling raw milk in 2000, marketing it to customers who believe it contains beneficial microbes that treat everything from asthma to autism.

June 11: Some stressed college students are turning to drugs typically used in the treatment of ADD, as study aids. KNTV's Vicky Nguyen reports that these pills can pose significant side effects.

Laurene and Constantin Boym have started a blog

(((Be still, my heart! They're a Russian and American married couple and they're both design geniuses.)))

FIVE years ago, Leba Tudravu started learning an art she yearned to know from her childhood days. more...

And because she was too young to learn the art, as she says, her grandmother promised her that when she grew older, she would be taught the magical weaving of kuta an art not as commonly known to Fijian women who are more at home with voivoi mat weaving.

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