Fourteen people made it to the December meeting of the Dartmouth - Lake Sunapee Linux User Group, held as usual on the first Thursday of the month and in what appears to be our new place, Haldeman 041, in the lower level of the building next to our previous meeting place.
“Nifties” was the theme, for [...]
Larry Dignan asks, “OLPC: How do we gauge success? Will 490,000 units do?… So what’s success here? My take is Negroponte’s project is a success simply because it brought an issue to the forefront and got tech giants on board.”
I believe Negroponte’s goal was to put tools in the hands of children eager to learn [...]
Fourteen people managed to find their way to the Amoskeag Business Incubator (it’s on SOUTH Commercial Street, contrary to the directions on the ABI site) for the November meeting, one week later than the usual fourth Thursday of the month, of the Python Special Interest Group.
A number of new attendees arrived this month. We pointed [...]
Ouch! Encrypted communications between your computer and peripherals have to be impractically difficult to crack. The encryption scheme described in “Security firm cracks encryption for Microsoft’s wireless keyboards - heise Security” is beyond pathetic. I hope other manufacturers have more reasonable encryption schemes. In the mean time, don’t type anything on a Microsoft wireless keyboard [...]
In the Never-A-Dull-Moment category, David blogs Riding Rails: Rails 2.0: It’s done! and provides a summary of new and improved features. As he said at the recent Railsconf (audio here), Rails 2.0 was not an earth-shaker as much as an evolutionary move. Looking forward to trying it out.
Thanks to Garrett Fitzgerald for pointing to this brilliant piece of writing. Mark Pilgrim writes The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts), a short and very well done piece. A must read!
A client had a demo web site developed by someone else and they were really excited about the interactivity. It was a very rich client application, with drag-and-drop and sizers and interactive widgets. The client wanted my team to use the same platform, which they thought was something-Dot-Net. Once we were finally able to chase [...]
Just got a note that the Greater Boston Chapter of the Association of Computing Machinery just released its most recent GBC/ACM: The Real Times Newsletter, a remarkable publication. Highlights: the GBC now accepts their (paltry) $10 annual dues via Google Checkout, and posts from related groups like the Boston PHP and others. Note also the [...]
I found this elegant little hack the other day while browsing for something completely different. I see that the code has made the rounds, and appears on sites like xmpp.com and ietf.org, but the credits seem only to lead to other marketing sites harvesting page views and hosting ads. A sample is available at http://www.phlapjaxs.com/demo.html [...]
Ivan Krstić blogs First OLPC deployment: now it’s real.: “This week, Uruguay became the first-ever real, non-pilot deployment site of OLPC XO laptops. And I was there to hand out the first one.” Very cool! Uruguay is due to deploy ninetu thousand and Peru just signed up for a quarter of a million of them. [...]
