My Linux Wishlist

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Add to the RSS Wishlist

Add to the RSS Wishlist 06/29/2004 12:57 AM
Harold Check is doing a reality check of what's missing from the RSSphere and he's cataloging The RSS Wishlist. Some samples:

"It may seem obvious to readers of this particular blog that just about anything on the web that changes, whether frequently or infrequently, should have an associated feed. Readers all over rejoice when a major publication decides to hop onboard the syndication freight train. And beyond your typical publications, there are hundreds of innovative services that are just waiting to be remixed with some RSS flavor. 

At Supernova, Scott Rosenberg pointed out that privacy policies are a perfect candidate for RSS feeds. I second that. I also want KEXP playlists to be updated hourly. And I’d like car recall notices, too. And coupons for businesses in my ZIP code. And MetaCritic. And Aquarius Records new releases. And so on, and so on…

Nick Bradbury: CNN.com, The Onion, and PythOnline....

Michael Sippey: 'Until my entire family gets their act together and starts using Flickr for photo sharing, I want an RSS feed from Ofoto of new pics of my nieces, nephews and cousins.  That feed could be sucked up by a screen saver, or scripted to rotate as my desktop background, or have one every N photos auto-shipped to the photo printer.'

Jason Kottke: The New Yorker

So, what do you want to become available via RSS? Leave your requests in a comment. If you really wow me, you might just get a gmail invitation...." [The RSS Weblog]

My greatest wish - my local newspapers. Hopefully, the directory of my local library and I will be talking to them soon to turn on a few light bulbs. Then I want feeds for grant offerings of relevance to my job. Then, of course, I want feeds from my online catalog!!!!!

Wishlist Art

Wishlist Art 12/22/2004 01:52 AM
Besides being super cool, the new TypePad wishlist feature generates these beautiful tiled thumbnail versions of your wishlist images that just seem like art to me. Greedy, consumerist art, but art nonetheless:...

this goes on the wishlist

this goes on the wishlist 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

I hope this is the most clever of clever pranks . . . because it's much, much better that way.

"The JL421 Badonkadonk is a completely unique, extremely rare land vehicle and battle tank.

[snip]

Standard drive is an air-cooled, 6hp Tecumseh gasoline (unleaded only) engine, with centrifugal clutch, giving the Donk a top speed of 40 mph. This vehicle is not licensed for use on public roads, and is intended as a recreational vehicle only.

1 person recommended Star Wars A New Hope 12" Figure: Obi-Wan Kenobi Tatooine Encounter instead of JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank"

Be sure to read the user reviews, for maximum enjoyment.

My PowerBook Wishlist

My PowerBook Wishlist 05/02/2004 12:09 AM
I could probably come up with more things, but I did not run that far. By Brian D Foy, O'Reilly Network (via MyAppleMenu)

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.2 09/08/2004 05:49 PM

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.1 06/02/2004 05:31 AM

Filelist and Wishlist

Filelist and Wishlist 05/09/2004 07:55 PM

My recent burst of interest in P2P networks stems from the idea of sharing wishlists which I mentioned in my comment about CleverCactus Share.  Diego expressed some enthusiasm about the idea so there is a good chance it will appear in ClearCactus Share.

But my mind is already leaping forward exploring generalizations and mutations of the basic idea of sharing and seemlessly integrating the capability into the operating system.  To power this exploration, I am asking questions like:

• What is a file?
• What does it mean to share?
• How can I share something without having it?
• How can I share nameless, locationless, temporary, and formless objects?
• What if everything is shared by default?
• What if bots are loosened into the shared space?

Many of the answers seem to point to a need to review some basic assumptions pounded into us by file systems and databases like names, locations, queries, etc.

If you drag a file from here to there, people expect the object to move from here to there and also expect the operation to take some time.

If the object is a wish, meaning it will arrive sometime in the future, dragging it from here to there could mean it should be moved there when it arrives.  That's like an instruction.  But people usually don't give instructions to empty air.  Is it better to introduce a bot-like objects or should future actions or 'promises' be turned into an object?

There is also the problem of having too many P2P networks.  They can be abstracted or hidden behind other shapes and forms.  At that point, even services like eBay and Amazon can be thrown into the mesh.  An auction involves someone wanting to sell something they either own or can provide.  Drag and drop this from here to there and eventually a real-world object is 'downloaded' to someone's doorstep.  All this is nice except abstraction and usuability don't often walk hand-in-hand.

I know that I am overstepping the bounds of practicality in many areas, but overreaching is often useful when searching through the solution space.  Anyway, these are kind of things I occupy weekends with these days.

My New Wishlist Items

My New Wishlist Items 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

canadia represent!

"Since ALA, we all have known that the Canadian library schools are really putting out some top librarian talent. But who knew they had a fashion sense as well. The students from the SLIS at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia are hawking some mighty fine librarian t-shirts, possibly ones even too racy to wear to work. And, 'action figure' aside, my favorite one has to be the NLA shirt." [librarian.net]

iMovie 5 Wishlist

iMovie 5 Wishlist 08/03/2004 12:09 AM
"So, what would you do to make it better without turning it into Final Cut for Babies, smart guy?" By Christopher Breen, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0

WWW-Amazon-Wishlist-1.0 12/16/2003 06:33 PM

david's Tivo wishlist

david's Tivo wishlist 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
he's got so many good ideas he's basically a product manager-at-large

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter

New on my wishlist: Breakfast with
Hunter 03/06/2004 02:02 AM
While getting up to date on HST’s ESPN Column Archive , there it was, an advert… Breakfast With Hunter …...

raging cow's wishlist

raging cow's wishlist 08/11/2004 12:11 PM
the blog stopped updating just under a year ago

Wishlist: Google Newsreader

Wishlist: Google Newsreader 06/19/2002 01:10 PM
David Cancel writes in to say that he'd be willing to pay a monthly/yearly fee to be able to read the Google newsgroups with a regular newsreader. Unfortunately, as stated in the FAQ, this is not currently possible. I agree, there are many nice newsreaders which are more convenient for comprehensive newsgroup reading (as opposed to simply searching, which Google Groups is great at) which I would like to use to read these groups. As it stands, I can't remember to go back to the websites and check them each day.

Realtor destroying wishlist.

Realtor destroying wishlist. 12/30/2004 11:12 AM
My recent experiences with realtors show me that: most of them don't know very much about buildings; waste your time...

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator

Throw Your Amazon Wishlist in Your
Aggregator 09/20/2004 12:47 AM

Watchcow.net

"You want to keep an eye on your Amazon.com wishlist or a particular Amazon.com/de/co.uk item, want to be informed whether and how much the price has been changed, but don't have the time?

Watchcow.net to the rescue! This simple and handy service allows you to passively watch single Amazon products and entire wishlists in your newsreader, such as Bloglines (web), NetNewsWire (Mac), NewsFire (Mac) or FeedDaemon (Windows), just to name a few. It works with every newsreader/-aggregator that supports ATOM feeds. Which, incidently, means pretty much all of them."

Another great service from Carlo Zottmann!

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist

Ask MacSlash: iTunes Features Wishlist 04/28/2004 02:24 PM

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed

Contribution: My Amazon Wishlist RSS
feed 03/13/2003 10:16 AM
I've created a Perl script that generates an RSS feed from your Amazon wishlist contents, including prices and Amazon book links. Fixed the ISBN/ASIN bug, now defaults book links to ISBN.nu instead of Amazon (for cheaper purchasing).

Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist

Kinja webl0g aggregator wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
I've seen several comments lately about the trend away from the browser and how RSS may contribute to this, it...

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control

Wishlist: Finer Sound Control 08/05/2004 08:41 AM
Sometimes, I simply wish to be able to mute just a particular application on my Mac -- say, Safari, for example, when it is playing some Flash movies -- while continuing to play sounds from other applications such as iTunes and such.

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist

iPod Shuffle: More Thoughts, Wishlist 02/05/2005 09:39 PM

By Barb Dybwad, Unofficial Apple Weblog

iTunes Music Store wishlist

iTunes Music Store wishlist 02/10/2004 02:59 AM
iTunes wishlist: 1. Ability to create a list of personal favorite songs as playlists/wishlists and publish on a weblog with...

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links

Amazon went and broke their wishlist
links 12/04/2003 04:59 AM
Change your wishlist link .. the solution .. Paul Bausch

onfocus.com/index.asp?xml=2003_12_01_past.xml#3376
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Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google

Dear Santa, An SEOs wishlist for Google 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Search Engine Journal Dec 30 2004 10:20PM GMT

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin | A Whole
Lotta Nothing 07/16/2004 11:53 AM
Wishlist: the million monkeys at a million typewriters plugin A Whole Lotta Nothing .. matt wants a public editing of blog posts .. a.wholelottanothing.org

a.wholelottanothing.org/archives.blah/007942
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Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin

Wishlist: the million monkeys at a
million typewriters plugin 07/15/2004 06:45 PM

Today as I sent an IM to a friend correcting a their/there/they're use in a blog post, it reminded me that I should post a lazyweb request for an MT plugin I've always wanted.

I want a MT plugin that will let a select group of my closest, most trusted friends correct typos in text and URLs on my blog posts and republish their changes without my intervention. If I'm gone for a couple days and improperly used your when I meant you're, I'd love it if a friend fixed that while I was away. I first got the idea when I was trying to think of ways to make Orkut or Friendster useful. If there was some API to those apps that let MT know if someone was a best friend or life partner-level connection, they could be granted temporary edit rights on my blog (maybe Flickr's API could let this work for people I designate as a friend and family member, which seems to be the closest form of relationship there).

Ideally, I'd like an easy way to say that 4 or 5 people I trust could make edits. And I suppose the edits should be checked before and after, with a certain byte count limit, lest you allow your friends to completely rewrite your post. An email telling me what took place would be nice, but I'd like my friends to go ahead and save their changes, with a way for me to rescue the earlier pre-edit entry just in case.

Actually, maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to allow anyone to suggest an edit on the post, sending me an email, with a one-click way to approve or disapprove it. Maybe after a random stranger has properly corrected me half a dozen times, I could elevate their status to having republish rights on the edits so I wouldn't have to approve them anymore.

A plugin like this would basically wiki-ize the weblog world, allowing readers to participate and correct small mistakes. I often write in margins of books and email authors all the little typos I found while reading their novel, but this would put that kind of power right into anyone's hands. In the world of programming they say "given a million eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" and maybe in this case, given a million editors, all typos will be fixed.

It can't be impossible to make this happen, right?

Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens
New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and
IBM G5 servers

Linux in Government: Navy Sonar Opens
New Opportunities for Linux Clusters and
IBM G5 servers 09/17/2004 12:43 AM
A win in the nuclear submarine cluster market suggests that IBM's POWER architecture is joining the Linux HPC big leagues.

Linux Journal: Making a PHP Site on
Linux Work with a Microsoft SQL Server
Database

Linux Journal: Making a PHP Site on
Linux Work with a Microsoft SQL Server
Database 02/17/2003 09:09 AM
"It's a LAMP site, but the M isn't MySQL. Can PHP on the Linux box make the connection to Microsoft SQL Server?"

Linux in Government: Providing a
Successful Model for OSS Enterprise
Users and Linux Companies

Linux in Government: Providing a
Successful Model for OSS Enterprise
Users and Linux Companies 03/14/2005 05:25 PM
JBoss offers insight to raising open-source businesses.

Linux in Government: Linux Lab at the
University of South Florida Opens Eyes

Linux in Government: Linux Lab at the
University of South Florida Opens Eyes 12/19/2004 03:17 PM
Students find some refuge in Linux learning experience.

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.4.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 12/06/2003 03:55 AM
An application-layer packet classifier for Linux.

Unisys suddenly loves Linux: Should
Linux users return that love?

Unisys suddenly loves Linux: Should
Linux users return that love? 08/16/2004 02:19 PM
Unisys has long been the main booster -- possibly the only one besides Microsoft -- of Windows as a mainframe operating system. Now Unisys says it loves Linux -- but still claims to be a staunch Microsoft partner -- and it seems like most of its contributions to the Linux kernel are only useful to Unisys customers. And then there's the specter of the Unisys GIF patents (now expired), and how the company used them as weapons against free and open source software projects only a few years ago. In light of all this, should we welcome Unisys as a "member of the Linux community" with open arms, or maintain a skeptical distance until the company proves that it has truly seen the open source light?

McObject’s eXtremeDB - First In-Memory
Database for BlueCat Linux 5.0 and Linux
2.6 Kernel

McObject’s eXtremeDB - First In-Memory
Database for BlueCat Linux 5.0 and Linux
2.6 Kernel 06/22/2004 02:43 AM
With McObject’s release of its eXtremeDB 2.3 in-memory embedded database for LynuxWorks’ BlueCat Linux 5.0 operating system, developers of embedded Linux applications for the first time have an in-memory database system (IMDS) available for LynuxWorks’ powerful embedded platform, and for the Linux 2.6 kernel on which BlueCat Linux 5.0 is based. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.0.2 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 10/31/2003 02:44 AM
A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.1.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch)

Layer-7 Packet Classifier for Linux
0.1.0 (Linux Kernel 2.6 Netfilter patch) 11/10/2003 11:33 PM
A layer-7 packet classifier for packet shaping.

O'Reilly Releases Linux Unwired, Guide
to Wi-Fi and Wireless with Linux

O'Reilly Releases Linux Unwired, Guide
to Wi-Fi and Wireless with Linux 05/03/2004 08:58 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum May 4 2004 0:37AM GMT

Linux in Government: Linux Desktop
Reviews, Part IV - Linspire

Linux in Government: Linux Desktop
Reviews, Part IV - Linspire 04/11/2005 05:31 AM
Furthering the process of introducing and innovating Linux.

In Europe, Apple threatens Linux; Mac OS
X superior alternative to Linux

In Europe, Apple threatens Linux; Mac OS
X superior alternative to Linux 01/04/2004 09:32 AM

Linux in Government: Linux Desktop
Reviews, Part 6 - Ubuntu

Linux in Government: Linux Desktop
Reviews, Part 6 - Ubuntu 04/19/2005 06:01 AM
In less than a year, this free Linux distribution has become the most popular.
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