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Report: Power Problem

Report: Power Problem 04/09/2004 04:01 PM
a 1-cent solution to power switch problem plus notes on Ethernet cables

Communicating Through a Crisis

Communicating Through a Crisis 05/26/2004 07:34 AM
Business Week May 26 2004 12:05PM GMT

Video Communicating

Video Communicating 08/27/2004 01:47 PM

I know the term video blogging is taking off, but i hate to say it - but video is MUCH BIGGER than just blogging.

By far - the most UNDER UTILIZED aspect of video - up until now - is it's power in communicating, teaching and helping people figure out - how teh hell to figure something out.

We're the TV generation and there's no reason to read anymore. Just watch a clip on teh subject.

All knowledge will be described this way. The entire Wikipedia becomes a Discovery Channel database.

So here are some posts from Jay Dedman that got me off into this rant....

Call-in Show format - emotions and knowledge dispersed.....

Here's an excerpt from a live call-in show I do every week.

It's an amazing experience to be able to let people call in and discuss their feelings.

When you let the people talk to each other, magic can happen...especially now in these very political times in the US.

Audio is a little low on the tape.

This is also my first video in MPEG4.

Let me know if you have problems.

Description of things that could never be out into words

Okay, this is a long one: 4 minutes.
Im trying to see how far you can push this format.
How long can I get someone to watch a little screen on their computer

I like video because I can show the things I could never out into words.

Im also really learning a lot from the people in the group.

How could you do this alone?

CLICK HERE to Watch the Video

If you care about technical stuff....this file is almost 10MB.

Most videos are about 2-4MB.

I want to see how fast it loads for people.

also, i had problems getting it on the server....

I use Ecto to upload my video, make a thumbnail, hot link words, etc...It's awesome.

However, trying to upload a 10mb file made Ecto timeout because the file takes so long to upload....

Adriaan, who created Ecto, said its a bug in this version.

I ended up using Typepad to upload which doesnt let me make a thumbnail easily.

Let me know how it works for you.

it helps.

Communicating from Iraq

Communicating from Iraq 04/16/2004 02:33 PM

There is an old adage, "The army travels on its stomach". Well I can tell you, the Army orders its food via the internet!! While much of the military depends on the internet, it is the welfare of the common soldier that truly depends on the internet. While ordering beans and bullets is critical, so to is the link with the people back home.

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Communicating with Chris

Communicating with Chris 04/29/2004 04:07 PM

I've been spending  alot of time communicating with Chris - so this is pretty interesting to me. I guess he's holding judgement on how well I manage our IRC channel - I more or less just say "make it work" - let me know if there's a problem, which this morning - there was.

Hopefully when Chris gets back from class - he'll solve that problem.

:-)

Communic ation Media and Social interactions in projects. I have a lot of things I want to publish here, but not enough time in the day to write them all. However, this one particularly struck my interest.

I'm interested in communication between people. This is part of the reason that I find LiveJournal and other social networking software so interesting - it shows relationships between people simply, and allows communication between them as well. (And if you think LiveJournal isn't social networking software, you don't understand the term: Building relationships and the results of them is a huge part of this site.)

There are a number of different ways that I communicate with people around me. The first is the people I'm physically close to: people who live on campus and near me, that I can actually see in real life. This method of communication is good in lots of ways - quick, face to face discussions can achieve a lot in the ways of interpersonal relationship building. However, it doesn't work very well in technical situations. You can't teach people how to program in a face to face situation. Spoken language can't convey many of the technical needs that learning non-spoken languages requires. Spoken language is great for relationships, but not for technical discussions.

The same applies to phone conversations, but even more so. In a conference call, you can discuss ideas, you can toss around plans, but you can't actually get down to the meat of implementation. I'm likely biased because that's where my work centers, but I'm a coder, and you can discuss high-idea plans over my head all day, but until you get down into telling me what the next feature to code is, and suggestions for coding it, I'm just going to sit and twiddle my thumbs.

Online communications are where this kind of thing. In group based online communications, there are a number of different ways of working through things. Some of the communications methods I use are email, IRC, and wiki-based information storage.

IRC is similar to phone conversations in that it's designed more for social and discussion based issues rather than coding. However, the ability to say "Let's take a look at line $foo in my patch at [link]" and actually discuss function calls, variable naming, and similar topics makes it a quick real-time medium for discussion of possible issues. Implementation ideas can be discussed, and then everyone can just kind of hang out and hack.

E-mail is one of the best methods for patch discussion. Technical patches can be attached, with long explanations of why things are done the way they are. At the same time, you get the group aspect with things like mailing lists, and you can discuss issues back and forth all day. Not the best way to build social relationships, perhaps, but a great way to hack on code. Bugzilla based systems are simply extensions of this - they allow you to do patch-level discussions in a mailing list format, a truth accentuated by the fact that many of Bugzilla's features are based around email and sending it out to people who want it. This is one reason why Bugzilla is a great system even in small setups - it's the forefront (as far as I know) of issue and feature tracking software.

Wiki based storage is great for a lot of things - documentation, general plans, outlining of todo lists, and so on. Wikis are much more of a form of permanent storage - slower than any of the previous methods mentioned, even with things like RSS feeds for Recent changes. Socialtext workspaces avoid this a little bit by creating mailing lists of recent changes that get sent out on a regular basis, keeping people up to date on what's changing in the workspace. However, the social aspects of most communications are almost completely gone.

Social communications exist in many aspects of almost all projects. Whether you're talking real life, phone, IRC, or email, there's always drama. (If you think that things like Zilla avoid Drama, just see some of my discussions with marksmith from a couple months ago. ;)) Wikis avoid this, obviously, but are clearly more of a form of permanent storage rather than an interactive communication medium. For idea discussion, real life or phone is best, but for patch discussion, email is the place to be.

Some people try to separate the social aspects of working on a project from the technical aspects. The idea that this can be done while achieving any kind of reasonable productivity level is ridiculous - you have to be able to interact with the people you work with to get anything done. This is part of the reason why people like bradfitz< /SPAN> don't make the best project managers for large scale projects. He works pretty well on things like memcached where he's the maintainer and the largest contributor to the code, accepting patches from people who have a high level of technical skills. That kind of project is much easier to deal with, because the people act in a professional way - which many people who volunteer their time for LiveJournal do not. They (and I include myself in this) seem to have some kind of expectation of having their code looked at by people who can accept it - and when code is bad, many people don't have any desire to look at it. Managing a project with patches from people who really don't understand the technical aspects of the code they're patching is frustrating, and difficult to work with.

I'm a code monkey - I don't do management well, I'm a drama queen (or have been in the past at least - I like to think I'm starting to move past that), and I'm not the best at interacting with people. But interacting with people, through many of the media describe above, is necessary in so many cases that to ignore social interactions in a project is simply ludicrous. By crschmidt@livejournal.com. [Christopher Schmidt]

Communicating With Software-Development
Managers

Communicating With Software-Development
Managers 01/17/2004 10:45 PM
webreview.com Jan 17 2004 8:02AM GMT

Compiling away my weekends

Compiling away my weekends 09/06/2004 09:54 PM

I spent a good part of Sunday recompiling many popular open source libraries (i.e. iconv, libxml, libxslt, xmlsec, openssl, zlib, etc.) as Win32 static multithreaded libraries without C runtime DLL name dependency (/MT) so I can use them in VC7.1 projects.  All because some guy at Microsoft decided to change the C runtime DLL name from fixed MSVCRT.DLL to version-based names like MSVCR70.DLL.

When that happend, popular open source tools and libraries got stuck with Visual C++ 6.  Binaries of Python and all the libraries I mentioned above, for example, are built with VC6 and links to C runtime library dynamically (meaning they require MSVCRT.DLL).  This means Win32 Python extensions couldn't be built with later versions of VC++ without walking into a lot of headaches.  Same problem stopped me from using prebuilt binaries of those libraries so I had to rebuild them myself.

I bent a few things and had to guess at a few places, but nothing seems to be broken.  Only trouble is that I am using WinInet to fetch XML files from Internet and it ain't behaving too well.  WinHTTP is supposed to be better but I think I'll opt for cURL instead.  Of course, that means I'll have more compiling to do next weekend.  Urgh.

Update:

Heh.  I didn't realize the weekend wasn't over yet until my wife informed me that today was the Labor Day.  To celebrate, I labored some more after a mini-vacation at the neighborhood pool with my wife and son.  cURL had Win32 project files so it was a cinch to build.  I did have to turn on OpenSSL and ZLib though to get HTTPS and gzip compression working (define USE_OPENSSL, HAVE_ZLIB, and HAVE_ZLIB_H flags).  Now I can reliably pull compressed RSS feeds over HTTPS from a Win32 client.

BTW, all these chores wouldn't have been necessary if I wrote it in Java or .NET because both platforms have most of these libraries built in.  So why am I humping the sidewalk?  Well, there are still things one can do with C++ that you can't do with Java or .NET...

Out of Memory When Compiling MSI

Out of Memory When Compiling MSI 09/22/2004 04:25 AM

Linux 2.6: Compiling and Installing

Linux 2.6: Compiling and Installing 04/13/2004 07:52 PM

PHPMac: Compiling Apache 2 and PHP 5

PHPMac: Compiling Apache 2 and PHP 5 07/30/2004 08:56 AM
For all of the Mac users out there, there's a new posting from PHPMac.com to help you get Apache 2.0.50 and PHP 5 compiled on your machine.

InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line

InstallShield: Compiling at the Command
Line 06/10/2004 04:48 AM

"a powerful video/animation compiling
the lies "

"a powerful video/animation compiling
the lies " 06/05/2004 04:19 AM

Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia

Lexicon: CC-licensed RPG based on
compiling fictional encyclopedia 04/15/2005 09:01 PM
Cory Doctorow: Morbus Iff sez, "Ghyll is a Creative Common licensed player-created world per the rules of "Lexicon: an RPG" (think: a fictional wikipedia, constrained by integration, consecutive letter definitions, and cranky scholars that write before 'before scholarly pursuits became professionalized (or possibly after they ceased to be)'). It has reached nearly 30 players, 200 pages of text, an incredibly large timeline, a hundred characters, and a to-scale ASCII map of the known world. Darkly humorous? Possible. Odd? Mmhmmm. All CC? Ayup.

"We're starting Round 2 next month (in essence, starting over again at letter A to further define the world). Notes about the announcement here, as well as links to the timeline, characters, and ASCII map." Link (Thanks, Morbus!)

Santa Brings MS Patents for Editing,
Compiling Code

Santa Brings MS Patents for Editing,
Compiling Code 12/28/2004 02:51 PM
theodp writes "Courtesy of the USPTO, Microsoft found two new patents under the tree this holiday season. The first covers Editing a software program in a common language runtime environment, while the second lays claims to Compiling multiple source language files that share a common library, which must come as a real shocker to members of the DEC OpenVMS Common Language Environment, IBM Language Environment (LE), and IBM Integrated Language Environment (ILE) teams. Gotta teach those patent examiners to use Wikipedia instead of Microsoft Encarta for their prior art searches! "

The Volition Bug was launched
anonymously from a site somewhere in a
Central Asian republic. It propagated
wirelessly among all the
WiFi-communicating chipped objects,
installing new directives in their tiny
brains, directives that ran covertly in
parall

The Volition Bug was launched
anonymously from a site somewhere in a
Central Asian republic. It propagated
wirelessly among all the
WiFi-communicating chipped objects,
installing new directives in their tiny
brains, directives that ran covertly in
parall 02/05/2005 09:55 PM

scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/difilippo3/difilip po31.html
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The Next Level of Database Report
Generation: SiMX Releases Report Manager
Pro

The Next Level of Database Report
Generation: SiMX Releases Report Manager
Pro 07/22/2004 08:00 PM
SiMX Corporation released Report Manager Pro, a powerful software that facilitates and expedites reporting by providing an intuitive concept-driven drag-and-drop interface, standardizing data connectivity, and eliminating redundant tasks such as document formatting. [PRWEB Jul 21, 2004]

a problem we could fix

a problem we could fix 05/25/2004 12:50 AM
"It's extremely difficult to govern when you control all three branches of government." John Feehery, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, Washington Post, 5/23/04. And when did political parties begin to claim "control" of the Judicial Branch? Someone should inform the Justices. I don't think they've been told yet.

What's the Problem?

What's the Problem? 02/01/2005 09:28 PM
and Tim Meehan Freud asked, "What does a user really want?" Ten-plus years into web development, we still don't know. One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we're building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project. In this quick-reading article, Messieurs Carr and Meehan introduce use cases and their, uh, uses.

Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem?

Top Tip: Do I have a RAM problem? 02/12/2004 12:51 PM
After POST but before win xp starts up I hear two beeps and the computer never gets past detecting the drives (the hard drives and dvd-rom). Most of the time it boots fine. Then when I shut the system down sometimes I get the two beeps agian and it never shuts off...

Win XP Sp2 Problem

Win XP Sp2 Problem 08/27/2004 01:56 PM
Introduced in Service Pack 2, along side many other security features, Windows XP gained the "security center" (screenshot). A nice addition, and a central place for people to check their system's security status. So we thought.

eWeek and PC Magazine have published reports suggesting that the system can be spoofed very easily, allowing potentially nasty programs to perform un-wanted tasks. "Based on an anonymous tip, we looked into the WMI and the Windows Security Center's use of it, and found that it may not only be a security hole, but a crater in the wrong hands. Due to the nature of WMI, the WSC could potentially allow attackers to spoof the state of security on a user's system while accessing data, infecting the system, or turning the PC into a zombie for spam or other purposes."

The PC Magazine article explores the problem and how it can be exploited in good depth. It makes very depressing reading for users who had hoped that Microsoft had over-come this kind of problem with Service Pack 2. Microsoft responded to the article suggesting that they didn't think it was a problem at all; they added that you needed to be running as an administrator for it to be an issue; true, PC Mag agreed, but they also noted that XP Home runs (by default) as Admin, and most users of XP Pro make themselves administators to save hassle when installing and running programs.

Service Pack 2 is a necessary upgrade for all users, and everyone should install it. However, as the article and Neowin recommend, don't rely to heavily on these new security features. Ensure you update Firewall / AV / Windows often, and check the status of your protection often. Microsoft will never be able to be 100% safe / problem free, but they are trying, and should be commended for their effort.

View: Read more at PC Magazine | eWeek Article
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Another Day, Another IE Problem

Another Day, Another IE Problem 07/02/2004 08:22 AM

Security risks swell for Microsoft's Explorer: From the Gee, That's Obvious Department.

Using Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser to surf the Internet has become a marked risk — even with the latest security patches installed.

That's the upshot of the discovery of yet another Internet Explorer security hole being exploited by intruders bent on swiping personal information from unwitting Internet users.

[...] "Internet Explorer's track record is such that the software just cannot be trusted right now," says Jeremiah Grossman, CEO of WhiteHat Security.

Again, I ask: if you're still using IE...why?

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A look at the problem

A look at the problem 12/30/2004 06:51 AM
USA Today Dec 30 2004 10:57AM GMT

What's Your Problem?

What's Your Problem? 11/27/2002 07:36 AM

The Problem With Presntations

The Problem With Presntations 12/18/2003 05:45 AM
Doc Searls' advice on PowerPoint .. The Problem With Presentations .. It’s the story, stupid .. piece

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Image problem

Image problem 08/02/2004 08:46 AM
I'm a strait-laced progressive. Why do people think I'm a Republican?

An absurd problem

An absurd problem 07/04/2004 08:56 AM
The first kiss. When you see it coming, you sort of want to make it memorable. (Yeah, I'm a romantic. Sue me.) It's even worse, when the other person is equally romantic: you both want it to be just right.

So we circle around each other for hours, probing, thinking, wondering about the perfect moment, and how to realize it without breaking the fragile feelings you think you are sharing. Then, with common, wordless agreement, we take a long, romantic walk in the middle of the nightless night, go to this beautiful spot by the lake, laugh and take over a play field, play in the swings for the first time in ten years. Then, on a beautiful bridge we stop - and get immediately attacked by a huge swarm of mosquitos. So we swat them in vain and run away to stop in another beautiful place.

And again, the angry insects force us to leave an unvoluntary donation to the Breed More Mosquitos -fund and we escape barely with our lives.

Frustrated, we return indoors. The perfect moment seems to be gone forever.

We gaze at each other, uncertainly and apprehensively. I can feel her thoughts: she's thinking the same thing as you, but neither knows how (dares?) to go on. Then a spark of something flies across the room.

"Oh bugger, let's just do it", we say in unison and laugh out our surprise.

And then the moment is just perfect.

An $8 Billion Problem

An $8 Billion Problem 08/05/2004 04:12 PM
Plus, Microsoft wants your thoughts, Gap takes a spill, and Sara Lee has indigestion?

Low Numbers, New Problem

Low Numbers, New Problem 08/06/2004 10:25 PM
In the face of paltry numbers on job growth, President Bush's new slogan, "we've turned the corner," sounds premature at best.

The Problem of Consciousness

The Problem of Consciousness 08/07/2004 09:01 PM
Time for another paper on the problem of consciousness! This new one by Murat Aydede and Güven Güzeldere has the impressive title, Cognitive Architecture, Concepts, and Introspection: An Information-Theoretic Solution to the Problem of Phenomenal Consciousness (PDF format). It goes over a lot of the problems and disagreements that persist among philosophers and scientists about consciousness, and then proposes a new theory. Their idea, which should be good news for anyone working on intelligent machines, is basically that good old-fashioned information theory contains everything that's needed to explain phenomenal consciousness. Along the way, they talk about introspection, daydreaming, phenomenal zombies, vertical versus horizontal information processing, and other fun stuff. The 65 page article includes loads of lengthy footnotes referencing just about every modern philosopher who has philosophised about consciousness, from Dennett to Searle (with cameo appearances from Descartes and Locke).

Policy problem

Policy problem 01/03/2005 10:04 AM
USA Today Jan 3 2005 2:07PM GMT

om on the problem with free

om on the problem with free 06/15/2004 11:56 AM
free blogging has its place, and it also has its costs. god bless the export button.

A Problem with Tagging

A Problem with Tagging 06/17/2005 03:45 PM

I wonder how long before the whole tagging phenomenon jumps the shark? I like it and everything, but have a sneaking suspicion that we're going to come full circle back to taxonomies.

We've talked about tax onomies before — these are the big parent-child tree structures that have traditionally defined information architecture. Tagging is a direct response to the complication and "monolithic-ness" of the taxonomy — instead of defining the entire tree, you just label the one leaf that you're working with.

But what happens when the tree starts creeping back?

For instance, one of the drawbacks with tagging is that people have different names for the different things. What I call "automotive," you might call "cars," so our entries don't appear under the same tag. Have this happen enough times, and it gets annoying.

How do we get around this? Well, let's create a thesaurus then. Let's tell the system that "cars" and "automotive" are more or less the same thing, so if someone searches for anything tagged "automotive," return anything tagged as "cars" as well. Awesome — now we're back in action, even though we have a bit of a top-down system to maintain. It's a small price to pay.

But what happens when someone wants to broaden their search beyond just a simple tag? Instead of just automotive-related items, I want to find anything to do with vehicles.

How do I back up from "automotive" to "vehicles"? Well, we need to tell the system that "cars" is a child of "vehicles." For that matter, there are more than just that in "vehicles." "Vehicles" is really a parent of "planes," "trains," and "boats" too. No problem, we just need to create a recursive table that tracks how tags are related to each other, like...a taxonomy of tags...

And, with that, we've come full circle back to the top-down taxonomy. Wow, that was quick.

I don't think this is so bad, because it still has some advantages. The editing interface for tags (a simple texbox) is much better than the mess we get with parent-child stuff (usually a huge list of checkboxes).

Additionally, tag-based organization can kind of define itself. Instead of sitting around thinking up a huge taxonomy before you get started, you can watch the tags that come rolling through the system and just organize them as they come in. ("Oh look, another tag for 'hydrofoils.' Maybe we can stick that under 'boats'..")

Finally, if you're really anal retentive, you can "normalize" the tags as they get applied. When an item gets submitted with "cars" and "howto" assigned, you can detect and change them to "automotive" and "turorial" if you like. Be sure to notify the user, however, so they know where to find the thing when they go looking for it (or just make sure the the thesaurus has the correct relationships defined).

Anyone have thoughts on this? Am I just trying to rain on the tagging parade?

Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem

Mac Or PC, No Longer A Problem 04/05/2005 04:18 AM

There is a blurring of lines between computer platforms these days, and it might be good news for computer users of all stripes. By Mark Kellner, Washington Times

The problem with abundance

The problem with abundance 11/01/2003 07:33 PM
BoingBoing pal Clayton says:

Here's an interesting piece on the unforeseen problems that can arise in modern society when previously scarce resources become commonplace... from obesity to P2P. And it kind of puts the Amish desire to "freeze" progress in a new light, as if it were the desire to blunt massive societal upheaval from new tech developments.

Link

Why a new PC is a taxing problem

Why a new PC is a taxing problem 06/23/2004 02:19 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jun 23 2004 6:35PM GMT

No files, no problem

No files, no problem 05/21/2004 03:52 AM
USA Today May 21 2004 7:05AM GMT

PCs certain, Left no problem

PCs certain, Left no problem 05/29/2004 06:16 PM
Calcutta Telegraph May 29 2004 9:57PM GMT

Houston, We Still Have A Problem

Houston, We Still Have A Problem 07/28/2004 09:41 AM
According to Walt Mossberg of Wall Street Journal, Sony's latest Network Walkman (what a stupid name) is "markedly inferior overall" when compared with the iPod.
Which means that the entire tech industry has yet invented the iPod-killer.

The Problem With Blogs . . .

The Problem With Blogs . . . 05/26/2004 07:59 PM
Blog Obsessed Losers (NYT link) "It seems as if his laptop is glued to his legs 24/7," Ms. Matthews said of her husband.
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